Rank a Director's Filmography

[melonhead4]

Fincher
1. Seven
2. Zodiac
3. Fight Club
4. The Game
5. Social Network
6. Gone Girl
7. Alien 3
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10. Panic Room

QT
1. The Hateful Eight
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Django
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Death Proof
6. Inglorious Bast
7. Jackie Brown
8. Kill Bill 1
9. Kill Bill 2

[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.

[melonhead4]

Burton
1. Sleepy Hollow
2. Batman
3. Ed Wood
4. Big Fish
5. Beetlejuice
6. Mars Attacks
7. Batman Returns
8. Charlie and Choco Factory
9. Beetlejuice
10. Alice
11. Edward Scissorhands
12. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
13.Sweeney Todd
14.Planet of the Apes
15. Corpse Bride

[melonhead4]

Our Fincher rankings are nearly identical, melonhead, though I'd shuffle most things up or down by just a slot.

Our QT rankings would look completely different. Curious why you put Kill Bill so low?

I don't like the idea of a female playing the main protagonist/hero in any movie. So I basically didn't like the movie before I actually saw it.. Stupid I know

[melonhead4]

Our Fincher rankings are nearly identical, melonhead, though I'd shuffle most things up or down by just a slot.

Our QT rankings would look completely different. Curious why you put Kill Bill so low?

You didn't like The Hateful Eight? I thought it was ridic good

[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]

Curious why you put Kill Bill so low?

Because it's terrible.

[epilogue]

Our Fincher rankings are nearly identical, melonhead, though I'd shuffle most things up or down by just a slot.

Our QT rankings would look completely different. Curious why you put Kill Bill so low?

I don't like the idea of a female playing the main protagonist/hero in any movie. So I basically didn't like the movie before I actually saw it.. Stupid I know

Oh....

[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]

1. Fight Club
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Seven
4. Zodiac
5. The Social Network
6. Panic Room
7. Gone Girl
8. Alien 3
9. The Game

[hlniv]

1. Django
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Kill Bill Vol 2
5. Kill Bill Vol 1
6. (True Romance)
7. Reservoir Dogs
8. Death Proof
9. (From Dusk till Dawn)
10. Jackie Brown
11. The Hateful Eight

Damn, they're all good

[hlniv]

1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. The Game
5. The Social Network
6. Zodiac
7. (Madonna - Express Yourself)
8. Gone Girl
9. Alien 3
10. Panic Room
11. Benjamin Button
.

[melonhead4]

Our Fincher rankings are nearly identical, melonhead, though I'd shuffle most things up or down by just a slot.

Our QT rankings would look completely different. Curious why you put Kill Bill so low?

You didn't like The Hateful Eight? I thought it was ridic good

I posted a review somewhere on RM, but basically i enjoyed the first 3/5 very much. Once Sam Jackson told the blowjob story, and the violence ensued, I thought it went to shit. And I felt the violence towards Jennifer Jason Leigh shifted from comically fun to gratuitous and misogynistic. I have similar problems with Django. In his earlier films, the bad guys were still likable, because at least they had some sort of code of honor (Keitel in Reservoir Dogs, basically everyone in Pulp Fiction). His bad guys in Django and Hateful 8 are just despicable cartoon characters.

I get where youre coming from but you also have to look at the time period the story took place in. The old west was filled with despicable characters and violence was a part of life. Same goes for the violence against women, women who committed crimes in 1600-1900 were subject to horrifying punishment i.e. Salem Witch Trials. I thought the movie was very entertaining, yes the Sam L monologue about the Generals son was over the top but otherwise it had great characters, it had suspense and almost a horror like feel. It reminded me of the movie The Thing

[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.

[melonhead4]

1. Django
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Kill Bill Vol 2
5. Kill Bill Vol 1
6. (True Romance)
7. Reservoir Dogs
8. Death Proof
9. (From Dusk till Dawn)
10. Jackie Brown
11. The Hateful Eight

Damn, they're all good

oh now were adding True Romance and Dusk til Dawn to QTs resume? That changes things

[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.

[melonhead4]

Our Fincher rankings are nearly identical, melonhead, though I'd shuffle most things up or down by just a slot.

Our QT rankings would look completely different. Curious why you put Kill Bill so low?

You didn't like The Hateful Eight? I thought it was ridic good

I posted a review somewhere on RM, but basically i enjoyed the first 3/5 very much. Once Sam Jackson told the blowjob story, and the violence ensued, I thought it went to shit. And I felt the violence towards Jennifer Jason Leigh shifted from comically fun to gratuitous and misogynistic. I have similar problems with Django. In his earlier films, the bad guys were still likable, because at least they had some sort of code of honor (Keitel in Reservoir Dogs, basically everyone in Pulp Fiction). His bad guys in Django and Hateful 8 are just despicable cartoon characters.

I get where youre coming from but you also have to look at the time period the story took place in. The old west was filled with despicable characters and violence was a part of life. Same goes for the violence against women, women who committed crimes in 1600-1900 were subject to horrifying punishment i.e. Salem Witch Trials. I thought the movie was very entertaining, yes the Sam L monologue about the Generals son was over the top but otherwise it had great characters, it had suspense and almost a horror like feel. It reminded me of the movie The Thing

It's a great point you make, and had he softened the violence towards JJL I would probably complain that it wasn't honest storytelling. But I still don't enjoy seeing women get brutally abused. Django is similar -- everything he showed was probably more accurate that lots of other slavery movies, but it made me feel awful to see it, because I get the sense that Tarantino is exploiting those truths rather than presenting them in a more objective light.

Agreed and his constant use of the N word in his scripts needs to stop. I get Django was about the slaves but its almost like he wrote in so many times in the scripts because he likes the sound of the word. Even with Pulp Fiction the Dead N storage bit, he repeated that word like 8 times. Whatever hes a brilliant director I cant wait to see what he does next

[melonhead4]

Mann
1. Public Enemies
2. Heat
3. Manhunter
4. Collateral
5. The Insider
6. The Last of the Mochigans
7. Thief
8. Miami Vice
9. Ali
10. The Keep
11. Blackhat

[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]

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