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Favorite Directors When You Were 18 Years Old?

posted 4 years ago by BillHicksFan (10103)
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Kubrick
Lynch
Coppola
Scorsese
Tarantino

Kubrick is the only one who would make my Top 30-50 nowadays. I've seen so much more since "I learned the truth at seventeen" (once I first got serious about movies).

I guess its like sex. In the beginning, a pretty girl is enough for it to be a fun experience, until you keep finding better ones, until one day you think its more fun to watch a great B&w Hungarian movie from the 60s than it is to have sex.

[–] BillHicksFan (10103) 4 years ago

Hal Ashby, too.

[–] Stratego (29252) 4 years ago

I guess Tarantino. At that time he had only directed Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Perfect record.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Same here. Great films, plus being caught up in the 90s hype about him as a teenager.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Spielberg was probably my favourite at that age, and he doesn't really trouble my favourites list these days. To be honest though, even though I've always loved movies I probably didn't care too much about directors as a teenager, it wasn't until my early 20's that my interest became a passion and I really started to seriously look at any director's body of work..

The funniest thing about your post is hearing that Tarantino had directed a film when you were 18. I thought you were older. It makes me feel pretty ancient.

[–] BillHicksFan (10103) 4 years ago

I'm in my 30s.. I was actually a child when he first started directing.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I don't think I cared all that much about directors when I was 18 nor do I now really. I knew John Ford made good Western's though and Clint Eastwood had a tendency to under light. I also liked George Lucas, this being before he started destroying Star Wars.

[–] KD637 (488) 4 years ago

Tarantino and Leone. I also fancied Rodriguez before I was 18.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6929) 4 years ago

Like many people, I wasn't too interested in directors as a teen. But I'd have to say the films that stuck with me were usually directed by Chris Columbus, Barry Levinson and maybe Wes Craven. Maybe sprinkled in with a little John Hughes and Steven Spielberg.

[–] Jones70 (6195) 4 years ago

David Fincher
John Carpenter
James Cameron
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott