Best Movie Directors and Their Movies

[Tito Jackson]

Ive seen Heat over 20 times. Can you beat that?

[fish2plus2]

Munich and Catch Me if You Can were both great movies.

Scorcese - Good Fellas all the way, greatest movie of all time.

Kubrick - The Shining

Wong Kar Wai - Days of Being Wild

[Blarg]

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Ive seen Heat over 20 times. Can you beat that?

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Wow, I don't think I can. I'm probably about 5 or 6 short.

[fish2plus2]

i also liked lyne's lolita.

[CharlieDontSurf]

Fincher- Zodiac

[CharlieDontSurf]

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I'm not a fan. I think of the almost unstoppable, inhuman cheesiness and pandering he's into, and we have to weigh his good ones versus atrocities like The Color Purple. If he hadn't remembered he was Jewish, he'd be thought of as a man of great talent who didn't care to make much use of it and hadn't done much interesting for a very long time, and who can have startlingly bad judgment -- on a Michael Crichton-like scale -- when it comes to depicting any human relations that go beyond the juvenile.

Loved Raiders(the first one) and Jaws, though. Close Encounters was full of dead spaces, but I mostly liked it. ET I can live without, but it's a good kid's movie.

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Seriously, I can't believe this. Here's a long list of the movies he has made that I consider to be at least very good, if not fantastic (and bold for absolutely superb):

Munich (2005)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Amistad (1997)
Schindler's List (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Always (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Color Purple (1985)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Jaws (1975)

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Speilberg gets prop for Jaws...easily top 50 film of all time and almost as big a film to the history of the industry as Lucas and Star Wars.

E.T.: greatest children's movie ever.

Close Encounters and Schindlers are very very good films.

Obv the Indy/Jurrasic were huge hits that were well made.
Catch Me If You Can is far greater as an overall movie than Minority Report(which is just a cheesy summer movie).

Saving Private Ryan is overrated because of its amazing opening battle sequence.

[rothko]

ed wood


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[AquaSwing]

John McTiernan- Hunt for Red October, Die Hard

Terry Gilliam- Brazil, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys

David Fincher- Se7en, The Game (Not a big fan of Fight Club, but not because of direction)