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rocketpig on 07 October 2008
Onyxmeth said:
super_etecoon said:
akuma587 said:
super_etecoon said:
akuma587 said:

No, I didn't.  I think the reason I was never motivated to was because of Hugh Jackman.  Now that I know who directed it I will try harder to see it.

I've heard a lot more about Pi than I have about The Fountain, and from what I have heard it is the kind of movie I would like.  Anyone who did a movie like Requiem For a Dream definitely has talent, so I am sure his other films are pretty good.

 

You have a problem with Hugh Jackman?  Have you seen The Prestige?

 

Yeah...I did, and he is good in that (I love The Prestige).  Its not that I dislike Hugh Jackman, I just might be a little bit less motivated to see a movie if he is in it.  I guess it is more accurate to say that I am neutral towards Hugh Jackman, so I skipped out on The Fountain because there was nothing else that I knew of at that time to draw me towards it.

 

Well consider this a very high recommendation.  Put it in your queue, download it, rent it, steal it...just watch it.  Then pm your response.  You can yell at me all you want if you hate it.

 

I thought the Fountain was a huge dissappointment. It needed so much editing towards the end I thought of playing it in fast forward just so it ran at a regular pace. Pi is good though. It's hard working backwards from Requiem and seeing Pi, but if you don't keep your expectations too high it's a cool little story.

I agree. I was not that impressed with The Fountain. It's an interesting movie but it's not nearly as engaging as Pi or Requiem.

If you want a good movie, Akum, check out Dirty Pretty Things. I know you're an Audrey Tatou fan.

 




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megaman79 on 07 October 2008

yea kubrick 2001, the only director to make a film look more like art than a book. if i had to say what got close to kubrick it would be modern dir. like wes anderson / fincher / tarantino. The look and feel is more important than the plot, of course there are exceptions, argento, he tried but i think he had nothing to say and it destroyed him.



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megaman79 on 07 October 2008

Oh don't belittle Raging Bull as a sports movie. It isn't and you might confuse people who haven't seen it. It is a realistic, horrible drama, and without doubt, Scorcese's best film.



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BringBackChrono on 07 October 2008

K, Im about ready for my next 3
1)Akira Kurosawa : Great variety of brilliant movies,maybe put Asian cinema on the global map along with Ray, the actors he stuck with film after film (Mifune for example) slowly became so natural,its amazing.

2)Ridley Scott: Had to pick him for directing some of my favorite movies (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator). Though i have to say i was pretty disappointed by American Gangster which, given the people involved, should have been so much better.

3)Mani Ratnam: another Indian director, has much less renown outside of India as compared to Ray, but makes movies which are really close to Indian way of life, and amazingly brings out performances from his actors even they might not have thought themselves capable of



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The Ghost of RubangB on 07 October 2008

Hmm, right now: David Lynch, Luis Buñuel, Jean-Luc Godard, Terry Gilliam.



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Mistershine on 07 October 2008

Dario Argento
George Romero
Akira Kurosowa
Takeshi Miike
John Woo
Quentin Tarentino
Robert Rodriguez
+ too many more to mention in a sensible post!



smiles123 on 07 October 2008

quentin tarantino: he directed my all time favorite movie pulp fiction i also liked reservoir dogs and the kill bill movies were not bad


martin scorsese: he directed taxi driver, casino, the goodfellas and many other excellent films

francis ford coppola: he directed godfather part 2 and apocalypse now which are two of my faviorite films


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BeTa77 on 07 October 2008

Mine is George Lucas, Star Wars is awesome.



colonelstubbs on 07 October 2008

David Fincher, Ridley Scott, James Cameron



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okr on 07 October 2008

Hitchcock - Allen - Almodóvar - Tarantino - Wyler - Fassbinder - Kurosawa - Lee - Chaplin - Coppola - Fellini - Truffaut - Bertolucci - Zinnemann - Lang - Welles - Miyazaki - Clément - Minnelli - Leone - Bergman - Jarmush - Keaton - Cukor - Lumet - Wilder - Lubitsch - Hawks - Murnau - Pollack - Kubrick - Huston - Lean - Peckinpah - Cassavetes - Scorsese - Coen - Verneuil - Kazan - Renoir - Malle - Visconti - Kaurismäki - Godard - Melville - Bresson - Kieślowski - de Sica - Wajda - Altman - Capra - Kar-Wai - Curtiz - Forman - Hill - Horne - Lasseter - Lynch - Polanski - Buñuel - Reisner - Reitherman - Rossen - Roach - Schlesinger - Scott - Donen - McCarey- Kitano - Costa-Gavras

This list of my favorite directors (taken from my DVD list) reminds me that outside of Hollywood there once was a great European - and especially French - cinema. Those were the days when Europe put some effort in their movies.

We had a similar thread some months ago and my top 3 of my favorite directors mentioned above are still
- Charlie Chaplin
- Billy Wilder
- Ernst Lubitsch

I'll add two more to make my top 5:
- François Truffaut
- Alfred Hitchcock

The best worldwide contemporary directors (and writers) are in my opinion Hayao Miyazaki and the Pixar guys (Lasseter/Stanton/Docter/Bird).

I always wondered why there are so few female directors of international or even national fame - even today. Lina Wertmüller, Margarethe von Trotta, Susanne Bier, Susan Seidelman, Kathryn Bigelow are the only ones I've seen movies from, Lone Scherfig and Mai Zetterling are two other ones I've heard of and I bet most of them are lesser known than any male director of some random Schrott action movie.

All hail Christopher Nolan - the next one who left his own unique path to follow the Yellow Brick Road...