Aw. I love a lot of love for Close Encounters and Raiders and Jaws. I think Schindler's List is an excellent movie, too, even if I don't particularly want to see it again.

And I love Jurassic Park with an unholy love.

Yeah, I'm a Spielberg fan. And a J.J. Abrams fan. And a Kyle Chandler fan.

Jurassic Park is a really good movie, and I don't generally lke Speilberg. And the book is really good, and I don't generally like Michael Crichton. I have watched and read multiple times, and it is weird.

Having seen the majority of JAWS (again - I seem to always catch this movie in bits and pieces) recently, I have to say that is one hell of a great movie.

And also that's some bad hat, Harry. (I never knew that was where that was from until this last viewing).

I love Jaws. Such a great film, and it really holds up well.

One of my favorite scenes in that film is one that isn't mentioned much, right after Sheriff Brody's kid is almost killed by the shark in the inlet when the shark takes off the sailor's leg instead. They're in the hospital, and Brody is getting the mayor to sign the voucher paying Quint to go after the shark. At first, the sleazeball, er, mayor, is muttering excuses under his breath and you think "what an asshole," but then he looks at Brody and says, "My kid was on that beach, too," and he's almost redeemed in those few words even before he shakily signs the voucher.

Also, I would like J. J. Abrams to keep making Star Trek movies.

That one.

that's some bad hat, Harry. (I never knew that was where that was from until this last viewing).

I had to look it up.

I would like J. J. Abrams to keep making Star Trek movies

Oh yes. Me three.

I absolutely love Raiders and Jaws. I really like a few other things he did. After Jurassic Park I gave up on Spielberg.

I drunkenly live-tweeted while watching Star Trek a few months ago, and the word I keep using when describing it is "atrocity."

So the idea of watching Abrams do a Spielberg pastiche is like the death of a thousand cuts. I think the only way they could make it less appealing to me is if Sorkin wrote it.

I can forgive Spielberg just about anything because Duel exists in the world. I think it's his first movie, and I'm pretty sure Steven King wrote it (too lazy to look it up). I'm afraid to watch it again, as terrifying as I found it the first time.

I think it's his first movie, and I'm pretty sure Steven King wrote it (too lazy to look it up).

Duel was a made for TV movie and written by Richard Matheson (back in the day when you got MFTV movies like the original Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black being chased by a nasty fetish doll). He'd done the pilot of Night Gallery before that. His first theatrical feature was The Sugarland Express. Anybody who thinks Spielberg's incapable of downer endings hasn't seen that one.