MoFo Battle Royale Directors Edition Round 3: Sidney Lumet vs. Sergio Leone

Sidney Lumet

vs.



Sergio Leone

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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Leone.

Sergio

Leone.

One of my all time favourites, Leone

Dag nabit. If this was before two days ago, I would've voted for Lumet hands down. But Friday night I saw Once Upon a Time in the West.

This is hard as pickles, but I'm going to give it to Leone.

Leone

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"Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."

Obvi Leone. I've only seen Lumet's 12 Angry Men, and I always hated that play anyways.

Oh, he did Network too. I guess I liked that film, but it wasn't anything mindblowing. Same with Murder on the Orient Express. I don't think I've seen anything else from him sadly.

12 Angry Men is a brilliant movie, it kept me interested the whole way thorough even though the whole movie is set in one room.

Poll is closed but i would give it to Lumet. In addotion to the aformentioned 12 angry men, consider:

The 60's

Fail Safe (1964), The Hill (1965), The Pawnbroker (1965), The Anderson Tapes(1971)




Serpico (1973) Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Network (1976) The Verdict (1982)


Running In Empty (1988) Q & A (1990)


Before the Devil knows you're dead (2007)

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"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo.

I think Leone is very overrated. Once Upon a Time in America is a ponderous bore no matter what version you're looking at.

Lumet at his best is far superior.

I guess it's too bad you two weren't around back when we had this little tourney, it might have only been 17-4 for Leone.

Once upon a Time in America, is a fine film, my argument for Lumet is he has made several terriffic pictures.

Some have had more acclaim than others, but Fail Safe for instance pre-dates War Games by 30 years.

I don't see how its close tbph.

oh geez i just noticed the time-stamps on the OP..sorry bout that harry.

I noticed the poll was closed and old. So what? To compare a director of overblown spaghetti westerns with the range and quality of Lumet's films is a joke.

It wasn't just a poll, it was a Battle Royale! And Lumet got his a$$ kicked.