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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

This shit is on point.

Lil Opie Cunningham is WAY better than Fellini or Antonioni.

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...

:) THE COMEDIAN :)

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?

yeah, it's pretty ridiculous.
Fun to argue about though.

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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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

Wack list.

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...

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.

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

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.

Good directors just silly positions.

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?

i'm not a film buff so excuse me when i say what movies has ingmar bergman done?

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.

I'd liek to see Jon Woo on there, but I have to admit, duke fell of hard with Paycheck...

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.

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.

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