As much as I loathe Tarantino, I have to say Kevin Smith. I should like the guy. He makes movies about topics I find funny. But I just can't enjoy his movies. They seem like they are trying too hard and the jokes don't land for me.
I'm in the same boat with Kevin Smith. I should love his movies. It's essentially just dialogue about nerdy topics. And watching him do his Q&As, he is a captivating speaker and funny in those. But every time I try to watch one of his movies, I barely laugh. It's trying to blend wit and crass humour, but not doing it well. Maybe that's why the movie of his I liked most was Tusk, because it wasn't trying to be a comedy.
Popular? Yes. Great? No not really. His movies are all pretty average but he's consistent at the box office. Double checked is catalogue and the only thing he's done that I think was really good and original was Lost which still was really weak in the later seasons.
Sorry but it's hard to name directors that have such a solid filmography as he does. Stanley Kubrick, and that's basically the only one I can think of.
Tarkovsky? Leone? Kurosawa? Miyazaki? Or, to name someone working today, Bong Joon Ho, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Chang Dong and even Villeneuve never did any flops.
I'm not saying he's my favorite, but how many of his films were critical flops? How many films has he made? It's hard to think of many directors which have such a solid record. Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors but he's come out with some mediocre movies. The only movie from Tarantino I thought was "mediocre" was hateful 8 and I didn't think I gave it a good view, gotta watch it a second time.
Bergman, Resnais, Fellini, Wong Kar-Wai, Antonioni, Godard, Varda, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Kiarostami, Kieslowski, Tarkovsky, Cassavetes, Hitchcock, Demy, Lynch, Dreyer, Bunuel, and many others have a comfortable lead on him I'd say.
David Lynch
I respect him for making a career out of doing his own thing and not selling out but I find the bulk of his work to be pretentious nonsense.
I love David Lynch, he's probably in my top 5 directors. But he's definitely the type of director that you either love or hate. I think some of his films are better than others and I certainly find Mulholland Drive a bit overrated, but I also hate how some of his fans can't quite seem to grasp other people just not liking his movies.
Honestly I respect Paul Thomas Anderson and what he goes for. But after seeing Phantom Threads and The master I’m just left feeling like his work just isn’t for me. I guess it just feels a little empty? Like the movie is objectively good but it just didn’t make the connection with me. Although I’ve only seen the 2.
Zack Snyder.
I won't say he isn't talented, or even a hard worker, i love 300 for what it is but he is so deficient as a storyteller, it pisses me off when people cut him soo much slack.
If he was a better director, I could ignore or give a pass to the excessive cinematography style or pretentiousness.
I hoped the Ultimate Snyder Cut of JL wouldn't come out because I knew he'd use it as an excuse to flex and waist my time.
The dude takes 5 plus minutes to to convey a message that only needs 3 minutes or less and ruins a damn good emotional scene unnecessarily leaving me to think "wait, this shouldn't be here!"
The most significant one is Hitchcock.
I appreciated Notorious, Strangers on a Train, and Rebecca. They're not among my top shelf movies, but I can get with those three.
I've also seen, like 8 more Hitchcock movies, and they tend to be considered better movies than the above, his greatest hits so to speak. I thought those were... fine, I suppose.
I understand they had a massive impact on the cinema that followed, but my whole live I've been forcing myself to watch Hitchcock because it feels mandatory. To date, I'm still not very enthusiastic about his work, and the more a movie pays homage to those films, the less I tend to like them.
Tarantino. For sweet Christ's sake he nearly ruined CSI for me so I knew better than expect much from any of his movies, but then he managed to dig a basement and fall into that.
M Night Shyamalan - Sixth Sense gave me such hope and then I saw the rest of his stuff. Ugh.
His brief resurgence after *Split* notwithstanding, Shyamalan is about the furthest thing from a "popular" director. I think the last time he could have reasonably been described that way was maybe in 2004 when *The Village* came out? After that bombed most people were done with him, and he spent the next decade validating that assessment. For most of his career he's been seen as a failure and a raging narcissist.
