cameron, lucas or spielberg--best modern era director

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Joyinrepatition said:

What aboutDavid Lean?

Brief Encounter
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
Ryan's Daughter

of the three id pick Steven Spielberg

as much as i think he's incredible, he is an era before the modern

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Reply #31 posted 01/31/10 6:08pm

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lazycrockett said:

David Lynch

oh, god, yes

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Reply #32 posted 01/31/10 6:10pm

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728huey said:

cborgman said:

scorcese, stone, coppola, woody allen, eastwood, sydney pollack, kubrick... there are a ton of directors from that generation that are FAR superior to all three, but especially shitty lucas.

Jonathan Demme
Joel and Ethan Coen
Pedro Almodovar
Roman Polanski

i said almodovar too!

hell yes to the others

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Reply #33 posted 01/31/10 6:11pm

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GirlBrother said:

lazycrockett said:

David Lynch
John Waters.

Yes. Definitely.

I'd add Woody Allen. André Téchiné. François Ozon. Clint Eastwood. Alfonso Cuarón. James Cameron. Mike Leigh.

i said woody and clint as well.

good taste!

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Reply #34 posted 01/31/10 6:12pm

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TonyVanDam said:

cborgman said:

honestly, had he not let other people do empire and jedi, i dont think they would be great either. and the prequels probably would have been good if he let someone else write and direct them.

he has no clue how to direct actors or how to write dialouge.

carrie fisher has some hysterical bits about how bad he is at directing. one of the most memorable ones was she and hamill and ford used to joke they were going to build a board with two lights labelled "faster" and "louder" so he could just push the buttons, because those were the only direction he ever gave them.

Of the Star Wars prequels, Revenge Of The Sith was THE best. But that was only because the villains were winning (just like the case of The Empire Strikes Back).

watching the end, i groaned knowing i had sat through three shit movies for the only 10 minutes of sith that was even worth watching.

lucas is a hack.

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Reply #35 posted 01/31/10 8:45pm

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Almodovar

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Reply #36 posted 01/31/10 8:47pm

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johnart said:

Almodovar

i really need to go see the new one.

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Reply #37 posted 01/31/10 8:53pm

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cborgman said:

johnart said:

Almodovar

i really need to go see the new one.

Me too.

The combination of his writing/direction and the way he paints a picture are cloud9

His films are paintings with movement and sound.

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Reply #38 posted 01/31/10 8:57pm

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johnart said:

cborgman said:

i really need to go see the new one.

Me too.

The combination of his writing/direction and the way he paints a picture are cloud9

His films are paintings with movement and sound.

even the ones i don't like that much (kika, flower of my secret) beat the crap out of lucas' shit.

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Reply #39 posted 01/31/10 8:58pm

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^ okay okay okay, you don't like lucas we get it.

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Reply #40 posted 01/31/10 9:03pm

PricelessHo

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GirlBrother said:

François Ozon

love his stuff

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Reply #41 posted 01/31/10 9:10pm

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lazycrockett said:

^ okay okay okay, you don't like lucas we get it.

he's the k-fed of directors.

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Reply #42 posted 01/31/10 9:36pm

Vendetta1	cborgman said: lazycrockett said: ^ okay okay okay, you don't like lucas we get it. he's the k-fed of directors. Oh my god.
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Reply #43 posted 01/31/10 9:46pm

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cborgman said:

lazycrockett said:

David Lynch

oh, god, yes

The more I think about it, Lynch is really leading the pack of best of in this catagory. He's true to his ideas and themes, plus his vision is always visually amazing. He may falter in his method but you always know what he's trying to say.

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Reply #44 posted 01/31/10 9:53pm

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Vendetta1 said:

cborgman said:

he's the k-fed of directors.

Oh my god. falloff

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Reply #45 posted 01/31/10 9:54pm

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lazycrockett said:

cborgman said:

oh, god, yes

granted, there are times his movies become so mother-humpingly weird they're hard to follow, but he is easily one of the top living directors.

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Reply #46 posted 01/31/10 9:56pm

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N to tie it all together.

could you imagine?

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Reply #47 posted 01/31/10 10:01pm

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Also I have to throw this in.

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Reply #48 posted 01/31/10 10:51pm

Harlepolis	cborgman said: none of the three. i'd go with almodovar. I'd say Pedro Almodovar inherited the "women's director" tradition from George Cukor, and rightfully so only difference is, he's less accessible to some audience than George. And I agree with lazycrockett about Tarentino.
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Harlepolis	These are my fave: Hal Ashby Paul Mazursky Sydney Pollack Sidney Lumet Paul Thomas Anderson John Sayles
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Reply #50 posted 01/31/10 11:07pm

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Tyler Perry

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Reply #51 posted 01/31/10 11:12pm

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lazycrockett said:

^Nope the plot holes in that movie were so glaring that no matter how good the action was the movie fell short.

Oh I just gave birth to jedi twins, but have lost the will to live....horseshit.
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The whole story within the Star Wars prequel was more about why AND how Darth Vader came to be than anything else, never mind The Clone Wars saga.

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Reply #52 posted 01/31/10 11:15pm

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cborgman said:

lazycrockett said:

^ okay okay okay, you don't like lucas we get it.

he's the k-fed of directors.

Have you seen any of his other film outside of Star Wars? There's only two others...

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Reply #53 posted 01/31/10 11:17pm

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lazycrockett said:

N to tie it all together.

could you imagine?

Yes, He then turned around and did DUNE for the Delaurentis... that was almost surely because of the intial lead Lucas had offered.

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Reply #54 posted 01/31/10 11:18pm

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james cameron-- avatar, titanic, t2
george lucas-- star wars franchise, indiana jones franchise--lucas dolby sound
steven spielberg--jaws, close encounters, et, saving private ryan, schindler's list, 1941 lol

if i had to pick..Mr. Spielberg.

I don't care for Mr. Cameron movies, he's one of the reasons why I stop going to the movies. The Titanic was a piece of garbage and after that film most US films sucked to me. lol

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Reply #55 posted 01/31/10 11:21pm

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^AG is a good film and its okay direction wise as is star wars, after that all bets are off. The prequals sucked in more than the directing but thats a whole different can of worms.

The thing is Lucas once he got the star wars merchandise cash, decided to create an empire instead of directing, his passion took a different route. Which I'm fine with to each his own. He has been a pioneer in special effects and projector equipment n sound. the man is a genius no questions, but he's bored as a director.
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Reply #56 posted 01/31/10 11:26pm

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lazycrockett said:

Based on Lucas's student films and his first three films, you are right, he has given up trying to put out work of rounded artistic merit in the public eye. But, like Prince, he is rumored to make his own little experiments and shorts for himself. I think his greatest mistake is in underestimating the intelligence of the world, and thinking he was right in the world stupidity by measuring his more trashy efforts' monetary success. He is like a genius who is so stuck up he only thinks that we understand pies in the face as fun film.

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Reply #57 posted 01/31/10 11:28pm