Who's the Greatest Director?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-03-05 10:04am

Hitchcock by far the best. The man never made a bad movie and his still hold up well against the newest films. Brilliant work's all of them.

Spielberg is really a close second. He's a great director and his best are some of the all time classic.

Kubirck is pretty good but he gets too artsy at times and loses the audience.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-05 11:48am

Stormbringer wrote:Hitchcock by far the best. The man never made a bad movie and his still hold up well against the newest films. Brilliant work's all of them.

Spielberg is really a close second. He's a great director and his best are some of the all time classic.

Kubirck is pretty good but he gets too artsy at times and loses the audience.

Which reminds me, I must get North by North-West on DVD, I love that film!

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-03-05 03:48pm

Number 1. Alfred Hitchcock.

Number 2. Ridley Scott.

Number 3. Stanley Kubric.

I've never really cared for Spielberg movies, IMHO the only truly good ones he has directed were Jaws and the Indiana Jones films (well I and III at least). Most of the rest are entertaining, but nothing special.

BTW I might be the only person on Earth that thinks that E.T. blows big time. I think was 8 or 9 when I saw it for the first time and I was bored out of my mind, I gept on hoping that the damn alien get's shot, starts killing people or SOMETHING, but no "E.T. go home", "E.T. go home", "E.T. go home... Zzzzzzzzz-Kroooh...

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-03-05 03:54pm

Leni Riefenstahl

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-03-05 03:56pm

I like Scorsese... but between those, it is a hard go between Spielberg and Kubrik.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-03-05 07:28pm

*Glowers*

MY CHOICE is not there!

I mean we have great admissions here!

No really good Imports (Fellini, Polanski, Kurasawa)
No inimaginable viscarial cenimatography (Woo, Pechinpah, Mann, Scorsese) <Scenes of intense violence so artfully depicted>
None of the early shit (Whale, De'Mille, Welles)

This is like the most broken poll in a while.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-03-05 07:39pm

Go Kubrick!

Dr. Strangelove was so horribly politically incorrect, and its fucking hilarious!

"Zen vee vill breed ze vomen vith ze men!"

FMJ, Best war movie ever!

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2003-03-05 07:47pm

Orson Welles.

For evidence, I offer not only Citizen Kane, but also Touch Of Evil, The Stranger, The Trial, F For Fake, and Mr. Arkadin (Confidential Report).

Kurosawa I would rank among the top five directors of all time, along with Kubrick, Hitchcock, and Fritz Lang.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-03-05 09:14pm

There is only one man who brought us Star Wars...

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-03-06 01:23am

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:There is only one man who brought us Star Wars...

But not all were directed by GL.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-03-06 02:58am

Not to mention the first one barrows heavily from "The Hidden Fortress" (Hmm, Toshiro Mufine as Ben Kenobi/Han Solo at the same time...)

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Who's the Greatest Director?

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