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In Your Opinion are The Russo's now The greatest CBM's Directors of all time?

posted 5 years ago by billbrown7071 (3193)
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obviously Everyone is going to have different opinions...

But I think with Endgame Russo's just cemented themselves as The KINGS of the CBM genre in The court of Public opinion and In The Majorities opinions...

and what I specifically mean is...Over the next 5 year +....I think In The Majority of Articles and Polls, The Russo's Will Overwhelmingly be credited/voted as The best CBMs directors of all time.

I think Nolan was the clear Majority favorite Until Now....

but simpy put...The Russo's now have the RARE "4" CBM movies in The Winter Soldier,Civil War,Infinity War and Endgame thats Quality is Unmatched...

Singer had 3 Great CBMs

Nolan has 3 Great CBMs

Snyder had 3 Great CBM's......(LOL just joking, couldnt help but LAUGH at Snyder's Disastrous Trilogy of DCEU films...although 300 and Watchmen IMO are good)

IMO Guillermo del Toro deserves to be mentioned with his 2 Hellboy movies

I also Personally would like to Mention M. Night Shyamalan's Who IMO Made 2 ALL TIME Great Superhero movies in Unbreakable and Split and Then Made 3/4 Of another good Superhero movie in Glass before shitting The Bed beyond belief with the ending

and Then we've obviously got some ALL TIME greats that hit astonishing Heights in CBMs Genre like -

Mangold with Logan
Tim Miller's Deadpool
Ryan Cooglers Black Panther
Jon Favreau's Iron Man 1
Donner's Superman and Burton's 2 Batman's film
Robert Rodriguez's Sin City 1
Whedon's Avengers 1

There are clearly Directors that all deserved to be Mentioned for Taking The Genre to new and never before seen heights with 1 film.....or 2 Films.......and In a very few rare cases 3 films

But The Russo's have completely separated themselves now with 4 CBM's that ALL Reached Near the highest possible Level in Quality...

for me....

1. The Russo's Brother
2. Nolan
3. Mangold(I just have that much love and respect for Logan)
4. M. Night Shyamalan(I truly think Unbreakable is one of the greatest films ever made, Loved Split)

what are your thoughts...

Do you have The Russo's as The Definitive #1 now?

If not, do you at least agree, The Majority Will now see them as The Greatest?

also what are your top 5 CBM directors?

[–] ultravioletx (10216) 5 years ago

Yes. They are but not because of Endgame. Endgame was a solid conclusion but Winter Solder and Infinity War are the giants of the MCU. I have Endgame tied for third with Guardians of the Galaxy and Civil War(Russos again).

Endgame did not disappoint as it had all the elements to be up there with Infinity War and Winter Soldier but it really needed to spend more time on the time heist. It rushed through it too quickly when thats supposed to be the movie's hook.

[–] catraj (4) 5 years ago

While comparing directors, the criteria should be more based on what unique voice and execution that the directors have brought to the table compared to the previous movies of the genre. I believe the MCU is largely a producer driven vision rather than the individual directors. I'll probably rate Nolan, Sam raimi, Bryan Singer, Richard Donner, Tim Burton as better directors than Russo's even though I like MCU movies more than most of the above director's filmography.

[–] alienzen (1929) 5 years ago

You should add Donner to that list. Superman I and II were by far the best comicbook movies untill Batman came out.

The Russos were already number one before Endgame was released.

1. Russos
2. Whedon
3. Singer
4. Raimi
5. Donner

I don't consider The Dark Knight movies to be comicbook movies. They are Nolan movies. That's why he doesn't make this list.

[–] DarthRoger (867) 5 years ago

I definitely think that Joe and Anthony Russo deserve to be considered the best CBM directors of all time.

It's a tough one. Sam Rami made some fantastic Spider-man movies but he's a director with a myriad of interests and I think he still prefers the horror genre. Christopher Nolan made the absolutely best Batman movies, yet he's stated that he's pretty much done with superheros. So when you consider that the Russo's are both big comicbook guys, I think you have to give them the nod. They did make four of the best damn MCU movies - Winter Soldier, Civil War (personal favorite), Infinity War and Endgame. Those are all great entries and since they're towards the end of a movie saga that spans all the way back to the first Avengers movie and the intro of Thanos, I think that accomplishment speaks volumes.

[–] cyberbob (3488) 5 years ago

They are definitely in the top 10, and an improvement over Joss Whedon as the directors of Avengers movies

One thing I will say, though, is I disagree with their choice to make Thanos a "sympathetic" villain in Infinity War

I may be in the minority, but I DON'T feel like he was one of the greatest villains of all time, at least from a writing standpoint. They tried to make him seem intelligent and like he "had a point", but his plan was stupid as fuck. I found his character to be extremely corny in Infinity War, especially the way he was acting like a sadboi over Gamora's death, but there had been very little in the previous movies to get us invested in their relationship. And now they expect those scenes between him and Gamora to resonate and carry emotional weight?

I think Civil War and Infinity War were very flawed films. Endgame was much better, IMO. Winter Soldier is obviously the best. You can't really blame the Russos for being given the responsibility of bringing such complicated stories to life, but I feel like 2/4 of their movies were kind of "meh"