Of the new guys, ive taken a likin to (in addition to Junker's mentions):
Guy Ritchie: For bringin back the caper movie; yeah, the guy used to direct car commercials, but fuck, even his openin credits are just cool. He's done Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch thus far.
David Fincher: Ill let Junker describe him, so far I've seen his Se7en, The Game, and of course Fight Club....the man can do no wrong (outside of Alien 3...???). Here's to hopin that movie about a room that's comin out soon is good, too.
Side note: its rumored he was lookin at a script called "The Sky is Falling", a controversial piece about an assasian dispatched to the vatican itself to deal with certain clergy who've dug up the church's dirty lil secret: jesus never came back from the dead. Shit, toss Fincher's boy Pitt into that one and i cant see it as anythin but great.
Mel Gibson: Yeah, for Braveheart alone, but The Patriot wasnt bad either. I cant recall the other flick he did, i just got kinda excited when i heard he was thinkin bout a remake of "Fahrenheit 451). Ive taken a likin to Randall Wallace as a screenwriter, as well.
Need to look more into people like Bryan Singer, but i did think it was cool as shit to find out that David Hayter wrote X-Men and its forcomin sequel (Hayter's the voice-over for Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series).