Danny Boyle

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Sunshine (2007)
28 Days Later... (2002)
The Beach (2000)
Trainspotting (1996)

8/10/2010 10:45:27 PM

too bad his next film is about that climber who got his arm stuck under a boulder then had to chop it off

that should be a fun 2 hours

8/10/2010 10:47:02 PM

how in the hell is he underappreciated????

8/10/2010 10:47:31 PM

i can't see how someone could be considered under-appreciated after winning an oscar.

8/10/2010 10:48:44 PM

his name is not well known to the average movie goer,
just ask someone if they know who danny boyle is

8/10/2010 10:49:47 PM

stop making threads

8/10/2010 11:25:07 PM

sunshine was not good

slumdog was nowhere near as good as the hype; but was decent

loved 28 days later

the beach was meh; id say bad

not seen trainspotting.

1.5/4

8/10/2010 11:27:39 PM

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"not seen trainspotting."

must add to netflix queue.

btw I like sunshine.

8/10/2010 11:31:59 PM

i enjoyed sunshine. the crazy captain from the 1st mission was a little odd, but i thought he added a nice element of suspense to the movie.

8/10/2010 11:35:19 PM

i liked sunshine for the first half of the movie

but i thought it fell apart in a very bad way towards the end

8/10/2010 11:36:40 PM

sunshine is great, slumdog is exploitative trash.

8/10/2010 11:46:23 PM

yeah, sunshine is the bomb

8/10/2010 11:55:38 PM

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"i liked sunshine for the first half of the movie but i thought it fell apart in a very bad way towards the end"

8/11/2010 12:57:15 AM

i found sunshine interminable. i think i fell asleep once or twice, then gave up on it.

8/11/2010 2:10:55 AM

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"not seen trainspotting."

AFAIK it's like this...
"choose a car, choose a job, choose choose choose whine whine about choosing"
lots of drugs and a "lust for life"
redemption at the end, decision to "choose life" while a hard-pounding dance track about "chemicals boy" and "steel boy" plays

[Edited on August 11, 2010 at 2:49 AM. Reason : overrated imo

8/11/2010 2:49:25 AM

maybe the first worthwhile lafta post of all time

except he forgot to point out that kelly mcdonald is hot

8/11/2010 2:57:01 AM

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"his name is not well known to the average movie goer, just ask someone if they know who danny boyle is"

ehh, How many directors does the "average movie goer" actually know by name?

And is being "known"/identifiable really the same as being appreciated? -- I know a lot of people who know Woody Allen is a "famous director" but have seen MAYBE a few of his films at most.

I think the thread title you intended was something like: "Good directors who do not have household names" OR "directors who deserve more fame"


I'd agree that Danny Boyle is not a "famous" director. But he is by no means under-appreciated.

[Edited on August 11, 2010 at 5:10 AM. Reason : .]

8/11/2010 5:09:09 AM

i totally expected lafta to drop m. night shyamalan in this thread.

8/11/2010 7:26:27 AM

haha

m night is much like Sunshine. Early on there is some awesome stuff; then towards the end you're like what the fuck is this shit i'm watching and why am I watching it?

8/11/2010 9:13:40 AM

I like M. Night Shyamalan

his pictures aren't perfect

but I think the extent of the hate he receives is a little bit of herd mentality in action

8/11/2010 11:00:43 AM

subshine is the definition of "meh". Although the overabuse of annoying noise and blurred visuals makes it trend downward later in the movie.

8/11/2010 11:03:00 AM

It's almost like lafta just started watching movies like a year ago, totally ignorant to their existence prior to said time.

8/11/2010 11:04:16 AM

and how do you figure that?

8/11/2010 11:17:45 AM

getting back to the thread topic: Michael Bay

8/11/2010 11:21:17 AM

Because a thread about Danny Boyle being under appreciated might have been relevant in 1995, before Trainspotting was released, or maybe even in 2007 before Slumdog came out but now it just makes you look like a rube.

8/11/2010 11:26:30 AM

^^
lol

8/11/2010 11:38:47 AM

^^wrong fool, i said underappreciated but im saying he's not a household name which is true,
considering he's made a number of good movies, his movies should be marketable by saying "directed by danny boyle"
but thats not the case

so yeah he won an oscar but so do many people who are forgotten the instant they walk off the stage

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8/11/2010 11:48:59 AM

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"he's not a household name which is true"

there are maybe 3 directors that are household names, but everybody that actually knows anything about movies knows who Danny Boyle is and has for years which is why this thread is retarded.

