Every Steven Spielberg Movie Ranked
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My biggest problem with “Lincoln” is that Spielberg omitted all the parts involving him killing vampires.
Same
And his ghost assisting Black Dynamite in the battle against Richard Nixon
And when he runs for class president against JFK.
I hate that he didn't include a part where Lincoln decides not to see that play!
and him inventing the rocket jump, at that.
I would also like to point out that the guy who gets eaten at the 26:34 timestamp is credited in the movie as "poor bastard," which I think also says a lot about Spielberg's feelings about the Lost World.
"Unlucky Bastard" actually. That scene has stuck with me to this day. It's so visceral, and the film's best moment.
21:50 ok, you clearly did NOT see the long grass scene
Yeah tlw is very underated and it makes me sad when it get called trash
@@Casual_guy1234oh well it’s his opinion
@@DaraKelly-o5i oh well,
I've got the launcha pointed at his house
2:30:03 The fact that Shooting Films, a YTPer, is able to edit a section on one of the most heart-breaking movies of all time is an amazing feat.
Jurassic Park 2 wasn't quite that bad imo. The scene where raptors attacked people in the tall grass was kind of creative. The little waterfall thing was neat. The daughter kicking the raptor was hilarious and awesome. And yeah, the T Rex in San Diego was neat.
Totally agree about most of the characters being horrible idiots.
The BFG book I did read when I was little, and I saw some animated movie of it once. Glad I didn't see the live action BFG.
The only bad thing about Jaws is it single handedly caused the near extinction of many shark species worldwide, since people began to fear and hunt them on mass after the film was made. Fun fact, the guy who wrote the original novel actually dedicated the rest of his life to shark conservation, and played a major role in reversing the damage done by the film.
*en masse
but yeah that was a problem
That's actually not true; the truth is far bleaker than that. Sharks were over-hunted by the fishing industry (one of fishing industry's many, many sins), but the 'cullings for safety of swimmers' and Jaws effect were used as a smokescreen to hide the for-profit culls. Sort of like the Japanese are mass-hunting whales for the cough-cough 'scientific research'.
@@bighillrafthuh, guess I've been saying it wrong my whole life then. The more you know
@@thechickenwizard8172 Like a lot of weird English sayings, it's literally borrowed whole cloth from French! So a lot of native English speakers pronounce it correctly but write it wrong, because only in French do you add random silent vowels and consonants at the end of words. (source: im baguette enjoyer)
@@bighillraft hon hon hon je is axtuallyu en masse je am frencheux
It’s wholesome, yet heartbreaking that when Steven Spielberg was making Schindler’s List, he called Robin Williams many times, just so he could laugh. That’s shows you how powerful is movie not only is, but the hands that made it.
And the light Robin could bring to others, but not really himself, as it turned out
@@joekaput747 Wow, that was deep.
@@joekaput747Poor guy.
I can't even watch Schindler's List anymore. It's extremely well made but it's so horribly disturbing and depressing as hell. It's really little wonder Spielberg had such a tough time directing the thing, especially since he's Jewish. 😢
@@joekaput747Robin Williams didn’t kill himself because of depression. At least not in the traditional sense. He had been diagnosed with Lewey Body Dysmorphia which is a form of dementia but it also attacks your motor functions and speech until you are a complete invalid. He didn’t want to live that life or put his family through that and I don’t blame him.
It’s a shame Schafrillas didn’t watch War Horse with the subtitles on. When the horse is trapped with the tank, he would’ve gotten the hilarious “[Defiant whinnying]”
Warhorse is a good movie, no idea on what Schafrillas is going on about as it's a great film adaption of a children's book. That's why it's not all about the war part.
@@Gadget-Walkmena great adaptation, not a great movie
@@darshansooful9559 A great movie as whole truly, no idea on what you guys are going on about as it’s beautifully directed.
@Gadget-Walkmen I remember reading and loving the book in the sixth grade, and then having to watch the movie afterward. It was really boring. I don’t know what you’re on about.
@@one-onessadhalf3393 “boring” is subjective but Warhorse is still a great film regardless as MOST people praise the film warhorse. What you’re going on about doesn’t make any sense as what I’M “on about” is what the general census is! It’s that simple here truly!
“You killed my mom’s sister” is an incredible line
More like "you killed my mom's husband"
"I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain"
@@stilesstratton9566 least cringey destiny line
Just say faternal aunt.
@@ButteredFurbyjust say aunt
or, double down, say "you murderified my dad's wife's woman-brother!"
There's a famous story between Spielberg and John Williams doing Schindler's List. When Spielberg first showed John the rough cut of the movie so he could start composing for it, John had to stop and go out for a walk to process what he'd just seen. He came back and told Spielberg he couldn't do it. That movie needed a better composer than him to do the job right. Spielberg's response was "I know, but they're all dead."
I like Speilberg basically telling Williams, "Yeah, I know you suck."
@@liamdude5722I know you’re joking, but what he was really doing was saying Williams was at the same level as the greatest composers of history
@@liamdude5722 no, that what it looks like at first but actually its a gargantuan compliment
That about says it all on how good John Williams is. Probably the greatest compliment you could get if you ask me.
Bruh, he was literally saying "you're the best composer alive"
Steven Spielberg's mother opened a kosher restaurant that's a delightful mix of typical restaurant and memorabilia from her son's movies. She would frequently sit at random tables and chat with customers, and I was lucky enough as a kid to have the chance to talk with her. She was incredibly friendly, and it was clear how proud she was of her son's work as his mother, not for merchandising. If you're in LA and like Spielberg I would recommend stopping in!
Is she in any way like the mother in "The Fabelmans"? Or what did she think about the movie?
@@tim..indeed She died in 2017, so she hadn't gotten the chance to see it.
You did I it this time the lost world is a beautiful movie with dinosaurs and the size and all the dinosaurs are still scary and are amazing looks when they hunt the dinosaurs in the game trail and the redwoods forest. You have to not see the lore the reason why the Kelly is part of the movie is because she is meant to show Malcom to be father and the baby t. Rex supposed to be part of the of the parenting point CGI are pretty good and you have to get into the law. The reason why they build a Jurassic Park in San Diego is because John Hammond is because he was dying and his nephew decided to take over and he decide to fix his grandfather‘s dream and to open and reopen Jurassic Park to make it a public place to make millions to save the company out of bankruptcy after the whole 1993 incident from the first movie the Raptors scenes are still shocking even to this day when the Raptors hunt in the tall grass. I can write an essay telling you and proving you that this the last world is the best Jurassic Park movie.
@@tim..indeed Although he had the idea for the film for decades, he waited until after his parents deaths to make the Fabelmans out of respect for their feelings. It’s impossible to say based on a short meeting what her true personality was, but the Fabelmans is a very loose auto biography
Sounds so wholesome
Schaff just said: “the PAWsibilities are endless”
CLEARLY he is gearing up for a Paw Patrol review in the near futute
You got a point.
He gave it a 1/10, so yep, prepare to suffer more
@@sebastiancriollo4534 it was a joke review...
He even clarified he has not seen the film.
2:26:35 someone once said “Shaving Ryan’s Privates.”
@joaopedroauriemo But hey, that’s just a theory, A FILM THEORY, AND Cut.
Let’s not overlook how John Williams has made almost every Spielberg movie infinitely more legendary
Now we need a "Every John Williams Score Ranked"
@@monicaenglish2566 I agree! Th mans a genius!!
I agree! Shocked he didn't mention it at all during his discussion of E.T.
For those who don't know, for the final part of the film, Spielberg let John Williams write the score free from the constraints of having to follow the way the movie was edited. Instead, they did the opposite, editing the movie to fit with John Williams' music. Truly one of the best instrumental soundtracks of all time!
@@FilmFanatic211 Love when movies do this, like The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
@@FilmFanatic211 They only did this with the bike chase sequence. The rest was recorded to picture.
