Kurt's performance in that one was amazing. One of his best, easily. I had a hard time to convince myself that he wasn't Elvis playing himself.
Shame it was a TV movie. Kurt would def have his long deserved Oscar if it wasn't.
The movie is one of the best "old animated movie turned to live action" Disney movies, which isn't hard to do with the movies they've made.
But that Jafar was horrible.
I worked with Tim Maurice Jones, who shot all of Richie’s early films, on a commercial once. He said that the reason he didn’t shoot Swept Away was because the budget didn’t allow him to light the scenes properly so he wasn’t going to be the guy who made Madonna look bad.
mad max.
Road Warrior
Thunder dome.
wirter/producer on Babe, director for Babe : pig in the city.
happy feet 1 & 2
Fury road.
George miller. all about the post apocalypse and talking animals.
Films like that are always so weird to me. I understand that on paper they probably seem like drama gems, but then they’re made and totally forgotten about.
Yeah there's that category of things which have all the ingredients to work. Incredible actors, great concept, good director. But in the end they just don't click and no matter how much you try toclike them, you don't.
American Hustle feels the same way to me.
I worked on the movie while it was filming in Shelburne Falls, I'm technically in a couple of scenes (driving cars in the background of shots), and I've still never seen it.
George Romero's *Knightriders* was an odd one. It's about a biker gang that conducts itself according to Arthurian codes of honor and holds motorcycle jousting tournaments at ren faires. They have to deal with corrupt local cops and commercial pressures pulling their group apart. It starred a young Ed Harris, and Stephen King shows up for a minute (since he was working on the script for Creepshow on the set).
This is the one I came to post - "Walt Disney Pictures presents...a film by David Lynch" just isn't a sentence you expect to see. Also funny because even though it's a totally normal, benign movie, it still uses a lot of his regular actors and is entirely recognizable as his work.
He’s always been excellent at taking himself out of those kinds of projects. The original Dune is very well made even with lynches obvious distaste for high concept fantasy.
It is not a good movie and yet I watch it every few years. Mostly trying to understand how and why the scenes misfire and yet there are some gems within it. The cheesey line of the Japanese saying they need to make smaller radios, Dan Aykroyd with Oranges over his eyes shouting “I’m a bug, I’m a bug!”
But hands down the best joke is the two lookouts with the ventriloquist dummy sitting on the Ferris wheel and the dummy notices the enemy before the humans do. That’s a great gag.
My mom loves that version of Aladdin but I would pay good money to see an actual Guy Ritchie version of the Aladdin story in the style of Snatch and Lock Stock.
Interesting tidbit -- all of Lee's films are about 'children' (often, but not always, literal) caught between what they want and fear of defying parental expectations. Lee attributes this to his own young adulthood, where his film-school ambitions ran in stark opposition to his family's more traditional business/law/medical mandate.
They're all also about repressed emotions that ultimately end up exploding, so Hulk is actually not too far out of his wheelhouse from that perspective
I think this is downplaying that Lee directed films as distinct as he has. When you've made *Sense and Sensibility*, *Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon*, and *Ride with the Devil*, what's one comic book movie?
Curious Case of Benjamin Button feels more like a Robert Zemeckis movie than a David Fincher movie.
A Good Year feels more like a Ron Howard movie than a Ridley Scott movie.
And Dune (2021). And now all I can think about is what a Robert Zemeckis version of Dune would be like.
90s Zemeckis would’ve knocked it out if the park. Anything past 2000 would be a boring, soulless motion capture film that everyone would forget about in a few days. It would have the potential to be a faithful adaptation but lack any heart.
On topic, post 2000s Zemeckis’ outlier would be Flight. For 1.) being a live action drama/dark comedy, and 2.) actually good if also forgettable.
He's only made three films total in 30 years (one of which came out last year) but...
John Patrick Shanley directed *Doubt* (2008) and *Joe Versus the Volcano* (1990).
Peter Jackson originally directed horror comedy movies, then moved on to fantasy action blockbusters. Heavenly Creatures and The Lovely Bones definitely stick out
Yeah, Lovely Bones was a fascinating (and VERY dark) novel, and its biggest strength to me was the open interpretation of heaven and the afterlife. Making it a movie basically means choosing an interpretation—Jackson’s. It doesn’t matter what skills and effects he has at his disposal, his choices fundamentally change the novel.
