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The Directors Cut #1 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-05-06 11:01:00
Imported:
2026-06

Poll

The Directors Cut #1

  • John Hughes 40
  • Christopher Nolan 25
  • David Lynch 22
  • 2023-05-05
  • —2023-05-07
  • 87 votes
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Content

So, here's one of the new things I mentioned the other day in the HTD! #7 post.

What is it?

Similar to the HIT THE DECADE! poll, but this time you get to help chose three films I react to. More specifically three films from a certain director that you vote for. This won’t be a monthly poll, maybe more likely to be every six weeks/two months.

How does it work?

The first vote will be to decide which directors movies I react to. There will be a choice of three. This part of the poll will be a Patreon only vote for all tiers. Feel free to suggest in the comments any movies by those directors you would like to see.

Once a winner is decided, I will gather up to 10 movies from that director and put them into a poll, again on Patreon, but this time open to the public as well. You can vote for as many or as few movies in this poll, with the top three being the movies I react to.

I will then let you know the three winning movies. If there is a specific order I should watch the movies in, please let me know in the comments, otherwise I will react to the third placed movie first, and work my way up to the first placed movie.

Why am I doing this?

I want to explore different directors and experience they’re unique directing styles and ideas.

The gap in the schedule for fitting these movies in is soon, so I'll need to keep the voting time quite short. The voting will end on Sunday night 😊

Comments

Hypnobob

I voted Lynch, if you're looking for a different experience, you'll find it there. Nobody evokes a feeling of dread like he does. He doesn't pander/explain to the audience. Mullholland Drive and The Straight Story are my two fav Lynch films (on opposite ends of the weirdness scale). The Elephant Man was also very good. Even though it's a prequel, I don't think you'd get anything out of Fire Walk With Me (except a need to take a shower/get out for a walk in the sunshine) unless you'd already seen the TV show Twin Peaks - the last season of which was amazing. His films are an acquired taste for a lot of people though - some are too weird - not sure it would do well on YT. With Nolan, You'd have the Batman trilogy or Inception/Interstellar/Tenet as a high concept trilogy. Memento was cool. With John Hughes, He died young - I don't think he directed 10 movies. For me at least, you've already done his best one - Ferris.

Bartleby

I’m voting for David Lynch. Happy you included him in this poll! A wise place to start with his films would be “Blue Velvet” (1986) Lynch films are something else. And “Blue Velvet” is probably the most accessible (while still ripe with all the Lynch characteristics and trademarks) entry point. Then I’d also recommend from Lynch “Wild at Heart” (1990) And then “Mulholland Drive” (2001) Should definitely be included as well. Avoid “Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me” from Lynch for now as that film is a prequel to his massively successful murder mystery TV series. Thus the mystery will be spoiled for you if you watch that movie before the TV series.

Liam Christie

I really like the picks here - but I went for John Hughes for a few good films, including Uncle Buck, Weird Science and The Breakfast Club. I also really like Nolan too (he did Dunkirk / Interstellar and the good Batman trilogy (imo) I really like Wes Anderson as a Director too (if you continue to do this, he is a good shout).

Richard Stokes

Two of my favourites there in John Hughes and David Lynch. For JH The Breakfast Club is a standout for me. I voted for Lynch. I appreciate the point made by Sam about accessibility and Blue Velvet. I think you should have a watch of Twin Peaks at some point it's quite something, though Lynch wasn't involved for a big patch of the 2nd series and it gets a bit lost but he comes back to save it at the end. Lost Highway is a bit more accessible in terms of Lynch and I prefer it to blue velvet but either would be good to start with I think

Eric Janssen

David Lynch had a good style in his early films, when he was “filming dreams”, and a dreamlike style pervaded even big studio films like The Elephant Man and the ‘84 Dune…But by the second TV season of Twin Peaks, he just went in search of preciously indulgent oddness, and while Blue Velvet has a unique style, that was his last coherent film (except for The Straight Story, which was more personal). Chris Nolan had a few good psychological thrillers with Memento and The Prestige, but when he was hired to do a Batman movie for Warner, they wanted him to save their entire comic-book studio for them, and he’s…just not a comic book guy. I normally wouldn’t vote for John Hughes in a list of “Great directors” (😄), but if it came down to a choice of Lynch, Nolan or “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, I wouldn’t think too hard about the choice.

Casey Fairley

1st off, great idea for tackling director's cuts, Dawn! It's nice voting for favs of our own generations, which all 3 have hits to pick from! Shiny! Honestly, I'd truly love to vote for Christopher Nolan! Just for you, Dawn. I know you really like Batman! Had to go with John Hughes this time tho. I'm Sorry! I'm an OG Dune fan of David Lynch and the Dark Knight for sure but John Hughes has a few classics that I personally can't deny! I hope this poll leads to premium coolness viewing picks for you most of all Dawn and thus, us fans too! Cheers! :)

Bartleby

Some other iconoclast directors to consider in the future. Martin Scorsese Tim Burton David Cronenberg Wes Anderson Guillermo del Toro

Bartleby
>>107952934

I’m of the mind she should watch the Tim Burton Batman films though before diving into the Nolan ones.

