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Post by sostie on Nov 22, 2021 13:56:45 GMT
Excluding those that only made one film, what directors have, in your opinion, only one great film in the filmography
Robert Harmon - The Hitcher
Mel Gibson - Apocalypto
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Post by kolchak92 on Nov 22, 2021 14:15:12 GMT
George Lucas - American Graffiti
Tim Burton - Ed Wood
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
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Post by politicidal on Nov 22, 2021 14:19:25 GMT
Tim Story - Barbershop
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Nov 22, 2021 14:24:04 GMT
Michael Bay - The Rock
Ron Howard - Apollo 13
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Post by kolchak92 on Nov 22, 2021 14:29:48 GMT
Yep. It's still hard for me to believe he directed such a good movie.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Nov 22, 2021 15:04:10 GMT
Irwin Kershner - The Empire Strikes Back
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Post by movielover on Nov 22, 2021 15:14:42 GMT
John Boorman - Deliverance
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 22, 2021 15:29:23 GMT
John Boorman - Deliverance "Point Blank" approaches greatness. I am also quite fond of Excalibur and The Emerald Forest.
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Post by kolchak92 on Nov 22, 2021 15:32:05 GMT
John Boorman - Deliverance I thought The Emerald Forest was great as well, maybe more so than Deliverance for me as a matter of fact.
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Post by movielover on Nov 22, 2021 15:35:58 GMT
John Boorman - Deliverance I thought The Emerald Forest was great as well, maybe more so than Deliverance for me as a matter of fact. It’s all subjective, I guess. I think Broadcast News is James L. Brooks’s best movie. I also think William Friedkin made other great movies besides The Exorcist, like The Boys in the Band (1970), The French Connection, and To Live and Die in L.A.
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Post by kolchak92 on Nov 22, 2021 15:39:33 GMT
I thought The Emerald Forest was great as well, maybe more so than Deliverance for me as a matter of fact. It’s all subjective, I guess. I think Broadcast News is James L. Brooks’s best movie. I also think William Friedkin made other great movies besides The Exorcist, like The Boys in the Band (1970), The French Connection, and To Live and Die in L.A. Haven't seen The Boys in the Band, but French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A. both made me want to blow my brains out from unrelenting boredom.
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 22, 2021 15:39:40 GMT
Michael Bay - The Rock Ron Howard - Apollo 13 I don’t care much for any of Michael Bay’s “epic” thrillers. For me, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris made “The Rock” watchable. I will go with Bay’s atypical “Pain and Gain” a crime comedy about three muscle bound and muscle headed dopes who think they can plan a perfect crime. It is the only movie of Dwayne Johnson’s that I find him tolerable. More than that, he is quite good in it. Also with Mark Wahlberg and good actor Anthony Mackie.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Nov 22, 2021 17:18:12 GMT
John Boorman - Deliverance You didn't like Excalibur?
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Post by movielover on Nov 22, 2021 17:21:08 GMT
John Boorman - Deliverance You didn't like Excalibur? I did like it, most definitely (especially Merlin’s character) but I don’t consider it “great.”
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Post by Jason143 on Nov 22, 2021 17:23:26 GMT
M Night Shamalayan - The Sixth Sense
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Nov 22, 2021 17:24:40 GMT
You didn't like Excalibur? I did like it, most definitely (especially Merlin’s character) but I don’t consider it “great.” Ah, I see. Aside from Deliverance, I thought Excalibur was the only other great one Boorman did. Mind you I still haven't seen a lot of his later stuff.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 22, 2021 18:35:33 GMT
Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Richard Kelly - Donnie Darko
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 22, 2021 19:16:58 GMT
Paul WS Anderson
Event Horizon
Although Soldier and the first Resident Evil are good not great films.
The other Paul Anderson
Boogie Nights
There Will Be Blood is border line great. But some of the film just plods along.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Nov 22, 2021 19:44:02 GMT
I agree with some directors mentioned but disagree with the movie.
Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
Michael Bay - Pain & Gain
Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
James Foley - Glengarry Glen Ross
Jan De Bont - Speed
Larry Clark - Kids
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 22, 2021 20:24:06 GMT
Probably alone on this.
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
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