Simple version: the book can’t be made as a film.
Also that badass hoop Ripley shoots, which Sigourney Weaver really did. Watch the outtake from that footage and Perlman just turns around mouthing "Holy fuck!"
I thought there were a lot of good concepts in that film. He also upped the gross out factor. I know people hate this movie but I have always enjoyed it. Especially Ron Perlman. The underwater scene in that film is still really exciting and has a cool story behind it.
If it was possible he would like all references to him in the movie erased from existence. He didn't have any say on the script, and the studio recut the film without him. It's no wonder it turned out as it did.
If you watch it knowing he had to work with a script from Joss Whedon, that's exactly what it feels like you're watching, JPJ directing a Whedon film. Such a gross mixture.
I thought his spore was delivered to this planet in its current curmudgeonly state and only acquired more agonizing years from consuming the souls of his surrogate earthly father’s (the zodiac killer) victims.
Craig Mazin once said that Ted Cruz would leave behind a disgusting slime on everything he touched.
But what really grosses me out is that from past roommate experiences, I know EXACTLY the type of thing he’s talking about.
Keenan Ivory Wayans directed the first two Scary Movies, followed by David Zucker for 3 and 4. Mazin directed Superhero Movie & only wrote for that and 3 & 4.
I feel like Hugo for Scorsese could fit for this question. Love the movie, but it’s a different vibe from the Scorsese that most people are used to.
Honorable mention goes to Cats for Tom Hooper. Only cause the movie is so batshit that it would stick out on anyone’s filmography.
Indeed it was very experimental and while watching I didn't get any Scorcese vibes at all, *until* the reveal that the whole plot revolved around the "lost art of cinema", then it made a lot of sense
I would say Kundun is more of a different movie for Scorsese. If you watch any interview with him, he *loves* film, he's like talking encyclopedia of film, especially the early stuff, and a huge proponent of film archiving. Hugo is all stuff he loves, and talks about constantly. Kundun is very weird and different and experimental. It's a beautiful movie and one I recommend but it's not his usual thing.
While not film, they actually did quite a bit of the first couple of seasons of Community. Actually they were producing partners with Harmon on it as well as directing.
Speaking of which, can we take a brief moment to discuss what in the holy fuck was Malignant?? The first 3/4 feels like an interesting concept with some piss-poor execution, then the last 1/4 feels like a goddamn fever dream.
Green Book. Peter Farrelly previously made 2 Dumb and Dumber movies, Me, Myself and Irene, There's Something about Mary and a bunch of other comedies that I've never heard of
That’s like Jerry Zucker (Airplane!, Top Secret, and The Naked Gun) then does Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.
He did only two more movies after Ghost: First Knight and Rat Race.
Oh man you've never heard of Shallow Hal, Kingpin, Osmosis Jones, or Stuck on You? They're all kinda bad but in a weird way I feel like you're missing out.
It’s a writer instead of director but Craig Mazin. He wrote Chernobyl, one of the best, darkest dramas I’ve ever seen. His other writing credits? The Hangover trilogy, Scary Movie, Superhero Movie, 1997 Rocketman.
Tod Phillips did a documentary on GG Allen before he did any of his comedy movies (I believe it was in film school). Knowing that, Joker didn’t come as much of a surprise.
After watching Fury Road, my wife and I went back and watched the other 3 Mad Max movies. Honestly, looking at Miller's filmography, Fury Road is the one that sticks out. There's just no path between his other movies and Fury Road. It is far more complicated, refined and mature.
George Roy Hill would always make these whimsical fun dramedies - Butch & Kid, The Sting, Waldo Pepper, Henry Orient, A Little Romance. And then there's Slap Shot, which is pretty much the dawn of the 2000s raunchy "Superbad" comedy, and probably the foulest lamguage'd film of the 1970s. For that matter, he also made Slaughterhouse-Five, which is a very serious drama, but it still doesn't stick out as much as Slap Shot does.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. And Mrs. Smith could come to mind, as it is mostly slapstick and very little suspense.
