If not Ridley Scott...

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Shane pretty much beat me to my opinion.....if Ridley Scott was not the director, I wouldn't think twice about Prometheus. And also we don't know all the details of the story and that is what I'd want to know more about in thinking of which director.

If qt directed the vehicle would be the p*$$y wagon 2.

Alfonso Cuaron. Children of Men had me in awe, Prisoner of Azkaban made all the other Potter movies look like hack work, Y Tu Mama Tambien is a great road journey. That guy will be one of the greats if he keeps this streak up for a couple more films.

Peter Weir

Here are a few directors off the top of my head that might've pulled off PROMETHEUS or an “ALIEN universe” film. As long as a few of them could “keep it in their pants”…and you know the ones I mean... In no particular order: David Cronenberg Darren Aronofsky David Fincher Roman Polanski Alan Parker Michael Mann Peter Weir

wow [b]FREEZE HIM[/b] wins this HANDS DOWN... JESUS H YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WAS THE BEST DAMN SUGGESTION I HAVE EVER READ ON THESE BOARDS OTHER THAN SHUT UP SPARTACUS!!! SERIOUSLY THOUGH... [quote]darren aronofsky, I'd like to see his ideas come to the alien verse.[/quote] This guy is one of the most brilliant directos IMO, already, to EVER LIVE. Ya ever see the film...[b]"Requiem For A Dream"[/b]...?...it's a frikking [b]Masterpiece[/b]. 'Nough said!!! Except for see the directors cut !!! [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1Dream.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1dream2.jpg[/img]

A lot of the names in this thread are "great directors", but have barely touched scifi beyond David Chronenberg and Aronofsky. I am sorry, but most of the guys in this entire thread who haven't touched scifi have done it for a reason. I doubt that most of them would want to do it, and in some cases could do it. They are genre film directors for a reason. I was going to toss in David Lynch earlier but concluded not too, but with a few of the names being mentioned in this thread he would do a way better job on pure sci-fi. Or like Alex Proyas. Just because you make great movies doesn't mean you will make a good scifi flick. In fact, I think someone like scorsese or, you know tarantino, would be totally lost directing scifi. And I like both of them....

Kubrick is the litmus test for intelligence....sorry Shane, but you failed it! Duncan Jones isn't bad. Maybe Danny Boyle?

Jodorosky > Kubrick. Sorry, I just see it that way. I would add that Herzog, Fellini, Ozu, and a ton more are all as intelligent if not more and I love them all. Kubrick is overrated. I love 2001, but find the rest bores me to tears. Not my style of filmmaking. It's not what I would ever want to watch or do. I like very abstract films. In my mind, even Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci rank higher. And they make splatter b films.

Just for curiosity's sake, I say Terry Gilliam. He is very underrated as a director.

You cannot say "Kubrick is over rated" and expect to be taken seriously in the world of film making! Can you name his first film? I have been trying to obtain a copy of it for 5 1/2 years now. I think he made about 4 Masterpieces before both of us were born at least. and I am almost 50. Have you ever made a film? If so can I see it? Do you know how amazing a man he was? Do you know what he did for each of his films. Do you reckognize the pure GENIUS of just about every single moment of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey is? Do you know why most other people think so highly of this dead guy? How Old are you Shane? The reason I ask is it could be that if you are much much younger than I am it would make sense to me because you would not know how wonderful this man was and how much this word lost on the day that man died. I am not beating up on you Shane and I respect you for having the Big Ones to step up and stand by your opinion...I respect it a lot, but IMO you could not be more wrong or further from the truth, Stanley Kubrik wasn't just an incredible Director...he had many many talents but the biggest was his gentle quiet HUMANITY...and it came shinning through in every film he made..in fact there is ONLY one man who is in his company IMO as far as Directing Motion Pictures go and he is also dead...and that was the incomparable Sergio Leone. Edit: @TheNostradamus Love that Patch got a Sticky Copy of it in "The Vault" !

Thanks Spartacus! He was the first to come to my mind. I adore his delivery in film, I think he'd scare the hell out of us with an Alien story.

