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GLEN > LTK, TLD
HAMILTON > DAF, GF, TMWTGG, LALD
HUNT > OHMSS
YOUNG > TB
CAMPBELL > GE, CR are my top 5
GILBERT > YOLT and
FOSTER > QOS round out my list for now
Directors I respect, despite flawed contributions: Hamilton - Gilbert - Glen
Directors I approach with mild forms of contempt: Forster - Tamahori - Apted - Spottiswoode
So i'll go with Glen.
(I hope all of you sense that VERY heavy sarcasm.)
My favorite Bond director is Martin Campbell. He re-ignited Bond twice, in a very, very good way.
I like Campbell, Young, Hunt, Gilbert, Apted and Hamilton though.
Peter Hunt (staying true to Fleming)
Martin Campbell (Delivering when it mattered)
Least favourite: That Man Hamilton!
Yep, adding Mendes now (12/28).
My thoughts exactly, i wish Hunt had done DAF at least.
hopefully Mendes will be added our lists in the near future.
1 Guy Hamilton
2 Terence Young
3 Martin Cambell
4 Peter Hunt
5 John Glen
1. Martin Campbell and John Glen
2. Roger Spottiswoode (TND is incredible!)
3. Guy Hamilton (DAF, LALD, and even TMWTGG)
4. Terrence Young (a little overrated I think, but FRWL and TB are still good examples of his work)
5. Michael Apted
6. Marc Forster
7. Lee Tamahori (at least he knew how to do action sequences)
8. Peter Hunt (OHMSS is....well.....pretty lame)
John Glen
2. Lewis Gilbert
3. Peter Hunt
4. Terence Young
5. Michael Apted
6. Roger Spottiswoode
7. Guy Hamilton
8. Lee Tamahori
9. Martin Campbell
10. Marc Forster
I take a look who have the best influence on other crew members/actors. John Glen direct a lot of my moost favorite Bond movies with a lot of return people and also edit a couple of movies and be advicer.. Lewis Gilbert not only be directer but also advicer. Lee Tamahori be very bad inspiration, whyle Marc forster deliever a new costume designer and production designer and some older Bond feeling return. The reasen that i stil give him a low place is the possible influence on Bond 24 whyle i think moost influence of that comes from Daniel Craig. Lee Tamahori, mess with Bond rules, include Michael Madsen in Bond but this les problem for me then having the 24 subject or what i think Bond 24 going to be.
Terrence Young for setting the impeccable tone.
Peter Hunt for taking up where Young left off and doing it even better.
Martin Campbell for successfully introducing two Bonds, and in the case of CR, making the best Bond film since the 60's.
1. Terence Young: set the bluprint for the movies staying close to Fleming
2. Peter Young and Martin Campbell: each film they made they innovated while keeping faithful to the tradition, a balance not always accomplished by others.
3. Lewis Gilbert: a great escapism and imagination.
4. Guy Hamilton: funny movies.
5. John Glen: I like his movies but I don't see a characteristic stlye.
6. Marc Foster: he tried something visually new but he sacrified important elements (eg gunbarrel at the begining) and the matching with the older movies was simply crude (the oiled agent Fields).
7. Roger Spootiswood and Michael Apted: nothing new, just good action flicks.
8. Lee Tamahori: he made some distasteful decisions.
Looking through all the members preferences I have to completely agree with the above. OHMSS and FRWL are my two favourites and this is in most part down to the superb direction that was given to each movie.