One sentence to describe a filmmaker.

[Quistnix]

Terry Gilliam:
The Good: Great imagination and amazing storytelling.
The Bad: Lots of bad luck and a lack of restraint.

Guillermo Del Toro
The Good: He's like a new Terry Gilliam.
The Bad: He's like a new Terry Gilliam.

Edgar Wright
The Good: Great eye for composition, layered storytelling and characterization while keeping a good pace and lots of fun.
The Bad: He doesn't manage to release a new movie every week.

Zack Snyder
The Good: The best visual storyteller in current mainstream cinema.
The Bad: Has a tendency to overuse slow motion and for some reason felt he had to make a movie out of the horrible "300".

Roberto Rodriguez
The Good: Has the ability to distill pure, unspoiled fun out of anything.
The Bad: Named four of his kids Rocket, Racer, Rebel and Rogue.

 

[Ursus Buckler]

George Lucas
Good: Creating a truly unique, controversial and iconic series.
Bad: Not being able to work outside of that genre. (see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
Also, Jar Jar Binks.
Also, not knowing when to stop while he's ahead (see Force Unleashed).
Also, making Darth Vader not nearly as badass in games as he is in the films (see Soul Calibur, Force Unleashed).

Zack Snyder
Good: Perfect camera angles, an excellent visionary director, incredible special effects and action scenes (see 300, Watchmen and Sucker Punch).
Bad: Realising that the supporting cast needs a degree of depth as well (see 300 and Sucker Punch).

Have you never seen Lucas' American Graffiti?

Actually, no, but thank you for pointing that out. I guess I should do more research before making sweeping statements like that. I stand corrected!

 

[clipse15]

George Lucas
Good: Creating a truly unique, controversial and iconic series.
Bad: Not being able to work outside of that genre. (see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
Also, Jar Jar Binks.
Also, not knowing when to stop while he's ahead (see Force Unleashed).
Also, making Darth Vader not nearly as badass in games as he is in the films (see Soul Calibur, Force Unleashed).

Zack Snyder
Good: Perfect camera angles, an excellent visionary director, incredible special effects and action scenes (see 300, Watchmen and Sucker Punch).
Bad: Realising that the supporting cast needs a degree of depth as well (see 300 and Sucker Punch).

Have you never seen Lucas' American Graffiti?

Actually, no, but thank you for pointing that out. I guess I should do more research before making sweeping statements like that. I stand corrected!

Hey it's all good. You should check it out it's a great movie

 

[RobCoxxy]

Me and my mates:
The good:
Film shortlisted to top ten, possible grant-winner.
The bad:
Our university stuff is shite because our courses and tutors are utter wank.

Or to do it properly:
M. Night shyamalan
The Good: Can create intreresting and creepy opening twenty minutes.
The Bad: The other 70 minutes.

 

[silver wolf009]

Owe Bull: He just won't freaking die!

 

[CaptainKoala]

Uwe Boll: That guy is such a douche bag.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Speilberg
Good: He made or was heavily involved in the making of some genuinely awesome films
Bad: People most know him for a horrific boring atrocity of a film that should have nowhere near the prestige it does.

Guillermo Del Toro:
Good: He's amazing imagininative and produces things you've never seen before
Bad: He can develop the tendency to throw odd shit at you for no reason.

 

[ShakyFiend]

Uwe Boll
The Bad: Oh in the name of all that is holy what the fuck was he thinking
The Good: Hahahahaha oh wait he's serious

 

[badgersprite]

M. Night Shymalan: Lol someone call Rifftrax, this shit is going to be hilarious.

Uwe Boll: Watch Rampage, burn everything else.

David Lynch: So, wait, did the box transform her into the dead girl as part of some elaborate scheme to bring her back to life, or was it all a dream or what?

Tarantino: EVERYBODY BE COOL THIS IS A ROBBERY! *insert Misirlou here*

James Nguyen: Greatest director of our time, to be quite honest.

 

[hexFrank202]

not a fan of them or aliens. My sentence for you are "Assuming smug guy who is wrong."

Whoa.

Um.... guuuuys... there's someone here who doesn't like the first two Terminator movies! What do I do; I've never met one of them before?!?


Also, I have no real opinion on him but I'm just gonna say this for funniness:
M. Night Shyamalininin:
The good: started making great movies
The bad: ended up making bad movies. What a twist!

 

[xMelior]

James Cameroon:

Good: a lot of *boom*
Bad: a lot of *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

 

[campofapproval]

Takashi Miike

The Bad -

Oh man, this shit is almost unwatchably fucked up.

The Good -

Oh man, this shit is almost unwatchably fucked up.

unfair, as zebraman is clearly his best film, and zebraman is about as fucked up as a stephen chow film.
which is to say not even close to "unwatchably" fucked up.

 

[SkyrimOrBust]

Stanley Kubrick

The Good: Everything.

The Bad: Everything else.

 

[MercurySteam]

Edgar Wright.

The good: his movies are funny, unique and many are gems.

The bad: sometimes it's becomes easy to forget what the original plot is, under the haze of awesome characters and scenes.