The 80s - Steven Spielberg #5 - The director of our childhoods!

**Barrybgb** · 07-23-2017, 03:31 PM

Thread #5 for the most successful filmmaker of all time, Steven Spielberg. He made the 80's special and magical as a director ("Raiders of the Lost Ark", "E. T." and Indiana Jones sequels), as a producer ("Back To The Future", "Gremlins", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", Batteries Not Included") and as producer/story ("The Goonies", "Poltergeist").

His other 80s works as a director include 1985's "The Color Purple", 1987's "Empire of the Sun" and 1989's "Always". His other 80s credits as producer/executive producer include "Back To The Future II", "An American Tail", "Young Sherlock Holmes", "The Blues Brothers", "The Money Pit", "The Land Before Time" and "Innerspace".

Steven's non 80's directorial efforts include "Jaws", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Hook", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "The Lost World", "Amistad", "Minority Report", "War of the Worlds", "Munich", "Saving Private Ryan", "Indiana Jones And the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls", "War Horse", "Lincoln", "Bridge of Spies", "The BFG" and more!

**Melis** · 07-23-2017, 05:58 PM

The thread looks great.

**Barrybgb** · 07-24-2017, 06:54 AM

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The thread looks great.

Thank you!

His new movie, "Ready Player One", looks great.

**Melis** · 07-24-2017, 09:59 AM

I know you'll be watching.

**Barrybgb** · 07-25-2017, 06:54 AM

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I know you'll be watching.

I will. Full of pop culture references. The trailer featured the DeLorean, Freddy Krueger, The Iron Giant and a few more.

**Melis** · 07-25-2017, 07:28 PM

Well, that's enough to suck you in.

**Barrybgb** · 07-26-2017, 07:42 AM

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Well, that's enough to suck you in.

It certainly got my attention!

**Barrybgb** · 08-08-2017, 07:42 AM

Favorite non-80's Steven Spielberg movie?

reason to believe · 08-08-2017, 07:49 AM

Jurassic Park!

**Barrybgb** · 08-08-2017, 07:53 AM

Cool. My favorite non-80's movie would be "Jaws" with "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" and "Jurassic Park" a close second.

reason to believe · 08-08-2017, 08:38 AM

Oh, yeah, I forgot his '70's era

Jaws is a fave plus his earliest TV movie directing job "Duel" about the guy getting chased down by a crazy truck driver... I watch that and can hardly believe he was like, 25 when he directed that!

**Barrybgb** · 08-08-2017, 08:41 AM

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Oh, yeah, I forgot his '70's era

Jaws is a fave plus his earliest TV movie directing job "Duel" about the guy getting chased down by a crazy truck driver... I watch that and can hardly believe he was like, 25 when he directed that!

Oh, yes! I love "Duel". That is also a classic.

**Barrybgb** · 09-21-2017, 07:55 AM

**Barrybgb** · 09-25-2017, 07:27 AM

I can't wait for this. Something did anger me though. A woman in the trailer was talking about some movie and mentioned "They said he ruined the movies." Grr!! Anyways -

**GardenSirens** · 10-01-2017, 09:33 AM

That will be fun to see. As long as they don’t leave out “Hook”

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