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I'll start the thread off with John Carpenter:

>God tier
The Thing
Halloween
Escape from New York

>Great tier
They Live
Assault on Precinct 13
Christine
Starman
Big Trouble in Little China

>Good tier
The Fog
In the Mouth of Madness
Prince of Darkness
Dark Star

>Underrated TV movies that no one ever talks about tier
Elvis
Someone's Watching Me!
Body Bags

>Decent tier
Escape from L.A.
Vampires

>Shit tier
The Ward
Ghosts of Mars
Village of the Damned
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
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>>71078106
>GOD TIER
The Dark Knight

>TOP TIER
Interstellar
Inception
Memento
Batman Begins

>MID TIER
The Prestige
The Dark Knight Rises
Insomnia

>SHIT TIER
There are none, because it's Nolan, even his worst is still bretty entertaining
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>>71078235
>Prestige that low
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>>71078279
It's a decent film but drags and isn't very interesting as it could've been, at least with the characters anyways.
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>>71078375
Disagree. I found it interesting throughout
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>God tier
Django Unchained
Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Basterds

>Top tier
Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2
Reservoir Dogs

>Mid tier
Hateful Eight

>Shit tier
Death Proof
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>God Tier
Hana-Bi

>Top Tier
Sonatine
Kikujiro
Outrage Beyond
Zatoichi

>Mid Tier
Outrage
Dolls
Violent Cop
Glory to the Filmmaker

>OK Tier
Boiling Point
Brother

>Haven't Seen Tier
Everything else Kitano's made
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>God tier
Miami Vice
The Insider

>Great tier
Blackhat
Ali
Manhunter
Thief

>Good tier
Collateral
Public Enemies
The Keep
Heat

>OK tier
The Last of the Mohicans

>Haven't seen
The Jericho Mile
L.A. Takedown
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>>71078235
>Following not even on the list
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>>71078600
more like this:

>God tier
The Hateful Eight
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction

>Great tier
Kill Bill 1 & 2

>Good tier
Inglorious Basterds
Django Unchained

>Mid tier
Jackie Brown

>Shit tier
Death Proof
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>>71079585
Nah
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>God tier
The Life Aquatic

>Great tier
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Royal Tenenbaums

>Good tier
Moonrise Kingdom
Fantastic Mr. Fox

>Mid tier
The Darjeeling Limited

>Haven't seen
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket
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>>71080625
>Hasn't seen his two best movies
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>God-tier
Blow Out
Carrie
Dressed to Kill
Body Double

>Great-tier
Carlito's Way
Snake Eyes
Obsession
Hi, Mom!
The Fury
The Untouchables
Raising Cain
Scarface
Casualties of War

>Good-tier
Phantom of the Paradise
Sisters
Get to Know Your Rabbit

>Decent-tier
Mission: Impossible
Bonfire of the Vanities
Greetings

>"Eh"-tier
Murder à la mod
Wise Guys
The Wedding Party

Still need to see: everything from Mission to Mars onwards.
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GOD OF CINEMA TIER
The Thing
In the Mouth of Madness
Escape from New York

CLASSIC CARPENTER TIER
Assault on Precinct 13
Halloween
Prince of Darkness
Big Trouble in Little China
They Live

PRETTY GOOD TIER
Christine
Starman

FUCK YOU I LIKE IT TIER
Escape from Los Angeles
Vampires
Cigarette Burns

MEH TIER
The Fog
Darkstar
Memoirs of an Invisible Man

OH SHIT JOHN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TIER
Village of the Damned
Ghosts of Mars

ITS TIME TO STOP MAKING MOVIES JOHN TIER
Pro-Life
The Ward
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>>71078600
>>71079585

More like:

>God teir
Death Proof

>shit teir
Everything Else he's made
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>God tier
Following
The Prestige

>Great tier
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Interstellar

>Good tier
Memento
Inception

>Shit tier
Insomnia
The Dark Knight Rises
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>God Tier
Knight of Cups
The Tree of Life

>Amazing tier
The Thin Red Line

>Great tier
Days of Heaven
Badlands
To The Wonder
The New World
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>>71081824

The Death Proof fanboys have to be some of the most confusing people on the Internet.

