Who's the Better Director?

[bunk]

What is the "one trick"?

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Lord of the Rings

 

[TLH]

I vote Zemeckis.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Zemeckis is more diverse and has more classics. Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future and Forrest Gump are all classics. Peter Jackson is a one trick pony.

Zemeckis

Oh yeah, screw Heavenly Creatures, King Kong, Dead Alive, and the Frighteners. And Forrest Gump is laughable. How is Zemeckis more diverse? You got it completely backwards. Zemeckis' forays into technological/special effects "revolutions" are almost always ho-hum at best and drivel at worst. He's got Back to the Future, Beowulf, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Back to the Future II and Cast Away are middling. If Forrest Gump, Polar Express, Contact, What Lies Beneath, Death Becomes Her, and Back to the Future III are your idea of good films then I'm not sure what to say.

Meanwhile Jackson has King Kong, The Frighteners, DeadAlive, and Heavenly Creatures on top of the LOTR movies. The deck is heavily stacked.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Forrest Gump is a better movie than King Kong or the Frighteners.

King Kong is just a silly movie. And the Frighteners is forgettable, no better than Death Becomes Her.

Back to the Future and Roger Rabbit are timeless classics. Few directors make one, let alone two, of those.

 

[returntovoid]

Peter Jackson.

 

[omid17]

Peter Jackson

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Zemeckis

 

[gwynplaine]

I reserve judgement until I see The Lovely Bones and A Christmas Carol.

 

[gwynplaine]

Carpenter...no contest really.

Aside from the original Nightmare on Elm Street and The Last House on the Left I don't think Craven has done that many good films.

Also Scream imo.

 

[Rukus]

Zemeckis

 

[Max J Power]

Jackson.

 

[Bunker]

Petey.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Peter Jackson.

 

[Sentinel X]

Peter Jackson.

His movies are made better and he is really creative...He and his crew helped create an entire new world with the Lord of the Rings franchise and King Kong.
Robert has kind of annoyed me with his mo-cap films...enough already.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Zemeckis

 

[nite-owl]

Jackson, easily.

 

[Mister H.]

They've both made three good films. But as much as I like
Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and Forrest Gump, they simply can't be mentioned in the same breath as Jackson's LOTR trilogy.


Peter Jackson

 

[TLH]

Jackson wins.

Just to keep the thread going, hope it's okay I suggest another match up:

Christopher Nolan vs. David Fincher

 

[Mister H.]

Let me catch up here:

Spielberg vs Cameron - Spielberg
Hitchcock vs Kubrick - tie (sorry)
Eastwood vs Scorcese - Eastwood
Carpenter vs Craven - Carpenter
Jackson vs Zemeckis - Jackson
Nolan vs Fincher - Nolan

 

[Mister H.]

Shouldn't it be more like George Lucas vs Peter Jackson? Or Francis Ford Coppola vs Martin Scorcese? Or Mel Gibson vs Clint Eastwood? Seems like people could think about these matchups a little more, pitting directors with a common vision against one another.

Don't get me wrong, the other matchups are perfect, but the ones I mentioned would be an improvement over the ones we were given.

No offense to anyone, just needed to say that :P

 

[gwynplaine]

Nolan.

 

[nite-owl]

Fincher.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Fincher

 

[TLH]

Shouldn't it be more like George Lucas vs Peter Jackson? Or Francis Ford Coppola vs Martin Scorcese? Or Mel Gibson vs Clint Eastwood? Seems like people could think about these matchups a little more, pitting directors with a common vision against one another.

Don't get me wrong, the other matchups are perfect, but the ones I mentioned would be an improvement over the ones we were given.

No offense to anyone, just needed to say that :P

I think what makes it interesting is when you have directors with differing styles but equal esteem/reputation going up against one another. It forces people to really think what makes one director better than the other. If you have comparable directors, in some cases, it just becomes a matter of "well, whose movies did I like more?" because the style and everything is virtually the same.