On the shower scene in Schindler’s List:
I feel Spielberg very intentionally included this scene not merely as a breath of fresh air for the audience, but to further communicate the horror of the Holocaust. Earlier in the film a conversation is held between many of the women discussing rumours of shower rooms where a lethal gas is released to effect a mass killing. With this already on mind, these ladies find themselves stepping off a train not to freedom-as they had been told and supposed-but to Auschwitz. Their sheepish confusion is turned to abject horror when they find themselves all gathered together in a group shower room-similar to the rooms that they’ve heard rumours of, and they miserably await their certain death. Only, it’s not a gas chamber, but a genuine shower. They leave relieved, but by no means triumphant as they are still stuck in a dehumanizing interment camp with shaved heads.
I think this scene allowed Spielberg to portray the horror of the gas chambers, a method of killing synonymous with Auschwitz and the Holocaust, without having to actually show the gassing. I think a respectful display that still communicates the psychological terror of the experience.
Another sample of this scene is in the book "Prisoner B-3087", where they go to a death camp, and head into a shower. The main character remembers some children telling them that they will die there, and he waits to die. All of a sudden, it's water.
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Actually, the scene is actually somewhat accurate. They would shower the people who entered before gassing them. Usually it depends on the camp. I have a comment I made recently about this factor.
Edit: curse my terrible spelling
Then you got films like "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" which does show you the gas shower, even if it doesn't show the bodies
Not trying to say ones better then the other
Just pointing out cause that movie fucked me up
@@clownitecultistq1515 the boy in the stripped pijamas is just so shit its pure fantasty and literally propoganda against the germans no where near things in that movie happened in real life
Spielberg: the person who made you see dinosaurs, aliens, androids, but has also made you see the horror, violence, love and kindness of humanity. Truly one of the gems of cinema history
He's respected for all the right reasons.
Don't forget the bfg, worth its own mention imo
im glad schaff is steering away from animated film rankings, it’s nice to see schaff talk about movies he’s actually passionate about instead of 5 ice age movies
@MeleaWierwilledude you didn’t even try
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2:49 Always
9:23 1941
11:39 The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)
13:51 Ready Player One
20:15 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
26:49 War Horse
31:10 Lincoln
35:34 Hook
39:50 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
47:52 The Sugarland Express
49:20 Bridge of Spies
51:09 Amistad
54:21 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1:03:52 Empire of the Sun
1:07:05 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
1:11:17 West Side Story
1:15:33 Jaws
1:18:40 The Color Purple
1:20:07 Munich
1:23:27 Duel
1:25:35 War of the Worlds
1:29:45 The Adventures of Tintin
1:34:26 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
1:40:44 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1:43:13 The Terminal
1:46:21 Catch Me If You Can
1:48:24 The Post
1:54:06 The Fabelmans
2:00:08 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2:06:37 Minority Report
2:11:47 Jurassic Park
2:18:04 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2:25:58 Saving Private Ryan
2:30:03 Schindler's List
Thank you
@@Peaschling Okay.
@@boboffical3004 how u gonna write out all the movies with timestamps and then act like a smartass when someone thanks you 😭
One thing I wanna point out, Lincoln saying “I guess it’s time to go though I would rather stay” actually happened. He said that to his white house staff right before leaving for the Ford’s Theater.
Famous last words
"My wife is taking me to this boring ass play. Someone shoot me please..."
His whole justification for his low opinion of that movie honestly just struck me as "he doesn't get it, and doesn't seem to want to".
@@crazydud3380 I love the movie. And it’s meant to take a minimalist approach to Lincoln’s life. Fleshing him out as a person through helix biggest accomplishment. Too many biopics fail when they try to show someone’s whole life.
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I like his reviews and channel a lot but there were some obvious political biases bleeding into this list.
It’s like “Amistad and Lincoln were white savior movies.” Yes. Yes they were. Because literally all positions of power in the US in the 19th century were held by whites.
I’m not defending it, it’s just how history was. And it seems like da funni crab guy wanted to see a version of history that just didn’t exist. The men who voted on the 13th amendment were white. The men who represented The Amistad crew were white.
(I feel weird typing this lol)
Do the films have flaws, of course, but to brush them off because white people bad is just weird.
Lincoln’s political MASTERY in placating and guiding all the different groups (white supremacy groups, abolitionists, radical republicans) to having the first version of black civil rights get ratified was masterfully put on display in the movie.
I get that Lincoln was a movie for civil war buffs, and that some peeps find it boring.
The fact that Spielberg made Jurassic Park and Schindlers List in the same year is absolutely insane. That’s gotta be the hardest flex a every made by a filmmaker in all of human history right? I literally can’t think of another time where a big director made one of the best films ever made, and then turned around and made what could be THE best film ever made in less than 7 months. That’s just cracked.
Are you into foreign arthouse movies? Swedish director Ingmar Bergman did The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries in the same year. I recommend both movies. Seventh Seal stars a young Max Von Sydow.
HE MADE SCHINDLER'S LIST?
I would not expect that to be a Spielberg film of all films. That movie made me cry.
The closest I can think of are Ingmar Bergman releasing The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries both in 1957, Alfred Hitchcock with North by Northwest into Psycho (within a year, different calendar years though), Akira Kurosawa did three classics in two years [Throne of Blood, The Lower Depths, and The Hidden Fortress], and Denis Villeneuve did it (or nearly did) three times [Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 were filmed within a year of each other but released slightly over a year apart, Sicario was filmed within a year of fliming for Arrival and their official releases were less than a year apart if you don't count the Cannes screening of Sicario, Prisoners and Enemy were filmed within a year of each other and released within a year of each other and are both underrated gems]. I think, of those, Bergman and Hitchcock have the strongest comparison.
@leithaziz2716 Yeah, he considers it his magnum opus as he is Jewish, so it's an ode to his people and the struggles they faced. I had to watch it freshman year of high school when we learned about the Holocaust and that was the first time I saw a majority of the class take something seriously. I was teary-eyed by the end, too.
@@leithaziz2716he is Jewish so he probably wanted to tell story of one of the worse events to happen to our people (I am Jewish)
Alan Grant's entire character arc in Jurassic Park is him overcoming his fear of parenthood. At first, he dismisses Ellie's suggestion of having kids, but through taking care of Lex and Tim, he gets on board with the idea. The final scene in the helicopter is him and Ellie silently agreeing to start a family. It's so beautiful (and screw the third movie for messing it up).
I know right
I like the third film, but one of the biggest problems was seperating Alan and Ellie…
Grant also spends the entire of the movie hating computers. It’s the first thing he says. Then technology around the park fails creating the disaster in the first place. But at the end Grant, Ellie, and the kids are saved by a computer.
@@shawnlewin9057the irony. 😂
But the 3rd movie has Allen velociraptor
You know The BFG left little to no impression of Schaff, if the presence of Tamatoa's voice actor Jemaine Clement as the main villain giant was never even hinted at.
A true waste of time for everyone.
He was trying to save his legacy with the Schaffrillas fanbase, probably.
Fun fact: Lincoln was a box office bomb and didn’t do well in theaters. This is Ironic because Lincoln doesn’t typically do well in theaters
The film made $275 million worldwide off of a $65 million budget. Doesn't sound like a bomb to me.
did you look up what it generated in the US alone? because youre talking about the wrong thing
@@matthewhunter1193 u also have to take in the films marketing
So he was autistic?
Wouldn't that not be ironic?
I remember the first time I watched "The Adventures of Tintin" when I was a kid and not being able to know if it was live-action or animated, it looked so realistic. Also, I rewatched recently and I couldn't agree more about it being the true Indiana Jones 5
I also didn't know if it was live-action or animated when I watched it for the first time.
I'm also really sad that it never got a sequel that it absolutely deserved.
@@JOJ0606 the wikipedia page says (or said) they were planning a sequel but it looks like it's never coming
Its supposed to come out in 2027 fingers crossed
Deserving of a sequel, not like we could get any more ones from Indiana Jones
When I watched it as a kid I thought it was live-action.
The thing with Tin Tin being under developed is that even in the comics you don't know much about his backstory. The best aspect of the comics is the mystery aspect and the different situations Tin Tin gets involved in, but in terms of Tin Tin himself we see him do reporting stuff occasionally, but we still don't know much about his backstory. What we see is what we get.
Herge himself made him a bare bones protagonist on purpose
@@MeepMacArthurI believe Tintin is meant to be a sort of a blank slate that readers can project themselves onto, and also serves as a "straight man" who highlights the wacky personalities of the other characters by contrasting with them.