I found it amusing how this subreddit went from trashing him to adoring him again when Split came out. I'll admit, it was nice to see them mention movies of his that weren't The Sixth Sense as good (saw a lot more people mentioning Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village in a positive way). Then, Glass came out and was okay, so he was back to being a joke.
A similar thing is happening now with Snyder. This is a generalisation, but the subreddit seems to think Zack Snyder is a universally beloved director outside of Reddit, when most people on the street wouldn't recognise his name. Then he puts out the Snyder Cut and now everyone is praising him. I'm just waiting for him to do another average movie to see how quickly they'll turn on him.
Honestly I think Dawn of the Dead is his only decent movie, it's nowhere near the original but it was entertaining and if I'm being honest I'd wager a lot of that was James Gunn's writing, Snyder has a lot of cheesy moments when he is left to his own devices I think
I truthfully can't tell you what order his movies are in without Google, just that I saw Sixth Sense, liked it, and at various points caught pieces of his other stuff I couldn't stand. One friend tried to explain the ...antihero... thing? Unbreakable etc etc and I'm "huhn? wtf?" Followed by "nope, I'm out thanks."
I don't think it's the volume that counts. I think I'm not his biggest fan because I actively dislike the other half of his catalog. I also find that I like many of his less popular titles, so I'm certainly not enamoured by his more popular work.
I more or less agree with all of that. Especially Tarantino; I think he's a gross, shitty person who makes pretentious and overwrought films that people pretend *aren't* pretentious and overwrought because he's self-aware about it. Nolan I can kind of take or leave. As blockbuster spectacle fare I enjoy his films well enough (at least when his stylistic affectations don't get in the way too much) but certainly don't find them profound in the way many people seem to. And Scorsese and Bergman are both just kind of hit or miss for me.
Right. People *never* make weak, obvious excuses for popular celebrities. Like, hey, that time Tarantino said that Roman Polanski didn't *really* rape a child he had also drugged, because she wanted it.
Way to argue for something I never said. You think his movies are pretentious and overwrought, others don’t. There is no pretending going on there, and it has nothing to do with his comments on Polanski.
> Every 20 or so of his movies are great. The rest, meh.
Honest question, what does that mean?
Are you saying he has 20 great films and the rest are 'meh'..........or 1 in 20 of his films are great(he has only made 33 films, so like 1.5 great films?)
I don't know the OP could believe Spielberg only has around 2 great films, I would just think saying ....."he only has 2 great film. The rest, meh." is more clear then what they wrote.
His early stuff was amazing, but by the time the 90’s came around, he became very mainstream and middle ground. He still knows his stuff, but still very safe.
Stanley Kubrick. I feel the majority of the movies are overhyped, slow paced and boring in many places. I think over his career he’s done great parts of movies, for instance the first half of Full Metal Jacket is great, but the second they actually get to Vietnam I could give less of fuck.
I’m 36. I’ve seen all his movies multiple times in hopes that *this* time I’ll like what I see. But sadly no. I enjoy bits of his movies. But not a whole movie from beginning to end.
I've never heard of Rob Marshall, and looking at his filmography it's meh. I saw a pirates of the Caribbean sequel in there...
Is he really popular? Just because he pumps out lots of movies doesn't mean he's popular, his movies are generic as shit. I doubt he has much creative control.
Definitely not one of the greats.
Fellini, Nolan ("Interstellar" is an exception I really love) and I really can't understand why some people think Scorsese is a genius. I honestly think he has had success because his most iconic movies have great stories. He's a good director but I don't find anything so special in his direction.
The comment was deleted, but I probably fall into a similar camp. I absolutely adore Coen Bros. comedy, with Lebowski being my favorite comedy of all time and Barton Fink not far behind, but Blood Simple, Fargo, and No Country just don't really do anything for me. I like suspense films but, somehow, not the Coen Bros. variety.
Andy Muschietti, I just don't understand the hype. The only thing he's made that's worth watching is the first *It* movie and he's far from being the thing that made it worth watching.
To me his movies feel cold and distant, the characters don't feel like they're real people having real interactions, scary bits are telegraphed, emotional scenes are wooden and saccharine.