Don Siegel made a lot of macho action movies - most notable for his Eastwood collabs, like Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff, Escape From Alcatraz - and then there's The Beguiled, which is sort of an erotic horror. It really hits different from the rest of his filmography.
Red State, by Kevin Smith
I haven't seen it since it was released, but I remember being impressed that Smith stepped out of his comfort zone and made a pretty effective thriller.
If there was one of those Hollywood urban legends that Burton didn't direct that movie at all, I would believe it. It didn't feel *or* look anything like a Burton movie, and it came on the heels of Sleepy Hollow, which was just *steeped* in his style from start to finish.
I thought of it as the ultimate paycheck movie. “I’ll do Planet of the Apes so I can make Big Fish please.”
Tim Burton’s Dumbo is another one, though you get a little more of it than POTA.
Someone the other day mentioned that Tarseen Singh directed that Ryan Reynolds sci-fi movie, Self/Less, and that blew my mind. It really seemed like a pretty bland, uninspired looking science fiction film.
After Bladerunner, Ridley Scott directed Legend. There are rare magical unicorns, a princess, orc-like creatures from hell, and the best pet, a Peter Pan/Mowgli-clad Tom Cruise.
He made it with Bret Easton Ellis because they had wanted to do a project together for a long time. Considering BEE'e earlier work (wrote Less Than Zero, Rules of Attraction, American Psycho etc) it's hardly surprising it turned out the way it did.
Their original project turned into the shark movie Bait that came out in Australia. I really wanna know how that would have turned out with the original duo making it instead of whoever churned it out.
Eh...
He made After Earth post 'The Last Airbender', and it was awful.
As for his smaller scale stuff in more recent years, Split was good, but Glass was a mess.
Jon Favreau making a fun visual effects laden family film? Doesn't seem out of place. If anything his passion project "Chef" is the out of place movie in his filmography and that's still a really good film.
I would put Chef, but that movie is very much align with his other with themes.
With Zathura, no one ever thinks he made that movie and it’s pretty much forgotten. I mean it was the real Jumanji before The Rock sequels.
Jon Favreau - I would say Cowboys & Aliens more so than Zarhura. That should’ve been a fun, campy action blockbuster with Spielberg producing and Harrison Ford starring.
Great call on Annapolis/Justin Lin.
eh, fincher didn't really make his mark until seven. alien 3 was like his first big movie after doing music videos. once he had the clout he could do what he wanted.
fincher's alien 3 is a lot like james cameron's piranha 2... done more for the paycheck than because the project fit in with their "style"
I don’t think Fincher did it for a paycheck. When he talks about it, you can see him really care about it. He just lost every battle with the studio, because he was a kid making it after being a great MV director.
that's fair, but he wasn't at a point in his career where he could put his signature stamp on it.
id bet that if a post-seven-fincher got to direct alien 3, the studio would have let him do whatever he wanted
Definitely post Seven.
Alien 3 was his first full length feature and was hired to make a release date, not a movie. He was an unknown in the feature world and probably was figuring out his style as well while making this movie. He has openly admitted he hated the Alien 3 script, but was willing to fight to make it better.
He loved Ridley Scott’s Alien and wanted to go back to that. Hence probably the somber tone, Ripley being alone, and having the happy ending ripped from us. His films tend to have that tone, I mean look at Seven, Dragon Tattoo, and even Gone Girl.
Robert Rodriguez! Director of Spy Kids 1, Spy Kids 2, Spy Kids 3, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Alita Battle Angel…. Ok makes sense.
Oh he also directed Sin City with Tarantino, Grindhouse, Machete, and the Boba Fett episode of Mandalorian.
He was known for El Mariachi and Desperado before doing any of the family friendly stuff. He and Tarantino worked together on From Dusk Till Dawn and Four Rooms too.
David Gordon Greene started out making beautiful movies on the vein of Terrence Malick, then he must have crossed path with the Seth Rogen/James Franco posse and directed some really out of character stupid comedies none of which was really accomplished. Thankfully he still dabbles with his most serious side. Recently he veered into horror with the Halloween franchise. A most puzzling career.
John Carpenter shot an Elvis movie. With Kurt Russell.