@@jackhudner3804 fact
@@jackhudner3804 yeah, that is true.
Just a guy who loves adventure
I spent the entire list going, "huh, I guess he did that one too"
I had _no_ idea Minority Report was a Spielberg
Fun fact: My great grandfather fought on D day, and they said that saving private Ryan was the most accurate depiction they’d ever seen of that battle, and they were speechless when watching the rest of the film.
I hope he was ok watching it. I know that some vets watching it when it first came out had pretty severe PTSD triggers.
It was apparently realistic enough that they had to set up a hotline about it. So it is, for better or worse, the most accurate footage of D-Day that we will ever get.
@@tatehildyard5332bruh it's pussy shit to get scared cuz of a movie
was tom hanks really there?
My mom said it's based on actual Canadian footage of D Day. Like, shot for shot.
As someone who grew up absolutely sheltered, I love that you do rankings like this so that I can know where to start after seemingly missing so much art and culture. Great video!
It really sucks that you couldn't watch these until now, but you're about to have the time of your life catching up
i relate!!! i don’t think i’ve watched a single one of these movies but i’m having a blast watching this video anyway
And Always is actually good, so don't miss it because of the ranking.
Same. This is making me really want to watch Spielberg. I felt the same with the Disney rankings. It might just be me but a lot of the movies I watched as a kid sort of blend together. So, I can't really remember most of them and while I know that I watched a lot of the Disney movies I can't really remember my individual experiences. So, it's nice to revisit them as an adult and remember them.
@@psychonaut1502 i mean, it's only natural if you were 7 or younger (people remember waaaaaay less from the early childhood than they think they do),
On the shower scene in Schindler’s List:
I feel Spielberg very intentionally included this scene not merely as a breath of fresh air for the audience, but to further communicate the horror of the Holocaust. Earlier in the film a conversation is held between many of the women discussing rumours of shower rooms where a lethal gas is released to effect a mass killing. With this already on mind, these ladies find themselves stepping off a train not to freedom-as they had been told and supposed-but to Auschwitz. Their sheepish confusion is turned to abject horror when they find themselves all gathered together in a group shower room-similar to the rooms that they’ve heard rumours of, and they miserably await their certain death. Only, it’s not a gas chamber, but a genuine shower. They leave relieved, but by no means triumphant as they are still stuck in a dehumanizing interment camp with shaved heads.
I think this scene allowed Spielberg to portray the horror of the gas chambers, a method of killing synonymous with Auschwitz and the Holocaust, without having to actually show the gassing. I think a respectful display that still communicates the psychological terror of the experience.
Also, fuck those critics who kept making comparisons to Jurassic Park and Close Encounters when describing some scenes, because they clearly couldn't grasp that so many different movies with different emotional tones could be made by one man. Also that director who also complained about the shower scene turning the holocaust into popcorn entertainment but made a very unsubtle film that treated the rise of anti-semitism like it was setting up a cinematic universe.
@@koichidignitythief7429Who are you talking about?
My thoughts, exactly, my parents didn’t have a problem with that scene either when they saw in theaters. In fact, my mom stated that she didn’t wanna even look to see what was gonna happen to the woman, was bursting into tears. My dad was about to come for her, but just then when they was revealed that it was the shower, my mom was like saying, “Thank heavens. And please make it there Schindler. It’s not too late.”.
There was one foreign director who made a WWI era fil that was supposed to show how the seeds of the Nazi party were planted. I can't remember his name.@@me-myself-i787
I think it’s also done because we’ve spent 2 hours with the characters at that point. We care for them, we’re invested in them, and it makes it more horrifying to watch. Also: it shows how they were denying the stories for their own comfort, they didn’t want to imagine people would do that, that it could happen to them. But they fear it’s true, potentially they know it is. And this is why they freak out. If they truly thought they were outlandish stories then they wouldn’t be scared in the shower, but they feared it to be true.
How could anyone say “sAvInG pRiVaTe rYaN iS mUrIcA pRoPaGaNdA”the movie literally shows two Americans walking up to two Czechoslovakian soldiers who are begging to surrender and they just gun them down while laughing.
they didn’t know the Czechoslovakian soldiers weren’t German nazis.
@@kitothekito915 I think op is saying that American soldiers murdering people who are begging and surrendering while laughing is a negative depiction of American soldiers and the American military, regardless of the nationality of the soldiers
I absolutely agree with you. There’s another moment right before that scene where American soldiers are gunning down fleeing German soldiers in a trench, and continuing to fire on them even after their superiors are telling them to cease fire!
The point these moments were giving is that there are no real winners in war.
So yeah, SPR is not American propaganda.
Well I mean some people would want to see innocent people dying
One director I'd recommend for a ranking video is Ridley Scott. I was thinking about him partially because "Napoleon" just came out, but I also think he's a fascinating director with such a weird output. Most directors have peaks and valleys in their careers going by a set period of time, but Scott has had good movies and bad movies come out back to back for pretty much his whole career. He made three stellar beginner movies (The Duelists, Alien, and Blade Runner), then vacillated in quality with each new release to where you never knew whether you were going to get another classic or a huge turkey at any point in his career. A ranking on his filmography would be absolutely wild and unpredictable.
This plus his habit of making numerous Directors Cuts (Blade Runner has 3 or 4? Legend has 2?) would make that a wild time.
A huge turkey😂
@@angrynerdgirl With Blade Runner it was studio interference but yeah almost all of his movies have a longer director's cut, Alien too. Recently he said there might be a 4+ hour cut of Napoleon coming to streaming
Yeah I loved him in Metroid!
Scott's television resume is pretty interesting too. He was one of the main producers on a couple of hardcore legal dramas, The Good Wife and The Good Fight. Not really what you would expect from a director of sci-fi.
Spielberg loves animation. He set up Amblimation, and when that shut down all the animators moved to DreamWorks. He may not have directed more animated films, but he's produced tons. "The Land Before Time," "An American Tail," "Balto," "We're Back!" He's also been a creative consultant on many DreamWorks films: he's the reason Toothless is in the room when Hiccup finds out he lost his leg, and basically told Dean DeBlois the script for HTTYD3 fucked so hard when he finally got it right, saying that it moved him to tears. He also has an excellent interview where he says every director should study animation. He's the ultimate animation weeb and it's great.
Considering how hard animation gets shafted, knowing one of the best film directors loves and admires animation gives me so much joy I was not prepared for.
As iconic as he is a filmmaker, I appreciate his work with animated series. Animaniacs was one of my favorite pieces of media growing up.
Wish he made more non mo cap CGI or even 90's 2D animated films because it would've been cool to see what he would've done with DreamWorks ir even Blue Sky.
Apparently, Spielberg was planning to do an animated movie musical version of "Cats" but his animation studio got bankrupt thus ending the film's development. An animated movie musical of Cats would've been far better instead of whatever Tom Hooper was doing
shout outs to freakazoid
Idk if it counts but he and George Lucas did work on some Don Bluth films like American Tale and Land Before Time
He also did Tiny Toon Adventures and Freakazoid, probably the funniest animated series ever made
So you’re telling me I sat through a movies-worth of time just to realize Steven Spielberg was a WRITER for Goonies, not the DIRECTOR and because of that wasn’t included in this list? Damn 😔
Poltergeist too
Spielberg actually did a lot with animation as a producer in the 80s. He played a big role in getting Roger Rabbit made, and then of course 90s tv shows like Tiny Toons and Freakazoid!
Not to mention Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain!
He even was the executive producer for DreamWorks's first animated series, Toonsylvania and even co-created his own animated series, Invasion America
@@AKatNamedKuckooHe also worked on Taz-Mania and Histeria!
@@brytilaar Actually, those two weren't worked on by Steven Spielberg or Amblin Television
And An American Tail. Speaking of I think Don Bluth, it's director would be a really good filmmaker to look at. Especially given his history and rivalry with Disney pushing them to make their most iconic and successful era because of how much of a threat his own animated films were. That man does not get enough credit for what he did within the animation medium.
