Your top four film directors?

[MauriceNorton]

You can laugh, but I think there is no better director than Tarantino.

[zombie no.one]

You can laugh, but I think there is no better director than Tarantino.

well you're not the first to mention him in this thread, or even to put him top!

personally I do think PULP FICTION stands apart from all his other work though

[M.10rda]

This isn't a debate thread, so I'm not arguing against Tarantino. Instead (compulsively) I'll say that I entirely admire several of his films, and then he's got several where there is evidence of him being a "Top 4" director and profoundly compelling evidence against him qualifying for that honor in the same darn movie. It really frustrates me and that's why I couldn't include him in a Top 4. At the same time, he obviously goes out of his way to frustrate viewers like me, and yet if he's completely satisfying to viewers such as yourself, cheers to your opinion!

[RCMerchant]

^..... and then theirs the HATEFUL EIGHT. Tarintino is good, but I think much of his work is just homage to other BETTER directors and films. I like his films, but if I want to see an old 1970's film, I'll watch one; because after PULP FICTION, he seems to just be remaking old 1970's films.

[zombie no.one]

I like his films, but if I want to see an old 1970's film, I'll watch one; because after PULP FICTION, he seems to just be remaking old 1970's films.

I recently watched the 1970s INGLORIOUS BASTARDS...he stole the whole title. however the film is only vaguely similar in plot to Tarantino's, and not at all in tone. I actually really liked it. cheesy in a nice old 70s grindhouse way

the opening scene of Tarantino's is one of the most tense scenes in movie history

[M.10rda]

Okay, now we've turned this into a Tarantino thread, but ah well!

 

FTR I think ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, DJANGO UNCHAINED, RESERVOIR DOGS, JACKIE BROWN, and PULP FICTION all pretty much work, and work well - at least for me. Of all of them, PULP FICTION has aged the least well. DOGS plays a lot better than PULP these days.

There's almost exactly half of DEATH PROOF and both KILL BILLs that work and are brilliant, and exactly half of each that fail for me.

BASTERDS and H8FUL... masterful sequences... completely flawed construction - like, deep integral structural problems. Again, just one man's two cents.

[zombie no.one]

yeah I really dug the 1st half of DEATHPROOF. fell apart in 2nd half, not sure why it had to go in that direction

I want to see him try a giallo. or at least a flat out horror

apparently he was slated to direct the 1995 HALLOWEEN: CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS sequel

[M.10rda]

yeah I really dug the 1st half of DEATHPROOF. fell apart in 2nd half, not sure why it had to go in that direction I want to see him try a giallo. or at least a flat out horror

^^^ This 100%. I know the guy loves to upset viewer expectations and I know he loves FASTER, p***yCAT! KILL, KILL! If he really had to make those two disparate halves, he should've really committed to the true "Grindhouse" experience of layabouts wandering in and out of the theater w/ no regard for the films....... and started GRINDHOUSE w/ the second, inferior half of DEATHPROOF... play some trailers... play the entirety of PLANET TERROR... more trailers... then the first half of DEATHPROOF through "Hang Tight"....... have the film "get caught in the gate" and burn/melt... end of double feature! Lights come up, everyone leaves satisfied. 

[The Burgomaster]

Tough call, but I'll throw these out there (in no particular order):

* Martin Scorsese
* Alfred Hitchcock
* Billy Wilder
* Sam Peckinpah