Director
Steven Spielberg
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This describes the transcript notes, not a formal rating of Steven Spielberg.WHO TALKS ABOUT THEM
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WHAT WAS SAID
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Apollo 13 (1995)
Credited with suggesting the zero-G shooting method that helped the film’s realism.
About 16 minBack to the Future (1985)
Credited with helping get the movie made after earlier rejections.
About 8 minBack to the Future Part II (1989)
Mentioned in the opening aside as an attention-getting credit and as a marker of prestige.
About 32 minCatch Me If You Can (2002)
The hosts praise his craftsmanship and think the movie reflects his broader early-2000s era well.
About 24 minClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Praised as an extraordinary visual filmmaker and career navigator whose personal feelings shape the movie.
About 0 minE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Praised as the greatest director of the hosts' lifetimes and the central creative force behind the movie.
About 0 minIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Praised as making the movie a pleasurable, deeply personal blockbuster and as using the grail as a metaphor for father-son psychology.
About 8 minJaws (1975)
Praised as the genius who made the movie work through instinct, restraint, and technical choices.
About 16 minJurassic Park (1993)
Praised as a kid-like, meticulous director who engineered the movie's biggest thrills and helped define modern blockbuster craft.
About 0 minMinority Report (2002)
Praised as a genius, technically brilliant, and responsible for the movie's vision and energy.
About 0 minPoltergeist (1982)
Praised as the creative force behind the movie and credited with its warm, adventurous, family-oriented tone.
About 8 minRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Praised as an elite technician and storyteller who turned the material into an iconic movie and rebounded from 1941.
About 0 minSaving Private Ryan (1998)
Praised as the only person who could make this movie and as possibly the greatest director ever.
About 0 minStar Wars (1977)
Discussed as Lucas's peer and fellow blockbuster architect; Close Encounters and Raiders come up repeatedly.
About 40 minSwingers (1996)
Mentioned as having seen footage and being connected to Vaughn's later casting in Jurassic Park: The Lost World.
About 64 minBasic Instinct (1992)
Referenced via a story that he allegedly hired an actor off the interrogation scene.
About 48 minIndependence Day (1996)
Referenced in relation to Emmerich’s influence and blockbuster changing around him.
About 8 minThe Karate Kid Part II (1986)
Only mentioned indirectly through a joke about the show set being 'Brian Singer-y'; no substantive evaluation.
About 8 minEVERY MATCH