Movie Director Tourney SE Region - The Road to the Sweet 16 (1 Viewer)

[KarmaPolice]

First round of the tourney is over.  There quite a few upsets (except for in the NE Region).  Three of the 13 seeds went on to win, and a total of 8 double digits seeds pulled off the "upset". 

Let's revisit what my intent with this tournament was:

We are voting on which one of the these director's movie you would want to see TODAY.  Of course past performance is part of the equation, but we should also be factoring in recent performance and what you think they will be doing in the future.  For the sake of the tournament, the ONLY information you have to decide between the two directors is something that reads "New Movie by _______".  There are no trailers, synopsis, or imdb page to look at.  I don't want it to be about theater experience either - what type of movies you usually pay for in the theater, etc..  I posted in one of the other threads this scenario: we all have the same home set up, so for the match pretend you get 2 blurays shipped to you in a blank case that reads "New movie by ______".  You have to pick one, and the other is destroyed MI style. 

NW Region

NE Region

SW Region

SE Region

 

[Abraham]

I love Michael Mann.  All of his films are so well shot.  He's going to lose, but just saying. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

I will have these going for a couple days.  Hopefully we get the same # of votes going.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

I love Michael Mann.  All of his films are so well shot.  He's going to lose, but just saying. 

 

[whoknew]

Kind of surprised Paul Greengrass not getting more votes. The Bourne movies are awesome.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Kind of surprised Paul Greengrass not getting more votes. The Bourne movies are awesome.

Same here.  I feel like people are watching different movies than I am.  I haven't been impressed with Clint lately, and a couple were awful. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

Tight race on that last one.  Will another critical darling and high seed get knocked out?

 

[rockaction]

Tight race on that last one.  Will another critical darling and high seed get knocked out?

Bigelow is better right now. I can't think of anything I wouldn't want to see by her. I can think of tons of precious experiments I wouldn't want to see by Wes Anderson.  

 

[KarmaPolice]

Bigelow is better right now. I can't think of anything I wouldn't want to see by her. I can think of tons of precious experiments I wouldn't want to see by Wes Anderson.  

I voted Bigelow, but will admit that was a vote against Wes.  Just don't enjoy those movies at all. 

That said, I would say that Anderson is better.  His movies look fantastic, and he writes his stuff too.  They are just movies that don't connect with me at all.  Bigelow has put out 2 movies in about 14 years, and I think Hurt Locker was a below average movie.  This wasn't an easy match for me at all, and are probably my least favorite of the 8 in this region. 

 

[Keith R]

Same here.  I feel like people are watching different movies than I am.  I haven't been impressed with Clint lately, and a couple were awful.

At his age, there's always a chance that his next movie will be his last movie.  Morbid perhaps, but that was a factor in my vote.

 

[rockaction]

I voted Bigelow, but will admit that was a vote against Wes.  Just don't enjoy those movies at all. 

That said, I would say that Anderson is better.  His movies look fantastic, and he writes his stuff too.  They are just movies that don't connect with me at all.  Bigelow has put out 2 movies in about 14 years, and I think Hurt Locker was a below average movie.  This wasn't an easy match for me at all, and are probably my least favorite of the 8 in this region. 

Interesting. I walked out of The Hurt Locker in the East Village of NY vowing never to underestimate her propensity to viscerally appeal to me. Renner sitting among the cereal boxes in an American grocery store was a great political moment, one I don't agree with, but understand. That ####er went back to war. 

And I hate Chris Hedges. He went to my school and agitated in '68-'69 the whole time against everything I dislike, so this isn't a political thing. I went much later, but Hedges was at my alma mater and that's the quote from the beginning of the movie, so I'm familiar, if not in agreement.   

So, really, I like Kathryn Bigelow. She, to use a colloquailism, gets it. 

 

[rockaction]

Blown away by this line in Zero Dark Thirty. 

"Maya is quite clearly meant to represent post-911 America. She is driven by an overwhelming obsession to see Osama bin Laden hunted down and punished, and this desire is all-consuming, to point of having become the very thing that now defines who she is. At one point in the film she is asked by the director of the CIA what else she has done apart from working to catch Osama bin Laden since joining the CIA. She stridently replies “'Nothing. I’ve done nothing else'.”

 

[KarmaPolice]

Will also bump this for the Bigelow/Anderson battle

 

[KarmaPolice]

Wes wins by one vote.

 

[Henry Ford]

I love Michael Mann.  All of his films are so well shot.  He's going to lose, but just saying. 

OP didn't list Manhunter. Deathblow to the candidate right there.

 

[KarmaPolice]

OP didn't list Manhunter. Deathblow to the candidate right there.

Can't list them all.