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If you love a movie, you'll want to explore other works from the same director. Luckily for movie fans, the greatest directors are usually quite prolific. Discuss the directors you find admirable or over-rated.

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10 days ago

Review Icon Mickeyv reviewed 1962 Ride the High Country in Sam Peckinpah's Movies or Films:
Arguably Peckinpah's best. Action, heart, sex, Peckinpah's continual theme of friendship versus moral commitment, this film has it all. The Sierras don't make too shabby of a backdrop either. If this isn't his best it comes in second only to "The Wild Bunch". Unlike "The Wild Bunch" the script here is impeccable and completely unpretentious. The scope is more limited, as is the subject matter, but they share (Along with "Pat Garret and Billy the Kid") the same themes of friendship, betrayal and moral commitment. If you haven't seen yet you're so lucky because a great movie is just waiting to fulfill your viewing pleasure.
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13 days ago

Review Icon FranksWildYears reviewed Clint Eastwood in Movies: 3rd Tier Directors:
I'd rate him a five because the rating system says a 5 is an upgrade to the next tier.

As a director he epitomizes no-nonsense, linear, story telling, with economy that is completely out of step with modern Hollywood. I've never discussed an Easwood movie with anyone where the subject of the quality of the Special Effects came up in the conversation. I envisage that he takes the script out of the hands of the writer and gives it to the actors and says "We'll shoot page one on Monday." Sometimes the results are a little flat, but its always honest and worth a couple of hours of your time.

As he ages, he's also gotten better at picking scripts too.
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14 days ago

Review Icon irishgit reviewed Clint Eastwood in Movies: 3rd Tier Directors:
This guy is all over the map as a director. There is some great stuff here: The Unforgiven, Outlaw Josey Wales. There is some solid stuff: Pale Rider, Gran Torino, Bird. There is a lot of mediocre stuff: Play Misty for Me, Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River. And there's some real bad stuff: The Gauntlet, Space Cowboys, Blood Work, Absolute Power, The Rookie

I find it difficult to rate a director overly highly who is almost always directing himself in the lead role. Of the best of his work, only Bird doesn't have him in the cast. I suspect that top end of the third tier, bottom end of the second is exactly where Eastwood belongs.
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14 days ago

Review Icon irishgit reviewed Brian de Palma in Movies: 3rd Tier Directors:
This guy really isn't very good, despite having made some reasonably famous films. Don't get me wrong, I kind of like Scarface, but it isn't because of De Palma's "brilliance." Its because the combination of Pacino over the top performance and Ricky Ricardo Cuban accent, the cheesy disco era sets, the egregious violence, and the farcical script create a perfect storm of a movie that's bad enough to be genuninely entertaining.

Carlito's Way, on the other hand, is just garbage, Dressed to Kill is laughable, The Untouchables is only saved from utter disaster by Sean Connery, and Mission Impossible is high in the running for the worst movie of its decade.
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14 days ago

Review Icon irishgit reviewed Roland Emmerich in Movies: 3rd Tier Directors:
I think ma duron is being awful generous putting this guy as high as third tier on his excellent directors lists.

As a director, Emmerich can't do anything except blow shit up, and he needs computer help to do that. He turns actors into turds, and for the life of me I can't understand why anyone who values his career will perform in one of his crapfests.

Essentially, he is the Irwin Allen of the current era of films. Except not as good.
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14 days ago

Review Icon irishgit reviewed William Beaudine in Movies: 4th Tier Directors:
Spectacularly awful, with an unbroken chain of disasters second only to the Legend himself, Ed Wood. His great masterpieces are probably the twin horror-western classics "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" and "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter." And no, I'm not making that up.

Nicknamed "One Shot" Beaudine, for his long time practice of never shooting a second take, and his work shows the effect of this diligent attention to detail.
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16 days ago

Review Icon Taddybear reviewed Sense and Sensibility in Ang Lee movies:
Lush, romantic, thoughtful depiction of a literary classic. In the film, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet both find love - and in real life - Emma ended up with "Willoughby"! As well as an Oscar for the screenplay! Way to go, Emma.
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25 days ago

Review Icon irishgit reviewed Carol Reed in Movie Directors:
Competent, but hardly enthralling, with the exception of the superb "The Third Man" by comparison with which the rest of his work is simply mundane.

This justly famous scene captures a lot of Reed's technique. The angled cameras, off beat lighting, and astute editing. And some of the best dialogue in film.
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59 days ago

Review Icon irishgit reviewed Charles (Charlie) Chaplin in Movie Directors:
Better than average, probably a 3.5 which I'm generously rounding to 4, but not much more than that.

I'm also curious, where are the folks who brand Polanski with the kiddy-raper tag when it comes to this guy? Try to to be consistent, folks.
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66 days ago

Review Icon Lena reviewed A Simple Plan in Sam Raimi Films:
Entertaining enough as a Sam Raimi film. I'm not sure how someone would take it without that context...I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't enjoyed his other films.

A Simple Plan follows the story of three guys as they discover a bag full of cash out in the woods and develop a plan to keep the money. The scenarios that follow are intentionally stilted, and border on comedy as each character makes epically bad decisions with increasingly firm conviction throughout the film. Their progressive manipulation of each other eventually leads to bloodshed (although not as much as in the book upon which this film was based).
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