Well my big tymers are as follows.. 1.Tim Burton 2.Stanley Kubrick 3.Francis Ford Coppola 4.Clint Eastwood 5.Kevin Smith and another just for making Whats Eating Gilbert Grape 6.Lasse Halstrom Up and coming!! 1.Wes Anderson 2.Soffia Coppola(despite Nomar's qualm with racism towards Japan) 3.Sam Mendez 4.Cathrine Hardwicke(more for Thirteen than for production design for I'm gonna get you sucka!) 5.Burr Steers(Igby goes down also in a lot of Tarantino films namely Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs) WORST directors!! 1.Christopher B. Stokes(you got served) 2.The Wachowski Brothers 3.George Lucas(he is ruining his legacy and others) 4.Vondie Curtis Hall(Glitter) 5.Jan De Bont(Speed 2)UUUGHH
Coen Brothers Tarantino Wes Anderson Cameron Crowe Spike Jonze Richard Linklater Todd Philips P.T. Anderson
Yeah, but Speed and Twister both kicked ass, and The Haunting was pretty cool. I've never seen the second Tomb raider or Speed 2, but I probably wouldn't have liked them. 3 out of 5 ain't bad.
Favorite/best All time : Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Joel Coen (Coen Brothers) Sergio Leone Francis Ford Coppola Alfred Hitchcock More recent: Wes Anderson PT Anderson Steven Soderbergh Worst: Michael Bay (the rock wasnt too bad though)
all I can think of right now... 1. Tim Burton 2. Coen Bros. 3. Terry Gilliam 4. Spielberg 5. Woody Allen 6. Martin Scorsese 7. David Lynch 8. Steven Sodebergh 9. Paul Thomas Anderson 10. Quentin Tarantino 11. Christopher Guest 12. James Cameron 13. David Fincher 14. Robert Zemeckis 15. M Knight Shyamalan 16. Gus Van Sant Honorable Mention: Up and Coming 1. David O' Russell (Three Kings aka the most underrated movie of the past 10 years) 2. Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) 3. Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 grams, Amorres perros) 4. Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt)
Top Five Directors Of All Time: 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Steven Spielberg 3. Stanley Kubrick 4. Akira Kurosawa 5. David Lean HM: Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman Top Five Directors Currently 1. Ridley Scott 2. David Fincher 3. Clint Eastwood 4. Oliver Stone 5. Joel and Ethan Coen HM: Ron Howard, Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese, Edward Zwick Worst Five Directors: 1. Quentin Tarantino 2. McG 3. M. Night Shyamalan 4. Anthony Minghella 5. Peter Jackson HM: Quentin Tarantino's ego, Quentin Tarantino's chin Best Five Up and Coming Directors: 1. Alejandro González Iñárritu 2. Steven Soderbergh 3. Guy Ritchie 4. Sam Mendes 5. Darren Aronofsky HM: Brian Singer, Christopher Nolan
Left Altman off of HM for all time... Left Wes Anderson off of Up and Coming. Jeez and he went to my high school. Left PT Anderson off the "To prove yourself, you must not screw up Aliens vs. Predator" list.
Spielburg Smith Scott Shyamalan Cameron (except for Titanic, ugh) Jackson Hughes - ruler of the Brat Pack Kirshner - the Empire Strikes Back Ritchie Whedon Worst: Oliver Stone
All Time ( staying away from Euro-realists) 1. Hitchcock-pure genius. 2. Kubrick-took on a different genre every time and produced a masterpiece of it's kind...until EWS, where I don't know what he was going for other than atmosphere. 3. Wilder-just knew how to get the right performance, shot, etc. Underrated, IMO. 4. Lean-the master of the epic, and filmed with the eye of a nature photographer. 5. Ford-worse on actors than Hitch, but boy did he have a feel for the visual. 6. Capra-Much darker after WWII...and it worked. 7. Huston-A few of the best movies ever made, together with some stuff I could take or leave. 8. Allen *-the essence of the intellectualist film maker without going into Wild Strawberries tpye symbolism. 9. Hawks-Few shot movement better, in any genre. I think the Aussies picked up where he left off. 10. Altman-he's so up and down. Some of my favorite movies, and other real stinkers. H,M. Spielberg. The tale of two directors. before S's L, I thought he was the most commericalized, technical, operating on the lowest denominator manipulative director out there. Since then he's blown me away a few time. More of those and he'll be near the top. Polanski...mainly for a few excellent works, and his genral feel for emotive progress. Kurosawa...I know, I know, criminal to list him this low, but I appreciate more than love his work... Right Now 1. Boyle 2. Coen 3. Redford 4. Minghella 5. Guest Had high hopes for Richie till he married Madonna and killed his creative spirit.
Robert Zemeckis (BTTF, Forrest Gump and Cast Away were incredible.) Spielberg (most of the time - wtf was AI though...) Ridley Scott (Matchstick Men was awesome!) James Cameron - T2!!! John McTiernan - Die Hard!!! Tarantino M. Night Shyamalan Jon Singleton - Boyz N the Hood John Hughes Coen Brothers Jerry Bruckheimer Michael Bay Ron Howard David Fincher (Fight Club rules!) Cecil B. DeMille - for the Ten Commandments Brian DePalma Francis Ford Coppola Steven Soderbergh John Carpenter Ivan Reitman Farrelly Brothers Richard Donner Tony Scott Bryan Singer Harold Ramis
whats the guys name that directed pi and requiem for a dream. i like those types of movies. is there anything else he has directed or is directing at the moment?
