The Three Greatest Steven Spielberg Movies

by **pinback** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:54 pm

Bugs wrote:
Flack wrote:Also ... I am aware of Saving Ryan's Privates, but what other Spielberg films have inspired porn films?
Fresh-Ass, Based on the Novel "Tush" by Assfire.

I laughed at this.

Wh-- what do we do on the internet when we like something? Ahh.. really, just that? Okay, I'll give it a go:

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by **Bugs** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:51 pm

Flack wrote:Also ... I am aware of Saving Ryan's Privates, but what other Spielberg films have inspired porn films?

Fresh-Ass, Based on the Novel "Tush" by Assfire.

by **Tdarcos** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:23 pm

Flack wrote:The reason the address stuck with me was, I've always been interested in phones and phone systems and "rotary" sounded like it should be the address of the phone company.

Speaking of phones, since you've been involved in the military, would you by any chance know the smallest area code in the U.S. by number of phone numbers? Hint: it's very small.

I remember once driving along Maryland Route 32, just because I happened to be out that way, and I saw an exit for a named street. I got off the freeway to look because I thought the plant my be located there, but it was just an ordinary road which went to a typical warehouse district.

I mentioned to an associate of mine who worked in the construction industry, that I had gotten off Maryland State Highway at exit 8, and he got it spot on, he said, "Oh yeah, Coca-Cola Drive."

by **Flack** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:23 pm

I thought it was north -- at least, that's what was on our travel orders.

On 9/11, I was working (as a contractor) for the FAA. The same company I worked for (rhymes with "Schmockheed Schmartin) also (unfortunately) had employees working in the Pentagon that day. Our company ended up sending out several employees from here to go set up temporary networks and set up computers and stuff. I didn't end up going, but I had filled out all the travel orders and stuff. The reason the address stuck with me was, I've always been interested in phones and phone systems and "rotary" sounded like it should be the address of the phone company.

Because of where I work I can't really get into 9/11 conspiracy theories or anything, but I can tell you I personally know people who were standing outside and watched a plane hit the Pentagon. When people swear up and down it was a missile, I'm often tempted to give them a phone number or two of some of my old DC co-workers.

by **pinback** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:53 am

Tdarcos wrote:
Flack wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:And what character did Spielberg play in the movie?
Please. Somewhere I have pictures of me standing outside the county clerk's office.

Tdarcos wrote:I used to live in Arlington, Virginia. I wonder how many people would get it if I had falsified my address to 48 S. Rotary Road. Anyone care to guess what is located at 48 S. Rotary Road in Arlington, Virginia?
Isn't it N. Rotary Road? I'll tell you why I know if you confirm that it's north and not south.

Back in the BBS days, I used to give my address as 8900 NW 23rd in OKC, which is smack dab in the middle of Lake Overholser.
Actually we're both wrong, apparently Rotary Road has no direction indicator.

No, you are wrong and he is right. It's 48 N. Rotary Road.

by **Tdarcos** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:38 am

Flack wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:And what character did Spielberg play in the movie?
Please. Somewhere I have pictures of me standing outside the county clerk's office.

Tdarcos wrote:I used to live in Arlington, Virginia. I wonder how many people would get it if I had falsified my address to 48 S. Rotary Road. Anyone care to guess what is located at 48 S. Rotary Road in Arlington, Virginia?
Isn't it N. Rotary Road? I'll tell you why I know if you confirm that it's north and not south.

Back in the BBS days, I used to give my address as 8900 NW 23rd in OKC, which is smack dab in the middle of Lake Overholser.

Actually we're both wrong, apparently Rotary Road has no direction indicator.

by **Flack** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 6:21 am

Then you should add Saving Private Ryan (which made me scared to get shot) and Schindler's List (which made me scared to become Jewish).

Also ... I am aware of Saving Ryan's Privates, but what other Spielberg films have inspired porn films?

by **Bugs** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:00 pm

The other great thing about Jaws is that it actually made people scared to go in the ocean that summer. You know a movie is good when it scares stupid people into not doing things. ET was like that too, it made everyone scared to let astronauts build habitrails around their houses.

by **Flack** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:08 pm

Tdarcos wrote:And what character did Spielberg play in the movie?

Please. Somewhere I have pictures of me standing outside the county clerk's office.

Tdarcos wrote:I used to live in Arlington, Virginia. I wonder how many people would get it if I had falsified my address to 48 S. Rotary Road. Anyone care to guess what is located at 48 S. Rotary Road in Arlington, Virginia?

Isn't it N. Rotary Road? I'll tell you why I know if you confirm that it's north and not south.

Back in the BBS days, I used to give my address as 8900 NW 23rd in OKC, which is smack dab in the middle of Lake Overholser.

by **Tdarcos** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:41 am

Flack wrote:Blues Brothers. And no, I didn't look it up.

And what character did Spielberg play in the movie?

Flack wrote:My dad grew up on the south side of Chicago and I've been to many of the locations in that movie.

Jake: But what are you going to do when the cops come to look for you?
Elwood: Uh, no, I falsified my address, I put down 1060 West Addison
Jake:(puzzled) 1060 W. Addison... that's Wrigley Field!

I used to live in Arlington, Virginia. I wonder how many people would get it if I had falsified my address to 48 S. Rotary Road. Anyone care to guess what is located at 48 S. Rotary Road in Arlington, Virginia?

