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Directors Poll!

🕑 Added 2023-05-28 01:37:02 +0000 UTC

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william

You should watch all of the movies from every director on this list they are all amazing.

One Tusk

Hard to say cuz you guys have done so many . Love Marty . Spielberg is great , but you guys have covered his top . As well with Kubrick and coen bros. I can only named titles like wolf of wall street . Body of lies . Inception , unless you guys already did . Um randomly some movies I’d like to see but if you haven’t reacted : sicario , more action movie thanks

One Tusk

Tough choices 🤔

David Wilkins

I’m ecstatic to see the Coen brothers in the lead. As always, I still highly recommend Blood Simple. And there are extremely few comedies that come close to O Brother Where Art Thou?. Another great comedy from them that has gotten less attention is The Hudsucker Proxy. The cast is fantastic.

David Wilkins

You can count me in the anti-Bay camp. 😶 McDonald’s is popular, too.

Neal Romanek

The Piano is incredible.

Neal Romanek

Oh, yeah. Seconds is awesome.

Neal Romanek

...Then the other director I would push on anyone anytime is David Lean, who made Lawrence Of Arabia. Check out Brief Encounter, Summertime, Bridge On The River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage To India.

Neal Romanek

Billy Wilder is one of the greats. Like every movie is brilliant (and two of them are on the Film Noir poll)

Neal Romanek

I'm trying - hopelessly - to maneuver you into watching Welles' Citizen Kane which basically reinvented how movies are done and is rightly called one of the best movies ever made. He only made a handful of other movies, all of which are masterpieces, but may not be in line with the style of channel. Citizen Kane though, you have to see. And Touch Of Evil.

Brian Shipman

I really hope Wes Anderson gets more votes. I think the Cohen Bros. have already been well represented on the channel and Anderson's movies always have completely stacked casts, not to mention Bill Murray is in nearly every one.

Ken Veader

Every movie pick shouldn't be democratic, they should sometimes just pick what they're most intrigued by or know a strong minority of the community are excited for

Paul Cox

I'd argue Ida Lupino was pretty well known, though forever overlooked when it came to most awards.

Birdie Num Num

Seconds is also great(part of his "paranoia" trilogy)

Tyler Foster

I believe they've seen Inception off the channel, so it's not eligible. I know they list some of the ones they've already seen in their Prestige video.

Tyler Foster

It's not that Kurosawa is unpopular, it's that movie reaction channels are a niche and the audience for them skews younger and therefore more contemporary, so Kurosawa is at a disadvantage because even if he's popular in the broader sense, I'm sorry to say that young people are not watching a ton of Kurosawa. That said, I'm honestly surprised (and gratified) that The Coens managed to beat out both Scorsese and Spielberg here.

Birdie Num Num

As great as the Coens are, they've already seen 4 of their films on the channel(and have said they've already seen True Grit). So they aren't exactly being neglected here(Sam said in the past that they planned on doing Blood Simple). They've seen multiple films of all the other filmmakers listed except Kurosawa. Looks like the odds of them reacting to another of his films are pretty poor(I don't get the sense that Sam and Daniel would pick one his films for their non poll picks - they tend to be pretty recent films), guess most here don't care for him. That's fine, we all have different tastes. I just thought he was more popular on the internet based on the fact that he has 7 films on the IMDB top 250(which is a pretty mainstream list overall)

Smooticus

Happy to see Coen brothers doing so well, but very dismayed Kurosawa only has 55 votes

daron85

I'd love to see you react to Touch of Evil by Orson Welles

Paul Cox

I'd watch Burt Lancaster play a little green man from Mars. He's so good at everything.

Robert Livingood

Love Frankenheimer--so glad you brought him up! In addition to your fine choices I'll shout out his tremendous 1964 effort "The Train". Though little remembered today, it's a taut war thriller bursting with all of the best of Frankenheimer's tendencies. It's based on a real event and the only unbelievable part is Burt Lancaster's playing a Frenchman.

Paul Cox

**MILD SPOILER** Nobody else buys my theory that the man Tom Waits is doing battle with in 'All Gold Canyon' is a leprechaun. A few times the light hits his clothes in just such a way you can see they're a very deep green instead of black, and that can't be an accident.

Tyler Foster

Even if they never deep-dive into BJH, I'd kill to see Memories of Murder get a reaction.

Tyler Foster

Maybe that would also mean they had to watch The French Connection in order to prepare for Frankenheimer's surprisingly good French Connection II.

Tyler Foster

As far as I know, they've both said that they haven't ruled out working together again, and they're just going where they feel like going at the moment. I only saw Scruggs once and thought it was decent, but I need to watch it again, which I'm planning on doing tomorrow.

