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Title: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 13, 2009, 10:38:13 AM
Anyone pick movies based on the filmmaker?
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: njflex on May 13, 2009, 10:53:24 AM
Anyone pick movies based on the filmmaker?
ONE WORD SCORCESE
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 13, 2009, 11:03:54 AM
ONE WORD SCORCESE

Good word.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: SuperNatural on May 13, 2009, 01:07:32 PM
Michael Mann, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 13, 2009, 01:32:41 PM
Michael Mann

Looks good:

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Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: elite_lifter on May 14, 2009, 03:35:35 PM
John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Michael Mann(Heat), Eli Roth, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, too name a few.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: BayGBM on May 14, 2009, 06:09:49 PM
Anyone pick movies based on the filmmaker?

Yep

Hitchcock: Rebecca, I Confess, Psycho, the Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, etc.
Douglass Sirk:  Lured, All That Heaven Allows, Imitation of Life, All I Desire, etc.
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Life with Father
Ang Lee: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long), the Wedding Banquet (Xi yan), Brokeback Mountain
Spike Lee: 4 Little Girls, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X
Brian Singer: The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2, Apt Pupil
Steven Spielberg: the Color Purple
Danny Boyle: 28 Days Later...
Ridley Scott
Brian De Palma
Coppola
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: LatsMcGee on May 15, 2009, 12:33:28 PM
Carpenter, Fulci,  Argento,  Bava.....
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: sync pulse on May 15, 2009, 02:45:47 PM
William Wyler;
Preston Sturges;
Mark Sandrich;
Sam Wood;
Howard Hawks;
Norman Z. McCleod;
Buster Keaton;
Victor Fleming....no more time....
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: jerseyhurricane on May 16, 2009, 05:24:48 PM
Tarantino is the best. Scorsese is up there too. Robert Rodriguez.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: HTexan on May 16, 2009, 06:08:26 PM
1.)Robert Rodriguez
2.)QT
3.) Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, good first movies
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 19, 2009, 02:18:40 PM
Tarantino is the best. Scorsese is up there too. Robert Rodriguez.

Have to disagree. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are brilliant. Then what? Rodriguez is much better, you ask me.

Kubrick
Scorcese
Coen Brothers (Their worst movie is better than most directors' best)
David Fincher
Darren Aronofsky
Alex Proyas
Christopher Nolan (6 for 6 - dude might go down as the best!)
Brad Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Danny Boyle
Etc.



Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 19, 2009, 02:26:46 PM
Rodriguez, Spielberg, Zemeckis, Guillermo Del Toro, Peter Jackson, Atom Egoyan ...
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: HTexan on May 19, 2009, 11:11:52 PM
Have to disagree. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are brilliant. Then what? Rodriguez is much better, you ask me.
yip, yip. When is QT going to make a come back >:(
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: SuperNatural on May 20, 2009, 12:57:05 AM
yip, yip. When is QT going to make a come back >:(

Inglorious Bastards might be good (fingers crossed).
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 20, 2009, 06:17:47 AM
And Clint Fucking Eastwood.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: Mr. Magoo on May 20, 2009, 10:33:48 AM
Scorsese
Spielberg
Ron Howard
Eastwood
Tarantino
Coen Brothers
Wes Anderson
Soderbergh

Coppola isn't really that great of a director as in his greatest movies (godfathers, apolcolypse now: 2 of my favorite by the way) the greatness depended on the story, not the direction. Thats why other movies he directed such as The Outsiders (book was better than movie) and Jack (that piece of crap robin williams aging faster than everybody else) pretty much sucked ass.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 20, 2009, 12:27:47 PM
Coppola isn't really that great of a director as in his greatest movies (godfathers, apolcolypse now: 2 of my favorite by the way) the greatness depended on the story, not the direction.

Not sure I'd know the difference. Have you seen The Conversation?

Forgot about Soderbergh. Out of Sight and The Limey are both bad ass.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: Mr. Magoo on May 20, 2009, 06:23:15 PM
Not sure I'd know the difference. Have you seen The Conversation?

Forgot about Soderbergh. Out of Sight and The Limey are both bad ass.

I dont think I've seen it but I've heard about it (learned about it my film class). It's kind of hard to explain the difference in what I mean. I guess examples would be the first Oceans 11 and then the Solderbergh remake. I've seen both and due to good direction (because the story is basically the same (without getting into fine details)) I think the remake one was better. Goodfellas was originally set to be directed by Irwin Winkler...do you think it would still have been that good of a movie (same story, different direction)? And my point was that Coppola got great stories as movies, so his direction isn't really on the same level. Thats why Jack and The Outsiders suck as overall movies. Maybe this helps
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: Doug_Steele on May 20, 2009, 10:31:29 PM
John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Michael Mann(Heat), Eli Roth, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, too name a few.

