Best Director

[Bazman63]

I'll go with Lars Von Trier to start it off.

[Bilbo Baggins]

Possibly Kubrick.

[Fickle]

definately Kubrick

[horse-fly]

burton is good

[apola_anamisha]

Nobody can beat Stephen Spielberg.

[NJK]

puh spielberg can be beaten:
the master of suspence - Alfred Hitchcock

others : John Landis,Ron Howard ( cocoon,apollo 13), bernardo bertolucci(last emperor),Francis Ford Coppola (godfather saga),Brian Da Palma (wise guys,carrie)

[Kaboon]

Paul Verhoeven .. ;)

[Fickle]

Originally posted by apola_anamisha
Nobody can beat Stephen Spielberg.

watch me:
Stanley Kubrick
The Cohen Brothers
Robert Rodriguez
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
John Frankenheimer
John Huston


Spielberg is a hack and did better before he slept in the Lincoln Bedroom.

[ShyShy]

Just to piss off a certain Aussie: Peter Jackson!

;)

[Mrs_Mia_Wallace]

I second those people who said Kubrick because we were supposed to chose only one...

...but Hitchcock would be a definate runner up! :up:

ShyShy: Wasn't Peter Jackson the guy who did that gorey trash horror movie "brain dead"?

Mia:)

[Cylob]

Sergio Leone (Fistful of Dollars etc).

Yeah.

[Fickle]

Originally posted by Cylob
Sergio Leone (Fistful of Dollars etc).

Yeah.

and one of my favorite movies, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

[Cylob]

My boys haven't seen any of the trilogy yet. They're in for a gun-slinging treat.

Go Clint go!!!!! Or is that 'Stranger'?

[Fickle]

It's been years since I saw the other two. I must see.

[horse-fly]

peter jackson also made a terrible (morality-wise) movie of "muppets" who sell drugs, make porn, etc...

"meet the feebles"

[jasonl]

And there's no mention of James Cameron? Aliens, people.. Aliens!

And T2. If there's any director on this planet who knows how to make a sequel, it's Cameron. Yup =|

[old and quite mad]

Brain de Palma (and by inference: Alfred Hitchcock)
Francis Ford Coppola
Luc Besson
Chuck Jones (WHO? Think 1940s-50s & Termite Terrace)
Otto Preminger


Stanley was just WAY too uneven. He did make 2 outstanding back-to-back movies with 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, but Jesus, look at Spartacus, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, or Eyes Wide Open. Yuck.

[ShyShy]

Originally posted by old and quite mad
Chuck Jones (WHO? Think 1940s-50s & Termite Terrace)



You rock :D:up:

[Coman]

oh come on... Quentin Tarantino

[horse-fly]

Originally posted by jasonl
And T2. If there's any director on this planet who knows how to make a sequel, it's Cameron. Yup =| i'd like to see him make a sequel to Titanic

[sidd]

Tarintino.
Lars von trier.
Tim Roth (if he ever makes a 2nd movie)
Darren Aronofsky.

[marvinbarcelona]

Akira Kurosawa.

[pearlshea]

John Hughes is good

[Jacob02]

James Cameron is no less to anyone in movie direction business.

[zarine]

Mine is also Peter Jackson. I like the movies directed by him.

[polyphasic]

James Cameron

[fanhost]

James Cameron is also my favorite director. I love to watch his directed movies. He always done a great job in his movies..

[jimmy32]

Christopher Nolan is my favorite directer and inception is my favorite movie directed by him....

[merlinmarry]

Considering the current Hollywood cinema James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan are doing great job with movie direction.

[daisyau]

Francis Ford Coppola..the Godfather!

[Widdykats]

^ Like Jarmush-Mystery Train, Night On Earth and Ghost Dog
Aronofsky- Requiem For A Dream, Pi, Black Swan
Lars Van Trier-Breaking The Waves
Coppola-The Godfather Triolgy and The Black Stallion
Akira Kurosawa- Ran and others
Zhang Yimou- Hero, and others
And I love Peter Jackson's King Kong(Breaks my heart)

[gaekwad2]

John Huston
Stanley Kubrick
Sergio Leone

The only von Trier movie I liked was Idiots (and no, not because of the orgy scene, but because it actually had the least idiotic characters of all his films).