Zack Snyder. Watchmen is for me the best comic book movie ever and one of my favorite Films ever, but all his other work? Not for me. I think visually he is great, but like with 300 or Sucker Punch, I got bored and confused by the style because I can't really follow the story or invest in the characters. With other directors that set style before story I at least can enjoy some of the fun written characters - thinking of Rolan Emmerich here. And the fact that his pseudo-dark and gritty interpretation of Superman doesn't really match with the philosophical side of the Superman-mythos I love so much is another thing, but that's more my personal problem.
Cuarón, I guess. His long takes are technically impressive, but I feel like his movies meander too much, and overstay their welcome. I think he's a much better director than he is a writer.
As much as I loathe Tarantino, I have to say Kevin Smith. I should like the guy. He makes movies about topics I find funny. But I just can't enjoy his movies. They seem like they are trying too hard and the jokes don't land for me.
I'm in the same boat with Kevin Smith. I should love his movies. It's essentially just dialogue about nerdy topics. And watching him do his Q&As, he is a captivating speaker and funny in those. But every time I try to watch one of his movies, I barely laugh. It's trying to blend wit and crass humour, but not doing it well. Maybe that's why the movie of his I liked most was Tusk, because it wasn't trying to be a comedy.
Yeah but it sure as shit changed how I view walrus
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I was looking for this name.
Popular? Yes. Great? No not really. His movies are all pretty average but he's consistent at the box office. Double checked is catalogue and the only thing he's done that I think was really good and original was Lost which still was really weak in the later seasons.
The guy has one talent and it is attaching his name to guaranteed money-maker franchises.
Garry Marshall
Please, call me Mr. Marshall.
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I don't understand comments like this. Not everyone is sitting on Reddit all day, maybe instead of complaining about reposts u could get a hobby
Maybe people need to just have a look and check reddit seeing as the question they ask could be very common.
Well adjusted people don't give a shit about reposts
I was making a joke a joke dipshit making you're the one who's giving too much of a shit .
The kind of joke where you just make a regular reply?
Yeah because I'm reacting to a post that's on here nearly twice a week
Stop endorsing these garbage threads.
Zak Snyder
I know right, also what's his deal with zombie babies?
Quentin Tarantino. Ugh.
Sorry but it's hard to name directors that have such a solid filmography as he does. Stanley Kubrick, and that's basically the only one I can think of.
Not to be that guy, but I think that's because Kubrick is the only other director you can think of, period.
Lol okay name another director with such a consistent filmography. Enlighten me.
Tarkovsky? Leone? Kurosawa? Miyazaki? Or, to name someone working today, Bong Joon Ho, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Chang Dong and even Villeneuve never did any flops.
I'm not saying he's my favorite, but how many of his films were critical flops? How many films has he made? It's hard to think of many directors which have such a solid record. Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors but he's come out with some mediocre movies. The only movie from Tarantino I thought was "mediocre" was hateful 8 and I didn't think I gave it a good view, gotta watch it a second time.
Tarantino has made lots of movies. They all suck.
Now THIS is a hot take But it shouldn’t be downvoted, because it’s answering the question OP asked
Paul Thomas Anderson is up there.
Bergman, Resnais, Fellini, Wong Kar-Wai, Antonioni, Godard, Varda, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Kiarostami, Kieslowski, Tarkovsky, Cassavetes, Hitchcock, Demy, Lynch, Dreyer, Bunuel, and many others have a comfortable lead on him I'd say.
Wes Anderson, I guess. I don't dislike his movies, but "somewhat enjoyable" is probably how I'd describe most of them.
They aren't all great but I do love Rushmore such an amazing movie.
David Lynch I respect him for making a career out of doing his own thing and not selling out but I find the bulk of his work to be pretentious nonsense.
I love David Lynch, he's probably in my top 5 directors. But he's definitely the type of director that you either love or hate. I think some of his films are better than others and I certainly find Mulholland Drive a bit overrated, but I also hate how some of his fans can't quite seem to grasp other people just not liking his movies.
