[Cinema]Clutchfans Movie Directors Tournament 2nd Round

see my memo above re: John Ford

 

Yeah, I intentionally didn't read any posts in the thread before submitting.
Maybe I should be escorted from the arena for drinking too much beer and not taking the tourney SRSLY enough.

 

definitely

 

Kubrick
Welles
Scott
Coen

Spielberg
Fincher
Burton
Tarantino

Anderson
Ford
Mann
Stone

Carpenter
Terry Gilliam (write in)
Brooks
Nolan

 

Just a suggestion, you might get better turnout for voting if it doesn't span over the weekend. I know I almost never look at Clutchfans on the weekend. It's more of a worktime thing during the week.

 

Did i miss round of 16?

 

So, I missed the thread and my votes won't count, but just for funsies:

1 - Stanley Kubrick vs. 9 - Victor Fleming - as great as WoO is, I think Kubricks best work is superior. He also has great range, between the Shining, FMJ, and 2001
5 - Sidney Lumet vs. 4 - Orson Welles - I don't like Welles's work. I would much rather watch 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, or Serpico
11 - Alfonso Cuaron vs. 3 - Ridley Scott - I like Cuaron's work, especially what he did with Children of Men (about as thrilling as you can make a movie about infertility), but it doesn't compare to Alien or Blade Runner
10 - John Hughes vs. 2 - Coen Brothers - Hughes made great 80s teen movies, though the writing was more critical than the directing. The Coen Brothers have a distinct and fantastic style from Raising Arizona to Big Lebowski to Fargo. No real contest

1 - Steven Spielberg vs. 9 - Ron Howard - Howard got by with a weak matchup in round 1. Jaws, ET, SPR, Indy, JP, so many great movies by Spielberg that blow away anything Howard has done
5 - Clint Eastwood vs. 4 - David Fincher - Eastwood is really good, but I don't think he can touch the thriller mastery of Fincher as seen in Fight Club, Se7en, Gone Girl, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The Social Network is a directorial masterpiece
6 - Tim Burton vs. 3 - James Cameron - Burton certainly has a recognizable and distinct style. It just isn't as good as the work Cameron does. Terminator blows every Burton film away. The direction of movies I like much less like Avatar and Titanic is also superior
7 - Frank Capra vs. 2 - Quentin Tarantino - I don't care for Capra's work overall. Tarantino wins running away

1 - Alfred Hitchcock vs. 8 - Wes Anderson - I like the quirky Wes Anderson slice of (very weird) life over the fraught Hitchcock, though both are great
5 - Kathryn Bigelow vs. 4 - John Ford - this is a style win. I prefer the intense thrills of Bigelow's Hurt Locker or Strange Days to the grand scope of Ford's westerns
6 - Michael Mann vs. 3 - Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu - I love Last of the Mohicans and Heat, but I think I have to give the edge to Birdman and The Revenant
7 - Oliver Stone vs. 2 - Francis Ford Coppola - I really don't like FFC's slow, plodding style. I am not a huge Stone fan either, but I would rather rewatch some of his work

1 - Martin Scorsese vs. 9 - John Carpenter - this is a tough one. Both are great, but I like Carpenter's range more. The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween, They Live, Escape from New York - just such diverse styles Scorsese is more focused
5 - Pedro Almodovar vs. 4 - Brian DePalma - still have not seen a film by Almodovar, he had a fortunate first round matchup
11 - Milos Forman vs. 14 - Mel Brooks - I like both, but comedy directors like Brooks don't get enough credit
10 - Guillermo del Toro vs. 2 - Christopher Nolan - this was a tough matchup. Nolan's use of time and space just edges out the beauty and atmosphere of del Toro's work