I happen to like Tarantino.

I'm not going to go overboard on him but his films are so refreshing. I love how he drives his plots with pure dialog, I love that stuff. He is overrated, Pulp Fiction was good but was more of a status movie like said earlier. I personally think Kill Bill is one of the greatest movies ever though. I literally had goosebumps when I left the theatre for the second one.

Scorsese is great and he proved it again with The Departed. He really changed with the times and still managed to make an all time great movie. And there is no way that any director has as many great movies to their name as he does. My favorite being Goodfellas.

Hollywood's really got a good core of directors right now though.

Christopher Nolan is one of my personal favorites. He directed Momento which if you haven't seen, please do. I've got mixed feelings on it myself but it's something like you've never seen in a movie before and the cinematography is some of the best ever. And he really had to do a great job directing or the movie would have fallen to pieces. Not my favorite ever but it's different and definitely worth watching.

He also brought life to Batman which I've never been a fan of. He made Gotham City come alive and brought out the grittiness in Batman instead of dressing it up. It's pretty much universally loved, I'm not a fan of franchises like that but Nolan's Batman is definitely an exception.

Then he did what was my favorite movie of last year, The Prestige. Awesome movie, awesome plot and AMAZING acting. Christian Bale (favorite actor) and Hugh Jackman both put in the best performances of recent times and really made the movie come alive.

Next year he has the Batman sequel releasing with Heath Ledger as The Joker and the film's tagline is I Believe In Harvey Dent. This one should be awesome.

There's also another guy I really like who has made 2 of my favorite movies now, James Mangold. He's the guy who directed Identity and Walk The Line. His latest movie is the remake 3:10 To Yuma, and again, great acting. Mangold has made 3 movies now in the past 5 years that are in no way similar to each other and required a completely different style of direction for each one and he managed to make them all very good. I haven't seen many westerns but 3:10 To Yuma was one of the best I've seen. I think Tombstone was the only modern western I liked and to be honest, this blows that out of the water.

David Fincher has been around for a while, the director of Fight Club and Se7en, two more of the best movies of recent times. He directed Zodiac last year which was a lot different then I expected but still very good and told a side of things that I've never seen in any of the hundreds of documentaries on the thing.

What I'm really looking forward to though is Torso, a film based off the comic book about the Cleveland Torso Murderer. The comic books are...well they are more like movie story boards to begin with really. They have real pictures and all that, and with Fincher's dark directing, I'm really looking forward to this.

Honestly, I don't think there are to many bad directors in Hollywood anymore. And I haven't seen a truly attrocious new movie in a long time.