8/11/2010 11:53:59 AM

LAFTA, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

8/11/2010 1:06:32 PM

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"there are maybe 3 directors that are household names, but everybody that actually knows anything about movies knows who Danny Boyle is and has for years which is why this thread is retarded."

this

8/11/2010 1:09:19 PM

Yeah most people only know Favreau, Bay and McG, then the rest all kind of blend together

8/11/2010 1:26:21 PM

I'm gonna add a serious submission:
Rian Johnson, who directed Brick and The Brothers Bloom and has a hard sci-fi film coming out in 2011 called Looper.

[Edited on August 11, 2010 at 1:35 PM. Reason : .]

8/11/2010 1:32:09 PM

^^hahhaa

8/11/2010 2:13:34 PM

the brothers bloom is fun but way too long

brick is pretty perfect, though

also, the interesting thing brought up in this thread is which directors are household names

spielberg, scorsese, cameron, tarantino, coppola, stone, howard, lucas?

i'm not sure whether to count someone like eastwood because he's a celebrity apart from being a director

8/11/2010 2:15:08 PM

^ i would lean toward including Eastwood. He's had quite a few big movies since he was only known as an actor. And I think A LOT of people are aware of the fact the directed said movies. If not, then I'd say he definitely falls into lafta's group of people who should be better known as directors.


^^^ i'd disagree if we're going with lafta's original intention of directors that should have more marketable names.

A LOT of people have seen Danny Boyle's movies and liked them. They just don't realize they're Danny Boyle's movies.

"From the director of 'Slumdog Millionaire', 'Trainspotting', 'The Beach', and '28 Days Later'" -- is going to get people's attention. Slumdog alone will. People realizing the same guy was behind all of those could entice them to see a movie marketed that way.


the average movie goer simply hasn't seen Brick or The Brothers Bloom. I saw both when they came out and enjoyed both quite a bit. But most people just don't know of them to appreciate, over appreciate, or under appreciate them/the director. So, Rian Johnson is by no means a marketable name imo. Not among the general populace anyhow.

"From the director of 'Brick' and 'The Brothers Bloom'" is going to get a "uhh, never saw 'em" from the average person.

[Edited on August 11, 2010 at 2:22 PM. Reason : ^]

8/11/2010 2:18:01 PM

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"i'd disagree if we're going with lafta's original intention of directors that should have more marketable names."

That was in no way lafta's original intention, he just pulled that out of his ass when people universally agreed that Danny Boyle wasn't under appreciated.

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"but most people just don't know of them to appreciate, over appreciate, or under appreciate them/the director."

this makes very little sense...so only movies that everyone has heard of/seen can be under appreciated?

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"Rian Johnson is by no means a marketable name imo. Not among the general populace anyhow."

nobody claimed he was

8/11/2010 2:27:46 PM

8/11/2010 2:31:47 PM

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"That was in no way lafta's original intention, he just pulled that out of his ass when people universally agreed that Danny Boyle wasn't under appreciated."

perhaps. But who's to really say? except for lafta, and you're just going to say he's making it up on the spot if he does say that's what he meant. So maybe we should decide for ourselves.

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"this makes very little sense...so only movies that everyone has heard of/seen can be under appreciated?"

It makes perfect sense in the context i had. I prefaced the entire post with a statement that should have put it in the context of what I believed to be lafta's original intent.

You're right that how well known it is has nothing to do with whether or not it's appreciated to any degree by those who have seen it. But I'd still disagree and say that both of those movies are very appreciated by those who have seen them, especially Brick. And in turn, he's appreciated for directing them.

i was pointing out that someone has to know that something exists and has to have experienced it in order to appreciate it to any degree. In the context to which I was speaking, and with that in mind, Rian Johnson is not under, over, or simply appreciated by the average movie goer. His work is just unknown to most people.


Again, the preface to that entire response

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"i'd disagree if we're going with lafta's original intention of directors that should have more marketable names."

Regardless of whether or not that's what he really intended, that the perspective I was coming from.

[Edited on August 11, 2010 at 3:19 PM. Reason : .]

8/11/2010 2:53:29 PM

why are we attempting to kowtow to the average friday night michael bay moviegoer

fuck those people

rian johnson rules and if you haven't seen brick i'd probably hate you anyway

8/11/2010 3:52:07 PM

fuck a michael bay hater

8/11/2010 3:56:33 PM

first off my intention for this thread was not whether or not movie buffs know who Danny Boyle is, thats ridiculous,
as i have stated repeatedly, i meant appreciation from the general movie going public

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"also, the interesting thing brought up in this thread is which directors are household names spielberg, scorsese, cameron, tarantino, coppola, stone, howard, lucas?"

i think there are a few more directors to add to this list:
M. Knight, Mel Gibson, & Christopher Nolan may have just entered that list

8/11/2010 4:29:49 PM

Side note...I always thought danny boyle looked like morrissey in a strange way



[Edited on August 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM. Reason : .]

8/11/2010 4:43:28 PM

[Edited on August 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM. Reason : PAY]

8/11/2010 4:56:05 PM