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Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 8:08 pm
by Mickey
This thread is called "Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies." I like Clint Eastwood a lot when he's on his game but he is absolutely not "consistently excellent" by any stretch of the imagination.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 8:14 pm
by Anders
True, like I said as well, it doesn’t even remotely fit Clint. But if we’re honest it hardly fits anyone else either.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 8:45 pm
by VinylGuy
Scorsese is the obvious response
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 9:05 pm
by Jorge
Philippe Lesage fits this for me but he's only made 3 proper movies. Shouldn't count
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 9:09 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Korine.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 9:19 pm
by Anders
Basically the thread says that whoever fits the description, their worst movie is excellent (or worst couple of movies). Doesn’t matter what or how good their best movies are.
So the question for Scorcese as for any other, is what is Scorcese’s worst movie, and is it excellent?
I find that he has been involved as a director in 40 feature films. A few of them are compilations, and a few are minor documentaries. Removing those, I am left with 33 movies, out of which I have seen 24 (plus a couple of the compilation movies).
Of the ones I haven’t seen, Boxcar Bertha and New York, New York seems worst rated.
Of the ones I have seen, all are at least three star movies. That’s pretty good. I enjoyed the lesser rated movies Bringing Out The Dead and Who’s That Knocking On My Door, more than beloved movies like Cape Fear and After Hours, that were not big hits for me.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 10:34 pm
by bart
Most of his stuff between Bringing Out the Dead and The Departed is boring and Shutter Island is terrible.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 11:26 pm
by Jorge
After Hours is excellent
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Sun October 02, 2022 11:57 pm
by BurtReynolds
I just don't want people to be upset with me if I choose the wrong director again.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 12:11 am
by Malloy
Jorge wrote:After Hours is excellent
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 12:12 am
by Ello Sailor
BurtReynolds wrote:Clint Eastwood
BurtReynolds wrote:Tarantino has a few misses under his belt.
Today on "is Burt trolling us or is he really this [redacted]"
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 12:20 am
by BurtReynolds
Death Proof sucks
Django mostly sucks
Jackie Brown and Inglorious Basterds are just ok
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 12:25 am
by Ello Sailor
BurtReynolds wrote:Django mostly sucks
Jackie Brown and Inglorious Basterds are just ok
lol
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 12:30 am
by BurtReynolds
The only good thing about Django is Leo.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 12:34 am
by Ello Sailor
Condolences on the... well, everything.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 12:52 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 12:53 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 1:09 am
by Ello Sailor
I will concede that
Death Proof kind of sucks. I had forgotten it even existed. Clint fucking Eastwood, though.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 1:10 am
by Ello Sailor
Oh and Christoph Waltz rules in Django.
Re: Directors Who Only Make Consistently Excellent Movies
Posted: Mon October 03, 2022 1:11 am
by tragabigzanda
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.