I love the first one, and I’ve been aware of the critical acclaim for the second one forever now, but I still haven’t seen it. I really should watch that one sometime soon.
I spend half my time seeking out art films and obscure movies and still have a lot of holes in my knowledge, you're good. I think we're all "writing with crayons" figuratively speaking at one point or another, that's how you get started doing anything.
Aw, don't feel that way! The only reason I know anything at all about weird French films of the 1990s is because other people were excited enough to show them to me. I highly recommend Amelie as an entry point to weird French films.
Edit to add: I had to google the director's name for my previous comment. Fake it 'til you make it!
George Miller is always the answer to this question. Just a wild filmography.
If we weren't all acutely aware of each film he put out, Spielberg would be on there.
Sci Fi, horror, adventure, holocaust drama, musical remake, animation. He's done it all as a filmmaker.
Fury Road got ripped off for best picture.
Won the most awards that year, was best reviewed movie of the year. zero reason for it not to win Best Picture.
On the technical side it was amazing, which is why it won nearly all the tech awards.
Instead it goes to Spotlight. Nice, safe, traditional Oscar winning film... no wonder people stopped watching the Oscars.
I mean, it's a tale as old as time. Well reviewed movie gets touted as a frontrunner, but either it doesn't adhere to the traditional Oscar formula (eg melodramatic real-life story that has Meryl Streep and is 2.5-3 hours long), was just flat out ignored due to industry or real world politics at the time, or doesn't have an aggressive Weinstein-like campaign. Happened to Brokeback Mountain, Citizen Kane, Saving Private Ryan, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Fargo, and most recently Roma and Dune/Power of the Dog.
They bring up his filmography in the Aqua Teen Movie of all things.
"We can rent Deathdream by Bob Clark"
"Didn't he do Porky's?"
"He did do Porky's, he also did a Christmas Story which makes me laugh and laugh"
Scorsese's filmography is one that makes total sense. Even his kid movie hugo comes across as something he'd make. Coppola is a bit different with jack
"When I directed Star Trek IV, I got a magnificent performance out of Bill...because I respected him so much."
"And when I directed Star Trek V, I got a magnificent performance out of me because I respected me so much."
Can't forget how he pretty much singlehandedly rescued Airplane 2 from complete pointlessness - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8X2Ydzx47U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8X2Ydzx47U) He's honestly incredible at comedic deadpan
People talk shit about 5 so much that it was literally the *only* Star Trek film I hadn’t seen. I just watched it a week ago, though, and I’m pissed at myself for waiting so long. It’s not perfect but it’s really fun. It feels a lot like an episode of the original series. The plot is admittedly goofy but it wasn’t beyond the normal scope of a weird Star Trek plot.
Here’s my hot take about Star Trek now that I’ve seen all of them: of the 6 original films The Voyage Home is my least favorite one. The jokes are funny but the lack of a villain and the bulk of the movie taking place on earth isn’t very engaging. If I had to rank them I think from best to worst it would be 2 6 1 5 3 4
5 is a bit of a mess IMo, but it has a few parts that are all time greats. “What does God need with a starship”, Bones’s dad, “I need my pain”.
I think what makes it rough is it’s a really great movie underneath it all.
Yeah it's a crazy one, but I'm thinking it could just be that he was doing what he had to in order to stick around the industry/keep getting paid, and he finally got his break to do actual serious work with Chernobyl, which then led to The Last of Us.
If you go back and watch De Palma’s first few films such as Greetings, Hi Mom, and Wedding Party, they feel so absurd and whimsical that you’d be surprised that the same guy who made those also directed Scarface, Mission Impossible, and Carrie
To be fair he was once a spy so wouldn't have been too much of a stretch...although by spy I mean he was essentially a honey trap for American socialites...no really
>M Night Shyamalan wrote Stuart Little
OK, that's actually insane to me. I wonder if he was writing The Sixth Sense at the same time since they both came out in 99.
John Huston, director of The Maltese Falcon and Treasure of the Sierra Madre, also directed Annie
Martin Campbell directed Casino Royale and The Green Lantern
I was going to say Martin Campbell directed Goldeneye and Casino Royale, each a reboot of the same property and each wildly different from one another despite being part of the same franchise
My favorite Martin Campbell fact is that he directed two “return to form” Bond movies that were also debuts for new Bond actors:
First, the Timothy Dalton flicks have gained a cult following since, but weren’t all that well regarded at the time. Their poor box office performances put the Bond series in a tough spot. Pierce Brosnan’s debut Goldeneye, directed by Campbell, was a smash hit and breathed new life into the franchise.
*Then*, after a slew of disappointing follow-ups to Goldeneye, Campbell came back and did the exact same thing with Daniel Craig and Casino Royale.
