Directing: Best 3 in a Row?

ELTEXAN said:
Nah. Weird Science is the best on the list actually.
If I had to choose: Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris.
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It’s the lesser of the three for me, but not by much. And I presumed that wouldn’t be common opinion but looking at IMDB Weird Science comes in at 6.6, the other two 7.8.

I would say that’s the three for Hughes.
 
Bad Boys
The Rock
Armageddon

Michael Bay
 
Eastwood has at least 3 great films but not in a row.
 
I'll name a few.

Stanley Kubrick
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Quentin Tarantino
Django Unchained (2012)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Christopher Nolan
The Prestige (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)

David Fincher
The Social Network (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Gone Girl (2014)

Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Mel Gibson
Braveheart (1995)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Apocalypto (2006)

Steven Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)

The Farrelly Brothers
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Kingping (1996)
There's Something About Mary (1998)

Adam McKay
Anchorman (2004)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Step Brothers (1998)

Mike Judge
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
Office Space (1999)
Idiocracy (2006)

Robert Eggers
The Witch (2015)
The Lighthouse (2019)
The Northman (2022)

Ridley Scott
Gladiator (2000)
Hannibal (2001)
Black Hawk Down (2001)

Martin Scorsese
Gangs of New York (2002)
The Aviator (2004)
The Departed (2006)

Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Wachowski Brothers
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
 
Das Boot
The NeverEnding Story
Enemy Mine

Wolfgang Petersen
 
ELTEXAN said:
Dr Strangelove
2001
A Clockwork Orange
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I had to go back as I thought I posted this one. This is the best three in a row to me for Kubrick.

Shining and Full Metal Jacket are solid, I just can’t put Eyes Wide Shut into it and call it his best three in a row.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
I had to go back as I thought I posted this one. This is the best three in a row to me for Kubrick.

Shining and Full Metal Jacket are solid, I just can’t put Eyes Wide Shut into it and call it his best three in a row.
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Agree. Except I don’t even think the Shining or FMJ are as good as the other three either. A Clock Work Orange is a way better book adaptation than the Shining in my opinion. I think the Shining is good on its own, but compared to the book it doesn’t hold up. FMJ is great. But compared to other similar movies of the time, like Apocalypse Now, I don’t think it really stands out.
 
TheDayMan said:
Agree. Except I don’t even think the Shining or FMJ are as good as the other three either. A Clock Work Orange is a way better book adaptation than the Shining in my opinion. I think the Shining is good on its own, but compared to the book it doesn’t hold up. FMJ is great. But compared to other similar movies of the time, like Apocalypse Now, I don’t think it really stands out.
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FMJ just stands our for me solely on the first 45 minutes at Parris Island. My father went in at roughly the exact same time in the movie and was blown away how accurate setting and everything was (minus the Pyle character he didn’t have come across. Lol).

Clockwork is the weak one to me out of the three in a row I picked. But it’s less of a weak on the EWS.

You make a great point….it was the better adaption of the book than the Shining. It’s just not the better movie to me. Probably because….Jack.

Strangelove and 2001 are unimpeachable to me…..making it easy to pick those three as the best three movie Kubrick run. You could even tack EWS at the end of those two and I would still pick them.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
I had to go back as I thought I posted this one. This is the best three in a row to me for Kubrick.

Shining and Full Metal Jacket are solid, I just can’t put Eyes Wide Shut into it and call it his best three in a row.
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To me The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut are his two best movies.

I'd probably rank them all as:

1. The Shining
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Barry Lyndon
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. Dr. Strangelove
 
RememberTheKoy said:
To me The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut are his two best movies.

I'd probably rank them all as:

1. The Shining
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Barry Lyndon
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. Dr. Strangelove
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You got Dr Strangelove at the bottom? Yikes.
 
John Landis

Spies Like Us
¡Three Amigos!
Coming To America

🏆
 
RememberTheKoy said:
I'll name a few.

Stanley Kubrick
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Quentin Tarantino
Django Unchained (2012)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Christopher Nolan
The Prestige (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)

David Fincher
The Social Network (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Gone Girl (2014)

Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Mel Gibson
Braveheart (1995)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Apocalypto (2006)

Steven Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)

The Farrelly Brothers
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Kingping (1996)
There's Something About Mary (1998)

Adam McKay
Anchorman (2004)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Step Brothers (1998)

Mike Judge
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
Office Space (1999)
Idiocracy (2006)

Robert Eggers
The Witch (2015)
The Lighthouse (2019)
The Northman (2022)

Ridley Scott
Gladiator (2000)
Hannibal (2001)
Black Hawk Down (2001)

Martin Scorsese
Gangs of New York (2002)
The Aviator (2004)
The Departed (2006)

Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Wachowski Brothers
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
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Spielberg is not credited as the director for Poltergeist.

Yes, I know what the internet says on the topic.
 
LOTR movies are barely a step above the Hobbit movies and the Star Wars prequels.
Peter Jackson is a horrible director.
Those movies are trash that nerds just desperately *want to* love.
 
ELTEXAN said:
LOTR movies are barely a step above the Hobbit movies and the Star Wars prequels.
Peter Jackson is a horrible director.
Those movies are trash that nerds just desperately *want to* love.
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Honestly, my main gripe is every single LotR movie being, at minimum, 3 hrs long.

It’s actually pretty hard not to fall asleep in the middle of some LotR. lol
 
ELTEXAN said:
John Landis

Spies Like Us
¡Three Amigos!
Coming To America

🏆
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Oh damn. Nice.

I was wracking my brain to try to think of other Directors to look into and never thought of Landis. Thats a really good three.
 
dbldwn711 said:
we’ve talked about some really great directors who have had a number of great films but hard to get 3 in a row. With that in mind, check out this streak of consecutive films by James Cameron.

The Terminator (1984)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Aliens (1986)
The Abyss (1989)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Point Break (1991)
Last Action Hero (1993)
True Lies (1994)

While all of these are not “great” they are all solid IMO and I’d match the first 3 against any list here. Also, this list doesn’t even include his two biggest movies (Titanic and Avatar).
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Some might say that he raised the bar :wink: :noidea:
 
ELTEXAN said:
John Landis

Spies Like Us
¡Three Amigos!
Coming To America

🏆
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Animal House
Blues Brothers
An American Werewolf in London

?

Seems the obvious three to me.

Also, Landis is one of those who whenever you give him credit (which is due) there should also be a noting of what an incredible piece of shit he is with it.
 
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