Directors Who Made The Biggest Leap - General Discussion Discussion

[–] DarkKnight (262) 4 years ago

David Fincher- Alien 3 to Se7en.

James Cameron - Piranha 2 to The Terminator.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I’m one of the few people who liked Alien3 but I do agree Se7en was on another level completely.

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[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

I have seen Alien3 but I don't remember anything about it. Se7en I do remember and it was garbage.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Garbage in terms of content or execution (no pun intended)?

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[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

Yet another film about *yawn* a serial killer and Brad Pitt proving once again that most of the time he can't act his way out of a wet bowling ball bag.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Haha you salty bitch! I thought it was an imaginative take on the genre myself and I’m a fan of Pitt’s work (to me he is one of last great movie stars), so we’re on different pages here.

What about Fight Club? Was that a leap or are you just not a Fincher fan?

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

In Fincher's defense, Alien 3 was taken away from him by execs. I saw the assembly cut which was kind of Fincher's version, but which he wasn't able to finish, and you get a better idea of what he was trying to do watching that. It's not on the level of Se7en, but its an improvement over the version of Alien shown in theaters.

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[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

Have there been any ballet dancer Directors ?

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[–] BillHicksFan (10101) 4 years ago

Bob Fosse was a dancer

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[–] Vastuntitled (5460) 4 years ago

I might get flamed, and I don’t think it sucked, but except for very few scenes, Reservoir Dogs did nothing for me...but Pulp Fiction is definitely a favorite of mine....I appreciate Dogs because without it, we don’t the get great effort and results of his next film....

Nothing against the late Tony Scott, but sometimes I think it would’ve been interesting if Tarantino’s DIRECTING debut was True Romance....

I like the Fincher stuff....great thread!

EDIT: I realize that technically, My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) was QT’s debut, but for years I always thought it was Dogs...and for years that always informed my opinion before I really started learning about the back stories of prominent filmmakers....

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[–] FredBurroughs (19702) 4 years ago

Regardless of what-if scenarios, Tony Scott technically did make the biggest leap in the end.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5460) 4 years ago

I hear ya...Tony Scott always got a lot of stick, but I like some of his stuff...

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[–] FredBurroughs (19702) 4 years ago

whoosh

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

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[–] Vastuntitled (5460) 4 years ago

Damn, Freddie B, I wanted to think you were just making a comment about the guys directing style, not the means of his death....

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[–] FredBurroughs (19702) 4 years ago

Too soon?

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[–] Vastuntitled (5460) 4 years ago

It’s been more than a few days ....that’s why you’re one of the greats Freddie b...tasteless, disgusting, inappropriate...and I kinda dig it!

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[–] FredBurroughs (19702) 4 years ago

Don't forget I'm also single, ladies.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Ooow, a groaner

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[–] Vastuntitled (5460) 4 years ago

And I forgot the title of this thread.....well played, sir...hall of fame stuff from the Michael Jordan of the Stonekeeper Movie Guessing Game...

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I thought Reservoir Dogs was great. I have never understood the popularity of Pulp Fiction. I would have rated them the opposite, biggest drop off from a great movie to a weak follow up.

Too each their own.....

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[–] BillHicksFan (10101) 4 years ago

20 years ago when I was a teenager I like those first few Tarantino movies but his last few have been so bad that I wonder if I would still like the movies I used to like today

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[–] Vastuntitled (5460) 4 years ago

I get that...over the years Tarantino has really become hit and miss for me and I find myself just watching the scenes I like and avoiding the rest of flick that isn’t that rewatchable to me...going through that now with Once Upon a Time now that it’s being replayed on the premium channels...some scenes, top notch; other scenes, meh...I keep hearing and reading that the passing of his trusted and long-time faithful editor may have had some effect on trying to rein in QT’s penchant for overindulgence...

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Did the editor die before The Hateful 8? That was a tiresomely long-winded film.

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[–] Knish (1721) 4 years ago

John krasinski

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

this is kinda fresh in my mind, because i just re-watched it on criterion, but gregg araki's mysterious skin is a genuinely great film in my books, while everything else i've seen from him has at minimum annoyed me, and i would probably rank doom generation as one of my least favourite films that i've watched to the end.

i haven't seen every araki film, so it's not for me to judge, but when i look at the gap from doom generation to mysterious skin, i think of that as the biggest gap in quality for any director.