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Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:11 pm
by LoathedVermin72
#1 of all time, one name only, no equivocation. Who is it?

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:15 pm
by The Argonaut
Jim Jarmusch is not the greatest director of all time, but goddamnit he is my favorite

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:17 pm
by tree_
according to chatgpt, there is no objectively best director of all time, but my favorite is PTA

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:24 pm
by Jorge
I have always struggled with this question. Maybe the Coens? But only when they're working together

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:33 pm
by 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

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:35 pm
by BurtReynolds
Oh I can't decide!

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:42 pm
by LoathedVermin72
please respect thread integrity

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:52 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Jorge wrote: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.

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 5:55 pm
by BurtReynolds
Jim Henson

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 8:10 pm
by Dev
I have never enjoyed a Spielberg movie. I find them torturous. Just way too obvious.

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 8:12 pm
by Dev
PTA and Jarmusch are a mixed bag. Both have masterful films but also films that do nothing for me.

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 8:16 pm
by LoathedVermin72
just answer the question dev

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 8:17 pm
by Dev
I honestly have like 6-10 tied for first.

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 8:20 pm
by Jorge
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Jorge wrote: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

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 8:21 pm
by 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

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 8:24 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Dev wrote:I honestly have like 6-10 tied for first.
coward

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 9:10 pm
by 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?

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 10:55 pm
by The Argonaut
which one?

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 11:05 pm
by Ello Sailor
Woody.

Re: Who's Your Favorite Director?

Posted: Tue February 17, 2026 11:08 pm
by LoathedVermin72
You know it's not Woody!!!