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For modern filmmakers, I think Alex Garland and Justin Lin could have gotten nods.
Garland has been writing great stuff for awhile (28 Days Later was his script) and directed Ex Machina and Annihilation, two of my favorite movies in recent years.
Lin has become the Fast and Furious guy, but those movies are awesome, and his debut, Better Luck Tomorrow, is an indie classic. His Star Trek was better than JJ's second, at least, although I like JJ's first Trek a ton. I have no doubt his Oldboy remake would have crushed Spike Lee's. Not sure there's a director whose work has fallen off as much as Lee's in history.
I'm also excited to see what Sam Levinson does going forward. Assassination Nation was amazing and people love Euphoria.
And obviously I'm buying as much Eggers stock as possible, but can't vote for him over Cameron yet.
i think Unbreakable is a little overrated. Signs is great, Sixth sense is definitely good. would not call that an "elite" 3 film run though compared to many of the other directors we have on here.
and after that its two decades of mid, or bottom of the barrel levels of bad.
Pretty much agree that Unbreakable is overrated (like QT saying it's his favorite of the last twenty years or whatever) but I still think it's really good and that Signs and Sixth Sense are two of the best scary movies of their time.
And I kinda give some leeway for the down aspects of someone's career, so I'm just ignoring the worst stuff. Could be a studio thing or whatever.
M Night's a weird one because I think he's a very good visual storyteller but isn't good at eliciting good performances, at least following those three. Wouldn't mind him being left off but not mad that he's on there.
To me there is no way the GOAT isn't Kubrick, at least among these choices. More than half of his films are masterpieces, with the other half all being pretty great. Eyes Wide Shut only gets better with age. I mean brackets are fun sure, but a more interesting topic of discussion would be "Kubrick is the GOAT, change my mind" and then stating why your filmmaker of choice is more worthy than the guy who made the greatest political satire ever, the greatest scifi film ever, the greatest horror film ever, and the greatest war film ever.
I'm not blaming the studio for M Knight's shortcomings, it's just one example of a thing that could get in the way, and I'm more apt to look at someone's highs than their lows. M Knight has made some trash, but he's made some great movies, and those movies still exist, while I simply do not watch the Last Airbender.
Post by Pepe Silvia on Aug 3, 2021 23:36:17 GMT -5
yeah im gonna try and do the same. like i'll obviously be thinking about the lotr trilogy much more than the hobbit trilogy when voting for peter jackson. but with lows THAT low, i can't not bring it up.
East: #1 Steven Spielberg vs #16 Ryan Coogler #8 Mel Brooks vs #9 John Carpenter #2 Francis Ford Coppola vs #15 Jean-Luc Godard #7 Clint Eastwood vs #10 Ron Howard #3 Ridley Scott vs #14 Ang Lee #6 David Lynch vs #11 Richard Linklater (this sucks, figure Linklater will get less love so I'm going with him) #4 Spike Lee vs #13 Alfonso Cuaron #5 Woody Allen vs #12 Mel Gibson
West: #1 Alfred Hitchcock vs #16 Sidney Lumet (brutal seeding for Lumet) #8 Darren Aronofsky vs #9 Paul Thomas Anderson (I like Aronofsky a lot but this doesn't seem close, especially over the last fifteen years or so) #2 Coen Brothers vs #15 Nora Ephron #7 Sam Mendes vs #10 Guy Ritchie #3 Frank Capra vs #14 Michael Mann #6 Peter Jackson vs #11 Robert Zemeckis #4 James Cameron vs #13 Robert Eggers #5 Bong Joon-Ho vs #12 Rob Reiner
North: #1 Martin Scorsese #16 Denis Villeneuve #8 M. Night Shyamalan vs #9 Charlie Kaufman #2 Stanley Kubrick vs #15 John Singleton #7 John Hughes vs #10 Roman Polanski #3 Kathryn Bigelow vs #14 JJ Abrams #6 David Fincher vs #11 Terrence Malick #4 Wes Anderson vs #13 Jane Campion #5 Steven Soderbergh vs #12 Kevin Smith
South: #1 Quentin Tarantino #16 Barry Jenkins #8 Zach Snyder vs #9 Greta Gerwig #2 Christopher Nolan vs #15 Ari Aster #7 Sofia Coppola vs #10 Penny Marshall #3 Tim Burton vs #14 Jordon Peele #6 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu vs #11 Orson Wells #4 Guillermo del Toro vs #13 Chloe Zhao #5 Oliver Stone vs #12 George Lucas
Hardest for me was voting Godard over Coppola. Apocalypse Now is in my top 10, maybe top 5 all time and The Godfather is The Godfather of course, but Coppola has quite a few stinkers too. Godard's run from 1959 to 1970ish is full of masterworks.