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[xbhaskarx]

Wow, every one of these sounds just about right (aside from that talentless loser Kevin Smith), even the ones who are attacking each other.
Also except for Uwe Boll mistakenly believing that he's not a retard like Michael Bay (but even he could still be right in that he's a different kind of retard?).

 

[SapientWolf]

But is that really a diss? Batman pretty much set the tone for the animated series to follow.

I don't think anybody would be hurt if they were told their film "didn't follow the comics". lol.

It says a lot when the cartoon is a more mature and nuanced portrayal of the material than the film. Although, to be fair, BTAS is one of the best cartoons ever made.

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

it feels appropriate to add Uwe Boll's Malick and von Trier (and more) comments here:

warning: The Tree of Life spoilers below.

I agree with him. Summed it up pretty much perfectly.

 

[HiResDes]

Burton's Batman is the best live-action Batman, outside of Adam West

 

[sans_pants]

everyone has an opinion

 

[TheKaeptain]

Burton's Batman is the best live-action Batman, outside of Adam West

Des, it's like we don't see eye to eye anymore.

 

[ThisWreckage]

Kevin Smith talks about Tim Burton.

 

[xbhaskarx]

The only thing Vincent Gallo will be remembered for his having Chloë Sevigny suck his dick in his own film. Fuckin hack.

being a weird looking, talentless hack, I'm guessing

Directed by
Vincent Gallo

Writing credits
Vincent Gallo (story)

Vincent Gallo (screenplay) &
Alison Bagnall (screenplay)

Vincent Gallo ... Billy Brown

Original Music by
Vincent Gallo

seriosuly... who the fuck is Vincent Gallo?
I never heard of this bum,

he better have good movies to back him up after his trolling

Well that's your problem if you've never heard of him, but how about once Sofia Coppola makes a movie that's not shit, Vincent Gallo has to stop insulting her?

 

[HiResDes]

Returns is pretty bad, but I'm dead serious about Batman (1989). It's easily the most entertaining of the bunch to me.

 

[Puddles]

unforgiven and letters from iwo jima are the exceptions. His other films suck though.

Gran Torino was golden.

 

[gutter_trash]

http://c745.r45.cf2.rackcdn.com/img/2009/buffalo_66.jpg


Well that's your problem if you've never heard of him, but how about once Sofia Coppola makes a movie that's not shit, Vincent Gallo has to stop insulting her?

it aint my problem if I never heard of him. he must suck real bad if he existed all these years and that I never heard of this bum


he insults Scorsese and both Coppolas? LOL a little of an overshoot ain't it?

 

[3N16MA]

Well that's your problem if you've never heard of him, but how about once Sofia Coppola makes a movie that's not shit, Vincent Gallo has to stop insulting her?

I know of "Buffalo 66" and my statement still holds true.

 

[HiResDes]

everyone has an opinion

This is one of the most useless, inane, banal comments anyone can possibly make in a discussion...

 

[Discotheque]

Burton's Batman is the best live-action Batman, outside of Adam West

It's tied for me with Nolan's interpretations. I don't think there's a clear winner out of either series. They both have their strengths. Burton's has a much cooler atmosphere and soundtrack though.

meanwhile smith is still trying to make a good film. Clerks is pretty average too, yeah I said it.

 

[Red Blaster]

I really want to hate Spike Lee but Do The Right Thing is so much better than anything Clint Eastwood's directed.

 

[Discotheque]

I really want to hate Spike Lee but Do The Right Thing is so much better than anything Clint Eastwood's directed.

Unforgiven > Do the Right Thing > Letters from Iwo Jima > 25th Hour

edit: the rest aren't worth the time.

 

[See You Next Wednesday]

Man Burton really set himself up for that comeback.

The way I'm seeing it, Kevin Smith is implying Batman was actually good & not a cheap campy comic movie (like most of the comic book movies in the past 15 years have been).

 

[leroidys]

God damn Vincent Gallo sounds like a complete fucker. But Arizona Dream was very, very good.

 

[Discotheque]

apparently he modeled for calvin klein lol

 

[SapientWolf]

The way I'm seeing it, Kevin Smith is implying Batman was actually good & not a cheap campy comic movie (like most of the comic book movies in the past 15 years have been).

I don't think you've read the comics either.

