Okay, I'm taking this from the interwebs and the kids.

"Stan" means to be a huge fan of to the point of obsession. It's taken from the Eminem song, Stan. Duh.

So, I'm going to name a film director and then you will fill out this form about him/her:

If I stan: (yes or no)
My favorite work:
Their most overrated film:
Their most underrated film:

If this catches on, we can do more than just film directors.

So let's start with:

MARTIN SCORSESE

If I stan: not really
My favorite work: Taxi Driver
Their most overrated film: Raging Bull
Their most underrated film: The Age Of Innocence

Your turn!

fine, I'll do it myself:

Werner Herzog:

If I stan: hell yes
My favorite work: Aquirre the Wrath of God
His most overrated work: Grizzly Man
His most underrated work: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Okay, but this Stan stuff is a bit too much. Nevertheless,

Hitchcock

If I Stan: need you ask.

My Favorite: Strangers on a Train

Most Overrated: Vertigo

Most Underrated: The Birds

Explanation: How could the greatest film of all time be overrated? Simply because it's been voted the greatest of all time.

Werner Herzog??!! Is that his real name? Never heard of him or his silly movies. I hope he is dead.

There is only on Stan: Stan 'The Man' Musial.

Hitchcock

Favorite: Psycho

Most overrated: Psycho

Most underrated: Psycho

Explanation: you can't kill off a main character in the first half of a movie. But he made it work. But also, if you do, stabbing the ***** while showering is cheap and tawdry and so exciting that it will make you scream.

I completely agree with John about the silly STAN thing.

stop being olds and shaking your fist at clouds

you can do Scorsese or Herzog, too

I'm growing older by the minute.

Not sure i'm playing correctly … as for the stan talk and the kids and whatnot: you're only as young as (those) you feel.

MARTIN SCORSESE

If I stan: not really
My favorite work: Goodfellas
Their most overrated film: Mean Streets
Their most underrated film: Cape Fear

HITCHCOCK

If I Stan: certainly
My Favorite: Psycho
Most Overrated: The Birds
Most Underrated: Shadow of a Doubt

COEN BROS

If I Stan: yeah
My Favorite: NCFOM
Most Overrated: A Serious Man
Most Underrated: True Grit

I've also pissed in the ocean; it feels good. That's what happens when you get old.

Mac's doing it right

He was in that Tom Cruise movie where the Great Santini plays a sniper. He also wrote Portnoy's Complaint.

Pretty sure he wrote Goodbye, Columbus, not Portnoy’s Complaint.

John Houston

If I stab: duh
My favorite: The Man Who Would Be King
Overrated: The Treasure of the Madre
Underrated: Fat City

MARTIN SCORSESE

If I stan: yup
My favorite work: Casino
Their most overrated film: Taxi Driver
Their most underrated film: Silence

HITCHCOCK

If I Stan: yup
My Favorite: The Trouble with Harry
Most Overrated: Psycho (Really? Anthony ****ing Perkins?)
Most Underrated: The Trouble With Harry. Most of Hithcock's stuff is adored, My ex- actually like The Birds.

COEN BROS

If I Stan: Yup
My Favorite: Lebowski
Most Overrated: No Country for Old Men. They had a good idea, they just couldn't figure out an ending.
Most Underrated: Burn After Reading. Hilarious.

WONG KAR-WAI

If I Stan: Jesus ****ing Christ, pay attention.
My Favorite: Chungking Express/Fallen Angels. I'm allowed to pick two since they were originally meant to be combined into one movie. A love letter to a lost generation.
Most Overrated: In The Mood for Love. Chines version of Dumb and Dumber. Complete waste of God's Own Eye Candy: Maggie Cheung.
Most Underrated: As Tears Go By. Not sure it's underrated, but I don't know many people who watch it.

Had to pop in and WTF these. Just.....no.

QT

If I Stan: Absolutely
My Favorite: Pulp Fiction
Most Overrated: Django Unchained. Not bad, just my least favorite.
Most Underrated: Jackie Brown

Tbh, I don't see Taxi Driver as overrated so much as misunderstood. Once you see it as Travis Bickle's mishandling of his white male privilege, the whole movie just pops.

I think it would be fun if they made a sequel where Travis Bickle (assuming he lives) capitalized on his heroics and became...let's say...President.

isn't that where we are now with Trump?

John Carpenter

STAN: Slap me sideways, of course not (See John Cole’s comment above)

Favorite: Big Trouble in Little China (and his best)

Most Underrated: Escape from New York*

Most overrated: Starman

*Even though there is no escape from New York; I’ve been there and know this is true.


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Coen Bros:

Exactly what Phat said, except I don't STAN. Millennial Silliness should be Stomped On.


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And I will not apologize if I'm doing this "wrong". Old man yells at cloud.

really can't blame them if you dislike any plot points as they basically just copy and pasted from cormac's book.

it's gotta be the most faithful adaptation of a novel ever made.
it's also an absolutely perfect film imo.

WOODY ALLEN

If I stan: Yep
My favorite work: Annie Hall
Their most overrated film: Blue Jasmine
Their most underrated film: Midnight in Paris

OK. First step for me is to re-read the book. I remember thinking that they had changed everything. I've got a dozen books ahead of it, but will report back when I'm finished re-reading it.

it's a fantastic book and they hardly changed anything.

some minor stuff off the top of my head (haven't great it in a few years)



other than those two things I can't think of anything they really changed and it's pretty crazy just how faithful the adaptation is.