@@LpsfudgeandMlpTV He even collaborated with Don Bluth again on The Land Before Time, which he worked on alongside his good friend, George Lucas
Not to mention, thanks to that film (as well as Roger Rabbit), Spielberg founded his own short-lived animation studio, Amblimation
It would be cool to see an Akira Kurosawa ranking. I've never seen anyone really tackle his entire filmography, and he's easily one of the greatest directors of all time.
A fun fact about Akira Kurosawa is that Ran was not submitted as best foreign film by Japan, but a completely different movie was, because they weren’t a fan of him, but that film wasn’t nominated because the American film industry was a fan of Kurosawa. It’s pretty funny award politics.
@@thomasffrench3639what a phenomenal movie Ran is, I was fortunate enough to catch it on a re-release in the cinema for an event.... truly epic in every sense of the word
It's because realistically no one alive today HAS seen his entire Filmography yet. One of his films Those Who Make Tomorrow is a lost film and so...
@@thomasffrench3639 The best part was that Kurosawa was still nominated for Best Director for Ran.
I'd like to see a James Gunn ranking
So the thing I like most about Temple of Doom is that Indy's reason to adventure make him more heroic. He isn't just chasing an artifact, he goes on the quest because he learns of children who are in danger. It makes him more of a hero rather than an adventurer
I wanna add that I thinks he also just a thrill seeker, I mean he loves what he does so makes sense that he'd go along for the ride just to see what happens.
Also, one thing about Temple of Doom: it's not really focused upon afterwards so I'm not surprised most miss it, but the dinner scene is actually supposed to be part of the host's attempt to drive Indy and Co away without attracting attention. At least, that''s how I interpreted the movie scene on rewatch and IIRC what the novelization says.
@@everynametakenYes! I posted a comment about this. There’s actually dialogue in an original version of the script where Indy mentions that Hindu’s don’t eat meat making him wonder what these people are. There’s a specific distinction between these fictional devil worshipers and what the standard Indian culture is, and therefore I don’t really find the movie racist. It can be seen that way at face value but if you actually pay attention to the plot…
Although I do think the white savior ending of the movie could be more palatable if instead of the British soldiers saving the day it’s the Maharajah’s soldiers and they go back with Indy to the village.
Temple of Doom has always been my favorite Indiana Jones movie for this very reason.
@@DanUnderwood-v7m Whenever that scene came out, I shout "YESSSS THE BRRRITISHH CAVALRYYYYY", idk it's just so heroic, plus, there are indian soldiers too.
This video just gave me the most harrowing thought of: "Man... It really REALLY will suck when Steven Spielberg dies. Like... REALLY suck."
I just want to add a few details about the Tintin movie:
the reason we don't really see much about Tintin's professional life and how he seems to just "exist" in the world is actually pretty accurate to how he is in the original comics. Hergé, the author of Tintin, focused more on his adventures than his "paper work" life (the newspapers at the beginning are actually nods to some of his actual adventures in the albums), or his private life. The author simply didn't think it was as important as the adventures he would go on to live. As for Tintin himself, he was supposed to be just a reflection of what the author himself wanted to be, that later turned into the character being kind of a "blank slate" so that any child could see themselves or at least see him as a role model they could aspire to be.
Hope that somehow clears up some of the doubts you had about some aspects of the characterization in the movie :)
I remember reading that the Castafiore Emerald was written specifically if he could create a Tintin adventure where absolutely no adventures happened, and I happen to love it. I loved the lower-stakes story full of character moments.
Spielberg really should direct more musicals in his career, he was fantastic at "West Side Story" and all of the Musical numbers were brilliantly staged.
nuh uh@MeleaWierwille
Spielberg's West Side Story is amazing. I'd say it's even superior than the original movie. Such a shame people underestimate it without even giving a chance when you can just tell that Spielberg really wanted to make the movie with his heart and soul, it's a very personal movie for him
I love grebleipS nevetS
It was really good, but I can see why it didn't do well because the audience for musicals like that is pretty niche
Agreed!
No, it's not a coincidence that the mayor from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs reminds you of the one from Jaws. The director says in Cloudy's commentary that he directed the actor to play it like he was the mayor from Jaws.
23:42 I always laugh so hard when Schaff’s angry and his voice goes up like 3 octaves
🤣🤣🤣
Timestamps (spoiler free)
The absolute worst 4:27
Number 33 9:23
Number 32 11:40
Number 31 13:50
Number 30 20:16
Number 29 26:50
Number 28 31:10
Number 27 35:33
Number 26 39:50
Number 25 47:53
Number 24 49:20
Number 23 51:10
Number 22 54:20
Number 21 1:03:52
Number 20 1:07:05
Number 19 1:11:18
Number 18 1:15:34
Number 17 1:18:42
Number 16 1:20:08
Number 15 1:23:28
Number 14 1:25:37
Number 13 1:29:46
Number 12 1:34:28
Number 11 1:40:44
Number 10 1:43:13
Number 9 1:46:22
Number 8 1:48:24
Number 7 1:54:07
Number 6 2:00:09
Number 5 2:06:37
Number 4 2:11:48
Number 3 2:18:05
Number 2 2:25:58
The very best 2:30:04
Thank you so much king
Legend
I’ve already seen the video, but I appreciate you not spoiling what movies in that placement
Sorry mate but I’ve beat you too it (good on you for making it spoiler free though)
Thank you, my guy
Fun fact, as a film student taking a class on screenwriting, my class watched Duel together and discussed what it’s conflict was. But one thing we talked deeper about was it’s themes of masculinity. The main guy’s last name is Mann, and the movie makes a point to tell you that he’s not really the macho figure that most other main male characters were in action movies. If you ever rewatch the film and look for ways to prove that, you will find them sprinkled in there. For example, the phone call at the beginning with his wife tells us that he’s passive because he didn’t stop another man from coming onto her, and even the size of the truck versus the size of his car. I really enjoyed the movie for the class, but I do agree that it felt drawn out. There’s only so much you can do with a car chase being the whole premise of the movie
It also showcases the power of survival instinct over our own day-to-day nature. I always thought that Mann looked guilty in the final shot, sitting on the cliff, even though he saved his own life and, "won," moments before.
Mad Max Fury Road is a car chase and it’s half an hour longer 😂
Put it into words better than I could have, but I've always felt that about the movie
I know right
2:13:59 the reason the Triceratops looks so real is because it was actually a practical animatronic instead of cgi! several shots with the T-Rex are animatronic too.
As a teenager, I fell asleep during the first movie of a Lord of the Rings trilogy marathon at home. After waking up near the end of the last movie, I swore I would never fall asleep during a movie ever again.
In my mid-twenties, I nearly broke that oath watching the BFG.
Warning, BFG 10000 is firing
You took a casual 8 hour nap
lol did you just have a healthy 8 hour sleep at night and woke up in the morning?
8 hour sleep?
honestly, worthy nap haha
I remember reading an interview with Spielberg talking about how working on Schindler’s list and Jurassic park at the same time was how he was able to handle making a movie so dark and despair filled because when he needed a break from the horror he’d go to Jurassic park and work on scenes for that movie, and after watching the fableman it’s almost tragic and sad knowing he had experienced using filmmaking as an escape before in his life.
As a French person, the funniest thing here was hearing James calling Captain Haddock, the most beloved character in European comics, “the Andy Serkis pirate”
I thought it was Andy Circus
I am not sure haddock is the most beloved character in european comics. I think asterix and obelix are way more well liked outside of france
War Horse is based on a childrens novel by Michael Morpurgo, so calling it 'baby's first war film' is quite accurate
For that triceratops in Jurassic Park, it is actually real. In the Netflix series The Movies that Made Us, there's an episode about Jurassic Park, and they talk about how they did that scene. The built a physical model and had a lot of puppeteers underneath it to simulate the breathing. The T-rex is also real too, and seeing it in the studio looks terrifying. There were some shots where it was cgi, but others where it's practical effects, so that's why it might hold up so well.
Joyce Carol Oates tweeted the picture of Spielberg posing with the Triceratops model
Everybody knows it’s real. It’s alarming that he just deduced it was CG without checking
@@rauldjvp3053 To be fair, the film is renowned for have revolutionary VFX work. It makes sense that he'd flub a detail as tiny as that in project this big.