 

[HiResDes]

Summer of Sam wasn't half bad

 

[Nix]

We should just put Spike Lee and Kevin Smith on one team, and Burton and Perry on the other. Oh, and for the judge, we could have Gallo. They could debate over who the most worthless piece of shit hack is.

Would pay to see.

 

[HiResDes]

Perry...It's not even close. Oh and although I'm not a fan of a majority of Lee's films, calling him a hack is inaccurate.

 

[Discotheque]

Perry...It's not even close

indeed. Clerks is...alright. And the other two directors have a few good films under their belt.

Meanwhile in Perry land it's back to the minstrel times.

 

[Jangaroo]

Cronenberg's quote got me :lol

 

[Fantastical]

I feel this was totally justified on Clint's part. Spike Lee gave Eastwood shit for making the film "Flags of Our Fathers" as historically accurate as he could. Spike said he should have inserted black soldiers into the film, even though there weren't any at the events depicted in the film.

I fucking hate Spike Lee even more now.

 

[xbhaskarx]

it aint my problem if I never heard of him. he must suck real bad if he existed all these years and that I never heard of this bum

he insults Scorsese and both Coppolas? LOL a little of an overshoot ain't it?

Your first comment: Really, we're judging filmmakers based on name recognition? Are Uwe Boll and McG good filmmakers just because lots of people have heard of them? Have more people heard of Michael Bay or Tarkovsky?

Your second comment: Why is insulting any of those three an overshoot, what places them above insults?
Francis Coppola last made a decent movie in 1979, his useless daughter will never make one.
Regarding Scorsese Gallo is guilty of exaggeration: "He hasn’t made a good film in 25 years." So depending on when the comment was made he's going back to After Hours or maybe even Raging Bull. Goodfellas was 1990 and is unquestionably great, so clearly he is incorrect (or from the future). But instead of taking him literally look at it as a commentary on the unevenness (despite the near-universal praise because it's Scorsese) of his current movies compared to those from the 70s and early 80s.

 

[Onion_Relish]

22 is my favorite. He is so vexxed by the existence of spike jonze that he straight up stops giving a fuck about creating a clever burn and flat out calls him a piece of shit. Fucking classy guy, I would buy him a beer in an instant.

 

[See You Next Wednesday]

I don't think you've read the comics either.

yeahhhh... the '89 Batman should have definitely have had Batman in purple underwear outside his cloths & a underage side kick who wears see through tights.

 

[Red Blaster]

Unforgiven > Do the Right Thing > Letters from Iwo Jima > 25th Hour

edit: the rest aren't worth the time.

ahuahuahuhauhuahua nope

 

[richiek]

Well that's your problem if you've never heard of him, but how about once Sofia Coppola makes a movie that's not shit, Vincent Gallo has to stop insulting her?

Lost in Translation says hello.

 

[HiResDes]

It's easy to tear down Lost in Translation as an example of good film-making, as much as I enjoy the film myself.

 

[3N16MA]

Your first comment: Really, we're judging filmmakers based on name recognition? Are Uwe Boll and McG good filmmakers just because lots of people have heard of them? Have more people heard of Michael Bay or Tarkovsky?

Your second comment: Why is insulting any of those three an overshoot, what places them above insults?
Francis Coppola last made a decent movie in 1979, his useless daughter will never make one.
Regarding Scorsese Gallo is guilty of exaggeration: "He hasn’t made a good film in 25 years." So depending on when the comment was made he's going back to After Hours or maybe even Raging Bull. Goodfellas was 1990 and is unquestionably great, so clearly he is incorrect (or from the future). But instead of taking him literally look at it as a commentary on the unevenness (despite the near-universal praise because it's Scorsese) of his current movies compared to those from the 70s and early 80s.

Does that make him a parasite? Also calling a film "decent" is not exactly praising it so unless you consider everything Copploa has made absolute shit since 1979 I would say he has made a decent film since then.

 

[Femmeworth]

22. Vincent Gallo on Spike Jonze:
“He’s the biggest fraud out there. If you bring him to a party he’s the least interesting person at the party, he’s the person who doesn’t know anything. He’s the person who doesn’t say anything funny, interesting, intelligent… He’s a pig piece of shit.”

Wow, what a prick.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Antonioni was amazing; both Truffaut and Bergman are way off.

