Who is the better director


Who is the better director  

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  1. 1. Who is the better director

    • Alfred Hitchcock
      18
    • Stanley Kubrick
      19
    • Steven Spielberg
      33
    • James Cameron
      6
    • Quinton Tarantino
      11


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yeah this list is a bit flawed - no scorsese or coppola

Tarantino deserves to be on the list but I wouldn't say he's the best. Personally I don't like speilburg's directing, but that's just me (obviously).

Kubrick gets my vote. Nobody's come close to his originality and ability.

(From that list) I might have chosen Quinton Tarantino, but no way after Kill Bill, so it would either be Stanley Kubrick or James Cameron (who lost points for Titanic).

My favourite director is David Lynch and then Alex Proyas (just for The Crow and Dark City. I have yet to see his other work)

(From that list) I might have chosen Quinton Tarantino, but no way after Kill Bill, so it would either be Stanley Kubrick or James Cameron (who lost points for Titanic).

My favourite director is David Lynch and then Alex Proyas (just for The Crow and Dark City. I have yet to see his other work)

the start of dark city is sooooooooooooooo confusing lol :D :D

On this list, Kubrick without even thinking about it

  • Dr. Strangelove
  • The Shining
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • 2001: A Space Oddysey
  • Full Metal Jacket

Just to name a few...

By far the most "versatile, stylistic" director out of the bunch.

Not even a contest

Steven Spielberg. Some of his movies

Alfred Hitchcock. Don't know enough about him or his movies.

Stanley Kubrick. He's good.

James Cameron Has some great movies, but also has as many that suck IMO. Need I say more than Titanic? :p

Quinton Tarantino. All of the movies I've seen from him rock, but he really doesn't have a long enough history.

For me and on the list, Steven Spielberg. Just brilliant.

Hitchcock was amazing, though I don't know about his voyeur fetish :p

Kubrick was great as well. His films were always off the wall. I love how he tried to do a film in each era without more than one (except his 2 war films)

James Cameron is an obvious genius of film. But Titanic...oh we're all allowed one bad film I guess.

Tarantino is too fresh a director to be put in this same category IMO.

There are also so many great directors that aren't on this list...but that's OK.

I had to do atleast 5, theres no one else with enough potential

no one else with enough potential?

where is:

-Akira Kurosawa (won an oscar for most inspiring director of all times, and all directors that are hugely aclaimed are inspired by him, like George Lucas,Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Copolla (if you see Bram Stoker's Dracula and Kagemusha you see the inspirations and Francis and George financed that movie with the condition that they could watch the master directing) and tons of other directors that remade or retold lots of films that he made)

-Yasujiro Ozu

-Ingmar Bergman

-Fritz Lang

-Sergio Leone

-Francis Ford Copolla

-Orson Welles

and more recent

-David Fincher

-Ridley Scott

-Darren Aronofsky

-Takashi Miike

-Takeshi Kitano

-Peter Jackson (and i am not putting him here for LOTR)

Speilberg does an excellent job of making all of his movies VERY different. Think about it: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, AI,

actualy AI is not realy a Spilberg movie, yes he directed it, but the movie was from Kubrick, he just died befor starting the movie, it was a shame, it would have been a lot better. But it's a very good movie as well as it is.

what is james cameron doing there TITANIC SUKKED spent 3 hours just to find out that the guy dies i demanded my money back

maybe you can replace him with john woo or sumthin :D

If you didn't like the movie that's fine, but I will never understand people who actually demand money back when they don't enjoy a film. If you can't deal with the risk of wasting $8 and 2/3 hours of your life, then going to the theater is YOUR gamble!

no one else with enough potential?

where is:

-Akira Kurosawa (won an oscar for most inspiring director of all times, and all directors that are hugely aclaimed are inspired by him, like George Lucas,Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Copolla (if you see Bram Stoker's Dracula and Kagemusha you see the inspirations and Francis and George financed that movie with the condition that they could watch the master directing) and tons of other directors that remade or retold lots of films that he made)

-Yasujiro Ozu

-Ingmar Bergman

-Fritz Lang

-Sergio Leone

-Francis Ford Copolla

-Orson Welles

and more recent

-David Fincher

-Ridley Scott

-Darren Aronofsky

-Takashi Miike

-Takeshi Kitano

-Peter Jackson (and i am not putting him here for LOTR)

You call George Lucas a director? LOL

Quentin Tarantino doesn't make enough movies, which is NOT a bad thing. But, when you're comparing against directors who have done 15-20-25 movies, there's no comparison.

I agree on Tony Scott, though. Him, combined with Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson have made some fantastic movies. My favorite would be Scorsese, though. "Casino", "Goodfellas", "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull"....no competition. :D

You call George Lucas a director? LOL

well yes, i call him a director.

THX 1138 and Star Wars where excelent movies

havent seen american grafiti

hes just adopting bad stratagies with the new star wars movies, hes becoming a publicist or something ,dont know how to say in english sorry.

His ideas of making star wars movies actualy are bad right now, he seems to just think about action figures,video games and ways of making money of of the fame from starwars intruducing bad things like jar jar, pod races that take too long and serve nothing, batles in factories that mean nothing to the plot just to show of CGI in excess and big evil ******s that can kill anyone with a blink of an eye but let themselfs get killed becouse they like to tease leting sparks falling on is enemy faces (yes i'm talking about Darth Maul).

But it's just the American way of doing things these days, think about how to make money and not how to make good products.

But you shouldnt have left Kurosawa out, thats whats killing me man.

I almost had an heart atack when i read no one else had potential to be in the list.

That's just wrong.....poor Kurosawa......i'm sad now :(

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