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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
speaking of soderbergh, he's good with characters but never blown my mind or anything. sure sex lies and videotape heralded the indie movie era, but i'm looking at his list of 40 directed projects on imdb and none comes across to me as a "must watch" title.
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Soderberg is great for a number of reasons, one of which is his greatness is unassuming.
Although he can get experimental, I mostly think of him as making genre films which are several notches above average. Haywire, for example, isn't a masterpiece, but it's certainly much better than one of Angelina Jolie's action films.
Schizopolis, The Limey, and Full Frontal are probably my favs, but I like his admirable failures too, like Girlfriend Experience and Good German. I've watched all these several times.
Plus he shoots and cuts everything himself. He's a good dude who makes solid entertainments.
And unless you're having an emergency and you need a youtube video to help you solve it, I'm not sure what a "must watch" is.
Anyway, he's better than Kevin Smith. Hell, he's funnier than Kevin Smith.