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Songseeker
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The Most Overrated Directors
Who, in your opinion, are film's most overrated directors?
My picks:
Oliver Stone
Ron Howard
Tony Scott
Spike Lee
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Sun May 22, 2005 3:37 am |
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Songseeker
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Oliver Stone. Definitely. There are a couple of films that I like and that are directed by him, but his recent films are all misses.
I think the only film of his I really enjoyed was Wall Street. I'm really not a big fan.
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cinemaKid
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IMO, if you can pick three good movies directed by the same director, he/she is qualified to be called a
good director
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Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
These are good ones and all directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Joe Blow
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Robert Zemeckis is highly overrated. But then, I'm in the group that hated Forrest Gump.
Back to the Future 2 and 3 are amongst some of the worst movies ever made. So is Panic Room. And that movie with Goldie Hawn, bruce Wills and Meryl Streep. Can't remember the name. Anyway, it was crap.
The best film he ever made was the original Back to the Future, otherwise, very overrated.
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cinemaKid
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Originally posted by Joe Blow:
Robert Zemeckis is highly overrated. But then, I'm in the group that hated Forrest Gump.
That's the first thing I was going to mention to respond, because I love Forrest Gump. I do know that number of people really disliked the movie though.
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quote:
Originally posted by Joe Blow:
Robert Zemeckis is highly overrated. But then, I'm in the group that hated Forrest Gump.
Back to the Future 2 and 3 are amongst some of the worst movies ever made. So is Panic Room. And that movie with Goldie Hawn, bruce Wills and Meryl Streep. Can't remember the name. Anyway, it was crap.
The best film he ever made was the original Back to the Future, otherwise, very overrated.
You are no friend of mine. 
Back to the Future 2 and 3 are some of my all-time favorite films. Of course, you can't beat the first one, but 2's solid and for a western, 3's not that bad.
Say, is the director still alive?
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cinemaKid
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Originally posted by ghostman:
Say, is the director still alive?
Yes, he is. He's not that old actually. He just passed 50 ...
Interesting info about him ...
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award-winning American movie director, producer and writer. Born in Chicago, Illinois to a Lithuanian/Yugoslavian family, Zemeckis graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Propelled forward after winning a Student Academy Award for his film, A Field of Honor, he went on to write and direct many films which have won numerous awards.
After his first films proved to be box-office flops, Zemeckis directed Romancing the Stone starring Michael Douglas. The film was a big success, and Zemeckis went on to direct the Back to the Future trilogy of films. These films established him as a leading director in Hollywood.
He is known for his innovative use of special effects, especially in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which combined live action seamlessly with traditional animation, and Forrest Gump, in which he placed Tom Hanks in scenes with well-known historical figures such as John F. Kennedy. His most recent project, 2004's The Polar Express, based on the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg, utilized the computer animation technique known as performance capture, whereby the movements of the actors are captured digitally and used as the basis for the animated characters.
Since becoming a well-known Hollywood director, he has been nominated for and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Directing for Oscar-nominated Forrest Gump in 1994. In 1999, Zemeckis donated $5 million towards the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts at USC, which today hosts many film school classes, much of the Interactive Media Division, and Trojan Vision, USC's student television station which has won 4 Tellys and has been voted the number one college television station in the country.
He often works with composer Alan Silvestri and writer Bob Gale.
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Thanks for the nice little bio. It's a shame he didn't go on to direct more films like Back to the Future. Looks like he's one of those laidback directors, who fade in and out between big hits and long vacations. To name a few, Quentin Tarantino and Michael Mann. Their counterparts, Peter Jackson and Steven Speilberg.
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cinemaKid
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Ok, he's more laid back than some directors, but he's directed several (pretty widely marketed) movies looking back the last several years.
The Polar Express
Cast Away
What Lies Beneath
Contact
Forrest Gump
Death Becomes Her
He made all these after Back to the Future Part III, and I watched the followings:
Cast Away
What Lies Beneath
Contact
Forrest Gump
It seems that he's been involved in movie product, i.e., business side of movie making lately.
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ghostman
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quote:
Originally posted by cinemaKid:
Ok, he's more laid back than some directors, but he's directed several (pretty widely marketed) movies looking back the last several years.
The Polar Express
Cast Away
What Lies Beneath
Contact
Forrest Gump
Death Becomes Her
He made all these after Back to the Future Part III, and I watched the followings:
Cast Away
What Lies Beneath
Contact
Forrest Gump
It seems that he's been involved in movie product, i.e., business side of movie making lately.
What Lies Beneath looks like a bunch of crock.
Usually when directors start losing their zest, they tend to get into the production aspect of movies.
What'd you think of Contact? Would you recommend it?
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Originally posted by ghostman:
What'd you think of Contact? Would you recommend it?
No, I don't. I'm a big fan of Jodie Foster, but the movie isn't that great; it's Sci-Fi-ish. I think that the problem is that the movie tries too hard to make some concept, some interpretation of outer space believable. If that's what they want to do, then they should really back up that idea scientifically. Even Jurassic Park does better. Contact could've approached a little differently also; Contact could've approached like Back to the Future which plays with the idea of time machine, but as far as science is concerned, the movie doesn't take it seriously and it works.
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Lyte
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No, Contact blows... don't waste one minute on it!
I agree the following are overrated not so much as directors but as some sort of standard barrier of history or social awareness or...politics... or any other "blah, blah, blah" we so often get from Left Wing'd Hollywood.
Oliver Stone - Good films but not much credibility as a historic story teller.
Spike Lee - Average films and should not be considered "the voice" of the black community.
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. I like Doors as well.