Who are your 3 favorite genre filmmakers?
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The Indy movies are Spielberg movies. What about THX 1138 and American Graffiti? Both excellent films.
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg
John Carpenter
Steven Spielberg
John Carpenter
Christopher Nolan, Bryan Singer and Darren Aronofsky.
MeanJoePhaser
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1. Paul Verhoeven - faltered by taking bad material and believing that Americans could handle harder sexual content.
2. Christopher Nolan - More for The Prestige than Batman
3. Zack Snyder - Both films I saw were good.
Some other mentions
1. George Miller (mad Max)
2. Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time, Star Trek 2 and 6)
2. Christopher Nolan - More for The Prestige than Batman
3. Zack Snyder - Both films I saw were good.
Some other mentions
1. George Miller (mad Max)
2. Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time, Star Trek 2 and 6)
I think most of us would strongly disagree with you about all 3 of those movies. I felt AI was a snoozefest that became a travesty with the coda Spielberg added onto the end of Kubrick's script. Minority report was utterly forgettable, and WOTW wasn't much better.
Spielberg
Jackson
Brad Bird
Jackson
Brad Bird
The Descent was Marshall's sophomore effort...
My list:
Speilberg, Cameron, George Romero.
Kinda surprised that nobody besides me has mentioned David Yates or Andrew Adamson. Yates surpassed Alfonso Cuaron as the director of the best HP film to date with OotP, and if the trailers for HBP are any indication, he's hit another one out of the park, and Adamson took C.S. Lewis' novels and turned them into films that are just as engaging as, if not moreso than, the novels, while still remaining true to them (the novels).
A.I. was over cooked and Minority Report lost sight of what it should be. War of the Worlds had some truly frightening imagery, but didn't amount to a hill of beans. And of course, all three of these had the typical, late career, ball-less Spielberg family values wussy bullshit endings.
Spielberg. Despite the disappointment of the last Indy movie, you can't take away the brilliance he has managed to sustain for over three decades.
James Cameron. Has been silent for over a decade, but on a good day, he's arguably the best action movie director out there.
Peter Jackson. Deserves the place for LOTR alone, even if he never makes another movie again.
Near misses (three is so limited!): Chris Nolan, Bryan Singer, Ridley Scott (even if he hasn't made a genre movie for some years), Tim Burton, Guillermo Del Toro, Sam Raimi.
James Cameron. Has been silent for over a decade, but on a good day, he's arguably the best action movie director out there.
Peter Jackson. Deserves the place for LOTR alone, even if he never makes another movie again.
Near misses (three is so limited!): Chris Nolan, Bryan Singer, Ridley Scott (even if he hasn't made a genre movie for some years), Tim Burton, Guillermo Del Toro, Sam Raimi.
Well, not to dislodge this topic, but.....
First, I believe A.I. is only a shmaltzy family-values ending under a very serious misinterpretation of that ending. The ending of that movie is, I believe, one of his darkest, if you carry the irony of the rest of the movie to its natural conclusion. Second, Minority Report, I think, earns its ending, given how ballsy and dark everything that came before was. And third, about War of the Worlds, that ending, with the survival of the wife and son, is completely unacceptable, and I agree with you completely. In any case, I think A.I. and Minority Report are 2 of the most imaginative, exciting, creative, and entertaining sci-fi movies of the last 20 years.
Minority Report is a good film, and it's so easy to re-cut it into a great one. Remove anything regarding the noir mystery of the fallibility of the Pre-Cogs, remove all the really horrible and ill advised attempts at humour/gross outs (rotten sandwiches and rolling eyeballs) and make the movie about a man facing his destiny to get revenge for the death of his son. He shoots Crow, he goes into the deep freeze, so to speak, end of movie. Brilliant. Separating the wheat from the chaff.
MeanJoePhaser
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Hampton Fancher, do you mean? I am the first person to slather Blade Runner with praise, but he hasn't been credited with anything of note (or much of anything) since, and was the middle-man on that production between P.K. Dick's novel and the final and extensive re-write by David Peoples.
I find a hard time choosing anyone beyond Charlie Kaufman, who is an excellent choice. [Most directors or screenwriters have one important work behind them (perhaps two), but does that make them noteworthy?]Haven't seen his directoral debut yet, but if it's half as creative as any of his previous work (even the shallow Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was worth seeing twice), it will be great.
I suppose I have to nominate David Cronenberg, since he was the director (and screenwriter) behind Naked Lunch, Videodrome, Scanners, and The Fly.
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