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Chasingamy3434
07-24-2006, 08:18 AM
Kevin smith is the greatest director ever he makes great films such as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing amy, Jersey Girl, Dogma, Jay and silent bob strike back, ClerksII idk why there are any ppl that dont like him hes brilliant hopefully he keeps making great movies
Threadkiller
07-24-2006, 01:43 PM
Kevin smith is the greatest director ever Kevin himself would probably be among the first in line to disagree with you. He is a helluva writer though. I'm still a big fan.
viva_la_bam
07-24-2006, 06:10 PM
Though Kevin Smith is a good director and brll writer i'd say Stanley Kubrik is the greatest director. I dont think any one will be able to do movies that good for a long time.
psychofiend
07-24-2006, 06:39 PM
I think there are 2 directors who will probably never be recognized for any awards, but they are still amazing. Wes Craven and John Waters are both innovators in their genres. They both have shocked people for over 30 years and for the whole time every one of those movies has been at least good.
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/09/01/john_waters_wideweb__430x296.jpg
http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/images/craven.jpg
viva_la_bam
07-24-2006, 06:48 PM
i think John Waters has shocked more people to be fair i mean that film where that ......ugh....atrosity of a human being eats a piece of shit. Shit man i nearlly died of a heart attack from when i first saw that thing. Ugh i still have nitemares. Wes Craven hasnt even come close to scaring me.
Chasingamy3434
07-24-2006, 07:47 PM
Ya Smith is a great at writing though.
BizarroPunisher
07-25-2006, 01:03 AM
Kevin smith is the greatest director ever he makes great films such as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing amy, Jersey Girl, Dogma, Jay and silent bob strike back, ClerksII idk why there are any ppl that dont like him hes brilliant hopefully he keeps making great movies

He is only underappreciated because of your refusal to use punctuation. Were it not for this, he would be known as the most brilliant filmmaker of our or anyone's time. Just kidding, but I sort of agree. I wouldn't say Kevin is the greatest director of our time, but I would definitely say he is the greatest writer/director or writer/director/producer/actor of all time. He is one of the greatest storytellers/scriptwriters the world has ever or will ever know. You porch monkey. (It's okay, I'm taking it back)
DCH101
07-25-2006, 02:21 AM
He is only underappreciated because of your refusal to use punctuation. Were it not for this, he would be known as the most brilliant filmmaker of our or anyone's time. Just kidding, but I sort of agree. I wouldn't say Kevin is the greatest director of our time, but I would definitely say he is the greatest writer/director or writer/director/producer/actor of all time. He is one of the greatest storytellers/scriptwriters the world has ever or will ever know. You porch monkey. (It's okay, I'm taking it back)


Tell him Steve Dave. ;)
By-tor
07-25-2006, 05:37 PM
You porch monkey. (It's okay, I'm taking it back)Whatever, yard ape. ;)
Despised_Icon
07-25-2006, 07:48 PM
im going to have to say. the ONLY reason kevin smith is seen as a good director. is becasue of his writing. he writes all of his movies, and as he writes them has the vision already. Hes an AMAZING writer, but i have yet to see him do somewon elses script, thatd determine his greatnes as a director i think.
Personaly i like more of the horror genre's directors. E.G. Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Lucky Mckee, John Carpenter, George A romero. but hey, thats me:P
FanGirl
07-25-2006, 08:00 PM
My favorite directors:

David Fincher
Martin Scorsese
Lawrence Kasdan
Edgar Wright
Trey Parker
Kevin Smith
Joss Whedon
Shane Black
By-tor
07-25-2006, 08:07 PM
Always liked this guy...
http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/Syllabi/519Complete/formats/films/alfred.jpg
..but you young punks...Pshaw!!!
FanGirl
07-25-2006, 08:07 PM
I knew I missed some.

Please add Alfred Hitchcock and Mel Brooks to my list.
By-tor
07-25-2006, 08:09 PM
I knew I missed some.

Please add Alfred Hitchcock and Mel Brooks to my list.You can come out of time out, now, Miss Missy. ;)
FanGirl
07-26-2006, 02:44 AM
Crap. I forgot Billy Wilder too. Dammit.
Squirrel King Mikey
07-26-2006, 03:12 AM
Kevin smith is the greatest director ever he makes great films such as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing amy, Jersey Girl, Dogma, Jay and silent bob strike back, ClerksII idk why there are any ppl that dont like him hes brilliant hopefully he keeps making great movies
Can't agree, he dose make great movies, I like them a lot because I am a stoner, but I must say Tim Burton is a better director. His movies all have more artistic views that still can be good for all ages.
Squirrel King Mikey
07-26-2006, 03:16 AM
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JK
07-26-2006, 08:48 AM
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

...ad nauseum.

Such originality. Un-freakin-believable. You're my new idol. :rolleyes:


Dude, 40% of your posts are EXACTLY the same. If you want to last more than a week...