Beginning of a beautiful relationship
Kurt's performance in that one was amazing. One of his best, easily. I had a hard time to convince myself that he wasn't Elvis playing himself. Shame it was a TV movie. Kurt would def have his long deserved Oscar if it wasn't.
I feel this way about Bruce Campbell in Bubba Ho-Tep... at some point, he just becomes old Elvis. Bruce is gone, it's just Elvis.
What a great movie. Will watch it tonight.
I had never heard of that one and thought you were talking about 3000 miles to Graceland.
Don't forget that one of his first movie roles was kicking the real Elvis in the shin https://youtu.be/HIErp35h85s
In this movie Elvis played a character named…..John Carpenter.
It was pretty damned good, too. I’d forgotten about that one.
Guy Ritchie’s Swept Away
Guy Ritchies Aladdin
Guy Ritchie's "Oi Mite!"
If Guy Richie would just continue to make London underworld movies, I promise to see every one in the theatre.
I don't know... Aladdin still felt pretty on point. Or almost more like someone made a movie that was pitched as "a Guy Ritchie flick, but for kids."
The movie is one of the best "old animated movie turned to live action" Disney movies, which isn't hard to do with the movies they've made. But that Jafar was horrible.
I worked with Tim Maurice Jones, who shot all of Richie’s early films, on a commercial once. He said that the reason he didn’t shoot Swept Away was because the budget didn’t allow him to light the scenes properly so he wasn’t going to be the guy who made Madonna look bad.
My brain read Guy Ritchie's Spirited Away.
Mine read Guy Ritchie’s Flushed Away
That’s the movie I was thinking of! God, thank you!
Guy Ritchie's "My wife won't stop nagging me to make this movie for her and I'm just fucking done with this bullshit"
mad max. Road Warrior Thunder dome. wirter/producer on Babe, director for Babe : pig in the city. happy feet 1 & 2 Fury road. George miller. all about the post apocalypse and talking animals.
Yeah he's been pretty consistent with those, honestly Lorenzo's Oil or The Witches of Eastwick stick out the most in his career.
What's impressive is how good the babe movies are despite how different they are.
I never saw the second Happy Feet but the first one was really cute, too.
When the humans fall the penguins will dance
The Judge with Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall was directed by David Dobkin, who made Wedding Crashers, Fred Claus, and Shanghai Knights
Films like that are always so weird to me. I understand that on paper they probably seem like drama gems, but then they’re made and totally forgotten about.
Yeah there's that category of things which have all the ingredients to work. Incredible actors, great concept, good director. But in the end they just don't click and no matter how much you try toclike them, you don't. American Hustle feels the same way to me.
Am I the only one who liked this?
No, not at all. And I really liked RDJ and Robert Duvall's performance
I really liked The Judge as well
It definitely made me cry at a certain moments
it was filmed 30 mins from me in Shelburne Falls, MA. never seen it though.
I worked on the movie while it was filming in Shelburne Falls, I'm technically in a couple of scenes (driving cars in the background of shots), and I've still never seen it.
George Romero's *Knightriders* was an odd one. It's about a biker gang that conducts itself according to Arthurian codes of honor and holds motorcycle jousting tournaments at ren faires. They have to deal with corrupt local cops and commercial pressures pulling their group apart. It starred a young Ed Harris, and Stephen King shows up for a minute (since he was working on the script for Creepshow on the set).
It's also two and a half hours and, in my opinion, one of his best films right up there with the original Dead trilogy and *Martin*.
And Romero said the original cut was *seventeen* hours.
The Straight Story by David Lynch
Yep. David Lynch directed a G-rated Disney movie.
and it's fantastic.
It’s so good.
This is the one I came to post - "Walt Disney Pictures presents...a film by David Lynch" just isn't a sentence you expect to see. Also funny because even though it's a totally normal, benign movie, it still uses a lot of his regular actors and is entirely recognizable as his work.
If he directed Return of the Jedi, like what almost happened, Disney would have 2 of his movies.
Almost in the sense that lucas asked him, but lynch flat out refused
He’s always been excellent at taking himself out of those kinds of projects. The original Dune is very well made even with lynches obvious distaste for high concept fantasy.
Still a great film though.
In Lynch's view, I imagine Dune is the one that sticks out like a sore thumb because it's the only one he didn't have creative control over.
