Directors we need to see more of

[craigdbfan]

No thanks. Dudes long over his edge. Just like Carpenter and Romero. Sometimes directors should just retire. Pull a Lucas, so to say.

No thanks to everything you just wrote.

 

[MadVillainy]

Duncan Jones. Source Code came out last year (feels longer to me) but yeah I'd like to see more of him. Same with Neil Blomkamp. I know he's doign Elysium next though

 

[craigdbfan]

Definitely more Duncan Jones. Loved Source Code and I still haven't seen Moon (I know I should get on that).

 

[Lord]

Joss Whedon
Quentin Tarantino
Sam Raimi
James Cameron (He should try more films besides Avatar 2)
Ridley Scott (He should make more science fiction films while there's still time, the man's damn good with that genre)
Duncan Jones
Sophia Coppola

 

[DarkSovereignty]

joseph kosinksi.

 

[Jordacar]

joseph kosinksi.

I just looked up next year's Oblivion. It sounds awesome.

 

[8wid]

James Cameron going back to the Terminator franchise and finishing the story of John Connor and not spending the rest of his career completing sequels to Avatar.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I'd love it if he made another action movie in the vain of True Lies.

 

[moviedoors]

I want to see James Cameron work in film more and I'm totally fine with more Avatar movies. I unashamedly love that movie.

But he's doing real work for science, so I can give him a pass. Take your time man.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

maybe he should do what lucas did and focus on producing the ideas he doesn't have time to direct himself.

 

[moviedoors]

Nah, I don't agree. Cameron has his weak spots, without a doubt, but there's things he does that he is simply unparalleled at. It would be a shame to lose that true nuts and blots mastery he has. The way he edits and structures on film, and I don't mean in a macro sense but in a literal shot to shot to shot sense, he is a ****ing genius on the level of Spielberg. It's easy to overlook because when it works, it's like good sound work; it's practically invisible. That is a skill to be cherished.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I just saw the watch today and I wouldn't mind seeing more from akiva Schafer. The movie was very well shot (and I felt it was well written, at least as far as the alien elements and story structure were concerned). Overall I didn't hate it, and his directing helped that greatly, I especially loved that they went practical with the aliens.

 

[Jordacar]

Louis Leterrier. Titans was meh, but he handled Incredible Hulk like a pro.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Joe Wright in terms of action movies. I feel like him going back to do yet another period piece movie is regression after Hanna.

James Cameron going back to the Terminator franchise and finishing the story of John Connor and not spending the rest of his career completing sequels to Avatar.

He's done with Terminator. His vision was done with Terminator 2. I'd rather him do Avatar movies than have him jump on the sinking ship that is the Terminator franchise.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Robert Rodriguez. I really like his films and I want to see more of 'em.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Chris Columbus. He knows how to make amazing fantasy films.

 

[Thedudehimself]

Robert Rodriguez. I really like his films and I want to see more of 'em.

I dont really know what to think of Rodriguez. Its like he is living in 2 different film worlds. I really like one of them. The other one...not so much. I let you guess which is which.

However, this is a very special thing, not many directors have 2 so different styles to them. If Rodriguez would have made these Kids-flicks under a Pseudonym no one would ever figure out they are by him.

(On the other hand, who the hell wants Rodriguez to do these kiddie movies? I guess he is the only one who wants to them. No moviegoer is exactly asking for Spykids.)

 

[Matt Mortem]

I dont really know what to think of Rodriguez. Its like he is living in 2 different film worlds. I really like one of them. The other one...not so much. I let you guess which is which.

However, this is a very special thing, not many directors have 2 so different styles to them. If Rodriguez would have made these Kids-flicks under a Pseudonym no one would ever figure out they are by him.

(On the other hand, who the hell wants Rodriguez to do these kiddie movies? I guess he is the only one who wants to them. No moviegoer is exactly asking for Spykids.)

I kind of agree. I don't like the Spy Kids films, but the stuff he does outside that I tend to really enjoy. Hell, I even liked The Faculty.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

The first two or three Spy Kids movies were pretty well-liked, but after that, yeah, I'd agree on that "no one's asking for more Spy Kids movies" thing.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Chris Columbus. He knows how to make amazing fantasy films.

Eh, not really. I thought his Harry Potter movies were the weakest and Percy Jackson was awful.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

agreed, I always found that chris columbus has all the weakpoints of his mentor speilberg, (as in catering the overly sentimental, almost saccharine) but not the stong points.

 

[Lord]

I actually liked the first Spy Kids movies a lot, i was a kid then but tey did get a very good reception, the thing is that everything went to hell after that. I didn't even watch the 4th one.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Eh, not really. I thought his Harry Potter movies were the weakest and Percy Jackson was awful.

To me the later Harry Potter movies, up until the last three, never could quite measure up to the first two. Maybe it's just that I prefer a certain sense of innocence or child-like magic to all the darkness that's getting put into films that don't really need it. Basically his films make me feel like a child again, the wonders and joy of that time period - versus asking what the audience of a film really is. Due to that, I only own five HP films - the first two and last three - only ones I really liked.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I wouldn't say the series didn't need it, especially considering that the books also got darker with each one which reflected them growing up and being increasinly involved with the magic world.

At the same time I do understand what you mean, the first two movies did have a childlike innocence but my problem with them was the style, look, and the acting of the first two movies. I don't think they're bad at all, but at the same time I find all the others ones better, with maybe except for Goblet of Fire.

 

[Ultimatehero]

He's the guy who got the cast together, knew who the right kids were, created the look of Hogwarts, and found the cinematic way to present Quidditch. Not to mention everything else that's remained a staple to the very end of the series. So, in my view - he set everything up for the others to come in on.

All the other directors seemed to bring were muddy camera lenses, a constant gray sky and needless gothic design patterns. While the books did get darker, I highly doubt they got to the point where that would be the right palette. I'm not even sure how many directors got brought on between him and the last guy because they all blended together way too much. What I do know is that after Chris, the only guy to last was the last guy they brought on. Which tells me he was the only one similarly capable of capturing both the studio's, the author's, and the audience's attention or else one of those in-between directors would have stuck around. You want maturity and growth, you go after the themes and character dynamics - not making something look overly gothic at times. Maturity is one thing, scarier creatures is one thing, unnecessary darkness is completely another. To me the in-between HP films are, at times, even darker than the darkest scenes of LOTR - which wasn't the case for the guy who introduced it to film or the guy who finished it in film, which tells me that probably wasn't the case of the books in-between and rather what the other directors did.