This poll is a public service announcement for people like Money Gripp who think this decade has been shitty for films. When voting try and vote on the director's material this decade, not on who you think is the better director overall. I tried to include directors who've either made their mark this decade or have dropped a lot of great films (Spielberg, Eastwood, Scorsese, Lee).
This poll isn't cast in stone, so offer some suggestions if you see someone I missed.
Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, No Direction Home, The Departed)
Spike Lee (25th Hour, Inside Man, When the Levees Broke)
Fernando Meirelles (City of God, Constant Gardener)
Alejandro Gonz
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spielberg is looking better than i expected now that i see the list. i gotta go with nolan or scorcese though. forget yimou zhang his movies are supremely boring.
AWAE wrote:i'd put spike jonze/david fincher/paul thomas anderson over half that list..
icedit: if we're really talking about the last 10 years..
We're not. Last decade is easier that saying "the 00s."
EDM: No Direction Home is Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary. See if it you haven't: it's a great film. Also, even though I think Zhang's output since Hero is lackluster, Hero broke some new ground and is widely regarded as one of the best films of the decade.
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Absense of Uwe Ball makes poll invalid. Just wait till revisionist history catches up with you on that one, stormy and I shall dance on your foolish graves
I really, really don't see how you can front on Spielberg in this poll. He's had a prolific output in the past 7 years and is versatile as hell. He's made a great sci fi thriller (Minority Report), a great American drama (Catch Me If You Can), a classic political thriller (Munich), and the first half of AI and a lot of Minority Report have some pretty astounding filmmaking.
Spike Lee and Scorsese are good choices too because of their versatility. 25th Hour's a great drama, Lee aced the first thriller he's ever made (Inside Man), and When the Levees Broke is one of the best documentaries of the decade. GONY might be the last great "classic" historical epic, Departed is a great thriller, albeit a tad overrated, and No Direction Home is a solid, underappreciated doc.
A lot of these movies are good. A few are great. A couple are unremarkable. If I had to give a reason for why I said that movies have been shitty in this decade, it's that the 90's were so damn good and this decade hasn't lived up to my expectations so far. I wish there were movies coming out that were as monumental as Fargo, Malcolm X, Pulp Fiction, JFK, Good Fellas, etc. Nothing that has come out this decade really deserves to be placed on the same level of those films, which you knew were classic the first time you saw them. Maybe my expectations are skewed because I am constantly comparing this decade to the preceding decade, which was a terrific decade for movies? Maybe I need to see more movies? I haven't seen Munich or The Constant Gardner, for instance. I'd like for you guys to prove me wrong, but I still stick by my opinion.
Although I'd like to point out that this
was an excellent movie.
And I would add this to my Top Ten List. Highly SLEPT-ON:
Just this year we had 3 great to classic films drop (Zodiac, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, and The Bourne Ultimatum). Have you seen any of these?
I would of put Ken Loach on here for The Wind that Shakes the Barley and Sweet Sixteen, but I doubt anyone on here's seen Sweet Sixteen. Money Gripp: knowing your background I almost guarentee you'd like either of these films, especially Sweet Sixteen.
ICE EDIT: Fuck it; I'm putting Ken Loach on here.
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Just this year we had 3 great to classic films drop (Zodiac, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, and The Bourne Ultimatum). Have you seen any of these?
I would of put Ken Loach on here for The Wind that Shakes the Barley and Sweet Sixteen, but I doubt anyone on here's seen Sweet Sixteen. Money Gripp: knowing your background I almost guarentee you'd like either of these films, especially Sweet Sixteen.
I thought about this for a while....The answer is Spielberg. No one on that list is touching the depth of thematic expression, mastery of technical know how, humor, maturity and all around experience that we have seen from Spielberg in the last ten years....His list of great films in that time span is staggering, Minority Report, The Terminal, Catch Me if You Can, Munich, and although AI is weak as fuck I am really coming to appreciate it more and more as time passes.... I know he suffers from the over commerciality (is that a word) of his work but I've never held that against him. Spielberg is like Ingmar Bergman and Michael Bay mixed, or maybe Tony Scott and Kurosawa...He truly is one of the greatest of all times and most definitely has made the best movies period in the last 10 years...
