Who's Your Favorite Director?

[LoathedVermin72]

#1 of all time, one name only, no equivocation. Who is it?

[The Argonaut]

Jim Jarmusch is not the greatest director of all time, but goddamnit he is my favorite

[tree_]

according to chatgpt, there is no objectively best director of all time, but my favorite is PTA

[Jorge]

I have always struggled with this question. Maybe the Coens? But only when they're working together

[Jorge]

For a while it was Godard (still consider him one of the GOATs but he made a good amount of crap), in my pretentious film school days it was Tarkovsky (still fond of his stuff but am almost never in the mood to watch them), sometimes I think it might be Scorsese but there's a lot of his movies that I admire more than love. Spielberg is obviously one of the greatest and I've fallen into the role in RM of resident Spielberg defender but I straight-up dislike maybe a third of his films

This is a lot of equivocation

[BurtReynolds]

Oh I can't decide!

[LoathedVermin72]

please respect thread integrity

[LoathedVermin72]

For a while it was Godard (still consider him one of the GOATs but he made a good amount of crap), in my pretentious film school days it was Tarkovsky (still fond of his stuff but am almost never in the mood to watch them), sometimes I think it might be Scorsese but there's a lot of his movies that I admire more than love. Spielberg is obviously one of the greatest and I've fallen into the role in RM of resident Spielberg defender but I straight-up dislike maybe a third of his films

This is a lot of equivocation

Curious which Spielberg films you dislike. He's my second favorite director and I would say these are the only films of his I think are bad:

Schindler's List
A.I.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Adventures of Tintin
The BFG
The Fabelmans

Also didn't like Lincoln when it came out but I suspect that would change if I watched it again.

[BurtReynolds]

Jim Henson

[Dev]

I have never enjoyed a Spielberg movie. I find them torturous. Just way too obvious.

[Dev]

PTA and Jarmusch are a mixed bag. Both have masterful films but also films that do nothing for me.

[LoathedVermin72]

just answer the question dev

[Dev]

I honestly have like 6-10 tied for first.

[Jorge]

For a while it was Godard (still consider him one of the GOATs but he made a good amount of crap), in my pretentious film school days it was Tarkovsky (still fond of his stuff but am almost never in the mood to watch them), sometimes I think it might be Scorsese but there's a lot of his movies that I admire more than love. Spielberg is obviously one of the greatest and I've fallen into the role in RM of resident Spielberg defender but I straight-up dislike maybe a third of his films

This is a lot of equivocation

Curious which Spielberg films you dislike. He's my second favorite director and I would say these are the only films of his I think are bad:

Schindler's List
A.I.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Adventures of Tintin
The BFG
The Fabelmans

Also didn't like Lincoln when it came out but I suspect that would change if I watched it again.

I like a bunch of those

My least favorite Spielberg movies are

Hook
Crystal Skull
The BFG
1941
The Lost World
Always
Ready Player One (outside of that sick race sequence)

Probably more I'm not remembering. I never watched Tin Tin

But I'm a Spielberg stan

[LoathedVermin72]

My only objections to that list are The Lost World and Always, both of which I adore.

Agreed on the RPO race sequence being sick

[LoathedVermin72]

I honestly have like 6-10 tied for first.

coward

[Ello Sailor]

Tarantino or Scorsese. Or PTA. Or the Coens. Or Nolan. It's pretty hard to choose.

LV, is that p*do j*w still your f*v?

[The Argonaut]

which one?

[Ello Sailor]

Woody.

[LoathedVermin72]

You know it's not Woody!!!