"Things everyone knows for 500 Alex"
So that’s what Phil Tibbet cooked up in Jurassic Park.
1:15:40
I once heard that the point of Romeo and Juliet is that the romance is itself a tragedy. The characters just want to escape so much, they confuse a brief crush with being soul mates. It’s about the impulsivity that comes with being a teen in a strict environment.
In Temple of Doom, the dinner scene is supposed to be a joke that wasn’t taken far enough according to Chatter Lal’s actor. Basically the Indian people were eating that because that’s what the outsiders expected them to eat and they were doing it to make the outsiders uncomfortable. If you watch it with that frame of reference, it definitely does feel like the Indian characters were in on the joke, cuz each dish has a guy say the name with a shit eating grin, clearly knowing that the main characters are uncomfortable. Idk it’s not like the best scene with that in mind but it does make it better.
Yeah I always kinda saw it as a practical joke but it is ambiguous enough that it's not really a great defense
40:12 Fun fact: My high school band teacher showed his son the scene where the Nazi's get their faces melted off as a way to encourage him to drink water
🤨 huh
I’m sorry…… WHAT?!? What does any of that have to do with water?
@@rylandcordes well, the scene could be interpreted as the Nazi's drying up, so stay hydrated or that'll happen to you
@@rylandcordesIt happens every other week to me. Yeah I should drink more water.
I love that Steven Spielberg used Schindler's List to earn credits for an Advanced Filmmaking course, and also used Jurassic Park to earn credits for a course in paleontology lol. I wondered if the professor of Advanced Filmmaking showed clips of every students' film in that class lol.
Stanley Kubrick popping up in this ranking (The Shining reference in Ready Player One, his work on Artificial Intelligence) definitely makes me wanna see a Kubrick ranking. He has a lean filmography of 13 feature films spanning different genres (horror, war, period pieces, sci-fi, etc) which almost certainly has something for everyone, from more casual film watchers to dedicated cinephiles.
On top of how much a perfectionist he was.
To a fault.
@@llmkursk8254would Strangelove be regarded as a comedy or thriller?
@@llmkursk8254 Indeed. He is a widely lauded filmmaker and it's hard to say whether or not he would have the reputation that he has without his mindset. However, the absurdity of the painstaking number of takes that he would shoot for some scenes is undeniable. I'm not sure if this necessarily resulted in a better film or not. And the whole Shelley Duvall thing epitomizes how it could be harmful.
You can tell a lot about a person based on how they rank Lolita in their Kubrick ranking.
As in it’s either low cuz it’s not book-loyal or the ranker doesn’t get the story, or it’s high up cuz it’s funny as hell and well made.
Im almost finished his filmography and it's been really amazing
Full Ranking in order
4:26 Always
9:25 1941
11:40 BFG
13:51 Ready Player One
20:17 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
26:50 War Horse
31:12 Lincoln
35:37 Hook
39:51 Kingdom of Crystal Skull
47:53 The Sugarland Express
49:21 Bridge of Spies
51:12 Amistad
54:25 The Temple of Doom
1:03:53 Empire of the Sun
1:07:05 ET
1:11:19 West Side Story
1:15:35 Jaws
1:18:41 The Colour Purple
1:20:10 Munich
1:23:27 Duel
1:25:36 War of the Worlds
1:29:46 The Adventures of Tintin
1:34:27 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1:40:46 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1:43:16 The Terminal
1:46:22 Catch Me if You Can
1:48:24 The Post
1:54:07 The Fablemans
2:00:09 Artificial Intelligence
2:06:41 Minority Report
2:11:48 Jurassic Park
2:18:05 The Last Crusade
2:25:59 Saving Private Ryan
2:30:05 Schindler’s List
Thanks
Spoiler alert, but thank you!
Damn it. I accidentally clicked and ruined it for me.
Thank you 🙏
How did you find out the timestamps in a 2 hour video when it had only been out for 1 hour
It's not really Spielberg's fault that Tintin's journalism wasn't explored. It never really comes up in the comics and that movie is an adaptation of two stories: The Secret of the Unicorn and The Crab with a Golden Claw.
And honestly it shouldn't have been explored. There's no need for it
1:32:15 As a European, a Spanish person in fact,....yes, it is
TinTin, Asterix y Obelix & Lucky Luke are comics very well known in our country, we learn about them all from when we were kids
It's funny that the Smurfs were the thing that actually got popular in the States
Not to mention that at first The Smurfs were a "spin-off" of the Johan and Pirlouit series! It was like a medieval comic series with fantasy elements and the Smurfs appear in one of their adventures... And probably because they were more marketable, the Smurfs still are popular nowadays while Johan and Pirlouit are pretty much forgotten.
I’ve read almost every TinTin and A&O comic, plus one Lucky Luke, and they’re all fantastic.
I loved Ke Huy Quan's reunion with Harrison ford on the red carpet. It genuinely looked and felt like they had the same relationshop offscreen as they did on screen and that felt like one of the most heartwarming things id ever seen in film.
TIMESTAMPS:
34) Always 2:49
33) 1941 9:24
32) The BFG 11:40
31) Ready Player One 13:51
30) The Lost World 20:16
29) War Horse 26:50
28) Lincoln 31:11
27) Hook 35:34
26) Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 39:50
25) The Sugarland Express 47:53
24) Bridge of Spies 49:21
23) Amistad 51:10
22) Temple of Doom 54:21
21) Empire of the Sun 1:03:52
20) E.T. 1:07:06
19) West Side Story 1:11:18
18) Jaws 1:15:34
17) The Color Purple 1:18:41
16) Munich 1:20:08
[Surfshark VPN] 1:21:53
15) Duel 1:23:27
14) War of the Worlds 1:25:35
13) The Adventures of Tintin 1:29:45
12) Raiders of the Lost Ark 1:34:27
11) Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1:40:44
10) The Terminal 1:43:14
9) Catch Me If You Can 1:46:23
8) The Post 1:48:24
7) The Fabelmans 1:54:07
6) Artificial Intelligence 2:00:09
5) Minority Report 2:06:37
4) Jurassic Park 2:11:47
3) The Last Crusade 2:18:05
2) Saving Private Ryan 2:25:59
1) Schindler’s List 2:30:03
I appreciate the timestamps of each entry on the list. But maybe you should. I dunno NOT spoil which movies they are? You know for future reference
@@OnionChoppingNinja maybe you should look at comments after you're done with the video, ya know, the point of a comment section
@@Snailbasketstop calling me out man 😭
Minority Report is actually at 2:06:37
I'm surprised to see Jaws and E.T. ranked so low. I'm less surprised at the low ranking of The Color Purple, but I'm still a little disappointed to see it, as it's still the only time Spielberg brought his A game to a movie with a female lead.
Having Jaws so low is a crime. WAY better than most of the films ahead of it on this list. The second half is just as engaging.
Gotta respectfully disagree. I never saw it young, so no nostalgia for me. I watched it and could definitely feel the tension in the first half, and then poof! We’ve arrived at boring city.
Yeah that’s my only real beef with this list, Jaws is easily top 10 material, I think the hunt on the boat is incredibly effective at building tension and making you feel as isolated and hapless as the characters, which enhances the genuine terror following by relief in the final encounter.
I mean he still gave it a 7/10, meaning it's still pretty good for him overall though. Does that help?
I agree. I watched it when I was 12 or 13 and thought it was good but not much else. I rewatched it a few weeks ago and I couldn’t believe how good it was. The way it smoothly transforms from a character focused movie exploring the events that happen to Brody and Hooper in the first half to a goal based movie where they have to kill the shark in the second half is masterfully executed. Plus the music is iconic and all of the subtle themes and messages are interesting and thought provoking
Between this and law, I think Schaff just hates horror movies 😕
I genuinely wanna see you tackle a Tim Burton movie ranking, mainly for how much of a distinct style he has with many of his films. I also get the feeling that you might like some of his other works outside of "Nightmare Before Christmas."
Same!
Henry Selick is the one who made nightmare before Christmas
@@OmarTafur75okay but Henry Selick ranking video
I’d be curious to know his thoughts on 9.
