Your Favorite Directors
I've started this thread to talk about directors we admire.
I'm personally a big fan of Danny Boyle. He's very diverse with his work and gets great performances out of his actors (Trainspotting is probably Ewan McGregor's best performance). Plus he doesn't have the desire to make big budget movies (he says he's good at making films on a smaller budget). I also like David Fincher. He's taken possibly the stupidest subject to make a movie about (the founding of Facebook) and made something that's getting Oscar buzz. Plus he's launched the careers of Brad Pitt and Kristen Stewart. |
Don't really have a favorite but Christopher Nolan seems to consistently make good films.
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Nolan and P.T. Anderson. (Although, sadly, I've yet to see There Will Be Blood. I have it, I just haven't popped it in yet.)
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Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Clint Eastwood
loved all of Christopher Nolan's masterpeices Loved 127 hours, 28 days later, trainspotting Loved fight club, best movie ever IMHO and clint eastwood is a badass, loved Gran Torino, Letters from Iwo Jima/Flag of our Fathers |
I used to like Michael Bay until I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I then realize the bastard ignores plot, character driven scenes, and character development. He just focuses on explosions and and action sequences with slow motion. Why the hell is he still working? The only good film of his is Bad Boys.
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You didn't like The Rock? |
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It all went downhill after Pearl Harbor. It was the most disappointing movie I ever saw in a theater, and I saw Rocky V in the theater. Pearl Harbor was so bad, they wrote a song about it.
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James Cameron (lost some cool points because of Titanic)
Billy Wilder Sam Peckinpah Walter Hill Sergio Leone John Ford Howard Hawks Clint Eastwood George Miller (Max Max 1 and 2 are great, Beyond Thunderdome blows) Robert Rodriguez (always enjoy his work except for Spy Kids) Quentin Tarantino (might as well throw him in here too) John McTiernan (Predator is not my favorite film despite my username) Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Prestige, The Batman franchise films are good, but they ain't as great as people make them out to be) Michael Mann Oliver Stone (his older work, new stuff not so much) Ridley and Tony Scott (probably prefer Tony over Ridley) Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather films are good, but more because of Apocalypse Now) Stanley Kubrick Martin Scorsese John Carpenter Cohen brothers I'm not that much into horror or zombie flicks but, Wes Craven (could do without all those damn Scream sequels) George Romero In regards to Michael Bay, I enjoyed Bad Boys and The Rock growing up. The Transformer films are fun to watch sometimes. The effects and battles are the only thing going for them. |
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Also I forgot to put David Fincher in the list. |
At this point in my life of movie viewing one of my favorites has to be Johnny To. I loved Exiled and running out of time and Breaking news was awesome.
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Also, surprised nobody's mentioned Paul Verhoeven yet. Even though he's made some really bad movies ("Showgirls"), he also made "RoboCop" and "Starship Troopers".
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And for mindless escapism, Aliens already had that cornered. Starship Troopers was Aliens reduced to the lowest common denominator and then multiplied to the 50th power, glossed over with a sickening sheen of 90210 "for the kids". Ironic considering that Aliens took a lot of its ideas from the original Starship Troopers novel. |
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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Darren Aronofsky.
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Pi: nobody saw it Requiem For A Dream: good movie, but very nihilistic, favored by film students and recovering addicts The Fountain: normally when I find a movie that I've never heard of, I'll look it up and think "oh yeah I do remember hearing about this movie way back when it came out", that did not happen with this movie, I haven't heard a single thing about it in the 4 years since its release The Wrestler: finally some mainstream recognition... Black Swan: ...squandered on a masturbatory radical feminist rape fantasy, but hey at least it has some lesbian stuff |
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Starship troopers is entertainment, and damn good entertainment at that, dont go looking for deep underlying morals and philosophy, watch it to see kick ass rifle/shotgun hybrids blowing bugs apart:D
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I don't think Starship Troopers the book is filmable. It's a political science book with some sci fi thrown in. I think if Verhoeven simply called it "Alien Bug Hunt" or whatever, people would've seen it for what it was and enjoyed it more.
All this talk of Starship Troopers, and yet only one mention of Total Recall. But yes, Verhoeven, like Brian De Palma, have had many dry years of late. |
Total Recall was awesome.
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I grew up with mindless action movies, so shwartzenegger was a favorite for entertainment.
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It's the directors thread guys.
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Do you know what's a tragedy? Ewan McGregor and Danny Boyle haven't worked nor spoke to each other in years! They made such a great team!
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