At the rate this is going, it shouldn't be too long before Neil Breen somehow makes it into this thread (...though, I guess he just did).

Dennis Dugan with 7 (although maybe Jack and Jill is stretching it a little): The Benchwarmers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups, Just Go with It, Jack and Jill, Grown Ups 2

Maybe not masterpieces, but Brad Bird's run of The Iron Giant -> The Incredibles -> Ratatouille was pretty good.

I guess the term "masterpiece" just doesn't mean what it used to. Is there a DVD Talk award for thread that jumped the shark the quickest?

Very few directors have had a run of three consecutive masterpieces, in my opinion. Most of them were mentioned on the first page.

I was trying to string together three consecutive Wong Kar-Wai films but am having difficulty.

For example, IMO: As Tears Go By (good) - Days of Being Wild (ok) - Ashes of Time (great) - Chungking Express (great) - Fallen Angels (good) - Happy Together (good) - In the Mood for Love (great) - 2046 (ok)......
Any opinions on these?

I think if you're gonna say a film is a masterpiece, you have to be willing to give it a 10/10. Some people here seem to be conflating having consecutive masterpieces with just having a solid run of no bad films. But I guess it's possible that some people consider Grown Ups and John Wick III 10/10 films

I looked at his filmography earlier and didn't see any. He has a run of good-to-great films in the 90s, but not consecutive classics.

For what it's worth, I take back my Tarantino comment. I forgot he did Death Proof in between Kill Bill and Basterds. I think Death Proof is fun, but definitely not a masterpiece.

I just watched William Friedkins adaptation of "The Boys in the Band" last night for the first time, while maybe some find Sorceror is questionable, I'm completely confident in putting The Boys in the Band before French Connection and Exorcist. What an absolutely amazing film.

And don't forget about 1/4 of Four Rooms. Only Rodriguez' 1/4 comes anything close to a masterpiece, the rest....not exactly.

Tarantino has made 1, maybe 2 classics to me. Pulp Fiction is an indisputable classic. There may be another classic in there that you could make an argument for. But in Tarantino I see more of a guy with a high batting average than a guy who just pumps out classic after classic. Directors who have released multiple consecutive classics seem to do it by genre hopping (Kubrick: black comedy, space sci-fi, dystopian sci-fi, period piece) and putting their unique stamp on each one, or by incrementally mastering a genre and putting a different flavor on each version of that (Leone mastering the Western with the TMWNN trilogy, then deconstructing it with OUATITW). Even Leone realized he'd said all he could about the Western and moved on to a masterful gangster flick. Tarantino seems more content to stay in his wheelhouse of tricks. The costumes and the time period change, but the snappy dialogue, revenge plots, and extreme violence are always there. The man patented a style and no one can take that away from him, but he also seems like sort of a prisoner to it. It makes for fun and entertaining movies, but ones that I feel like I've seen before. I walk away from classics feeling like I've never seen anything like them before.

But I haven't seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood yet so maybe that's different.

I haven't seen this yet, I guess I need to fix that.

Tarantino for me:

Reservoir Dogs 5/5
Pulp Fiction 5/5
Jackie Brown 5/5
Kill Bill 1&2 3.5/5
Death Proof 2/5
Inglourious Basterds 4.5/5
Django Unchained 3/5
The Hateful Eight 4.5/5
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 5/5

Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction would probably be his two 5 star movies for me. I remember Jackie Brown being good but not that good.

And yeah, I never understood the fuss about Django either. That movie started out interesting and then devolved into Tarantino's usual revenge porn nonsense.

Christopher Nolan for me.

2017 Dunkirk
2014 Interstellar
2012 The Dark Knight Rises
2010 Inception
2008 The Dark Knight
2006 The Prestige
2005 Batman Begins
2002 Insomnia
2000 Momento

There are others in not mentioned with Nolan producing in between those years of movies, but these are just the ones he actually directed. Nolan can use extreme violence or none at all, which Tarantino cannot do without in his movies. Unfortunately, I think that's Tarantino's Achilles' heel in his latest movies which do nothing for me. His earlier works were masterpieces, imo, and he's spawned a lot of copycats (who fail).

Because I've had a few drinks and I'm bored....

Tarantino,

Reservoir Dogs 4/4
Pulp Fiction 4/4
Jackie Brown 3/4
Kill Bill 1&2 3/4
Death Proof 2/4
Inglourious Basterds 3.5/4
Django Unchained 2/4
The Hateful Eight 3.5/4


Nolan,

Memento 3.5/4
Insomnia 3/4
Batman Begins 3/4
The Prestige 2.5/4
The Dark Knight 3.5/4
Inception 3/4
The Dark Knight Rises 2.5/4
Interstellar 3/4
Dunkirk 3.5/4

I'll watch Once Upon a Time in the next few days and update

No love for James Cameron? Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2.

And one of my favorite lesser known directors - Alexander Payne - Election, About Schmidt, Sideways

I've enjoyed all the movies, but to be honest. Smith, Stahelski and the Russo Bros. didn't really risk anything since they made the same movie in three variations. This is not an easy exercise, so it earns our respect, but it's a much safer bet than for example The Prestige, The Dark Knight and Inception.

I really liked Red Beard (1965) ,not very popular or not watch by many movie lovers as many others of his great movies.
I have not seen The Lower Depths (1957) yet.

Hayao Miyazaki: LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY (1986), MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988), KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989).

I'd start that list with Assault on Precinct 13 and run straight thru They Live.

Coens would've had a long ass chain if not for Hudsucker: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Hudsucker Proxy (nope), Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There

Polanski: Chinatown, The Tenant, Tess (borderline)

Kurosawa's best streak was Dersu Uzala, Kagemusha, Ran

Peter Weir: Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness

Brian De Palma: Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface

Truffaut: 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules et Jim also Day for Night, Story of Adele H, Small Change

He almost had another run too
Jurassic Park -> Schindler's List -> The Lost World: Jurassic Park -> Amistad -> Saving Private Ryan

I definitely consider the LotR trilogy to be a masterpiece but it's really like one giant movie so not sure if it really counts?

The Hudsucker Proxy is great, I like it better than The Man Who Wasn't There.

Now I want to do a marathon of the extended blu-ray editions.

Joseph Zito

The Prowler
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Missing in Action
Invasion USA
Red Scorpion