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I feel like he throws his name on so many films as a "producer" which you are right, dilutes his filmography but if you look at just the ones he's directed it's super solid minus a few.

 

Do people like Lars Von Trier? I've seen Antichrist and Nymphomaniac vol. 1 only. They were interesting watches, but I didn't like them.

 

I love what I've seen of Von Trier. I love Breaking the Waves and Antichrist and Melancholia. Need to see Dogville and Nymphomaniac.

 

I haven't seen them but Dancer In the Dark and especially Dogville are supposed to be great.

 

Antichrist is fun and pretty but stupid thematically. Melancholia is pretty but a bit hollow thematically.

 

Dancer in the Dark is incredible. Melancholia and Nymphomaniac are great. Antichrist is okay. I actually haven't seen Dogville.

 

Never had the desire to see any Von Trier

 

I may have to watch a couple more of his films.

 

I love Lars Von Trier's despair trilogy: Melancholia, Antichrist, and Nymphomaniac.

I haven't seen his others though.

 

Lars von Trier varies wildly in quality. Melancholia and Antichrist are funny in their silliness, but Dogville and Dancer in the Dark are great films. Manderlay is a disaster, as is The Idiots.

 

Dogville is my favorite


I really like The Element of Crime too

 

I dunno if I'd call what happens Antichrist "fun" or "silly" lol. When I think those terms I think stuff like Scott Pilgrim, Fast and Furious and Machette, not toddler suicide, demon foxes eating their own wounds saying "chaos reigns" or someone cutting off her own clitoris.

 

I think you can make the argument that the things happening in Antichrist are so dark and "provocative" to the point of devolving into silliness. It's not what I was thinking when I watched it, but I understand the sentiment.

 

Yeah, I wouldn't call Antichrist or Melancholia as silly at all.

 

Antichrist doesn't have a point to make about anything. There's next to zero theme. The flagrant ideas and imagery in that movie deserve a meaningful script.

 

and yes its so over the top with the gross out and hyperviolence that it's fun. that sort of thing is common place now. we've got genre work that is created to suit that need. the Saw films. that Elfin Lied anime are a couple quick examples

 

my top ten directors, no particular order

John Hughes
Coen Brothers
Wes Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Noah Baumbach
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Paul Thomas Anderson
Rian Johnson
Robert Zemeckis

 

I once saw somebody say that McG was in their top 5 directors.

 

Who's McG?

 

Directed Charlies Angels, Charlies Angels:Full Throttle, Terminator Salvation.

 

The Babysitter sounds cool

 

Charlie's Angels is probably in my top 25 movies and even I don't get that

 

There are few things you can call a fox eating itself and saying "chaos reigns" other than silly. It is one of the funniest things in any recent movie.

 

Aw man, how could anyone forget John Hughes. His discography is so good.

I'd call it jarring, creepy, eerie, metal and badass. That's huge praise for a scene though, putting it over actual comedies...

 

I couldn't stop laughing. The testicle smashing scene as well.