Favourite Film Director

Tarentino (Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
M.Night (The Village, Signs, Sixth Sense)
Lynch (Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire, Blue Velvet)
Almodovar (Volver...)
Fincher (Seven, Fight Club)
Schumacher (The Number 23, Phone Booth)
Bruckheimer (Pirates, Deja Vu, CSI)
Bay (Heat, Transformers)
 
Don't you think Brian DePalma's gone off a bit recently?
The last really good film he made was Mission Impossible.
The Black Dahlia, Femme Fatale, Mission to Mars & Snake Eyes were all poor imo. I hope he gets his old magic back, because he can be brilliant. I notice he's currently making another Untouchables movie -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425602/

John Woo made MI-2 and Paycheck, which would automaticaly knock him off my list!

Nice to see John Hughes getting a few votes - more for his writing than his directing though, I'd say. One of the reasons I went off Kevin Smith was because of his constant digs at John Hughes!
 
Peter Jackson is my favourite, he can handle low budget gore-fests and also has the ability to handle huge big budget action movies. The T-Rex fight in King Kong is breathtaking.
 
There are so many really, I can't really choose one. James Cameron and Ridley Scott spring to mind straight away though, and of course Spielberg , more for his work in the 70's though than anything recent. Also John Landis, brilliant director, why on earth don't we hear of him anymore?
 
Yeah, lately Brian De Palma, but I love Dressed to Kill, Mission Impossible, Raising Cain, Scarface and Carrie so thats why he makes my list.

John Woo for Face/Off, Broken Arrow and Hard-Boiled and basically reprising the use of fight scenes with two guns and SOME of his slow motion. In MI-2 he did take it a bit far........

John Hughes, well he will ALWAYS make my list. As an eighties child, I love Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Weird Science and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In particular I love the way he brought about the actors talking to the camera, just like are narrating it as well as living out the scenes.
 
As a fan of action films, my favs are:

James Cameron for Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, The Terminator and T2:Judgement Day

Paul Verhoeven for Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers and Basic Instinct

John McTiernan for Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October and Predator

Michael Bay for Armageddon, The Rock and Bad Boys I & II
 
Ridley Scott: Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down (have yet to see American Gangster)
James Cameron: Aliens, The Abyss, both Terminator films and Dark Angel TV series
Clint Eastwood: High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby
John Carpenter: The Fog, Christine and Halloween
 
Guillermo del Toro
Martin Scorsese
Francis Ford Coppola
Akira Kurosawa
Ethan and Joel Coen
Hayao Miyazaki
Pedro Almodovar
Walter Salles
 
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