Favorite movie directors

[someguy2]

Go.

[ceyoung]

can someone explain to me why david lynch deserves to be on this list? i've never understood why people liked his work.

i asked someone why they liked his movies and they said "because i've seen it 35 times and every time i watch it, it still makes no sense" refering to Lost Highway.

edited for anecdote

[Ten7offsuit]

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can someone explain to me why david lynch deserves to be on this list? i've never understood why people liked his work.

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Naomi Watts + lesbian scenes

[shadow29]

Oliver Stone anyone?

[i wanna be me]

spike lee is highly overrated, imo

[fluxrad]

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can someone explain to me why david lynch deserves to be on this list? i've never understood why people liked his work.

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I've got some friends that think David Lynch is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Near as I can tell, it's because his movies are like Jackson Pollock paintings. They're not really about anything and they're basically just two hours of emotion put to film. Some people dig that.

Personally, I think it's crap.

Oh, and this poll is invalid for not having Kirosawa and Wes Anderson on it.

[istewart]

Scorcese is lame.

[Matty]

Quentin Tarantino sucked on one of my friends' toes while playing with himself.

[fluxrad]

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Scorcese is lame.

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Except for the part where you're totally wrong, I agree with you completely.

[istewart]

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Quentin Tarantino sucked on one of my friends' toes while playing with himself.

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Haha.

[Vince Young]

I can't believe Hitchcock doesn't have 19 votes.

[Matty]

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Quentin Tarantino sucked on one of my friends' toes while playing with himself.

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Haha.

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[gvibes]

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I can't believe Hitchcock doesn't have 19 votes.

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I really hasn't seen much of his work, and the only one I own is NxNW (which is incredibly sweet).

I chose the Coen Brothers and Kubrick.

[WillMagic]

Lemme guess...are you one of those people who doesn't go to movies with subtitles because they don't like reading?

Your list is pretty xenophobic.

Will

[jesusarenque]

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Lemme guess...are you one of those people who doesn't go to movies with subtitles because they don't like reading?

Your list is pretty xenophobic.

Will

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Pedro Almodovar

[Dominic]

David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino - while great - do not belong in this poll, as they are still at the beginning of their careers and have not made nearly enough movies to properly jusge them against the others.

[pshreck]

E.T., Schindler's List, Jurassic Park... all great movies, and all completely different. I am a little surprised Spielberg is't running away with this, but I am happy that Kubrick is being appreciated.

[Dominic]

Billy Wilder is the greatest American filmmaker of all-time.

Double Indemnity
The Lost Weekend
A Foreign Affair
Sunset Boulevard
Ace in the Hole
Sabrina
The Seven Year Itch
The Spirit of St. Louis
Witness for the Prosecution
Some Like It Hot
Ninotchka
The Apartment


among others....anyone who has directed both the greatest comedy of all-time (SLIH),the greatest film noir of all time (Double Indemnity), and the greatest dark,romantic comedy of all time (The Apartment)....deserves more votes.

And yes I know Wilder wasn't American - he was Austrian - but his great films were all made in America with a definite American "vibe."

[Dominic]

Also,it's a crime that the 2nd greatest American filmmaker of all-time is not on the list:

John Huston:

as a screenwriter:

1975 - The Man Who Would Be King
1969 - The Kremlin Letter
1969 - A Walk with Love and Death
1964 - The Night of the Iguana
1957 - Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
1956 - Moby Dick
1952 - Moulin Rouge
1951 - The African Queen
1951 - The Red Badge of Courage
1950 - The Asphalt Jungle
1948 - Key Largo
1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1941 - High Sierra
1941 - The Maltese Falcon
1941 - Sergeant York
1940 - Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet
1939 - Juarez
1938 - The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse
1938 - Jezebel
1932 - Murders in the Rue Morgue

as a director:

1987 - The Dead
1985 - Prizzi’s Honor
1984 - Under the Volcano
1981 - Annie
1981 - Victory
1979 - Wise Blood
1975 - The Man Who Would Be King
1973 - The Mackintosh Man
1972 - Fat City
1972 - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1969 - The Kremlin Letter
1969 - A Walk with Love and Death
1968 - Sinful Davey
1967 - Casino Royale
1967 - Reflections in a Golden Eye
1966 - The Bible... In the Beginning
1964 - The Night of the Iguana
1963 - The List of Adrian Messenger
1962 - Freud
1960 - The Misfits
1959 - The Unforgiven
1957 - Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
1956 - Moby Dick
1952 - Moulin Rouge
1951 - The African Queen
1951 - The Red Badge of Courage
1950 - The Asphalt Jungle
1948 - Key Largo
1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1942 - Across the Pacific
1942 - In This Our Life
1941 - The Maltese Falcon

as an actor:

1983 - Lovesick
1983 - Young Giants
1980 - Head On
1979 - Jaguar Lives
1979 - Winter Kills
1979 - Wise Blood
1976 - Hollywood on Trial
1976 - Tentacles
1975 - The Wind and the Lion
1974 - Chinatown
1973 - Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1972 - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1971 - Man in the Wilderness
1970 - Myra Breckinridge
1969 - The Kremlin Letter
1969 - A Walk with Love and Death
1968 - Candy
1967 - Casino Royale
1966 - The Bible... In the Beginning
1963 - The Cardinal
1963 - The List of Adrian Messenger
1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

[someguy2]

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can someone explain to me why david lynch deserves to be on this list? i've never understood why people liked his work.