Campbell saved Bond on two separate occasions, a decade apart from one another.
I don’t know if any director more eclectic than Steven Soderbergh, he’s done popcorn entertainment (Ocean’s Eleven), serious Oscarbait dramas (Traffic), batshit insane experimental films (Schizopolis), intimate art house dramas (Sex, Lies and Videotape), and so much more. We think of him as an auteur but he is so all over the place with his output I don’t know how you’d even define what a Soderbergh film is.
I lived in a house that was used for filming Sex, Lies, and Videotape. In the film it's where James Spader's character lived. I lived there a while after the film was made. I only watched the film there once. There was a moment where I paused the film and the view on the screen of the interior was the same as my view from the couch.
Greatest director with the worst cinematic brain, hand him a good script and he will make a classic. Hand him a bad script and he will think it's a good script.
I've seen interviews with him where he talks about this, he really is a pure director. I think he honestly doesn't take a lot of interest in the scripts, he just thinks about what he would like to shoot.
Watch his bad movies, you'll always notice that if you actually pay attention to the work of a director, they're always well directed. Its always a problem with the overall movie just not working due to the story.
Gladiator is a really interesting "making of" example. Ridley Scott just wanted to shoot an epic with ancient Rome, and Russel Crowe essentially re-wrote lines on set. He asked Scott, and Scott was like "idc do whatever you want" lol. Turns out to be an absolute classic.
There are also numerous versions of the Gladiator script out there, and many of them bear almost no narrative resemblance to the finished product. It was just being written and re-written on the fly around the storyboards Ridley Scott had put together.
I’m not sure how much I buy the legend about the Gladiator script. I can believe they were reworking it a lot on the fly, but it’s a well written and structured film with plenty of good dialogue. I bet they had more on the page to work from than they admit.
I'm actually currently doing a podcast with some friends comparing Ridley Scott to Steven Spielberg and their filmographies. It's really fascinating. In our research one of the things we've discovered is that Scott continually talks about how he likes to film almost like a documentary. He just sets the camera up and let's it happen, often setting up multiple cameras so he can hopefully get it all in the same take. It's a really fascinating style and when it works it really works (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) but when it doesn't, it really doesn't (The Counselor).
Ridley Scott probably has one of the most spotty filmographies with films ranging all over the place in quality. You never know what you’re gonna get when you go see a Ridley Scott film.
Johnathon Demme directed Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Stop Making Sense, and Rachel’s Getting Married. His directorial debut was an exploitation movie called Caged Heat.
Danny Boyle has a extremely varied resume, but just to pick two for contrast he directed 28 Days Later, a tense gut-wrenching post-apocalyptic zombie movie, as well as Millions, a sweet kids movie about nine-year-old boy who discovers a duffel bag full of cash in a field.
Wes Craven, master of horror, brought you Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Hills Have Eyes aaand Music of the Heart.
That Alan Smithee has *quite* the filmography.
Not to mention he was making ET and Poltergeist at the same time in the same neighborhood. The two houses were just a few blocks from each other. Both movies came from an idea he had for a sequel to close encounters were instead of nice aliens the aliens terrorize a suburban family. He decided against making a bad alien movie and changed it to a nice alien who feels the whole left by a family suffering through a painful divorce. Then he read the original bad alien movie and decided to make that too. So he changed it from aliens to ghosts.
The Oldboy remake is so horrible, nobody even asks themselves "Wait, why did they get Spike Lee to direct this?"
It's not even referred to as a Spike Lee Joint.
James Mangold has directed films such as Logan, Girl Interrupted, Ford v. Ferrari, Walk The Line, 3:10 to Yuma, and .. Kate & Leopold.
Bonus: Sam Raimi, known for Evil Dead 1 and 2, Army of Darkness, the Spider-Man trilogy also directed For The Love of The Game which concluded the 'Kevin Costner starring in baseball movies' trilogy.
Tangentially related, but Jon Hurwitz wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle where they cast Neil Patrick Harris to play a fictionalized version of himself. By this point in his career, NPH was a “has been” who played Doogie Howser and the only one to really chew the scenery in Starship Troopers.
His character was so successful, it got him his role as Barney Stinson on how I met your mother. One of the longest standing jokes in the series was that Barney truly believed the Karate Kid was Johnny Lawrence and not Daniel LaRusso.
Then Cobra Kai got green lit based off this premise. The creator? Jon Hurwitz.
Wes Craven A Nightmare on Elm Street and Music of the Heart
David Lynch Eraserhead and The Straight Story
There was really something in the water in 1999
Gore Verbinski is responsible for Mousehunt, the US version of The Ring, three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Rango and a few music videos for punk rock bands (like Bad Religion or NOFX).
