Favorite directors

[Frogacuda]

Most of the general public go to see movies based on the actors in them, but I've always looked at the director and screenwriter first and foremost. I wanted to make a thread to discuss your favorite directors. Which directors output will you go see, no questions asked every time?

I'll post mine in a bit.

[shinjirod]

Many. Tarantino, Park Chan Wook, Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Del Toro, Cuaron, Iñarritu, Eastwood, etc.

Too many, lol.

[Frogacuda]

I need to see more Cuaron movies. I've only seen Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Men, and Prisoner of Azkaban. What would you recommend?

[shinjirod]

youre missing great expectations and a little princess.

[DarthArcturus]

the big guns like Hitchcock, Kubrick, Spielberg, Scorsese (though recent efforts not my favorites), Kurosawa, Welles

others: Sergio Leone, Spike Lee, David Lynn always has something interesting to show, Sam Raimi, Oliver Stone, Tarantino

[Hunter]

I don't really follow anyone. But if I had to pick, I'd say Spielberg and Nolan.

[Frogacuda]

the big guns like Hitchcock, Kubrick, Spielberg, Scorsese (though recent efforts not my favorites), Kurosawa, Welles

others: Sergio Leone, Spike Lee, David Lynn always has something interesting to show, Sam Raimi, Oliver Stone, Tarantino

Scrocese has had some misses, but he's the kind of guy who's put out at least a movie a year for his entire career, in a lot of different genres.



Ok, my faves:

Joel and Ethan Coen: I can't really separate the Coens as directors from the Coens as screenwriters, since they work exclusively on their own scripts, but they really do excel at both. Having the likes of Roger Deakins (and Barry Sonnefeld before him) manning the camera certainly helps, too.

Michel Gondry: As a screenwriter his stuff is child-like and charming, but a little too goofy, but as a director, he's one of the most technically gifted visual wizards in Hollywood. Eternal Sunshine's effects impress me far more than all the CGI effects in any given action movie. I can understand how CGI is done, but what he does just baffles me.

David Cronenberg: I'm really only familiar with his work from Scanners on (1981), and while I don't love all of his movies, they were all at the very least provocative and original. Aggressively indie, and not afraid to play with taboos. Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch are especially brilliant.

Quentin Tarantino: I'm a sucker for Tarantino's style. Some people hate his nostalgia for 70s cheese, and his wordy dialog, but it gets me every time. New Tarantino means I'm there opening night.

Jaco Von Dormael: His movies are sweet, tragic, funny, playful, and heartbreaking. His next movie will be his English-language and North American-market debut, and I can't wait to see how it does. Also a guy who I can't separate from his screenwriting. But who would want to?

Martin Scorcese: Still many of his movies I have left to see, but he's made enough of my favorites that I have to mention him. I think King of Comedy is probably his most underrated movie, at least of the ones I've seen.

[MAD.MANTIS]

Tarantino & Sam Raimi. Love them both.

[SNKJorge]

Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
George Lucas
Tarantino
Kurosawa

[Advocate]

Scorcese - Rageing Bull and the Cape Fear remake were stellar. Goodfellas ... come on. AWSOME ON CELLULOILD. Taxi Driver - You talkin' to me? Gnags of New York, and Departed.

Copella - Godfather; nuff said. End O' Story.

Tarantino - Kill Bill, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, From Duck till Dawn, and the Grindhouse. Thank you come again.

David Lynch - Dune and Blue Velvet. Thanks and enjoy your stay.

Orson Welles - Citizen Kane; need I say more?

Wes Craven, Rob Zombie, and Clive Barker. How can anyone between the age of 25-35 not like these horror directors. Unless you hate Horror movies and are retarded.

end'o list.

[Frogacuda]

Copella - Godfather; nuff said. End O' Story.
Great as Godfather is, he hasn't done a lot else, which is why I didn't mention him.


Wes Craven, Rob Zombie, and Clive Barker. How can anyone between the age of 25-35 not like these horror directors. Unless you hate Horror movies and are retarded.

I must be retarded then. I don't really get the "teen horror" sub genre. It's just a b-movie throwback kinda thing. They are to horror what American Pie is to comedy.

To me a great horror movies are like... Jaws, Psycho, Alien, Dead Ringers, The Shining... Not some goofy thing with a serial killer chasing around retarded girls at a slumber party or whatever.

