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Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 7:36 pm
by Mickey
Memento
The Prestige
Inception
Interstellar
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Begins
Haven't seen:
Dunkirk
Tenet
Insomnia
The Following
Real downhill after the top slot.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 7:45 pm
by Dev
BurtReynolds wrote:The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Brazil
12 Monkeys
The Fisher King
Tideland
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Time Bandits
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Brothers Grimm
Jabberwocky
Not counting the Monty Python stuff and I haven't seen The Zero Theorem
I liked Zero Theorem a lot.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 7:49 pm
by epilogue
VinylGuy wrote:The Dark Knight
Interstellar
Inception
Memento
Batman Begins
Dunkirk
The Prestige
Insomnia
The Dark Knight Rises
Tenet
Havent seen The Following, and damn this is an impressive list.
Haven't seen Tenet, but:
Memento
The Prestige
The Dark Knight
Inception
Insomnia
Batman Begins
Following
Dunkirk
The Dark Knight Rises
Interstellar
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 7:51 pm
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: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 7:53 pm
by Mickey
Far and away his best film, no question.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 8:02 pm
by BurtReynolds
He's the most hit-or-miss director I can think of. Going into his movies I have no idea if I'll love them or hate them.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 8:03 pm
by BurtReynolds
Ello Sailor wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:garbage:
Inception
Bruh
I said what I said.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 8:06 pm
by The Argonaut
My issue with Nolan is that he both hits spectacularly and misses spectacularly in the same movie. The net result is that a lot of his stuff leaves me feeling like it was "fine". But for such an ambitious movie to swing hard and settle on "fine" feels like a real failure
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 8:09 pm
by Mickey
BurtReynolds wrote:He's the most hit-or-miss director I can think of. Going into his movies I have no idea if I'll love them or hate them.
I would argue that this is because he's a bad director, or at least he's become one.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 8:16 pm
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: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 8:29 pm
by Ello Sailor
Absolutely loved Memento, Interstellar, Inception and The Prestige. The Batmans were okay. I still need to see Insomnia, Dunkirk and Tenet.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 8:33 pm
by VinylGuy
i mean, even at its worst, there is nobody working at his scope. He is truly amazing.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 14, 2020 8:56 pm
by Mickey
VinylGuy wrote:i mean, even at its worst, there is nobody working at his scope. He is truly amazing.
What do you mean by this? Because I'm not sure it's true.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 8:04 pm
by Mickey
Children of Men
Y Tu Mamá También
Roma
The Harry Potter movie
Gravity
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 9:13 pm
by VinylGuy
Mickey wrote:VinylGuy wrote:i mean, even at its worst, there is nobody working at his scope. He is truly amazing.
What do you mean by this? Because I'm not sure it's true.
His films are huge. He is shooting on Imax with huge crews, the biggest stars...Action sequences, locations, everything is top notch.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 9:56 pm
by Mickey
VinylGuy wrote:Mickey wrote:VinylGuy wrote:i mean, even at its worst, there is nobody working at his scope. He is truly amazing.
What do you mean by this? Because I'm not sure it's true.
His films are huge. He is shooting on Imax with huge crews, the biggest stars...Action sequences, locations, everything is top notch.
I don't disagree with that, I just don't think he's the only one, which means I'm not going spot him as many points for bad movies.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 7:28 pm
by digster
In terms of being able to produce and open original movies on that scale, I'm not sure there's all that many besides him; and I'm not saying that as a good or bad thing, I'm just saying besides someone like Spielberg or James Cameron, I'm not sure there's many directors who can say "here's an idea I came up with, I'll need $200 million and a July 4th release," and basically get carte blanche approval. That may not happen anymore because of how Tenet came out, but it was that way for a while.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 7:31 pm
by digster
Having just watched Mank....
Social Network
Zodiac
Seven
Fight Club
Mank
Gone Girl
The Game
Panic Room
Alien 3
Have yet to see Benjamin Button and the Dragon Tattoo.
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 9:48 pm
by epilogue
digster wrote:Having just watched Mank....
Social Network
Zodiac
Seven
Fight Club
Mank
Gone Girl
The Game
Panic Room
Alien 3
Have yet to see Benjamin Button and the Dragon Tattoo.
Haven't seen Mank yet. Or Dragon Tattoo still. But...
Fight Club
Zodiac
Seven
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Social Network
Alien 3
Panic Room
Gone Girl
The Game
Re: Rank a Director's Filmography
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 9:50 pm
by BurtReynolds
I didn't even know that he directed Benjamin Button until about two weeks ago. I guess I should watch it.