Joel Schumacher has two speeds: fabulous, over the top camp, and incredibly dark and tense drama. Even crazier than Falling Down to me is that he made 8mm, one of the darkest and grimmest Hollywood movies I've ever seen.
I saw Meet the Feebles many *many* years ago at the tail end of a party where me and my buddies were all tripping.
The next morning ( well, afternoon really ) we all agreed to watch it again because it couldn't possibly have been *that* fucking warped, right? It was the trip ... right?
It wasn't the trip. We remembered perfectly.
The guy that directed Speed is also the guy that directed Speed 2, but did so in the dumbest way possible.
After a huge success with the first film, the studio hired the director to make a sequel. So he was given about a dozen scripts, including two from the writer of the original film. But he had this dream about a cruise ship crashing into a dock that he became obsessed with. So he threw out all the other scripts, hired two writers and told them to write a film around this idea.
Then he pitched it to Keanu, who passed because he hated the entire premise. Did not want to do water shoots or film on a boat. But rather than revisit any of those other scripts, the director doubled down. Got Sandra Bullock to sign on because she assumed Keanu was coming back. Hired Jason Patrick for the lead. And the rest was mediocre history.
What could have evolved into a successful franchise was instead brought to a lackluster end because of a dream.
The more drastic film to mention would be Y tu mama tambien, which he directed before Harry Potter, which possibly meant some studio exec at WB was like “Let’s get the guy who made that very horny sex drama to direct our family friendly movie”
I wasn't a fan of David Yates by the end, but do you know what logic is there in constantly having different directors? It seems like the later ones needed a consistent vision.
Gunn made Tromeo and Juliet, and he also made Lollilove, a mocumentary about a couple who gives out lollipops to the homeless as a means to helping people in the world. It’s good, but it feels like nothing else he’s done. It even stars James himself, and Jenna Fischer who he was married to at the time (she was in Slither too)
Eli Roth directed Cabin Fever, Hostel, and the Death Wish remake, all of which are violent movies for adults.
He also directed The House with a Clock in Its Walls, the family friendly fantasy movie starring Jack Black.
Alan Parker directed Bugsy Malone, the mafia musical starring kids in adult roles, and Mississippi Burning, about fighting the KKK, which won a ton of Oscars.
In a universe where he had full control and creative freedom, I think Guy would be the perfect director/writer for Aladdin. Street rats and low level gangsters is what he does best, and put in a price in the form of unlimited riches, and he could make something great. But for a Disney-controlled remake... yeah Guy Ritchie as director is just absurd.
I have a straight-up praise post regarding Rob Reiner. He directed Stand By Me and This Is Spinal Tap and A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally. Well, actually he is crazy...Crazy talented!
This was my first thought. Rob Reiner has a very real case to have made arguably the greatest comedy, coming of age story, romcom, courtroom drama, horror with Misery, and swashbuckler with The Princess Bride. Insanely diverse director
David Gordon Green will become one of these. Started out with really notable indie movies, got recruited by Seth Rogan to do Pineapple Express, dipped into more dumb stoner comedies like The Sitter and Your Highness, then doing the odd indies Joe and Stronger, before doing a Halloween trilogy and now an Exorcist reboot apparently.
I still boggles my mind that the three new Halloween films are so drastically different in terms of quality, given they were all directed by the same person. Not to mention he was also a writer on all three along with Danny McBride. They should have just called it a day after the first one (or not rebooted it at all).
I dig the first one. It understood the assignment and above all else was fun. But I agree, they honoured the legacy of the original and should’ve just moved on.
Not directing, but director of photography: Janusz Kaminski went from working on Cool As Ice, the crappy Vanilla Ice movie, to working with Spielberg on Schindler’s List, which got him an Oscar. He now works on every Spielberg film.
Peyton Reed directed Ant-Man and Bring It On.
Also slightly different answer but Stanley Kubrick directed a movie rated G in 1968 (2001: A Space Odyssey) followed by a movie rated X in 1971 (A Clockwork Orange).
George Miller directed Max Max: Fury Road and Happy Feet
And co-wrote and produced Babe, and directed Babe: Pig in the City
Babe: Pig in the City deserved far more oscar consideration and the academy are cowards
I love the first one, and I’ve been aware of the critical acclaim for the second one forever now, but I still haven’t seen it. I really should watch that one sometime soon.
Same but I’m afraid to watch. Is Babe going to face something terrible like a heroin addiction?
It's kid-friendly(ish) but you can tell Miller had been watching a lot of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It's kind of like Delicatessen with talking animals.
I don’t know why I come in here; it’s like a college class and I’m still writing with crayons.
