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George Lucas
I'm being unfair -- I think Jaleel White's masterful turn as Myrtle Urkel was also an inspiration for Stone and Newton's creation of the Rice character.
George Lucas
skulls!
It's Coen.
And now you must die, infidel.
I agree that Michael Bay can't be overrated when most people know he sucks.
Oliver Stone is wildley inconsistent. However I though JFK was a masterpiece.
But but but how did I forget the undisputed Most Overrated Director of All Time????
Brian De Palma.
He can only make a good film when he has someone like Mamet writing the script for him.
Steven Spielbergo.
the reviews are coming in for basterds, and they're not good:
http://jezebel.com/5262686/inglourio...ing-to-critics
i'm sure knowles will say otherwise.
I think that DePalma is a sometimes interesting mimic of much better directors. His best movie was probably Casualties of War, which might have been a more noted movie had not the folks he ripped off already made better Vietnam movies.
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Couldn't agree more. I really wish they would both just fall off a cliff.
it's true. Her performance was so bad that if Thandie Newton did that performance as an impersonation on Saturday Night Live, people would have called it genius.
Bad Boys was good. Transformers was on a shingle.
IN MY OPINION.
Even though I am a hardcore Star Wars dork (and I do mean hardcore), I have to agree. The 2 best Star Wars movies in my opinion are The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi. Neither of those were directed by George.
American Graffiti was an excellent movie in my opinion. But that was many many years ago.
I thought his best movie was The Untouchables. But that was because the script and actors dominated the film. Yeah, De Palma had a bunch of directoral flourishes, but aside from the ripoff of Potemkin (one of the few times where his homages actually worked), I didn't notice his usual aping.
I thought a few of the actors should have been reined in a bit in The Untouchables, and there was enough Hitch ripoff camerawork to keep it from being his top work -- not that I didn't like the movie.
I thought CoW was the closest thing to truly being a Brian DePalma film. He must have thought the same thing, since he ended up ripping off himself by making Redacted.
I love DePalmas work on The Untouchables and especially Casualties of War, actually I have said on this board many times that Casualties of War is one of the most underrated films of all time.
I love that movie so damn much, and I wished to see Michael J Fox do another great drama like that.
Yep, that's what the people say that overrate him.
What? He's one of the greatest Directors of all time.
Kundun was great. Taxi Driver and Goodfellas were very good. Not worthy of being in the "greatest directors of all time" conversation.
Aliens and The Abyss (director's cut) were great. anic was an impressive feat to pull off, particularly considering that everyone ridiculed him for spending so much time and money on it. He's kind of like Shyamalan in that his directorial ability is tied to the strength of whatever it is he's written.
I never had an issue with Stone until he said in an interview (I'm paraphrasing here), "I've never made a bad movie. If anyone said any of my movies were bad, they just didn't understand it."
what about tim burton? He's my favourite director, but i often hear he's overrated.
On top of that, Lucas only directed 6 movies, 4 of them were in the Star Wars franchise (new hope, and the prequels, american graffitti, and thx 1138).
Lucas is mainly a producer and writer.
Tarantino and I think Spielberg is a bit overrated too.
It's the single most laugh-out-loud-awful performance I've ever seen.
She's been terrible in every role she's had. I don't know how she still gets work.
Rodriguez is pretty awesome. I loved From Dusk til Dawn, The Faculty, and most of Sin City, and Planet Terror had much better pacing than Deathproof (even if Deathproof had an awesome 10 minutes or so) and was more enjoyable overall.
Ron Howard deserves to be on any list just for the way he portrayed Max Baer in Cinderella Man.
Possibly, but his top movies are pretty damn good.
Empire of the Sun
Schindler's List
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
The Color Purple
And his next tier of efforts isn't too shabby.
Jaws
Close Encounters
ET
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
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