Match Cut Directorial Canon Consensus - Walter Hill

[Raiders]

Alrighty, so we're on to week two of the consensus. PLEASE review the rules and information contained in the main thread:

Results & Rules (http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=426)

Week Two: Walter Hill

http://static.amctv.com/img/originals/broken_trail/cast/hill517x307.jpg

[origami_mustache]

The Warriors (1979) - 7
Undisputed (2002) - 2

[dreamdead]

Last Man Standing - 6.5

Seen several of his, but this is the only one I'm comfortable rating.

[Russ]

The Driver 8.0
The Warriors 7.5
Southern Comfort 7.0
48 Hrs. 6.0
Brewster's Millions 5.0
Crossroads 6.5
Red Heat 2.5
Johnny Handsome 7.0
Another 48 Hrs. 3.0

[Raiders]

Hard Times (1975) - 8.0
The Driver (1978) - 8.5
The Warriors (1979) - 8.0
The Long Riders (1980) - 8.5
Southern Comfort (1981) - 9.5
48 Hrs. (1982) - 6.5
Brewster's Millions (1985) - 6.0
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) - 7.0
Undisputed (2002) - 8.0
Broken Trail (2006) - 7.5

[Mysterious Dude]

The Warriors - 5.0

[EyesWideOpen]

The Warriors - 7

[Sycophant]

The Warriors - 8.0
48 Hrs. - 8.0

I've got one or two I hope to get to by next Sunday.

[MadMan]

Since I haven't seen anything by him I'll be using this thread for recommendations. And I may try and view some films by his before the deadline falls.

[Boner M]

Hard Times - 7.0
The Driver - 8.0
The Warriors - 8.0
Supernova - 2.5

Seen 48 Hrs. and its sequel too long ago.

[megladon8]

I've actually only seen The Warriors, and I love it. Probably a 9.

I saw Last Man Standing back when it came out - but I was 9 or 10 at the time, and I really don't remember it at all.

[Sven]

That's a nice picture of Hill.

If E posts the results like he did last time, I'll probably get the Devotee award again, although I was quite surprised that I had seen the most Ridleys given my impression of his work.

And I'm assuming that his Tales From the Crypt episodes count, because they're 30 minutes, give or take a minute or two. I know many haven't seen them, but I highly highly highly recommend them, as I think they're among his best work.

Hard Times - 7
The Driver - 10
The Warriors - 9
The Long Riders - 8.5
Southern Comfort - 8
48 Hours - 7
Streets of Fire - 8
Brewster's Million - 6.5
Crossroads - 10
Extreme Prejudice - 9
Red Heat - 6.5
Another 48 Hours - 7
Tales from the Crypt Episodes:
-The Man Who Was Death - 9
-Cutting Cards - 10
-Deadline - 7
Trespass - 9.5
Wild Bill - 6.5
Last Man Standing - 7
Undisputed - 9

Will try to get in Johnny Handsome, Geronimo, Supernova, and Broken Trail.

[Winston*]

The Warriors - 8

Seen Last Man Standing, but too long ago. Remember it being a bit shit.

[Spinal]

The Warriors - 4
Brewster's Millions - 5.5

[Ezee E]

I'll probably only do the graphs and devotees for the ones that I keep track of. If Raiders wants to do it, it's all him. Although the graph is pretty simple to do, so maybe I'll still do that one every week.

[Ezee E]

The Warriors - 8
Southern Comfort - 7
Brewster's Millions - 2
Extreme Prejudice - 3
Trespass - 6

I'll be seeing a few more throughout the week hopefully.

[MadMan]

Damn I forgot that I had seen one film from the man:

Red Heat(1988)-5.0

I've seen some of both 48 Hours films but I haven't viewed them completely. I realized all this after I checked Criticker to see if I had seen any movies from Hill. I should have done that earlier.

[soitgoes...]

The Long Riders - 6.5
Brewster's Millions - 1.5
Red Heat - 1.5
Another 48 Hours - 2.5
Geronimo: An American Legend - 4.0
Supernova - 1.0

Wow. So apparently I should see some of his "good" films.

[Raiders]

Are we going to hold Supernova to him? We absolved Coppola of any responsibility.

[ledfloyd]

i've only seen one film, but i saw it at least 50 times in my adolescence.

Crossroads - 8.0

[D_Davis]

Hard Times - 8
The Warriors - 9
Southern Comfort - 6
Streets of Fire - 8
Red Heat - 6
Last Man Standing - 7

[Benny Profane]

48 Hours -- 6.5
Brewster's Millions -- 9.0

[Russ]

Will try to get in Johnny Handsome
This is actually a pretty good film, featuring some great acting with a disfigured Chris Walken seeking revenge against the villainous tandem of Ellen Barkin and Lance Henriksen. Boasts another great Ry Cooder score too.

