Cant say i disagree

i wasnt even gonna entertain that one

i dont stan many of them but almost all of them have at least one classic that s***s all over Ladybird

Dont get me wrong, i think Lady Bird is def very overrated in pretty much every regard. I haven't seen Little Women yet, but saying Gerwig is "the most overrated filmmaker in the industry right now" still seems like a wild hyperbole

thatd easily be aster for me

cuaron - uneven but children of men and azkaban eternal mastapieces

mendes - iffy but always love him for perdition

garland - spotty but annihilation had some genuinely uncanny moments that give me hope

russo bros - god emperors

peele - good but not the new hitch or anything

inarritu - rented all his old s*** back in the day, it was cool but revenant a top 5 most visceral film experience for me. dont get the hate at all. maybe cause it was filmed in my woods im subconsciously biased

anderson - bro what Moonrise alone

chazelle - whiplash was average and im never gonna watch la la land so ill let this one slide

duvernay - give you the eggs benefit of the doubt cause ive never seen any

waititi - corny but thor was tremendous so

villeneuve - didnt like him until 2049 but it was good enough to give me hope for Dune (which im reading rn)

aster - average

I genuinely thought you only like Cuaron and Anderson out of that whole list

But i can agree/concede with most of this (not that Russos comment, thats bait lol). Like said above, im not calling all of them bad or anything (though there are def some in the list i wouldn't hesitate to say that about) — just not the "cream of the cinema crop" most of them are championed as. Aint nothing wrong with a filmmaker just being good or putting out solid efforts imo, especially since some of those in my list have barely started their careers.

Though i will say that ive been growing increasingly ambivalent towards Anderson as time passes by. Dont really know why

Grand Budapest felt like a great old 30's Hitchcock thriller, adore it

idk Tenenbaums was one of the first sorta arty films I saw (when it came out) and it left a big impression, ingrained his style into my psyche. Any time im watching Wes it feels like the mental equivalent of having hot chocolate in a bubble bath.

idk Tenenbaums was one of the first sorta arty films I saw (when it came out) and it left a big impression

Same here. Guess that impression has been worn away over time for me :/

If it's between Aster & Gerwig - at least the former gave a fresh sense of horror with Hereditary. Actually had people seriously considering Toni for an Academy Award nomination. There's nothing Gerwig has done, introduced or even showcased that warrants anywhere near the acclaim she's gotten so far.

fan service IS NOT bad

its NOT BAD to make a movie or series or anything just for the fans. nothing wrong with it

fans sometimes just wanna see something that is in the universe and jerks them off, nothing wrong with it

It depends on how its done. i think that's how most people view fan service. The rise of skywalker has some of the worst fan service i've ever seen. then there's Endgame's fanservice which for the most part is solid and helps push the characters

yeah i agree, but i feel like rise of skywalker had more problems than the bad fanservice which made it really bad

i actually meant what ur saying about endgame, like that was fanservice done perfectly

Christopher Nolan's major flaw for me is his lack of style. He has very good stories but his film's aesthetics aren't unique. Asides from a great story I also like a director to have a unique style or aesthetics that separates them from their peers to the point it looks like the director has created his own genre. Christopher Nolan for me just puts a really good story in a standard movie genre. It's why I put Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier ahead of him

I feel Nolan has a distinctive style

I call it the ''trailer style'' lmao

He rarely has a drawn out shot, and lots of moments where the music just doesn't stop and we have all these fast paced shots covering multiple characters and places

That's one of the things that's typical Nolan to me

i feel like he has gotten his 'style' since TDK tbh

all his movies starting with TDK 'feel' the same

especially during the IMAX scenes

I agree, the things i talked abt in my post really started coming together and being done frequently ever since TDK

its pure heat, lowkey think its better than casino

Eggers too

But Aster fascinates me the most. Mainly because he has these over the top , gross stuff he displays yet still keeps it artistic and horror. Not like The Human Centipede or sum where it just becomes gore

I think it’s safe to say it Is

Agreed, but even that one is ass

Tom Cruise in Collateral is a GOAT tier villain and he should do more roles where he's the bad guy

Was gonna say endgame was peak fan service

He crafts his image too delicately to allow another villain

This is not an unpopular opinion either everyone loved him in that

And yet people constantly overlook his performance in that movie when they list off great villains