IMQ #2 - People in Film - Most Overrated Director

[AzStevenCal]

Can I say Scorsese without you guys exiling me?

So boring!

Forgive me Cheese.

Sign me up, I'll share the backlash.

 

[Phrazbit]

Can I say Scorsese without you guys exiling me?

So boring!

Forgive me Cheese.

Of the films in the "mob movie" genre I'd say Goodfellas moves at a breakneck pace. That movie is brilliant, the hectic helicopter day is a piece of brilliant directing.

I agree on Eastwood. Unforgiven is an amazing film, probably my favorite Western, Letters from Iwo Jima is really really good... Flags of our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby... both 'meh', Grand Torino and J Edgar... yikes. Haven't seen his last few.

Oh, I forgot he directed Mystic River... that movie is good, brilliantly acted but not exactly a fun ride, I doubt I'll ever watch it again.

My overrated. Tom Hooper. After 8 hours of John Adams I am well too acquainted with Paul Giamatti's teeth and inner nostrils.

 

[NJCardFan]

I must intentionally not be paying attention, but I don't seen any praises for his work. I think he is terrible.

Tarantino loves him.

 

[NJCardFan]

Can I say Scorsese without you guys exiling me?

So boring!

Forgive me Cheese.

Outside of Goodfellas and a couple of others, I never cared for his work.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Spike Lee

All 3 I get suckered in with hype - you gotta see this, it's genius, so clever, so witty, so real - you'll love it - this is right up your alley

I see a couple snippets and think, yeah they're probably right - this is my stuff

Then I dive into the movie and hate it

 

[Chaplin]

Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Spike Lee

All 3 I get suckered in with hype - you gotta see this, it's genius, so clever, so witty, so real - you'll love it - this is right up your alley

I see a couple snippets and think, yeah they're probably right - this is my stuff

Then I dive into the movie and hate it

Examples? I really like all 3 of them.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

Pretty much everything

Even the 3 Anderson examples put forth earlier as his best, I just came away feeling flat and I really like off beat, irreverent things

I know not every taste and every style line up perfectly and there can be "good" things that I just don't like

I just find their work to typically be indulgent - trying really hard to show how clever they can be or to think they are making some profound statement when they really aren't

Worse than that, I think they tend to move really slow and be really boring

 

[GatorAZ]

Searched Tarantino to see if he had officially retired…

I can’t call a director that consistently gets the most out of his actors overrated. There’s a couple movies like Jackie Brown or Once Upon a Time In Hollywood that I like but will never watch again... Dogs, Pulp, Basterds and Django are elite filmmaking IMO. Kill Bill and Hateful 8 are fun side projects it seemed like. Is he officially retired?

 

[GatorAZ]

Can I say Scorsese without you guys exiling me?

So boring!

Forgive me Cheese.

Boring?

Color of Money
Goodfellas
Cape Fear
Casino
Departed
Shutter Island
Wolf of Wall Street

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Searched Tarantino to see if he had officially retired…

I can’t call a director that consistently gets the most out of his actors overrated. There’s a couple movies like Jackie Brown or Once Upon a Time In Hollywood that I like but will never watch again... Dogs, Pulp, Basterds and Django are elite filmmaking IMO. Kill Bill and Hateful 8 are fun side projects it seemed like. Is he officially retired?

No, because he has not made his tenth and final film yet.

 

[GatorAZ]

No, because he has not made his tenth and final film yet.

.

You must be registered for see images attach

 

[GatorAZ]

He also has a notorious reputation for working on films he didn’t technically “make”. I’d guess it’s double that number. Once Upon a Time seemed like his swan song…

 

[Brian in Mesa]

.

You must be registered for see images attach

You must be registered for see images attach

 

[Cardsmasochist]

George Lucas directed two great movies: Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. American Graffiti was ok. The rest of the movies he directed are pretty bad.

 

[Chaplin]

George Lucas directed two great movies: Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. American Graffiti was ok. The rest of the movies he directed are pretty bad.

George Lucas didn't direct Empire Strikes Back.

 

[oaken1]

George Lucas directed two great movies: Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. American Graffiti was ok. The rest of the movies he directed are pretty bad.

pffft...
American Graffiti was fantastic. It not only launched Georges career .. it spawned one of the best TV shows of a generation,...and one of the biggest cultural events in American History.

George and I share a high school. He wrote American Grafitti all about life growing up in Modesto California. He came home to film it here,...but the town council would not give him permits to block off areas of downtown for filming...really pissed George off,,think it hurt his feelings a bit...so he ended up having to film a movie about Modesto over by San Jose..it pissed George off so bad he refused to acknowledge Modesto as his hometown for over 40 years.
But, the success of the movie still spawned the great " Happy Days" franchise which catapulted Lil Ronnie Howards career...where after directing a couple episodes he matured from "Opie" to "Richie" and into one of the best film makers of our time.
Modesto, still proud of George regardless of the stuffy type A conservative town council...Proceeded to host the largest car show in the world every june for about 35 years..We called it Grafitti Night...car clubs from all over the country would bring their classics to Modesto for the weekend and cruise up and down McHenry Blved for a few hours on Friday night. Bumper to bumper for miles, partying galor...many classic trucks with kegs in the back and luke warm beer being handed out to passers by...doobies changing vehicles between every hit. It was a blast..and an iconic experience to kick off every summer in my youth...as it always happened on the weekend after the schools let out for summer break.
Unfortunately, that stuffy old town council throttled Grafitti night after a couple decades of local businesses complaining about the mess... now, its just a couple dozen car clubs holding car shows in parking lots the first week in june and a controlled parade of classic cars. Cruising was outlawed.
as a side note...my uncle Bill owned that hot yellow roadster that starred in the movie. he rented it out for the filming for a whopping 250 bucks. which he promptly drank before the filming even ended.

man....those were the days, I tell ya.

 

[Cardsmasochist]

George Lucas didn't direct Empire Strikes Back.

Ok Lucas directed the great Star Wars 1V and the good American Graffiti

 

[GatorAZ]

You must be registered for see images attach

.
Cheeky move counting Kill Bill as one movie. Two movies in 13 years makes me think he’s done though.

 

[Cardsmasochist]

You must be registered for see images attach

 

[SunsTzu]

Francis Ford Coppola

 

[UncleChris]

I know I will be in the very small minority on this, but the only good movie that Tarantino made that was Pulp Fiction. All the rest of them were varying degrees of crap, IMHO.

 

[Covert Rain]

Zack Snyder. Easily IMO. His overall career is almost a parallel to his movies. The first half is pretty good and the second half blows chunks.

 

[Chaplin]

I know I will be in the very small minority on this, but the only good movie that Tarantino made that was Pulp Fiction. All the rest of them were varying degrees of crap, IMHO.

Tell me you’ve never seen Reservoir Dogs without actually saying you’ve never seen Reservoir Dogs.

 

[JerkFace]

I can’t stand Guy Ritchie. I think his decent movies, like Snatch, are good in spite of his directing instead of because of it.

 

[GatorAZ]

Tell me you’ve never seen Reservoir Dogs without actually saying you’ve never seen Reservoir Dogs.

Or Basterds/Django. I wonder how different True Romance or Natural Born Killers is if he shoots it.