Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Peter Jackson, Coen Brothers.

NumberNineDream: David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Emir Kusturica, Oliver Stone, Terry Gilliam, Michel Gondry, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Quentin Tarentino

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Pedro Almodovar yet...:|

Michel Gondry hands down.

dollarsandcents: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Woody Allen, Sergio Leone, Alfonso Cuaron, Joel & Ethan Coen, Hayao Miyazaki, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Walter Salles and Paul Thomas Anderson.

In no particular order.

i like the guy ... but he tends to repeat himself ...

he's my 12th favorite ... after Tim Burton lol [we only have 10 slots]

The Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Martin Scorcese, David Cronenberg, David Fincher. Yeah, I love me some Davids. ;)

I feel sad at the lack of Richard Linklater. Easily my favorite director. Almost every film he makes(With the exception of School of Rock, which was still a fun and enjoyable film imo) is incredibly intellectual and awesome. Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Waking life, A Scanner Darkly. All are masterpieces.

I've just read through and unless I've missed him, I've not seen Steven Spielberg!

How's that possible?

Probably noone wants to mention him on the precaution that they'd seem to mainstream.

Not mentioning the most obvious one.

E.T and Shindlers list were both shit anyway.

And Saving Private Ryan was very overrated.

Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Peter Jackson, Coen Brothers.

I liked yours, except for Baz Luhrmann. Don't quite get that one.

Coen Brothers and Burton are great though.

Yeah not many people get the Baz Luhrmann one. I just like how he tries to recapture romanticism in such exaggerated and extravagant ways. He's a bit lame, but I've pretty much enjoyed every film he's directed in some way.

And I think most of Spielberg's films are overrated to be honest.

No offense, but I personally think Baz Luhrmann is a worthy candidate for worst director to ever get any kind of critical acclaim, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with style over substance, but goddamn, is this guy's editor an ADD afflicted chimpanzee? Moulin Rouge had the most excessive use of cutaway I've ever seen. I usually love abrasiveness in film but this guy takes it way way waaaaaaay too far.

I just can't stand his work aside from Romeo + Juliet which was decent. Strictly Ballroom and Moulin Rouge were just incredibly hammy and overbearing.

Great call on Burton, Coens and Jackson though. :thumb:

Booooooooooooooo. Hisssssssssssssssssssssss.

It's weird, but I usually enjoy the 'making of' more than the film itself. Spielberg's ingenuity on the set is brilliant.

Why did I only see Tim mentioned in the top ten of people twice? This makes me a sad bunnie.=*(

Well, not everyone is into the gothic style.

I've heard some cynicism about his upcoming Alice movie and that he's becoming a parody of himself, but these people can shove it, I admit Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter was a predictable choice (gee Tim, Depp is great and all, but you don't have to cast him in ALL of your movies) but this is Alice in Wonderland, the kind of subject matter Burton was born to do, so yet again I look forward to seeing his next film.

Yeah, I'm aware that he can get a little annoying. And oddly enough he doesn't really get that much critical acclaim here at all. A lot of his techniques are not my style but I can appreciate him for what he sets out to do and I admire that. And you're entirely correct when you say his films are 'hammy' because they are - they are theatrically exaggerated but in a very self-conscious way. And I know you can try to talk up bad directors but saying "Oh, but he means to do that" but in Baz Luhrmann's case he really does mean to. I found Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge really great. I love the whole theatre motif. Don't even talk to me about Australia, though... *shudder*

CanwllCorfe: Coen Brothers, Martin Scorcese, Mark Romanek, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino

To be honest, I haven't really paid that much attention to the directors of movies, like I probably should...so at the moment the only person I have that comes to mind is Peter Jackson.

This post makes all posts I will ever see of you moot.....

Have you ever seen a war movie before Saving Private Ryan? Spielberg changed the war movie genre...

