Is there any director that can claim to have achieved as much Denis Villenueve in this decade?

Is there any director that can claim to have achieved as much Denis Villenueve in this decade?

In terms of success or output?

In terms of success. But both apply. Its the output of successful films that stands out

Was Enemy good? I haven't watched it yet

in terms of success, Christopher Nolan
TDK
Inception
TDKR
Interstellar
Dunkirk

Denis' movies are better though

sweetie I...

his best in my opinion, maybe tied with Prisoners
It's cerebral and laced with imagery, if you want a movie that makes you think it can scratch that itch

A decade is a period of 10 years, so we're talking about the 2010's. We're also gauging success in more in terms of critical than commercial

Oh lord.... please don't start

My God, how many people don't know what a fucking decade is?

>a period of 10 years
>2018
>I started in 2008
Your thread deserves to die just for that shitty response, good day

based good day poster

excuse mr. dense but moon is from 2009, literally end yourself

I said THIS decade man. I didn't mean a decade from today. Theres 2 years left but I still still think Denis clinches it

>2009
>In the 2010s
u good?

I said good day sir!

wow one year, what the fuck is wrong with you

2008-2018=decade
2010-2019=2010s

debate

Oh my fucking god, a decade, in a cultural since isn't just a period of ten years, its 80's, 90's, 2000's, 2010's etc. But it doesn't really fucking matter I just wanted to point out it was a prolific output within a certain decade

The top 3 covers look pretty lazy

Except Inherent Vice is better than all of those combined.

in a cultural sense we've been in the same decade since 2014 when gamer gate made SJW shit main stream and every year before that was still the naughties, which began in 2001.

The 60s didn't start till Woodstock and the 90s weren't the 90s until Nirvana, you don't know what you're talking about kiddo

in terms of great movies I'd give it it PTA and I haven't even seen The Phantom Thread yet

Some of these are garbage, but the ones that aren't are all more worthwhile than anything Villeneuve has done.
>midnight in paris
>blue jasmine
>irrational man
>cafe society

I feel like Drive had a huge impact on this decade and it came out in 2011.

No thats fucking wrong because a decade is exactly ten years. Everybody fucking knows what people mean when they say something is "of the decade" it refers to one of those time periods.

>late period Woody superior to peak Villenueve

it's shit

brainlet detected.

>Blade Runner 2049
>Prisoners
>Enemy
>Sicario
>Incendies
>Arrival

not an argument, it's shit, like the movie

so you believe that cultural time periods begin and end exactly at midnight on January 1st?

Villeneuve is only peak in terms of spewing out lowbrow genre flicks to the masses under the guise of intelligent film. Commercialized arthouse - the director.

No, Dennis is a real treasure, he saved those dark times of cinema

I'd put BR2049 below Prisoners and Enemy because they're more human, but BR2049 is much more beautiful and fun

you sound like a letterboxd reviewer

Uhm, no sweetie. I like Pynchon and PTA, but this film was mediocre at best

Maybe not "cultural time periods", but decades refer to a specific period of ten years, jesus christ, is that so hard to comprehend? Thats why they call it 80's music, 90's tv shows, etc etc

I don't use glorified social media and turn cinema into a societal pastime. But nice fallacy.

Sicario was lowbrow? Prisoners? Give me a fucking break kid

It's one of the few actual non-meme pleb filters. I'm sure there's a more literary word or phrase for "pleb filter", but that's exactly what this film is.

dec·ade
ˈdekād/
noun
noun: decade; plural noun: decades

1. a period of ten years.
"he taught at the university for nearly a decade"

The decade we are currently in started in 2008, if you meant 2010s say 2010s next time

>Measures a successful film/director by the amount of money made

Prisoners is so average

he said success, you can't deny that Nolan has been the most successful financially every movie for 10 years straight has been a hit. Like I said, Denis' movies are better, but not more successful.

>unironically using pleb filter

you're exactly the kind of people who like this crap

Wow, that's almost a movie a year since 2013.

That's a pretty incredible feat, that guy works hard.

>The decade we are currently in started in 2008

I'm fucking done dude. I can't help you. If you ask anyone what decade we're in and try to convince them that it starts in 2008, please film it so I can die peacefully

The fast and furious franchise is more "successful" then? Pointless

are they all directed by the same guy and did they actually make more than that Nolan list? I doubt it

Sicario and Enemy were decent
Prisoners and Incendies were forgettable/mediocre
Arrival was garbage
2049 is also probably garbage but I doubt I will get around to watching it

what a fucking unbeatable catalogue of films dude

Thats beside the point, theres point to be made for either side, I was actually referring to critical/quality success but if he wants to point out commericial success thats fine, but BR:2049 takes Denis right the fuck out of that debate

I put to you that you're being overly critical and that they're all really fucking good with Sicario/ Enemy/2049 being top of the heap

Im sure they made more

Fast 8 made like 1.6billion last year

>We're also gauging success in more in terms of critical than commercial
Nolan just got nominated for an Oscar and there's a good chance he can win.

