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02-11-2015 12:17AM

Azalea wrote: »

I think Fight Club is hugely over-rated too, but not Se7en.

Yeah, I never really cared for Fight Club, but I think Se7en is a fantastic movie.

Rothko · 02-11-2015 12:19AM

Deleted User wrote: »

He is great...but could take or leave Gangs of New York. And even the Departed...though maybe it was Nicholson's overacting that put me off.

Gangs Of New York is my least favourite film of his. I don't think it's particularly or anything, just not up to his usual standard.

02-11-2015 12:20AM

Azalea wrote: »

I think Fight Club is hugely over-rated too, but not Se7en.

I must watch it again. It may have suffered IMO as it came out within a few years of Silence of the Lambs and think I thought of it as trying to piggyback on the whole detective/horror crossover thing. There were a few of them in the 90s, Kiss the Girls, Copycat etc.

Canadel · 02-11-2015 12:27AM

My favourite Fincher film is The Social Network, though I think that has a lot to do with the sublime script written by Aaron Sorkin.

eviltwin · 02-11-2015 12:30AM

John waters, John Hughes and Guillermo del Toro

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 12:34AM

the Coen brothers

so many great films

Rothko · 02-11-2015 12:49AM

Not mentioned here yet but Charlie Chaplin has to be one of the greatest directors/filmmakers ever.

MadDog76 · 02-11-2015 12:50AM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

The guy who made Battleship Pumpkin.

Yeah, that guy!

Sergei Eisenstein

efb · 02-11-2015 12:52AM

Tarantino
Nolan
Fincher
Hogan

efb · 02-11-2015 12:53AM

Azalea wrote: »

I think Fight Club is hugely over-rated too, but not Se7en.

I liked Se7en, I loved Fight Club

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 01:01AM

Suas11 wrote: »

Not mentioned here yet but Charlie Chaplin has to be one of the greatest directors/filmmakers ever.

of the silent era maybe

redrums · 02-11-2015 01:05AM

Michael Bay man is a genius

For Forks Sake · 02-11-2015 01:06AM

redrums wrote: »

Michael Bay man is a genius

No-one else can spend in excess of $100m blowing stuff up quite like him to be fair....

AllGunsBlazing · 02-11-2015 01:18AM

Kubrick. His films were always visually stunning. But the performances of actors under him could be bit cold, or emotionally detached. Jack Nicholson and Peter Sellers being the exceptions.

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 01:21AM

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Kubrick. His films were always visually stunning. But the performances of actors under him could be bit cold, or emotionally detached. Jack Nicholson and Peter Sellers being the exceptions.

and George C Scott, great actor

Billy86 · 02-11-2015 01:31AM

Maybe the Coens. They had a bit of a dip in the early/mid 2000's, but outside of that their work is almost always fantastic. They also have a very individual 'feel' to their films, without essentially repeating the same film over and over - I've always thought that is pretty important to good directors. Their 80s/90s stuff especially is nothing short of brilliant.

Darren Aronofsky is another great one.

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 01:36AM

if the Coens keep going for the next 10 or 15 years, and can keep the quality just as high then they will have the best catalog of great films ever

even now its hard to think of a director with so many great films

Billy86 · 02-11-2015 02:10AM

nokia69 wrote: »

and George C Scott, great actor

Probably bullsh*t, but there is a fair bit of talk that he played that role in Dr. Strangelove straight not knowing it was supposed to be satirical. I wouldn't really buy into it though, in no small part because there is no way Peter Sellers in the title role could/would have thought similar.

Also Kubrick was apparently interrogated by the CIA (I think it was) because they were perplexed and very suspicious about just how accurate the war room was, along with several other details. I'm not sure if anyone can get close to Kubrick's obsessive attention to and eye for detail.

Billy86 · 02-11-2015 02:14AM

nokia69 wrote: »

if the Coens keep going for the next 10 or 15 years, and can keep the quality just as high then they will have the best catalog of great films ever

even now its hard to think of a director with so many great films

I'm assuming you've seen it going by your post, but it amazes me how under-the-radar Miller's Crossing is and was. One of the best gangster films ever, or certainly of the modern (1970s and onwards) era. John Turturro in the woods and Albert Finney's "walk down the street" after getting woken up in the night have to be two of the most memorable scenes of any film I've ever seen.

