Who are your 3 favorite genre filmmakers?

[Hitman]

Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and James Cameron.

 

[trekjiro]

1) George Lucas (The best movies of all-time)
Best effects, best characters, stories, and visionary to me.

2) Steven Spielberg (The most amazing range of movies ever made)
Catch me if you can....is one of his best. Also Minority Report, AI,....not just all the Big-action movies

3) .....................

The third one, thats very tough for me. I'll have to come back later.
Morph Cameron, Scott, and Kubrick. Maybe Kubrick cause he pretty much is a director's director as Spielberg said himself. He influenced so many and had an artistic vision. The movies themselves....Cameron and Scott
have made more that i've liked. Flip a coin. Chris Nolan is already
creeping up that list. Speaking of list...nice one Barbados.

 

[stj]

I don't know how people know this stuff about uncredited rewrites. But the point to drop Fancher (sorry for misspelling but Benjamin Button's been in the news a lot lately.)

Instead, H.G. Wells. Just caught his The Man Who Could Work Miracles from Netflix. Ironically, it was put out by Cheezy Films!

 

[Harvey]

I don't know how people know this stuff about uncredited rewrites.

Huh? Who mentioned uncredited re-writes? Peoples is a credited screenwriter on Blade Runner, and the order of writers on that project is well documented in the documentary that accompanies the DVD.

 

[stj]

My visual memory for print is usually pretty good, but plainly not infallible. My conjecture is I remembered Fancher because he also was a producer.
While we're on Blade Runner, let me put in a plug for a widely forgotten creator of the movie, visual futurist Syd Mead.

 

[trekjiro]

While we're on Blade Runner, let me put in a plug for a widely forgotten creator of the movie, visual futurist Syd Mead.

Blade Runner is my Batman II movie.
The movie everyone has raved about but i haven't
seen it yet (BatmanII). Looking forward to that.
I wonder how Bladerunner would've turned out if Scott did it now. There would definitely be sequels.

 

[Harvey]

My visual memory for print is usually pretty good, but plainly not infallible. My conjecture is I remembered Fancher because he also was a producer.
While we're on Blade Runner, let me put in a plug for a widely forgotten creator of the movie, visual futurist Syd Mead.

Has Syd Mead truly been forgotten? If it is so, it is a great tragedy of film history. The man's creative genius designing so many aspects of Blade Runner is the key component that elevates the film above other, similar narratives.

It's a true shame that he hasn't been able to be involved with other, equally worthy projects since. Is IMDB truly correct in its information that he has been relegated to designing the masks for the third Mission Impossible movie (and somehow not been tapped for Abrams new Trek movie, no less)?

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

My top 3 favorites are:
Tim Burton
John Carpenter
George Lucas

and some other that I really like:
Steven Speilberg (E.T., Close Encounters, Jaws, Indiana Jones)
Richard Donner (Superman, The Omen, Ladyhawke, The Goonies, Scrooged)
James Whale (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man)
Peter Jackson (The Frighteners, Lord of the Rings, King Kong)

 

[sidious618]

Lucas, Lynch and Kubrick with Nolan a very close fourth.