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Topic: Take my money please Mr Director

Related to some recent topics, who are the directors that you'd slam down your $20 unconditionally?

I'd go in blind to see a Fincher, Nolan, Cuarón, and Cameron movie.

After Prometheus and a run of other recent rubbish, Ridley has been relegated to 'Reading the Reviews' (how's that for alliteration?)

Peter Jackson earned 'blind' status after LOTR, but after Lovely Bones and a lame Hobbit 1, he's borderline relegation.

Others: Aronofsky? Andy Niccol? David Lynch? Blomkamp? Kosinski? Spielberg? Scorsese? Gilliam? Not really - that's conditional on the material.

Which directors have negative balances? JJ I'd hate to say. Bay? I'd pay not to see his shite. Lucas ran down his goodwill a long time ago in a cinema far away.

Would any of you see a movie blind* due to an actor, writer, source material, composer, or even a DP?

* By blind, I mean with no knowledge of the material (or even in despite of negative reviews).

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I'll always see films from Spike Jonze, the Coen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Fincher, and Cuaron.

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Squiggly_P wrote:

Jonze, Aronofsky, Nolan, Fincher, Cuaron, Tarantino for the more mainstream guys.

I now live in a world where those are the "mainstream guys"?

Truly, I have lived too long and seen too much.

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Assuming he sticks the landing with The Raid 2 (which apparently is 2.5 hours long, holy fucking shit), Gareth Evans for sure.

John Carpenter is another one, as he's probably the filmmaker who's movies I've consistently liked the most, with a better track record than pretty much any of the "bigger" names.

John Woo - Fell off the list after Paycheck, completely redeemed himself with Red Cliff.

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Cuaron, Nolan and Fincher. For people I would once have said that about but have now been forced to recant, Spielberg, Jackson and Abrams.

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Re: Take my money please Mr Director

Sight unseen - Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Park Chan-wook, Andrew Niccol. Lots, really.

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Almost forgot Wong Kar-Wai.

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Steve McQueen, though I haven't seen 12 YEARS A SLAVE yet.
Fincher.
Aronofsky.
Sam Mendes.
Tarantino.
Judd Apatow, although THIS IS 40 was a pretty wide miss.

As far as DPs go, I'll try and see as much as I can from:

Deakins, obviously.
Reed Morano.
Brad Young.
Rodrigo Prieto.
Emmanuel Lubezki.
Chris Doyle.

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Re: Take my money please Mr Director

... Also, Ellen Kuras.

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Forgot Soderbergh, Rian Johnson, Phil Lord & Chris Miller, and Wes Anderson.

Also, any future project with this actor attached.

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At the risk of sounding contrary, none of them. If a movie interests me, negative reviews or no, I'll see it. If not, all the star power in the world is not going to get me there.

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Kubrick, if he was alive. Every one of his works was a masterpiece of composition.

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Probably some others too, but Duncan Jones comes to mind.

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I hadn't thought about it before this thread, but Cameron is by far my #1 guy in this respect -- all I need to know is that the latest thing he did is playing at the theater, and I immediately send my girlfriend out to warm up the car. Don't need to read reviews or buzz. Don't need to know what it's about. (Normally with Cameron the buzz has been inescapable, as with his current project, but you get the drift.) Everyone else I like to have some clue what it's about, who's in it, whether it's a doc or a fiction film. Not with Cameron. You'd think his films would therefore be my favorite films (some are), but it's more that with him I know I'm going to see an obsessively put together movie that probably has a big 'wow factor,' and that makes going to the theater worth it.

Other directors that haven't been mentioned already who would have me standing in line (more or less) just because they directed the movie:

Sarah Polley
Steve James
Errol Morris
Kathryn Bigelow

I won't get in line because a particular actor is in a movie. Even my favorites make duds and do strictly-for-the-paycheck movies. I tend not to jump in line because a particular DP shot a movie, either, however I often wish I had after the fact. I now wish I'd have seen what Deakins did in The Assasination of Jesse James... in a theater and not on DVD.

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Rob wrote:

I hadn't thought about it before this thread, but Cameron is by far my #1 guy in this respect -- all I need to know is that the latest thing he did is playing at the theater, and I immediately send my girlfriend out to warm up the car. Don't need to read reviews or buzz. Don't need to know what it's about. (Normally with Cameron the buzz has been inescapable, as with his current project, but you get the drift.) Everyone else I like to have some clue what it's about, who's in it, whether it's a doc or a fiction film. Not with Cameron. You'd think his films would therefore be my favorite films (some are), but it's more that with him I know I'm going to see an obsessively put together movie that probably has a big 'wow factor,' and that makes going to the theater worth it.

After the all pleasure he's given movie fans with T1 & T2, Aliens, Abyss, Titanic, and Avatar, he's earned his status as a 'unconditional' uber-director that delivers. Every critic who has trashed his projects in production (and there's been a lot over the years) has been wrong.

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bullet3 wrote:

Assuming he sticks the landing with The Raid 2 (which apparently is 2.5 hours long, holy fucking shit), Gareth Evans for sure.

I was gonna post this one. The Raid 2 sounds like the most ambitious action movie ever made. I cannot fucking wait.

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