The Top Guys I Love Because...I Do...And This Blog Is All About Me...So It Doesn't Really Matter What the Majority Thinks In The Long Run, Does It?

They're just mostly consistently great on multiple levels...

I'm not gonna go into detail about why I love them all because we'd be here too long but also because I'll inevitably discuss at least one if not several of their awesome films.

All movies I specifically love (even if they're not super great) are listed as well. For Kubrick, they're in increasing order of greatness b/c they're all awesome.

10. The Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society, From Hell, The Book of Eli)

9. Bong Joon-ho (Barking Dogs Never Bite, Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother)

8. Park Chan-wook (Joint Security Area, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Three... Extremes- Cut, Lady Vengeance)

7. Christopher Nolan (Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises)

6. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds)

5. Louis Malle (Zazie dans le Metro, Calcutta, Phantom India, Murmur of the Heart, Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, My Dinner With Andre, God's Country, ... And the Pursuit of Happiness, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Vanya On 42nd Street)

4. Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood)

3. Sergio Leone (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More; The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly; Once Upon A Time In the West; Duck, You Sucker!; Once Upon A Time In America)

2. Dario Argento (The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, The Cat O'Nine Tails, Four Flies On Grey Velvet, Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebre, Phenomena, Opera)

1. Stanley Kubrick (Killer's Kiss, Spartacus, Lolita, Paths of Glory, The Killing, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining; Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb; Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey)