Best Films by Directors

[IanTheCool]

Alright, the idea of this thread is simple. I'll name a director and everyone gives there opinion on what is the best film that director has done.

We'll start with the most obvious.

Steven Speilberg

My choice: schindler's list.

[JBond]

Schindler's List

[DeadFlagBlues]

Jaws.

Although I do like Schindler's List and Close Encounters. But Jaws has to be my favorite.

[rosncranz]

Jaws-without question.

[JBond]

Hmm, I forgot about Close Encounters...I'm not sure, now.

[moviebuff801]

Schindler's List...and maybe Munich in second place; that film has really stuck with me since the first time I saw it.

[Knerys]

I'm gonna go with Jaws because he made that mechanical monsterosity scary as hell!

[Ramplate]

Wow hard choice.

Saving Private Ryan (although The Color Purple is right up there - the book Jaws scared me more than the movie)

[chewie]

The best film that Spielberg has done is Schindler's List, but my favorite is Raiders of the Lost Ark

[PsYkOoOoO]

Schindler's List.

Made me cry like a baby for two weeks.

[Ramplate]

Guess I should watch Schindlers List huh.

[halo7]

Jurassic Park.

[iv3rdawG]

Schindler's List followed closely by Jurassic Park.

[Das War]

OLD BOY by Chan Wook Park

PULSE by Kiyoshi Kurasawa

[Knerys]

pssst ...we're on Steven Spielberg. ;)

[SnoBorderZero]

Wow, pick the best movie from the best there is, that is tough. His best is probably Schindler's List, but my personal favorite is definitely Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[Where's my elephant?]

Saving Private Ryan

[Boiiinng]

Amistad

[McGourgh]

Schindler's List.

[prizm]

raiders

[IanTheCool]

Well looks like the general concensus is Schindler's List (8) with Jaws in second (3).
Next up:

Stanley Kubrick


My Choice: Dr. Strangelove

[McGourgh]

2001: A Space Odyssey

[WuTical]

A Clockwork Orange

[sshuttari]

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN!!!!

[FranklinTard]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Dr.Strangelove... Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb is so close to topping 2001.

[prizm]

the shining

[halo7]

Full Metal Jacket

[SnoBorderZero]

Have only seen 2001, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange and I'm not big on either of them, but I would have to say that 2001 is the best of those three.

[JBond]

2001: A Space Odyssey

[Boiiinng]

Full Metal Jacket

[DeadFlagBlues]

2001: A Space Odyssey

One of my all-time favorites.

[Knerys]

A Clockwork Orange

[the elmo zombie]

oooohhh its a toss up between shining and strangelove, but ill go with shining since strangelove is owned by sony and sony is the devil

[Matrix_Fan]

Full Metal Jacket

[sshuttari]

2001

[HaDoKen]

A Clockwork Orange

[chewie]

full metal jacket

[IanTheCool]

well, 2001 appears to be kubricks best (6) with full metal jacket (4) in the second spot.

Next director:

James Cameron

My pick: Terminator 2

[iv3rdawG]

Aliens. Although I love T2.

[Matrix_Fan]

Terminator 2

[Boiiinng]

The Abyss

[WuTical]

Terminator 2

[DeadFlagBlues]

The Abyss

[rosncranz]

Aliens!!!!!

[halo7]

T2

[JBond]

Terminator 2

[Knerys]

Not one of my favorite peolpe but......


The Abyss

[prizm]

Terminator 2

[Where's my elephant?]

True Lies

[JBond]

Not one of my favorite peolpe but......

I hope you mean as a person and not a director/writer. ;)

[moviebuff801]

Is Titanic being entirely forgotten here?

[JBond]

No.

[McGourgh]

T2.

[Matrix_Fan]

Is Titanic being entirely forgotten here?

No, Titanic is great (as much as I hate to admit it), but Terminator 2 is awesome.

[HaDoKen]

T2

[chewie]

Aquaman.

wait no.........T2

[IanTheCool]

Well, terminator 2 took this one in a landslide.

