Originally Posted by GrizzlyPanda

Originally Posted by FourZeroCharlie

Originally Posted by GrizzlyPanda

Originally Posted by ghost_us

Kenneth Branagh (If we discount wild wild west)

Oh do feck off, Wild Wild West was a good film, funny as. Even Will Smith said he didn't give a toss it got low in the box office since he enjoyed it.

Edit: Infact, I knock Will Smith in for the list.

Really? Have you seen 'Seven Pounds'? A complete vanity piece.

Yes, I have seen it, and you can piss off :D

Nope. Shan't.

Woman and self watched it, she being smitten by his boyish charm and rogueish good looks - well, I allow her one chick flick a year. Anyhoo, even she was convinced that so much of him was being removed that, at the end, there would only be a wisdom tooth and a piece of lower colon left.

So there :D

Always liked Robert Carlyle.
Trainspotting
Plunkett & Macleane
The 51st state
Even the Full Monty was good.

Originally Posted by GrizzlyPanda

Originally Posted by ghost_us

As for females:

Emma Thompson
Judi Dench

Ah, Emma Thompson, proper fine posh crumpet and a bloody good actress.

There speaks someone who hasn't been forced by the evil hand of fate and a friends children to sit through the dross of Nanny McPhee.

Originally Posted by stacker1

Always liked Robert Carlyle.
Trainspotting
Plunkett & Macleane
The 51st state
Even the Full Monty was good.

Ravenous was a good film and Face.

Orson Wells?

Yeah, I know. You're going to say he was a fat old fuckup, who died.

But Orson Wells. You know?

Sidney Greenstreet, since we're on.

Bogart? Name me a film Bogey fucked up? The Maltise Falcon? Eat your heart out Tarintinno you Pizza pushing puff.

Bad
Rupert Everett
Good
Jaques Tati
Humphrey Bogart
Almost any of the black and white film stars, which would be the ones who were run by the studios.

'Can't act can't sing, can dance a little.'

Originally Posted by TheIronDuke

Orson Wells?

Yeah, I know. You're going to say he was a fat old fuckup, who died.

But Orson Wells. You know?

Sidney Greenstreet, since we're on.

Bogart? Name me a film Bogey fucked up? The Maltise Falcon? Eat your heart out Tarintinno you Pizza pushing puff.

You really should'nt say stuff like that: 'Swing Your Lady' (193, a hillybilly musical. Bogart believed it to be the worst film he had ever made.

Originally Posted by Alec_Lomas

Originally Posted by Command_doh

Originally Posted by Alec_Lomas

Originally Posted by Ursus.Maritimus

Originally Posted by maguire

re Titanic - I was prepared to hate it, but after being forced to sit through it by the then-gf I was impressed in spite of myself. (and not just for La Winslet's norks, either. although admittedly they were a bonus.) it really did capture the tragedy of what happened on so many levels.

and I cant not rate the guy who did T1 and Aliens.

Please tell me I wasn't the only guy who was cheering on the iceberg over this piece of over-developed, over-made tosh?

I've never rated Cameron as a director, however, I have a high regard for his technical brilliance. Following the Titanic movie, he developed an interest in the subject, enough to hire a Russian submersable craft and with specially designed cameras, functioning without a trailing cable, filmed the interior of Titanic. Fairly unique footage at the time.

It made for an interesting 3D film - 'Secrets Of The Deep'

Bold.

You must be joking? Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar = all box office failures. Yeah, he must be terrible. Thats why no studio trusts him to make more films. And he hasn't had 2 of the biggest grossing films of all time, either.

Fair play, True lies wasn't much cop, but it made money. Shame that Abyss didn't do so well, it was a good film and had a strong story.

My bold - No, honestly I'm not................ your list contains movies which have relied to a greater extent on special effects, which is my point. He couldn't direct you to the nearest pub toilet, but give him a story where actors/esses have to interact with scary special effects and he's becomes a genius.
If you want to talk 'Directors' who work with actors/esses, good scripts and minimum effects, try Billy Wilder, David Lean, John Ford, Hitchcock, Kurasawa, Fellini, De Sica, Coen boys, Eastwood and a dozen others.

sorry, I cant agree - his two Terminator films, the Abyss and Aliens are tour de forces in terms of action sci fi films. the Abyss and Aliens in particular have great ensemble casts that he gets fantastic performances from. and I would regard myself as partial to arty films as the next guy (I've paid full price for Andrei Tarkovsky dvd's before now.)

just becuase something is aimed at the mainstream doesnt mean it's badly crafted. and he hasnt gone off the boil like some directors.

Originally Posted by FourZeroCharlie

Originally Posted by GrizzlyPanda

Originally Posted by FourZeroCharlie

Originally Posted by GrizzlyPanda

Originally Posted by ghost_us

Kenneth Branagh (If we discount wild wild west)

Oh do feck off, Wild Wild West was a good film, funny as. Even Will Smith said he didn't give a toss it got low in the box office since he enjoyed it.

Edit: Infact, I knock Will Smith in for the list.

Really? Have you seen 'Seven Pounds'? A complete vanity piece.

Yes, I have seen it, and you can piss off :D

Nope. Shan't.

Woman and self watched it, she being smitten by his boyish charm and rogueish good looks - well, I allow her one chick flick a year. Anyhoo, even she was convinced that so much of him was being removed that, at the end, there would only be a wisdom tooth and a piece of lower colon left.

So there :D

You may say that, but what he did was technically survivable - if a little risky, but that was the whole point with the finale providing the last and parting gift. Aye, it's a little soppy etc etc, but it's a good film.

Originally Posted by stacker1

Always liked Robert Carlyle.
Trainspotting
Plunkett & Macleane
The 51st state
Even the Full Monty was good.

What about that bag of Nicaraguan bollox that was 'Carla' Song'?