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 02:16AM

AFAIK Dr Stranglove started off as a serious film, so yeah maybe Scott signed on thinking it was 100% serious, its only after filming started that it got changed to comedy/satire

I suppose its possible he didn't know, they all play the parts very straight, which is one of the things that make it so hilarious

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 02:23AM

Billy86 wrote: »

I'm assuming you've seen it going by your post, but it amazes me how under-the-radar Miller's Crossing is and was. One of the best gangster films ever, or certainly of the modern (1970s and onwards) era. John Turturro in the woods and Albert Finney's "walk down the street" after getting woken up in the night have to be two of the most memorable scenes of any film I've ever seen.

I have seen it, and I agree its great film

with the Coens you really need to watch their films twice, you miss so much the first time, Millers Crossing is a very good example, there is more going on than some people see

I remember the first time I saw the Big Lebowski, only thought it was OK, saw it the second time and thought it was amazing

if you are a big Coen brothers fan, buy the book Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen, any Coen fan will love it, its hilarious

The Backwards Man · 02-11-2015 02:25AM

John Huston for me. A man that made films instead of shooting them. Got his oulfella and his wee girl an Oscar each too, you don't get family to work that well for you without being special.

Honourable mentions to John Ford and (sober) Sam Peckinpah

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 02:27AM

Wibbs wrote: »

Probably David Lean for me. Howard Hawks another. Fellini and Kubrick would be others. Too many to list as a favourite TBH.

the Lighthouse in Dublin are showing some of his films next week, I might go to see Lawrence of Arabia, excellent film, should look great on the big screen

Billy86 · 02-11-2015 02:42AM

nokia69 wrote: »

I have seen it, and I agree its great film

with the Coens you really need to watch their films twice, you miss so much the first time, Millers Crossing is a very good example, there is more going on than some people see

I remember the first time I saw the Big Lebowski, only thought it was OK, saw it the second time and thought it was amazing

if you are a big Coen brothers fan, buy the book Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen, any Coen fan will love it, its hilarious

Cheers, that'll be going on the to-read list.

I've probably seen TBL over 30 times, it came out when I was about 12 and the auld fella bought it shortly after. Probably the first time I really got into an offbeat movie like that, and could not stop watching it over and over. The Jackie Treehorn drawing (NSFW!) still makes me piss myself for no good reason.

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 02:59AM

Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, the whole conversation between the Dude and Jackie is brilliant

People forget that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone

on you maybe

and of course the classic line

Yeah well, I still jerk off manually.

for me so far, the most underrated Coen brothers film is the Hudsucker proxy

all hail the Hud

Azalea · 02-11-2015 03:08AM

I'm one of those weirdos who's not pushed about Lebowski, but I absolutely adore Hudsucker!

NachoBusiness · 02-11-2015 03:15AM

If it was based on the the director with the most films that end up in your Top 50 films of all time, and I guess it should be really, then it would be Scorsese for me also.

Second would the have to be John Hughes though for:

1984 Sixteen Candles
1985 The Breakfast Club
1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 Planes, Trains & Automobiles
1988 She's Having a Baby
1989 Uncle Buck
1991 Curly Sue

Oliver Stone is another who has made some great films (wrote Scarface too):

1986 Platoon
1987 Wallstreet
1989 Born on the Fourth of July
1991 The Doors

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 03:22AM

yeah Hughes made some fantastic films

walked away from Hollywood in the end to spend more time with his family, I always respected that, died to young unfortunately, only 59

Billy86 · 02-11-2015 03:27AM

nokia69 wrote: »

for me so far, the most underrated Coen brothers film is the Hudsucker proxy

all hail the Hud

The Hudsucker? Isn't that... y'know, for kids!

Might be my third favourite after Big Lebowski and Miller's Crossing, actually.

nokia69 · 02-11-2015 03:31AM

Azalea wrote: »

I'm one of those weirdos who's not pushed about Lebowski, but I absolutely adore Hudsucker!

there are some people who don't like it, Kermode is not really a fan, but he did watch it a second time and admit that it was a better film than he thought at first

almost every time I watch the Big Lebowski, I notice something that I missed the last time

the first Coen brothers film I saw was Raising Arizona back in the 80s, I must have been about 9 or 10 and it made me laugh like crazy, the next time I saw it, I was maybe 16 and it was even better, because I got all the jokes that went over my head the first time

on the top of their game, no one beats the Coens

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