Most underrated movie director

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darthdevidem01 on 24 July 2012

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Sam Raimi, Ridley Scott,Michael Bay,James Cameron, John Carpenter, John Woo, George lucas and Steven Spielberg all of these directors brought things to life that no one thought could be possible.

Sam Raimi/ Spiderman, evil dead.
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Ridley Scott/ Alien,Blade Runner,Gladiator.

Michael Bay/ Transformers, The Island, Pearl Harbor.

James Cameron/ Aliens, Avatar, Titanic.

John Carpenter/ The Thing, The Fog, Children of the corn, to many to mention.

John Woo/ MI:2, Windtalkers, Faceoff, Paycheck.

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg/ Jaws, Star Wars , Indiana Jones, Close Encounters of the third Kind and way to many to mention.

This minus Spieldberg...he is not underrated.

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amp316 on 24 July 2012

Spike Lee. I'm serious, the guy's a great director that's more well known for being at Knicks games than anything else. I also could name several that aren't underrated but old like Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bergman. I was glad to see Sam Peckinpah mentioned. He is one of my all time favorites. Without him, there would be no Tarantino or Rodriguez.

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Darabont, Carpenter, R. Scott (Perhaps not so underrated, most film fans will have heard of him.), Blomkamp, Emmerich.

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rocketpig on 24 July 2012

Alfonso Cuaron and Fernando Mereilles. Those guys don't get nearly enough love.

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Hayao Miyazaki is nearly unknown outside of Japan or even Studio Ghibli in general.

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Panama on 24 July 2012

The current hate for Carpenter is justified. This is coming from someone who has The Thing and Halloween in their top twenty, if not top ten list of horror films. It's like saying George Lucas is underrated because of Star Wars Episode V and American Graffiti.

Also what are the prerequisites for a Director to qualify as underrated?

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crissindahouse on 24 July 2012

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Hayao Miyazaki is nearly unknown outside of Japan or even Studio Ghibli in general.

yeah that's true. most will know some of their movies at least by name but many won't have a clue if they would ask them what studio ghibli is.

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disolitude on 24 July 2012

Panama said:
The current hate for Carpenter is justified. This is coming from someone who has The Thing and Halloween in their top twenty, if not top ten list of horror films. It's like saying George Lucas is underrated because of Star Wars Episode V and American Graffiti.

Also what are the prerequisites for a Director to qualify as underrated?

At least George Lucas recieved huge praise for those movies and massive box office success.

John Carpenter pretty much got booted out of hollywood after the financial failure of the Thing and Big Trouble Little China which are two of his three best movies IMO. And despite that he made Prince of Darkness, They Live and In to the Mouth of Madness afterwards, on limited budgets, all of which were very good as well.