Steven Spielberg Reveals The Movie Of His He Thinks Is Perfect

During an interview with Stephen Colbert, acclaimed director Steven Spielberg shares the one movie he has made that he thinks is “pretty perfect.”

Steven Spielberg has shared which of his own movies he thinks is more or less perfect. The director, who has been creating films for over 50 years, is known for crafting some of the most crowd-pleasing films of all time in a variety of different genres, including more or less inventing the modern blockbuster with 1975’s Jaws. Whether he is working in action adventure with films like the Indiana Jones series and Jurassic Park or drama like Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, his films have been rewarded both at the box office and at the Oscars.

Spielberg appeared on a recent episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss his new Oscar-nominated film The Fabelmans.

During their conversation, Spielberg revealed that he doesn’t often look back at his movies, because he usually spots things he would do differently or never got to do properly in the first place. However, one movie that he says is “pretty perfect” is his 1982 outing E.T. Read his full quote below:

I don’t look back that often, but every once in a while I’ll see a movie with my kids. I want to accompany my kids when they see E.T. for the first time. I don’t want them to see E.T. without Dad sitting there. Especially the scary parts at the beginning.And sometimes I see things that I had intended to do that I didn’t do, and sometimes I see things that would have been a better idea that I’m now seeing all these years later, but for the most part E.T. is a pretty perfect movie.It’s one of the few movies I’ve made that I can look back at again and again. There’s about five or six films that I can watch again, but I usually don’t do that.

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E.T. is One of the Most Well-Regarded Family Films of All Time

Not only does Steven Spielberg think E.T. is perfect, critics and audiences overwhelmingly agree. The film was a smash hit at the box office in 1982. It easily claimed the No. 1 slot for the entire year with a gross of $314.9 million, which was more than $100 million more than the No. 2 film, which was also a Spielberg outing: Indiana Jones’ debut film The Raiders of the Lost Ark.

E.T., which followed the friendship between a young boy and an alien outcast, was also beloved by the critical establishment. It went on to win four Oscars, for Best Sound, Best Sound Effects, Best Visual Effects, and Best Score. Overall it was nominated for a total of nine Oscars, including a Best Director nod for Spielberg.

Even today, critics continue to lavish praise upon the film. At the time of writing, its Rotten Tomatoes score is a Certified Fresh 99 percent. Not only is this a tremendous accomplishment by any means, it is the highest-rated Steven Spielberg film on the platform, above even minted classics like Schindler’s List, Jaws, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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Source: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert