who do you think is the most overrated filmmaker?

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"][QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

There are many. Most of these aren't bad director but I just dont love them like many do.

1. Tim Burton- He has only made 2 films I like, Big Fish, and Ed Wood.

2. Michael Mann

3. David Lynch

4. James Cameron

5. M. Night Shyamalan

Jackboot343

Signs, The Sixth Sense, and Unbreakable were good

[QUOTE="Jinroh_basic"]

Raging Bull was as far back as I went with Scorsese. The Colour of Money was great though. Sorry you didn't like Shutter Island, but i love it. not because of the plot twist, which really didn't matter, but because of of his masterful use of visual cues to build up the suspence. he also showed a genuine care for Teddy, which drew me further into the film. best film i've watched this so far.

biggest_loser

the question itself is the very answer why this film is great (imo anyway). Scorsese successfully created a perspective through which you can relate to the pain and anxiety of Teddy even as reality falls apart around him. not everything which "happened" has to be rock-solid reality. with Shutter Island, Scorsese shows me he can be a magician, and that's why i prefer it over Scorsese's other so-called classics.

I guess I might as well weigh in on my vote. I'm going for Tarantino. I love Pulp Fiction, and I rather enjoyed the Kill Bill movies, but I have to say his penchant for long-winded dialogue leaves a lot to be desired. I think I'm one of the few that didn't really care for Inglourious Basterds. I found it a bit boring :P

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"][QUOTE="Jinroh_basic"]

Raging Bull was as far back as I went with Scorsese. The Colour of Money was great though. Sorry you didn't like Shutter Island, but i love it. not because of the plot twist, which really didn't matter, but because of of his masterful use of visual cues to build up the suspence. he also showed a genuine care for Teddy, which drew me further into the film. best film i've watched this so far.

Jinroh_basic

the question itself is the very answer why this film is great (imo anyway). Scorsese successfully created a perspective through which you can relate to the pain and anxiety of Teddy even as reality falls apart around him. not everything which "happened" has to be rock-solid reality. with Shutter Island, Scorsese shows me he can be a magician, and that's why i prefer it over Scorsese's other so-called classics.

My favorite Scorsese films are After Hours, and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Nobody mentions those most of the time.

I guess I might as well weigh in on my vote. I'm going for Tarantino. I love Pulp Fiction, and I rather enjoyed the Kill Bill movies, but I have to say his penchant for long-winded dialogue leaves a lot to be desired. I think I'm one of the few that didn't really care for Inglourious Basterds. I found it a bit boring :P

jubino

[QUOTE="Daavpuke"][QUOTE="imaps3fanboy"]Uwe boll!imaps3fanboy

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

There are many. Most of these aren't bad director but I just dont love them like many do.

1. Tim Burton- He has only made 2 films I like, Big Fish, and Ed Wood.

2. Michael Mann

3. David Lynch

4. James Cameron

5. M. Night Shyamalan

Snipes_2

Sweeney Todd was okay, but I didn't like Johnny Depp, or Helena Bonham Carter. I have seen Sweeney Todd done so many times before, and Depp didn't fit the role at all. He just looked like a weird pale goth dude who tried to hard to look menacing.

[QUOTE="jubino"]

I guess I might as well weigh in on my vote. I'm going for Tarantino. I love Pulp Fiction, and I rather enjoyed the Kill Bill movies, but I have to say his penchant for long-winded dialogue leaves a lot to be desired. I think I'm one of the few that didn't really care for Inglourious Basterds. I found it a bit boring :P

Snipes_2

can only think of James Cameron....funsohng

[QUOTE="funsohng"]can only think of James Cameron....Plzhelpmelearn

imo, ScorseseJinroh_basic

I also don't enjoy many of the Coen brothers films.

[QUOTE="Plzhelpmelearn"][QUOTE="funsohng"]can only think of James Cameron....funsohng

[QUOTE="funsohng"]can only think of James Cameron....Plzhelpmelearn

James Cameron is the guy who directed avatar. Michael Bay directed transformers

James Cameron.

There are many. Most of these aren't bad director but I just dont love them like many do.

1. Tim Burton- He has only made 2 films I like, Big Fish, and Ed Wood.

2. Michael Mann

3. David Lynch

4. James Cameron

5. M. Night Shyamalan

Film-Guy

[QUOTE="Jinroh_basic"]

imo, ScorseseDman0017

I also don't enjoy many of the Coen brothers films.

Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick.

Okay, I kid. I can't even keep a straight face there. Seriously though, there are quite a few filmmakers that I think are vastly overrated:

Woody Allen, Roman Polanski (let's not turn this into a debate about his alleged crimes, please) and Francis Ford Coppola: These three have essentially made a career out of coasting on the success of their early films. While said early films, and the first two Godfather movies in particular, are undeniably brilliant, none of these guys have made anything worthwhile in many years. Match Point is debatable, but my point still stands. Now let's slaughter some sacred cows.

Kevin Smith. Movies made for the fifteen year old boy in all of us. His characters' smugness and more-clever-than-thou dialogue is infuriating.

Quentin Tarantino. The world's most successful pastiche artist. If it wasn't for Hong Kong cinema, he would not have a career.

George Lucas. The man never met a scene he didn't want to mangle with a beeping robot or some such BS. He writes the worst dialogue I've ever heard.

For what it's worth, I think Martin Scorcese, Chan-Wook Park and Kiyoshi Kurosawa are the best filmmakers working today. Wong Kar Wai, Lars von Trier and Todd Solondz are up there as well.

I'm not sure...plenty of the well known directors actually deserve the praise..

[QUOTE="Dman0017"]

[QUOTE="Jinroh_basic"]

imo, Scorsesespliffstar12

I also don't enjoy many of the Coen brothers films.

Woody Allen, Roman Polanski (let's not turn this into a debate about his alleged crimes, please) and Francis Ford Coppola: These three have essentially made a career out of coasting on the success of their early films. While said early films, and the first two Godfather movies in particular, are undeniably brilliant, none of these guys have made anything worthwhile in many years. Match Point is debatable, but my point still stands. Now let's slaughter some sacred cows.

drochnathair

You didn't think The Pianist was good? And I haven't seen The Ghost Writer but it's been getting great reviews...

[QUOTE="drochnathair"]

Woody Allen, Roman Polanski (let's not turn this into a debate about his alleged crimes, please) and Francis Ford Coppola: These three have essentially made a career out of coasting on the success of their early films. While said early films, and the first two Godfather movies in particular, are undeniably brilliant, none of these guys have made anything worthwhile in many years. Match Point is debatable, but my point still stands. Now let's slaughter some sacred cows.

JML897

You didn't think The Pianist was good? And I haven't seen The Ghost Writer but it's been getting great reviews...

[QUOTE="drochnathair"]

Woody Allen, Roman Polanski (let's not turn this into a debate about his alleged crimes, please) and Francis Ford Coppola: These three have essentially made a career out of coasting on the success of their early films. While said early films, and the first two Godfather movies in particular, are undeniably brilliant, none of these guys have made anything worthwhile in many years. Match Point is debatable, but my point still stands. Now let's slaughter some sacred cows.

JML897

You didn't think The Pianist was good? And I haven't seen The Ghost Writer but it's been getting great reviews...

[QUOTE="Jinroh_basic"]

imo, ScorseseDman0017

I also don't enjoy many of the Coen brothers films.

wow, i'd hate to see what directors you DO like...

Uwe boll!imaps3fanboy

[QUOTE="Dman0017"]

[QUOTE="Jinroh_basic"]

imo, Scorseselazerface216

I also don't enjoy many of the Coen brothers films.

wow, i'd hate to see what directors you DO like...

[QUOTE="imaps3fanboy"]Uwe boll!sonicare

Really hard to say, every popular director has movies I dislike, and some I love, even Michael Bay.

I have to say it'd be nice to see George Lucas do ANYTHING other than Star Wars. I mean, I loved American Graffiti but that was before Star Was IV was made.

anyone who says tim burton has no idea what they're talking about. sure he's released his fair share of duds (alice in wonderland, planet of the apes, charlie and the chocolate factory) but he's released way too many classic films to be considered overrated. edward scissorhands, beetlejuice, big fish, ed wood, sweeney todd, nightmare before christmas (didn't direct but created all the characters and had a huge part in the art direction), batman, sleepy hollow and corpse bride are all amazing films in their own right...

Peter Jackson

James Cameron super_mario_128

Just because you don't like Avatar doesn't mean Aliens and Terminator 1&2 don't rule the ass off of anything.

James Cameron, i never liked the terminator films =/

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"]James Cameron immortality20

Just because you don't like Avatar doesn't mean Aliens and Terminator 1&2 don't rule the ass off of anything.

Uwe boll!imaps3fanboy

Clint Eastwood
Quentin Tarantino
Alfonso Cuaron (don't hate me)

I never cared much for Oliver Stone.

Peter Jackson

iwilson1296

this

[QUOTE="iwilson1296"]

Peter Jackson

kidsmelly

this