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Title: GW Top 5 Directors II
Post by: Bill Murray on June 28, 2008, 08:50:14 pm
Let's try this again. Not because there was anything wrong with the previous list (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=72978), but a newer list (the previous one was taken from a very old source) with more people taking part (the previous had under 20 people taking part, which lead to the 25-50 section being very blurry. Usually down to a single member putting their director at the top of their list).

Now to make this list tighter than the last:

Anyway, here's my list. It's the same from the last topic (since I updated my own Top 5 before posting the list), but I'll do some explaining too.

5. John Woo


4. Shunji Iwai
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3. Park Chan-Wook
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2. Akira Kurosawa
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1. Wong Kar-Wai
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Title: GW Top 5 Directors II
Post by: headphonics on June 28, 2008, 09:06:11 pm
do they have to be asian
Title: GW Top 5 Directors II
Post by: Bill Murray on June 28, 2008, 10:16:04 pm
i am still trying to find something witty to say back to this but i have nothing
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Post by: Roman on June 28, 2008, 10:30:39 pm
Quote from: headphonics on June 28, 2008, 09:06:11 pm
do they have to be asian

haha i'm sorry esh but this was the best reply possible

anyway um i'll come up with a list in a minute hold on
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Post by: local_dunce on June 29, 2008, 10:16:56 am
Jesus christ, why do I find this so hard! Fuck it, I'm doing 10.

10. David Cronenberg
9. Richard Linklater
8. Darren Aronofsky
7. Alejandro González Iñárritu
6. Terry Gilliam
5. David Lynch
4. Steven Soderbergh
3. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2. David Fincher
1. Orson Welles
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Post by: TheMonster on June 29, 2008, 11:19:45 am
1: Park Chan-Wook
2: Darren Aronofsky
3: M. Night
4: David Fincher
5: Hayao Miyazaki ( animes , dunno if it counts )
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Post by: Standard Toaster on June 29, 2008, 03:40:40 pm
1. Akira Kurosawa
2. Woody Allen
3. The Coen Brothers
4. Christopher Nolan
5. Kevin Smith
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Post by: Roman on June 29, 2008, 05:33:55 pm
5. David Cronenberg
4. Roman Polanski
3. The Coen Brothers
2. Stanley Kubrick
1. David Lynch

I'm not too sure if that's the exact order but oh well.

edit: also this is just our favorite directors and not necessarily who we think is the most talented right because that would be a different list
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Post by: Damug on June 29, 2008, 06:17:57 pm
5) Martin Scorsese
4) Alfred Hitchcock
3) Stanley Kubrick
2) Steven Speilburg
1) Tim Burton

These are my personal favorites based on creativeness and all around vision for the films they make.
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Post by: local_dunce on June 29, 2008, 07:01:46 pm
Christopher Nolan missed the no.11 slot on my list because I thought WAIT HE IS NOT ACTUALLY THAT GOOD :( But man I can't wait for the new batman.
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Post by: Standard Toaster on June 29, 2008, 07:34:57 pm
Quote from: scubacoaster on June 29, 2008, 07:01:46 pm
Christopher Nolan missed the no.11 slot on my list because I thought WAIT HE IS NOT ACTUALLY THAT GOOD :( But man I can't wait for the new batman.
i thought memento was pretty brilliantly shot, which is basically the sole reason he's on my list.

edit: also can't wait for the new batman :(
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Post by: pburn on June 29, 2008, 08:51:56 pm
5.Gordon Parks
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4.Hughes Brothers
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3. John Singleton
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2. Spike Lee
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1. Melvin van Peebles
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Post by: crone_lover720 on June 29, 2008, 11:29:48 pm
stop it psyburn.


still deciding on #5 it is very difficult !!PLEASE DO NOT DISQUALIFY MY VOTES!!

