Who is your favorite directors of all time?

lennyd44 · 01-05-2008, 06:27 PM

What's yours? List 2 of your most favorite movies from the directors. Here's mine.

1. Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, Dr. Strangelove)

2. David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en)

3. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia)

4. David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, Videodrome)

5. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas)

6. Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, Minority Report)

7. Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country For Old Men)

8. Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking)

9. Michael Mann (The Insider, Heat)

10. Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner)

FranklinTard · 01-05-2008, 07:22 PM

kubrick and kurosawa.

saveus1011 · 01-05-2008, 08:31 PM

Michael Mann (Miami Vice, Collateral, Heat)
Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo)
John Woo (Hard-Boiled, A Better Tomorrow)
Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, The Departed)
Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down)
Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket)
Sergio Leone (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon A Time In the West)

SnoBorderZero · 01-05-2008, 08:41 PM

The best is without a doubt Spielberg, but other favorites include David Fincher and John Hughes (where has he been for the last 15 years?). I'd say these are the only directors who I make sure I see all of their films (except Curly Sue).

MovieBuff801 · 01-05-2008, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by SnoBorderZero

The best is without a doubt Spielberg, but other favorites include David Fincher and John Hughes (where has he been for the last 15 years?). I'd say these are the only directors who I make sure I see all of their films (except Curly Sue).

Agreed. Spielberg is without a doubt the best; his range is fantastic.

WuTical · 01-05-2008, 09:15 PM

David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en)
The Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men)
Tony Scott (True Romance, Man On Fire)
Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands)
Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Gangs of New York)

Where's my elephant? · 01-05-2008, 11:17 PM

Scorsese (King Of Comedy,Goodfellas)
Mann (Heat,The Insider)
Hughes (Bueller,Breakfast Club)
Fincher (Fight Club,Panic Room)
John Landis (Coming To America,Into The Night)
Burton (Beetlejuice,Ed Wood)
Zemeckis (Back To The Future,Used Cars)
Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan,Minority Report)
Mendes (American Beauty,Road To Perdition)
Coen (Raising Arizona,Fargo)
Frank Oz (Death At A Funeral,What About Bob?)
Rob Reiner (his older ones since his movies have declined quality wise) - Stand By Me,This Is Spinal Tap
John Carpenter (Christine,They Live)

saveus1011 · 01-05-2008, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by moviebuff801

Agreed. Spielberg is without a doubt the best; his range is fantastic.

He's so overrated it's not funny.

chewie · 01-06-2008, 12:04 AM

John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln, The Searchers)
Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, Sergeant York)
Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life)
Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, North By Northwest)
Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket)
Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas)
Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan)
Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump)

**JBond** · 01-06-2008, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by saveus1011

He's so overrated it's not funny.

Care to elaborate on that? Or I suppose The Beatles are very overated, too?

saveus1011 · 01-06-2008, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by JBond

Care to elaborate on that?

He's a great entertainer, but I wouldn't put him in the top 15 greatest directors of all-time. Very few of his films carry the depth that a piece by Kurosawa or Scorsese would. I don't care that he's made the most money because at the end of the day box office revenue does not equal quality.

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Or I suppose The Beatles are very overated, too?

No, but it's really peculiar Bob Dylan thought their early stuff was crap (which is pretty much true.)

jbailey84 · 01-06-2008, 10:35 AM

Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Saving Private Ryan)
Tim Burton (Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Batman Returns)
Ron Howard (Cocoon, Apollo 13)
Robert Zemeckis (Back To the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
Ridley Scott (Legend, Black Hawk Down)
Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown)

Ramplate · 01-06-2008, 10:42 AM

Frank Capra
Alfred Hitchcock
Quentin Tarantino
Ron Howard
Rob Reiner
Coen Brothers
Tim Burton
Stephen Spielberg
James Cameron

iv3rdawG · 01-06-2008, 11:07 AM

Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol. 2, Pulp Fiction)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Schindler's List)
Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Sin City)
Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver)
Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II)
Ridley Scott (Alien, Matchstick Men)
Judd Apatow (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Amores Perros)
Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone)
Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy)
Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Pi)
Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More)
James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz)

Doomsday · 01-06-2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by JBond

Or I suppose The Beatles are very overated, too?

A friend of mine tried to rant on that same thing a while back, I didn't even respond.

Doomsday · 01-06-2008, 01:41 PM

Michael Mann, Sergio Leone, and Ridley Scott are my favs, but I'm really getting into Wes Anderson.

**JBond** · 01-06-2008, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by saveus1011

No, but it's really peculiar Bob Dylan thought their early stuff was crap (which is pretty much true.)

That's interesting, what qualifies as their early stuff?

rosncranz · 01-06-2008, 05:04 PM

Wong Kar Wai-Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, Days of Being Wild.

Woody Allen-Annie Hall, Manhattan

Wes Anderson-Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums.

The only directors I need!

Doomsday · 01-06-2008, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by JBond

That's interesting, what qualifies as their early stuff?

Probably pre-Rubber Soul stuff. To me, that's where they started getting really great and broke out of the pop scene. Still, that doesn't mean their early stuff was bad, not by a long shot.

**JBond** · 01-06-2008, 05:59 PM

Yeah, I was thinking that. There's songs like "I Should Have Known Better" and "Can't Buy Me Love", but most of it is kind of hum-drum in comparison.

Where's my elephant? · 01-06-2008, 06:09 PM

Ticket To Ride is my personal favorite of the pre "Dylan pot" era and I just can't resist She Loves You.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tzarinna · 01-06-2008, 06:14 PM

Clive Barker and Wes Craven.

Edit: How could I forget my true love, Rob Zombie?

FranklinTard · 01-07-2008, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by JBond

That's interesting, what qualifies as their early stuff?

all that crap like 'love love me do' and 'please please me' and those poppy bull**** songs. its arguably the most important night in rock and roll history when bob dylan introduced the beatles to marijuana. say what you will, drugs made the beatles.

Tornado · 01-07-2008, 12:38 AM

I'm a big Spielberg fan (Raiders, Jaws), but I also like David Fincher (Se7en, Zodiac) and Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) a lot too. Also, Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind)

The Crusher · 01-07-2008, 08:28 AM

John Carpenter. I love ALL his movies!

Ron Howard

Ridley Scott

01-05-2008, 06:27 PM	#1
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