Rank a Director's Filmography

[LoathedVermin72]

I feel like I've done all these rankings but I'm tempted to do them again

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[LoathedVermin72]

I feel like I've done all these rankings but I'm tempted to do them again

You're welcome to do it, but your insight to the rankings could be uniquely beneficial.

I like the idea of movies with female protagonists

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I feel like I've done all these rankings but I'm tempted to do them again

You're welcome to do it, but your insight to the rankings could be uniquely beneficial.

I like the idea of movies with female protagonists

oh then have i got the movie for you, it is called "Into the Woods".

[parasolmonster]

Nolan
1. Interstellar
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. The Dark Knight
4. Batman Begins
5. Inception
6. Memento
7. The Prestige
8. Insomnia
9. Following

Anderson
1. The Royal Tennenbaums
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Rushmore
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Bottle Rocket
7. Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
8. The Darjeeling Limited

Wright
1. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. Hot Fuzz
4. World's End

[epilogue]

Whoa whoa whoa we're all just moving past the objection to movies about women? What the fuck, melonhead?

I'm certainly not.

[bada]

I typically find myself preferring action movies with female protagonists. The stakes seem higher. They get hit it hurts. Stallone gets hit and its "uggggggggghhhhhhhhh that all ya got?". Not that I don't love macho action flicks but I find myself worried for a character like Ripley in a way I'm not for Rambo. Her victory feels more earned. Maybe my feelings are a type of sexism. That girls aren't supposed to beat guys or whatever so when they do its more cathartic. I need to check my privilege.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[epilogue]

Moonrise Kingdom
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Royal Tennenbaums
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket
Life Aquatic

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[epilogue]

Scorsese
Taxi Driver
The Last Temptation of Christ

Raging Bull
The Aviator
Gangs of New York

Cape Fear
Bringing Out the Dead
The Departed
Goodfellas

Shutter Island

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[epilogue]

Ridley Scott
Alien
Blade Runner
Kingdom of Heaven
Legend

Prometheus
The Martian

Black Hawk Down
Hannibal
G.I. Jane

Gladiator

[Strat]

Gladiator at the bottom? really? Are you just doing this to poke at LV?

[epilogue]

Whoa! How could you put Goodfellas near the bottom? What's your problem with that film?

And Shutter Island... I spent the entire movie thinking "How is this the same guy who did Taxi Driver?"

Shutter Island is probably one of the worst films by a "major" director that I've ever seen. Nothing about it works.

Goodfellas is similar, except a few things work. But mostly it's just a tired, boring, slog. It's hamfisted and visually uninteresting. There are good scenes and a couple of fine performances. Ultimately, it doesn't engage me in any meaningful way:it enlighten or ask any good/new questions, nor does it provoke, nor does it entertain. It's a flaccid film by a mostly overrated director.

[epilogue]

Gladiator at the bottom? really? Are you just doing this to poke at Loathed " I have the worst taste in everything" Vermin?

No, I genuinely hate that movie.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[epilogue]

Goodfellas is similar, except a few things work. But mostly it's just a tired, boring, slog. It's hamfisted and visually uninteresting. There are good scenes and a couple of fine performances. Ultimately, it doesn't engage me in any meaningful way:it enlighten or ask any good/new questions, nor does it provoke, nor does it entertain. It's a flaccid film by a mostly overrated director.

Wow. I respect your opinion, but I do not understand it at all. I find Goodfellas to be immensely entertaining.

I just wanted that fucking thing to be over.