@@OmarTafur75 Selick directed it, but I think it's still fair to include it in a list of Tim Burton films. He basically created the whole universe and story, did the concept art, wrote most of the songs with Danny Elfman. Even though he didn't direct or write the script, it's more his vision than anyone else's.
One thing I love is that when we meet Ryan, he's completely inconspicuous. There's no final clue that makes them rush to save Ryan at the last moment. A group of soldiers introduce themselves and Hanks circles back to one of them and pulls him aside out of the blue to tell him his entire family is dead.
Another thing I think is worth mentioning about Jurassic Park is that even though people today mostly talk about the stuff it got wrong about dinosaurs (like the raptors not being feathered etc.), for it's time the dinosaur designs were exceptionally up-to-date and accurate. For example, it was the first time T.rex was portrayed correctly in a horizontal body posture instead of an upright human-like stance, and it also emphasized a lot on the similarities between birds and dinosaurs, when people even today often think of dinosaurs as stupid, sluggish giant reptiles.
Same here
Well, it's a 50/50. Most of the dinosaurs were accurate back then but there are two huge mistakes:
1. Calling an oversized Deinonychus a Velociraptor
2. The movie Dilophosaurus being almost completely made up.
But besides that, it was really accurate for the 90's
Any problems with accuracy are covered by the fact they were scientists making theme park attractions and using modern critters for basis. Yeah maybe dinosaurs should have been more like chickens, but they wanted the lizard.
@@minecad2828 I know, the point is people usually emphasize on the inaccuracies forgetting how impressive the accuracies were for the time.
@@robbybevard8034 we're not talking about in-universe accuracy, although at least in the first movie the dinosaurs were supposed to be 100% real. For example, when they're digging up the "Velociraptor" skeleton at the beginning it looks exactly like the living raptors.
I'm surprised you disliked the second half of Jaws more than the first, for most people myself included, that's the best part.
Something about seeing the cooperation of these 3 dudes, all representing different values on this journey, in such an isolated setting just fits my taste so well, although I suppose that is MY taste still.
Idk, I see a lot of people who don't like the boat stuff
I'm not one of those people, Quint alone justifies it.
1:32:32 I absolutely agree. As a German, I find it baffling that Americans are completely unaware of the genius behind Asterix & Obelix.
Yup, Goscinny was a genius. His comedy was brilliant.
To be fair there’s a reason our pop culture is near universally consumed unrivaled to anyone else’s (with small exceptions to other anglophone countries keyword smalls)
I am a comic collector and i love collecting Asterix & Obelix.
@@MarkyMark1221 And... what IS that reason?
@@Switch_Stepper same I collected all Asterix and Obelix comics up to "Golden Book" and I have few of the newer ones because i wanted to see if they are any good.
Steven Spielberg is such an Icon, his films have been some of the most influential and incredible in Hollywood. Jaws, ET, Jurassic Park, and Tintin are all masterpieces and some of my favorite films of all time
Sure he made a few stinkers too, but regardless, this legend's god work is amazing, and I'm glad Schaffrillas ranked them. Also, I never thought any of his films could be worse than 1941. Boy was I wrong.
The man's a legend.
Yeah, Always is awful.
Same could be said for the Classic Thomas Series and Railway Series as a whole.
Fun fact! Hergè himself entrusted Tintin’s rights to make a movie after countless Tintin flops to Spielberg himself and included him in his will when he passed away before the movie was made. Last I checked, I’m pretty sure Spielberg was willed Hergè’s estate or part of it.
Ready Player One is actually based on a book! And a really good one too! The movie literally borrowed 0 PLOT POINTS from the book. Like if the characters didn't have the same names you would never even be able to tell its the same story. Literally EVERYTHING is different. I highly recommend the book, as if you have seen the movie, you literally have no idea what happens in the book. Whoever wrote the screenplay probably just read the back of the cover and decided to make a script out of it.
The ending to AI is genuinely one of the most devastating, and soul crushing endings I've ever seen. It genuinely traumatized me as a kid
Oi same thing here. Why the hell were we allowed to watch that????
He really put the "youth" in "euthanasia".
No other movie has made me cry 3 separate times like that 🥲 heartbreaking
@@ninaandneurons I just remember being really disturbed and deppressed after seeing it.
AI was probably the first movie I saw that made me cry
The worst part about Ready Player One is that i actually liked the book, it actually built these people as characters, has a coherent plot, and the references were a lot subtler and just better.
Agreed, my thoughts that entire section were just "the book was better, please just read it instead..."
Yeah I remember liking the book when I read it in like, middle school or whatever. Maybe I'd be more critical of it on a reread but as a certified GAMER it pandered to me pretty well. Really the worst things I can say about it are that there's like a two-page spread where he just talks about jacking off, and if you're impatient or don't really care it goes on a lot of diatribes about random gaming trivia ("Here's how 'Adventure' on Atari contained the first Easter Egg in video games..."), but I ate that shit up, I thought it was neat. It's like Sword Art Online, but written by someone who actually plays video games.
besides that one "writers barely disguised fetish" part the book is indeed very solid. the constant infodumps on 80s gaming trivia might get annoying if you already know abt it beforehand but otherwise its actually pretty enjoyable. in fact, my biggest issue with the movie isnt the terrible plot and characters, its how all the massive and passionate nerdism poured into the pages of the original got turned into the most sanitized soulless corporate shit youve seen in your life
@@paulamarina04fetish part? Now I gotta read it
Watching all of the ready player one section I was begging that he’d bring up the book, or at least say he’s read it. I understand the movie was shit but omg the book is so good I just wish he had read it just so his souls woulda been a little better off after the movie
"The dad sells the horse to Loki"
Oh god, giving Loki a horse? That's an awful idea
Well you get Sleipnir after afterwards.
"Does anyone else kind of mentally check out once they're on the boat?" WHAT??
No. The answer you're looking for is "no" 😅😅
The Indianapolis speech. The cage sequences. The rivalry between Quint and Hooper. Some of the best stuff in the film, all in the second half.
Lol pretty wild take. Best part of the movie to me. Every aspect of this movie is top notch and the characters of Quint, Brody and Hooper are my favorite part.
I actually kinda agree with him. It just goes on for a bit too long and the shark shows up too many times without actually doing anything.
I know everyone has their own opinions, but some of this guy's are just baffling, even infuriating.
Nah, he's got a point. The battle against the shark is thrilling, and Quint's backstory is tragic and effed up, but otherwise the film does kind of slow to a crawl there. The part where they try to 'man up' against each other makes me cringe.
I think what’s especially beautiful about A.I’s ending is the fact that Spielberg specifically made it because that is the ending Kubrick had wanted before he passed away. Apparently even many people working on the film did not believe in the ending, yet Spielberg persisted and chose to honor Kubrick by ending the film exactly the way he’d wanted even knowing that it may not be appreciated by audiences.
Also I seriously want you to know your reviews are valuable and treasured by me. You have such a passion for the things you talk about that makes your videos special and fun. You honestly have sold me on some of these movies I never probably would have watched like A.I or The Fablemans.
I remember watching the DreamWorks ranking in 2020 and being impressed with how James was able to discuss 30+ movies of varying qualities, genres and tones in such a seamless and efficient manner. 3 years later, I'm still just as impressed as ever, not just given the length of the video, and how many movies he had to discuss, but also considering how many other he videos he had to work on at the same time as this one (I know that he started watching the movies months in advance according to his Letterboxd, but you get my point).
NOW, he needs to do the movies that Spielberg PRODUCED, that way we can hear his thoughts on Dial of Destiny and the Jurassic World movies.
P.S. I'm joking of course, James does not have to actually make that ranking list if he doesn't want to, but I would also concur that there are other classics that Spielberg helped produce like the Gremlins or Men in Black in movies.
And the Transformers movies lmfao
Also the legendary back to the future trilogy
Oh god I’m generally scared if he talks about transformers
@user-ly6uc9ri5j from what I've seen on his Letterboxd, Revenge of the Fallen is rated as a half-star, and Dark of the Moon was 1 star (the first one was 2 stars).
Neither 4 or 5 are included amongst his watched films, so I can only imagine what his response would be if he were to talk about them for a video.
