IMQ #2 - People in Film - Most Overrated Director

[AzStevenCal]

Can I say Scorsese without you guys exiling me?

So boring!

Forgive me Cheese.

Sign me up, I'll share the backlash.

 

[Phrazbit]

Can I say Scorsese without you guys exiling me?

So boring!

Forgive me Cheese.

Of the films in the "mob movie" genre I'd say Goodfellas moves at a breakneck pace. That movie is brilliant, the hectic helicopter day is a piece of brilliant directing.

I agree on Eastwood. Unforgiven is an amazing film, probably my favorite Western, Letters from Iwo Jima is really really good... Flags of our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby... both 'meh', Grand Torino and J Edgar... yikes. Haven't seen his last few.

Oh, I forgot he directed Mystic River... that movie is good, brilliantly acted but not exactly a fun ride, I doubt I'll ever watch it again.

My overrated. Tom Hooper. After 8 hours of John Adams I am well too acquainted with Paul Giamatti's teeth and inner nostrils.

 

[NJCardFan]

I must intentionally not be paying attention, but I don't seen any praises for his work. I think he is terrible.

Tarantino loves him.

 

[NJCardFan]

Can I say Scorsese without you guys exiling me?

So boring!

Forgive me Cheese.

Outside of Goodfellas and a couple of others, I never cared for his work.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Spike Lee

All 3 I get suckered in with hype - you gotta see this, it's genius, so clever, so witty, so real - you'll love it - this is right up your alley

I see a couple snippets and think, yeah they're probably right - this is my stuff

Then I dive into the movie and hate it

 

[Chaplin]

Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Spike Lee

All 3 I get suckered in with hype - you gotta see this, it's genius, so clever, so witty, so real - you'll love it - this is right up your alley

I see a couple snippets and think, yeah they're probably right - this is my stuff

Then I dive into the movie and hate it

Examples? I really like all 3 of them.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

Pretty much everything

Even the 3 Anderson examples put forth earlier as his best, I just came away feeling flat and I really like off beat, irreverent things

I know not every taste and every style line up perfectly and there can be "good" things that I just don't like

I just find their work to typically be indulgent - trying really hard to show how clever they can be or to think they are making some profound statement when they really aren't

Worse than that, I think they tend to move really slow and be really boring