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I've got some friends that think David Lynch is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Near as I can tell, it's because his movies are like Jackson Pollock paintings. They're not really about anything and they're basically just two hours of emotion put to film. Some people dig that.

Personally, I think it's crap.

Oh, and this poll is invalid for not having Kirosawa and Wes Anderson on it.

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Do you really think a lot of people in OOT are going to be voting for Kurosawa or Wes Anderson? Just choose "other".

[someguy2]

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Lemme guess...are you one of those people who doesn't go to movies with subtitles because they don't like reading?

Your list is pretty xenophobic.

Will

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This poll wasn't made for a bunch of film buffs, it was designed for OOTers. I'm pretty sure 90% of OOT hasn't heard of Kurusawa, Bergman, Fellini, Bunuel, etc.

[Dr. Strangelove]

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David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino - while great - do not belong in this poll, as they are still at the beginning of their careers and have not made nearly enough movies to properly judge them against the others.

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Note thread title.

[Dominic]

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David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino - while great - do not belong in this poll, as they are still at the beginning of their careers and have not made nearly enough movies to properly judge them against the others.

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Note thread title.

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point taken

[Ten7offsuit]

I voted for Wilder, Hitchcock, and Scorsese, but Wilder is easily my all time favorite director.

[Felix_Nietsche]

Akira Kurosawa was a pioneer.........

I'm not familiar with Wes Anderson. Does this make me a bad person?

[Felix_Nietsche]

......lick the elephant dung off of Q.Tarantino's shoes.

[Rushmore]

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can someone explain to me why david lynch deserves to be on this list?

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Because David Lynch is a brilliant movie director.

Yes, it's true--many turtle-necked assholes like to roll their eyes when asked "what that David Lynch movie was about," but that doesn't invalidate him as a director. Just because Fuhrman framed Simpson doesn't mean he didn't do it.

Sorry. Got sidetracked.

Yes, David Lynch's films are less accessible than most. And yes, they are open to interpretation.

But look at The Elephant Man, for example. It's "coherent," and it's "traditional," and it's great.

I liked, but did not love Mulholland Drive. Ditto Wild At Heart. But they were both better than 95% of the crap that Steven Spielberg has made.

I thought Blue Velvet and Lost Highway were both fantastic, and I don't wear a turtleneck or smoke cloves or even really consider myself a movie guy, necessarily.

[Rushmore]

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Scorcese is lame.

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A good friend of mine recently tried to advance this same theory to me.

It makes me wonder--have you guys actually ever SEEN any Scorcese films? You don't think that being responsible for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Mean Streets should be good for SOME recognition in the Pantheon Of Movie Greatness?

I don't get it.

[Rushmore]

There's so much wrong with the theories advanced in your post, that I will neither quote your post nor address any of the issues contained therein. This brief paragraph is all I can muster in response.

[Rushmore]

At least now you're in the ballpark.

[youtalkfunny]

Dammit, I didn't see that we could choose more than one.

I voted for Scorsece. QT and the Coens should each have one more vote.

(Blake Edwards and Mel Brooks deserve a mention.)

[Dominic]

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There's so much wrong with the theories advanced in your post, that I will neither quote your post nor address any of the issues contained therein. This brief paragraph is all I can muster in response.

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If you don't have the balls to refute what is only my opinion - then pehaps you shouldn't have bothered responding at all. Pussy.

[Dominic]

Wow, my opinions on film are now validated thanks to you!!!

[IndieMatty]

This list is horrible with the omission of PTA and Wes Anderson.

[Rockatansky]

I selected Kubrick, Fincher, and Other for Terrence Malick. These guys are my favorites, but only Kubrick would have any sort of legitimate claim to being one of the greatest directors ever.

Felix - if Tarantino is one of your favorite directors, that is fine. But to claim that "Spike Lee is Not Fit to lick the elephant dung off of Q.Tarantino's shoes" is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read on these forums, and that's saying a lot. Lee will never make a movie as entertaining as Pulp Fiction, but Tarantino never has, nor ever will, make movies that are as good or have as much to say as 25th Hour and Bamboozled.

[trying2learn]

i'm kind of surprised that no one has mentioned m night...i know he's early in his career, and the village was panned, but i thought his first two films were entertaining as hell. also, oliver stone left off sucks too.