Great movie? I dunno....

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2000)

I know this is apt to be a minority opinion, and I hope this doesn't hurt the feelings of the trillion or so people who really love this movie, but I didn't really care for it. I saw it at the end of the summer of 1982 after hearing for several weeks that it was the greatest movie ever made in the history of the universe. I thought it was a nice movie, very pleasant, very charming, and very well-crafted. Mr. Spielberg definitely knows what he's doing when it comes to putting a movie together. But is the greatest film ever made, or even a great film period? I'm sincerely sorry, but I honestly don't think so.
"Didn't live up to the hype" is how I thought of it at them time. Still, I can think of many worse ways to pass a sweltering summer afternoon.