I spend half my time seeking out art films and obscure movies and still have a lot of holes in my knowledge, you're good. I think we're all "writing with crayons" figuratively speaking at one point or another, that's how you get started doing anything.
Aww, thanks for being kind and welcoming.
Aw, don't feel that way! The only reason I know anything at all about weird French films of the 1990s is because other people were excited enough to show them to me. I highly recommend Amelie as an entry point to weird French films. Edit to add: I had to google the director's name for my previous comment. Fake it 'til you make it!
He also directed Lorenzo Oil.
>Babe *"It's the wrong one!* **I WANT THE DOLLHOUSE I SAW ON THE TELEVISION!"**
George Miller is always the answer to this question. Just a wild filmography. If we weren't all acutely aware of each film he put out, Spielberg would be on there. Sci Fi, horror, adventure, holocaust drama, musical remake, animation. He's done it all as a filmmaker.
Spielberg made Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg also made 1941.
Gah. The guy only knows how to make the same movie, amirite?
One is a cinematic masterpiece and the most visceral depiction of WWII ever recorded on film. And one is Saving Private Ryan.
Don’t forget that he didn’t win any Oscars for Fury Road, but did win an Oscar for Happy Feet.
Fury Road got ripped off for best picture. Won the most awards that year, was best reviewed movie of the year. zero reason for it not to win Best Picture. On the technical side it was amazing, which is why it won nearly all the tech awards. Instead it goes to Spotlight. Nice, safe, traditional Oscar winning film... no wonder people stopped watching the Oscars.
I mean, it's a tale as old as time. Well reviewed movie gets touted as a frontrunner, but either it doesn't adhere to the traditional Oscar formula (eg melodramatic real-life story that has Meryl Streep and is 2.5-3 hours long), was just flat out ignored due to industry or real world politics at the time, or doesn't have an aggressive Weinstein-like campaign. Happened to Brokeback Mountain, Citizen Kane, Saving Private Ryan, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Fargo, and most recently Roma and Dune/Power of the Dog.
Spotlight was great though.
Expected this to be the first answer. Was not disappointed.
Hilarious to know that he’s responsible for Happy Feet.
American filmmaker Bob Clark directed two very different yuletide classics: Black Christmas(1974) and A Christmas Story (1983).
Not to mention Porky's 1 and 2.
Wow. Didn't know THAT
And the Baby Geniuses movies. He has the most insane filmography.
They bring up his filmography in the Aqua Teen Movie of all things. "We can rent Deathdream by Bob Clark" "Didn't he do Porky's?" "He did do Porky's, he also did a Christmas Story which makes me laugh and laugh"
Never watched A Christmas Story but Black Christmas is the GOAT of slasher movies
Martin Scorsese directed the Michael Jackson Bad video
Wow! That video kicks ass, makes sense now.
Yeah. It's great but I was shocked when I saw the credits at the beginning of the long version of the video
Scorsese's filmography is one that makes total sense. Even his kid movie hugo comes across as something he'd make. Coppola is a bit different with jack
Francis Ford Coppola directed Captain EO lol
Leonard Nimoy (Spock) directed both Star Trek III & IV, as well as Three Men and a Baby.
Which is why William Shatner lobbied so hard to direct Star Trek V, a.k.a. the only Star Trek movie I’ve only seen once.
"When I directed Star Trek IV, I got a magnificent performance out of Bill...because I respected him so much." "And when I directed Star Trek V, I got a magnificent performance out of me because I respected me so much."
😂 William Shatner would get a good performance out of William Shatner.
William Shatner played a great William Shatner in Over the Hedge.
Can't forget how he pretty much singlehandedly rescued Airplane 2 from complete pointlessness - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8X2Ydzx47U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8X2Ydzx47U) He's honestly incredible at comedic deadpan
WELSHIEEEEEEEEE!
"Alas, my ship whom I love like a woman, is disabled"
"what does god need with a starship"
Unironically, I loved this line.
People talk shit about 5 so much that it was literally the *only* Star Trek film I hadn’t seen. I just watched it a week ago, though, and I’m pissed at myself for waiting so long. It’s not perfect but it’s really fun. It feels a lot like an episode of the original series. The plot is admittedly goofy but it wasn’t beyond the normal scope of a weird Star Trek plot. Here’s my hot take about Star Trek now that I’ve seen all of them: of the 6 original films The Voyage Home is my least favorite one. The jokes are funny but the lack of a villain and the bulk of the movie taking place on earth isn’t very engaging. If I had to rank them I think from best to worst it would be 2 6 1 5 3 4
5 is a bit of a mess IMo, but it has a few parts that are all time greats. “What does God need with a starship”, Bones’s dad, “I need my pain”. I think what makes it rough is it’s a really great movie underneath it all.
