Daniel Stephens takes a look at the finest crowd-pleasing, block-busting films from the 1990s.

Rodney Tweltree’s turn to look at the top 10 films of Steven Spielberg. In a list quite different from our editor Dan Srephens’s Top 10, Rodney sees Spielberg’s most recent films as deserving more credit. He says: Ever since he burst onto the scene in the mid 70′s with Duel, and more successfully with Jaws, audiences have flocked to see his films in droves. Whether it’s the popcorn munching thrills of the latest Indiana Jones adventure, the shocking and saddening wartime bravura of Schindler’s List, or the thunderous bass levels of Jurassic Park, it’s an undeniable fact that for over thirty years Mr Spielberg has been giving film fans the movies they’ve wanted to see.

It was recently brought to my attention two wonderful bargains at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk for Steven Spielberg DVDs. And these aren’t just any DVDs! Following our Spielberg Week it is little wonder there’s a bit of emptyness going around the place. There certainly is here at Top10Films Towers. We need a pick-me-up and we think we’ve found it.

The moment you’ve all been waiting for.

Erm…well I hope there’s been some anticipation anyway. Here at Top10Films the top 10 film list is our bread and butter and after a week long celebration of Steven Spielberg it was only right that we should end with our list of Spielberg’s finest achievements.

So here it is: the ten finest pieces of work by the genius that is Steven Spielberg…

Chris Evans of The Independent wrote an article in 2008 entitled: “How Sir David Lean had an epic falling out with Steven Spielberg over the filming of a Conrad novel”. The article, concerning Lean’s great unmade epic Nostromo based on Joseph Conrad’s 1904 novel, told of how Spielberg and Lean had a big falling out over the project due to that oft-repeated phrase “creative difference”

Steven Spielberg has presided over some of cinema’s most memorable scenes for the past 35 years. From the iconic lines “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” and “Smile you son of a b****” to the shot of water ripples in Jurassic Park and the kids flying through the night sky in E.T. Here’s ten of the director’s finest moments – what are your favourites?

Having not seen the film for many years what struck me most was the postmodernist and self-reflexive attitude of the film, parodying the ‘event’ movie that Spielberg almost single-handedly created in the first place. It’s a self-aware bit of humour that Spielberg isn’t really known for. The character of Hammond, constantly alluding to the fact no expense was spared could be the mantra of Jurassic Park’s producers and Spielberg himself, but couple this with the film’s blatant product placement and the central conceit of a theme park and ride (Jurassic Park clothing, lunch boxes, t-shirts, etc., were readily available to the public when the film was released; the theme park ride would come a little later), and you discover a rather interesting aside to the film.

Dan Rooney discusses how Steven Spielberg has made what was seemingly impossible cinematically possible. He says, “Motion Pictures are revered as the art form that can offer more emotion than any other medium. They are there to teach us and to transport us from our every day lives into a world of majesty and imagination. With that said, is there any doubt as to which director has taken us into these worlds the most?”