1. david lynch
2. coen brothers
3. kubrick(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/23836/kubrick.jpg)
4. Guillermo Del Toro (37 braff 36)
5. albred hitchock because not enough people mentioned him so far!! other contenders included fcoppola, polanski, um
0. wes anderson - I think I kept myself from mentioning him. to idk trendy/untrendy, idk, the wrong kind of person often likes his movies now
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Post by: Puppet Master on June 30, 2008, 01:01:27 am
5. Sam Raimi
4. Cohen Brothers
3. Francis Ford Coppola
2. Martin Scorcese
1. David Lynch
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Post by: PTizzle on June 30, 2008, 09:43:37 am
My list has actually changed a bit!

1. Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones)

2. Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Pi)

3. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull)

4. Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski)

5. Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition)


Honorable Mentions: Frank Darabont, Takashi Miike, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Gondry, Kevin Smith

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Post by: UPRC on June 30, 2008, 12:10:25 pm
Righto, let's see here.

1. Steven Spielberg
2. Frank Darabont
3. Peter Jackson
4. James Cameron
5. Rob Reiner
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Post by: Damug on June 30, 2008, 02:47:11 pm
Quote from: PTizzle on June 30, 2008, 09:43:37 am
Schindler's List

This is probably the main reason why Spielberg is so high up on my list. Schindler's List is by far one of the most intriquing and greatest movies of all time. Not often does a film come along that produces such "emotion" I should say.

Sure, I love mostly all of Spielberg's films, but this is the main reason I placed him at number two.
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Post by: GaZZwa on July 04, 2008, 09:08:54 pm
1. Steven Spielberg
Things I loved as a kid: sharks, aliens, dinosaurs, whip-cracking adventure and above all, movies. From the age of 6, Spielberg was my childhood hero, and I'm not sure that many children tend to idolise filmmakers. Of course, his films continued to resonate as a teenager and an adult most of all, among others, Schindler's List, a truly remarkable picture and the high water mark of his artistry, and Saving Private Ryan, which equally demonstrates his unique talents. One of his earlier films that has only grown in power as I've gotten older is Close Encounters, an alien film that taps into feelings of awe and wonderment instead of the usual fear. Though his oeuvre isn't without its flaws - notably Hook and 1941, it is also one which masterfully touches upon a number of genres and styles and constantly straddles huge commercial appeal with artistic integrity. Basically, the Beatles of cinema.

2. Stanley Kubrick
Stanley. Fucking. Kubrick. If not for my huge personal affinity for my number 1 choice, surely he would sit atop this list. He divided opinion like no other, neither a critical darling nor a huge commercial success, he is more the filmmakers director and certainly one of the greatest of all time.

3. Martin Scorsese
Watch Mean Streets. Then watch Taxi Driver. Then watch Raging Bull. Of course then there are his bigger more recent films, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York and The Departed, which finally won him an Oscar. But then there is a wealth of brilliance in his lesser-known pictures as well, The King of Comedy, The Last Temptation of Christ, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Bringing Out the Dead. That's not forgetting his music documentaries...

4. John Cassavetes
The godfather of American independent cinema. Funded his independent pictures (Shadows, Faces, Opening Night, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Woman Under the Influence)  through his acting day-job and it is these, aided by a cast of regulars that include his wife Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzarra, Seymour Cassel, and Peter Falk, that  stand out today as his absolute best. Always pushing the limits of cinema (see the shaky, often sped-up Shadows and the unfalteringly uncomfortable closeups in Faces) , he moved against the grain of Hollywood, choosing to shoot scenes in order as opposed to whichever was cheapest, using a skeleton crew, writing all his films and editing them in his house. Check out his appearance with Gazzara and Falk on the Dick Cavett show on youtube, it's hiiiiiiilarious.

5.Paul Thomas Anderson
With only 5 films under his belt, Paul Thomas Anderson is a newcomer to cinema compared to the veterans listed above. However, he has had what can only be described as an astonishing career so far. He is a master with actors, often surrounding himself with a cast of regulars including Julianne Moore, John. C Reilly, Luis Guzman, Philip Baker Hall, and of course the always brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman. In Magnolia he used Tom Cruise's fame and screen presence to great effect as a pitiful sex guru, whilst in Punch-Drunk Love he played with the Adam Sandler screen-persona. He would not be on this list however, if not for his latest picture There Will Be Blood, which I consider to be a career-best and one of the greatest films I have seen in a very long time. I can't wait to see what he is going to next.

