Best directors of all time?

[Firefox]

who do you think is the best director of all time? personally I think its
Speilberg

[DeputyDon]

*COUGH* Quentin Tarantino *COUGH*

Spielberg is okay. His movies from a while ago are great, but lately his movies haven't been all that great. Tarantino writes, directs, and usually produces all of his movies. He only has 4 movies, well 5 kind of.

Reservoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction (My personal favorite)
Killbill
Killbill vol. 2

He was also in a few movies, executive produced, and wrote the storyboard of a few movies. He directed an episode of CSI, directed a scene or two of the movie "Sin City".

He is really an amazing director.

[StrikeMaster Ice]

I vote for Peter Jackson for best director.

[chicagodave]

spielberg i think is best, he can do so many different types of movies. he goes from war of the worlds to munich not many directors can pull that off. quentin is ok but i think sometimes he gets too caught up in his writing.

also i enjoy m. knight as a director. now if he can only get off that twist ending binge hes on and concentrate more on better story telling.

[Perfect Sin]

I voted P.J...No one and I mean no one could have done LOTR and kept it that true to the story.

Not to mention with him Directing, he was able to win 12 academy awards for LOTR: RotK

Which btw is a fantasy


LOTR: RotK Is currently tied for most Academy Awards with Titanic.


P.J. Is the man. That is why I'm glad he's helping with the Halo movie.

[Fallout Boy]

Tim Burton has always been one of my favourite directors.

[Shrinnan]

I voted for Peter Jackson, it would have been Spielberg but he's gone pretty much down hill and I never really cared for his movies.

Although I will say, P.J. is one of my favorite directors but no where near my favorite director.

I'm not even sure who that is, I just know that he's not really there yet.

[chicagodave]

i think we need to clarify something the title of the thread is the best director of all time. not who is our favorite. i think its hard to compare lets say scorsese or spielberg's body of work with that of peter jackson. although lord of the rings trilogy was great, thats only 3 movies, spielberg has at least a dozen movies which can be considered to be classsics. same with scorsese. we need to look at the body of work and not just a few movies.

[Shrinnan]

Best director of all time is subjective, it's all opinion hence why there is a poll.

A classic to one person may not be a classic to another person even though the general perception is that it is a classic.

[Firefox]

well, peter jackson is making halo so I'm looking forward to that.

[Zero_]

James Cameron. Aliens. Terminator 2.

[Firefox]

I'm surprised no one voted for Alfred Hitchcock

[Fordgasm]

I should be Patriotic and vote for Peter Jackson but Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino are my favourite writer/directors.
Special mention: John Woo.

[ReCnaLz]

You forgot Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon..Brokeback Mountain) and Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers)

[Dead_EyeRO720]

I second James Cameron, for The Terminator (the first one) more than anything else. T2 was great but I liked the first one the best. In my house, nobody utters a certain wannabe sequel that begins with 'T' and ends eith '3'.

I also have a great time with Quentin Tarantino's and Robert Rodriguez's films, but I'm not sure I'd call them the greatest of all time. Jim Cameron is up there though.

[Sederior]

Out of this list I went with Clint Eastwood. He's been able to render human emotion to its most raw portions, then make a scene explode with such intensity that is beyond anybody else.

However I still prefer Zhang Yimou's style of directing over everybody elses for drama and action.

[Piotr]

Nah david lynch... two words:

Eraser Head.

[Dead_EyeRO720]

I agree, Clint is awesome, and out of those, I'd have to pick him.

[DeputyDon]

Well, I just watched "War of the Worlds" for the first time. All I can say is "wow!". That isn't a good "wow" either. I came to the conclusion that almost every spielberg movie has a horrible ending, imo.

[c.a.p]

Alfred Hitchcock, he was ahead of his time.

[highazz_vegeta]

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