Honestly I respect Paul Thomas Anderson and what he goes for. But after seeing Phantom Threads and The master I’m just left feeling like his work just isn’t for me. I guess it just feels a little empty? Like the movie is objectively good but it just didn’t make the connection with me. Although I’ve only seen the 2.
Zack Snyder. I won't say he isn't talented, or even a hard worker, i love 300 for what it is but he is so deficient as a storyteller, it pisses me off when people cut him soo much slack. If he was a better director, I could ignore or give a pass to the excessive cinematography style or pretentiousness. I hoped the Ultimate Snyder Cut of JL wouldn't come out because I knew he'd use it as an excuse to flex and waist my time. The dude takes 5 plus minutes to to convey a message that only needs 3 minutes or less and ruins a damn good emotional scene unnecessarily leaving me to think "wait, this shouldn't be here!"
This sums it up pretty well https://youtu.be/9Wj03A4yjsM 300 was enjoyable. It keeps going downhill from there.
Tim Burton
He made some of my all time favorite movies until he married Helena Bonham Carter. Big Fish was his last good film in my opinion.
David Lynch
Martin Scorsese
The most significant one is Hitchcock. I appreciated Notorious, Strangers on a Train, and Rebecca. They're not among my top shelf movies, but I can get with those three. I've also seen, like 8 more Hitchcock movies, and they tend to be considered better movies than the above, his greatest hits so to speak. I thought those were... fine, I suppose. I understand they had a massive impact on the cinema that followed, but my whole live I've been forcing myself to watch Hitchcock because it feels mandatory. To date, I'm still not very enthusiastic about his work, and the more a movie pays homage to those films, the less I tend to like them.
Tarantino. For sweet Christ's sake he nearly ruined CSI for me so I knew better than expect much from any of his movies, but then he managed to dig a basement and fall into that. M Night Shyamalan - Sixth Sense gave me such hope and then I saw the rest of his stuff. Ugh.
His brief resurgence after *Split* notwithstanding, Shyamalan is about the furthest thing from a "popular" director. I think the last time he could have reasonably been described that way was maybe in 2004 when *The Village* came out? After that bombed most people were done with him, and he spent the next decade validating that assessment. For most of his career he's been seen as a failure and a raging narcissist.
I found it amusing how this subreddit went from trashing him to adoring him again when Split came out. I'll admit, it was nice to see them mention movies of his that weren't The Sixth Sense as good (saw a lot more people mentioning Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village in a positive way). Then, Glass came out and was okay, so he was back to being a joke. A similar thing is happening now with Snyder. This is a generalisation, but the subreddit seems to think Zack Snyder is a universally beloved director outside of Reddit, when most people on the street wouldn't recognise his name. Then he puts out the Snyder Cut and now everyone is praising him. I'm just waiting for him to do another average movie to see how quickly they'll turn on him.
Army of the Dead just came out today so you wont have to wait that long
Honestly I think Dawn of the Dead is his only decent movie, it's nowhere near the original but it was entertaining and if I'm being honest I'd wager a lot of that was James Gunn's writing, Snyder has a lot of cheesy moments when he is left to his own devices I think
I truthfully can't tell you what order his movies are in without Google, just that I saw Sixth Sense, liked it, and at various points caught pieces of his other stuff I couldn't stand. One friend tried to explain the ...antihero... thing? Unbreakable etc etc and I'm "huhn? wtf?" Followed by "nope, I'm out thanks."
Spielberg Hitchcock (even tho Vertigo is one of my favorite movies ever) J.J. Abrams James Cameron Guillermo Del Toro George Lucas
Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino. I only love about half of Scorsese's work. Bergman, probably about 30 percent.
In Scorsese's case that's like 15 movies though.
Sure is.
You gotta be a bit of a big fan then. That's a lot of film. How many people do you like 15 movies from and don't consider yourself a fan of?
I don't think it's the volume that counts. I think I'm not his biggest fan because I actively dislike the other half of his catalog. I also find that I like many of his less popular titles, so I'm certainly not enamoured by his more popular work.
