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POLL: The best non-Bond films directed by Bond directors

PanchitoPistolesPanchitoPistoles 2.0
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Rank all the non-Bond films directed by Bond directors you have seen! The Bond directos are: Terence Young, Guy Hamilton, Lewis Gilbert, Peter R. Hunt, John Glen, Martin Campbell, Roger Spottiswoode, Michael Apted, Lee Tamahori, Marc Forster and Sam Mendes. (Let's keep all the directors of the 1967 version of Casino Royale and NSNA director Irvin Kershner out of the discussion.) You can easily find the filmographies of the various directors thanks to this list compiled by an IMDB user: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls002705007/ Once lots of lists are posted, I will compile a list based on the individual rankings.

My ranking:

1. American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
2. Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
3. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
4. Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori)
5. Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
6. Finding Neverland (Marc Forster)
7. Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
8. Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
9. World War Z (Marc Forster)
10. The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell)
11. The 6th Day (Roger Spottiswoode)

I haven't seen many potentially good ones, like Wait Until Dark (Terence Young), Alfie (Lewis Gilbert), Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted) and Gorillas in the Mist (Michael Apted).

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited December 2014 Posts: 17,835
    1. Legend Of Zorro (Campbell)
    2. Mask Of Zorro (Campbell)
    3. Red Sun(Young)
    4. Wait Until Dark (Young)
    5. The Best of Times (Spottiswoode)
    6. The 6th Day (Spottiswoode)
    7. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Apted)
    8. Force 10 From Navarrone (Hamilton)
    9. Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (Hamilton)

    The Children of Huang Shi (2008- Spottiswoode) -I haven't seen this one but I've been meaning to
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,271
    Difficult for me. I guess Monster's Ball is one of my favourites. Wait Until Dark too but then I have my reasons. ;-)

    Worst non-Bond Young film, IMO, is Bloodline, despite James Mason and Audrey Hepburn starring in it.
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited December 2014 Posts: 4,538
    Martin Campbell:

    1. Mask Of Zorro
    2. Vertical Limit
    3. Legend Of Zorro
    4. Beyond Borders
    5. No Escape (It be a whyle go.)

    Sam Mendes

    1. Road to Perdition
    2. Jardhead
    3. American Beauty (If Paramount re-release BD with the bonus material i wil think about to re-watch, because it is very long a go.)

    Lee Tamahori

    1. Along Came a Spider
    2. Next
    3. Triple X 2
    4. The Edge (:|

    Marc Forster:

    1. Finding Neverland
    2. Stranger Than Fiction

    From Michael Apted to long go to remember or it whas Gorilla in The mist or Nell or mabey both. This year i bought Gorky Park on dvd. From Peter r Hunt i only have seen Persuaders episode he directed, Roger Spottiswoode The 6th Day, Lewis Gilbert ''Friends'' with that Brosnan look a like. From Guy Hamilton Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins and The Point Men from John Glen. From Irvin Kershner i only have seen Robocop 2.

    There are couple of movies from Bond directers i like to see: Narnia 3 (From Michael Apted and music by David Arnold) The Green Lantern, Gi Joe 3 (Campbell), The Kite Runner (Already in collection from Marc Forster produced by Sam Mendes), Revolutionary Road (Already in collection from Sam Mendes), Away We Go (Sam Mendes) and Devil's Double (Already in collection from Lee Tamahori) , Ripley Under Ground (Already in collection from Spottiswoode) and The Children of Huang Shi (Spottiswoode).
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    American Beauty is certainly one of the best I saw.
  • PanchitoPistolesPanchitoPistoles 2.0
    Posts: 4,619
    Birdleson wrote: »
    As bad as DIE ANOTHER DAY was, certainly Lee Tamahori's ONCE WERE WARRIORS is the strongest film any of these directors did outside of Bond. One of the great cinematic experiences.

    Agreed. It's unbelievable that those two movies were directed by the same guy, mere 8 years apart.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    They were both downers.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    Posts: 4,589
    1. American Beauty (Mendes)
    2. Monster's Ball (Forster)
    3. Wait Until Dark (Young): a masterpiece of suspense and a must-see if you haven't seen it.
    4. Road to Perdition (Mendes)
    5. And the Band Played On (Spottiswoode) (made-for-HBO film that is also a must-see)
    6. Revolutionary Road (Mendes)
    7. Jarhead (Mendes)
    8. Criminal Law (Campbell)
    9. Coal Miner's Daughter (Apted)
    10 Finding Neverland (Forster)
    11. Once Were Warriors (Tamahori)
    12. Gorillas in the Mist (Apted)
    13. World War Z (Forster)
    14. The Edge (Tamahori)
    15. Air America (Spottiswoode)
    16. Gorky Park (Apted)
    17. Educating Rita (Gilbert)
    18. Blink (Apted)
    19. Mask of Zorro (Campbell)
    20. Shoot to Kill (Spottiswoode)

    Honorable Mention: Bring on the Night (Sting documentary) and the “Up” series of documentaries (all by Apted)

  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
    Posts: 1,138
    The obvious number 1 is the Saddam Hussein biography that Terrence Young directed ;)
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