We Ranked All 29 Steven Spielberg Movies, from Worst to Best

[nate]

Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can are excellent movies.  Way better than Saving Private Ryan.  #17 seems like the right spot for it.

[ten ocho recon scout]

putting Temple of Doom at #9 and Saving Private Ryan at #17 completely invalidates any good this list was trying to accomplish.

Minority Report was as unmemorable a movie as i can recall.

no pun intended?

[ten ocho recon scout]

I agree that private ryan is overrated, but thats only because its so highly praised.

I think hanks has done better. That movie i didnt feel like he had enough "character moments" to be his best. He was good, but always is. So the praise for him i think is whatever.

But the movie itself is great. I think some of you have probably seen it several times so maybe it lost its luster. But when it first released, it was beyond anything a movie had ever done in terms of realism. Think about it...that movie is almost 2o years old now...hoe many imitators have copied it since.

[Tank]

If it's so unmemorable then how can you recall it?

Check and mate.

I remember seeing it. I don't remember anything about it other than being bored.

Put my rook back on the board, bubba. Thnx.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I agree that private ryan is overrated, but thats only because its so highly praised.

I think hanks has done better. That movie i didnt feel like he had enough "character moments" to be his best. He was good, but always is. So the praise for him i think is whatever.

But the movie itself is great. I think some of you have probably seen it several times so maybe it lost its luster. But when it first released, it was beyond anything a movie had ever done in terms of realism. Think about it...that movie is almost 2o years old now...hoe many imitators have copied it since.

 

One thing that was done very well, IMO, was the realism of the war scenes.

[Ray McKigney]

One thing that was done very well, IMO, was the realism of the war scenes.

 

Saw Saving Private Ryan in the theater. Was expecting a standard Spielberg flick. The first half hour of the battle scene was like nothing I'd ever seen. People were getting up and hurrying out of the theater because it was so was gruesome and intense.

[Ray McKigney]

I watched Bridge of Spies recently. I wouldn't put it in Spielberg's top 10, but it's definitely good. A little too patriotic for my taste (not that there's anything wrong with that), just seemed a bit unnecessary. Mark Rylance is terrific in it and so is Hanks.

[Adam]

I remember seeing it. I don't remember anything about it other than being bored.

Put my rook back on the board, bubba. Thnx.

Bored? Who are you and what have you done with the man that used to post under this screen name? Edited December 27, 2015 by Adam

[mtangelsfan]

Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can are excellent movies.  Way better than Saving Private Ryan.  #17 seems like the right spot for it.

Were you dropped on your head when you were a child?

[ten ocho recon scout]

Saw Saving Private Ryan in the theater. Was expecting a standard Spielberg flick. The first half hour of the battle scene was like nothing I'd ever seen. People were getting up and hurrying out of the theater because it was so was gruesome and intense.

y yep, its the granddaddy of real war films we have today. To be taken seriously you have to imitate spielbergs flick. Thats why i dont think it can be called overrated. I dont think any of the actors set the world on fire, they've all done better. But it was super influential to say the least

[mtangelsfan]

there are four harrowing scenes in SPR that stick with me even now.

1. the opening battle. Such loss of life.

2. the scene of the mother being notified.

3. the scene of their dying medic trying to talk them through saving his life in vain.

4. the scene with the knife fight where the Jewish soldier is killed.

I'll never forget those scenes.

[Amazing Larry]

Platoon was better IMO.

[Adam]

Spielberg is overrated

[Ray McKigney]

Spielberg is overrated

 

Exactly! Jaws was totally crappy and Raiders of the Lost Ark was a turd.

[Angel Oracle]

Not bad for a Long Beach State alum (before USC film school)

[NrM]

I watched Bridge of Spies recently. I wouldn't put it in Spielberg's top 10, but it's definitely good. A little too patriotic for my taste (not that there's anything wrong with that), just seemed a bit unnecessary. Mark Rylance is terrific in it and so is Hanks.

 

I dono man...

Tom Hanks' character was basically vilified at first for defending the soviet spy...

 

Might not be spielderg's top 10, but it definitely was one of the best films I've seen this year.

Edited December 29, 2015 by Poozy

[Ray McKigney]

I dono man...

Tom Hank's character was basically vilified at first for defending the soviet spy...

 

Might not be spielderg's top 10, but it definitely was one of the best films I've seen this year.

 

I agree that it is one of the best movies of the year. I was just thinking of it in a broader sense: I don't know if it will be like many of Spielberg's others that I'll watch over and over again. As far as the patriotic comment, I meant the music more than anything. In the scene where Hanks is talking to the Court, the music is ridiculously over the top patriotic sounding. A small gripe, I suppose.