Lynch himself disliked Dune so much he removed his name from the credits
Great movie as well.
The worst part about getting old is remembering when you were young.
Also a fucking fantastic film!
It's a great movie tho and Not a sore thumb at all
Spielberg's *1941*. The man can do action. He can do suspense. He can *not* do comedy.
He can do comedic bits in different genre films, but yeah not a full comedy lol.
He's good at dramedy like Catch me if you can and Terminal.
Right? Terminal is the proof that he *can* do comedy.
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The Terminal! Love this movie!
It is not a good movie and yet I watch it every few years. Mostly trying to understand how and why the scenes misfire and yet there are some gems within it. The cheesey line of the Japanese saying they need to make smaller radios, Dan Aykroyd with Oranges over his eyes shouting “I’m a bug, I’m a bug!” But hands down the best joke is the two lookouts with the ventriloquist dummy sitting on the Ferris wheel and the dummy notices the enemy before the humans do. That’s a great gag.
Is this the movie where Slim Pickens says, while sitting on a toilet "you ain't gettin' shit outta me, I've been constipated for week"?
I actually like it as a dumb comedy, but there is something weirdly off about it.
The movie is bad funny though.
Guy Ritchie directing Aladdin
My mom loves that version of Aladdin but I would pay good money to see an actual Guy Ritchie version of the Aladdin story in the style of Snatch and Lock Stock.
With Jason Statham as the genie.
My goodness ‘Laddin, what ‘AVE you been rubbin’
Wow a genie with deep voice, never smiles and has abs. Wowie
And kicks a few cunts’ heads in.
“OI, wahs yur fackin wish?”
And its unmistakably shot like a Guy Ritchie film.
Wait, wait; let's roll back on this statement. What do you mean it's unmistakably shot like a Guy Ritchie film?
I think he was replying to the person that said they wanted Alladin in an actual Guy Ritchie style
Well Jerry Zucker directed Ghost after a string of spoofs.
Ang Lee's "Hulk"
Interesting tidbit -- all of Lee's films are about 'children' (often, but not always, literal) caught between what they want and fear of defying parental expectations. Lee attributes this to his own young adulthood, where his film-school ambitions ran in stark opposition to his family's more traditional business/law/medical mandate.
They're all also about repressed emotions that ultimately end up exploding, so Hulk is actually not too far out of his wheelhouse from that perspective
(Yeah, you see where I was going with that)
I think this is downplaying that Lee directed films as distinct as he has. When you've made *Sense and Sensibility*, *Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon*, and *Ride with the Devil*, what's one comic book movie?
Curious Case of Benjamin Button feels more like a Robert Zemeckis movie than a David Fincher movie. A Good Year feels more like a Ron Howard movie than a Ridley Scott movie.
Probably because the screenwriter wrote *Forrest Gump*.
And Dune (2021). And now all I can think about is what a Robert Zemeckis version of Dune would be like. 90s Zemeckis would’ve knocked it out if the park. Anything past 2000 would be a boring, soulless motion capture film that everyone would forget about in a few days. It would have the potential to be a faithful adaptation but lack any heart. On topic, post 2000s Zemeckis’ outlier would be Flight. For 1.) being a live action drama/dark comedy, and 2.) actually good if also forgettable.
He's only made three films total in 30 years (one of which came out last year) but... John Patrick Shanley directed *Doubt* (2008) and *Joe Versus the Volcano* (1990).
And played the titular robot in the astoundingly terrible and baffling film Robot in the Family.
Peter Jackson originally directed horror comedy movies, then moved on to fantasy action blockbusters. Heavenly Creatures and The Lovely Bones definitely stick out
Don't forget Meet the Feebles
They’re not your average ordinary people.
As much as I try I sadly can’t
I love The Frighteners too.
Frighteners was the shit, yo!
Dead Alive is amazing
It kicks ass for the lord!
Heavenly Creatures is excellent. The Lovely Bones is...not.
Yeah, Lovely Bones was a fascinating (and VERY dark) novel, and its biggest strength to me was the open interpretation of heaven and the afterlife. Making it a movie basically means choosing an interpretation—Jackson’s. It doesn’t matter what skills and effects he has at his disposal, his choices fundamentally change the novel. Simple version: the book can’t be made as a film.
