Greatest American Film Director

[TheZackAttack!]

kubrick's is far more impressive.

lol, really

[leemajors]

lol, really

and if you're talking worldwide directors, you're way out of your element here. kurosawa wipes the floor with spielberg.

[TheZackAttack!]

Munich > Eyes Wide Shut

[TheZackAttack!]

and if you're talking worldwide directors, you're way out of your element here. kurosawa wipes the floor with spielberg.

Im talking about the directors in the poll, but I do admit I don't know who Kurosawa is.

[Findog]

where's michael bay on this list?

[L.I.T]

Im talking about the directors in the poll, but I do admit I don't know who Kurosawa is.

And Kubrick still wipes the floor with Spielberg. If you don't know Kurosawa you don't know movies.

[L.I.T]

i would say that the more money jackson gets, the more his movies suffer. i really liked the two towers, but wasn't terribly impressed with return of the king or king kong. they were very nice looking movies though. i happen to prefer bad taste to either.

I agree, The Two Towers was actually my favorite of the three. In King Kong's fatal flaw was the fact that he wrote it and was way to close (emotionally) to the source material.

[Findog]

btw Spielberg sucks. Not because he doesn't have talent, but what he does with it. Schindler's List aside, he just can't make a dark movie. See Minority Report - paints himself into a narrative corner where a happy ending just isn't possible or realistic, and then he pulls one out of his ass anyway.

It's been a long time since Indiana Jones.

[leemajors]

And Kubrick still wipes the floor with Spielberg. If you don't know Kurosawa you don't know movies.

i'm still waiting on my drunken angel criterion to come out.

[L.I.T]

i'm still waiting on my drunken angel criterion to come out.

I would actually line up for a criterion treatment of Drunken Angel. Camp-out with the little coolers and everything for that movie.

I have the Seven Samurai one, but haven't been able to pick up Ran yet. Damn Criterion and their perfect releases. Damn them!

[leemajors]

i have all of them but the Ran, i think.

[monosylab1k]

Anybody else a big David Gordon Green fan? If you like Malick you probably like Green as well.

[monosylab1k]

I sure the "woodden" performances were intentional.

A wooden performance is never intentional.

What's that saying about leading a horse to water? That's how this is going. We can show you all the evidence but there's no point because you're seeing this through Fanboy-colored glasses.

In the long run, Lucas did a tremendous amount of good for the popcorn movie, but didn't contribute anything at all to the artistic side of filmmaking.

[atxrocker]

uh.. alright i've not voted yet. not read much of the thread. i do agree however that spielberg is entirely overrated, though i was impressed with his effort on A.I. (which i always thought was underrated actually)

[J.T.]

I voted Tarantino.

Had Kevin Smith been on the list I would have voted him.

[leemajors]

I voted Tarantino.

Had Kevin Smith been on the list I would have voted him.

wow. that's terrible.

[O-Factor]

I voted Tarantino.

Had Kevin Smith been on the list I would have voted him.

WTF,Kevin Smith! Jeez.

[Spurminator]

uh.. alright i've not voted yet. not read much of the thread. i do agree however that spielberg is entirely overrated, though i was impressed with his effort on A.I. (which i always thought was underrated actually)

I don't think he's overrated anymore... There seems to be a backlash against him by movie enthusiasts because of his past overratedness. I look at his resume, and while there are some absolute stinkers he's still made a dozen GREAT movies IMO. Some of them (like Jurassic Park and Raiders) are popcorn action flicks, but they're great for what they are and I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with making a movie for strictly entertainment value.

Remember, we're talking about directors not writers.

[monosylab1k]

I must say, whether it's the script writers he chooses or if he's making changes himself, Spielberg is getting notorious for making a great movie but pulling a ty, cop-out ending out of his ass. His endings tend to have some Deux Ex Machina and then always go out on a weak, sentimental, happy note. And he's getting worse with age (see War Of The Worlds, where conveniently at the 2 hour or so mark, amoebas magically kill the out of the aliens, his son magically reappears at home after walking into a massacre, and the movie is over)

even his best movie IMO, Saving Private Ryan, had a cop-out ending - everything is going to until out of nowhere the "angels on our shoulders" appear even though extra support wasn't even supposed to be coming.

[ShoogarBear]

If we're going to talk about overrated, the list begins with Tarantino.

[monosylab1k]

If we're going to talk about overrated, the list begins with Tarantino.

I still like Tarantino, but his legion of ty copycats are unbearable.

[leemajors]

If we're going to talk about overrated, the list begins with Tarantino.

here here.

[monosylab1k]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse....cgi?u=episode3
the genius of George Lucas spelled out here.

[leemajors]

i actually overcame my dislike of jar jar, and embraced him as the best character in the new movies. he got screwed in ep III.

[monosylab1k]

yeah by the time Ep III came around Anakin got so ing annoying that I was praying for some Jar Jar.