Favorite Director
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I'd have to say at the moment:
Sam Raimi or Joss Whedon....... or Scorcese, or Peter Jackson, or Stanley Kubrick. To hard to decide.
Sam Raimi or Joss Whedon....... or Scorcese, or Peter Jackson, or Stanley Kubrick. To hard to decide.
So almost everyone here has named directors of popular action and sci-fi movies (James Cameron, Joss Whedon, Martin Scorsese, etc.). Tarantino almost always makes the list as well.
I like all these guys (although I take Whedon with a grain of salt), but I prefer some of the lesser worshiped directors.
David Fincher...probably the most well-known on the list, but his movies are almost always amazing...Panic Room, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin's Butt, Se7en...
Cameron Crowe...going to get called gay for this, but I've come to like him after seeing Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky.
Michael Mann...Heat and Collateral were freaking amazing, as was The Insider. Miami Vice is probably his only "ehhh..." movie I've seen.
The Coen brothers...I've liked everything I've seen by them so far except A Serious Man, and even that had its moments.
I like all these guys (although I take Whedon with a grain of salt), but I prefer some of the lesser worshiped directors.
David Fincher...probably the most well-known on the list, but his movies are almost always amazing...Panic Room, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin's Butt, Se7en...
Cameron Crowe...going to get called gay for this, but I've come to like him after seeing Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky.
Michael Mann...Heat and Collateral were freaking amazing, as was The Insider. Miami Vice is probably his only "ehhh..." movie I've seen.
The Coen brothers...I've liked everything I've seen by them so far except A Serious Man, and even that had its moments.
Michael Bay is also quite good.
Now I'm curious. Who are your favourite dictators?AjimboB said:
Michael Mann. Heat is tied with a certain trilogy for my favorite movie of all time, and a few of his others are in my top ten.
I hate Tarantino, the only movie I've seen and liked of his was "Pulp Fiction" (SAY WHAT ONE MORE TIME!). As for ones I like. Rob Zombie's Halloween remake, El Superbeasto, and his 2 horror movies where great (although I haven't seen his Halloween 2) so I'll throw his name in. James Cameron, Steven Speilberg (did I spell that right), and Sam Raimi almost never make a bad flick. I also like George Lucas in his younger days and Tim Burton, although I am sick of his remakes. Burton is still brillant at making Adaptations (Batman and Sweeney Todd) and original works (Too many to name)
A tie between Judd Apatow and Kevin Smith.
Judd has made a lot of movies that I have enjoyed.
Kevin has made a few movies that I have enjoyed a lot.
So they are even. If Kevin writes a sitcom like Judd has, then he's the better one. Assuming it's good.
Judd has made a lot of movies that I have enjoyed.
Kevin has made a few movies that I have enjoyed a lot.
So they are even. If Kevin writes a sitcom like Judd has, then he's the better one. Assuming it's good.
Francis Ford Coppola, Danny Boyle and Stanley Kubrik are all directors I like, but I wouldn't go as far as to crown any as my favorite.
Í also like a Swedish director by the name Roy Andersson. He makes melancholy movies, that are true masterpeices, and I can recommend them to even non-english speaking people.
Í also like a Swedish director by the name Roy Andersson. He makes melancholy movies, that are true masterpeices, and I can recommend them to even non-english speaking people.
I'd say Joss Whedon or Christopher Nolan. Michael Bay isn't a bad director for his type of films I mean the Rock is just a classic action film up there with the first three die hard films. Bad boys 1 and 2 are decent films but nothing really special, even transformers 1 was a good film but for the fact that it doesn't really know if it's meant to be light hearted or serious, there moments when it kind seems like its nervously laughing at itself at times. I'll admit that pearl harbour and ROTF are far from great films but michael bay isn't the worst director that people make him out to be look at m night shylamalon for bad directing choices, why why why choose him for avatar (Plot twist: The villans are aliens from the future and the heroes are already dead).
Roy Andersson is awesome. "You, The Living" is one of the most fresh and original films I've seen in years.The Hairminator said:
OT: Close between Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Masaki Kobayashi and Takeshi Kitano. Tarkovsky probably edges it.
Yea that one,Ringo007 said:
dont forget bout his best movies, Ichi the Killer and Sukiyaki Western Django