| (Pages: 1, 2) | |
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. | |
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) | |
George Romero, for the zombies. | |
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 | |
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. | |
(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. | |
Peter Jackson, for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and for King Kong. | |
Ridley Scot and then i would have to say Tarentino | |
Michel Gondry. | |
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. | |
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. | |
The aids, didn't know he would use that for inspiration but it makes sense, cool. | |
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. | |
Uwe Boll hahaha | |
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. | |
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(?) | |
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. | |
David Lynch ain't half bad | |
In no particualer order, -Keven Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) | |
Probably Peter Jackson and Quentin Tarantino | |
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.) | |
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. | |
No order. | |
John McTeirnan - Predator and Die Hard Those pretty much are the only guys I'll PAY to see in theaters. | |
Anyone BUT Uwe Boll =P Actually, personally favorites are Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Micheal Bay. | |
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. | |
Ridley Scott - Blade Runner, Alien And a whole bunch more, but these are my real favorites... | |
As of late: Werner Herzog - Everything Jean Luc Goddard - Everything Frederico Fellini - 8 1/2 Gus Van Sant - Elephant and Last Days | |
Faves: David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) Runners-up: Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) | |
Favourite directors: | |
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. | |
Try some of his silent comedies, those are much better than his sound works. | |
John Hughes (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Uncle Buck) That's all I can think of at the moment. | |
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). | |
| (Pages: 1, 2) | |
Extra Punctuation
Experienced Points
MovieBob: Intermission
First Person
Miracle of Sound: Encore
Loading Time
Hexproof
Ask Dr Mark
Backchat
Drinking Games
Escape to the Movies
Escapecraft
Escapist Podcast
Feed Dump
GinxTV
Jimquisition
LoadingReadyRun
Meatbag and Co
Media Sandwich
Miracle of Sound
No Right Answer
Pro-Gamer Gauntlet
Reviews
Tales from the Table
The Big Picture
The Escapist Presents
Trailers
Unskippable
Zero Punctuation
The Darkness II Review
Reckoning Review
Exodus Review
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Review
Scarygirl Review
Amy Review
Critical Miss
Name Game
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.