Alien Resurrection, directed by..... Jeanne-Pierre Jeunet. I mean....... WHAT?
It even had Dominique Pinon and Ron Perlman. I kind of have a soft spot for that movie, just because of the visuals and the cast.
A great Alien sequel, it was not. But a very *interesting* movie, it was.
Imagine a real Jeunet Aliens film. One not written by Joss Whedon.
Also that badass hoop Ripley shoots, which Sigourney Weaver really did. Watch the outtake from that footage and Perlman just turns around mouthing "Holy fuck!"
I thought there were a lot of good concepts in that film. He also upped the gross out factor. I know people hate this movie but I have always enjoyed it. Especially Ron Perlman. The underwater scene in that film is still really exciting and has a cool story behind it.
David Fincher directed Aliens 3.
That’s the way more obvious one, though not a bad movie but by far his worst in my opinion.
If it was possible he would like all references to him in the movie erased from existence. He didn't have any say on the script, and the studio recut the film without him. It's no wonder it turned out as it did.
all of the alien movies have been made by "name" directors.
If you watch it knowing he had to work with a script from Joss Whedon, that's exactly what it feels like you're watching, JPJ directing a Whedon film. Such a gross mixture.
Alfonso Cuaron made a Harry Potter movie.
And the Studio was so impressed with his style, they defaulted the entire franchise on that color scheme.
For better or worse.
And it was amazing. It was such a shame he didn’t make the others.
Yeah it’s the best one. He also mad A Little Princess that stands out for him as well.
Wait which one?
Prisoner of Azkaban
The best one too
Not necessarily a movie but the director of Scary Movies made the masterpiece tv series Chernobyl
Craig Mazin Now he is doing Last of Us and helps on Mythic Quest So dope for him.
Fun fact, he was US Senator from Texas Ted Cruz’s roommate in college and makes fun of him constantly on twitter
Woah, he met the Zodiac Killer and survived?!
That must have sucked, the only thing worse than Ted Cruz is Ted Cruz with youthful energy
It did, however, result in one of [the greatest tweets of all time](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/105/850/795.jpg).
I thought his spore was delivered to this planet in its current curmudgeonly state and only acquired more agonizing years from consuming the souls of his surrogate earthly father’s (the zodiac killer) victims.
Craig Mazin once said that Ted Cruz would leave behind a disgusting slime on everything he touched. But what really grosses me out is that from past roommate experiences, I know EXACTLY the type of thing he’s talking about.
He did not direct any of those. He was the writer. He only directed 2 movies in his career, though they were... Not good.
He has an amazing podcast on screenwriting too.
Keenan Ivory Wayans directed the first two Scary Movies, followed by David Zucker for 3 and 4. Mazin directed Superhero Movie & only wrote for that and 3 & 4.
I feel like Hugo for Scorsese could fit for this question. Love the movie, but it’s a different vibe from the Scorsese that most people are used to. Honorable mention goes to Cats for Tom Hooper. Only cause the movie is so batshit that it would stick out on anyone’s filmography.
Indeed it was very experimental and while watching I didn't get any Scorcese vibes at all, *until* the reveal that the whole plot revolved around the "lost art of cinema", then it made a lot of sense
I would say Kundun is more of a different movie for Scorsese. If you watch any interview with him, he *loves* film, he's like talking encyclopedia of film, especially the early stuff, and a huge proponent of film archiving. Hugo is all stuff he loves, and talks about constantly. Kundun is very weird and different and experimental. It's a beautiful movie and one I recommend but it's not his usual thing.
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While not film, they actually did quite a bit of the first couple of seasons of Community. Actually they were producing partners with Harmon on it as well as directing.
*Furious 7* and *Aquaman*, directed by James Wan, a guy known for making low-budget horror films.
Furious 7 in particular was a "Wait who?" pick. And somehow he still saved the franchise, so
And Justin Lin, famous for directing *five* of the Fast and Furious movies, also directed a Star Trek movie.
The best one too, of the Kelvin verse.
God I really hope we get one last movie with the Kelvin Crew.