Cadrian: Ridley Scott, Kevin Smith, Steven Spielberg, John Woo, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Coen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino and Akira Kurosawa

I guess thats my list..... I really want and need it to be longer
Runners Up I guess, but really I just thought about after I came up with my first ten.
Luc Besson
Ji-woon Kim
Clint Eastwood
Werner Herzog
Tony Scott
Jon Favreau
I think my list could keep going and I know I missing some people that should be there.... I hate making list because I am always so undecided.

Yes I have, and I suppose it's the best war film going. Maybe it's just the genre I don't like. The opening scene was brilliantly done, and it had it's moments but I dunno, some people think of it as the best film ever made and I just think it's way overrated. :confused:

Each to their own though.

I consider Saving Private Ryan to be the definitive war film, it's an amazing movie, but I can understand the criticisms of it resorting to patriotism and simplifying the Nazis as the bad guys, but I stand by the (not too irrational) belief that some Nazis were, you know, total c*nts and thus there is nothing wrong with depicting that in film, I'm tired of every little thing in a movie being interpreted as a propagonda message when the filmmakers probably didn't even think twice about it.

Spielberg probably did think about it though, because he probably hates Nazis, and uh, why in the hell wouldn't he?

^ What you said didn't really make sense. All war movies, if not all movies, are made with a propagandistic thought underneath it. They're either with the war, or against it obviously.

Hm, I don't have ten, but here goes:

Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitch****, Spike Jonze, David Lynch, and Kaneto Shindo.

^ Lynch is in your top 5!
*Cyber Five*

I will happily accept that five and cherish it.

Actually, I was gonna address that most war movies take a stance one way or another but I forgot.

However not ALL of them too, I think it's possible to make an objective war film, but I don't think there's a need, IMO movies are a subjective experience, directors shouldn't have to approach what they do with objectivity. Quality is helped by having some historical and scientific accuracy, but it's not always a terrible sin if these things are avoided for the sake of telling a more compelling story.

:D @ 333

If a movie was to be objective, it'll be boring and pointless. So yeah, they can do it, but they won't.

Well I haven't seen either of them so I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I always that was Apocalypse Now.

Well, more often than not I don't really think of Apocalypse Now as a war movie, it's more like a personal journey, and it's very surreal and dreamlike, unlike any war movie you'll ever see.

Updated. :D

It's an "anti-war" War movie. And it's pretty much the greatest war movie ever made.

O'rly?

Ya, rly.

Pfft.... Its a not a War Movie Per-say... Like Boo was saying its more like a Personal Journey that takes place in a War Zone. I would put it in a War movie category but I wouldn't pull it out to show a good war movie. I feel like a War Movie should be from a Soldiers perspective or a civilian trying to survive in a war zone it seemed the main character was more like a CIA agent or something.

I Mean its a damn good movie.... I get really get irritated when someone says Deer Hunter is the best War movie ever. They need to be shot. Good Movie but not really a true War Film.

The Best war movie ever made really isnt a movie in my Opinon its the Band of Brothers Series.

As for Brutality in a war movie... The Russian Come and See is a whole different perspective of WWII

Apocalypse Now is from a soldier's perspective. He's just a different kind of soldier than the bog standard Hollywood hero we're used to.

Whatever man.... I can tell I am not going to change your mind.

Good Movie but far from the example of the best war film.

It's certainly a better candidate for the title than Saving Private Ryan.

Saving Private Ryan is a far better war movie then Apocalypse now.

Thats retarded.... Why.... You a Spielberg hater? You find me a vetinam vet that will say the war was just like Apocalypse now..... A better Vietnam movie would be Platoon or Hamburger Hill.

You can find tons of a WWII vets to say Spielberg got it right. That should say it is a better war film. Sure the story of guys having to go get one guy because his brothers are dead is a little far between but the objectives they had besides that with the action and tactics used seem to fit the bill.

Like I said SPR changed the war movie genre.


Now if you want to say Apocalypse Now is a better movie then SPR maybe Your right.... But not a better War Movie.

No. Spielberg only got it right from America's point of view. And no, I'm not a Spielberg hater, I just happen to think that Apocalypse Now is a better war movie than Saving Private Ryan.