Gregarious yet sedentary, plantlike yet an animal — even the researchers who found it admitted that it sounded like an alien.
Bricken loves the MotU LEGO set... surely there must be a mistake!
Holy Shit the Road Ripper! I completely forgot about that thing. I had one. The hours of fun I had ramming that thing into the walls!
Eh, I've seen better work.
I'm gonna put Edgar Wright in as, at the very least, a future contender. He's someone that seems to 'get' and have a deep appreciation for genre AND the fact that character is what often makes the best genre films more than just a bundle of good ideas.
Jaws, in my opinion, has the best direction of any movie I've ever seen, and nobody can besmirch the movies that followed(and I don't mean Jaws 2 and 3). I'm going with Spielberg, then Kubrick and then Scott.
After Spielberg, I would have to say Guillermo del Toro, if only because he's built an entire career on fantastical movies — something no other director has the balls or passion to do.
Here is my list of directors I will watch anything they do because I know its going to be great. In no order
Guillermo del Toro by a long mile.
John Carpenter, for a lifetime of cult favorites and several genuine classics: Halloween, The Thing, Escape etc.
Fritz Lang
Spike Jonze. He did Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and my favorite, Where the Wild Things Are (I get so much grief for loving that movie).
Quentin Tarantino. There is no man who can write and direct monologues better than him
Used the Force for 900 years, I did, and still in visions never did see one thing useful. Tell you what you will have for lunch five years from Tuesday, I will, but tell anyone that Skywalker and Vader and Palpatine and Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are trouble, I will not. Tell young Skywalker that he has the…