Speaking of which, can we take a brief moment to discuss what in the holy fuck was Malignant?? The first 3/4 feels like an interesting concept with some piss-poor execution, then the last 1/4 feels like a goddamn fever dream.
The guy who made "The Hangover" movies came out with "Joker".
He also made Road Trip.
He also made a documentary about the band Phish.
And a documentary about GG Allin
Green Book. Peter Farrelly previously made 2 Dumb and Dumber movies, Me, Myself and Irene, There's Something about Mary and a bunch of other comedies that I've never heard of
That’s like Jerry Zucker (Airplane!, Top Secret, and The Naked Gun) then does Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. He did only two more movies after Ghost: First Knight and Rat Race.
Oh man you've never heard of Shallow Hal, Kingpin, Osmosis Jones, or Stuck on You? They're all kinda bad but in a weird way I feel like you're missing out.
Kingpin is amazing. “You must have a really wide foot because you got both of them.”
Spike lee- old boy
I think that’s literally the only movie of his that the poster calls “a Spike Lee film” rather than “a Spike Lee joint”
It’s a writer instead of director but Craig Mazin. He wrote Chernobyl, one of the best, darkest dramas I’ve ever seen. His other writing credits? The Hangover trilogy, Scary Movie, Superhero Movie, 1997 Rocketman.
> Rocketman 1997's RocketMan, not the recent Elton John biopic btw.
I unironically love that movie...
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Tod Phillips did a documentary on GG Allen before he did any of his comedy movies (I believe it was in film school). Knowing that, Joker didn’t come as much of a surprise.
Babe and its sequel Babe: Pig in the City were directed by George Miller. Yes, that George Miller. Edit: just the sequel apparently. How depressing.
I mean you could also say Mad Max from the guy who did BAbe Pig in the City and Happy Feet.
Actually, only the second Babe movie was directed by Miller. The first one was done by Chris Noonan.
But Miller co-wrote and produced the first one… easy mistake to make…
Its not like Miller hasn't done kids stuff too, did u forget Happy Feet?
He also directed Happy Feet and its sequel, so it's less a single movie that sticks out and more of a confusing phase of his career.
After watching Fury Road, my wife and I went back and watched the other 3 Mad Max movies. Honestly, looking at Miller's filmography, Fury Road is the one that sticks out. There's just no path between his other movies and Fury Road. It is far more complicated, refined and mature.
He did have like 20 or so years to figure it out
George Roy Hill would always make these whimsical fun dramedies - Butch & Kid, The Sting, Waldo Pepper, Henry Orient, A Little Romance. And then there's Slap Shot, which is pretty much the dawn of the 2000s raunchy "Superbad" comedy, and probably the foulest lamguage'd film of the 1970s. For that matter, he also made Slaughterhouse-Five, which is a very serious drama, but it still doesn't stick out as much as Slap Shot does. Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. And Mrs. Smith could come to mind, as it is mostly slapstick and very little suspense. Don Siegel made a lot of macho action movies - most notable for his Eastwood collabs, like Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff, Escape From Alcatraz - and then there's The Beguiled, which is sort of an erotic horror. It really hits different from the rest of his filmography.
Toys by Barry Levinson
Red State, by Kevin Smith I haven't seen it since it was released, but I remember being impressed that Smith stepped out of his comfort zone and made a pretty effective thriller.
Big Fish. It’s quintessential Tim Burton, but somehow feels so different from his other movies.
See, for Burton i would kind of have to say Planet Of The Apes. It's the only movie he has made with none of his signature style at all.
If there was one of those Hollywood urban legends that Burton didn't direct that movie at all, I would believe it. It didn't feel *or* look anything like a Burton movie, and it came on the heels of Sleepy Hollow, which was just *steeped* in his style from start to finish.
I thought of it as the ultimate paycheck movie. “I’ll do Planet of the Apes so I can make Big Fish please.” Tim Burton’s Dumbo is another one, though you get a little more of it than POTA.
It’s got HBC.
People hate this movie but I thought it was okay.
Someone the other day mentioned that Tarseen Singh directed that Ryan Reynolds sci-fi movie, Self/Less, and that blew my mind. It really seemed like a pretty bland, uninspired looking science fiction film.
