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Highroller48: Highroller48 there'shiatchcock

WTF?

Hitchcock.

Apparently the filter made a cameo appearance as well.

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Highroller48: Krymson Tyde: No Rob Reiner?

This list goes to 15. He's on the list that goes to 11.

brigid_fitch: Ben Stiller (can't stand most of his stuff but Zoolander & Tropic Thunder were hysterical)
Billy Bob Thornton
Tom Hanks
Kevin Spacey

And didn't Jack Nicholson direct The Two Jakes (*googles*) Yup, and 2 other movies I've never heard of

Tropic Thunder was about perfect, other than that Ben Stiller insisted he had to be in it. It's still a good movie, but geezy, Stiller is worse than every single other actor in that movie.

calbert: of course not an all-inclusive list of any/every actor who has also become a 'surprisingly good' director.

some worth mentioning:

Mel Gibson
Sylvester Stallone
Kevin Costner
Barbra Streisand
Sean Penn

Tim Robbins
Ben Stiller

off the top of my head...

I guess "surprisingly good" in the sense that I'm amazed that Stallone is even functionally literate, but your entire list has produced like one or two decent movies between them. Gibson, especially, hasn't directed a single movie that wasn't farking terrible.

The list in TFA is much better, or at least lists people that became good directors rather than people that were just "surprising" in their capacity to manage the switch at all.

Just came here to say that Ron Howard is a terrible director. His directorial style lacks any sense of style and individuality -- it's just generic.

Jim_Callahan: calbert: of course not an all-inclusive list of any/every actor who has also become a 'surprisingly good' director.

some worth mentioning:

Mel Gibson
Sylvester Stallone
Kevin Costner
Barbra Streisand
Sean Penn

Tim Robbins
Ben Stiller

off the top of my head...

I guess "surprisingly good" in the sense that I'm amazed that Stallone is even functionally literate, but your entire list has produced like one or two decent movies between them. Gibson, especially, hasn't directed a single movie that wasn't farking terrible.

The list in TFA is much better, or at least lists people that became good directors rather than people that were just "surprising" in their capacity to manage the switch at all.

Stallone IS a good director, and an excellent actor as well considering that you are apparently unable to distinguish the real man from his Rocky Balboa character.

Are you saying Rocky II, III, and IV are not all very good? To me, Stallone is an expert on understanding what the public wants, able to craft a formula, invoking action, drama, heartache, underdog, heroics.... Its a semblance that many more more critically esteemed directors would benefit from.

Jim_Callahan: calbert: of course not an all-inclusive list of any/every actor who has also become a 'surprisingly good' director.

some worth mentioning:

Mel Gibson
Sylvester Stallone
Kevin Costner
Barbra Streisand
Sean Penn

Tim Robbins
Ben Stiller

off the top of my head...

I guess "surprisingly good" in the sense that I'm amazed that Stallone is even functionally literate, but your entire list has produced like one or two decent movies between them. Gibson, especially, hasn't directed a single movie that wasn't farking terrible.
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you telling me you you didnt like braveheart? cause that movie is on my "always stop to watch whenever i flip by it" list, along with shawshank redemption, jurassic park, dumb and dumber, and starship troopers. Come on man braveheart is awesome.


Also apocalypto was a fantastic movie. FANTASTIC

also the expendables 2 was some of the most fun ive had watching a movie in a long time.

The All-Powerful Atheismo: ItchyMcDoogle: Where is Orson Wells?

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Holy crap that made me laugh.

Ben Affleck
Clint Eastwood
Angelina Jolie
George Clooney
Denzel Washington

Kenneth Branagh
Jodie Foster
Peter Berg
Ralph Fiennes
Jon Favreau

Drew Barrymore
Robert Redford
Ron Howard
Ed Harris
Penny Marshall

Fixed.
/YMMV

My first thought was John Cassavettes and Leni Riefenstahl.
Orson Welles pretty much started out as a director.

RyansPrivates:

penny marshall directed big, a league of their own, and renaissance man
jodie foster directed home for the holidays

your argument is invalid.

ya, ya, i know you said "ymmv" but can you tell me why you don't like these movies?

Everyone Sucks But Me: Clint Eastwood can DIAF for Million Dollar Baby.

The only movie I've sworn myself never to watch again. I almost punched through my tv screen. The family dropping by after going to Disneyland, oh, god, so much hate boiling inside of me.
Never had my tv been the focus of so much hatred without having a gaming system plugged into it.

