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Anybody else a fan of Robert Zemeckis?
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stretch009 said:
Anybody else a fan of Robert Zemeckis?
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^Should have been bolded and/or italicized for extra emphasis.
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Handman said:
stretch009 said:
Anybody else a fan of Robert Zemeckis?
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Handman said:
Handman said:
stretch009 said:
Anybody else used to be a fan of Robert Zemeckis?
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^Well Flight was pretty good. The Walk has potential. Lets forget about the mo-cap stuff. He's done some great films.
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Uwe Bol
The Person in Question
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moviefreakedmind said:
Uwe Bol
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Your-favourite-directors/post/749519/#TopicPost749519
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"Uwe Bol" sounds like the name of a particularly nasty disease one contracts from sitting on a contaminated toilet seat.
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You get this disease by sitting on a cinema seat and watching a contaminated screen :P
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I think most of the directors I love are hit and miss, so I will also list the films I love the most from them.
John Ford - The Searchers, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Wagon Master, The Wings of Eagles,
Sergio Leone - The Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West
Steven Spielberg - Duel, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters, Temple of Doom, E.T.
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo, Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window, Psycho, North By Northwest, Notorious
Ridley Scott - Alien, Blade Runner
Jonathan Demme - Citizen's Band, Melvin and Howard, Silence of the Lambs
Martin Scorsese - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver
George Lucas - American Graffiti, Star Wars, THX-1138
Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Producers, History of the World Part 1
Miloš Forman - Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Tim Burton - Big Fish, Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining
Robert Zemeckis - Back to the Future Part 1 and 2, Death Becomes Her, Cast Away
Walter Hill - Hard Times, Crossroads
The Coen Brothers - Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country For Old Men, True Grit
"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas
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Steven Spielberg, and my favorite 3 movies that he directed are Jaws, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Schindler's List.
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EyeShotFirst said:
I think most of the directors I love are hit and miss, so I will also list the films I love the most from them.
All directors are hit and miss.
Even Hitchcock made "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (twice, mediocre both times). Spielberg made Jurassic Park 2. Lucas made a couple bad ones later in his career too if I recall righ.
How many artists have more than a couple masterpieces in them? Especially in film, where even the strongest director is still making a collaborative piece of art.
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I'm watching the career of Cary Fukunaga with great interest.
Between his visionary 'Jane Eyre' (amazing to breath some life into that old chestnut) and "True Detective" I'm very into this dude's work.
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TheBoost said:
All directors are hit and miss.
Hmmm, interesting. There must be examples that aren't. Thinking cap on.
Edit: Christopher Nolan. Mind you he's relatively new and has plenty of years to come in his career where he can f**k it all up ;-)
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As far as I'm concerned, Nolan's fucked everything he's made up right from Day 1.
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DuracellEnergizer said:
As far as I'm concerned, Nolan's fucked everything he's made up right from Day 1.
So you agree he's an example of not being "hit and miss" then ;-)
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Werner Herzog is the best there is
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DuracellEnergizer said:
As far as I'm concerned, Nolan's fucked everything he's made up right from Day 1.
Wait, you have an extreme distaste for someone's work?
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I think Nolan is a perfect example of hit-and-miss.
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Nanner Split said:
Werner Herzog is the best there is
Did he direct Back to the Future? No? Then go to hell.
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TV's Frink said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
As far as I'm concerned, Nolan's fucked everything he's made up right from Day 1.
Wait, you have an extreme distaste for someone's work?
If it's any consolation, I think The Prestige is decent (though overlong), and I really liked Memento until the underwhelming ending.
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TV's Frink said:
Nanner Split said:
Werner Herzog is the best there is
Did he direct Back to the Future? No? Then go to hell.
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stretch009 said:
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"Oh, by the way, Frink was being sarcastic."
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Lol.
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Nolan may be my favorite director working today. Somehow he is able to make action movies that give me something to think about and at the say time the pull aways for the PG13 rating feel like an artistic choice not one brought on my censorship, I know they are not but when I watch the movies he fools me into thinking they are. His movies also make me laugh and feel grim while usually leaving the viewer with a sense of hope with out copping out. That is so rare these days, I look forward to his next movie whatever it is.
I also like the fact that he and his brother have come out and said that they make movies about real world problems that they don't have the answers to. So many film makers only make movies about problems they think they have the answers to so the films feel preachy and have straw men set up for other points of view. Compared to other popular films Nolan films and Person of Interest steer clear of this. Not to say it doesn't happen but it doesn't happen to a degree where I want to throw something at the screen.
He has a very clear directing style and while his action scene are full of energy I can always tell what is happening in them and he does capture the feel of real world locations.
He will never win an Oscar because his films are too popular and are mostly built on suspense and action but I am okay with that.
If I had to compare him to one classic film maker it would be Hitchcock. Not because I think he is as good as Hitchcock but because he does bring an artist's touch to films that normally don't get that type of treatment.