Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies

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Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies

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Who are they? Name them here.
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The Coen Brothers
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Stanley Kubrick
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Anders wrote:Stanley Kubrick
good call

I haven't seen all of his films, not by a long shot... but of what I have seen, I totally agree.
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If we’re counting every single movie they’ve made, I doubt any directors meet this criteria. Even the Coens have a few middling movies.
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Yeah, if we're sticking to the strict definition of "consistently" then I agree. Even the Coens have missed.

But that's not as much fun.
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Tarantino. In my book, no misses, other than calling Unstoppable one of the 10 best movies of the last decade.
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Ensign9 wrote:Tarantino. In my book, no misses, other than calling Unstoppable one of the 10 best movies of the last decade.
welp... it was a good run :peace:
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Gareth Edwards is the only one I can think of but he’s only made three movies.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Gareth Edwards is the only one I can think of but he’s only made three movies.
Does he get credit for Rogue One?
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tragabigzanda wrote:Ugh Michael Mann is soooo close except for boring fucking Public Enemies
yeah, agree....i have to think about this one.
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Ensign9 wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Gareth Edwards is the only one I can think of but he’s only made three movies.
Does he get credit for Rogue One?
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VinylGuy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ugh Michael Mann is soooo close except for boring fucking Public Enemies
yeah, agree....i have to think about this one.
Mann also made The Keep (bad)
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VinylGuy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ugh Michael Mann is soooo close except for boring fucking Public Enemies
yeah, agree....i have to think about this one.
Manhunter disqualifies Mann with prejudice.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ugh Michael Mann is soooo close except for boring fucking Public Enemies
yeah, agree....i have to think about this one.
Manhunter disqualifies Mann with prejudice.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ugh Michael Mann is soooo close except for boring fucking Public Enemies
yeah, agree....i have to think about this one.
Manhunter disqualifies Mann with prejudice.
FUCK YOU
Heat and Collateral are also pretty not-excellent.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ugh Michael Mann is soooo close except for boring fucking Public Enemies
yeah, agree....i have to think about this one.
Manhunter disqualifies Mann with prejudice.
FUCK YOU
Heat and Collateral are also pretty not-excellent.
Literally the worst opinion I’ve ever heard
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tragabigzanda wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ugh Michael Mann is soooo close except for boring fucking Public Enemies
yeah, agree....i have to think about this one.
Mann also made The Keep (bad)
Id give him a pass on that for being his first flick, a genre movie, blah blah blah. I think it succeeds as a movie given the constraints.
The Keep was his third movie, please get your shit together
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