The campfire scene is so good
And the last movie he directed is about Patricia Arquette marrying a 12 year old Joseph Gordon Levitt.
That's an incredible episode of How Did This Get Made, just relistened to it the other day.
This might be how I came across this absurd bit of trivia! GEOSTORM!
Um……what?
[This is the movie.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110044/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_2_dr)
Craig Mazin, the writer of Scary Movie 4 and Superhero Movie, was also the creator/show runner of Chernobyl and The Last of Us.
I'm convinced Craig Mazin had some kind of benevolent brain injury sometime after 2016.
He was also Ted Cruz's roommate in college
Yeah it's a crazy one, but I'm thinking it could just be that he was doing what he had to in order to stick around the industry/keep getting paid, and he finally got his break to do actual serious work with Chernobyl, which then led to The Last of Us.
If you go back and watch De Palma’s first few films such as Greetings, Hi Mom, and Wedding Party, they feel so absurd and whimsical that you’d be surprised that the same guy who made those also directed Scarface, Mission Impossible, and Carrie
Not to mention *Sisters*.
>Scarface, Mission Impossible, and Carrie Everyone always forgets Phantom of the Paradise 😭
De Palma often gets accused of doing nothing but rip off Hitchcock, which is not totally fair. His early movies ripped off Jean-Luc Goddard.
A little off topic, but Ian Fleming also wrote “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
And Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice.
To be fair he was once a spy so wouldn't have been too much of a stretch...although by spy I mean he was essentially a honey trap for American socialites...no really
Did you just say Roald Dahl was honeydickin’? Of course he was. Why wouldn’t he?
Honeydickin sounds like a word Roald Dahl would invent.
To be fair Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is pretty much a Bond car with all it's plot convenient features
And Truly Scrumptious is very much a Bond girl name.
I'll go with a writer rather than director but M Night Shyamalan wrote Stuart Little and Noah Baumbach wrote Madagascar 3
>M Night Shyamalan wrote Stuart Little OK, that's actually insane to me. I wonder if he was writing The Sixth Sense at the same time since they both came out in 99.
Stuart Little was 1999?! Jeez
IIRC Shyamalan did an uncredited script rewrite on She’s All That, too
The twist was she looked good before the makeover.
"She's got glasses. And a ponytail. Ugh, she's got paint on her overalls. What is that?"
That's wack.
This is my favourite fact to bring up about movies.
Pretty sure Baumbach wrote that to help pay for his divorce lol
To be fair, that's why a lot of people in Hollywood do a lot of things
Should’ve had Adam Driver write a screenplay for an animated movie to help pay for his divorce from Scarlett Johansson 😂
Also a writing credit The Princess Diaries 2 - written by…Shonda Rhimes
George r.r. Martin also wrote David the gnome.
Well I can tell you something he didn't write
John Huston, director of The Maltese Falcon and Treasure of the Sierra Madre, also directed Annie Martin Campbell directed Casino Royale and The Green Lantern
I was going to say Martin Campbell directed Goldeneye and Casino Royale, each a reboot of the same property and each wildly different from one another despite being part of the same franchise
And both being really good.
The best movies of their respective Bond actors
My favorite Martin Campbell fact is that he directed two “return to form” Bond movies that were also debuts for new Bond actors: First, the Timothy Dalton flicks have gained a cult following since, but weren’t all that well regarded at the time. Their poor box office performances put the Bond series in a tough spot. Pierce Brosnan’s debut Goldeneye, directed by Campbell, was a smash hit and breathed new life into the franchise. *Then*, after a slew of disappointing follow-ups to Goldeneye, Campbell came back and did the exact same thing with Daniel Craig and Casino Royale. Campbell saved Bond on two separate occasions, a decade apart from one another.
Hopefully he directs the next Bond's first movie too
Martin Campbell was on another level with Casino Royale, and Casino Royale was on another level for a James Bond movie.
I don’t know if any director more eclectic than Steven Soderbergh, he’s done popcorn entertainment (Ocean’s Eleven), serious Oscarbait dramas (Traffic), batshit insane experimental films (Schizopolis), intimate art house dramas (Sex, Lies and Videotape), and so much more. We think of him as an auteur but he is so all over the place with his output I don’t know how you’d even define what a Soderbergh film is.
Yup, I always find it crazy that Soderbergh released Traffic, Erin Brockovich and Ocean’s Eleven within a less than two-year span.
And comedy with "The Informant" which is fucking hilarious. Matt Damon's best comedy role by far.