Excellent movie but I have yet to meet somebody who has or is willing to see it more than once.

chewy milk:
Also apocalypto was a fantastic movie. FANTASTIC

*Fist bump*
Fark. Yes.  This movie alone is the one reason I might watch Passion of the Christ, someday. Just not yet.

calbert: of course not an all-inclusive list of any/every actor who has also become a 'surprisingly good' director.

some worth mentioning:

Mel Gibson
Sylvester Stallone
Kevin Costner
Barbra Streisand
Sean Penn

Tim Robbins
Ben Stiller

off the top of my head...

and there are oldies like Gene Kelly, Orson Welles, and Charlie Chaplin who fit the bill as well.

Sean Penn, excellent choice.

divgradcurl:

Penny Marshall:
"Big" I liked, I might possibly give you that, but it is a movie that really was Tom Hank's, not the director. I think it was Tom's goofy yet endearing manchild performance. "A league of their own" was like a series of vignettes of funny and touching moments. Tom Hanks was the best thing about it, Geena Davis was OK, Rosie was annoying. Ultimately I found it uneven. "Renaissance Man"? 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, 54% Flixter. Wasn't even remotely interested in seeing it. Maybe everyone is wrong about it, but not sure I want to take the time to find out.

Jodie Foster:
I haven't seen "Home For the Holidays", but doesn't seem to merit her inclusion as a suprisingly good director. Seems that it is seen as a middling to good effort.

Dancis_Frake: Everyone Sucks But Me: Clint Eastwood can DIAF for Million Dollar Baby.

The only movie I've sworn myself never to watch again. I almost punched through my tv screen. The family dropping by after going to Disneyland, oh, god, so much hate boiling inside of me.
Never had my tv been the focus of so much hatred without having a gaming system plugged into it.

Excellent movie but I have yet to meet somebody who has or is willing to see it more than once.

I've never seen the ending.

My brother died of ALS - took him nine years, the last two years he was immobile in bed. As the movie depicts in excruciating detail, a body continually at rest will start to rot. And there's a particularly awful thing about bedsores - the smell. It's the smell of rotting human flesh that bypasses the brain entirely and goes straight from the nose to some ancient ganglia inside the spinal cord and arouses a simultaneous reaction of fear and disgust. It's hard to have a cheerful bedside visit when you want to either flee or vomit.

I went to the movie because I like Eastwood and Freeman (who doesn't) but had no real idea what it was about, other than boxing. When the scene arrived where the doctor lifts up the sheets to look at her leg and says "we'll have to amputate" that smell came back to me with a ferocious intensity. I got up and left.

I think Eastwood movies should come with a meter like Rotten Tomatoes - but rather a meter that will tell you how depressed you will be when you leave the theater. Movies like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Flags of Our Fathers" should be rated as "lock up the booze and the firearms when you get home."

NutznGum: Frank Oz?

The Score is still one of my all time favorite heist movies. Hell I went to see it in theaters just for that five minute bit with Brando, DeNiro and Norton. Terrific casting in that movie.

FTA: George Clooney won an Oscar for Good Luck and Good Night.

False. He won an award for supporting actor in Syriana for getting his fingernails pulled.

/spoiler

fusillade762: The All-Powerful Atheismo: nocturn: I'll say it.

Terry Gilliam wasn't an actor.

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so you're saying he really was an inquisitor?

SURPRISE!

I wasn't expecting that.

chewy milk: Also apocalypto was a fantastic movie. FANTASTIC

So much this! Say what you want about the human being behind it, but the film was just astounding.

(plus, at what point did we decide a person had to be a good human being before we could enjoy their art? Wagner and Degas hated the jews. Two of Picasso's mistresses suicided and 2 were institutionalised (a reasonable sign he was not a nice guy in a relationship). Hemingway so screwed up his family that one of his sons died an alcoholic, transvestite in a women's prison. Heidegger was a NAZI party member until the party was dissolved. Polanski (as far as I know) only drugged and sodomised a young girl once (but that is still once too often to be counted as a paragon of virtue). Neil Gaiman may (or may not) be a scientologist...
Really everyone on earth is at least a little farked up, some of us manage to go through our lives without sleeping with the prostitutes who frequent our charity homes (Dickins) but most of us find an opportunity to fail others spectacularly at least once or twice).

Crewmannumber6: henryhill: Robert DeNiro

Surprisingly, A Bronx Tale was kinda meh, compared to what it could have been. It felt like a Scorcese paint by numbers set

The percieved quality of the film aside DeNiro is a very committed and throughough director. Not just a celebrity figurehead. He is also directing the Bronx Tale Broadway musical and that takes an extraordinary level of commitment and dedication to craft.

