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Empire's Top 40 Directors of All-Time

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Spielberg voted king of films
By Jack Malvern

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 94,00.html

His name is synonymous with his blockbusters and, just like Jaws, he has eaten up the competition
THE combination of a killer shark, a waddling alien and a story of humanity in the midst of the Holocaust has driven film buffs to crown Steven Spielberg as cinema

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This shit is on point.

Lil Opie Cunningham is WAY better than Fellini or Antonioni.

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This is the most laughably embarrassing list I have ever seen...Entertainment Weekly could come up with a more legit "Top 40 Directors" list than this...

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The Comedian wrote:This is the most laughably embarrassing list I have ever seen...Entertainment Weekly could come up with a more legit "Top 40 Directors" list than this...
There's so many problems, I don't even know where to start. Really, who thinks that James Cameron is a better director than Ingmar Bergman? :naswtf:
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yeah, it's pretty ridiculous.
Fun to argue about though.

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I know that when I watch Wild Strawberries or The Seventh Seal, I think to myself, "Damn, why wouldn't this be more like Attack Of The Clones?"

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um.
:naswtf:

um.
the only thing i can do with that is pick my favs from the list.

scorsese
kubrick
kurosawa
tarantino
allen
lean
coppola
leone
wilder
peckinpah
lee
bergman
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Wack list.
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Is this list voted by the people or chose from the Empire mag staff. Not a bad list but there are many problems with it. I mean George Lucas is in there for fucks sake. No Godard and Ron Howard should not be on that list. And why is Terry Gilliam so low down.

I like Cameron though he made two great movies with The Terminator and Aliens but he is too high up there...

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Honestly I stopped reading after seeing Ridley fucking Scott at number five, ahead of Akira Kurosawa. I'll come back and look at it later.

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StormShadow wrote:Honestly I stopped reading after seeing Ridley fucking Scott at number five, ahead of Akira Kurosawa. I'll come back and look at it later.
hahaha

I guarantee you'll stop a couple more times then

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Post by cascarrabias »

Finally.

Someone had the balls to say Peter Jackson was a better filmmaker than Orson Welles, Sam Peckinpah, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, and Robert Altman.

It's about damn time.

That's the most ridiculous list I've ever seen.

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Good directors just silly positions.

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The_Kernel wrote:
The Comedian wrote:This is the most laughably embarrassing list I have ever seen...Entertainment Weekly could come up with a more legit "Top 40 Directors" list than this...
There's so many problems, I don't even know where to start. Really, who thinks that James Cameron is a better director than Ingmar Bergman? :naswtf:
i'm not a film buff so excuse me when i say what movies has ingmar bergman done?

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Gregg Popabitch wrote:
i'm not a film buff so excuse me when i say what movies has ingmar bergman done?
dude may be in my top 3 fav directors ever...he's been amazingly consistent over a 40 odd year period...

http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:81548

his most famous films are probably the seventh seal, wild strawberries, smiles of a summer night, the silence, persona, cries and whispers, scenes from a marriage, and fanny and alexander.
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I'd liek to see Jon Woo on there, but I have to admit, duke fell of hard with Paycheck...

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BRO WTF HYPE WILLIANES DIDTN BEAT JIM CARREY
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HopeLess wrote:I'd liek to see Jon Woo on there, but I have to admit, duke fell of hard with Paycheck...
He fell off hard when he decided to leave Hong Kong...

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No Malick? Fuck this. :ironmike:

And Woo's on there, but not Jean Luc Godard, Wai, Bertolluci, Antonioni, and de Sica? Sup with that? And even though I don't necessarily agree, Steven Spielburg isn't that bad of a #1 choice - dude is one of the most versatile directors of all time.

:lol: Peter Jackson being top 10 - Peter Jackson fanatics skeeve me out.

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