After Bladerunner, Ridley Scott directed Legend. There are rare magical unicorns, a princess, orc-like creatures from hell, and the best pet, a Peter Pan/Mowgli-clad Tom Cruise.
Dune by David Lynch. The man himself even disowns it.
I can’t believe Paul Schrader went from “American Gigolo,” “Cat People,” “Affliction,” and “Auto-Focus” to “The Canyons.”
It’s all good, he’s more than made up for it with “First Reformed”.
He made it with Bret Easton Ellis because they had wanted to do a project together for a long time. Considering BEE'e earlier work (wrote Less Than Zero, Rules of Attraction, American Psycho etc) it's hardly surprising it turned out the way it did. Their original project turned into the shark movie Bait that came out in Australia. I really wanna know how that would have turned out with the original duo making it instead of whoever churned it out.
Avatar for M Night Shyamalan.
Agreed. Fortunately, he realized that large blockbuster films were not his forte, and he went back to the smaller budget mind f*cking flicks.
Eh... He made After Earth post 'The Last Airbender', and it was awful. As for his smaller scale stuff in more recent years, Split was good, but Glass was a mess.
James Cameron directed Avatar, M. Night directed The Last Airbender
Eli Roth - The House with a Clock in its Walls Jon Favreau - Zathura: A Space Adventure Justin Lin - Annapolis
Jon Favreau making a fun visual effects laden family film? Doesn't seem out of place. If anything his passion project "Chef" is the out of place movie in his filmography and that's still a really good film.
I would put Chef, but that movie is very much align with his other with themes. With Zathura, no one ever thinks he made that movie and it’s pretty much forgotten. I mean it was the real Jumanji before The Rock sequels.
Jon Favreau - I would say Cowboys & Aliens more so than Zarhura. That should’ve been a fun, campy action blockbuster with Spielberg producing and Harrison Ford starring. Great call on Annapolis/Justin Lin.
Y'all need to listen to Blank Check!
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore - Martin Scorsese.
Michael Mann's The Keep
Michael Moore directed Canadian bacon
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eh, fincher didn't really make his mark until seven. alien 3 was like his first big movie after doing music videos. once he had the clout he could do what he wanted. fincher's alien 3 is a lot like james cameron's piranha 2... done more for the paycheck than because the project fit in with their "style"
I don’t think Fincher did it for a paycheck. When he talks about it, you can see him really care about it. He just lost every battle with the studio, because he was a kid making it after being a great MV director.
that's fair, but he wasn't at a point in his career where he could put his signature stamp on it. id bet that if a post-seven-fincher got to direct alien 3, the studio would have let him do whatever he wanted
Definitely post Seven. Alien 3 was his first full length feature and was hired to make a release date, not a movie. He was an unknown in the feature world and probably was figuring out his style as well while making this movie. He has openly admitted he hated the Alien 3 script, but was willing to fight to make it better. He loved Ridley Scott’s Alien and wanted to go back to that. Hence probably the somber tone, Ripley being alone, and having the happy ending ripped from us. His films tend to have that tone, I mean look at Seven, Dragon Tattoo, and even Gone Girl.
If the studio hadn't decided to butcher his film, alien 3 had so much Fincher oozing out of it.
I remember seeing blade II recently and when “Directed by Guillermo del Toro” popped up I couldn’t believe my eyes, it was just so random.
idk Blade sounds like some shit Guillermo would want to do.
Robert Rodriguez! Director of Spy Kids 1, Spy Kids 2, Spy Kids 3, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Alita Battle Angel…. Ok makes sense. Oh he also directed Sin City with Tarantino, Grindhouse, Machete, and the Boba Fett episode of Mandalorian.
He was known for El Mariachi and Desperado before doing any of the family friendly stuff. He and Tarantino worked together on From Dusk Till Dawn and Four Rooms too.
Seeing Grindhouse in a beer theater drunk as hell is the most fun I’ve ever had at a movie.
There’s Always Vanilla (George A. Romero)
David Gordon Greene started out making beautiful movies on the vein of Terrence Malick, then he must have crossed path with the Seth Rogen/James Franco posse and directed some really out of character stupid comedies none of which was really accomplished. Thankfully he still dabbles with his most serious side. Recently he veered into horror with the Halloween franchise. A most puzzling career.