Your Favorite Directors

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by MT2008

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".

Paul Verhoeven is an objectively bad director. His only "good" movies were RoboCop, Total Recall (both mindless enjoyable action films), and Basic Instinct, which was completely average and only notable for showing Sharon Stone's hoo ha. Starship Troopers was laughably retarded (he didn't even read the original book), Showgirls and Hollow Man (didn't see either of them) were savaged by the critics and are both pop culture punchlines. Everything else he's done is not notable and/or Dutch.

[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.

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by 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

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.

No Danny Boyle? Blasphemy!

[predator20]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

No Danny Boyle? Blasphemy!

Trainspotting is about the only one of his I really care for.

Also I forgot to put David Fincher in the list.

[Spades of Columbia]

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.