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Old 06-20-2011, 05:17 AM
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Alright, here's a new one: Joel Schumaker. What do you think of him (he frakked up the Batman franchise).
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Old 06-30-2011, 04:27 PM
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Alright, here's a new one: Joel Schumaker. What do you think of him (he frakked up the Batman franchise).
That would be Joel Schumacher.

His overall resume is not too impressive - especially Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. But Falling Down was pretty good, and The Lost Boys is one of the more underrated 80s teen movies (to the extent that making a good 80s teen movie is even possible).
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That would be Joel Schumacher.

His overall resume is not too impressive - especially Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. But Falling Down was pretty good, and The Lost Boys is one of the more underrated 80s teen movies (to the extent that making a good 80s teen movie is even possible).
I actively avoided his movies after he brutalized the Batman series and left it for dead in a ditch. But, and I hate to admit this, I liked his Phantom of the Opera so much I ended up buying a BD copy.

I had no idea he did Falling Down.
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Michael Mann and John Woo are my two favorites. No one does a crime drama like Mann and nobody does emotional action movies like John Woo.
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Old 07-05-2011, 04:00 PM
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I'm now interested in Ridley Scott. He has a pretty impressive resume (including two Sci-fi classics: Alien and Blade Runner).
What do you guys think?
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Old 07-05-2011, 06:29 PM
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So far Anton Bormatov got my attention with "The alien Girl" and i am really getting into Jee-woon Kim after "I saw the Devil" and "The good, the bad, the weird". Johnnie To has alot to his credit with "Exiled" and "Vengeance" being two of my favs. I cant wait to see what else Jeong-beom Lee can do after the really awesome "The Man from Nowhere". I almost forgot about Wilson Yip and his "IP Man" movies which are a lot of fun to watch!

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Old 07-06-2011, 09:24 AM
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I love Uwe Boll, I think he's an artist and a master filmaker.

HA! Kidding!

I think Clint Eastwood is a pretty good director. He's bagged a couple oscars and I don't think I can name any movies he directed or directed/starred in that were really bad movies. Personally I wouldn't really enjoy Bridges of Madison County for example, but I'm sure it was still a good film for who it was for. While an iconic badass and a great film maker, it still sucks that Eastwood in real life is kind of meh. He's a vegetarian who's pro-gun control and completely anti-violence. Seems like he's a parody of his film roles.

David Fincher is another director I'm fond of. Se7en and Fight Club are two of my favorite films, and for the most part he's got a good track record (sans Alien3).

Michael Mann, obviously, we all know from this site how he aims to please. All of his films are well acted, researched, and the training the actors are given is always impressive (personally I found Tom Cruise's performance in Collateral very awe inspiring). Althought the pacing to his films I find can be a bit sluggish at times.

I could sit here all day and look through my movie collection listing off great directors, but there's just too many really.
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