Your Favorite Directors

[AdAstra2009]

Don't really have a favorite but Christopher Nolan seems to consistently make good films.

[funkychinaman]

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.)

[Reach]

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

[Swordfish941]

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.

[AdAstra2009]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

The only good film of his is Bad Boys.

You didn't like The Rock?

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

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.

It took you until "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" to figure this out? I figured it out by the time I saw "Armageddon", and that was 12 years ago now. Of course, I know you would have been too young to watch Bay movies 12 years ago, but your post implies that you watched plenty of his movies before "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by MT2008

It took you until "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" to figure this out? I figured it out by the time I saw "Armageddon", and that was 12 years ago now. Of course, I know you would have been too young to watch Bay movies 12 years ago, but your post implies that you watched plenty of his movies before "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".

I have only seen Bad Boys and Bad Boys II (the sequel was decent). When The Island was released, I wanted to see it because I was hyped on Ewan McGregor when I was 10. Me and my Dad saw Transformers when I was 12, and I enjoyed it (my dad said he liked the special effects, but he thought the plot was stupid). My little brother got the second one on DVD, I watched and thought "This was a waste of my goddamn time".

[funkychinaman]

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.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

I have only seen Bad Boys and Bad Boys II (the sequel was decent). When The Island was released, I wanted to see it because I was hyped on Ewan McGregor when I was 10. Me and my Dad saw Transformers when I was 12, and I enjoyed it (my dad said he liked the special effects, but he thought the plot was stupid). My little brother got the second one on DVD, I watched and thought "This was a waste of my goddamn time".

"Bad Boys" was enjoyable if dumb, while the sequel was extremely dumb and not very enjoyable.

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

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.

Not sure you can say he "launched" Brad Pitt's career when the first movie they made together was "Seven". Pitt's career had long since taken off by that time (he had starred in "A River Runs Through It", "Interview with the Vampire", and "Legends of the Fall", all of which preceded "Seven").

[predator20]

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.