My Favorite Directors: Personal Rankings
Submitted by grandpa_chum on Sun, 01/02/2005 - 13:55
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First Tier
- Sergio Leone
- Sam Peckinpah
- Luis Bunuel
- George Romero
- Stanley Kubrick
Second Tier
- Sergio Sollima
- Woody Allen
- Sergio Corbucci
- John Milius
- Don Siegel
- Orson Welles
- Martin Scorsese
- John Ford
- Clint Eastwood
- Brian De Palma
- Igmar Bergman
- The Coen Brothers
- Quentin Tarantino
- David Lean
- Alfred Hitchcock
- John Huston
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Enzo Castellari
Third Tier
- Tobe Hooper
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Wes Anderson
- John Landis
- Elia Kazan
- Wes Craven
- Charlie Chaplin
- Sidney Lumet
- Rob Zombie
Fourth Tier
- Steven Spielberg
- John Carpenter
- Steven Soderbergh
- John Sturges
- Victor Fleming
- Cameron Crowe
- Spike Lee
Fifth Tier
- David Lynch
- Joe Dante
- Delmer Daves
- Christopher Nolan
- Michael Ritchie
- Zach Braff
- Oliver Stone
- The Farrelly Brothers
Author Comments:
First Tier= head and shoulders above the rest, flawless direction, flawless record, at worst have made the best of bad ideas
Second Tier= flawless direction, a mistake here or there, could not always make the best of bad ideas
Third Tier= nearly flawless direction, a mistake here or there, bad ideas are bad ideas, directoral flaws scattered among films
Fourth Tier= flawed but usually wonderful direction, a downright awful movie here or there, either cling to bad ideas or fumble occasionally with goldmines
Fifth Tier= flawed but occasionally wonderful direction, either make nearly as many awful movies as great ones or I have not seen enough for them to prove themselves(braff and lynch only apply to the latter)
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i really dislike Martin Scorsese's movies. ok i liked Goodfellas quite a bit and Taxi Driver also good. but the others i just don't like, too boring. not enough style / not doing anything different.
Raging bull is my least favourite movie ever. i hate every 60hrs of it...or at least it seemed.
how you can say that raging bull does not have "enough style" is beyond me... but boring i can see... specially since "slow" doesn't seem to be the style of movie you tend to like(not meant to be condescending, i hate when people do that)... Slow just happens to be the style i like.
have you seen the color of money? I can't see why anyone could hate that movie, or the hustler for that matter, but thats not scorsese.
And i see your point, i tend to get in arguments with scorsese superfans... because he has made a lot of movies i dislike as well, he would be much higher than 7th if he had made 5 or 6 less movies... same deal with spielberg... they both really know how to shit some stinkers.
i don't mid slow, as long as it has characters i can connect with. i like a wide range of moives, i never like to diss a movie untill i have seen it. i like dramas like Midnight cowboy but can equally enjoy whacky comedies such As Dodgeball / Anchorman. but Raginig Bull didnt grab my attention at all, and it's very rare that i dont like a movie..its even more rare that i hate a movie, raging bull falls in the latter. no i haven't seen the color of money i'll put it on my queue, whats it like?
well... its a 20 years later sequel to the hustler and it's basically a pool movie where cruise shows off while newman tries to teach him how to hustle... until finally they get into a whole battle over who is better.
what was so special about Garden State-it was ok and all but the hype for that fucking movie is through the roof-it's no where as good as Lost in Translation or All about or any Woody Allen Movie-its dramticaly unsound and only works in a few scenes
To be honest it is hard to explain... but I agree that for the most part dramatically it didn't work for me... but it's just so well directed prior to the drama taking center stage that I still love it... it's even sort of a modern day surrealism attempt... a damn good one at that.