[Yxklyx]

The Warriors - 7

I've seen a bit of Crossroads on TV.

[Rowland]

Hill is one of my (many) embarrassing blind spots. Well, I have seen bits of Last Man Standing, in which I recall the action sequences being strikingly shot and choreographed. In any case, I'll be watching several of his movies over the next week, beginning with his cherry popper, Hard Times, with Undisputed, The Warriors, The Driver, and 48 Hours hopefully to follow.

[megladon8]

Reading up on Hard Times, it's sad to read that Charles Bronson and Walter Hill had such a falling out after that film.

Apparently Hill loved the guy and really wanted to work with him in the future, but Bronson refused every time.

[Ezee E]

Jees. Iosos, what did you see in Extreme Prejudice? Other then a pretty good final shootout, and Powers Boothe doing his Powers Boothe thing, this was an awful mess for an hour. No buildup, no sense of pacing or direction, shit was just happening. Awful.

[Ezee E]

Updated with Extreme Prejudice and Brewster's Millions.

EP - 3
BM - 2

[soitgoes...]

Updated with The Long Riders. At least now he has a positive score from me.

[origami_mustache]

Jees. Iosos, what did you see in Extreme Prejudice?

wondering the same for Undisputed.

[eternity]

The Warriors- 9
48 Hrs.- 7.5
Another 48 Hrs.- 5
Geronimo: An American Legend- 6.5
Supernova- 2 (does this even count?)

[Rowland]

48 Hrs. - 7.5

[Eleven]

The Driver - 7.5
The Warriors - 7.5
Southern Comfort - 8
48 Hrs. - 7
Crossroads - 7

[Raiders]

The Driver rocked the casbah.

I'll have these results up late tonight. I'll try and do all the stuff E did.

[Grouchy]

Dunno if I'm on time, but The Warriors is a solid 9. And that's it for me.

[Raiders]

RESULTS:

1. The Driver (1978) [8.40] [5]
2. Crossroads (1986) [7.88] [4]
3. The Warriors (1979) [7.65] [17]
4. Southern Comfort (1981) [7.58] [6]
5. Hard Times (1975) [7.50] [4]
6. 48 Hrs. (1982) [7.06] [8]
7. Brewster's Millions (1985) [5.07] [7]
8. Red Heat (1988) [4.40] [5]
9. Another 48 Hrs. (1990) [4.38] [4]

Others:

- Cutting Cards [10.00] [1]
- The Man Who Was Death [9.00] [1]
- Streets of Fire [8.00] [2]
- The Long Riders [7.83] [3]
- Trespass [7.75] [2]
- Broken Trail [7.50] [1]
- Johnny Handsome [7.00] [1]
- Deadline [7.00] [1]
- Last Man Standing [6.83] [3]
- Wild Bill [6.50] [1]
- Undisputed [6.33] [3]
- Extreme Prejudice [6.00] [2]
- Geronimo: An American Legend [5.83] [3]

Rating: 6.657
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/5063/hillrs6.jpg

Hill's Biggest Fan: iosos (an avg. of 8.13)
Hill's Biggest Hater: soitgoes (an avg. of 3.20)
Hill's Most Dedicated Viewer: iosos (19 films watched)

[Sven]

[/B]1. The Driver (1978) [8.40] [5]
2. Crossroads (1986) [7.88] [4]

:) :) :)


Hill's Biggest Hater: soitgoes (an avg. of 3.20)

:evil:

Someone's going on my list.

[Sycophant]

This is one guy I need to explore further. Awesome.

[soitgoes...]

:evil:

Someone's going on my list.
Yay! Along with Santa that's two lists I'm on now.

[StanleyK]

Hard Times (1975) - 8.5
The Driver (1978) - 8.5
The Warriors (1979) - 7
The Long Riders (1980) - 5.5
Southern Comfort (1981) - 8.5
48 Hrs. (1982) - 8.5
Streets of Fire (1984) - 7
Brewster's Millions (1985) - 7
Crossroads (1986) - 8.5
Extreme Prejudice (1987) - 5.5
Red Heat (1988) - 7
Johnny Handsome (1989) - 8.5
Another 48 Hrs. (1990) - 5.5
Trespass (1992) - 7
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) - 4
Wild Bill (1995) - 4
Last Man Standing (1996) - 5.5
Supernova (2000) - 4
Undisputed (2002) - 7
Broken Trail (2006) - 7
Bullet to the Head (2012) - 7
The Assignment (2016) - 4



Damn good filmmaker. It's too bad almost all of his movies flopped; he deserves more success than what he had, and I think more recognition as well. I hope he gets to make another movie, it would be a shame if The Assignment was his swan song.

[DFA1979]

I've seen 10 of his movies. And some of The Long Riders and Hard Times. I like his work quite a bit.