Keidra, you ignorant slut! *

As I was breastfeeding BD and surfing the Web one-handed from my nursing station, I saw a post by my dear friend Keidra. A post that made me weep internally. A post that highlighted a running debate we've had for awhile now.

Speaking of film directors, apropos of nothing, I wish these four five dudes would stop making films/TV shows/whatever right now:

1.) Kevin Smith
2.) Quentin Tarantino
3.) J.J. Abrams
4.) Brett Ratner
5.) Michael Bay (after he does Transformers II)

Now, I don't disagree with her regarding Abrams, Ratner and Bay, but Smith and Tarantino? BLASPHEMER!

You're talking to an admitted fangirl of both Smith and Tarantino. I love their writing and dialogue styles and in a way, I think that some of their stuff is a neat take on dumb stuff.

I love Smith's dialogue for the profanely funny take on pop culture (that I'd also swear to doing with friends in real life). I love the fact that despite his profane mouth and humor, Smith's got a soft side to him that shows up in all his movies. Hell, I'm willing to forgive Jersey Girl simply because he references the musical Sweeney Todd in it.

Smith's filmmaking style may not be fantastic -- it's crude and elementary, but really, when you go to a Smith film, you're not going for beautiful shots or epic plots. You're going for tit, ass, poo and fart jokes with a very small slice of life (unless it's saving the world with Alanis as God).

But that's the beauty of his stuff. It's the small slice of life things that he conveys with a certain ring of truth to them. Yeah it's wrapped up in sentimentality, and maybe he'll never really get beyond the Jersey Universe he's created, but those films have some odd thing to them that delights me.

As for Tarantino, first off, it's hard to ask a guy to stop making films when he makes one EVERY SEVEN OR SO YEARS. I mean, seriously -- the last movie he made was Death Proof which was part of Grindhouse. And before that was the Kill Bill series which was four years go. I know he's working on Inglorious Bastards, but he's been working on that for something like FOREVER. So it's hard to say you're sick of the guy when he hasn't put anything new out lately.

I've said it before about how much I love Tarantino and it really doesn't need to be repeated. But I will say that I'll take Tarantino and Smith over the Eli Roths, Tom Shadyacs, Joel Schumachers, Brett Ratners or Michael Bays any day.

*with apologies to SNL's Dan Ackroyd.