Sicario > rest

How can one man be so based?

>Sicario
Sicario's only semi-original premise is the female protagonist. Otherwise, it's completely standard fare with some stylized, calculated cinematography holding it up. It's cheap commentary on the war on drugs that attempts to be smart. It's US-Mexico relations for people not into politics. It's a cartel documentary for people too lazy to read up on the subject themselves. Intermixed throughout all of this is some rehashed revenge story. It holds your hand and spoonfeeds you the entire way.
>Prisoners
Good performance by Gyllenhaal, but otherwise yes, lowbrow as it comes. Unoriginal premise of desperate vigilante justice sidestepping police bureaucracy, done in many a better thriller (e.g. Frantic). Predictable red herring after red herring, stringing the narrative along and you as the viewer with it. To top it all off, the film doesn't even have the conviction in its narrative nor respect for its audience to end the film on an ambiguous note. No, it has to make it explicitly clear that Loki did in fact hear the whistle, and that's after setting up the entire predicament to the audience. It can't help itself - pathetic.
So yes, if you find value in any of these lowbrow movies beyond cheap popcorn entertainment, you're an easily impressed pleb.

I don't see a problem with any of this

Luv/ Joi > replicant whore > Rachel

Holy shit you're the guy that trolls the 2049 threads

I bet you think this filename is some sort of epic bait for people that liked 2049 rather than common consensus here despite most people enjoying it.

I can also hear you breathing heavily just typing these posts out.

Give three examples of "high brow cinema"

The problem is that his films don't push out the capeshit and other endless Hollywood garbage. If they were to replace the status quo, they'd be improving cinema, but that's not even close to the case. Villeneuve is just adding more noise into the mix. This is a problem as far as the average moviegoer is concerned, because the average moviegoer sees Villeneueve's above-average film, and suddenly deems themselves a cinefile. They pat themselves on the back for sitting through their idea of cinema, and go on home feeling fully satisfied. You could see this happened with the obnoxious praise for BR2049, the unsubstantiated opinions claiming it a marvel in filmmaking. They never expand their tastes, never wander outside their comfort zone, and instead perpetually wallow in an assembly-line of dishonest cinema.
Wrong. Even those that cannot appreciate Blade Runner still admit the allure of Rachael.

>literally no arguments against my post, just fallacies
I should have known Denisfags cannot contribute to worthwhile discourse. Oh well, your loss, can't save them all

That's not the problem at all, the problem you think you're "above" movies that are smart but aren't overly complex or artistic. You're a philistine :)

I don't think it's common consensus tough. There's plenty of people on Sup Forums who thinks that 2049 is better than original.

all of his flicks look like shit

source code was so good

what the fuck happend?

And he's only 50 years old.
That means atleast two more decades straight of Sup Forums being triggered by his success

Hmmm yes, Indubitably.

>tfw Blade Runner 2048 ruins his perfect string of one-word title movies.

he might start slowing down like James Cameron did

Incendies is still his very best, amazing the number of plebs in this board.

Enemy is easily his worst. I haven't seen Incendies yet.
BR2049 > Prisoners > Sicario > Arrival > Enemy

Nah, prisoners and enemy are his best
the rest fall a bit flat

>have more white hairs than him and I'm not even 30
>not to mention hairline is receding and hair is thinning

Unfair

Star Wars securely dead and buried lads

Sicario is my favourite movie of all time

2 good films, a lot of mediocre trash... this is an achievement in the eyes of Generation Z?

Nobody wants to talk to a genuine retard who thinks his personal opinions constitute as logical arguments. You're a fucking moron. Stop posting.

The guy puts out some quality stuff on a regular basis
How does he do it?

filtered

...

Razorfist stop posting you try hard faggot. No one watches your shit channel and you dress like a 1980s white trash teenager

Easy:
Phantom menace
Attack of the clones
Revenge of the sith

>source code was so good
"No!"

kys dumbass

How many buzzword pastas will reddit have conjure up against this man?

Villenumale is for the election newfags what Nolan was for the redditors before them. They'll defend him until he inevitably gets memed to death.

You little faggot, why ask our opinion if you have the answer already figured out?

And Nolan just made his best film yet laat year, Dunkirk.
You have to remember that this mongolian sweater knitting imageboard has no corellation with the real world

To this day I still want to know the story as to why Jackman looks like CGI on the poster for Prisoners