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Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

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Vote for whatever reason. Do you like the filmmaker the adjective is referring to? Do you feel like any of these adjectives are overused? Let the votes and discussion begin!

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Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

How is Spielbergian eponymous?  He's still alive, and he's still making movies!

It's hard to vote for one of these adjectives because as "esque" as a film might be, they are always pale comparisons to the actual director's/filmmaker's works, for which the "esque" is named.

Plus, I personally like so many of those directors/people/filmmakers, it's hard to pick just one.  But I think anything being Pythonesque is going to be a good try, and even though five out of six Pythons are still alive, they can never be Monty Python again without Graham Chapman, and the surviving members seem to thrill to homages to them, and anything warranting the adjective is going to be madcap and funny, or there's a good chance of this, so I'll go with that adjective.  What an interesting question.

Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

pippin06:

How is Spielbergian eponymous?  He's still alive, and he's still making movies!

I don't see how him being alive and making movies still is a disqualification from the descriptor "eponymous".  Are you thinking of another word?  Maybe "posthumous"?  That doesn't really make sense either, but I'm not sure what you are getting at.

Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

Without looking it up, I think it means "named after" or to do with "name."

I chose Hitchcockian because I find some of his movie too self-conscious, too mannered, and some of the derivative movies actually avoid those flaws (although they may have others).

I'd choose Python if I had a second vote because we sorely need more comedies that are worth watching.

Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

I always find it hilarious when something is described as Lynchian because that usually means the film is utterly horrible and nonsensical in a bad way or a blatant rip off of some aspect of one of Lynch's films.

I can't think of a single film that I would call Lynchian and be using it in a positive way. There might be one . . . I need to think about it.

Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

Risselada:

I don't see how him being alive and making movies still is a disqualification from the descriptor "eponymous".  Are you thinking of another word?  Maybe "posthumous"?  That doesn't really make sense either, but I'm not sure what you are getting at.

Oh, sheesh.  Never mind me.  I don't know what I was thinking.  I had a brain short circuit and didn't register the word properly or something.  I think it comes from having had very little sleep these past few days.  I know what eponymous means.  At least I had enough wits about me to get the gist of the conversation.  Sorry, Rizzo (and all).

Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

mercurial:

I always find it hilarious when something is described as Lynchian because that usually means the film is utterly horrible and nonsensical in a bad way or a blatant rip off of some aspect of one of Lynch's films.

I can't think of a single film that I would call Lynchian and be using it in a positive way. There might be one . . . I need to think about it.

Someone at Urban Dictionary described Lynchian as something having a balance between the macabre and the mundane.  What say you to that?  It might be interested to describe what are the characteristics of these filmmakers' work that are so identifiable that they have commonly used adjectives named after them?

Kubrick is my favorite of the bunch and it's even hard for me to say exactly what it is about him.  A certain perfectionism in framing and composition.  A certain intensity.  Usually some kind of battle of ideals or a person against a system.  And an interest in faces too I'd say.  A feeling of being epic while still being very focused.

Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

pippin06:

Risselada:

I don't see how him being alive and making movies still is a disqualification from the descriptor "eponymous".  Are you thinking of another word?  Maybe "posthumous"?  That doesn't really make sense either, but I'm not sure what you are getting at.

Oh, sheesh.  Never mind me.  I don't know what I was thinking.  I had a brain short circuit and didn't register the word properly or something.  I think it comes from having had very little sleep these past few days.  I know what eponymous means.  At least I had enough wits about me to get the gist of the conversation.  Sorry, Rizzo (and all).

I figured you just had a little mind lapse.  I'm just picking on you.  ;)

Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

Kubrick has such an interesting range of work (from Dr. Strangelove to Clockwork Orange to Spartacus) that I'd be most intrigued by a film that dares to encompass any or all of the qualities that make a work Kubrickian.

Re:Which of these commonly used eponymous filmmaker adjectives describing a film would most make you interested in seeing it?

I have to admit that Pythonesque would most likely get me into a theatre.  I think that comedies rarely disappoint, whereas I feel dramas/adventure/action/etc. flicks are much more hit or miss!