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[quantumofsolace]

http://whatculture.c...-bond-films.php

[Bucky]

Hitchcock had to be number 1. All are great directors. While I think Hitchcock and Lean would have made the best Bond films, I would have been interested in seeing one from any of those directors.

[Dustin]

Never thought of Chaplin, interesting idea.

[Odd Jobbies]

Victor Fleming is an inspired choice. I would never have considered him, but now i do the similarities between Fleming's sense of the strange and sadistic - and the downright creepy - which made many of his villains and scenarios so memorable would've been a perfect fit for the guy that gave us flying monkeys and the melting wicked witch of the west.

 

I've always been sad that we;ll never see Sergio Leone's or Stanley Kubrick's Bond. The right-up sells Leone short - his genius wasn't confined to the western genre - watch Once Upon a Time In America. He'd also probably have made the longest Bond film ever, as might've Kubrick, who would've given us icon moments that would leave the rest of the franchise pale by comparison (tough act to follow).

[Dustin]

I would pay to see a Claude Chabrol Bond, though it would probably have been a much smaller, intimate affair.

[Turn]

A Kubrick Bond may have resulted in another 4-year wait. But would have likely been worth it.

 

I'll throw out Jean Luc Goddard as an interesting choice of director I'd like to see have taken on Bond. He did a hardboiled detective meets sci-fi film Alphaville in the '60s.

[jrcjohnny99]

This is a pretty lazy list to be honest;

really just a list of famous dead directors rather than a list of ones who could've really brought something to Bond...

Here's an alternate list

 

John Huston

Carol Reed

J Lee Thompson

Ronald Neame

Richard Brooks

Anatole Litvak

Peter Yates

Martin Ritt

John Sturges

Sidney Lumet

 

And the one who could have done a hell of a job and was in the frame to direct Dr No..

Bryan Forbes 

[Bucky]

This is a pretty lazy list to be honest;

really just a list of famous dead directors rather than a list of ones who could've really brought something to Bond...

Here's an alternate list

 

John Huston

Carol Reed

J Lee Thompson

Ronald Neame

Richard Brooks

Anatole Litvak

Peter Yates

Martin Ritt

John Sturges

Sidney Lumet

 

And the one who could have done a hell of a job and was in the frame to direct Dr No..

Bryan Forbes 

 

Very good list. I had though about Carol Reed and Martin Ritt because of The Third Man and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Huston, Yates, Sturges, and Lumet are all also excellent.

 

Am not too familiar with the others, I only know J Lee Thompson for the Ape movies, been meaning to watch The Guns of Navarone.

[jrcjohnny99]

J Lee Thompson was a very underrated director, along with Naverone he also made the terrific 'Ice Cold in Alex' , the original 'Cape Fear, the wonderful Brit crime drama 'Tiger Bay' and the Bond-like 'The Chairman'

He ended up as a Cannon Pictures director for hire which was a shame, tho even some his later pics are very solid thrillers (St Ives, The Passage, 10 to Midnight etc)

 

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[Walecs]

Where the hell is Steven Spielberg?

[Dustin]

True.

[Templar]

Where the hell is Steven Spielberg?

In the 70s, yes. But since the 80s/90s he's given us nothing but crap.

[jrcjohnny99]

Where the hell is Steven Spielberg?

In the 70s, yes. But since the 80s/90s he's given us nothing but crap.

Spielberg is pretty erratic but he's made at least one truly great film in every decade since the 70s

 

80's Raiders, ET, Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Last Crusade

 

90's Jurassic Park, Schindlers List, Saving Private Ryan

 

00's Munich

 

10's Lincoln

[glidrose]

Is anybody else fed up with these websites that expect you the reader to click through ten pages? Those of us on older systems watch our computers hang for fifteen seconds at a time.

[S K Y F A L L]

Is anybody else fed up with these websites that expect you the reader to click through ten pages? Those of us on older systems watch our computers hang for fifteen seconds at a time.

Ya that can be annoying and frustrating.  

[Dustin]

It's the main reason I usually give up after page four or so.