Trademark wrote:and No Direction Home is not better than the Aviator, you asshole...
LOL. When did I say that? I just think GONY is a better historical epic.
Good pic btw.
I thought you were listing what you considered the best three films of said director in said time period...
and also of course it's a good pick my taste is fucking impeccable...Plus if you think about the literal last ten years you would have to include Amistad and Saving Private Ryan, not to fucking shabby....his only misstep is the god fucking awful War of the Worlds....what an awful shit fest that was.....
Trademark wrote:I thought about this for a while....The answer is Spielberg. No one on that list is touching the depth of thematic expression, mastery of technical know how, humor, maturity and all around experience that we have seen from Spielberg in the last ten years....His list of great films in that time span is staggering, Minority Report, The Terminal, Catch Me if You Can, Munich, and although AI is weak as fuck I am really coming to appreciate it more and more as time passes.... I know he suffers from the over commerciality (is that a word) of his work but I've never held that against him. Spielberg is like Ingmar Bergman and Michael Bay mixed, or maybe Tony Scott and Kurosawa...He truly is one of the greatest of all times and most definitely has made the best movies period in the last 10 years...
Trademark wrote:I thought about this for a while....The answer is Spielberg. No one on that list is touching the depth of thematic expression, mastery of technical know how, humor, maturity and all around experience that we have seen from Spielberg in the last ten years....His list of great films in that time span is staggering, Minority Report, The Terminal, Catch Me if You Can, Munich, and although AI is weak as fuck I am really coming to appreciate it more and more as time passes.... I know he suffers from the over commerciality (is that a word) of his work but I've never held that against him. Spielberg is like Ingmar Bergman and Michael Bay mixed, or maybe Tony Scott and Kurosawa...He truly is one of the greatest of all times and most definitely has made the best movies period in the last 10 years...
I just don't think making two movies, no matter how great, can make someone the best of an entire decade.... Plus I thought the constant gardner was great but the two or three times I've seen it since makes me sleepy...
I just don't think making two movies, no matter how great, can make someone the best of an entire decade.... Plus I thought the constant gardner was great but the two or three times I've seen it since makes me sleepy...
You know i'm looking at this list and as far as truly NEW blood goes, i'm really liking Brad Bird. No specific reason, just personal preference
also, yimou's best work is in the 90's. Post Hero he's been in steady decline. House of Flying daggers is retarded once you get past the pretty pictures, so is Curse of the golden flower
I just don't think making two movies, no matter how great, can make someone the best of an entire decade.... Plus I thought the constant gardner was great but the two or three times I've seen it since makes me sleepy...
what if u interpreted best as "most talented"?
HE'S NOT MORE TALENTED THAN SCORCESE OR SPIELBERG TRY AGAIN.
I just don't think making two movies, no matter how great, can make someone the best of an entire decade.... Plus I thought the constant gardner was great but the two or three times I've seen it since makes me sleepy...
what if u interpreted best as "most talented"?
HE'S NOT MORE TALENTED THAN SCORCESE, SPIELBERG, GREENGRASS, GONDRY, LEE, OR BIRD; TRY AGAIN.
drizzle wrote:
also, yimou's best work is in the 90's. Post Hero he's been in steady decline. House of Flying daggers is retarded once you get past the pretty pictures, so is Curse of the golden flower
True, I forgot about Raise the Red Lantern. But he's most famous over here for Hero. I haven't seen any of his 90s films beside Lantern; where should I start?
Cas: Judd Apatow's on the list cause he's the Golden Boy of comedy and everything he's touched in the past couple of years (40, Knocked, writing Superbad) has at least been an 8/10 film. He might not be the best visual director, but he's no Kevin Smith either.
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drizzle wrote:Post Hero he's been in steady decline. House of Flying daggers is retarded once you get past the pretty pictures, so is Curse of the golden flower
curse of the golden flower is terrible but i liked house of flying daggers.