I lived in a house that was used for filming Sex, Lies, and Videotape. In the film it's where James Spader's character lived. I lived there a while after the film was made. I only watched the film there once. There was a moment where I paused the film and the view on the screen of the interior was the same as my view from the couch.
the fact that the magic mike man also made contagion is wild, especially since they released at around the same time
Tom Hooper made the King's Speech and Cats
Mr. Hooper's assistant here...he asks you refrain from mentioning he had anything to do with Cats. TIA.
That whiplash can only be explained by the fact that he also directed Les Miserables. Cats is the natural progression of his career.
Still a pretty huge drop in quality between Les miserables and Cats though
Ridley Scott's entire bonkers filmography has entered the chat.
Greatest director with the worst cinematic brain, hand him a good script and he will make a classic. Hand him a bad script and he will think it's a good script.
I've seen interviews with him where he talks about this, he really is a pure director. I think he honestly doesn't take a lot of interest in the scripts, he just thinks about what he would like to shoot. Watch his bad movies, you'll always notice that if you actually pay attention to the work of a director, they're always well directed. Its always a problem with the overall movie just not working due to the story. Gladiator is a really interesting "making of" example. Ridley Scott just wanted to shoot an epic with ancient Rome, and Russel Crowe essentially re-wrote lines on set. He asked Scott, and Scott was like "idc do whatever you want" lol. Turns out to be an absolute classic.
I mean, they had no script on Gladiator, or like 40 pages. Which makes your argument even better
There are also numerous versions of the Gladiator script out there, and many of them bear almost no narrative resemblance to the finished product. It was just being written and re-written on the fly around the storyboards Ridley Scott had put together.
That's wild I didn't think it would only have 40 pages. Especially because there are some epic lines in the movie. One of my favourites.
I’m not sure how much I buy the legend about the Gladiator script. I can believe they were reworking it a lot on the fly, but it’s a well written and structured film with plenty of good dialogue. I bet they had more on the page to work from than they admit.
I'm actually currently doing a podcast with some friends comparing Ridley Scott to Steven Spielberg and their filmographies. It's really fascinating. In our research one of the things we've discovered is that Scott continually talks about how he likes to film almost like a documentary. He just sets the camera up and let's it happen, often setting up multiple cameras so he can hopefully get it all in the same take. It's a really fascinating style and when it works it really works (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) but when it doesn't, it really doesn't (The Counselor).
He has a film in every 10 points of RT scores from the 90s to the 30s Edit, this just in...the 20s! Thanks, /u/WarConsigliere
A Good Year has a 26.
Ridley Scott probably has one of the most spotty filmographies with films ranging all over the place in quality. You never know what you’re gonna get when you go see a Ridley Scott film.
Johnathon Demme directed Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Stop Making Sense, and Rachel’s Getting Married. His directorial debut was an exploitation movie called Caged Heat.
Demme also directed that Columbo episode featuring a killer food critic.
You've just reminded me Spielberg did a Columbo too. Edit: scroll two seconds longer and I see you've posted that too! I'll show myself out...
Joseph Sargent directed the excellent The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, and then later directed the all time stinker Jaws The Revenge.
Danny Boyle has a extremely varied resume, but just to pick two for contrast he directed 28 Days Later, a tense gut-wrenching post-apocalyptic zombie movie, as well as Millions, a sweet kids movie about nine-year-old boy who discovers a duffel bag full of cash in a field.
Wes Craven, master of horror, brought you Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Hills Have Eyes aaand Music of the Heart. That Alan Smithee has *quite* the filmography.
David Fincher's biggest job before directing movies was doing Madonna's "Express Yourself" video.
Steven Spielberg made Jurassic Park and Schindler's List in the same year
He also directed the pilot episode of Columbo.
That's my biggest TIL of the thread \*by far\*.
We just rewatched that a couple months ago. It feels like a Spielberg. It’s really elevated compared to other television. Definitely worth a watch.
Not to mention he was making ET and Poltergeist at the same time in the same neighborhood. The two houses were just a few blocks from each other. Both movies came from an idea he had for a sequel to close encounters were instead of nice aliens the aliens terrorize a suburban family. He decided against making a bad alien movie and changed it to a nice alien who feels the whole left by a family suffering through a painful divorce. Then he read the original bad alien movie and decided to make that too. So he changed it from aliens to ghosts.
Victor Fleming made Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz, both came out in 1939
The Wizard of Oz was filmed with a couple of directors. If I recall only Fleming is credited.
And that was coming off of Hook of all things.
I think he was directing one in the day, and watching the rushes of the other in the evening. That must have led to some weird dreams.
Shooting Schindler's and editing Jurassic at the same time. I don't know how he can hold those two movies in his head simultaneously.