Honourable mentions go to Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, David Lean, Terrence Mallick, Woody Allen and Joel and Ethan Coen. 

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Post by: Lars on July 08, 2008, 11:36:02 pm
did anyone call esh an asiafag?

anyway:

1. John Carpenter
2. Terry Gilliam
3. David Lynch

maybe ill remember some more...
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Post by: Parker on July 09, 2008, 02:07:31 am
1. Wes Anderson
2. Hitchcock
3. Coen Brothers

I can only do three. :\

I will nominate Kevin Smith as one of my least favorite directors of all time, though.
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Post by: Roman on July 09, 2008, 03:07:59 am
incomplete lists will be ignored!!!!

oh excuse me

UNcomplete lists will be ignored

edit: wait uncomplete is a word fuck that

edit: worst post '08
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Post by: Ryan on July 09, 2008, 04:44:18 am
1. Steven Spielberg
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Francis Ford Coppola
4. David Cronenberg
5. Christopher Nolan
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Post by: Tau on July 09, 2008, 07:08:23 am
That list is unbeatable!

I can only think of..

4 - Peter Jackson(King Kong, Lord of The Rings) They were well done films, not as good as people say but they were pretty good.

3 - James Cameron(Terminator, Terminator 2 Judgment Day, Aliens, Dark Angel.. Jessica Alba is fine!) Aliens was an awesome movie same with the first two Terminators. He deserves my recognition and I'm looking forward to Avatar.

2 - David Fincher(Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Zodiac) This guy deserves this spot for making my favorite film Fight Club.

1 - Steven Spielberg(Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report) Steven Spielberg is just a great director and I hope to see his influence more in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen(Bad name) and get past The Crystal Skull.
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Post by: Roman on July 09, 2008, 08:03:35 am
why isn't roman polanski getting any love from you bastards
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Post by: local_dunce on July 09, 2008, 08:50:08 am
Because isn't he fucked up? And isn't he a pedophile? Isn't he the guy who will be ARRESTED if he ever steps foot in the US? He also directed Macbeth which is just one of the worst films ever and like THE PIANIST doesn't even make up for that. I don't even know why actors continue to work with him because if I remember correctly he pleaded guilty to raping some 10 year old girl (whaaat) maybe I got my facts mixed up but yeah. After all that he is not even THAT GREAT A DIRECTOR MAKE GOOD FILM. The Pianist was kind of sub-par a little bit and that's the film I LIKE.
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Post by: Roman on July 09, 2008, 09:32:34 am
Quote from: Jet Son on July 09, 2008, 08:50:08 am
Because isn't he fucked up? And isn't he a pedophile? Isn't he the guy who will be ARRESTED if he ever steps foot in the US? He also directed Macbeth which is just one of the worst films ever and like THE PIANIST doesn't even make up for that. I don't even know why actors continue to work with him because if I remember correctly he pleaded guilty to raping some 10 year old girl (whaaat) maybe I got my facts mixed up but yeah. After all that he is not even THAT GREAT A DIRECTOR MAKE GOOD FILM. The Pianist was kind of sub-par a little bit and that's the film I LIKE.

He pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor (she was 13, not 10).  That's still pretty fucked up but HE RAPED A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL sounds a lot worse! 