Next up:

Ridley Scott

My choice for this one has got to be Alien

[halo7]

Alien (Black Hawk Down a close second)

[iv3rdawG]

Alien

[Knerys]

I hope you mean as a person and not a director/writer. ;)

I hate it when jerks have talent. :p

[Knerys]

For Ridley.....Blade Runner.


It deserve at least one vote.

[meatwadsprite3]

blade runner

[JBond]

Blade Runner

[HaDoKen]

blade runner

[Matrix_Fan]

Gladiator

[chewie]

Gladiator

[WuTical]

Gladiator

[DeadFlagBlues]

Blade Runner

[Ramplate]

Alien

(for Cameron Aliens, for Kubrik A Clockwork Orange)

[Papa]

Hannibal

[Dracula]

Blade Runner

[kel thuzad]

Definitely Blade Runner.

[moviebuff801]

Blade Runner, hands down.

[DeadFlagBlues]

Is Titanic being entirely forgotten here?

Trying to, at least.

[McGourgh]

Have yet to see Blade Runner (shame on me ..), so vote goes to Alien.

[IanTheCool]

well, looks like blade runner is the winner (8), much to my chagrin. Alien is second with 5.

(i gotta say im surprised Hannibal got a vote.)

Alright, next up should be interesting.

Alfred Hitchcock

My vote: north by northwest

[Ramplate]

Psycho

[McGourgh]

Rear Window

[moviebuff801]

Gonna have to go with Rear Window.

[halo7]

North by Northwest

[JokerNick]

birds
(alien, aliens, shinning, raiders)

[kel thuzad]

Vertigo

[WuTical]

Psycho

[DeadFlagBlues]

Shadow of a Doubt

[the elmo zombie]

Psycho

[JBond]

Psycho

[chewie]

Rear Window

[Knerys]

well, looks like blade runner is the winner (8), much to my chagrin. Alien is second with 5.

Oh my god, it won. Nice. :)



And I gonna say The Birds.

Becasue that movie scared the tar out of me when I was little.

[IanTheCool]

Psycho (4) edges out Rear Window (3)

next:

Quentin Tarantino

Pretty sure i know who will win, but anyways.

My choice: Pulp Fiction

[DeadFlagBlues]

Reservoir Dogs

[iv3rdawG]

If I can count Kill Bill as one film it gets my vote. But then if not Kill Bill Vol. 2 gets my vote followed closley by Pulp Fiction.

[halo7]

Pulp Fiction

[JBond]

Pulp Fiction

[Matrix_Fan]

Pulp Fiction

[Knerys]

Pulp Fiction

[Sora Kahn]

Pulp Fiction

[chewie]

Pulp Fiction

[HaDoKen]

Reservoir Dogs

[McGourgh]

Reservoir Dogs.

[WuTical]

Pulp Fiction

[Ramplate]

Resevoir Dpgs

[XtRaVa]

Pulp Fiction

[prizm]

reservoir dogs

[IanTheCool]

well, the obvious winner here was indeed pulp fiction (9) with resevoir dogs second (5). no jackie brown?? lol

next up:Martin Scorcese

im going to go with goodfellas

[McGourgh]

Raging Bull.

[Ramplate]

Taxi Driver

[iv3rdawG]

Goodfellas

[kel thuzad]

Hm, I like Casino the best but i consider Raging Bull a better movie
Raging Bull.

[chewie]

Taxi Driver

[sshuttari]

Goodfellas

[DeadFlagBlues]

Hard choice, but Mean Streets.

[WuTical]

Goodfellas

[Where's my elephant?]

Goodfellas which I recently saw for the 1st time.

[meatwadsprite3]

departed by a nose , closely followed by goodfellas

[prizm]

goodfellas

[Boiiinng]

The Departed

[Matrix_Fan]

The Departed

[casablanca3]

goodfellas is my favorite but raging bull is his finest movie

[Knerys]

Goodfellas

[HaDoKen]

The Departed

[kel thuzad]

Eghm, nothing against your personal taste people but I would really like to know how many Scorseses movies have people who voted for Departed actually seen...
?

