# Every movie by a director - now in one sentence **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451 "2010-08-06T21:02:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/1 "2010-08-06T21:02:49Z")
In honor of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=573236) highly entertaining thread - now let’s do directors. John Hughes: A bunch of stereotypes bitch about the fact that everyone only sees them as a bunch of stereotypes. Brian DePalma: Workingman hero gets caught up over his head in a larger crime conspiracy, as seen from above, with a generous helping of Hitchcock. Uwe Boll: Ja, ja. Nur bargeld, zuerst, bitte. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/2 "2010-08-06T21:10:37Z")
Kevin Smith - A bunch of twenty-somethings/thirty-somethings hang out, smoke or buy pot, discuss comic books, use foul language and talk about sex and/or kinky sex. (_Jersey Girl_ is the notable exception to this formula, however.) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/3 "2010-08-06T21:22:33Z")
Milos Forman - We learn that assholes are people too. Before they die. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/4 "2010-08-06T21:53:17Z")
Mel Brooks: Slapstick comedy featuring farting cowboys, brave space heroes and short villains, monsters and mad scientists, legendary robbers and their gang, medieval Jews, ancient Romans, and Dom DeLuise. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/5 "2010-08-06T23:09:29Z")
David Lynch: Life is weird – no, even weirder than that. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/6 "2010-08-06T23:13:28Z")
Alfred Hitchcock – Innocent man is accused of a crime and has to clear his name. Orson Welles – Great men have their flaws. Max Ophuls – watch me move the camera around D.W. Griffith – the heroine is rescued in the nick of time. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/7 "2010-08-06T23:51:51Z")
Michael Mann: No matter how good the bad guys are (and they can be good) the good guys will win in the end. Martin Scorsese: No matter how good the good guys are the bad guys will sometimes win. Riddley Scott: Never use one camera when you can use five. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/8 "2010-08-07T00:00:05Z")
John “Misdirected” Woo: The doves mean…something. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/9 "2010-08-07T00:05:33Z")
M. Night Shyamalan: Please enjoy this movie about something perfectly benign. GOTCHA YA! It’s something else entirely! Ha ha ha ha. Don’t you feel like an idiot? Ha ha ha ha. By the way, I’m the doctor in that one scene. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/10 "2010-08-07T00:17:31Z")
Oh. Sorry. It needed more than one sentence. It’s M. Night … ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/11 "2010-08-07T01:35:54Z")
Ed Wood: Fuck it, good enough, no need to reshoot. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/12 "2010-08-07T02:12:30Z")
Lars von Trier - The second your friends realize their actions aren’t inhibited by legal or social consequences they will betray you - and they might rape you. ---
**Author:** ![Carpane\_Mado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4da419/32.png) [@Carpane\_Mado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carpane_Mado)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/13 "2010-08-07T04:46:00Z")
John Ford - white hats dance politely with the school marm, then kill black hats and/or Indians in a shootout they didn’t start, stare manfully into the distance and/or ride away ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/14 "2010-08-07T07:34:46Z")
Steven Spielberg–Adorable children are pretty much impervious to anything you can throw at them from aliens to dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/15 "2010-08-07T07:47:38Z")
Michael Bay - Idiotic characters BLOW SHIT UP and there are inane attempts at humor interspersed with more EXPLOSIONS! (short version) Michael Bay - BOOM! ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/16 "2010-08-07T08:26:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > David Lynch: Life is weird – no, even weirder than that. … with a slice of cherry pie, please. Gaspar Noé - I’m gonna fuck’n make you fuck’n hate the fact that you are even fuck’n breathing, you fuck’n fuck. Werner Herzog - Don’t worry, Klaus - it is all beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/17 "2010-08-07T13:18:20Z")
Tim Burtn: Creepy tales starting Johnny Depp. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/18 "2010-08-07T13:38:29Z")
Christopher Nolan: Cool professional people have trouble with their objectives because emotions get in the way. > [@Tangent](#): > > Michael Bay - BOOM! Michael Bay presents: [EXPLOSIONS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37UKMlmE8KA) ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/19 "2010-08-07T15:55:35Z")
Akira Kurosawa - Shakespearean samurai. Ingmar Bergman - Life is allegory. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451/20 "2010-08-09T01:49:48Z")
Guy Ritchie - “Hard men” are so cool, _swoon_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-movie-by-a-director-now-in-one-sentence/549451.md?page=2)