[Advocate]

**I shall say nothing in reference to Frog's post.**

Also: That's why I said Nuff said. I don't give two craps what he did later. Godfather 1and 2 were so masterful. His name is recognized just for that.

And you have to be some NOOB to think that the Rob Zombie Remake of Halloween falls in the teen horror genre.

[Frogacuda]

Haven't seen it, but the original did, and his first two movies did.

[Advocate]

Than you can't make comments about Rob Zombie.

Meaning you can comment about Barker and Craven.

You can't limp him in with the teen gore crowd ... sorry.

[Frogacuda]

I can comment on what I have seen and do know, right?

[Advocate]

not after your retarded statement. I mean first you don't post shit about movies over at TNL or here. Second you lumped Rob Zombie into teen horror. Third after talking to you on AIM your knowledge of horror is limited so no. Its like me commenting on RPG's. I dont like them and I have no inclination to buying one (except maybe Lost Odyssey). Yet I have not posted anything negative or positive in it. So no. I don't think you can comment on Horror.

[DarthArcturus]

Rob Zombie isn't under teen horror films.

Godfather is a masterpiece but so is Apocalyptic Now. After that though yeah not sure what the hell happened to him.

[Frogacuda]

Godfather is a masterpiece but so is Apocalyptic Now. After that though yeah not sure what the hell happened to him.
Mmm, yeah, I always forget he did Apocalypse Now. He's done some other decent movies, too. I always had a soft spot for Tucker: A Man and His Dream. But they don't have the "magic."
not after your retarded statement. I mean first you don't post shit about movies over at TNL or here.
I don't?


Second you lumped Rob Zombie into teen horror. Third after talking to you on AIM your knowledge of horror is limited so no. Its like me commenting on RPG's. I dont like them and I have no inclination to buying one (except maybe Lost Odyssey). Yet I have not posted anything negative or positive in it. So no. I don't think you can comment on Horror.
But I named a lot of horror movies I really like, and I could name dozens more. I like the genre, but not certain sub-genres thereof. What's wrong with that? I'm just expressing an opinion on the movies I've seen. You aren't the arbiter of who can and can't comment on movies. It's a thread for opinions.

[Advocate]

Mmm, yeah, I always forget he did Apocalypse Now. He's done some other decent movies, too. I always had a soft spot for Tucker: A Man and His Dream. But they don't have the "magic."

Tucker was awesome. I still to this day watch the movie whenever it comes on.


But I named a lot of horror movies I really like, and I could name dozens more. I like the genre, but not certain sub-genres thereof. What's wrong with that? I'm just expressing an opinion on the movies I've seen. You aren't the arbiter of who can and can't comment on movies. It's a thread for opinions.

We are discussing why on AIM. Your comment about Rob Zombie is flat out wroing. Especially after Halloween.

[Frogacuda]

My comment pertained strictly to pre-Halloween. Already said that. I just meant that I don't like the sub-genre of horror categorized by high body counts, exagerated, glamorized violence, and stories with no real good guy. Maybe calling them "Teen Horror" is unfair, fine. But whatever you call that sub-genre, it's not my cup of tea.

[shinjirod]

i love rob zombie as a musician, but hes extremelly overrated as a director. hes got a unique vision and its ok and all, but its not really good, different, or inovative. He really hasnt done a good, all around decent movie. And dont even dare to tell me i dunno what the fuck im talking about advo, i could school you hard on all "extreme" genres.

[Advocate]

and not one thing there did I disagree with you on. My gripe with Frog is not about "schooling" its about him saying Zombie is a teen horror film director. When in fact he meant Slasher.

So re-read what I was saying the whole time. ALSO, last I checked you weren't in the convo with me and Frog on AIM. So, really you have no idea what was said all you see is the spillage from AIM here. So back off. I am so not in the mood right now. I warned you opnce. Frog knows why I am this way. So again ... back off.

[Specineff]

No love for Shyamalan and Scott?

I am partial to Rodriguez. Heck, I'll watch the first Spy Kids over and over because it's so well-made.

[Frogacuda]

No love for Shyamalan and Scott?
Shyamalan is like one of those musicians who spends his whole life writing his first album and can never follow it up. His movies have gone from great to good to decent to unbelievably bad.

I do love Ridley Scott. He's kind of inconsistent, but he has enough greats under his belt to deserve mention. Alien and Blade Runner alone make him a legend. BUT I won't automatically run out and see any Ridley Scott movie because sometimes it's something like A Good Year.

