Best Director thread

[Mehmsy]

Also--Terry Gilliam.

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[Captain_Spanky]

Quoting Bryn from 09:28, 6th Jan 2007

Quoting iohannes from 01:19, 6th Jan 2007

Quoting Bryn from 10:19, 4th Jan 2007
Bit of a crap choice. Why is Sam Raimi on there?

Because he directed the Evil fucking Dead. And if it wasn't for Sam Raimi there would be no Bruce Campbell films. Philistine.

Uh.. right. Cause "the Evil fucking Dead" is such a masterpiece of film-making.

I'm sorry but one cult classic does not a good director make.

3 cult classics. Each wildly different in tone and style, showing a growth in directorial ability. Pioneering new techniques, constantly trying new things to better himself. Someone thought he was a good director because, as you say, he was more of a cult figure until Spider Man. Like Peter Jackson someone saw enough ability in his early work to trust him with a massive mainstream franchise.

Christ Evil Dead 2 alone is a fucking technical text book. So many different techniques and styles in there. And it has the best montage ever.

Although my favourite directors are David Lynch and John Carpenter.

(Oh did anyone else see that Twin Peaks series 2 is FINALLY being released on DVD on April 10!)

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[Bryn]

Quoting Captain_Spanky from 17:26, 8th Jan 2007(Oh did anyone else see that Twin Peaks series 2 is FINALLY being released on DVD on April 10!)

REALLY?? LEGEND!!!

[novium]

yeah, but he's made a lot of the fun films. And for the right kind of light hearted entertainment, he's great.

Quoting MrGreedy from 15:23, 4th Jan 2007
BTW, anyone who voted for Spielberg - take a look at his filmography and have a rethink. The last half decent film he did was almost a decade ago, and there's an awful lot of other dross on that list that I'd forgotten about too (Hook anyone?).

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[MrGreedy]

Quoting novium from 20:43, 9th Jan 2007
yeah, but he's made a lot of the fun films. And for the right kind of light hearted entertainment, he's great.

I think, perchance, you may have confused light hearted entertainment with mawkish, plodding dross that thinks it's far cleverer than it is. On the other hand, maybe we're just getting bogged down in semantics

[Grandpa]

Speilberg???

He's shite.

Sticks to formula-type directing.

And is over rated.

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