Films that should be labelled as a Director's Best but arent

Psynema

Psynema

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Got to thinking this from another thread on the board.

What are films that are not labelled a Director's Best, but should be in your opinion

Mine are...

1. Joel Coen - Big Lebowski over Fargo. BL has arguably the best character realization out there of all their films and really, once you start watching it a billion times, does have plenty of depth people overlook because of the potty humor.

2. Hitchcock - Rear Window over Psycho : I'll probably get flamed for this, hell I think Psycho is a better "film" in terms of theory/aesthetic, but I think Rear Window was a much better story IMO and had better/more interesting and relevant undertones. Frankly I think Psycho was good in the first half, but I did lose some interest halfway in and thought towards the end it was a bit over the top. Still great, but Rear Window held my interest all the way through and just seems timeless to me, where Psycho at times shows its age at certain times.

3. David Lynch - Eraserhead over Blue Velvet - this one's easy and I think most people would probably put Eraserhead as his best anways. Blue Velvet was decent but more conventional. Once you start understanding Eraserhead it really just stands out as his best.
 
Psynema

Agree with two and three.

I like Barton Fink the most out of all the Coen's films. (Not to detract from the brilliance of Lebowski in any way. ) I just love the performances in that film. Every single actor on screen in Fink is in top form and i can't think of many movies where that's the case.

For Spielberg though i will always love Jaws over anything else he has done and probably ever will do.

Quentin Tarantino: Jackie Brown over Pulp Fiction

Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaum's over Rushmore (i don't even know if this is a debate since the folks who like Anderson seem to like all his films. Although i did know this one guy who worshiped Rushmore and hated Tenenbaum's and Aquatic. So i guess this is for his ilk.)


I like this thread. Will try to think of more.
 
The Machinist said:
I like Barton Fink the most out of all the Coen's films. (Not to detract from the brilliance of Lebowski in any way. ) I just love the performances in that film. Every single actor on screen in Fink is in top form and i can't think of many movies where that's the case.
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I definitely agree on this one. In terms of comedies, I'd have to rate the Hudsucker Proxy as their best--even though I love The Big lebowski dearly.
 
Terminator 2 over Titanic
Alien over Gladiator (lot of people apparently didnt know ridley scott before that, average people I mean.)
 
Stanley Kubrick - anything other than Space Odyssey 2001 will do for me LOL. But I'll say Clockwork Orange - but this may be pointless cause I think most would agree anways.

Darren Aronofsky - Pi kicks living crap out of Requiem for a Dream. Although I think he may actually be more popular via Pi in many circles, so this may be a pointless nomination as well. But in any event via mainstream public, he's the "ass to ass" Requiem for Dream guy, so I'll add him to my list.
 
i forgot blade runner... yeah blade runner trumps alien just alittle bit.


lol yeah its a goomba. lol he looks hilarious.
 
spidey said:
Terminator 2 over Titanic
Alien over Gladiator (lot of people apparently didnt know ridley scott before that, average people I mean.)
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Amerikan123 said:
I agree with all but one.

Alien over gladiator?

I say Blade Runner over Alien over Gladiator!
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I agree... also
Aliens over Terminator 2 and Waaaayyy over Titanic.
 
jpeck said:
Anybody else feel the original Terminator was better then the sequel?
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Everyone.

Hell a lot of chicks like the first Terminator for some reason and were really pissed when they saw T2.

I do not acknowledge the existence of #3
 
jpeck said:
Anybody else feel the original Terminator was better then the sequel?
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Absolutely! The rest paled in comparision and I believe they were only done to bolster Ahhnold's heroic image.

Cameron = Aliens
R. Scott = Blade Runner
Leone = Once Upon a Time in the West
Coppola = Apocalypse Now (but it bounces back and forth with The Godfather, depending how I feel that day)
T. Scott = The Hunger
Eastwood = The Outlaw Josie Wales AND Play Misty for Me (but I'm hoping Flags of Our Fathers is going to blow everything he's done in the past out of the water.)
QT = Jackie Brown
Mann = Last of the Mohicans
Kubrick = The Shining
 
I prefer the original Terminator over Judgement Day as well.

There's just something about the low-budget, gritty, violent, urban wasteland that Cameron created in the first film that is really compelling and original.
 
i like t 2 better for some reason because you get the father arc and how this child and this machine we suppose to be enemies are now best friends. and the other fearing fate and how to prevent all of this from happing and the scarafice the machine takes he learns what emotion and companionship is. I love it, I remeber when i was kid it was the only movie I ever cried too. when he gives him thumbs up going into the fire I go NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
 
Don't get me wrong, I love T2 as well for all the same reasons you mentioned, Spidey.

I love how John Connor makes the t-800 more human and feel emotion. Great stuff.

Plus it just flat out rocks like no other film before it.
 
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