You guys are naming a lot of the directors I would, but you're forgetting some great movies by those directors. Scorsese, for example, directed Casino which I consider to be better than Goodfellas in many aspects. Aviator and Gangs of NY weren't even that good...good directing I suppose, but not the greatest movies. Michael Mann wrote and directed Heat, which I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) was the only time Pacino and De Niro have been together in stage, and was considerably better than Collateral and Insider. Kubrick directed Full Metal Jacket, which to this day blows Vietnam movies out of the water. Spielberg is bittersweet--he certainly did hurt the scene with the invention of the blockbuster, but he still has some classics and to-be classics (Saving Private Ryan was undeniably good, although I suspect he put his name on that and Band of Brothers to prove his "versatility"--yeah right). Oh, and I absolutely hate Tarantino (especially as an actor, but that's not the issue). Reservoir Dogs was cheesy and predictable, Kill Bills sucked big time, heck, I have to say he just got lucky with Pulp Fiction. Rodriguez has some decent stuff, and I especially love his commentaries and "film school" shorts on his dvd's, but if I see another guitar case with a gun in it I'm going to kill somebody. Tim Burton I'm not a big fan of--the only movie of his I've enjoyed is Big Fish--and only because it was a breath of fresh air.