Favorite Movieman?

[Mikoyan]

Who have made the best films of these?

 

[G-Man]

I don't know about others but I really don't care who is the director of each film. I see no reason to do so. Even if I'll remember the name I'll never remember if he's doing good or bad movies...

 

[BlueMonday]

As far as best films go I must say Stanley Kubric. Brilliant work in every single film he did. Speilberg has mades some spectacular films some of which are quite good, but he doesn't have that quality that Kubric has...originality.

 

[Smash]

all those guys have made great movies cept QT.He only makes great halves of movies.Its like he writes and directs half a great screenplay..takes some form of illegal mind altering substance...then finshes it.


where's Brian DePalma?..Scarface...Halloween....

 

[Mikoyan]

Yeah, Stanley Kubricks movies are great, 2001: A space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket etc.
And wasn't Halloween made by John Carpenter?

 

[scorch]

who the **** are all those names?

 

[DaEezT]

Quentin Tarantino & John Carpenter

never knew what's so special about Stanley Kubrick anyway...

 

[amadeus]

You do have to like Carpenter, after all, he did "Escape From New York" and "Escape From L.A."

 

[Mikoyan]

Oh, damn! I forgot to list Ed Wood!

 

[Simon Darkshade]

A few are really up there in the pantheon, but out of those, Bergman would be my personal favourite. Lots of other names though. Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Antonioni, DeMille- surely one of these or someone else makes it in over a horror movie director, but there is a big pro-Western bias in judging directors (not a huge pro Western bias, otherwise the best ever would be Sergio Leone and Eastwood )

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Ridley Scott

 

[DaEezT]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
You do have to like Carpenter, after all, he did "Escape From New York" and "Escape From L.A."

sry but Escape From L.A. is crap

 

[animepornstar]

ed wood

i like kurosawa best. i mean, has anyone seen a better action movie than seven samurai?

 

[Mikoyan]

Hey! Plan 9 from outer space is one of the funniest films i ever saw!

 

[duke o' york]

I think that the work of the Coen brothers is excellent: Raising Arizona is their worst and it's still not a bad film. I don't understand the appeal of Tarantino. He has a post-modern viewpoint that allows him to get away with blatantly plagiarising other films just because he makes it really obvious and pandering. If he was such a good director and writer then shouldn't he be able to come up with his own way of doing things, rather than leeching off the system that bred him? He has seen a lot of films and simply recycles them in each of his releases. If this is the future of filmmaking then we will have to settle down and revisit the old classics.

PS - whoever mentioned DeMille as a potential inclusion on the above list obviously hasn't seen enough of his terrible films. He blew huge budgets on massive set-piece scenes that exposed the rest of his films for what they were - average and dull.