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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2166 Joined: 23 Dec 2007    | Wes Anderson. I don't care that all his movies are basically the same movie, I still love him dammit! I'm also into Kurosawa but not because of his Samurai movies, but because of his gangster flicks like High and Low and Drunken Angel, and if you ever get the chance watch Ikiru. I reckon it's his best film just ahead of Ran and Seven Samurai. |
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Hey, I still love the guy. He's chearnd out some great horror movies. If we're naming horror then Tube Hooper would also be up there with the orginal Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Sam Rami with Evil Dead 2 and 3. I've yet to watch the first one. (Cuts self) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 124 Joined: 7 Nov 2007     | George Romero, for the zombies. |
Paperboy  Posts: 11 Joined: 2 Jan 2008   | George A. Romero or Sam Raimi for that bit of horror all tho Sam's movies arent scary but still good and Kevin smith or Judd Apatow for a good laugh |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2166 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 |
I think you're thinking of Wes Craven. But I can see The Royal Tenenbaums as a slasher. Totally. "Royal, are you dying or not!?" And the Anjelica Houston slashes Gene Hackman in the face....classic. |
On the Record Posts: 5674 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 |
(Slaps head) That went straight over me. Wes ANDERSON is also great as well. His movies are sometimes just odd or off beat which is great. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 127 Joined: 19 Dec 2007   | Peter Jackson, for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and for King Kong. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 125 Joined: 5 Jan 2008   | Ridley Scot and then i would have to say Tarentino |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2108 Joined: 13 Dec 2007   | Michel Gondry. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 194 Joined: 14 Nov 2007 | The Wes Anderson/Wes Craven exchange in here made me laugh, mostly because I was going to name Wes Anderson. Most of his movies are quite good, and I fell in love with the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou for reasons I cannot even explain. Peter Jackson has my respect for making a working, popular movie Trilogy with the Lord of the Rings, and King Kong was a great monster-type movie (the T-Rex fight was just so over the top and spectacular). The Coen brothers have also been responsible for some great movies. I've always thought Fargo was overrated, but I really did like No Country for Old Men. On the lighter side, O Brother Where Art Thou, and the Big Lebowski (to a significantly lesser extent, but still) I thought were fun movies. |
Paperboy  Posts: 24 Joined: 9 Jan 2008 | Guy Ritchie. Only seen a couple of his movies *Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* but that really was amazing enough for me. Hurry, before ze germans get here. Also a hearty agree to Quinten Tarintino, hes da man. |
Paperboy Posts: 24 Joined: 9 Jan 2008 |
The aids, didn't know he would use that for inspiration but it makes sense, cool. |
On the Record Posts: 5674 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 |
Yeah. Noone knows who's the Thing? Which one of them is the alien. Sort of like the fear that other people might have aids and nobody else knows. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 118 Joined: 2 Jan 2008    | Uwe Boll hahaha |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 72 Joined: 6 Jan 2008    |
That was so cool in the game, trying to find out if one of your team-mates was a rabid mutant beasty or not. What? Oh, right. I have to agree with Kurosawa, one of the best directors of all time. While we're going with the Japanese directors, 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano is fantastic; anime-wise, it's a toss-up between Mamoru Oshii, Hayao Miyazaki and Katsuhiro Otomo. Also, Kevin Smith lolz. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 770 Joined: 7 Jan 2008   | Ridley Scott, David Fincher and Danny Boyle are great And James Cameron, before he decided to make one of the longest one-dimensional Lovestorys ever(?) |
Paperboy Posts: 28 Joined: 5 Dec 2007 | Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director of all time. Best director around now probably Spielberg, M. Night. Sayamaraer or however his surname is spelled and Tarantino are also very good directors. Akira Kurosawa, Ridley Scott and Stanley Kuberick are brilliant too. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2174 Joined: 14 Nov 2007    | David Lynch ain't half bad |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2245 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 | In no particualer order, -Keven Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 71 Joined: 13 Jan 2008 | Probably Peter Jackson and Quentin Tarantino |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2108 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 | Oh yeah, Guy Ritchie and Hayao Miyazaki are awesome too. I watched a whole bunch of Studio Ghibli movies in a row once, and the only one I didn't like was directed by some other guy. (In case you're curious it was Only Yesterday, and it's so boring if anyone says they like it, it's proof they're a pretentious jerk.) |
Paperboy  Posts: 43 Joined: 2 Jan 2008     | Quentin Tarantino; Reservoir Dogs, From Dusk 'Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction Eli Roth; Cabin Fever, Hostel. Not to great of films compared but love his style, and originality. George Romero; Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead Many others. |
Paperboy  Posts: 31 Joined: 22 Nov 2007 | No order. |
Paperboy Posts: 17 Joined: 17 Jan 2008    | John McTeirnan - Predator and Die Hard Those pretty much are the only guys I'll PAY to see in theaters. |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 11 Dec 2007  | Anyone BUT Uwe Boll =P Actually, personally favorites are Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Micheal Bay. |
Paperboy Posts: 17 Joined: 16 Nov 2007 | Jean-Pierre Melville, just for his sense of style. I've only seen Le Cercle Rouge yet, but all it does is hit plot point after plot point without ever increasing or decreasing its intensity. It sounds like it'd make for a really dull movie, but it's oddly hypnotic. I'll be trying to see Le Samourai and Army of Shadows next. The Coen brothers are awesome. I haven't seen a movie of theirs yet that I've disliked. No Country for Old Men is sure to be a classic (though Ridley Scott's Blood Meridian will probably bite the big one), Fargo is great, and Blood Simple, their first feature, deserves far more exposure. |
Paperboy  Posts: 13 Joined: 3 Dec 2007 | Ridley Scott - Blade Runner, Alien And a whole bunch more, but these are my real favorites... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 767 Joined: 30 Nov 2007 | As of late: Werner Herzog - Everything Jean Luc Goddard - Everything Frederico Fellini - 8 1/2 Gus Van Sant - Elephant and Last Days |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1175 Joined: 13 Nov 2007   | Faves: David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) Runners-up: Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 637 Joined: 19 Jan 2008  | Favourite directors: |
Paperboy Posts: 17 Joined: 16 Nov 2007 |
Why am I not surprised that a guy named Alphavillain likes Jean-Luc Godard :)? Can you recommend a good movie to watch to get into Ozu's work? I've read about him and it seems like his movies would be kind of dull and difficult to watch. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1175 Joined: 13 Nov 2007 |
Try some of his silent comedies, those are much better than his sound works. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 97 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 | John Hughes (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Uncle Buck) That's all I can think of at the moment. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 637 Joined: 19 Jan 2008 | For Ozu, the best place to start is the Noriko Trilogy, which is basically Tokyo Story and, uh, two others I've forgotten the names of. Get them from Tartan UK DVD for about £20/$40. Ozu's silent stuff is hard to get, but keep an eye out for "I Was Born But" (1932; good luck if you can find it), and also "Floating Weeds" (1934; available through Criterion US DVDs, packaged with the remake). |
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Pretty much what the title states. Who's you favourite director at the moment? Right now I feel like watching a bit of John Carpenter. The Thing, Halloween, Assult On Precinct 13, The Fog. This man just reaked of movie greatness. Yet all of his films are so underated and either remade or had crappy sequels ruined by other directors. Yet The Thing is still a pure example of horror containing the ever present undertone of AIDS which was a big issue at the time and still is today. Plus he made Kurt Russel cool.