Maybe he could do a Michael Bay ranking, LOL! (may or may not be more painful than the Shyamalan ranking he proposed).
I enjoyed Lincoln as someone who really enjoys history. The criticisms are valid, I can see how the title can be miss leading. Tho I think I’d prefer this over a film talking about Lincoln’s whole life, which originally this was supposed to be. But Spielberg figured that the last 4 months of his life may bring a better understanding to Lincoln’s impact on American history.
Agreed. If you’re a history buff, it’s phenomenal. If you aren’t, I can understand the criticisms
The ET line from what’s up balloon to the rescue is actually a reference to the previous installment of the what’s up cinematic universe, little and big monsters, where they encounter aliens (yes, this is real)
If you're asking for another Directors ranking list, Don Bluth is good. He only made like 12 movies, 4 of which are absolute masterpieces (Secret of Nimh, Land Before Time, An American Tail, and Anastasia).
I'm honestly surprised he didn't do Don Bluth before, seeing as it serves as a good transition from his animated studio rankings to his director rankings.
And he also made Titan AE, which i think is very underreated :)
@@RainbowMan9407I definitely agree.
Bluth is also fun because his post-American Tail movies end up being so insanely weird (and often terrible) while still containing some of his idiosyncratic charm. B-Mask did a fantastic video looking at his musicals.
Yes Anastasia is one of my all Time Faves
A lukewarm defense of War Horse - it is literally a kid's film. It's based off the classic British children's book of the same name by Michael Morpurgo which is many children's first introduction to WWI. As you said, the war was unfathomably awful, and War Horse provides kids with an easy in that isn't too overwhelming. The book is also written from Joey's perspective which is obviously harder to communicate through film. The best version of the story however is the play which is one of the most affecting pieces of theatre I've ever seen. The film honestly wasn't my favourite, but I think the problem is that this story isn't meant to be told using that medium
That’s what I was thinking. It was more of a family movie. That’s why it stayed away from hard war scenes.
About the shower scene in Schindler's List, I always interpreted it as a representation of the arbitrariness of the killing system devised by the nazis. It's one of the things strongly highlighted by Primo Levi's "If this is a man": the idea that Auschwitz, and the Lager system generally, were places where there was no "Warum", not "Why", no reason nor logic. You could be ignored one day, perhaps even be lucky, and the other day be mutilated, or killed, for no apparent reason. The women and girls in the movie find themselves in Auschwitz without knowing why, they're sent to a chamber that they know might kill them without knowing why, and actually it's just a normal shower - and they still don't know why. When they get out, they see another file of women and children just like them, going to the real gas chambers, and the crematorium beyond - and there's nothing different about them.
It's not a hope spot for me. It just adds to the horror.
How Schaff feels about Temple of Doom is how I feel about The Phantom Menace. It has a lot of flaws that make me hesitate to call it a good movie, but it also has a lot of good elements that I love.
Temple of Doom is a lot more enjoyable than phantom menace imo. Temple of Doom is silly but really fun phantom menace is just boring with a decent final battle.
@@xdlmao42 That's what a lot of TPM's detractors say about it, but I really don't agree.
The final battle is NOT the only good thing in the movie, and I do find the film (mostly) engaging the whole way through, with solid characters and world-building to boot.
While the film certainly has issues that hold it back, I still really enjoy The Phantom Menace, which is a sentiment I also hold for The Temple of Doom.
@@PARR-E Jar Jar wasn’t a problem for me but every other character was. It’s unfair but the child actor was awful and every other character was super boring and it just seemed like everyone was coasting with the writing and performances.
you forgot to mention that in “Hook”, Tinkerbell raised Peter since he was an infant. she’s basically in love with her son. makes the whole thing even creepier.
As much as Schaffrillas hates Mack in Crystal Skull, I love the scene where the bad guys try to hit Indie with a car before he does an insane stunt, and Mack keeps shouting "You don't know him" because he knows Indie is crazy enough and capable of pulling it off
"JONESEY!" (gets decked by Indy)
Come on, comedy gold.
To be fair, in the case of West Side Story, even back with the 1961 film, the characters people found the most interesting were Anita, Bernardo, and Riff, all of whom are played wonderfully in Spielberg's 2021 adaptation by Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, and Mike Faist. Overall, I think it was an enjoyable new adaptation of the original 1957 Broadway musical. I just wish people would stop accusing the movie of being a remake of the 1961 film, similar to how I feel about wishing people would stop criticizing Tim Burton's 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory adaptation as a remake of the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Both Spielberg and Burton made it very clear that these new films were adaptations of the original source materials (the 1957 Original Broadway version of West Side Story and the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book by Roald Dahl). If you don't like these films, that's fine, but it bothers me so much when people criticize them for being something the directors made very clear, in multiple interviews, that they are not.
I think West Side Story is the rare case where both of it's film adaptations are phenomenally done for different reasons.
The 61 film preserved Robbin's incredible choreography, allowing it to remain iconic imagery on cinema and in a rare instance allow a musical's staging to become beloved in it's own right due to how close it sticks to the blocking of the original production. It's a perfect time capsule of what was then a very contemporary show that used the real rubble and destruction of the upper west side via Robert Moses' Slum Clearance movements in many of it's on-location shots.
Spielberg's take is filled with nothing but adoration for the source material. They make changes which allows it to be more critical of racial injustices going on in New York than both the stage and 61 film could portray due to Censorship Regulations of the time (largely the Hays code), Yet at the same time the modernizations they make do not fight with the story established. It's an unapologetic period piece musical that only makes changes to the story to elevate its setting and characters.
This film also has one of the most nuanced portrayals of a transgender character ever put on screen.
Yeah, it personally really bothers me when people say that only one film adaptation of a book or musical is allowed. I can understand stuff like some of Disney's recent live-action remakes, such as Peter Pan & Wendy, Mulan, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, etc. They were clearly remakes of the Disney adaptation rather than new adaptations of the original stories. But this film was clearly not meant to be that, you can tell that they tried to include some more things from the original source material, and did not try to just flat-out remake the 1961 film, they made changes to allow it to stand out from its first film adaptation. Same thing with Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, Tim Burton wanted to make a version that took more things from the book, in which the original film didn't. Interestingly enough, Roald Dahl famously disliked the 1971 film as he believed that it strayed too far from his original story, and did not like the casting of Gene Wilder.@@gabbyhaynes5394
I actually prefer Speilberg’s version. I felt that it the same beats as the original works, but his changes and direction helped us gravitate to the characters.
For some reason, in the 1961 version, I just got bored except for America.
I really like how he and the script writers showed how the jets and sharks both felt powerless to fight the people kicking them out and fought each other. I liked seeing the parallels between the two sides.
I also liked seeing the nuance with characters like Riff who does not seem like a villain in this one, but someone who has been rejected and abandoned and taking it out on the Puerto Ricans.
Man, the editing and the set direction, just everything was phenomenal snd I am someone who thought she hated West Side Story.
Same, I actually preferred Riff in the new movie adaptation as well. I like how he's portrayed as someone who used to own more than he did, but is living the way he is now because of the fact that things have changed, the police reject him and the Jets and consider them to be complete jokes and delinquents and the land in which they have to themselves are now owned by the Puerto Rican community. He pretty much believes that only fighting the Sharks and winning can he gain back what he had previously lost, while on the other hand, Bernardo and the Sharks want to defend the land that they are living in for the sake of the Puerto Rican community, which I thought was also something that this movie did better, actually showing us the Puerto Rican community trying to live their lives in 1950's New York.@@gabrielleduplessis7388
As an ardent Lost World defender, I must state, for the record…
…that seeing you tear into it was actually pretty funny. Most of what you said is completely true too, it just didn’t bother me as much as it did you. To each their own. Good day.
“If you can’t laugh at the things you love, you don’t deserve to laugh at the things you hate.”
Literally can’t say anything better than this
"I didn't know they were going to kill him, thats sad as shit" I love how this is a completely genuine and deserved reaction because this part of the movie literally created my depression as a child
Hearing Schaff, my favourite TH-cam reviewer, talk about Jurassic Park, my favourite film, has completed my soul.
hes not even funny you loon
As someone who loves Jurassic Park, in my opinion The Lost World is a very underrated movie. Clearly the first movie is better, but it is much better than whatever has followed it since.