Paul Cox

Not that the suggestions are missing one more old white guy, but I'd throw John Frankenheimer's name on the pile specifically so you might watch The Manchurian Candidate one day. (Ronin and Bird Man of Alcatraz would be cool too.)

Paul Cox

Speaking of latter-career Coens, I haven't seen Hail, Caesar. Marc Maron always talks about how much he likes it, but the rest of the world disagrees lol. Sad that they won't work together anymore and the end of their illustrious career was Buster Scruggs, but the last Miles Davis album wasn't great either and it didn't really dent his legacy.

Stan the Man

I love Inside Llewelyn Davis so much. Just seeing the name of the movie gets the “Mr. Kennedy” song stuck in my head. I never can’t laugh at a serious actor like Adam Driver doing that silly “Outer!” “Space!” voice in that song lol. Nobody can write character like the Coens. Nobody.

Stan the Man

Ah right I’ve heard of that. That’s a shame

Stan the Man

I doubt there was any purpose or intention behind that. Unfortunately women directors haven’t been as well known or celebrated for much of Hollywood history and so a lot of their names don’t reach the mainstream so before filmmakers like Jane Campion or Kathryn Bigelow were known, the most famous, or infamous, female director of note is Leni Riefenstahl—A Nazi propagandist.

Stan the Man

Have you Seen Sugarland Express? Or any earlier Spielberg work prior to Jaws? Because he’s had his “bag of tricks” since then. Duel is Spielberg thru & thru. Same with Sugarland. It’s very much a Spielberg film and has most of his trademarks.

Paul Cox

Assault on Precinct 13 was in a recent poll, but it didn't even come close to winning, sadly. I think they'd enjoy both it and Escape from NY.

Michael Soukup

Can’t disagree—I love the Coens!!! So many great titles to react to.

Michael Soukup

I agree — very different from the rest of his catalogue made before he learned a lot of his tricks. The apocryphal story is the the failure of Sugarland at the box office drove Spielberg to make very commercial films.

Tyler Foster

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I just hope you do a chronological run of Coens. I don't think there's any other way you're going to get to half of their great movies, namely Blood Simple (1984), Miller's Crossing (1990), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), Burn After Reading (2008), or A Serious Man (2009) -- and I'm sure other people would tell me I was wrong not to mention Barton Fink (1991) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) as well (I like both but am not as desperate to see what you two think). Not to mention, assuming this poll crosses Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) off the list, there's still the very popular and reaction-channel friendly O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), which I assume would be ahead in line above those other films.

Tyler Foster

I agree that much of Spielberg's catalog gets more than enough exposure on reaction channels, but I would like to see one Spielberg title get some love in particular, his very early drama The Sugarland Express. Not likely to happen, as even outside of YouTube, most people haven't seen it, but it's a great movie and tragically overlooked.

Tyler Foster

Miyazaki is off-limits, unfortunately. Any Ghibli has to be Patreon exclusive after one channel got completely nuked without warning in one fell swoop because Ghibli doesn't do copyright flags, they do copyright strikes. They struck one video three times and the channel was completely deleted and the reactor had to start over. While there are some exclusives out there, most reactors now avoid doing Ghibli entirely.

Tyler Foster

@JK: While the Coens are credited on "Fargo" the series as producers, they are not actively involved with it on a creative level. It's an honorary thing.

Jonathan Patrick

Casualties of War

Michael Soukup

Please not Spielberg 🙏. I don’t usually post rooting against anything or anyone but there are so many more interesting directors on the list. Sorry to the Steven fans but I’m rooting for anyone else. 😬

Scott Greene

Oliver Stone was the center of a lot of media attention during the late 80s and 90s. You've already seen "Platoon"--he made two other Vietnam-focused films as well as films about Richard Nixon and the JFK assassination. I would love to hear your thoughts on his work!

Rudy Hernandez

Inception - Christopher Nolan.

Smooticus

I vote for about 75 -80% of all the titles, so I think you are

Smooticus

Oooh, Sam and Daniel would love The Game

Smooticus

I guess since we've already seen No Country for Old Men, Raising Arizona, and Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou and Miller's Crossing should be next 😉

Smooticus

Sooo many good directors. This is a great list to start though

Michael Buhl

Werner Herzog and Federico Fellini are both great and highly influential directors.

Samolina Pilchard

They've done Scarface, but there's lots of good De Palma films they haven't reacted to yet - Blow Out, Body Double, Carrie, Dressed to Kill...

Mark M

I’ll add Brian De Palma(Scarface) to the list of directors we could see more of.

christopher brown

Clint Eastwood

Drzergberg

Bong Joon-Ho

Drzergberg

The need to watch Sideways

Samolina Pilchard

Alexander Payne would be my recommendation for this list- a lot of my favorites were directed by him: Sideways, Election, The Descendants, Nebraska, About Schmidt

Jeffrey Miller

Looking at the views for the full commentary and the YouTube cut, it appears Kurosawa has a smaller, but very vocal fan base.

