The Dark Knight Rises

[dashrendar44]

Andrew Dominik has made two movies better than TDKR. List invalid.

Edited September 8, 2013 by dashrendar44

[Squaremaster316]

Hmm...

 

Jesse James? Nope.

 

Chopper? Nope.

 

Killing the Softly? Aaand...Nope.

 

3 strikes.

 

 

This is where you get off.

[DAR]

I have no idea what's happening.Though I don't think you can compare a comedy director like Adam McKay and his films to Nolan and his. They're going for something completely different

[The Stingray]

Jesse James is a masterpiece. TDKR ain't.

[baumer]

I'll let you guys battle this out....see you at page 95.

[Squaremaster316]

See ya.

 

TDKR > Jesse James

[dashrendar44]

Thanks for the laugh Squaremünster. TDKR better than Chopper and Jesse James...

 

Get a life outside Nolan, dude.

Edited September 8, 2013 by dashrendar44

[Phil in the Blank]

I cant help it if it sucks.

 

But you can help your own film tastes.

 

You should work on that. 

 

[DAR]

Square I love TDKR and think Nolan is a great filmmaker but you got to get off your knees every now and again

[Hangman]

Seriously.  That's a hell of a list.  That's incredible.  Or did you just google directors in alphabetical order and then eliminate a few?

 

Pretty sure that's what he did.

 

 

ALL were vastly WORSE than TDKR

 

In fact, since we're bringing up lists....

 

Here's a list of directors with two or more films to their directorial credit who have NEVER made a single film as good as TDKR or ANYTHING Nolan has ever directed:

 

Tommy Chong

 

Tommy Chong??? lol

[rukaio101]

Jon Favreau- Iron Man 

Trey Parker- South Park: Bigger, Longer + Uncut

Justin Lin- Fast Five/6

James Wan- The Conjuring

Joel Schumacher (Yes seriously)- The Lost Boys/Phonebooth

Danny Devito- Matilda

Chris Columbus- Home Alone/ First two Harry Potters

 

Each of these I enjoyed much more than Nolan's weaker films like The Prestige and TDKR. And those are just the really obvious ones I recognised first time around.

[Jack Nevada]

ALL were vastly WORSE than TDKR

 

In fact, since we're bringing up lists....

 

Here's a list of directors with two or more films to their directorial credit who have NEVER made a single film as good as TDKR or ANYTHING Nolan has ever directed:

 

Adam Green

Adam McKay

Adam Wingard

Adrian Lyne

Akiva Schaffer

Alejandro Agresti

Alejandro Chomski

Alex Winter

Alexandre Aja

Allen Coulter

Ana Clavell/James Glenn Dudelson

Andrew Dominik

Andrew Douglas

Andrew Fleming

Andrew Niccol

Andrzej Bartkowiak

Andy Fickman

Angela Robinson (III)

Annabel Jankel/Rocky Morton

Anne Fletcher

Ariel Vromen

Ariel Schulman/Henry Joost

Bart Freundlich

Ben Miller

Ben Stiller

Bibo Bergeron

Bill Bennett

Bille Woodruff

Björn Stein/Marn Marlind

Brad Peyton

Bradley Raymond

Brett Ratner

Brian Dannelly

Brian Helgeland

Brian Levant

Brian Robbins

Bronwen Hughes

Bruce McCulloch

Bryan Spicer

Buddy Van Horn

Burr Steers

Carlos Saldanha

Catherine Hardwicke

Charles Russell

Charles Shyer

Charles T. Kanganis

Chris Columbus

Chris Fisher

Chris Gorak

Chris Sivertson

Chris Stokes

Chris Wedge

Christian Duguay

Christophe Gans

Christopher McQuarrie

Christopher Cain

Chuck Russell

Clark Johnson

Courtney Solomon

Craig Mazin

Dan Bradley

Dan Mazer

Daniel Algrant

Danny Cannon

Danny DeVito

Danny Pang/Oxide Pang Chun

Darren Lynn Bousman

Darren Stein

Dave Gebroe

Dave Meyers

David Bowers

David R. Ellis

David Frankel

David Dobkin

David Goyer

David Guy Levy

David Jacobson

David Kellogg

David Mirkin

David Palmer/Dax Shepard

David Slade

David Twohy

David Wain

Deborah Kaplan

Dennie Gordon

Dennis Dugan

Dennis Lee

Deran Sarafian

D.J. Caruso

Dominic Sena

Don Coscarelli

Donal Lardner Ward

Donald Petrie

Doug Lefler

Douglas Tirola

Douglas Mcgrath

Ed Gass-Donnelly

Ed Wood

Emanuele Crialese

Emile Ardolino

Emilio Estevez

Eric Brevig

Eric Schaeffer

Eric Valette

Eli Roth

Elizabeth Allen (II)

F. Gary Gray

Farelley Bros.