Werner Herzog.... I can hear it now... "Here in ze bleakness of space...ve have ze penguin in ze cave as it is attacked by ze giant xenomorph"

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Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, Fellini, Welles, - easily on Kubrick's level and beyond. The internet seems to be host to a lot of Kubrick nuthuggers. They think citing him puts them on some sort of higher artisitc or intellectual ground. They start foaming at the mouth if you suggest he's anything less than the best thing to ever happen to filmmaking.

I'm 34. I gave up on film for music. I don't look down on a soul for liking anything. I just don't get the same value out of it others do. Most people would look at what movies I love and roll their eyes. I love bullshit abstract films. I call them bullshit because I know that partly they are incoherent crap that focus more on imagery then on storytelling. I love Shinya Tsukamoto, Jodorowsky, I love shitty Italian horror flicks and cheese ball 1970's scifi. Lately all I have watched is Italian Star Wars ripoffs and like, just the most god awful Asia garbage cinema. I do love good scifi though, which is why 2001 is on my list. I think that is a masterpiece but I couldn't get into much of the rest. I loved Clockwork Orange as a teenager and as an adult I can't stand it and greatly prefer the book. But film is a love that I use to inspire other things I love. Most of my time is spent playing music while movies play. My true loves are music and comic books. Mostly really fucking weird '70's sci fi comics and like, music of all genres and ages. Music is my first love, comic my second. Movies were always a third and I was kinda pressured by my family to go into film. My high school job was as an usher at the art theatre in Kingston Ontario [If you know Kingston at all it was the Princess Court Cinema], my family all felt I should be involved in film or music, but felt film was a better choice. Hilarious as I now make my living off music and music related activities. The only Ridley Scott films I like are Alien and Blade Runner as another example. I haven't bothered to watch his more famous ones because they just don't interest me. Now when I watch film I watch things to influence the other art I do, or for silly entertainment. Gladiator seems like neither to me. It's just not my dig ya know? We do have one thing in common, I fucking LOVE Sergio Leone. I love his films, I love love love Morricone. I love Italian soundtracks in general, and it is part of the reason I love so much shlock Italian cinema...the soundtracks. Goblin, Fabio Frizzi, all that shit. Terry Gilliam....Wow, I bought brazil last week really drunk and forgot [they had it on the shelf of 3 for 10 dvds with 2 dvd THX1138 and, funny enough, the 2 dvd 2001]. Maybe I will put that on.

Leone films may not be as intellectually rigorous as the films of some other directors mentioned here, but no one was better at pure visual storytelling, imo. And don't get me wrong, I think Clockwork Orange is bloody brilliant, and the imagery in the Shining is indelible.

As Peter Griffin would say, I do not much care for Kubrick - I just don't get him, I wish I could. And Coppola is overrated. Furthermore, I will defend Cameron till the cows come home to roost. You can count all his films on two hands and yet he must have made like 3bn at the box ofice and then some. Anyways, I would be interested to see what Cronenberg would come up with - I think his remake of The Fly was absolutely unblemished. He would ensure character and story took precedent over explosions and yet wouldn't shy away from stark horror and gore. Finally, people who should not be allowed near a film set are the brothers Strauss and Nimrod Antal (and for that matter, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino).

As Peter Griffin would say, I do not much care for Kubrick - I just don't get him, I wish I could. And Coppola is overrated. Furthermore, I will defend Cameron till the cows come home to roost. You can count all his films on two hands and yet he must have made like 3bn at the box ofice and then some. Anyways, I would be interested to see what Cronenberg would come up with - I think his remake of The Fly was absolutely unblemished. He would ensure character and story took precedent over explosions and yet wouldn't shy away from stark horror and gore. Finally, people who should not be allowed near a film set are the brothers Strauss and Nimrod Antal (and for that matter, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino).