I should have mentioned Tim Burton also. It does seem like in recent years he's been trying too hard to be Tim Burton, but I still have to see all his movies.

[DarthArcturus]

lol fuck M night :p Signs, Six Sense, Unbreakable were all excellent movies. The Village and Lady in the Water were fucking garbage.

[Frogacuda]

The Happening is going to have to be really good for M. Night to restore his good name.

[shinjirod]

and not one thing there did I disagree with you on. My gripe with Frog is not about "schooling" its about him saying Zombie is a teen horror film director. When in fact he meant Slasher.

So re-read what I was saying the whole time. ALSO, last I checked you weren't in the convo with me and Frog on AIM. So, really you have no idea what was said all you see is the spillage from AIM here. So back off. I am so not in the mood right now. I warned you opnce. Frog knows why I am this way. So again ... back off.

Attack of the Macy! Ooooooh!

[Frogacuda]

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[jp]

Lucio Fulci is my favorite. I love old school italian horror movies. Hence why I also dig Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and various others.


In so far as American films, I like old school John Carpenter and James Cameron, before they got too big for their own good (well, I guess Carpenter didn't technically get "too big", he just started sucking all over the place, "In the Mouth of Madness" is sheer genius though). I also dig Sam Raimi but Spider-Man 3 was a nightmare (mainly because of Sony though). I also dig Kevin Smith.

[Advocate]

Attack of the Macy! Ooooooh!
Are you joking? I have never once knocked you at all. Now all of a sudden your up in my face. Like I said in the "where are you during the day?" thread I made a few friends, but honestly I don't care about this place. I thought myself and Shinji were alright. Now i see otherwise. Just one less reason to visit here.

Luckily, I can still talk to some of you on AIM. This place can rot for all I care.

[Frogacuda]

Advocate, just mellow out. You snapped on shinji. You didn't attack him, but you still went off.

[Bruhaha69]

People are gettin all jammed up on here lately. Everybody needs to settle down and have some dip.

I'm not a bog movie buff, but I enjoy Sam Raimi and Kevin Smith, as well. I like most of the directors mentioned here, actually, I'm just not into movies enough where I'll actually see one just because a particular person directs it.

[Wildcat]

Jesus, there's some hostility fuming here today. Yikes.

Heh, I am in the same boat as Bru. I like movies, but I don't really have a directorial preference. I do love the films of Hayao Miyazaki, and have made an effort to collect them, but he's the only director that I can think of right now.

[Frogacuda]

Ad's just having a tough time in real life and lashing out at people who have nothing to do with it.

Mentioning Miyazaki brings up a good point. I wasn't thinking much about animated features, and it's interesting that some of my favorite directors of animated features went largely uncredited. I guess because directing an animated feature is such a different process than directing a live action one.

[DarthArcturus]

I always wondered what do directors of animated movies really do?

[Frogacuda]

I always wondered what do directors of animated movies really do?

storyboard, assign animators to different sequences, and a whole lot of management.

For shorts, a lot of times they would also write and do a large chunk of the animation themselves. The days of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery and such.

[squall_vb]

I need to see more Cuaron movies. I've only seen Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Men, and Prisoner of Azkaban. What would you recommend?

Y Tu Mama Tambien was great... until the end. When the two guys fag out at the end and start sucking each other off, it screamed "Mandatory Gay Moment to Prove That This Movie is Very Artistic and Deep." It's too bad, because the rest of it was very, very good.

[Advocate]

Ad's just having a tough time in real life and lashing out at people who have nothing to do with it.

you have no idea.

[Frogacuda]

Y Tu Mama Tambien was great... until the end. When the two guys fag out at the end and start sucking each other off, it screamed "Mandatory Gay Moment to Prove That This Movie is Very Artistic and Deep." It's too bad, because the rest of it was very, very good.

I dunno, I thought it was kind of funny/sad, given the way they reacted to it after the fact. I'm sure something like that could happen.

[squall_vb]

I dunno, I thought it was kind of funny/sad, given the way they reacted to it after the fact. I'm sure something like that could happen.

I guess you have a point. (Also, how do you do that "mouse over" thing? It's nifty.)

[Frogacuda]

spoiler and /spoiler. But in brackets.

[Hunter]

Wow, now I have to add to my list.

Ridley Scott, Tim Burton, and Miyazaki, don't know how I missed them.