For the record, I agree 100% about De Palma...

Martin Amis once noted that Brian De Palma's appeal is exclusive to the film purist and the hoodlum, meaning critics were enraptured by his stylistics, while streetpunks and wannabe ganglords were getting hard-ons from the bloodshed and misogyny. Any rapper who says Scarface is the best gangster movie of all time is either a jive-ass one-hit wonder or a moron who hasn't seen Goodfellas. And any film critic who thinks that quoting Eisenstein's Odessa Steps sequence to gussy up an eighth-rate Al Capone movie constitutes great film-making needs an intellectual enema. Sisters, Carrie, Blow Out: that's it with Brian, and none of them is at heart any less thuggish or infantile than his true trainwrecks, Body Double or Femme Fatale. De Palma is the scrag-end of the 1970s Hollywood renaissance, and possibly the worst major film-maker alive after Oliver Stone.

via Backwards City