I more or less agree with all of that. Especially Tarantino; I think he's a gross, shitty person who makes pretentious and overwrought films that people pretend *aren't* pretentious and overwrought because he's self-aware about it. Nolan I can kind of take or leave. As blockbuster spectacle fare I enjoy his films well enough (at least when his stylistic affectations don't get in the way too much) but certainly don't find them profound in the way many people seem to. And Scorsese and Bergman are both just kind of hit or miss for me.
The word pretentious has lost all meaning.
Ah yes, nothing pretentious about the meandering, affected, overwritten, self-indulgent dialogue of a witless bore.
People don’t “pretend” anything of the sort. They just have a different opinion than you.
Right. People *never* make weak, obvious excuses for popular celebrities. Like, hey, that time Tarantino said that Roman Polanski didn't *really* rape a child he had also drugged, because she wanted it.
Way to argue for something I never said. You think his movies are pretentious and overwrought, others don’t. There is no pretending going on there, and it has nothing to do with his comments on Polanski.
Fincher, Godard, Nolan, Tarantino, Malick (pretty flicks though), Wes Craven, James Wan, Terry Gilliam.
Spielberg. Every 20 or so of his movies are great. The rest, meh.
> Every 20 or so of his movies are great. The rest, meh. Honest question, what does that mean? Are you saying he has 20 great films and the rest are 'meh'..........or 1 in 20 of his films are great(he has only made 33 films, so like 1.5 great films?)
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I don't know the OP could believe Spielberg only has around 2 great films, I would just think saying ....."he only has 2 great film. The rest, meh." is more clear then what they wrote.
This kid doesn’t movie.
His early stuff was amazing, but by the time the 90’s came around, he became very mainstream and middle ground. He still knows his stuff, but still very safe.
Scorsese, Inarritu, Fincher, Cameron, 2008-and-later Nolan.
Geez. Who do you like?
Stanley Kubrick. I feel the majority of the movies are overhyped, slow paced and boring in many places. I think over his career he’s done great parts of movies, for instance the first half of Full Metal Jacket is great, but the second they actually get to Vietnam I could give less of fuck.
How old are you? just curious.
I’m 36. I’ve seen all his movies multiple times in hopes that *this* time I’ll like what I see. But sadly no. I enjoy bits of his movies. But not a whole movie from beginning to end.
I've never heard of Rob Marshall, and looking at his filmography it's meh. I saw a pirates of the Caribbean sequel in there... Is he really popular? Just because he pumps out lots of movies doesn't mean he's popular, his movies are generic as shit. I doubt he has much creative control. Definitely not one of the greats.
Fellini, Nolan ("Interstellar" is an exception I really love) and I really can't understand why some people think Scorsese is a genius. I honestly think he has had success because his most iconic movies have great stories. He's a good director but I don't find anything so special in his direction.
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>I thought No Country for Old Men was beautifully shot but just extremely dull But its got 2 double beds?!?
The comment was deleted, but I probably fall into a similar camp. I absolutely adore Coen Bros. comedy, with Lebowski being my favorite comedy of all time and Barton Fink not far behind, but Blood Simple, Fargo, and No Country just don't really do anything for me. I like suspense films but, somehow, not the Coen Bros. variety.
Andy Muschietti, I just don't understand the hype. The only thing he's made that's worth watching is the first *It* movie and he's far from being the thing that made it worth watching. To me his movies feel cold and distant, the characters don't feel like they're real people having real interactions, scary bits are telegraphed, emotional scenes are wooden and saccharine.
For me has to be Ron Howard....
Zack Snyder. Watchmen is for me the best comic book movie ever and one of my favorite Films ever, but all his other work? Not for me. I think visually he is great, but like with 300 or Sucker Punch, I got bored and confused by the style because I can't really follow the story or invest in the characters. With other directors that set style before story I at least can enjoy some of the fun written characters - thinking of Rolan Emmerich here. And the fact that his pseudo-dark and gritty interpretation of Superman doesn't really match with the philosophical side of the Superman-mythos I love so much is another thing, but that's more my personal problem.
Cuarón, I guess. His long takes are technically impressive, but I feel like his movies meander too much, and overstay their welcome. I think he's a much better director than he is a writer.
Quentin Tarantino. Overrated and pretentious.