Patrick Armbruster

Guess we're losing two great directors in this poll alone. Can't we just have three movies from each?

Patrick Armbruster
>>107951690

For Nolan, I'd say Memento is so far above the rest of his movies that he's the one of the three I'm most likely not to click on. I gotta go with Lynch here. But really: All three should get their spotlight.

Bartleby
>>107954870

Or at least reserve these directors polls for directors that have never been reacted to on the channel, which Hughes has. John Hughes is normie kibble. So I kind of figured it would skew his way. So we may not get the reactions to Memento, Inception, or Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. But hey, we’ll be getting Weird Science and Sixteen Candles… Yay… 🤷‍♂️

Patrick Armbruster
>>107954870

I just, I'm looking forward to Weird Science, Sixteen Candles _as well as_ Memento, Lost Highway and Inland Empire. It's just: If these directors lose out here, it's probably just gonna be more difficult to get to their movies for quite a while. :)

Casey Fairley

Since I chose John Hughes this time, I'll name my top 3 I like. In no particular order, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles(National Lampoon's Vacation instead if including what he wrote only too) and The Breakfast Club. I know there are other greats! I leave them to my fellow Dawn patrons to name. These picks here are all often very wacky and over the top but extremely fun intended romps all around with almost no holds barred in ridiculous good times in each film! SAVE Ferris would be here too but you've seen it & their re-union too, I hope, Dawn. :)

Elliot Nesterman

A few directors you might consider for future DC polls: David Lean --- Brief Encounter, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia Federico Fellini --- La Dolce Vita, 8½, Amarcord François Truffaut --- The 400 Blows, Fahrenheit 451, Day for Night Akira Kurosawa (you've already got Seven Samurai lined up, I guess) --- Rashomon, Throne of Blood, Ran Fritz Lang --- Metropolis, M, Liliom Ingmar Bergman --- The Seventh Seal, Scenes from a Marriage, Fanny and Alexander

Bill W
>>107955624

John wrote Vacation, but it was directed by Harold Ramis.

Bill W

Hey Dawn, are you including movies that John Hughes WROTE? Because he only directed 8 movies. He wrote stories/scripts for many movies that we have come to identify as HIS, even though they were directed by other people... several of his best, in fact.

Richard Stokes

A couple more thoughts. I think you could go straight into Mulholland Drive by Lynch and see what you make of it and what it makes you feel. Because even if you don't understand it (and few do on first watch if any) it will make you feel something, same with Twin Peaks. The lynchian feeling was once described as a mixture of chilly metaphysics and existential dread which I quite like.

Chris Baldwin
>>107955624

I'm a John Hughes fan also. The three I would like to see are "Uncle Buck"; "Planes; Train's and Automobiles" and "The Great Outdoors". Good family friendly film's. For a quirky watch, there's "Nothing but Trouble". Directed by Dan Aykroyd. Who also plays two character's in it. Thanks.

Chris Baldwin

I know here is probably the wrong place, but for a great 50's film I would recommend the 1953 film "From Here To Eternity", with Burt Lancaster and Frank Sinatra. An Academy Award winner nobody reacts to. Thanks again.

Darrell Palmer

John Hughes wrote more than he directed. If you would like to include films that he wrote I would suggest: "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "Home Alone."

Jimmy Walker

On a side note. If you have not seen "The Longest Day" (1962)you need to watch it on June 6. Either as a reaction or just as a personal watch.

Tim Boxall

On a future one, might I suggest Joe Dante? Some classic lighthearted fare such as Gremlins, Innerspace and one that's brilliant but few reactors have chosen, The 'Burbs - great Bruce Dern & Tom Hanks dark comedy.

Eric Janssen

If you’re studying “distinctive” directors, two to classically to start off with are Alfred Hitchcock (which would be a good excuse to put Rear Window on the 50’s list, even if you may have already seen Psycho and/or The Birds), and Stanley Kubrick. Most reactors who get past the Millennial Fan Trilogy of Kubrick’s The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange eventually wander into 2001 and Dr. Strangelove, but I don’t think we’ve seen a single Barry Lyndon, Paths of Glory or The Killing reaction yet. As someone mentioned, there's also Ingmar Bergman, but his style is a little TOO distinctive, not to mention ponderous and gloomy. And if you've seen it often parodied, as in some of Woody Allen's early comedies, it's hard to un-see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zismSlvl1E

Casey Fairley

Talking future director candidates... John Carpenter has some niche gems. I liked Escape From New York, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A. and Vampires best of all his films. Big Trouble in Little China is my TOP pick from him tho. Snake Plissken's Escape romp's from New York and L.A. are definitely my fav greats at 2nd and 3rd place, for sure! I own all 3 of them gladly! It shocked me you liked the Thing, Dawn! That one tripped me out! :)

Richard Stokes

For directors as you have started with Terry Gilliam, Brazil is amazing, check that out. Secondly writer/director Richard Kelly who created Donni Darko, and The Box. Finally Shane Meadows. A room for Romeo Brass, This is England (plus the set of feature length films broken up for tv that carries on the film), Dead Mans Shoes