Top Super 8 Steven Spielberg Films

“Remember how the academy expanded the best picture race to include crowd-pleasers and sublime spectacle films? Meet ‘Super 8’…”
– LA Times

“Everything you loved about Spielberg for a whole new generation.”
– Tony Toscano, Talking Pictures

Seeing as WAMG has been celebrating director J.J. Abrams and executive producer Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi SUPER 8 all this week, we’ve decided to change things up a bit. Instead of our Top 10 Tuesday, today is Top 8 Tuesday! Specifically the Top 8 directed Spielberg films with some of the best clips from his movies. We’ve left off his serious Oscar films and went with the ones that made us true, ever-lovin’ Movie Geeks. The ones that made his name synonymous with the Summer Blockbuster popcorn movies! Did you catch this scene from SUPER 8 Sunday night during the MTV Movie Awards?

Plus we want to give a shout out to composer John Williams. These films would be incomplete without the indellible scores of the maestro. Since we’ve all come to expect a preview before the film, let’s begin with the trailer for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981). Oh, by the way, rather than throw up our jazz hands and sing our praises… we decided to show you the magic that is STEVEN SPIELBERG! That, and we are in the middle of a riveting “quiet game.”

JAWS (1975)

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

JURASSIC PARK (1993)

HOOK (1991)

1941 (1979)

THE TERMINAL (2004)

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)