Count me as a Kubrick fan. I think he was a genius. We had this thread before. I think I said [u]AlexProyas[/u]. No doubt he could do it very well, and bring the heat given the chance. Every shot of Dark City is so well thought.--beautiful film. I, Robot was Will Smithed, so nobody really stood a chance of doing that right once he became involved. Lots of people rag on Knowing, but I maintain that it is one of the more thought provoking science fiction films in recent memory. The incredible discussion on the Ebert blog was as good as it gets (look it up). And hate Nic Cage if you want, but those disaster sequences were sweet. Add in the good sense to get Beltrami on the score, and it would be a very nice film. Proyas just has the weird distinction of choosing projects with actors that consume the filmmaking. Get Proyas with some solid actors and he can do well, I think. [u]Nolan[/u], of course. Think that would be a home run. Thought provoking filmmaker. I'd like to see what he can do in the genres. [u]Blomkamp[/u][u][/u]

Count me as a Kubrick fan. I think he was a genius. We had this thread before. I think I said [u]AlexProyas[/u]. No doubt he could do it very well, and bring the heat given the chance. Every shot of Dark City is so well thought.--beautiful film. I, Robot was Will Smithed, so nobody really stood a chance of doing that right once he became involved. Lots of people rag on Knowing, but I maintain that it is one of the more thought provoking science fiction films in recent memory. The incredible discussion on the Ebert blog was as good as it gets (look it up). And hate Nic Cage if you want, but those disaster sequences were sweet. Add in the good sense to get Beltrami on the score, and it would be a very nice film. Proyas just has the weird distinction of choosing projects with actors that consume the filmmaking. Get Proyas with some solid actors and he can do well, I think. [u]Nolan[/u], of course. Think that would be a home run. Thought provoking filmmaker. I'd like to see what he can do in the genres. [u]Blomkamp[/u][u][/u]

Nolan is a really interesting choice, think he is linked with the next Super Man film too, don't think anyone said George Lucas, thank god lol

Cronenberg is on the same level as Carpenter....they are incapable of truly masterful work, let alone originality. Very high school in their sensibilities, combined with awkward, disjointed narratives and equally substandard cinematography.

Cohen brothers at their best may be an interesting choice. Aronofsky's a bit hit and miss for my taste but i loved the fountain . Sam peckinpah did some great films for his day. From today's bunch i think Neil Blomkamp, or Tarsem Singh, the cell, and the fall, were great.. imagine him with a decent budget . Tony scott on form i'm thinking man on fire, de ja vue, true romance.

I would still rather watch a Carpenter or Cronenberg movie any day of the week then a Kubrick film. Guess I am weird. Though in carpenters case it is the soundtracks. Love those.

Nice choices, but i still say David Fincher or Neill Blomkamp. I'd actually would like to see what Blomkamp would do with a sequel to Prometheus.

I love the short District 9 was based on. I still didn't like District 9. It started out good but started too feel to much like the early works of peter jackson. Just empty and pointless violence and it lost the interesting ideas the beginning had for explosions and cheap cg. I wonder how much of that was Jackson tweaking the script more to his liking. I hate Peter Jackson movies as well. Just empty bullshit. And no, I haven't seen LotR. I never will. I greatly dislike fantasy. Fuck dragons, hobbits and all that stuff.

@ Shane Believe it or not I somewhat agree with your view on LotR. I have seen the movies and think they're excellent. But they're just not my type of movies...they bored me. I can't say this about all fantasy though..I do like Game of Thrones. I think you may be right about Jackson tweaking the script of District 9. Still i found even the action shots to be great. For me it still felt like it was an organic part of the movie. But I do see what you're saying. I'm not suggesting Jackson touch the Alien franchise.

At my roommates urging I sat through 2 episodes of Game of Thrones. I hated every moment of it. The ceiling became less irritating to watch after 30 minutes. Just me, I can see what people like in it. It just isn't...weird or fantastic enough for me. Or something. Most fantasy just lacks something unless it is complete D&D crap. Like Krull. But I never liked George RR Martin's writing or editing [I spent a lot of time as a kid trying to get into "Wild Cards" cause I loved superheroes. Failed Miserably].