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Seriously though, some of those opening credits were terrific! Especially the work of Maurice Binder and Saul Bass. I'm not fond of the current trend of eliminating opening credits entirely and saving them for the very end. As a film geek, I want to see who did what and now I'm often stuck with...

Then of course, there are movies that you know are stinkers but like/love them anyway as opposed to not considering it a stinker just because everyone else does. Sometimes stinkers are just more "fun" that "great" movies. If I prefer The Carpetbaggers to Lawrence Of Arabia, it's not because I...

I skipped Wolf Of Wall Street because my movie radar (which is about 90% accurate) told me to skip it. It's pretty good at sniffing out a movie I'm not going to like. For me, the 2000s have been very erratic as far as Scorsese is concerned. I disliked Gangs Of New York, The Aviator and the 35...

Oh, I like his small films, too. I only used the those three because they were comparable to LOA. And where does Passage To India fit in? Small film or epic? Or a little of both.

I love Ryan's Daughter! In fact, David Lean would be a good candidate for a director who's never made a stinker! I will confess however that while I admire and respect Lawrence Of Arabia, I've never warmed to it. I can watch it and appreciate its artistry but I'm removed from it. I can never get...

I must confess I've only seen the first Mission Impossible (1996) which I greatly enjoyed but had no inclination to explore further.

The Mission Impossible franchise has taken over his career!

And the conversations have been civilized! No attitude or throwing shade! On another film forum many years ago I remarked that I thought Joan Crawford was the quintessential Movie Star but not much of an actress. To which a member of Ms. Crawford's cult retorted, "If you think Ms. Crawford...

I didn't buy a moment of Cruise's performance in Born On The Fourth Of July. It was pure Oscar bait (it worked, he got nominated). The Cruise keepers for me are Magnolia and Eyes Wide Shut.

Your list brings up the question. Are Andy Tennant, Gene Saks, Richard Donner great directors. I'll go further and ask, has Gene Saks ever directed a good movie much less a great one? I like Barefoot In The Park but because of Neil Simon's writing and the performances of Fonda, Redford, Boyer...

I think people's reaction to a director (or an actor) isn't all that much different than our reaction to people. Sometimes you meet someone and you immediately like them, sometimes you meet someone and they get on your nerves. Sometimes we just connect with a director and sometimes we don't. It...

Oh, I march to my own drummer! I've a list of "respected" directors and "beloved" movies I don't respect or love :DI take on all challengers. It does amaze me though that while people will concede that popular films are often bad (the unwashed masses thing), somehow popular directors are exempt...

Alas, I'm not an animation kind of guy outside of Japanese anime (I love Miyazaki). Hell I don't even like Pinocchio, Bambi or Dumbo! I even prefer the live action musical remake of Beauty And The Beast to its animated counterpart.

Spielberg has 34 films as a director (and I worked on two of them) but I've skipped 6 of them (Amistad, The Terminal, Adventures Of Tintin, Bridge Of Spies, The BFG, Ready Player One). I used to wait in anticipation for his next film but I've lost interest in him as a director in recent years...

I'll take your word for it ;) I've only seen it once and while I didn't hate it, I'd never want to watch it again.

We'll simply have to agree to disagree then. Years ago on another movie site I did battle with another poster on Robert Altman vs. John Sayles. He couldn't stand Altman and thought Sayles was the better director and, of course, I had the opposite viewpoint. We went back and forth and back and...

I agree on Starship Troopers, an appalling film! His Dutch films are better and I think The 4th Man is brilliant. Of his English language films, I like Basic Instinct best.

God, I hate his films! I like him better as a pulp screenwriter (The Howling, Alligator, Piranha) than as a director. He's in his element with pulp. When he gets serious, he's a pretentious bore!

Why do I suspect you haven't seen The 4th Man or Soldier Of Orange?

Like all directors, Eastwood has directed his share of misfires. He's bungled a few interesting films. Hereafter comes to mind. Is J. Edgar a stinker? It's hard to tell because he won't let us see it. Damn, that was literally the darkest film I've ever seen theatrically. Did Eastwood forget to...

Actually, the Shirley Temple factor could work it as much as against it depending on your tolerance for Shirley Temple. I'm rather indifferent to the young Shirley. Not a fan but I don't dislike her either.

Actually, it's Pacino's over the top performance that makes the picture work for me. It fits right in with the movie's extravagant style. The last thing that movie needs is a natural performance though Michelle Pfeiffer give as close to a "natural" performance as the movie gets. Everyone's...

Switch Body Double with Obsession and I'm with you. Melanie Griffith excepted, the acting in Body Double is lousy. There's a reason Craig Wasson never became a star. He nearly sinks Ghost Story too.

The first half of Natural Born Killers is terrific! As good as anything Stone has ever done. Alas, the film unravels in the second half, once they're caught and Robert Downey Jr.'s character enters the picture. Easily Tommy Lee Jones' worst performance. But oh that first half ..... pure bliss!

For me, and yes, I know it was a big hit, Burton's stinker is Alice In Wonderland, even worse than Planet Of The Apes. POTA was awful, sure but I got through it without shoving my fist in my mouth to keep me from screaming like I did with AIW.

Oh, I agree with you on JFK. I don't believe a word of it. Pure conspiracy theory fiction. But as cinema, it's a marvelous piece of work. As for your U Turn remark, I'll look the other way ;)

Do The Right Thing is a bona fide masterpiece (yes, I know, an overused word) but I know I'm in the minority when I say I think Summer Of Sam is absolutely brilliant!

Stone's best films are JFK and the unfairly maligned U Turn. After those two, you can keep everything else he ever made and yes, that includes Platoon.

Jackson inflated an introspective novel with an overabundance of CGI effects. Unlike the novel, the film was bloated. It needed more of the simplicity of his Heavenly Creatures.

And, of course, Howl's Moving Castile would be my second favorite Miyazaki after Kiki's Delivery Service.