Nerd raging here guys.
Most directors that ever dared have produced their fair amount of crap.
Ridley Scott. It took almost two decades of fail, after Blade Runner, to make Gladiator and f**king ressurect a fallen GENRE.
Black Hawk Down is the most technical competent war film ever made. Not anti war film, just a war film. Kingdom of Heaven DC, was fantastic as well. Great adventure film.
It's not that easy to do what he does. Most of your little favorite indie directors would crumble under the preasure, preparations, and magnitude of these large scale films. say what you want about the uninspired stories and cheesy hollywood clichees, but the technical things that are attatched to these massive projects, is rare indeed. Scott is a master of the scale.
Tarantino - I won't even comment on him being a ripoff or not, because it's so incredible uninteresting and irelevant. I get that perhaps he is a douchebag in real life, or that you get pissed off by the million of jocks and fratboys who adore him because he was labelled as the cool alternative rebel filmmaking in the 90s, BUT. He is obviously highly skilled. He does bring something to the table that none others do.
And he is more than cleaver mainstream pop culture dialouge too. He can do characters, he knows his film lore, and he understands what makes something entertaining. The opening of Inglorious bastards is filmmaking on a very high level. I care little that the rest of the film was not as good.
HE CAN DO MORE, than gangster film. He does evolve. He might be the ultimate DJ, who doesnt have a single innovative thought, but so what? All stories in the world that can be told have been told. We're watching the same stories over and over again, in different settings with small variations. It's how we say it. So even if he is doing stuff that has been done before, he is bringing it into a new era, for new people.
Him doing Grindhouse, opened the classic films of those times up to many many people. same thing with kung fu films with kill bill. same thing with classic war films with Bastards.
Rodriguez - I'm reading Rebel without a crew right now, and it's very interesting. Is he a good filmmaker? I don't know. A filmmaker doesnt need to have skill in a technical field. He has to make the pieces fall together. And he really made them fall together for Sin City. That film.. holy mother of god, that was just a cool film.
I can see why some people would have a problem with Lynch, but Kubrick?:O Almost all of them are outstanding if you just sit down and really give them a chance. I want to see 2001 on Blu-Ray so bad.
