These guys are hard working, have long filmographies, and all have made absolute gems and absolute shit. I think of them as related in many ways.

Rank 'em.

Verhoeven, Carpenter, Besson, Hill.

Carpenter has easily made the most good movies of the lot but didn't make Robocop.

Verhoeven, Carpenter, Hill, Besson.

Only thing I like from Besson is Leon.

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Anyone seen Hill’s Wild Bill film? I’ve heard from some it is masterful, from others that it is dismal.

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I feel like i never really got Carpenter in the way i was supposed to and I'm really not familiar with Besson much at all. I don't think I ever even saw Leon: The Professional.


Verhoeven could make his best movie next year and it would kind of make sense.

Definitely Carpenter in terms of consistency. A random Carpenter movie has the highest probability of being good.

Verhoeven has specific movies that would reach highest on my list, but there are only a few really, and most of it is simply uninteresting (I don't even like Flesh+Blood that much).

I like Leon a lot. Le Dernier Combat is somewhat charming but also kitsch and novel and atrocious soundtrack. Le Grand Bleu and Nikita are both pretty boring.

The last guy I had to look up. Those films are mostly unknown to me. The Warriors is fun but I don't love it. 48 Hrs is time-typical and forgettable, one of those movies that's like "*bored on a weekend evening* let's see if anything is on TV... 48Hrs? Yeah why not.", which isn't all bad.

Carpenter, Verhoven, Hill, Besson.

I don't know much by Hill and Besson - I saw 'Leon' years ago - but I give Hill 3rd place because he directed 'Cutting Cards', one of my favorite Tales From the Crypt episodes.

Carpenter, Verhoven both rule, but Carpenter made The Thing, and that is one of my favorite movies of all time and I really love even his dumbest soundtracks (looking at you Lil Trouble!) Luc Besson is ok. Made some films I think are cool/fun. 5th element is a train wreck in the best sense. The only Walter Hill movie I have ever seen is Warriors. It's ok, but is a bit of a slog.

Carpenter by a mile. I think he's the only one I like more than 3 movies from. Then Verhoeven, Hill, Besson.