[FranklinTard]

casino

[moviebuff801]

The Departed w/ Goodfellas in an extremely close second place.

[IanTheCool]

Goodfellas wins with (7), and departed surprisingly takes the second spot (5)

Next up:

Kevin Smith

my choice: clerks

[DeadFlagBlues]

Dogma.

Not a fan of Kevin Smith, though.

[McGourgh]

Dogma.

[moviebuff801]

Clerks

[Knerys]

Dogma

[FranklinTard]

clerks. although i enjoyed the second one probably as much if not more, i can not let dogma win.

[Knerys]

Aww what's wrong with Dogma? (Granted it was a toss up between Clerks and Dogma for me...)

[XtRaVa]

Dogma I guess.

[WuTical]

Clerks

[iv3rdawG]

Clerks. Although I loved Clerks 2 and Chasing Amy.

[chewie]

Mallrats

[JBond]

Dogma

[kel thuzad]

Clerks

[rosncranz]

Chasing Amy-- the only real mature film he has made. I like his films, but I would like more maturity in some of them, like Amy.

[prizm]

mallrats

[Papa]

Clerks 2

[Matrix_Fan]

Dogma

[Ramplate]

Clerks

[Andrey83]

Clerks

[keefies]

Clerks 2. It was almost great.

[griffolyon12]

Dogma.

[IanTheCool]

It was a close one, but Clerks (8) just managed to edge out Dogma (7). probably because Clerks had Salsa Shark.

Next on the list:

Oliver Stone

My Choice: Platoon

[JBond]

Platoon

[Where's my elephant?]

Wall Street

[HaDoKen]

platoon

[DeadFlagBlues]

Natural Born Killers

[McGourgh]

Platoon.

[moviebuff801]

World Trade Center...it was his most straightforward piece of work.

[kel thuzad]

This is a tough one...

Platoon by a hair of three others (The Doors, Nixon, U-turn).

[Boiiinng]

I...CAN'T...CHOOSE!!!

OK, fine...JFK.

[chewie]

Platoon

[IanTheCool]

Platoon takes it with 6.

Next:

David Fincher

my choice: Seven

[prizm]

natural born killers

[HaDoKen]

se7en

[Matrix_Fan]

Fight Club

[Scorpio82]

Fight Club.

[Panther2000]

Seven

[McGourgh]

Damn, Fight Club or Seven .... Hmmmmm .....
I´ll go with Seven, very hard choice though.

[Ramplate]

Se7en - yeah hard choice between the two

[Boiiinng]

The Game

[JBond]

Fight Club

[moviebuff801]

Fight Club

[chewie]

Se7en

[Knerys]

Fight Club.


That movie is soon becoming one of my top ten....

[kel thuzad]

Hard choice...

Seven

[DeadFlagBlues]

Se7en

[Where's my elephant?]

Fight Club

[Nilade]

Fightclub

[prizm]

hard choice, but i'm gonna go with the unpopular vote and say alien 3

[IanTheCool]

Seven(8) just barely beats out fight club (7).

Next up:

David Lean

My choice: Lawrence of Arabia

[Ramplate]

The Bridge on the River Kwai

[McGourgh]

Lawrence of Arabia

[Kronos]

Lawrence.

[DeadFlagBlues]

Lawrence of Arabia

[moviebuff801]

Lawrence Of Arabia

[kel thuzad]

Lawrence

[Knerys]

The Bridge on the River Kwai

[chewie]

The Bridge on the River Kwai

[Ben Richards]

The Bridge on the River Kwai

[Cristo]

Lawrence

[IanTheCool]

Lawrence of Arabia(7) over River Kwai(4)

next:

Peter Jackson


my choice: fellowship of the ring

[McGourgh]

Return Of The King.