Is it literally just contrarianism? Is it some kind of vulgar auteur bullshit?
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>>71079585

>God tier
Pulp Fiction
Django Unchained
Reservoir Dogs

>Great tier
Hateful Eight

>Good tier
Inglorious Basterds
Kill Bills

>Mid tier
Jackie Brown

>Shit tier
Death Proof
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>god tier

modern times
gold rush
city lights

>great tier

monsieur verdoux
the great dictator
the kid
a countess of hong kong

>good tier

limelight
the circus

if you don't know who i'm talking about, leave this board.
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>>71079585
You're high if you don't pout Duhjango under God-tier.
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>>71080988
Seeing it put out in list form like this really shows how many genres de Palma has fucking owned.
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>>71082041
Hello, me.
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>God Tier
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
King of Comedy
>Great Tier
The Departed
Hugo
Mean streets
>Good Tier
The Aviator
>Low Tier
Casino
Gangs of New York
Shutter Island
The Wolf of Wall Street
Cape Fear
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>>71082241

It's a fun, well-made b-movie and gets a lot of shit for being what it is. It's the better of the two Grindhouse segments too. Honestly, I think it's one of the most pure Tarintino films that encapsulates what he is tries to do as a director especially in his later career. It also perfectly represents who he is as a person and as an artist.
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>>71082378
Ive been wanting to watch City Lights so fucking bad and I havent come around to it
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>>71082495
Django is good, but rating it higher than a 7/10 is nuts. It suffers from the same issues as Inglorious Basterds.
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>TOP TIER
Wild Strawberries
Scenes from a Marriage

>GOOD TIER
Persona
The Seventh Seal
Through a Glass Darkly

>MEH TIER
Summer with Monika
Smiles of a Summer Night
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>God tier
NBK
Talk Radio

>Great Tier
Platoon
JFK

>Good Tier
Nixon
Wall Street
Any Given Sunday

>Shit Tier
WS Never Sleeps
4th July
Savages
UTurn
Alexander
WTC
W.

>he hasn't seen The Doors
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>>71082241
I think it's his best-crafted homage to other movies. Like the anon above said -- it's like the culmination of everything he worked towards in his career up to that point.

It's his most intelligent commentary on genre movies that also delivers all the thrills of those movies, and never shies away from the "bad" stuff about them (like having the police discuss the killer's motives for the audience's benefit after the crime. In Psycho, that's usually everyone's single gripe, but Tarantino embraces it and, IMO, makes it work.)

It's also a personal favorite of mine because I'm a big fan of the slasher genre and I love anything that dissects the genre conventions.

Plus you can't beat Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike.
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6 = exceptionally incredible
5 = amazing/superb
4 = great
3 = good
2 = ok/meh
1 = bad
0 = horrible

> CHRIS NOLAN
- Batman Begins = 4
- The Dark Knight = 6
- TDK Rises = 4 maybe low 4
- Memento = low 4
- Insomnia = 3
- The Prestige = 4
- Inception = 4
- Interstellar = 5

> ZACH SNYDER
- DOTD = 4 (been a while since I watched it)
- 300 = 3
- MOS = 5
- BVS = 4 or low 4

> ANNO
End of Evangelion = high 5
Eva 1.0 = 3
Eva 2.0 = 5
Eva 3.0 = high 4

> JOHN CARPENTER
- The Thing = 5
- Halloween = 4
- Halloween 3 = 4
- Prince of Darkness = 4
- Escape from new york = 3
- The Fog = high 3
- Big Trouble = 3
- AOP13 = 2
- ITMOM = 2
- Vampires = 2
- Escape from LA = low 2

MICHAEL BAY
- The Rock = 4
- Pearl Harbor = 3
- Transformers = 3
- Revenge of the Fallen = 2
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>>71082542
His track record is seriously something else. I consider him on par with Scorsese and Coppola.