Stupid Questions:
1. This Las Vegas Television station is located on Channel 8 Drive. Which station is it?
2. Henderson, Nevada is the processing center for The J.C. Penney National Bank. What major department store chain owns this bank?
3. Washington, D.C. based "19th Street Baptist Church" is located near the intersection of Buchanan Street NW and on which numeric street in Washington, DC?

by **Guest** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:28 pm

pinback wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:
AArdvark wrote:Interesting how far the Spielberg influence can reach. Even if the movies themselves aren't all masterpieces.
Not one peep of public protest over Poltergeist, despite one of the opening scenes being ordinary wife and mother Jo Beth Williams calmly rolling and smoking a joint.
MOVIES THAT WERE NOT DIRECTED BY SPIELBERG:

1. Poltergeist

Actually, the rumor is (or was, seeing as probably no one cares anymore) that Tobe got himself in such trouble with Poltergeist that Spielberg did step in and pretty much direct it.

I don't know, but compare it to the rest of Hooper's and Spielberg's stuff. And no one ever, ever accused Tobe Hooper of being a decent director.

by **Flack** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:46 pm

Blues Brothers. And no, I didn't look it up.

My dad grew up on the south side of Chicago and I've been to many of the locations in that movie.

And also, Goldmember (at the beginning).

by **Tdarcos** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:58 pm

pinback wrote: MOVIES THAT WERE NOT DIRECTED BY SPIELBERG:

1. Poltergeist

I understand why I made the mistake; while Poltergeist was directed by Toby Hooper, it was written by Spielberg, which he is not well known for.

Bonus: Name a movie Spielberg acted in.

by **pinback** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:06 pm

Tdarcos wrote:
AArdvark wrote:Interesting how far the Spielberg influence can reach. Even if the movies themselves aren't all masterpieces.
Not one peep of public protest over Poltergeist, despite one of the opening scenes being ordinary wife and mother Jo Beth Williams calmly rolling and smoking a joint.

MOVIES THAT WERE NOT DIRECTED BY SPIELBERG:

1. Poltergeist

by **Tdarcos** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:05 pm

AArdvark wrote:Interesting how far the Spielberg influence can reach. Even if the movies themselves aren't all masterpieces.

Not one peep of public protest over Poltergeist, despite one of the opening scenes being ordinary wife and mother Jo Beth Williams calmly rolling and smoking a joint.

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by **Tdarcos** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:57 pm

pinback wrote:Steven Spielberg has made a lot of movies. [DELETED] Let's take a look at the top 3:

#3 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
#2 - Saving Private Ryan
Until Children of Men came out, I'd say these were the two best battle scenes I'd ever seen. As it is, they're still 2 of the top 3. Which saves us the hassle of doing a Three Greatest Battle Scenes thread.

There's a saying, Truffaut Was Right in which director Francois Truffaut said they'll never make an anti-war film because war will always look exciting on screen.

#1 - Jaws
Also includes Robert Shaw's U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue, arguably one of the three greatest single scenes ever put to film.

Nobody who reads this will agree with me about any of this.

Well, I disagree with the last sentence.

Not sure about Ryan but it's quite a film. The History Channel did a special about Jaws and that scene. The Indianapolis waited so long for rescue because it had been on a secret mission, returning from delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian Island. Men who were there and rescued from the Indianapolis said they cried when they heard the story, because it was basically spot-on-right in so many ways.

by **Tdarcos** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:42 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I've never seen Schindler's List, but surely that has to be on the list somewhere because JEWS.

I put the [toilet] seat down on the counter, and walked out [of the store], letting the phones ring and leaving a line of angry customers that stretched so long that people at the end of the line (two miles away) thought it was the ticket line for Michael Chrichton, M.D.'s Jurassic Park, which was still playing to packed audiences, fourteen years after its release. That movie was doing almost as well as the one across the street that had been running for 13 years, which coincidentally was also produced by Steven Spielberg, his monster hit Used Cars. His movie Schindler's List, wasn't received all that well. People said he was a little unkind to the Germans shown in the film.
-- Paul Robinson, "I think... about the place I worked before... the 'job from hell'." May 24, 2007

by **Flack** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:59 pm

For someone that considers themselves a "movie guy," I've sadly never seen Schindler's List or Catch Me if You Can. I need to fix that.

Jaws, Close Encounters, Saving Private Ryan: All classics.

I really liked Raiders, too. I actually kind of like the second one more than the first. I haven't watched the third one in years. I only saw the last one once, in the theater. Indiana Jones #4 reminded me of The Matrix #3 -- "we must continue this franchise for the sake of continuing this franchise."

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:14 am

Always sounds like a really, really sad movie. Confirm/.deny?

I watched Catch Me If You Can on a plane. You know how people are always talking about their trips to Europe, and you want to hit them? Guess where I saw it?

But CMIYC proved that even with mediocre material, Spielberg can make something very watchable. I'd like to get that good at my own hobby. Well, I'd like to make the IF equivalent of Schindler's List first ('Violence Is Not The Answer To This One,' a WW2-era treasure romp for the silver in Jewish teeth) but then I'd just like to be forever.... competent.

You know?

by **AArdvark** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:15 am

there were couples sobbing openly in the hallways, crouched over in the corners, holding each other as the tears flowed.

Funny, that happened when I went to go see E.T.

I remember an episode of Taxi wherein Judd Hirsch refuses to go see the movie. He ends up seeing it and liking it. This is demonstrated entirely by him wearing an E.T. button on his jacket collar. It was such a weird moment that I will never forget it now. Interesting how far the Spielberg influence can reach. Even if the movies themselves aren't all masterpieces.

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