Fisher Stevens

Francis Lawrence

Franck Khalfoun

Frank Coraci

Fred Dekker

Fred Durst

Fred Wolf

Frederik Du Chau

Fritz Kiersch

Garth Jennings

Gary David Goldberg

Gene Quintano

George Gallo

Glenn McQuaid

Greg Berlanti

Greg Pritikin

Gregory Jacobs

Griffin Dunne

Guy Ritchie

Harald Zwart

Harmony Korine

Harry Elfont

Harry Thomason

Heitor Dhalia

Hélène Cattet

Heywood Gould

Howard Deutch

Hugh Wilson

Ian Iqbal Rashid

Jake Kasdan

Jake Scott

James DeMonaco

James Gunn

James Wan

James Westby

James Wong

Jamie Blanks

Jan Kounen

Jared Hess

Jason Bloom

Jason Eisener

Jaume Collet-Serra

Jay Chandrasekhar

Jay Roach

Jay Russell

Jeannot Szwarc

Jefery Levy

Jeff Kanew

Jeff Pollack

Jeff Tremaine

Jeff Wadlow

Jesse Dylan

Jim Fall

Jim Gillespie

Jim Henson

Jim Sharman

Jim Field Smith

Jim Wynorski

Jimmy Hayward

Jody Hill

Joe Pytka

Joe Roth

Joel Schumacher

John Berry

John Carl Buechler

John Cornell

John A. Davis

John Erick Dowdle

John R. Cherry III

John Fortenberry

John Flynn

John Guillermin

John Gulager

John Hamburg

John Herzfeld

John Hough

John Korty

John Lafia

John Luessenhop

John Maybury

John Moore

John Pasquin

John Patrick Shanley

John Polson

John Schultz

John Stockwell

John Terlesky

John Whitesell

Johnathan Liebesman

Jonathan Lynn

Jonathan Mostow

Jon Amiel

Jon M. Chu

Jon Favreau

Jon Hurwitz

Jon Kasdan

Jon Wright

Jonas Åkerlund

Jonathan Hensleigh

Jordan Roberts

Joseph Kahn

Joseph Kosinski

Joseph Zito

Josh Gordon/Will Speck

Joshua Michael Stern

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Julia Traynor

Julian Gilbey

Just Jaeckin

Justin Chadwick

Justin Lin

Karey Kirkpatrick

Katie Aselton

Keenan Ivory Wayans

Ken Kwapis

Kevin Allen

Kevin Bray

Kevin Greutert

Kevin Munroe

Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Kevin Tancharoen

Kim Chapiron

Kirk De Micco

Kurt Hale

Kurt Wimmer

Larry Bishop

Lawrence Blume

Lawrence Guterman

Lawrence L. Simeone

Len Wiseman

Les Mayfield

Lexi Alexander

Liam Lynch

Louis Leterrier

Lucio Fulci

Lucky McKee

Luke Greenfield

Malcolm D. Lee

Malcolm Venville

Marco Brambilla

Marco Kreuzpaintner

Marcus Nispel

Marisa Silver

Marc Evans

Mark Christopher

Mark Goldblatt

Mark Jones

Mark Romanek

Mark Rosman

Mark Steven Johnson

Mark Tonderai

Mark Webber

Marleen Gorris

Martin Davidson

Mary Harron

Max Mayer

McG

Mel Damski

Melanie Mayron

Michael Addis

Michael D. Olmos

Michael J. Bassett

Michael Bay

Michael Gottlieb

Michael Lembeck

Michael Patrick King

Mikael Håfstrom

Mike Judge

Mimi Leder

Nancy Meyers

Neal Israel

Neil Burger

Nick Castle

Nora Ephron

Olivier Megaton

Patrick Lussier

Patrick Read Johnson

Paul Andrew Williams

Paul Gross

Paul Haggis

Paul Lynch

Paul Michael Glaser

Paul W.S. Anderson

Paul Weiland

Peter Berg

Peter Hewitt

Peter Howitt

Peter Hyams

Peter Kosminsky

Peter Segal

Peter Webber

Peyton Reed

Phyllida Lloyd

P.J. Hogan

Quentin Dupieux

Rachel Talalay

Raja Gosnell

Randall Miller

Randall Wallace

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Rebecca Miller

Reginald Hudlin

Renny Harlin

Ric Roman Waugh

Richard Curtis

Richard LaGravenese

Richard Shepard

Rick Bota

Rob Bowman

Rob Cohen

Rob Hedden

Rob Letterman

Rob Schmidt

Rob Zombie

Robert Ben Garant

Robert Iscove

Robert Lieberman

