Michael Winterbottom?
― Zeno, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:30 (sixteen years ago)
Peter Jackson
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:31 (sixteen years ago)
Isn't Ang Lee the stock answer?
― chap, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:31 (sixteen years ago)
you're thinking of "who is the worst director"
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:32 (sixteen years ago)
verstaility isnt nessecary a bad thing, if youre a master like howard hawks for example
― Zeno, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:34 (sixteen years ago)
charles laughton
― velko, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:35 (sixteen years ago)
soderbergh?
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:36 (sixteen years ago)
ang lee and peter jackson are versatile more in content,less in style.Winterbottom is verstaile in both.
xpost
― Zeno, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:37 (sixteen years ago)
Is this living? Or ever?
― Alex in SF, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:38 (sixteen years ago)
ever.
― Zeno, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:38 (sixteen years ago)
Fukasaku (Battle rolale),maybe..or so they say...
― Zeno, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)
Kubrick probably then.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)
Royale
― Zeno, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)
Kurosawa
Altman
― Alex in SF, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
oh I thought this meant right now.
Kurosawa and Kubrick are both really good answers
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)
Fosse
― Alex in SF, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)
That the same guy made Lenny, All That Jazz and Star 80 still blows my mind.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:43 (sixteen years ago)
now you're just listing directors I love
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:43 (sixteen years ago)
Lang
Kurosawa is more versatile than Kubrick.though Kubrick directed lots of genres and stories, from Space Odyseey on - one can recognize his style quite easily.
― Zeno, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:44 (sixteen years ago)
Robert Wise
― Matt #2, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:44 (sixteen years ago)
Ozu lol
Oh please if you didn't know that the Killing, Lolita and 2001 were directed by the same guy you wouldn't guess they were.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)
The one who can make his own coffee.
― Aimless, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, thats why i said he films he made after 2001xpost
― Zeno, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)
paul w.s. anderson
― jveggra va pbqr (Lamp), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)
Philip Kaufman
― Alex in SF, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)
I didn't realize how crap Kaufman has gotten.
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am i the only one who read this as a gay joke
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)
Yes.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)
more like this thread is gay, a joke
― jveggra va pbqr (Lamp), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)
Ridley Scott is up there, for sure.
― Holy Cow Derail (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 17 August 2009 23:13 (sixteen years ago)
Wilder
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 06:25 (sixteen years ago)
Joel Schumacher. Dude's done a horror comedy (Lost Boys), a medical thriller (Flatliners), superhero movies (Batman), a transgender buddy movie (Flawless), a war movie (Tigerland), traditional Hollywood action (Bad Company), political drama/allegory (A Time to Kill, Falling Down), a Hitchcockian confined-space thriller (Phone Booth), even an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. If you didn't know it, it would be almost impossible to say all these are by the same director.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:02 (sixteen years ago)
Besides the ones already mentione, he also did 8MM, The Client, The Number 23, and St. Elmo's Fire - that's a pretty diverse resume. Unfortunately it's also diverse in quality.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:09 (sixteen years ago)
Not the most, but Soderbergh.
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:12 (sixteen years ago)
oops (sorry elmo)
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:13 (sixteen years ago)
I can't believe no-one has mentioned Hitchcock.
Romance, comedy, action, thriller, psychological thriller, spy, horror, etc.
If I could only watch one director for the rest of my life it would be him.
― tashadot, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)
Uwe Boll
― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:13 (sixteen years ago)
but Tuomas Shumacher's movies are horrible
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)
Not all of them. Flawless is great, Batman Returns and Phone Booth are better than what they're given credit for, and from I've heard Tigerland and Lost Boys are supposed to be pretty good too. He's made a lot of crappy movies, true, but there's some good stuff too.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:58 (sixteen years ago)
uh batman returns was directed by tim burton
― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:59 (sixteen years ago)
Tuomoas Schumaker.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)
Sorry, I meant Batman Forever.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)
Flemming
― repeating cycles of smoking and cruelty (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:10 (sixteen years ago)
"Sorry, I meant Batman Forever."
Is better than its given credit for? How low a threshold is that?
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)
I think people were disappointed with it because Schumacher chose the campy approach (popularized by the TV series) to Batman rather than the dark and serious approach, which was popular around that time (and apparently still is, judging by the success of The Dark Knight). But if you watch Batman Forever on its own terms, it's a lot of fun.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:28 (sixteen years ago)
I think people thought it sucked cuz it does, but whatever.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:32 (sixteen years ago)
the Tim Burton films were plenty campy.
― 123456789 (jim), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)
But just not horseshit like the Schumacher ones. Nipples on a batsuit.
I just realized Tuomas was talking about the DeNiro/Hoffman movie as being "great". Totally SB'd him for that bit of trolling.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)
Eh? You aren't supposed to like movies someone else doesn't like?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:36 (sixteen years ago)
another thread!!
― goole, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:37 (sixteen years ago)
where tuomas defends the schumacher batman!!
― goole, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:38 (sixteen years ago)
ice to see you!!
I thought the crime subplot in Flawless, but the rest of it was great. Hoffman's performance was top-notch, so bitchy and fragile, and his relationship with DeNiro was done nicely; you knew what was gonna happen, but never did it feel to obvious or syrupy.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:39 (sixteen years ago)
well you know you can never be incredibly wrong on enough threads, that is the finnish way xpost
― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:41 (sixteen years ago)
xp you've got a way to go before you can reach Armond White levels, Tuomas. Keep practicing!
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)
Who's Armand White?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)
oh stop it
― goole, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)
try spelling it correctly before you fucking google it xpost
― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:45 (sixteen years ago)
I had to google him, too, Tuomas.
― repeating cycles of smoking and cruelty (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)
steven allan spielberg KBE
― conrad, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:49 (sixteen years ago)
Hawks.
Tuomas, I had no idea why anyone ever mob-banned you until you brought up Joel Schumacher.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:16 (sixteen years ago)
chill out everybody!
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNaDZIrxh-0
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)
To be fair Mr. Freeze appeared in Batman and Robin not Batman Forever. They're both terrible however.
― Number None, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)
oh right Batman Forever is the one I actually sat through in the theater.
independent of any other factors, the movies LOOK fucking horrible. Physically painful to watch, all that shitty lighting
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)
It's not shitty, Shakey, it's versatile.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)
how many genres did roger corman direct?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)