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Favorite directors
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:32 pm
by Worm of Despite
You don't have to do a top five, of course, but I'm a top 5 nut, as I've said many times (or at least once)
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Francis Ford Coppolla
4. Sergio Leone
5. Martin Scorsese
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:44 pm
by birdandbear
Uh....off the top of my head
Peter Jackson
Joss Whedon
David Lynch
Stanley Kubrick
Ridley Scott
Re: Favorite directors
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:08 pm
by CovenantJr
Lord Foul wrote:You don't have to do a top five, of course, but I'm a top 5 nut, as I've said many times (or at least once)
Top five times Foul has said he loves top fives:
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:30 pm
by Worm of Despite
Ah yes,
. Very good director!
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:32 pm
by Brinn
Michael Mann
Martin Scorcese
Steven Spielberg
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:37 am
by Gart
I'll add a couple more:
Rob Reiner
Sidney Lumet
Cameron Crowe
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:40 am
by Revan
Peter Jackson
Joss Whedon
Yeah, those two rule.
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:55 pm
by Worm of Despite
Agreed. Among my favorite modern-day directors.
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:55 pm
by aTOMiC
Sam Raimi
Peter Jackson
James Cameron
M. Night Shyamalan
Riddley Scott
Steven Spielberg
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:12 pm
by matrixman
I'm taking this topic and running away with it...
Favorite directors (fav films by them in parentheses):
Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park)
James Cameron (Terminator 2)
Ridley Scott (Blade Runner)
Woody Allen (Husbands & Wives)
Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Vols. 1 & 2)
Peter Jackson (Fellowship of the Ring)
Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal)
Michael Mann (Heat)
Bernardo Bertolucci (Little Buddha)
Robert Wise (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
Favorite actor-directors:
Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)
Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
Mel Gibson (Braveheart)
Kenneth Branagh (Henry V)
Most uneven director:
Terry Gilliam -- he's either brilliant (Brazil) or boring (Adventures of Baron Munchhausen). Inspired (Life of Brian) or tired (The Fisher King).
Most exasperating director :
Paul Thomas Anderson -- who is this man and why did he squander away two hours of my life with Magnolia?
Former favorite directors that have cooled down:
Francis Coppola -- does anyone really care about any film he has done after Apocalypse Now?
Ivan Reitman -- the guy who gave us Stripes, Ghostbusters, and Dave. He's now doing a TV series called "Cooking Lessons." Whoopee.
"Most improved" director:
Tim Burton -- the Batman movies were dull and inept. Then he came out with Sleepy Hollow, one of the best and best-looking movies of the '90s.
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:27 pm
by Worm of Despite
Matrixman wrote:Favorite actor-directors:
Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)
Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
Mel Gibson (Braveheart)
Kenneth Branagh (Henry V)
Good picks.
Oh, and you think
you can run away with threads? Observe.
Matrixman wrote:Paul Thomas Anderson -- who is this man and why did he squander away two hours of my life with Magnolia?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about Boogie Nights? Punch Drunk Love?
Matrixman wrote:Tim Burton -- the Batman movies were dull and inept. Then he came out with Sleepy Hollow, one of the best and best-looking movies of the '90s.
Planet. of. the. Apes.
Kidding aside. I do agree Sleepy Hollow was better than the Batman fiascos, but I also think he hasn't topped Ed Wood. Or Edward Scisorhands. Or Beetle Juice. Or The Nightmare Before Christmas, if you count writing and co-producing. Come to think of it, Burton's Batman fiascos are masterpieces compared to . . . yes, Joel Schumacher's!
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:23 pm
by matrixman
I actually liked Batman Forever much better than the first two films. It's just that Schumacher then went totally cuckoo with Batman & Robin.
Planet of the Apes...okay, you got me there. I had blocked it out of my mind. Gee, wonder why.
I didn't see Ed Wood. Batman turned me off Burton so much that I avoided his films for years, until friends took me to see Sleepy Hollow.
I have not seen Anderson's other films. If there are dirt cheap VHS versions of them in bargain bins, I may check them out. (Yes, I'm strange.)
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:30 pm
by Worm of Despite
Hey, nothing wrong with that! Me and my friend Seth spent two hours looking through the 5 dollar DVD bin the other night!
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:24 pm
by Torrent
David Lynch
Quentin Tarantino
Stanley Kubrick
Woody Allen
Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Jackson
And Bryan Singer gets a special mention for "The Usual Suspects"
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:32 pm
by Torrent
OMG! How could I forget Zhang Yimou!
I've even met the man, and I've loved his movies for a long time (but haven't seen "Hero" yet).
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:55 pm
by birdandbear
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:30 pm
by The Dreaming
Good list foul
My top 5 are:
Stanley Kubrick
Hayao Miyazak (Mononoke, Spirited Away)
Tim Burton
Aronofsky (soon to be directing The Watchmen!)
Quenton Tarantino
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:46 am
by The Dreaming
1) Stanley Kubrick
2) Tim Burton
3) Paul Thomas Anderson
4) Terry Gillium
5) Darren Aronofski
What can I say? You just dont get better than Kubrick. These other guys come close though.
Honerable Mention: Hayao Miyazaki
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:07 pm
by Usivius
my top 5, many of which have already been said:
- Hitchcock
- Gilliam
- Kubrick
- Lynch
- Fincher
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:42 am
by Cail
-James Cameron-pre-Titanic
-Ridley Scott
-Michael Mann
-David Fincher-all except Alien 3
-Mel Brooks-excluding everything after Spaceballs
