The Cow

Mel Brooks

Seriously.

kstublen

In alphabetical order...

-Wes Anderson
-Darren Aronofsky
-Brad Bird
-Don Bluth
-Mel Brooks
-James Cameron
-Joel and Ethan Coen
-Clint Eastwood
-Michel Gondry
-Terry Jones
-John Lasseter
-Christopher Nolan
-Martin Scorcese
-Kevin Smith
-Andrew Stanton
-Guillermo Del Toro
-Larry and Andy Wachowski

kstublen

When I was constructing my list that was one of the first names to come to mind, I was very surprised to see he wasn't on anyone else's list.

hardercore

You mean, Brothers One-hit-four-misses?

Rad14

Most of them have already been mentioned, but here's mine anyway, although I can't say I'm crazy about everything they've directed.

Not in any particular order.

David Lean
John Ford
Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Alfred Hitchcock
Clint Eastwood
Oliver Stone
Anthony Mann
Sam Peckinpah
Sergio Leone
John Huston
Roman Polanski
David Fincher
Robert Wise
Michael Curtiz
Robert Zemeckis
Norman Jewison
Stanley Kramer
Arthur Penn
Woody Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Brian De Palma
Richard Fleischer
Sam Mendes
Michael Mann
William Wyler
James Cameron
Sydney Pollack
Charles Chaplin
Fred Zinneman
Blake Edwards
Robert Aldrich
Joseph L. Manciwisz
Barry Levinson
Franklyn J. Schaffner
Don Siegel
John Boorman

kstublen

I liked all three of the Matrix movies, and thought Speed Racer was very well done. I've never seen Bound though. In any case, I believe the thread was titled "Your Favourite Directors," not "Why You Dislike Other People's Favourite Directors."

Shannon Nutt

Exact same reason Coppola didn't make my list. I often wonder if we'll ever see him make a "great" film again.

BTW, I see his name a lot here, but how UNDERRATED is James Cameron by the mainstream? He's a brilliant director, but rarely comes up in conversation amongst the greatest...I wonder if it's because he's primarily focused on Sci-Fi stuff? He should be in the same conversation with Spielberg and Sorcese. Or maybe it's because he's the Kubrick of our generation - only a handful of feature-length movies becuase of the passion he puts into each project.

islandclaws

No order:

John Carpenter
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Martin Scorsese
Brian De Palma
Steven Spielberg
Ridley Scott
Quentin Tarantino
Dario Argento
Mario Bava
Lucio Fulci
Christopher Nolan
Sergio Leone
Stanley Kubrick
Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
George A. Romero
Tim Burton
Ingmar Bergman
Jean Pierre Melville
Coen Bros.
Guillermo Del Toro
John Landis

... and many, many more I'm sure I'm forgetting right now.

hardercore

You should check out The Conversation, another film he did during those prime years (it was up for Best Picture, too). It's really effective.

hardercore

Relax, I was just breakin' balls. And to be honest, I actually don't mind ":Reloaded" all that much. It's in the third one that the franchise becomes a steaming pile. In my opinion.

visitor Q

Because I haven't arrived yet ...

Hollywood:

Ridley Scott
Stephen Spielberg
James Cameron
John Carpenter
Coen Brothers
Jim Henson

Japan:

Oshii Mamoru
Miyazaki Hayao
Kurosawa Akira
Inagaki Hiroshi
Fukasaku Kinji
Takashi Miike
Ito Shunya
Yamada Yoji
Masumura Yasuzo

Other:

Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Sergio Leone
Kim Ki-duk
Luc Besson
Park Chan-wook
John Woo
Bong Joon-ho

And I would say the order is fairly accurate within each category.

tasha99

Guillermo del Toro by enough of a mile that I might as well not list anyone else.

mrflix

In no particular order -
David Fincher
Ridley Scott
James Cameron
Christopher Nolan
Michael Mann

PopcornTreeCt

What?!

As much as I don't like Spielberg I can easily say Cameron is nowhere near a Spielberg and far from a Scorsese.

Solid Snake

I'd like to think of him as an innovator in film with digital effects and getting positive results. Jurassic Park came after T2, T2 changed the world of effects forever. If not for his imagination god knows where we'd be. Of course, the horror of that is the fact that after him...EVERYBODY wanted to morph somebody in a film or whatnot. I understand ILM had a big part in this..but Cameron changed the way digital tech was used in films by actually incorporating a main character in a film specifically utilizing those kinds of effects with remarkable results. I don't think he's someone on caliber with Spielberg and his vivid imagination to entertain or Scorsese and his artistic vision to tell any kind of story. BUT he will not be denied as a director with probably the greatest talent with incorporating physical/digital effects with live action and not be bogged down by the LOOK WHAT I CAN DO that some directors get from their effects.

You know what? He is as good as those 2. He just is a different type of man with a very different body of work (a track record specifically in genre pieces) in comparison to those 2. While my opinion of Titanic is that it was WAY OVERRATED, it doesn't demean the fact that the production on it is amazing and the film is still very good. Just not as good, as people would like it to be. The problem settling in his work is that the basic idea for the films are simple but the execution of them are just amazing. Think about his works. Basic plot seems mainstream...execution of that plot is amazing.

Sid Yobbo

Clint Eastwood
Kenji Mizoguchi
Jacques Becker
Raoul Walsh
Pedro Almodovar
Buster Keaton (currently going through his early films & enjoying them immensely)
Park Chan-Wook
Aki Kaurismaki
Howard Hawks
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Rockmjd23

Albert Pyun

Mr.Scary

Surely you jest. Comparing him to Kubrick just because he has only directed a handful of films? Cameron is overrated.

mike7162

Alfred Hitchcock
Sergio Leone
Samuel Fuller
Sam Peckinpah
The Coen Brothers
Billy Wilder
Orson Welles
Russ Meyer

And in no particular order:


Ken Russell
Peter Greenaway
David Lynch
Jerry Lewis
Brian De Palma