RyansPrivates: divgradcurl:

ok, fair enough, sorry, i kind of always forget that renaissance man isn't that well known, but 17%? damn... it just has so many good things going for it: interesting aspect of learning/teaching shakespeare. danny devito, stacy dash. mark walhberg. heck, even music by hans zimmer

home for the holidays is a 'good' effort. if you have 10 min you may want to check this out,

Clint Eastwood - I second how depressing his movies can be. He really goes for "life sucks and you die" angle. Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven... They're not bad movies, in fact they're all quite memorable - just not necessarily movies that I ever want to watch again.

Mel Gibson - You can hate him for his personal issues, okay, but can't dispute that he is an excellent, excellent director. Apocalypto, Passion of the Christ, and Braveheart were all period pieces that pulled you right in, made you feel peeking into a world that actually exists and not some transparent Hollywood soundstage production. No one else can pull this off with as much conviction.

Sylvester Stallone - T.rex nailed it: "Stallone is an expert on understanding what the public wants, able to craft a formula, invoking action, drama, heartache, underdog, heroics.... Its a semblance that many more more critically esteemed directors would benefit from."

Ben Affleck - BeatrixK nailed it as well: "Affleck is, by far, someone who is far better as a director than I ever thought I'd believe until I'd seen his work. Gone Baby Gone and The Town are terrific. I still can't reconcile that the guy who was in Gigli and the guy who directs some amazing work are the same dood!"

I'm still amazed at how incredibly good a director Stallone is. He gets stereotyped as a Jose Canseco-type dumb guy, but all his Rocky movies are amazing and gave us exactly what we wanted with the latest Rambo movie.

Bathia_Mapes: RyansPrivates: divgradcurl:

Penny Marshall:
"Big" I liked, I might possibly give you that, but it is a movie that really was Tom Hank's, not the director. I think it was Tom's goofy yet endearing manchild performance. "A league of their own" was like a series of vignettes of funny and touching moments. Tom Hanks was the best thing about it, Geena Davis was OK, Rosie was annoying. Ultimately I found it uneven. "Renaissance Man"? 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, 54% Flixter. Wasn't even remotely interested in seeing it. Maybe everyone is wrong about it, but not sure I want to take the time to find out.

Jodie Foster:
I haven't seen "Home For the Holidays", but doesn't seem to merit her inclusion as a suprisingly good director. Seems that it is seen as a middling to good effort.

"Home for the Holidays" was okay, but I enjoyed "LIttle Man Tate" more.

i left that that out because i realize it may not be everybody's cup of tee. i was kind of a smart kid so i really identified with the character. i'm obviously not a brilliant genius, but i would have loved going to something like 'odyssey of the mind' at that age.

"a reasonable man adapts to the world around him. an unreasonable man expects the world to adapt to him, therefore all progress is made by the unreasonable man." - george bernard shaw

The Banana Thug: Clint Eastwood - I second how depressing his movies can be. He really goes for "life sucks and you die" angle. Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven... They're not bad movies, in fact they're all quite memorable - just not necessarily movies that I ever want to watch again.

All due respect, but "Unforgiven" is not the same as the other two, thematically speaking. It's also a movie that practically demands to be watched repeatedly (albeit with some time in between to appreciate the greatness).

The Banana Thug: Clint Eastwood - I second how depressing his movies can be. He really goes for "life sucks and you die" angle. Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven... They're not bad movies, in fact they're all quite memorable - just not necessarily movies that I ever want to watch again.


I didn't find Gran Torino to be a "life sucks" movie. If anything the movie was about finding something to live for even when it seems you have nothing left. Really the only thing that dressed me about it was it was supposed to be his swan song, but he came back for some stupid feel good father/daughter schlock.

Flappyhead: The Banana Thug: Clint Eastwood - I second how depressing his movies can be. He really goes for "life sucks and you die" angle. Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven... They're not bad movies, in fact they're all quite memorable - just not necessarily movies that I ever want to watch again.


I didn't find Gran Torino to be a "life sucks" movie. If anything the movie was about finding something to live for even when it seems you have nothing left. Really the only thing that dressed depressed me about it was it was supposed to be his swan song, but he came back for some stupid feel good father/daughter schlock.

Farking preview, how does it work?

Flappyhead: Farking preview, how does it work?

i know that feeling

divgradcurl:
cup of tee.

derp

Tyrosine: Sara Polley

This.

Flipper.

How the hell is Drew Barrymore on this list, and Stallone not?!

/Reading Rambo is gonna have to kill Stanley Kubrik, now!

CarnySaur: Sofia Coppolla

they said ACTORS who directed.

Saiga410: Where
Peter Deloise
Wher?
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They're specifically taking about movie directors. While his Stargate stuff is awesome, he's not quite on the same level.