Anybody who watches Orson Welles and feels that he was a fake or shallow director simply is not engaging with the films on an intellectual level. Welles was probably one of the most intelligent and non-pareil artists of the twentieth century.

It's patently false to say that Kubrick had no emotion; watch any part of Paths of Glory and tell me that he wasn't closer to a bleeding heart than anything else in terms of his identification. He was just somebody who knew how to harness emotion as a tool of art rather than as the primary goal perhaps better than any other artist in the filmic medium.

Tarantino's film ARE glorified smoothies, but I don't think he's ever really claimed himself as a great director; I've certainly never seen him say anything other than that his movies are basically love letters to movies for which he is strongly passionate. The fact that they're not pretentious is part of what makes me really enjoy them.

Clint Eastwood does suck; Million Dollar Baby is outright bad and one of the most cliche-filled movies that I've ever seen, and Mystic River has a made-for-TV-movie script.

And Scorsese's films this past decade WERE shadows of what he was making in the 70s and 80s. They weren't horrible or even bad, but they were also all highly flawed.

Let's not forget that Coppola helped write the great script for Patton.

 

[Ominym]

16. Jean-Luc Godard on Steven Spielberg:
“I don’t know him personally. I don’t think his films are very good.”

Oh man, thats a sick burn!

 

[Zee-Row]

If Clint Eastwood told me to shut my face i would comply really quick.

 

[Amagon]

30. Uwe Boll on Michael Bay:
“I’m not a fucking retard like Michael Bay.”

-Who invited that guy in?

 

[a Master Ninja]

Clint Eastwood does suck; Million Dollar Baby is outright bad and one of the most cliche-filled movies that I've ever seen, and Mystic River has a made-for-TV-movie script.

His westerns and war movies too?

 

[Parallax]

yeahhhh... the '89 Batman should have definitely have had Batman in purple underwear outside his cloths & a underage side kick who wears see through tights.

purple underwear?

 

[SRG01]

Tarantino's film ARE glorified smoothies, but I don't think he's ever really claimed himself as a great director; I've certainly never seen him say anything other than that his movies are basically love letters to movies for which he is strongly passionate. The fact that they're not pretentious is part of what makes me really enjoy them.

Um, what? I wouldn't describe Tarantino films as "not pretentious".

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Um, what? I wouldn't describe Tarantino films as "not pretentious".

I mean not pretentious in the sense that they are mainly about pure entertainment without much pretension to depth and artistry the way that, say, Tim Burton does.

Edit - MasterNinja: Unforgiven is good. That's about the only movie that I can really give to Eastwood.

 

[karobit]

If these are the harshest insults they could find, either filmmaking is an unbelievably polite business or they didn't look very hard.

 

[xbhaskarx]

Lost in Translation says hello.

lol

Clint Eastwood does suck; Million Dollar Baby is outright bad and one of the most cliche-filled movies that I've ever seen, and Mystic River has a made-for-TV-movie script.

And Scorsese's films this past decade WERE shadows of what he was making in the 70s and 80s. They weren't horrible or even bad, but they were also all highly flawed.

Eastwood: people like emotionally manipulative drivel, even more so when it's being presented to them by some old hardass.

Scorsese: exactly.

 

[HiResDes]

So much Godard hate lol...I love him, I think he's highly misunderstood and not nearly as pedantic as everyone insinuates.

 

[rakhir]

Funny thing is: Coppola did movie with Gallo in 2009 - Tetro
I'm wondering if Coppola just did not know that Gallo shitted on him and his daughter.

Smith/Burton story was great too, especially since the quote that enraged Burton (that he 'stole' his ending from Smith's comic) was ment as to be a joke. Smith told that story on one of the QAs.

 

[MrHicks]

tarantino writes/directs amazing scenes/dialogues
maybe even the best in the bussiness

not talking whole movies here just sections/scenes

the opening of inglorious basterds for example is simply amazing
(the jew searching milk scene)

 

[ZeroGravity]

Burton's Batman is the best live-action Batman, outside of Adam West

Agree 100%.

 

[TheKaeptain]

So much Godard hate lol...I love him, I think he's highly misunderstood and not nearly as pedantic as everyone insinuates.

Watch Alphaville.

 

[timetokill]

Somehow I get the feeling that some people in here pretty much hate all popular movies and filmmakers