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Mickey Fallon
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key words are right now.


I love Scorsese to death, but lets match their last five movies. Scorsese of course has way more features, but my point is he has some duds, while David O. has been consistent in putting out majorly good movies.



Scorsese's last five feature films:
The Wolf of Wall Street
Hugo
Shutter Island
The Departed
The Aviator


while I liked the bottom 3 and will probably see and will like Wolf, Shutter Island wasn't great, the Departed is vastly overrated, and the Aviator was overblown too.


David O.'s last five (and really his only five big features)

American Hustle
Silver Linings Playbook
The Fighter
I Heart Huckabees
Three Kings


Except for I Heart Huckabees, which wasn't terrible, I'll take those five in the long run.
 
DubbC415

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Mickey Fallon
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trust me, i know its a reach. you could make an argument for Scorsese as the greatest director of all time. but he has as many movies that have fallen flat as there are that were great.
 
2-0-Sixx

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Sicc OG
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Nolan is a better director, that's why. He's more creative, he's innovative and his films are great. Not a single bad movie.

If anything Scorsese is overrated. Most all his movies are very similar and the times he does do something a different they aren't that good (Shutter Island for example ).

And the GOAT is Kubrick. He could take ANY genre and make a masterpiece. Sci-fi - 2001 Space Odyssey (Soooooo ahead of it's time this movie was made before they landed on the moon! It was unlike any sci-fi movie before it ), Black Comedy - Dr. Strangelove, Crime Drama - Clockwork Orange, Horror - The Shining, War - Full Metal Jacket & Paths of Glory, Drama - Eyes wide shut.
 
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Girbaud Shuttle Jeans
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Scorsese is far from my favorite director, or even in my top 10 list. Overrated? Sure. He's still out of Russell's league imo.
 
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Coach E. No

Coach E. No

Jesus es Numero Uno
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DubbC415 said:
key words are right now.


I love Scorsese to death, but lets match their last five movies. Scorsese of course has way more features, but my point is he has some duds, while David O. has been consistent in putting out majorly good movies.



Scorsese's last five feature films:
The Wolf of Wall Street
Hugo
Shutter Island
The Departed
The Aviator


while I liked the bottom 3 and will probably see and will like Wolf, Shutter Island wasn't great, the Departed is vastly overrated, and the Aviator was overblown too.


David O.'s last five (and really his only five big features)

American Hustle
Silver Linings Playbook
The Fighter
I Heart Huckabees
Three Kings


Except for I Heart Huckabees, which wasn't terrible, I'll take those five in the long run.
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The Departed was better than every movie you listed by David O. I thought Silver Lining's Playbook was an excellent movie but I think the Departed was one of the best movies I've ever seen.
 
Coach E. No

Coach E. No

Jesus es Numero Uno
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This deserves its own thread lol

I think Nolan is killin it right now. The Coen Brothers are also some of the best filmmakers of our time. I don't like all of their movies but they are brilliant. Mel Gibson hasn't made any films worth a crap in a long time but in the late 90's to early 2000's he made a few of the best movies I've ever seen.

Momento, The Dark Knight, and the Prestige are among the best movies made in the 2000's. I think The Dark Knight was a huge accomplishment because it took a familiar story and almost flipped everyone's perception of it upside down and I think it stands as the best Superhero/Comic book adaptation by a long shot. The Prestige is incredible in virtually every way. One of the most underrated movies in the last 15 years IMO.

Y'all are trippin on Scorcese though!! Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, and The Departed are all great movies and influential to other directors and American culture even. He's also had quite a few other movies that people love or were critically acclaimed that I personally didn't care for, like Gangs of New York. He's one of the greatest to ever do it.

Kubrick probably is the greatest ever, I gotta agree with 2-0-Sixx. Hitchcock would have to be the only one that could really compare him to. But Steven Spielberg has such a huge body of work that I think you can make a case that he's the greatest ever.
 
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