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Post by jakesully on Feb 22, 2021 22:03:53 GMT
Only realistic answers please lol.
I'll start...
David Fincher was set to direct Lords of Dogtown but dropped out. He did stay on as a producer but damn, that would have so cool! Heath Ledger in a freaking Fincher film?! God damn it.
And no disrespect to Catherine Hardwicke but Fincher would have done their story more justice imo. These dudes lived a hard life and I don't think a PG 13 rating gives it justice.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 22, 2021 22:47:19 GMT
Everything that Charlie Kaufman has both written and directed.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 22, 2021 22:55:00 GMT
Good thread idea.... War Dogs - There's a lot of ideas and great stuff here - but Todd Phillips doesn't quite have a handle on what is sad, what is pathetic, what is funny and how those things are constantly overlapping. It's an ok movie.......give this story to Bennett Miller you'd have an American masterpiece or close to it I reckon.
Paterno (on HBO) - Barry Levinson did a fine job and he always gets very good/great performances from Pacino (like this, The Humbling, You Don't Know Jack) but he did a very specific job. Brian De Palma was supposed to do this before falling out with HBO and he likely would have made it weirder, wider, wilder with a lot more on its mind than the specific story told in the existing movie. A third Pacino-De Palma team-up appealed to me far more than a 3rd Pacino-Levinson one did.....  |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Feb 22, 2021 23:02:11 GMT
I love what Michael Bay did with Pain & Gain, and it's his all-time best work but I would've just loved to see Mann's take on it. That heist and especially that escape would've been some wizardy-level stuff.
And yeah... I'd like lots of directors on The Great Gatsby.
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Post by futuretrunks on Feb 23, 2021 0:15:55 GMT
American Gangster. Scorsese.
Gatsby. Sofia Coppola/Joe Wright
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Post by dadsburgers on Feb 23, 2021 0:26:41 GMT
After Cats, I think it's clear a different director would have avoided the couple key flaws that held Les Miserables back from being great. I'm not sure who that director would be though.
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Post by isabelaolive on Feb 23, 2021 0:32:23 GMT
The Lovely Bones - Lynne Ramsay
Side Effects - David Fincher
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Post by franklin on Feb 23, 2021 0:44:11 GMT
The Great Gatsby: Scorsese
The Revenant: Villeneuve
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Post by stephen on Feb 23, 2021 0:45:27 GMT
Every Tom Hooper movie.
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 23, 2021 8:38:00 GMT
I really liked Joker, but I think it would have been an unforgettable movie if the Safdies had directed it.
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Post by Miles Morales on Feb 23, 2021 9:16:35 GMT
I really enjoyed The Trial of the Chicago 7, but I think someone like Steven Spielberg or hell, even Spike Lee would've made it pack a deeper punch.
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 23, 2021 13:30:41 GMT
I'd love it if Joker had been directed by Scorsese!! Ok, I'd love it if almost every movie had been directed by Marty  but he was involved in this one somehow, plus it gave me feeling it could have been his cup of tea. |
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Post by stephen on Feb 23, 2021 13:37:42 GMT
I'd love it if Joker had been directed by Scorsese!! Ok, I'd love it if almost every movie had been directed by Marty but he was involved in this one somehow, plus it gave me feeling it could have been his cup of tea. Honestly, I don't really think there's anything that he would've done differently than what Phillips did. |
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Post by bob-coppola on Feb 23, 2021 14:13:10 GMT
The Great Gatsby by Scorsese is a great call! Other films I quite liked but think would've been elevated by better/more fit directors:
- I Heart Huckabees: Wes Anderson or Noah Baumbach would knock it out of the park
- The White Tiger by Fernando Meirelles
- Jungleland by James Gray
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 23, 2021 15:21:29 GMT
I'd love it if Joker had been directed by Scorsese!! Ok, I'd love it if almost every movie had been directed by Marty but he was involved in this one somehow, plus it gave me feeling it could have been his cup of tea. Honestly, I don't really think there's anything that he would've done differently than what Phillips did. I guess he could have made it a bit sharper like most of his films and added a thing or two of his usual stuff: For example a voiceover or some flashback scenes would have added in Arthur's background story. |
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Post by cinemagirl16 on Feb 24, 2021 10:27:14 GMT
Would've loved to see Guillermo del Toro's take on The Hobbit. I was pretty disappointed when he left the project.
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Post by jakesully on Feb 24, 2021 15:14:14 GMT
BUMP
After giving Only God Forgives for the millionth time, I really think Refn would have been an awesome choice to direct The Outsider (film on Netflix starring Jared Leto). IMO he would have done it more justice & made it more gritty/dark.
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Post by jakesully on Feb 24, 2021 15:25:49 GMT
I appreciate all the feedback/ discussion so far folks! (keep it up) Another pick would be Darren Aronofsky directing The Wolverine.  He was set to direct it and his script was really the one I preferred . Its just too bad he was going thru some personal issues during the time with his divorce to Rachel Weisz and he didn't want to be away from his kids for so long. |
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Post by thelistenercanon on Feb 24, 2021 17:31:10 GMT
Not necessarily a director in mind, but I would love to see a Howard the Duck by Pixar or in an MCU movie. The movie we got from the 80s...yeah. Less said about it, the better. I’ve always said it would’ve been better animated.
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Post by dadsburgers on Feb 24, 2021 19:05:50 GMT
I personally loved The Hate U Give, but I would have loved to have seen Ava DuVernay raise it to another level.
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but he was involved in this one somehow, plus it gave me feeling it could have been his cup of tea.