He's sadly under appreciated by people who insist he just makes schlock.
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>>71082916
>meme directors
>anime
>0-6 scale

fuck it, here's your (You)
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God Tier
Attack of the clones

Good Tier
A New Hope

Okay Tier
American Graffiti

Shit Tier
Howard the Duck
Revenge of the Sith
THX 1138
Red Tails
Phantom Menace
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>God tier
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

>Top tier
300
Sucker Punch

>High tier
Man of Steel
Dawn of the Dead

>Mid tier
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole

>Low tier
Watchmen
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>>71082378
Put The Adventurer in Great Tier and I'm on board
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>>71078106
>Ghosts of Mars
>shit
????
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>God-tier
The Room
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>>71078106
prince of darkness
the thing
they live
assault on precinct 13
starman
big trouble in little china
escape from la
escape from new york
ghosts of mars
vampires
village of the damned
in the mouth of madness
someone's watching me
cigarette burns
the ward
christine
the fog
halloween
dark star
memoirs of an invisible man
body bags
pro-life

all these except pro-life are very good; yes i realize this is unusual but w/e

>>71079434
sup steakbro?

blackhat
miami vice
public enemies
ali
manhunter
thief
last of the mohicans
heat
the insider
collateral

all of them except collateral are masterpieces; collateral is just very good. not gonna include the keep since its been too long since i last saw it

>>71078600
death proof
hateful 8
kill bill
pulp fiction
jackie brown
django unchained
inglorious basterds
reservoir dogs

only dislike reservoir dogs, the rest range form great to ok
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>>71083681
>sup steakbro?
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>>71078235
Big suprise: Dark Night is overrated again. Name more than 4 themes that movie had. Or more than 2 cinematic techniques. Or one unique form of dialogue. It has none of those because its an average ass movie. 6.5 at best.
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>>71085238
>Name more than 4 themes that movie had.
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>>71078106
Kubrick (Although all are great)
>God tier
Eyes Wide Shut
2001
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
>Great tier
The Shining
Strangelove
Paths of Glory
>Good tier
The Killing
Full Metal Jacket
Lolita
>Meh tier
Spartacus
Killers kiss
Fear and desire
The seafarers
Day of the fight
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>>71085308
Im not sure if you know about anything more than Nolan, but typically great directors strive to make many statements through themes, not just one (i.e. Justice is good... No Shit Batman). Whether they be visual, musical, or verbal. I dont think you know what youre talking about frankly.
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>>71085407
it's not a matter of my familiarity with film. it's the assertion that the thematic content of a film can or should be boiled down to bullet points. it's fucking hilarious to me.
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>>71083136
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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>>71085656
what's so funny, anon? :)
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>>71085525
There was more within the original post. Films are also judged objectivly. Thats why if i directed a piece of shit that I really liked, it wouldn't win sun dance, because at the end of the day, it had nothing tangibly good.
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>>71078235

NOLANS ONLY GOOD FILM WAS FOLLOWING

/THREAD
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>>71085694
I find it funny how anyone can refer to a Zack Snyder film as god tier except for Zack Snyder.
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POSSIBLY THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE TIER
>the mirror

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE, WOULD BE JUST ABOUT ANYONE ELSES MASTERPIECE
>stalker
>nostalghia

GREAT TIER
>andrei rublev

EXCEPTIONAL BUT DOESNT QUITE WORK AS WELL AS THEY SHOULD TIER
>solaris
>ivans childhood

GOOD BUT DOESNT REALLY WORK AND NOT AS MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIER
>the sacrifice
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>>71078106
>No The Fly

How the fuck do you forget his most famous movie?
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>>71086177
are you retarded
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Cronenberg

GOD TIER
Videodrome
Crash
Naked Lunch
Dead Ringers

GREAT TIER
The Fly
The Dead Zone
eXistenZ
Maps to the Stars
Cosmopolis
A history of violence
Spider
The Nest

GOOD TIER
Eastern promises
M Butterfly
Scanners
The Brood
Rabid
Shivers
Crimes of the future
Stereo
Camera
At the suicide of the Last jew in the world in the last cinema of the world

OK TIER
From the drain
Transfer


WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING TIER
Fast company
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