The Oldboy remake is so horrible, nobody even asks themselves "Wait, why did they get Spike Lee to direct this?" It's not even referred to as a Spike Lee Joint.
The Russo Brother's biggest film before joining the MCU was You, Me and Dupree.
And a bunch of episodes of Community, which they joke about in the show lol
They also did a load of Arrested Development too
And Happy Endings
The paintball episode was basically a resume for captain america:tws.
The paintball episode was directed by Justin Lin, who also directed various Fast & Furious movies.
Fist full of paintballs was directed by Joe Russo. We're both right!
James Mangold has directed films such as Logan, Girl Interrupted, Ford v. Ferrari, Walk The Line, 3:10 to Yuma, and .. Kate & Leopold. Bonus: Sam Raimi, known for Evil Dead 1 and 2, Army of Darkness, the Spider-Man trilogy also directed For The Love of The Game which concluded the 'Kevin Costner starring in baseball movies' trilogy.
Tangentially related, but Jon Hurwitz wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle where they cast Neil Patrick Harris to play a fictionalized version of himself. By this point in his career, NPH was a “has been” who played Doogie Howser and the only one to really chew the scenery in Starship Troopers. His character was so successful, it got him his role as Barney Stinson on how I met your mother. One of the longest standing jokes in the series was that Barney truly believed the Karate Kid was Johnny Lawrence and not Daniel LaRusso. Then Cobra Kai got green lit based off this premise. The creator? Jon Hurwitz.
That’s a very fun fact
Robert Rodriguez directed *From Dusk Till Dawn*, *Spy Kids* and *Machete*.
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Sharkboy and Lavagirl is him basically being an awesome dad. His kids had an idea for a movie so he made it.
Even better- these movies all are part of the same cinematic universe.
Wes Craven A Nightmare on Elm Street and Music of the Heart David Lynch Eraserhead and The Straight Story There was really something in the water in 1999
Tom McCarthy directed The Cobbler, a truly awful Adam Sandler “””comedy”””. The next movie he directed was Spotlight, the Best Picture winner.
He also played a reporter who makes up stories on The Wire. From acting on a show playing bad journalism to directing a film about great journalism.
Gore Verbinski is responsible for Mousehunt, the US version of The Ring, three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Rango and a few music videos for punk rock bands (like Bad Religion or NOFX).
Joel Schumacher directed Falling Down and...Batman and Robin.
Joel Schumacher has two speeds: fabulous, over the top camp, and incredibly dark and tense drama. Even crazier than Falling Down to me is that he made 8mm, one of the darkest and grimmest Hollywood movies I've ever seen.
> fabulous, over the top camp, and incredibly dark and tense drama The two flavors of Batman movies, and he chose the former...
Peter Jackson who directed Braindead (Horror/splatter) , also directed Lord of The Rings. Todd Phillips Director of Joker 2019, also directed Hangover
Came here to say this about Peter Jackson, except with Meet the Feebles in place of Braindead
I saw Meet the Feebles many *many* years ago at the tail end of a party where me and my buddies were all tripping. The next morning ( well, afternoon really ) we all agreed to watch it again because it couldn't possibly have been *that* fucking warped, right? It was the trip ... right? It wasn't the trip. We remembered perfectly.
Yes, Meet the Feebles was the most unsettling movie I've ever scene.
Going from The Hangover to Joker is nothing compared to going to The Hangover from Hated: The GG Allin documentary.
The guy that directed Speed is also the guy that directed Speed 2, but did so in the dumbest way possible. After a huge success with the first film, the studio hired the director to make a sequel. So he was given about a dozen scripts, including two from the writer of the original film. But he had this dream about a cruise ship crashing into a dock that he became obsessed with. So he threw out all the other scripts, hired two writers and told them to write a film around this idea. Then he pitched it to Keanu, who passed because he hated the entire premise. Did not want to do water shoots or film on a boat. But rather than revisit any of those other scripts, the director doubled down. Got Sandra Bullock to sign on because she assumed Keanu was coming back. Hired Jason Patrick for the lead. And the rest was mediocre history. What could have evolved into a successful franchise was instead brought to a lackluster end because of a dream.
Alfonso Cuaron directed Children Of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The more drastic film to mention would be Y tu mama tambien, which he directed before Harry Potter, which possibly meant some studio exec at WB was like “Let’s get the guy who made that very horny sex drama to direct our family friendly movie”
I’d hope that it was more about getting the director who got such authentic performances from a couple of teenagers, but it’s probably what you said.
Cinematically my favorite HP movie. I would like to see an alternate universe where he directed all of them to the end.
The original idea was to have a who's who of directors tackle each one. That... didn't happen.
I wasn't a fan of David Yates by the end, but do you know what logic is there in constantly having different directors? It seems like the later ones needed a consistent vision.