[Widdykats]

You didn't love "Breaking The Waves"? You heartless so and so....:p

[gaekwad2]

It's too forced. And like most of his movies it only tells me about his obsession with female victims.

[Widdykats]

I didn't find it forced. I thought, for me, it showed the difference between Organized Religion and it's "rules" and someone who was touched by God(as one may know that to be) as well as just 'touched", because it is a fine line. It was the first Lars Van Trier movie I had seen, so I had yet to see a pattern in his choice of film.
Oh, I forgot The Coens.....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[rockouthippie]

That's a tough one, but I have a hard time faulting anything done by Ridley Scott. For being prolific, you'd have to tip a hat to Roger Corman.

Tarintino

I don't think that dog hunts any more. Inglorious Basterds was a terd. I have to credit him with Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. It almost seems to me like lately he kinda "sold out" making films that are commercially Tarentino-ish. It was unique when he started.... now things seem to be a cookie cutter.

Akira Kurosawa

He'd have to be a point of discussion in a serious discussion about directors. Ran is a masterpiece. You sure couldn't fault Rashamon or the Seven Samurai either.

One more that gets my kudos is John Ford. He made well more than 100 westerns, almost all of which were top notch. Among them .... Stagecoach, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and How Green Was My Valley. I think he still holds the record for the most Academy Awards for a director.

In this discussion, you'd sure have to include Orson Welles. Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil are a couple movies of note. If you haven't watched "Touch of Evil"... you should. And we'd sure have to mention Alfred Hitchcock.... Vertigo.... Psycho... The Man who knew too much....

I even think you'd have to include Clint Eastwood too. The Unforgiven puts him there "in my book".

Favorite director for me is a tough call. I'm just happy we had these guys around to make going to the movies so much fun.

I'd have to give credit to Kubrick for Dr. Strangelove, which he wrote and directed. I'm not sure this makes him a great director, but he sure came up with some weird movies that have the distinction of being very unique. If we were considering originality, he'd have to get high marks in a book some place.

[Widdykats]

^ Some very good choices(means I agree with them or like 'em :D )
I forgot Alejandro González Iñárritu( you just know I copied and pasted that..)21 Grams Amores Perros, Buitiful
:D

[Mr Jones]

That's a tough one, but I have a hard time faulting anything done by Ridley Scott.

Even GI Jane ? :p

I find Scott hard to understand sometimes, for every great film he does there is often a bad / average one to follow on, particulary some of the early 90's ones....

[Widdykats]

Booo Rah, Master Sargent!!!!:p
I forgot the classics:François Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Hitchcock and Wells.
*whew*

[robert32]

Duncan Jones is mine favorite director.

[rockouthippie]

Even GI Jane ?

I have sort of a hard time damning GI Jane. It sucked, but that was mostly Demi Moore. It made 50 million dollars.... I think, by 97, we were tired of looking at Demi. She does have that sort of "trailer trash" quality that wore thin.

Demi isn't the most egregious example of actors that went out of style. Tom Cruz, Sharon Stone, Richard Gere..... all on my "no way" list. I think Natalie Portman is another Hollywood mistake the box office will soon correct.

Even a stopped watch is right twice a day. Sometimes lousy actors get a good vehicle. The public is a quicker critic than what Hollywood reacts to.

Was GI Jane a bad movie or were we just really tired of one more Demi film? I think it's closer to the later.

There is one shining example I can think of. Kim freaking Catrall. I did like the MST3K song....

What's that smell? Kim Catrall :)

She still turns up like a bad penny. It isn't fair, but there are only a few actors that can survive more than a decade. I think GI Jane was just the end of Demi.

You could add Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Love and some others to the list of actors Hollywood didn't realize we didn't care about any more.

I think GI Jane wasn't as bad, as just stale. Stale Mooreness mostly.

One good example of public fatigue is Alan Alda. After 12 years of Mash, I think we were just about Alan Alda'ed to death.

I think he was a pretty decent actor. You'll notice Wil Wheaton's STNG adventure was the end of his career. Hell, anyone in STNG had a career ender.

