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Added 2021-04-02 20:54:55 +0000 UTCWho do you think is the most overrated director and why?
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. I use to stan him back in high school, especially when The Revenant came out. But over the years, I can’t stand his style. Amores Perros is still my favorite films of all time and Birdman tickles my theater side, but the rest of his films are packed filled with pretentious presentations, overlong runtimes, and unnecessarily cruel story beats that sometimes are the only way to give a character “depth”. 17 Year Old me would be pissed off of what I just said.
FilmLoverMike
2021-04-05 10:38:57 +0000 UTCJean Luc Godard, the only thing he’s good for is editing lmao
nick moose
2021-04-03 15:52:32 +0000 UTCBoth Spielberg's and Zemeckis' classic films aren't all that great.
Tony Moro
2021-04-03 01:22:28 +0000 UTCI don't want to undercut his talent cause I do think he's super talented and really loved Get Out and liked Us. I just don't agree that he should be hailed as much as he is. Really good director but not better than so many of of other great horror directors making waves.
Tyler Shobe
2021-04-03 01:14:38 +0000 UTCYeah I agree. I'm one of the few people out there that prefers Us to Get Out. Just felt it had a better script (even though there are serious plot holes with the twist) and Peele seemed overall more confident as a director.
Stephen
2021-04-03 01:10:55 +0000 UTCI mean Kaufman didn't really swing at him. The joke wasn't even in the script and Zemeckis signed off on his name appearing so he's clearly in on the joke. Like his movies or not, at least he's self aware.
Tyler Shobe
2021-04-02 23:47:31 +0000 UTCRobert Zemeckis - this guy lives and breathes schmaltzy. I do enjoy the Back to the Future films but everything else, I’ll pass. And have you seen his directing credits over the past 20 years? It's a bunch of uncanny valley, CGI half-humans. I laughed out loud when Charlie Kaufman took a swing at him in "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" because he totally deserved it.
Emerson B
2021-04-02 23:43:24 +0000 UTCI’ll have to go with Terrence Malick. There’s no question—with his lyrical magic-hour reverie of all things nature—that he’s a great imagist. You wouldn’t mistake a shot from one of his films for shots from any other film (not even his imitators quite have his touch). I’m also able to respect what he goes for with those images: a kind of God’s-eye view of a hidden divine world that exists beyond the reach of men locked into means of brutal force. But Malick’s insistence on standing outside the story he’s telling to evoke that world does not make for an involving film, and he is a director who falls into pretension far more often than he achieves moments of transcendence. For every wondrous image that imprints itself into your brain, there is a thudding portentous voiceover that sounds like it was written by the world’s most irksome philosophy major. And because nature is his true lead, the actors involved aren’t allowed to make much of an impression to the point that you wonder why such A-listers even bothered to show up. I’ll always be eager to see what he does next, but I don’t place Malick as a god among filmmakers the way others do. He could stand to embrace narrative a little bit more.
Bennett Oliver
2021-04-02 23:14:51 +0000 UTCIs it too easy to pick JJ Abrams? 🤣🤣🤣
Tony Moro
2021-04-02 22:10:11 +0000 UTCSteven Spielberg. Don't get me wrong: he's made some legendary films, and he's far from a bad director. But he's often held up as a director that turns everything he touches to gold, and I think his output is much more hot-and-cold. Capable of greatness when he hits the mark, for sure. And he's hit the mark a lot. But he's also missed the mark a lot...
Derek H.
2021-04-02 21:40:40 +0000 UTCI don't understand the appeal of Tarantino's films at all. I've never liked his style. Too goofy and silly.
Tony Moro
2021-04-02 21:19:29 +0000 UTCD.W. Griffith. Film would've gotten along without him just fine. We might even have a more interesting type of cinema, and certainly one not based in extremely damaging racism. If people hadn't adopted the Griffith model of filmmaking one can only imagine what cinema would be like today.
Philip Brubaker
2021-04-02 21:11:56 +0000 UTCBlake Edwards. Even though Breakfast a Tiffany's is one of my favorite movies, the comedy is the weakest part. He's considered one of the great comic directors but I find his comedy films are too juvenile and cartoony for me. I find him to be way better at drama which I wish he did more of. See his criminally underrated Days of Wine and Roses.
Wolfman Brandon
2021-04-02 21:07:28 +0000 UTCAnd any of his films that did have resemble plots and characters, I'm presuming that came primarily from his brother who was a cowriter on The Prestige, Memento, Interstellar and The Dark Knight.
Tyler Shobe
2021-04-02 21:05:33 +0000 UTCRight now, Jordan Peele. He's often times hyped up as the next (insert great horror director) when I think in reality he's just another voice in a growing sea of quality horror directors we've seen rise over the last decade. Maybe it's cause of the politically charged and liberally leaning politics he bases his narrative arounds that he gets so many accolades but I don't see why he's put on a different pedestal than your Ari Aster's or Robert Egger's
Tyler Shobe
2021-04-02 21:00:29 +0000 UTCHANDS DOWN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN!!! He's NOT a director. He's an engineer. He doesn't understand characters and story and plot development at all.
Tony Moro
2021-04-02 20:59:59 +0000 UTC