[JBond]

Fellowship of the RIng

[Knerys]

If we can just say The Lord of the Rings, then:

The Lord of the Rings.


If not:

The Return of the King (if for the Denethor/Pippin/Osgilioth scene alone!)

[DGHOST]

Dead Alive, just for the gross out scene with the puss. Classic!

[HaDoKen]

The Return of the King

[Ramplate]

Fellowship

[kel thuzad]

FotR

[Matrix_Fan]

The Return of the King

[chewie]

Return of the King

[IanTheCool]

well, i guess return of the king wins.

next up:

Ron Howard

my choice: apollo 13

[HaDoKen]

Apollo 13 for me too

Houston we have a problem.

[McGourgh]

A Beautiful Mind.

[Tolkien]

Apollo 13 for me as well.

[Knerys]

Apollo 13

though I will admit I'm a little biased heh.

[Ramplate]

A Beautiful Mind

[Where's my elephant?]

Cocoon - The 1st non G rated movie I ever saw in a theater.

[chewie]

Cinderella Man

[IanTheCool]

Apollo 13

though I will admit I'm a little biased heh.

why, are you an astronaut? or are you kevin bacon?

[moviebuff801]

A Beautiful Mind; that movie just had me entranced all the way through.

[WuTical]

A Beautiful Mind

[Boiiinng]

Backdraft

[DeadFlagBlues]

Apollo 13

[Ramplate]

Backdraft

Glad you liked it - but my nephew is a fireman and he picked it apart for all the mistakes they made.

[sshuttari]

Apollo 13

[Jack]

Parenthood

[casablanca3]

apollo 13

[IanTheCool]

Apollo 13 (7) with beautiful mind second (4)

next:

Francis Ford Coppola

my choice: Godfather

[moviebuff801]

The Godfather, easily.

[Ramplate]

Wow I loved The Rainmaker, Apocalypse Now, liked The Cotton Club and Dracula - but yeah

The Godfather is the one

[iv3rdawG]

Apocalypse Now

[DeadFlagBlues]

Apocalypse Now

This is a difficult one. I love Rumble Fish, The Godfather, and The Conversation.

[McGourgh]

The Godfather.

[Matrix_Fan]

The Godfather

[sshuttari]

Godfather

[kel thuzad]

Apocalypse Now, no contest. Although Godfathers are brilliant...

[jbailey84]

Apocalypse Now

[JBond]

Apocalypse Now

[casablanca3]

godfather 2

[Where's my elephant?]

Godfather

[DGHOST]

The Godfather

[Downhere]

The Godfather

[HaDoKen]

godfather

[IanTheCool]

Well, this was much mor of a fight than i was expecting. Godfather (10) wins over Apocalypse Now (5).

Next:

M. Night Shyamalan

My choice: The Sixth Sense

[Matrix_Fan]

Unbreakable

[WuTical]

Unbreakable

[kel thuzad]

Unbreakable

[DeadFlagBlues]

Unbreakable

[Where's my elephant?]

Unbreakable

[prizm]

unbreakable

[moviebuff801]

Signs

[JBond]

Unbreakable

[sshuttari]

Signs

[chewie]

Unbreakable

[Ramplate]

Sixth Sense

(Signs was a suspense thriller - it left me in suspense wondering when it was going to thrill me)

[Knerys]

Sixth Sense

[HaDoKen]

Sixth Sense

[Boiiinng]

Unbreakable

[Handsome Rob]

not to be a lemur but Unbreakable.

[DGHOST]

Signs

[Cristo]

Unbreakable

[Knerys]

Next Please!

[prizm]

unbreakable

[IanTheCool]

wow, unbreakable cleans up with 11.

Next up:

Christopher Nolan

My choice: Batman Begins

[DeadFlagBlues]

Memento

This is a tough one, though. I really liked Insomnia.

[Matrix_Fan]

Batman Begins

[WuTical]

Batman Begins