Ron Howard is another one. He wore it out as an actor and a director. Let's not get me started on Spielberg. He even went back to ruin Star Wars with "new" releases of movies that were decent until he re-screwed them.

[Too-DAMN-Much]

eh, i think bruce willis has withstood the test of time for actors longer than most personally, he kind of seemed like he was getting out of or maybe too old for movie making and then suddenly he shows up with both live free or die hard and lucky number slevin, so unless we go quite a few more years i can't really say i think he's slowing down at all yet.

honestly though, i think he's probably not too happy with jason statham (i'm assuming) being his most likely competition for probably the majority of roles lately either.

[rockouthippie]

Why don't we fire up some Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen or Gary Busey.... :rolleyes:

[Too-DAMN-Much]

because they SUCK?

seriously? you got a problem with the #1 and #2 action movie stars?

i just don't understand how that'd work... maybe you're into the vampire craze?

and fuck charlie sheen, i want to be there to laugh at his funeral too

[rockouthippie]

I agree with you on Willis. He hasn't done anything really embarrassing. One that really bites is Nicolas Cage. Damn... he made some good movies... lately... gimme a break.... time to retire.... 10 years ago....

Sly Stallone seems to survive. Maybe it's because he wasn't any good in the first place. Arnold is lucky he became governor of California before he embarrassed ..... :)

[Too-DAMN-Much]

yeah... unfortunately stallone is still making movies...

arnold... oh dear LAWD arnold... way to prove you don't belong in politics, i used to respect you too..

as far as cage... iirc he was always really heavily typecast as the "evil but badass" type more often than not wasn't he?

sort of limiting i'd expect at least to some degree considering most of his roles were more.... self serving than actually evil just evil's sake type of thing, i think he's even played good guy type roles in non-shit (read: not action, it's his forte, fuck him in the wickerman) roles even a few times.

[rockouthippie]

Cage has made some excellent movies. Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas and Lord of War are some of those. The last one I saw was "Sorcerers Apprentice". It blew chunks.

The last one I liked he made was "Kick ass", but he really was sort of inconsequential in that. He must have been in, or directed 50 films, but only a few were worth spit and nothing lately.

When dude is "on", he's great. It hasn't been lately.

arnold... oh dear LAWD arnold... way to prove you don't belong in politics, i used to respect you too..

It isn't the affair with the maid that made me lose respect for Arnold. California needed a lot of help after Gray Davis. Arnold wasn't it. Between the two of these governors, California might see the light from the planet screwed in 50 years.

A couple million people have just up and left California in the last couple years. That's bad. A lot of them came here to screw Oregon up some more.

[Too-DAMN-Much]

It isn't the affair with the maid that made me lose respect for Arnold.


i could care less about any affair he's supposedly had and honestly, i don't think bill clinton was as much in the wrong as people used to, for fucks sake if the leader of our nation can't get head from a willing employee, there really is something wrong with this country, especially given his performance otherwise.

[robdon21]

I'll chose the only 1 Christopher Nolan, he is the top of all & I really like his all creations. one of my favorite is the prestige.

[rockouthippie]

i could care less about any affair he's supposedly had and honestly, i don't think bill clinton was as much in the wrong as people used to

Affairs are a matter of character. If you can't trust a man to not cheat on his wife, he's fucking up more than his marriage.

I think you could point at Arnold, Bill and Newt as shining examples.

If you don't have the basic character, which would keep you from cheating on your wife, you have no fucking business leading anything.

I'd almost prefer a thief. It shows the same lack of moral fiber, but no one took an oath.

Where you find the defect which would allow you to betray your spouse, you can damn well bet there are more defects.

Untrustworthy is a cheater. Husbands and wives have sworn their allegiance. When you cheat, what the fuck is your word worth?

Yes. All these guys have been properly repentant. My take is: People don't change. They just change what they tell you.

If you can't even keep your pecker in your pants, this shows a level of self involvement that is inexcusable. How trustworthy are you when you betray your own family?

[Too-DAMN-Much]

if the leader of our nation can't appoint a head of giving head than seriously something is fucked up.

look at his wife anyway, total hag even besides her age, who could be attracted to that?

[Widdykats]

^ I'm not attracted to Mrs Obama, but I completely disagree with you.:p