Björn Karlsson

............and Lukas Moodysson 🙂

Stan the Man

Add Michael Mann to that list as well. Same with Alfonso Cuaron

Stan the Man

I love filmmakers with a visual flair. So Gore Verbinski, Zack Snyder, Michael Bay(I know. I know). Gore Verbsinki is a massively underrated direct imo. The first 3 Pirate movies. Rango, Mouse Hunt, The Ring. A forgetting gem called The Weather Man.

Stan the Man

Might be good to see some animation directors on here. I suggest Brad Bird or Miyazaki.

Stan the Man

Wooow. Tucker A Man and His Dream have a thing or two to say about that table scraps business. That movie is underrated. Did they do Godfather Part 3?

Stan the Man

Say what you want about Michael Bay but…the man can frame a shot. He knows action like few directors. Bad Boys 2 is one of the most insanely depraved big budget studio movies ever made and I love it wholeheartedly. Bay’s credit literally appears under a burning cross. A burning cross! At a KKK rally. He’s a mad man. No one makes movies like Armageddon anymore. Cheesy dopey but totally fun summer blockbusters made at insane scales. Everything has to be super self aware now. They have to be “in” on the joke and winking at the audience. Aka the MCU way. I hate that

Stan the Man

I’m with you on Nolan. I like a couple of his films but everytime I hear him compared to someone like Kubrick I die a little on the inside. I feel he’s fairly sloppy. He can’t direct action, he’s a terrible writer(his exposition is really bad). I almost feel like his films lack subtext. Because he underlines everything. Like…take a drink everytime the word “fear” is used Batman Begins and you’ll be dead by the 2nd act. I still feel like Inception was the most unimaginative movie about dreams ever made. Guns and bullets and car cashes? When you realize you are dreaming? Ugh…

Birdie Num Num

John Huston(as mentioned by others here). William Wyler - he has directed more actors to Oscar nominations than anyone else in history. Howard Hawks and John Ford(most Oscar wins by any director in history) are other great directors with very prolific filmographies. But they would all do miserably in polls since I guess most here find older films unappealing(except for Hitchcock it seems). Nothing wrong with that of course. Weird Kurosawa is doing so poorly. seemed like many wanted more of his films reacted to when you posted Seven Samurai.

Nick Sneddon

David Fincher?

iliketostayhome

I'm dying for it.

Birdie Num Num

Really? The Conversation has a lot to dissect, I would love a reaction.

Florian Meier

Great Idea for a Poll !! Love it !! Maybe for the Future you Consider to make a Poll for Adventure Movies like "Romancing The Stone", "The Ghost and the Darkness", "Congo" and so on . ..

Jeffrey Miller

The Coen Brothers running away with it, as it should be. I'd love to see you two react to 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Scorsese still has quite a few ones that might be good for reactions.

Jeffrey Miller

I'm kinda with you, there. In my opinion he is pretty overrated except for a few films.

Viktor M

I miss John Carpenter :( He didnt only done the Thing and They Live ;)

David Martin

Oh my lord! How to choose? Every one of these directors has a least one gen of a movie. You couldn't go wrong with a poll for each director's best one. If The Coen Brothers win, how to choose their best movie? The same goes for most of the others.

Skyler Thomas

Oh wow! I missed that. Lost Highway would be a great next choice

mikethemotormouth

They have done Mulholland. Lost Highway plz?

Richard Cowgill

You didn’t include any women directors. Jane Campion - The Piano would be a good one.

Skyler Thomas

I was thinking about starting them on Mulholland Drive but I think they would really enjoy a damn fine cup of coffee if we could convince them to take on an out of the box choice for Post Sopranos watching… :-)

Paul Cox

They haven't. I can't believe I forgot about The Conversation, though. Not sure it's a great subject for a YouTube reaction, however.

Darin Tomack

No David Fincher?

mikethemotormouth

👍

mikethemotormouth

Are we including Twin Peaks in that?

Jonny Kerr (JK)

Man so awesome. I hope so. That show is a gem that not enough people know about. Even season 3 and 4. A lot of ppl don’t love those but they’re still so good and such cool stories. But Lorne Malvo and the Gearharts. Hanzi. Genius 😎 no spoilers 🤞🏻 lol

mikethemotormouth

Have they done The Rainmaker?

Paul Cox

I'm with you on Nolan. Solidarity!

