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Old 03-04-2009, 04:34 PM   #11 (permalink)
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You are the mod mate! It could maybe have more content. Maybe a couple of film reviews in the future or something?
Well this should be the thread for any movie director related discussion.
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Old 03-04-2009, 04:41 PM   #12 (permalink)
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yeah, i'm not really into movies.
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Old 03-04-2009, 05:07 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Janszoon: Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky, Wes Anderson, The Coens, Alex Proyas, David Fincher, John Carpenter, Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton, Brad Bird
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Janszoon: Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky, Wes Anderson, The Coens, Alex Proyas, David Fincher, John Carpenter, Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton, Brad Bird
I love Aronofsky and Proyas but I would like them to see more movies by them before I put them on a pedestal.
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Old 03-04-2009, 05:18 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Aronofsky is one of our most gifted modern directors that's for sure.
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I love Aronofsky and Proyas but I would like them to see more movies by them before I put them on a pedestal.
Well, honestly I'd probably have a completely different list if you asked me tomorrow. But basically with Aronofsky I've seen three of his movies (haven't checked out The Wrestler yet) and all three were absolutely stellar, and with Proyas I think anyone who can make The Crow and Dark City and then turn around and make Garage Days warrants being on my list. I realize I'm probably the only person on the planet who actually liked Garage Days but I don't know, there's just something about it for me. And Dark City is easily one of my favorite movies of all time.

Some other directors who might make my list if you asked me on another day:

Ridley Scott
PT Anderson
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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For every great Ridley Scott film, 2 crap ones follow. JPJ loses points over Alien:Ressurection (although a lot of blame should be laid at the producers door). Boogie Nights and There Will Be blood are both stellar for PT Anderson but Magnolia was a little cluttered for my tastes (Robert Altman's Short Cuts is a much better similarly themed film) and Punch Drunk Love was an admirable failure. I would have loved to put Lucio fulci into my list but his mid 80's output was terrible!
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For every great Ridley Scott film, 2 crap ones follow. JPJ loses points over Alien:Ressurection (although a lot of blame should be laid at the producers door). Boogie Nights and There Will Be blood are both stellar for PT Anderson but Magnolia was a little cluttered for my tastes (Robert Altman's Short Cuts is a much better similarly themed film) and Punch Drunk Love was an admirable failure. I would have loved to put Lucio fulci into my list but his mid 80's output was terrible!
Punch Drunk Love is actually my favorite PT Anderson movie. And Alien: Ressurection, is obviously a very flawed movie but I thought it was still enjoyable and his art direction as always was fantastic. I think the guy deserves to be cut a certain amount of slack too because he was trying to direct a mostly english-speaking cast and crew at a time when he hadn't yet learned english. As far as your Ridley Scott comment goes, you're definitely right, but if I focused a lot on people's quality to crap ratio I wouldn't have put John Carpenter on my list either.
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I agree about the inconsistancy of Ridley Scott.

But I really loved all of Andersons films. Punch Drunk Love included.

And in no way is Altman's Short Cuts better than Magnolia. I love Altman, but Short Cuts, while a good and highly original film, was a bit of an excessive exercise for Altman. Magnolia had a similar structure, but it was less self indulgent, it's theme was much more clear and it was much more entertaining, making it's length less noticable. Magnolia is a really good drama that just happens to be 3 hours long. While Short Cuts is basically a collage of Altman-isms with no real point, and with it's length it's a film you can only appreciate if you truly understand Altman's style, otherwise you're gonna find it completely unbearable.

I'd say Short Cuts is a 6 and Magnolia is a 9.
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I don't think I will ever agree with you on films Booboo! That's what i liked about Short Cuts. It's not neat and all wrapped up in a bundle but different strokes and all that.
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