Total Film's 100 greatest directors

[C.F. Kane]

Part 1: 100-51

Part 2: 50-1

 

[Mr. Credible]

they lost me when the put peter jackson at #9.


that man has only made 2 enjoyable movies: the frighteners and dead alive... and both of those movie kind of sucked, too.


he is the most overrated thing since the word overrated.

 

[Ender Durden]

no, he's not overrated but it definitely is too soon for him to be at 9

 

[BeserkerHilf]

lost me with 99.


god i ****ing hate her.

 

[Ender Durden]

why?

i happen to love everything shes directed.

 

[Cyrusbales]

That list is massively whacked.

 

[Dodger]

I hate how every director has a caption. Cheese.

 

[Prognosticator]

Great list. As usual (with any publication), the names are completely scattered out of order so that the whole thing would be read.

 

[Prognosticator]

Well, I just finished reading the entire 100 directors.


Sophia Copola.....but no Robert Zemeckis??


Oooookay.

 

[Penismightier]

Yeah, Brian De Palma is better than D.W. Griffith and Frederico Fellini. And it wasn't even close. And Christopher Nolan has already eclipsed Fellini, Griffith, and Fritz Lang in terms of career achievement. And Peter Jackson is just so close to the greatness of Ingmar Bergman. This list smacks of trying to be controversial.

 

[Sava]

James Cameron..39?.... give me a f**king break!!! :

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I love Sophia but no Bay?!

 

[Penismightier]

Michael Bay is nowhere close to one of the 100 greatest directors.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

they lost me when the put peter jackson at #9.


that man has only made 2 enjoyable movies: the frighteners and dead alive... and both of those movie kind of sucked, too.


he is the most overrated thing since the word overrated.

The Academy Awards say otherwise.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

sophia sucks. sam raimi? the guy is a hack.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I give him credit for The Frighteners.

 

[Prognosticator]

I love Sophia but no Bay?!

sophia sucks. sam raimi? the guy is a hack.

Yeah! And where's Brett Ratner?!?!







...But seriously, Bryan Singer - "The New Spielberg"!?! .....F#ck me!

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Smith wishes he could utilize the Fleck like Bay

 

[Penismightier]

The Academy Awards say otherwise.

Dude, Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, and Mel Gibson have Oscars for Best Director. It doesn't mean they are great directors. And let's not get into the Academy's mistakes.

 

[Penismightier]

I just re-checked the list. David Fincher and Peter Jackson are higher than Akira Kurosawa. I'm convinced they were trying to ruffle feathers with this.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

Dude, Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, and Mel Gibson have Oscars for Best Director. It doesn't mean they are great directors. And let's not get into the Academy's mistakes.

Academy mistakes? You do realize that there is no such thing as an Academy mistake right? But seriously Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves is a brilliant film, I was never a fan of Redford, and Mel Gibson's Braveheart, Passion of the Christ, and Apocalypto are great films too.

I remember they said Marisa Tomei winning an oscar was a mistake, and it was proven that if it was a mistake they'd announce the correct winner immediately. So your theory of "academy mistakes" is thrown out of the window.

You don't sweep the Academy Awards by making a crappy film. The Lord of the Rings trilogy are critically acclaimed and are liked by almost everyone, not everyone likes them, but I have yet to meet a person that hates the movies.

 

[Prognosticator]

I'm going to give Robert Redford his due. He's directed some of my favorite movies.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I just re-checked the list. David Fincher and Peter Jackson are higher than Akira Kurosawa. I'm convinced they were trying to ruffle feathers with this.

Absolutely. Except they went for the safest, default choice for number one.

 

[Penismightier]

Academy mistakes? You do realize that there is no such thing as an Academy mistake right? But seriously Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves is a brilliant film, I was never a fan of Redford, and Mel Gibson's Braveheart, Passion of the Christ, and Apocalypto are great films too.

I remember they said Marisa Tomei winning an oscar was a mistake, and it was proven that if it was a mistake they'd announce the correct winner immediately. So your theory of "academy mistakes" is thrown out of the window.

You don't sweep the Academy Awards by making a crappy film. The Lord of the Rings trilogy are critically acclaimed and are liked by almost everyone, not everyone likes them, but I have yet to meet a person that hates the movies.

Cher and Julia Roberts each have one more Oscar than Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, and Alfred Hitchcock combined. And I know someone will bring up the argument that its actresses and directors, but my point can also be made with Costner, Redford, and Gibson. To say that the Academy is the end all, be all with movie recognition is beyond stupid.

 

[Penismightier]

Absolutely. Except they went for the safest, default choice for number one.

Oh yeah, they'll put Hitchcock on the cover and people will buy it because it looks prestigious and accurately done. Of course, once they get home and start reading it they'll realize how worthless the list is. And while they will make money, the magazine is going to get a lot of letters to the editor.