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Greatest Hollywood Director of All Time ?

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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,752 Founders Club
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...

    He won't be popular here but Ari Aster starting off with Misommar followed by Hereditary might be the greatest start to a directors career I can think of in terms of quality.

    Never saw Beau is Afraid though..

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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,934 Founders Club
    Steven Spielberg

    It's boring to just say Spielberg but it's the choice. Jurassic Park is one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind. It's like the 91 Huskies of movies. Making the highest grossing movie of all time where nothing really happens for the first 45 minutes is astounding.

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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,934 Founders Club
    Steven Spielberg
    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1981546#Comment_1981546

    Midsommar was after Hereditary which makes it more impressive to me. Did a good job of following up good hipster horror by not getting self indulgent like the guy who followed up The Witch with The Lighthouse.

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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,830 Standard Supporter
    edited July 2024
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...

    John Hughes.

    John Huston

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,160 Founders Club
    Steven Spielberg
    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1981547#Comment_1981547

    Who was Spielberg's Yoko Ono?

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,160 Founders Club
    Steven Spielberg

    Darren Aronofsky gets an honorable mention

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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,692
    Peter Jackson

    I was Steven Spielberg for the 5th grade wax museum

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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,415
    edited August 2024
    Francis Ford Coppola

    Godfather I, II, Apocalypse alone make him my #1. Can't top that. Add in Gatsby, Outsiders, Rumblefish and Bram Stoker's Dracula (I tend to brb;jo to crazy Winona Ryder in that one), and he's my clear number one.


    I'm not an ET guy, nor am I moved by Indiana Jones movies. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan put him up there in my top … whatever. I thank him for his work in those, particularly the latter.

    John Hughes - agree with that. Doesn't belong with the greats, but he was a significant producer of entertainment that has stood the test of time, even the teen-aged stuff - Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, etc. - which really define the era and work like documentaries now for those who weren't alive or of-age back then.

    Back to Spielberg - gotta thank him, too, for Jaws. Iconic monster movie.

    Scorsese - Taxi Driver, Casino, GoNY, Departed, Cape Fear … all very good and among my favorite movies. For me, though, he is Goodfellas, and for that work, I thank him profusely. But, eyebrows too bushy. I mean, what is that? Like, a genetic disorder or something?

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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    Steven Spielberg

    With Spielberg it is not just the mega hits that everyone knows about (Jaws, Indy, Close Encounters, ET, Jurassic, etc.), it's the really epic movies that stand the test of time like Schindler's, Color Purple and Munich that make him the GOAT to me.

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