Director Grade Averages

I only added directors that have made at least three movies just because of what you said. Also, a lot of people add extra plus signs for tha A grade in order to show their masterpiece status. Personaly, I don't do that...but a lot do.

And ZepMan, score how you want. I understand forgiveness.

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I didnt seem to notice any of Peter Jackson's classic early films....

Peter Jackson A

Bad Taste B+
Braindead A-
The Frighteners B-
LOTR: FOTR A+
LOTR: TTT A+
LOTR: ROTK A+

Slay I wasn't being sarcastic I really didn't know. I've got it now, it's B! But I wasn't trying to be a jerk I really didn't know.

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And found he was eating his shoe.

I didn't think you were, man...hence the smilie.

Those are the only ones I've seen.

I gathered you hadnt seen the others, hence my post. Worth watching them, if just to compare them to his bigger budget venture with LOTR

For those of you that don't like to do the averages in your head (like me) here's a letter grade averager

Great thread LordyLord, when you are bored great things happen.

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*bump*

Let's see more averages!

I would love to have the patiance to sit down and do this one day... and one day i will.

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It's a god-awful small affair, To the girl with, the mousy hair, But her mummy is yelling "No", and her daddy has told her to go, But her friend is nowhere to be seen, Now she walks through her sunken dream, To the seat with the clearest view, And she's hooked to the silver screen, But the film is a saddening bore, For she's lived it ten times or more...

Sam Peckinpah
The Deadly Companions, C
Ride the High Country, B-
Major Dundee, C
The Wild Bunch, A+
The Ballad of Cable Hogue, A
Straw Dogs, B
Junior Bonner, B-
The Getaway, B
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, B+
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, A-
The Killer Elite, C-
Cross of Iron, B-
Convoy, F
The Osterman Weekend, C+

overall grade: B-

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

Damn, there are so many of his films I have still yet to see. thanks for the listing. It gives me a better idea what I should check out.

What is it about Straw Dogs that keeps you from grading it as an A?

Arghhh I could spend all day doing this, but I've gotta earn some corn...

Anyway -

Michael Mann

The Keep B+
Manhunter A-
Last of the Mohicans B-
Heat A+
The Insider B
Ali C+
Collateral A-

Average B+


David Fincher

Alien 3 C
Se7en A+
The Game A-
Fight Club A
Panic Room B+

Average B+

Takeshi Kitano

Violent Cop A-
Boiling Point A-
A Scene At The Sea A+
Sonatine A+
Getting Any? B+
Fireworks A
Brother A-
Dolls A-
Zatoichi A+

Average A (Hooray!)

QT

Reservoir Dogs B+
Pulp Fiction A
Kill Bill 1 C
Kill Bill 2 C+

Average B

Mike Leigh

High Hopes B+
Life Is Sweet A+
Naked A+
Secrets & Lies A+
Career Girls B+
Topsy Turvy A-
All Or Nothing A
Vera Drake B+

Average A (Hooray!)

Neil Jordan

Angel A+
Company of Wolves B
Mona Lisa A
High Spirits C-
The Crying Game A-
Interview With The Vampire C+
Michael Collins C+
The Butcher Boy B-
The End Of The Affair B
The Good Thief B-

Average B

Danny Boyle

Shallow Grave A-
Trainspotting A+
A Life Less Ordinary B+
The Beach C+
Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise D- (see me after class, Boyle)
28 Days Later A+
Millions B

Average B

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David Fincher

Alien3 - D
Se7en - A+
The Game - B-
Fight Club - A-
Panic Room - C

Rick Linklater

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books - B-
Slacker - A+
Dazed and Confused - B+
Before Sunrise - C+
subUrbi@ - B-
Waking Life - C
Tape - B
The School of Rock - B
Before Sunset - B+

I'm not going to Ireland if they pay you with corn. nice list Tatty

I got a pay rise from turf and stones...

Preston Sturges
The Great McGinty, A-
Christmas in July, B
The Lady Eve, A+
Sullivan's Travels, A
The Palm Beach Story, A-
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, A
Hail the Conquering Hero, A
The Great Moment, B
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, B-
Unfaithfully Yours, A
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, B-

overall grade: A-

Tsui Hark:

The Butterfly Murders
We're Going to Eat You
Don't Play With Fire -
Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain +
Shanghai Blues +
Peking Opera Blues +
A Better Tomorrow III
Once Upon a Time in China
The Master
Once Upon a Time in China 2
Once Upon a Time in China 3
Green Snake -
Love in the Time of Twilight
The Chinese Feast -
The Blade
The Lovers
Double Team +
Knock Off
Time and Tide
Zu Warriors -
Seven Swords
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Co-directed by/uncredited:

The King of Chess +
The Raid
The Swordsman
Dragon Inn
Twin Dragons -
Triangle

Martin Scorsese:

Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy -
After Hours
The Color of Money
The Last Temptation of Christ
Goodfellas
Cape Fear +
Casino
Kundun -
Bringing Out the Dead
The Gangs of New York +
The Aviator
The Departed
Shutter Island
Hugo +

Akira Kurosawa:

Sanshiro Sugata
Sanshiro Sugata Part 2
Drunken Angel +
Stray Dog
Scandal
Rashomon
Ikiru
Seven Samurai
I Live in Fear
Throne of Blood +
The Hidden Fortress
The Bad Sleep Well
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
High and Low +
Red Beard
Dodes'ka-den +
Dersu Uzala
Kagemusha
Ran
Dreams

Shohei Imamura:

Stolen Desire +
Nishi Ginza Station
Pigs and Battleships +
Intentions of Murder +
The Pornographers
A Man Vanishes
Profound Desire of the Gods
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess +
Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute
Vengeance is Mine
Eijanaika
The Ballad of Narayama
Zegen
Black Rain
The Eel
Dr. Akagi +
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Louis Malle:

Elevator to the Gallows +
Zazie dans le Metro +
The Fire Within
Pretty Baby
Atlantic City
My Dinner With Andre
Alamo Bay
Damage
Vanya on 42nd Street

Orson Welles:
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons +
The Stranger
The Lady From Shanghai
Macbeth +
Othello +
Mr. Arkadin
Touch of Evil
The Trial
The Chimes at Midnight
F for Fake

Short films and unfinished films:

The Hearts of Age
Don Quixote
It's All True (Four Men on a Raft )

Steven Soderbergh
sex, lies & videotape, A-
Kafka, B-
King of the Hill, A-
The Underneath, B+
Gray's Anatomy, B+
Schizopolis, A
Out of Sight, A
The Limey, A+
Erin Brockovich, B
Traffic, B+
Ocean's Eleven, C+
Full Frontal, A-
Solaris, A
Ocean's Twelve, B

overall grade: A-