And also the 1995 film A Little Princess
Jean-Pierre Jeunet directed Amelie and Alien Resurrection.
Francis Ford Coppola directed *The Godfather*, *Apocalypse Now* and *Jack*.
Francis Ford Coppola directed The Godfather,Apocalypse Now and had to pay off debt.
I had blocked “Jack” from my memory. For those who haven’t seen it - however bad you think it’s going to be, it’s worse than that
Writer one rather than director but James Gunn wrote the Scooby Doo movie
Gunn made Tromeo and Juliet, and he also made Lollilove, a mocumentary about a couple who gives out lollipops to the homeless as a means to helping people in the world. It’s good, but it feels like nothing else he’s done. It even stars James himself, and Jenna Fischer who he was married to at the time (she was in Slither too)
Eli Roth directed Cabin Fever, Hostel, and the Death Wish remake, all of which are violent movies for adults. He also directed The House with a Clock in Its Walls, the family friendly fantasy movie starring Jack Black.
Also was “The Bear Jew” in Inglorious Bastards.
To be fair my young son was terrified watching The House with a Clock in Its Walls. The dolls were pretty freaky
Peter Farelly, who directed Dumb and Dumber, also made Green Book.
This makes perfect sense to me
John Patrick Shanley directed Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and Doubt (2008).
Peter Jackson (LOTR) first directed Meet the Feebles. Murderous porn muppets.
Alan Parker directed Bugsy Malone, the mafia musical starring kids in adult roles, and Mississippi Burning, about fighting the KKK, which won a ton of Oscars.
Guy Ritchie made Snatch and the live action Aladdin remake
Still cant Wrap my head around the fact that Aladdin was Made by Guy ritchie of all people
In a universe where he had full control and creative freedom, I think Guy would be the perfect director/writer for Aladdin. Street rats and low level gangsters is what he does best, and put in a price in the form of unlimited riches, and he could make something great. But for a Disney-controlled remake... yeah Guy Ritchie as director is just absurd.
Chris Columbus "discovered" America and then he directed the first two Home Alone films and then directed the first two Harry Potter movies.
Richard Linklater directed the Before Trilogy and School of Rock
I have a straight-up praise post regarding Rob Reiner. He directed Stand By Me and This Is Spinal Tap and A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally. Well, actually he is crazy...Crazy talented!
He directed all of them? INCONCEIVABLE?!
This was my first thought. Rob Reiner has a very real case to have made arguably the greatest comedy, coming of age story, romcom, courtroom drama, horror with Misery, and swashbuckler with The Princess Bride. Insanely diverse director
David Gordon Green will become one of these. Started out with really notable indie movies, got recruited by Seth Rogan to do Pineapple Express, dipped into more dumb stoner comedies like The Sitter and Your Highness, then doing the odd indies Joe and Stronger, before doing a Halloween trilogy and now an Exorcist reboot apparently.
I still boggles my mind that the three new Halloween films are so drastically different in terms of quality, given they were all directed by the same person. Not to mention he was also a writer on all three along with Danny McBride. They should have just called it a day after the first one (or not rebooted it at all).
I dig the first one. It understood the assignment and above all else was fun. But I agree, they honoured the legacy of the original and should’ve just moved on.
George Roy Hill directed the classics Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. He also directed Funny Farm starring Chevy Chase.
Brad Bird directed Ratatouille (and some other great animated movies) and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Not directing, but director of photography: Janusz Kaminski went from working on Cool As Ice, the crappy Vanilla Ice movie, to working with Spielberg on Schindler’s List, which got him an Oscar. He now works on every Spielberg film.
Didn’t kenneth branaugh make the first thor movie? Pretty nuts lol his take on popcorn cinema is just bland + dutch angles
james wan directed conjuring and fast and furious 7
he also directed the malignant and aquaman lol
Adam McKay from Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers etc to Big Short, Vice, Succession
The writers for 12 years a slave, also wrote Undercover Brother
Robert Altman has directed classics such as *MASH* and *The Player* but also the musical dud [Popeye.](https://manapop.com/film/popeye-1980-review/)
Popeye is such a fucking weird film in *so* many ways. There’s really nothing else quite like it.
And Shelley Duval was a perfect Olive Oil.
Peyton Reed directed Ant-Man and Bring It On. Also slightly different answer but Stanley Kubrick directed a movie rated G in 1968 (2001: A Space Odyssey) followed by a movie rated X in 1971 (A Clockwork Orange).
Bob Clark directed Black Christmas and Baby Geniuses
Martin Campbell directed Goldeneye and Casino Royale. He directed the Zorro movies, too. And Green Lantern.