You know what? Never mind.
phit_demon
07-26-2006, 11:28 AM
http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/Syllabi/519Complete/formats/films/alfred.jpg
Is that Churchill? :eek:
FanGirl
07-26-2006, 02:54 PM
Blast! I forgot Orson Wells. I suck.
brodie696969
08-23-2006, 10:36 PM
In my opinion, the greatest directors of all-time are:

Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
Elia Kazan
Mel Brooks
Martin Scorsese

And Kevin Smith is a better writer than he is a director.
BRADMAN
09-16-2006, 06:31 PM
I agree Kevin Smith is the greatest director and writer and directing his own stuff dosn't make him any less great.
FanGirl
09-18-2006, 09:36 PM
I think Kevin is a good director, but not great. He doesn't use the camera as much as he should. If you want to see a good example of the difference between directors, check out the three ways to adapt Shakepeare. There is the Olivier way: Set up the camera in one spot and basically perform the play. The Wells way: change the storyline to work for the camera angles and cool looking shots. or The Branaugh way: use filmmaking to bring out aspects that couldn't be shown on the stage. I wrote a paper on this in college.

I'd be interested to see someone else direct something he wrote. I mean "Overnight Delievery" was mostly his, but it got re-written enough that he's name came off the writing credits. He did get a special thanks. You can still see his fingerprints all over it and the main character was CLEARLY written for Jason Lee.
BRADMAN
09-20-2006, 11:25 AM
If your a director that can write or a writer that can direct you wouldn't want anybody else doing your stuff.
FanGirl
09-20-2006, 11:50 AM
But that's the whole point. Kevin's not a director. He's a writer with control issues. He himself will admitt he is a writer and not a director. He is all about his script. He will never direct anyone elses script because of that reason.
BRADMAN
09-20-2006, 12:31 PM
But that's the whole point. Kevin's not a director. He's a writer with control issues. He himself will admitt he is a writer and not a director. He is all about his script. He will never direct anyone elses script because of that reason.

Control isn't an issue. If someone else directs it's someone elses vision of what the movie should be.
Yaminomalex
09-20-2006, 12:43 PM
Spielberg or Tarantino for me. So far Spielberg has only made one movie that I didn't enjoy 100% (War of the Worlds)
Zens7s
09-20-2006, 01:00 PM
Spielberg or Tarantino for me. So far Spielberg has only made one movie that I didn't enjoy 100% (War of the Worlds)
I thought AI sucked.
FanGirl
09-20-2006, 01:12 PM
Control isn't an issue. If someone else directs it's someone elses vision of what the movie should be.

Ummm...isn't that control? He wants to keep control of what his vision is.
Freddy Kruegar
09-20-2006, 10:44 PM
In my opinion, the greatest directors of all-time are:

Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
Elia Kazan
Mel Brooks
Martin Scorsese

And Kevin Smith is a better writer than he is a director.
FINALLY!! It took someone long enough to mention Quentin Tarantino. He is my personnel favorite. Oh and if you are going to go as far back as Alfred Hitchcock you should at least have the courtisy to mention Rod Serling, I mean c'mon!

You're travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!"
FanGirl
09-21-2006, 03:52 AM
We're talking movies not TV so Sterling doesn't really count.
BRADMAN
09-21-2006, 11:07 AM
Ummm...isn't that control? He wants to keep control of what his vision is.

Exactly.
phit_demon
09-21-2006, 11:18 AM
Exactly.
Did someone just turn two pages at once?

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4196/cat2.jpg
FanGirl
09-21-2006, 12:02 PM
Control isn't an issue. If someone else directs it's someone elses vision of what the movie should be.

Ummm...isn't that control? He wants to keep control of what his vision is.

Exactly.

My head hurts.
Freddy Kruegar
09-22-2006, 01:38 AM
We're talking movies not TV so Sterling doesn't really count.
We wern't talking movies or T.V., we were talking about directors. And Rod Serling is most definately a great director.
brodie696969
09-22-2006, 02:42 AM
FINALLY!! It took someone long enough to mention Quentin Tarantino. He is my personnel favorite. Oh and if you are going to go as far back as Alfred Hitchcock you should at least have the courtisy to mention Rod Serling, I mean c'mon!

I absolutely LOVE "The Twilight Zone", but I was only listing feature-film directors. And Serling never actually directed an episode of "The Twilight Zone". He did write a whopping 92 episodes, though. :cool:
FanGirl
09-22-2006, 02:29 PM
We wern't talking movies or T.V., we were talking about directors. And Rod Serling is most definately a great director.

We're in the Movies, Movies, Movies section, tho. We can start a TV director thread in the TV section.
zorg
09-25-2006, 03:55 PM
personly i think steven speilberg is the best along with kevin smith. but we really should'nt forget the other and older greats like stanly kubrik and hitchcock without him i dnt think we'd have good horror movies but wes craven is the worst director i have ever seen his movies have a good killing at the begining and the like an hour of storyline and then a couple more killings and then more story line till the killer actualy dies himself. none of his stuff has scared anyone i know.
Freddy Kruegar
09-29-2006, 03:08 AM
I absolutely LOVE "The Twilight Zone", but I was only listing feature-film directors. And Serling never actually directed an episode of "The Twilight Zone". He did write a whopping 92 episodes, though. :cool:
Ok you got me, I have been looking for a way to beat you but you are right he didn't direct any movies. He did, however, write the screenplay for Seven Days in May and the origonal Planet of the Apes.