Eli Roth...What the Fuck? I see that you are going with some decent Horror Directers but add Debra Hill who worked very close with John Carpenter. Sam Rami, Evil Dead series, Clive Barker
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: njflex on May 21, 2009, 07:13:29 AM
the idea of what a good director is to not only piece and shoot but to capture the essence of the character or make a actor look and feel like whats being shot,take example goodfellas scorcese takes henry hill and makes him in the end not a thug but a likeable thug,he took an actor ray liotta and had him so into character that if u met a young hill and liotta u would find the likeness uncanny,whenever i see or hear hill on howard stern i think of his manic life portrayed by liotta ,and believe it.that movie gave a seemingly lowly life hill created into a piece of movie gold that will live forever.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 21, 2009, 10:36:34 AM
the idea of what a good director is to not only piece and shoot but to capture the essence of the character or make a actor look and feel like whats being shot

Probably wrong, but I sorta figured the director was like a project manager, overseeing the entire production: storytelling, acting, cinematography, editing - but style, mostly. 5-10 minutes in, I know I'm watching Kubrick, Scorcese, Spileberg, Coens, or Guy Ritchie. Very distinctive quality with some.

On the other hand, the Coppola "story" thing might make sense. My least favorite Coen movies (Hudsucker Proxy and Intolerable Cruelty, which are still pretty good) are the only two they didn't write (or adapt) exclusively.   


Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: HTexan on May 21, 2009, 04:34:13 PM
Probably wrong, but I sorta figured the director was like a project manager, overseeing the entire production: storytelling, acting, cinematography, editing - but style, mostly. 5-10 minutes in, I know I'm watching Kubrick, Scorcese, Spileberg, Coens, or Guy Ritchie. Very distinctive quality with some.

On the other hand, the Coppola "story" thing might make sense. My least favorite Coen movies (Hudsucker Proxy and Intolerable Cruelty, which are still pretty good) are the only two they didn't write (or adapt) exclusively.   



that is a producer.
true, it is great when a director can write,shoot, and edit the film.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: webcake on May 21, 2009, 04:52:54 PM
Spielberg
Tarintino
Ron Howard
M. Night Shyamalan (6th sense, Signs........other more recent films have been shit)
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: HTexan on May 21, 2009, 05:02:09 PM

M. Night Shyamalan (6th sense, Signs........other more recent films have been shit)
great movies. happening suck balls tho. :-\
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: webcake on May 21, 2009, 05:11:42 PM
great movies. happening suck balls tho. :-\

Yep, he made some good ones. I always liked the twist he would put in his films.

Always enjoyed the 6th sense, signs, i even enjoyed the village. Shame though, he made some great ones, but, like you said, the happening, lady in the water and a few other ones have been pretty ordinary.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 22, 2009, 06:01:52 AM
Have to take exception with Sham. Dude is a fucking hack. Sixth Sense is a masterpiece, but the rest is shit. Absolute One Hit Wonder.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 22, 2009, 06:06:16 AM
that is a producer.
true, it is great when a director can write,shoot, and edit the film.

I sorta figured the producer puts the team together and handles the money/distribution end.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: SuperNatural on May 22, 2009, 09:52:55 AM
Have to take exception with Sham. Dude is a fucking hack. Sixth Sense is a masterpiece, but the rest is shit. Absolute One Hit Wonder.

Unbreakable was really well made.  I'd give him "two hit wonder."
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: HTexan on May 22, 2009, 02:02:21 PM
Have to take exception with Sham. Dude is a fucking hack. Sixth Sense is a masterpiece, but the rest is shit. Absolute One Hit Wonder.
The Village, Signs, and especially Unbreakable were great.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: BayGBM on May 22, 2009, 02:05:31 PM
Unbreakable was really well made.  I'd give him "two hit wonder."

Huh?  The concept behind that movie was brilliant; the execution (script & direction) were horrible.  :'(
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: HTexan on May 22, 2009, 02:08:24 PM
Huh?  The concept behind that movie was brilliant; the execution (script & direction) were horrible.  :'(
what do you mean? Willis and jackson acted very well.  ???
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 23, 2009, 07:43:28 PM
Huh?  The concept behind that movie was brilliant; the execution (script & direction) were horrible.  :'(

What he said.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 23, 2009, 07:44:28 PM
The Village, Signs, and especially Unbreakable were great.

... not him.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: Earl1972 on May 24, 2009, 12:10:04 AM
james cameron

terminator 1 - 2, aliens, titanic

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Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: The Ugly on May 24, 2009, 07:39:16 AM
james cameron

terminator 1 - 2, aliens, titanic

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You forgot Piranha Part Two: The Spawning.

Seriously, though, The Abyss and True Lies were pretty bitchin, too.
Title: Re: Favorite Directors
Post by: Tapeworm on May 24, 2009, 08:32:29 AM
And Clint Fucking Eastwood.

Sometimes.  Bird and Flags of Our Fathers went on and on and on.

Woody Allen.