Robert Luketic

Robert Schwentke

Rod Lurie

Rodney Evans

Rodrigo García

Roger Avary

Roger Christian

Roger Kumble

Roland Emmerich

Roman Coppola

Rupert Wainwright

Russell Mulcahy

Russo Bros.

Rusty Cundieff

Ryan Murphy

Ryuhei Kitamura

Sam Pillsbury

Sam Weisman

Sara Sugarman

Saul Metzstein

Scott Derrickson

Scott Kalvert

Scott Stewart

Sean Anders

Sean McNamara

Sean S. Cunningham

Seltzerberg

Shana Feste

Shawn Levy

Simon West

Spierig Bros.

Stacy Title

Stefan Avalos

Stephen Carpenter

Stephen Gaghan

Stephen Gyllenhaal

Stephen Herek

Stephen Hopkins

Stephen Norrington

Stephen Sommers

Stephen Surjik

Steve Barron

Steve Beck

Steve Buscemi

Steve Carr

Steve Martino

Steve Miner

Steven Brill

Stewart Raffill

Strause Bros.

Stuart Baird

Stuart Gillard

Sylvain White

Takashi Shimizu

Tarsem Singh

Thomas Bezucha

Thomas Carter (II)

Thomas J. Wright

Thor Freudenthal

Tinto Brass

Tim Fywell

Tim Story

Timur Bekmambetov

Tod Williams

Todd Berger

Todd Phillips

Todd Robinson

Tom Brady

Tom Dey

Tom McLoughlin

Tom Ropelewski

Tommy Chong

Tommy O'Haver

Tommy Lee Wallace

Tommy Wirkola

Trey Parker

Troy Miller

Tyler Perry

Udayan Prasad

Uwe Boll

Wallace Wolodarsky

Walt Becker

Wayne Kramer

Will Gluck

Willard Carroll

William Dear

William Malone

William Brent Bell

Zack Snyder

Zak Penn

Zal Batmanglij

Zalman King

 

 

Just for the record, you could substitute any of the following guys in place of Nolan.

 

Stanley Kubrick

Hayao Myazaki

Paul Thomas Anderson

Edgar Wright

Duncan Jones

Brad Bird

Juan Antonio Bayona

Jeff Nichols

Ben Affleck

 

... and the list would be just as valid.

 

 

Ya wanna get to 100 pages?  You're welcome!

[dashrendar44]

I guess Tommy Wiseau is as good of a director as Nolan and made a movie as good as TDKR since he's not mentioned in that joke of a list.

 

LOL at Fred Durst being listed as a director.

Edited September 8, 2013 by dashrendar44

[rukaio101]

I guess Tommy Wiseau is as good of a director as Nolan and made a movie as good as TDKR since he's not mentioned in that joke of a list.

To be fair, I got a lot more entertainment out of watching the Room than I did TDKR.

[dashrendar44]

To be fair, I got a lot more entertainment out of watching the Room than I did TDKR.

[Squaremaster316]

Directors with TWO directorial credits minimum

 

Tommy, the Ecks Vs. Sever guy and the Corky Romano fella aren't eligible.

[#ED]

Is this even a debate?This movie is fucking awesome.Good reviews + Good Box office.Great trilogy.The Dark Knight is just in its own league.

[rukaio101]

Directors with TWO directorial credits minimum

 

Tommy, the Ecks Vs. Sever guy and the Corky Romano fella aren't eligible.

So James Nyugen (director of Birdemic and Birdemic 2: The Ressurection) is eligible?

 

Of course, I can completely understand why you wouldn't want to put him on the list. After all, his films are in a class of their own...

[Phil in the Blank]

Clearly his list was inclusive, not exhaustive.

[dashrendar44]

Directors with TWO directorial credits minimum

 

Tommy, the Ecks Vs. Sever guy and the Corky Romano fella aren't eligible.

 

Wiseau got two directorial credits on his IMDB page, just saying. (Or short movies are not considered movies so Following is not a movie by this logic)

Edited September 8, 2013 by dashrendar44