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Directorial Debut Film Poll! (Patreon)

Published:
2024-03-29 04:10:33
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2026-06
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Directorial Debut Film Poll!

  • American Beauty (1999) - Sam Mendes* 108
  • Badlands (1973) - Terrence Malick 28
  • Being John Malkovich (1999) - Spike Jonze 83
  • Boyz n the Hood (1991) - John Singleton 128
  • Brick (2005) - Rian Johnson 36
  • Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles* 74
  • Donnie Darko (2001) - Richard Kelly* 94
  • Duel (1971) - Steven Spielberg 71
  • Eraserhead (1977) - David Lynch 40
  • Gone Baby Gone (2007) - Ben Affleck 65
  • Lady Bird (2017) - Greta Gerwig 37
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968) - George Romero 90
  • This is Spinal Tap (1984) - Rob Reiner 138
  • 2024-03-29
  • —2024-04-28
  • 992 votes
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Content

Help pick the Directorial Debut we will react to!

Please feel free to suggest other options in the comments for future polls!

*NOTE: I have seen American Beauty & Donnie Darko, so this would only be Sam's first time watching! Sam has seen Citizen Kane, so this would only be my first time watching!

Comments

Jason Dolan

These are all pretty damn good

MikeLL

Who wouldn’t want them to be perplexed by Citizen Kane? What, only me? LOL

Sylvan Green

Boyz N the Hood, break out the tissue box

Dan

Gone baby gone is a phenomenal movie

kbobravo

I love this Poll. A lot of great first time efforts out there.

Duncan

"RICKY"!!!!!!!!!!!!

Smooticus

Had to vote for some underdogs here. Definitely had to cast one for Eraserhead, just for the "Dafuq?" reaction I know we'll get from Sam and Daniel

EdmanXERO

"Boyz N the Hood" is a movie I grew up on. It'll be very interesting if it wins the poll.

Paul Cox

Man I really want to see you guys react to Spinal Tap finally so we can move into the Christopher Guest movies (Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, et al), but I think the time for a Citizen Kane reaction is overdue!

Duncan

'Dawn of the Dead (1978)' is one of my all time favourite movies ,so in order to get to that ,we have to start here ,I so voted ✅

Tim Raths

I hope Boyz n the Hood can hang on.

metadata

+1 American Beauty

Guston Zimasheen

Not only an awesome directorial breakout film, but an awesome zombie outbreak film.

Toc

Damn good poll! And what's cool is every movie is getting votes! Obviously I have my preferences, and there are two I haven't seen..... but whatever wins will be fine by me. Most of those movies would win other polls all by themselves!

Toc

Hey, if it's a tie, or super close, and "Spinal Tap" is one of them? That movie is less than an hour and a half. I think it's like 80 minutes. So you might be able to squeeze two slam dunk reactions out of this poll, if you were so inclined. Boyz In The Hood is a great drama, Spinal Tap a great comedy......it might just be the new Barbenheimer!

Future Boy

Boyz n the Hood is the one I'm most interested to see you watch. But there's a lot of great stuff on this list. I'd love to see you do Duel at some point!

Slayback

I used to spend summer break at my grandparents on the rez. they only watched the news or Turner Classic Movies. Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn, and Citizen Kane, are the only things that stuck with me. There's a reason Citizen Kane is used as an honorary descriptor.

Toc

Love Eraserhead; makes good reaction video!

Toc

....and cool to see Badlands up there. Before there was Wild At Heart or True Romance or Natural Born Killers, there was Badlands!

M

Eraserhead is a film about the joys of being a new parent, so I have to vote for that For future debut polls: The Duellists (Ridley Scott) Bound (The Wachowskis) Mary & Max (Adam Elliot)

PIG

Ouf. I picked like half of the poll lol

Mike Tocci

Lots of great films on this one. Too many for one poll. Half of them are favorites!

Michael Buhl

Why is my vote not sticking? I voted, then I came back to the poll and it indicated that I had not voted. (I'm voting for This Is Spinal Tap.)

Paul Cox

It's another Patreon glitch (what else is new?). It looks like you haven't voted when you open the actual post, but you can see the current totals including your own vote in the main/recent feed.

Jihad Lee

A lot of great films. But my pick is definitely gonna be Boyz In The Hood. Just watching that as a black kid/man just hits different for me every time I watch it. But it’s really great look into the hood aspect of America which very few people know about it still. So everybody should watch it

Erwin Quiachon

Ridley Scott's debut, "The Duellists" (1977) was made for about $900,000, but looks it cost at least 10 0r 15 million dollars. It's got a a classic story, legendary cinematography, and top notch acting. Definitely a film school movie for how to make a quality first movie for a very low budget.

Erwin Quiachon

Badlands stands on it's own, but is also famous for inspiring Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" album. Springsteen has said that he was inspired to start writing that album after randomly watching that movie on TV.

Erwin Quiachon

Night of the Living Dead is another all time great example of how to make a first film. It was made for only about $150,000 and gets credit for triggering a billion dollar film genre. Both Ridley Scott and George Romero spent several years after college directing commercials before making their first full feature films. All that time working with film crews on commercials paid off when it was time for them to make their first feature films.

William

Play Stonhenge!!!

William

"This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, 'What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?'"

chris brown

The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton's one and only movie

Paul Cox

Brilliant suggestion. There are so many Mitchum films I want them to see.

Kyle Hopkins

Too many to choose from. Maybe narrow the list to five or so. I’m going with Boyz in The Hood. It such an impact when released.

TBR Schmitt

You can vote for multiple choices 😊 -Sam

TBR Schmitt

Sorry, Michael! I’ve seen some people have more luck online than on the app, but not sure if that’ll help for you! -Sam

Claudia

have you seen The Virgin Suicides? Sofia Coppola's directorial debut.

Birdie Num Num

Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks' debut

Philip Davetas

BADLANDS is great, but I don't think it's something that wins polls. But it's funny, because TRUE ROMANCE seems to borrow way too much from this movie.

TBR Schmitt

We haven't! Sofia would have been a good add to this! -Sam

TBR Schmitt

Ooh this one is on our list! I didn't realize it was a directorial debut, that's awesome -Sam

Birdie Num Num

The 400 Blows - Truffaut. Probably the most acclaimed debut after Citizen Kane.

Birdie Num Num

Unfortunately a remake was just announced a few days ago.

Birdie Num Num

Soderbergh - Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Mel Brooks - The Producers.

Birdie Num Num

Michael Mann - Thief. Inarrritu - Amores Perros.

EdmanXERO

Same for me, and well said. You know that quote in the movie as well as I do, but I won't spoil anything.

Future Boy

Thief (1981). One of my top 10 films of all time, and definitely my favourite heist film of all time. Even better, in my opinion, than Heat, which was ALSO written/directed by Mann. A reaction can't come soon enough!

Jeff B.

As much as I love “Night of the Living Dead”, I’m pulling for “Spinal Tap” because the Schmitt’s laughing is infectious. Hopefully it can usher in a few of the other Christopher Guest mockumentaries like “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show”.

Chris Bruneau

Thief is also one of my FAVS!!! I'm from Chicago, so its even better for me seeing the locations.

Paul Cox

Can't believe we're finally getting the long-awaited, many times so-close reactions to This Is Spinal Tap and Dog Day Afternoon. May is gonna be a great month!