Lost World has the benefit of actually being partially about the original book's premise, while everything passed it are basically on their own in terms of writing.
@@jasonkeith2832 True, there is a lot to love about The Lost World. The first is a masterpiece and it’s unfairly judged against that movie. I like the dark elements, how the events of the 1st film changed Malcom’s character. I think it deserves a 7.5/10.
While I would’ve liked if it had followed the novel more closely I really enjoyed it (but it’s nowhere near the first one)
@@_Larzy I also think the other Jurassic Park sequels are really underrated. Except 3
@@Theagentofchaos-r5q I love JP3
Headcannon: I like to think that every Tom hanks character in a Spielberg film is the same person.
Or every Spielberg movie is in the same universe which is inhabited by a bunch of Tom Hanks clones working in high positions.
@@saadyahschick7560 Oh my lord! It’s the only explanation
To be fair to the TinTin movie, Herge himself never really established TinTin in the comics. He just appeared as a reporter in TinTin and the Soviets and that was that. Tintin went on with his adventures one after the other. One of the unique things about TinTin is, he has no background, no family members, no relatives, but he's still a likeable character. A rare feat Herge accomplished with the character. 👍
Yeah, Tin Tin was never about him as a character, but rather all the incredible adventures he took readers on. Captain Haddock was the intriguing character.
@@AtlasBlizzard
Yeah, TinTin was the moral vessel character, one the readers could put themselves in his shoes.
Spielberg Movie Rankings (Worst to Best):
34. Always - 2:49
33. 1941 - 9:24
32. The BFG - 11:40
31. Ready Player One - 13:51
30. Jurassic Park: The Lost World - 20:16
29. War Horse - 26:50
28. Lincoln - 31:11
27. Hook - 35:34
26. Indiana Jones & TKoTCS - 39:50
25. The Sugarland Express - 47:53
24. Bridge of Spies - 49:21
23. Amistad - 51:10
22. Indiana Jones & TToD - 54:21
21. Empire of The Sun - 1:03:52
20. E.T. - 1:07:06
19. West Side Story - 1:11:18
18. Jaws - 1:15:34
17. The Colour Purple - 1:18:41
16. Munich - 1:20:08
(Sponsor) Surfjaws VPN - 1:21:53
15. Duel - 1:23:27
14. War of The Worlds - 1:25:35
13. The Adventures of Tintin - 1:29:45
12. Indiana Jones & TRoTLA - 1:34:27
11. Close Encounters of The Third Kind - 1:40:44
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10. The Terminal - 1:43:14
9. Catch Me If You Can - 1:46:23
8. The Post - 1:48:24
7. The Fablemans - 1:54:07
6. Artificial Intelligence - 2:00:09
5. Minority Report - 2:06:38
4. Jurassic Park - 2:11:47
3. Indiana Jones & TLC - 2:18:05
2. Saving Private Ryan - 2:25:59
1. Schindler's List - 2:30:03
Beat you to it sorry
I actually want to watch the video so I won't be clicking read more, thanks.
Number 3 is messed up
@@paulsarai9032why? Its the perfect placement for it
Thank you man!!
33:41 even tho this isn’t a Spielberg film, I’m really happy more and more people especially Schaffrillas are talking about 12 Angry Men, this film is an absolute masterpiece and is my favorite film of all time, this film should be discussed more often because of its amazing direction, acting, the writing, everything about it is just superb
Watched it recently and HOOOOOOOOO ITS GOOD. You’d never expect a movie about a bunch of old dudes arguing to be maybe the best thing ever made
My high school had it as part of the curriculum. It was specifically in English class
I read a published version of the screenplay before I even watched the movie, and even without the great visuals it had me hooked (it was also in the classics section haha).
The Tintin movie is almost a perfect adaptation in my opinion. The pacing and character writing is all akin to the style of storytelling you find in the comics. Specifically Tintin’s personal life or development as a character never had much emphasis placed on it. As this meant the comics would always be straightforward and accessible for children, and could be read starting from any point. I completely understand that a lot of these creative choices don’t translate especially well to a feature length film. But as a life long fan I couldn’t have asked for a better adaptation. The youtuber Breadsword has an amazing video on the film which provides a lot of context for the franchise as a whole and the development process of the film.
1:27:18 I believe you are referring to the term “Buford’s Canoe”, named after the character Buford Van Stromm from the Phineas and Ferb franchise. The phrase originated from said franchise’s 2nd film, “Candace Vs. The Universe”, in which the movie makers foreshadow the canoe’s importance earlier in the movie, and is finally paid off at the climax of the film.
I didn't even know Buford had a last name
I love that Sr. kept calling Indy "Jr." for most of it, but when Indy tries to grab the holy grail, Sr. calls him "Indiana".
The scenes with the Tripods in War Of The Worlds are some of the most tense scenes I’ve ever seen in a blockbuster, especially the scenes where they capture the humans and use them as fuel. It’s so horrific. I have not seen a movie that conveys such a hopeless tone better than this one (aside from Godzilla Minus One)
And yeah, the issues you mentioned do drag down the film in some places, but man. What a terrifying experience.
Edit: I just found out that the Tripod scenes partially inspired Godzilla Minus One. Neat :)
A fun fact about Jurassic Park: in the scene where the T-Rex destroys the sunroof to the car and it falls on the kids was a complete accident. It was just meant to roar near the glass, but had accidentally broke it from physical force. Spielberg liked it so much that he kept it in.
I can only imagine how horrifying that was for them
"he kept it in" implies that it was all in one take. more often than not in unscripted moments like that, especially one where something breaks, they stop the scene to restart. then the director is like "hey i liked that, could we try doing that on purpose?". especially with literal children, i highly doubt they would accidentally break the roof and then just double down without checking on the kids first.
An Edgar Wright movie ranking would be a fun little video. Considering he only has six movies, it might a fun little project compared to the large amount of movies others have.
I'm down for that. I've only seen Scott Pilgrim and Baby Driver, and maybe that would convince me to check out the rest.
Basing on his Letterboxd ratings, number one would be Baby Driver, which used to be one of his favorite movies, and he still adores it. I think it’s a 10/10 from him, but I’m not sure.
Spots two, three, and four would be interchangeably Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, and Scott Pilgrim. He loved all of them and gave them a 9/10.
Spot five would be Shaun of the Dead. He really liked it and gave it an 8/10.
The bottom of the list would be Last Night in Soho. He didn’t like it. I think he gave it a 4 or 5/10.
@@andrewheaney4874 He changed his rating of Baby Driver to a 9/10
I had to do an assignment on Ready Player One once. The only reason I didn’t die from how bad it was is because everyone in the class, including my teacher, also through it was bad and we all made fun of it together during our watchthrough. It brought us all together in a heartwarming way.
i had to do an essay on the 2017 live action beauty and the beast in class and i thought i was losing my mind because everyone else thought it was amazing. i was literally the only one who hated it.
Am I the only one who loves that movie 😞
@clomuir nah dude you out of the 7.8 billion people on earth are the only one who liked it
The book definitely falls into some of the same pitfalls of the movie, but the literary medium made it so much more tolerable.
@@charlsiefReally? I thought literature made it worse. What in a movie can be entirely visual or a quick line is emphasized and agonized over in a book… not to mention the MC is just way more of an incel in the book.
Do every Adam Sandler movie ranked worse to not bad
Anyone else here still hopes Peter Jackson and Speilberg does that Tintin sequel, cause if James Cameron can take over a decade to release his big sequel to Avatar, then I feel same could definitely apply to Tintin ?
Absolutely. I grew up with the comics and still read them every now and then because they’re just so good. I really enjoyed the adaptation and would love to see more.
Hey maybe they can do more traditional cg animation this time
Coming in theaters....In 2027
I watched A.I. in a filmography class that I was taking because I was told it was an easy credit. It devastated me. I couldn't pull myself away from the movie and despite the "off" feeling of the whole thing, I felt myself shuddering at the depiction of the passage of time, the discussions of love and what it means to be human. I cannot express how profoundly it altered my view of the world. It was my first time really delving into these themes and I have been in love with them ever since.