Movies: Greatest director of all-time

[the valiant effort]

Another honourable mention to Bobcat for God Bless America

 

[x Tame Impala]

Watch more movies.


Amistad and The Color Purple are both competently made but by the wrong director - discussion for another time though.

Respect Spielberg but the only point was there is no objective answer to this, and acting like there is just shows ignorance.

Wow well discussion over and banned forever

 

[Felidae]

No director has made more unique, riveting, thought provoking and mind boggling films than..























M. Night Shyamalan! Bet you didn't see that one coming..

 

[Neil Racki]

What about the ginger?

I know hes ginger but dang .. yall take hair color hate to far!

He did f***ing Willow ffs.

 

[Oneiro]

I'd have to go with Scorsese or Bergman.

On some level, the guys winning the poll - Kubrick, Hitchcock and Spielberg - are kids playing with their toys in service of storytelling.

I feel like Scorsese and Bergman had much better scripts with much more gravity and an adult view of things and their mastery of technique is far more subtle and natural.

 

[Bowski]

Hook was a great kid’s movie, what’re you talking about?

I was a kid. The movie was weird, and a disappointment financially. Nobody at school gave a damn.
It combined some of the wort of the 90s, overacting cringy Robin Williams, a cast of diverse kids in neon, Julia Roberts, and other rubbish. Hoffman was pretty good though.

The 90s Peter Pan & the Pirates cartoon was so much cooler. That intro...

 

[Shareefruck]

Never been all that won over by the Spielberg thing, personally. The things that I kind of recognize as Spielberg-isms (tendency to shoehorn a certain brand of sentimentality) tend to hurt the movies for me rather than make them better. Most of his "classics" just don't do it for me. Maybe you can look at technical talent and make me begrudgingly go "Okay fine" (although I don't care as much about that stuff if the films don't grab me), but that's about it.

 

[The Macho King]

Never been all that won over by the Spielberg thing, personally. The things that I kind of recognize as Spielberg-isms (tendency to shoehorn a certain brand of sentimentality) tend to hurt the movies for me rather than make them better. Most of his "classics" just don't do it for me. Maybe you can look at technical talent and make me begrudgingly go "Okay fine" (although I don't care as much about that stuff if the films don't grab me), but that's about it.

Wouldn't be my choice but I think making high-level enjoyable blockbusters while still being an auteur (and then his "serious" movies which I'm a bit lower on but again have mass appeal) is worthy of being in the discussion.

 

[castle]

If you can handle subtitles the works of Kurosawa and Bergman deserve a lot more love.

I've probably seen almost all of Kurosawa's films. Don't get fooled by the Samurai genre, they are great stories.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

If you can handle subtitles the works of Kurosawa and Bergman deserve a lot more love.

I've probably seen almost all of Kurosawa's films. Don't get fooled by the Samurai genre, they are great stories.

Discussing international directors, I wouldn't say Kurosawa and Bergman are anywhere near the shadows. They get plenty of love.