Daniel Gurney

As a suggestion for other directors I would recommend Brian De Palma (Carlito's way) or Oliver Stone ( Natural born killers) The main thing is to remember that Carlito's way and Natural born killers are awesome movies and a must watch for well rounded film buffs. Hope you guys are recovering. Love your channel!

mikethemotormouth

🤞Blood Simple 🤞

Robert Boyd

I’ve voted for all of them except Christopher Nolan. I will probably get a lot of shit for this, but his movies are not that great. I liked Momento and Interstellar, but that’s about it. My favorite is Hitchcock, but all the rest have great movies too.

Grand Moff Slackin'

I voted for all of them am I doing this right?

JG

An underrated gem from The Coen Brothers is, The Man Who Wasn’t There. Stars Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand and James Gandolfini. Haven’t seen anybody react to it yet. If the Coens win the poll (which it looks like they will), definitely add it to the list!

YoureMrLebowski

😭 you're right. i love the coens, but Llewyn Davis was a once-and-done for me.

Paul Cox

I think that's on deck for their next series, or it has at least been in the conversation.

David Crabtree

Spielberg all the way.

Paul Cox

Bad news. Looks like it might actually be Inside Llewyn Davis, provided they haven't already seen that one. It's...fine, but I wouldn't choose it ahead of several others.

Ed Garland

Taylor Sheridan , Wind River, Sicario ( but I think you've seen that one ), Also Scott Cooper for Out of the Furnace is really good!! Thank you 🙂

Jonny Kerr (JK)

Or Fargo the Series. Epicccc

Jonny Kerr (JK)

Fargo the Series!! The Coen’s 🤘🏼 atleast the 1st 2 seasons for sure!

William 1611

Anything by Hitchcock, anything by David Lynch, and any of the films Clint Eastwood directed, but did not appear in, such as "Mystic River," "Richard Jewell," "Flags of Our Fathers," etc. With all due respect to your very fine list, Eastwood should be on it. He may not be thought of as one of the great directors, but as the years pass, I'm sure he will be remembered as such.

Thomas Yanez

Next time, add Terry Gilliam to the list of directors, please.

Michael Chavira

This channel is in desperate need of some Wes Anderson. His films have been missing from your polls. It's time for him to join the club :)

Skyler Thomas

Would love to see you tackle David Lynch.

Guston Zimasheen

Would like to see more Taika Waititi directed movies

Duncan

I remember seeing in a previous comment reply that they had not seen "Boyz n the Hood (1991)" So that will be an amazing reaction when it comes,just an unforgettable cultural masterpiece , 96% on RT and 7.8 on IMBd tells you all you need to know

Athos Count de la Fère

Huh. Going to have to think a bit on this one before my vote. Meanwhile I would recommend a couple of directors, Brian De Palma and John Huston.

David Crabtree

Joe Dante would have been a fun director for this list. Aside from Gremilns and Gremlins 2, he's made some underrated classics such as The Burbs, Innerspace, The Explorers, Small Soldiers, the Howling,and Matinee.

TBR Schmitt

Definitely why I added that note to consider what we've already seen on the channel haha I was thinking there may be some directors we may have already run through their greatest hits! -Sam

Paul Cox

The funny thing about Coppola being here is that you've already watched the ones of value. The rest of his filmography is table scraps.

TBR Schmitt

We promise to do better in the future, oh great General Woundwort, sir ;) -Sam

Alberto Ramirez

Wow, what a stacked poll! Honestly there isn't a wrong answer on here.

TBR Schmitt

Ooh didn't think of that! We'll see where the polls land and either pick second director or second film on the Noir depending on how close they are if Dial M for Murder and Hitchcock both win! -Sam

Tyler Foster

Yesssssssssss

Domino

Tim Burton! 🤩

Duncan

I just came to say that I disagree with the genre pairing of where many of these films have been placed in specific polls and I will not accept the Schmitts current illness as an excuse or apology Please do better in future Thank you💛

TBR Schmitt

Generally, we'll look at IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic percentages :) -Sam

Birdie Num Num

Billy Wilder! He'll never win a poll otherwise it seems. But that's cool, I get my taste is apparently very different than most here. Not taking the Michael Bay bait, haha.

Philip Davetas

If you do Alfred Hitchcock you don't have to worry about DIAL M FOR MURDER to win the film noir poll.

Paul Cox

Seconding the Spike Lee suggestion above.

justDRK

Please add Denis Villeneuve next time. Guy doesn’t miss.

YoureMrLebowski

highest rated on IMDB or...?

TBR Schmitt

We've done a ton of action in the past month and have quite a few action flicks coming up so we strayed from including him this time, but we'll keep in his films in mind for the future, thank you! -Sam

Tristan Durant

Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua, John Singleton, Rick Famuyiwa, Ryan Coogler, James Wan, & Rian Johnson.

David Crabtree

I would have liked to see Michael Bay on this list. He gets thrashed on by the online crowd(just watch the responses to my comment),but he makes movies people like to see, hence being the 5th highest grossing director of all time.