Poll: Best Director Is ???

[Mrburns2007]

Who is the best or at least your favorite ?

 

[GasX]

pretty pathetic selection...

 

[AaronP]

David Lean

 

[kcklla]

<< pretty pathetic selection... >>



I second that

 

[ZeroEffect]

Robert Rodriguez

Luc Besson

 

[Shy]

Go other!!!!

-Shy

 

[konichiwa]

<< James Cameron
Steven Speilburg
George Lucas
Stanley Kubrick
other >>

Uhh...other.

 

[JesusCow]

tarantino

 

[pulse8]

<< pretty pathetic selection... >>



I wouldn't say pathetic. They are good directors. The list is rather small and narrow, though.

 

[GasX]

James Cameron is not a good director
Spielberg is too full of himself
Lucas is not an artist he is a marketing executive
Kubrick was great but not for everyone

I stand by the pathetic comment

 

[pulse8]

It's your opinion. But would you care to give some valid reasons as to why these directors aren't good? (Except for Lucas. He's not really a director.) They all have established themselves in a difficult industry and I wonder what makes you think they are not good.

 

[Parrotheader]

Ditto on the narrow selection. I don't care much for most of Cameron's movies and Kubrick is just too weird for my personal tastes most of the time. I like a lot of Spielberg's stuff, but I always tend to think of him more as a producer. Ditto for Lucas. And if you're only going to talk about 'big' names why not throw in a classic like Hitchcock?

 

[Buddhist]

Hitchcock
Kurosawa
Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist)

 

[somethingwitty]

I think you have some great names on the list, but the list is too short. of course &quot;other&quot; is going to win out when you only offer four choices

 

[Mrburns2007]

I was going add a bunch more directors but got a phone call. Anyways just post your others that you like or think are the best.

 

[thereds]

PT anderson!

 

[Rebes]

John Frankenheimer

 

[pulse8]

Well, the Coen Brothers are my favorite directors. As for the best, there can't be one. It's entertainment so ultimately it's subjective. You can figure a best director by their technical and story-telling abilities or their impact in the industry, but overall, there is no best.

 

[GasX]

<< It's your opinion. But would you care to give some valid reasons as to why these directors aren't good? (Except for Lucas. He's not really a director.) They all have established themselves in a difficult industry and I wonder what makes you think they are not good. >>



I'll rephrase in order for you to see &quot;valid&quot; reasons.

Cameron made Titanic - this automatically removes him from the list.
Lucas makes movies solely to sell marketing rights to Burger King
Spielberg is a great director, but he is too self-important for my tastes.
Kubrick was a true artist

 

[somethingwitty]

<< Spielberg is a great director, but he is too self-important for my tastes. >>



I wrote a report on him in HS, and never found anything along those lines...all my research pointed to a nice guy who is always willing to offer his time. his movies tend to have similar themes (lost boys, triumph over adversity, etc).

do you have any links to articles about him that I may have overlooked? just curious, what is the basis for this opinion?

 

[AaronP]

Where's Joel Schumacher?

 

[j*sus]

I like Ridley Scott in a &quot;how I would do it&quot; contest.
He gets a certain mood in a picture that fits what I would go for if I had the talent ala Bladerunner, Alien, Thelma &amp; Louise and Gladiator.

Best 20th century pop culture director Speilberg. But Speilberg has terrific range from Jurrasic Park to Saving Private Ryan to Shindlers List.

Terry Gilliam has some of the more provoking Kafka-esque style movies with his Monty Python work and the movies, Baron Munchausen, Brazil, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Best American Urban style director. Sydney Lumet (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Twelve Angry Men, Long Days Journey into Night, The Verdict..etc..etc..)

Billy Wilder with Sunset Blvd, Stalag 17, The Seven Year itch, Sabrina, Some Like It Hot and Double Indemnity.

The Coen Bros with Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Millers Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy

Martin Scorsese, Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Ingmar Bergman, Howard Hawks, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lean, Sam Pekinpah, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski etc,,,etc,,,etc

I guess what I discovered making my comments is how many GOOD Directors there were/are and GREAT films we tend to forget about.

 

[TripleJ]

My vote is for Peter Weir, director of all these films.

 

[Dhruv]

don't know who is best, although i think spielberg is definitely up there. But i must say John Woo is definitely the worst big movie director.

 

[LAUST]

Tim Burton is a total Camera and Set Artist, he's my fav by far.