Besides, his best movies, with the exception of The Pianist (which I thought was really good but then again I'm polish so I have to like it, but then again it was also really good and I don't see why you think it was SUB PAR) and apparently Tess, were made before the scandal, so I'm not exactly sure if it's fair to say HE'S A PEDOPHILE when discussing those movies.
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Post by: Roman on July 09, 2008, 10:24:38 am
Also, I'm not sure if it's fair to say HE'S A PEDOPHILE when discussing any of his movies.  Maybe if you were discussing Roman Polanski: The Person, ok, but he's still made a lot of really good movies and I don't see a problem with at least respecting his talent.
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Post by: GaZZwa on July 09, 2008, 12:45:35 pm
Roman Polanski is awesome! Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby (with our old friend John Cassavetes starring) and of course The Pianist are all brilliant films. And then there's Pirates with Walter Matthau!
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Post by: local_dunce on July 09, 2008, 02:25:34 pm
The thing is I take the PERSON into consideration when I make votes like this I guess. I mean I think Quentin Tarantino is actually a pretty good director of MOVIES but like, as a person he is a despicable human being, could not vote for him.
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Post by: crone_lover720 on July 10, 2008, 04:57:37 am
I don't know anything about most of these people's personal lives

polanski had a pretty horrible life (parents gassed by nazis or something, pregnant wife killed by the manson family). not that it excuses what he did at all, but you'd have to be surprised if he wasn't messed up. but in the end it was probably what made me pick someone else over him! even if you try to exclude personal matters, really terrible shit like that has to leak over a little. probably why it's so rare to hear oh god I love polanski!! versus I love chinatown/pianist etc. personally I don't think this should exclude him in any list of best directors, but there's probably some subconscious thing going on and you can't blame anyone for not voting for him (even though I was surprised to see him entirely forgotten on the previous list)

also a lot of lists are a lot more personal than objective, so take it as you will

I don't know anything about tarantinitoes whatd he do
Title: GW Top 5 Directors II
Post by: Mongoloid on July 10, 2008, 06:53:02 am
1. Michael Bay
2. George Lucas
3. Jon Favreau
4. Zach Braff
5. Rob Reiner
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Post by: Ryan on July 11, 2008, 06:16:02 am
michael bay :(​((

he's so awful
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Post by: Roman on July 11, 2008, 06:58:03 am
Quote from: radio_raheem on July 11, 2008, 05:54:56 am
is this a joke post

i was going to ask this but i think that im being kind of a dick lately but

seriously eric???

to each his own but come on michael bay?

edit: also ALL THE REST with the slight exception of rob reiner but honestly i dont really understand why michael bay is your top choice!

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Post by: PTizzle on July 11, 2008, 07:51:38 am
Yeah, as I said in the other thread (the final one) Zach Braff made one pretty awesome movie but that's all he's done directing-wise bar 6 Scrubs episodes. Garden State wasn't that good.
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Post by: RPG on July 11, 2008, 01:17:34 pm
I'll give you 10....

01 - Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys)
02 - Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain)
03 - Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Nausicaa)
04 - Peter Weir (Truman Show, Dead Poet Society)
05 - David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en)
06 - John Carpenter (Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from NY/LA)
07 - Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, The Verdict )
08 - Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children)
09 - Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker, Solaris)
10 - David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Dune)
11 - Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M)
12 - Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator)
13 - Tim Burton (Batman,  Edward Scissorhand)

Wait, that's like.. 14? Well dude, I don't have some BEST DIRECTORS ranking and those are just some whose movies I enjoy, in different ways... even the order is random because, for example, I only saw City of Lost Children by Caro and Jeunet and I enjoyed it more than the average Burton movie, but I'm not sure if they're actually 'better directors'. I enjoyed Metropolis and Big Trouble in Little China in entirely different ways and I can't think of any way to compare the directors...
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Post by: Strangeluv on July 11, 2008, 02:44:40 pm
Not in any order:

1. Martin Scorsese

2. Stanley Kubrick

3. Peter Weir

4. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

5. David Fincher

6. David Lynch

7. Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu

8. David Cronenberg

9. Richard Linklater

10. Alfred Hitchcock
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Post by: UPRC on July 11, 2008, 03:07:54 pm
RPG and Strangeluv cheat. Ban them.
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Post by: Mongoloid on July 14, 2008, 12:56:05 am
Does Jack Black count as a director? Cause I only put Rob Reiner cause I didn't have 5.
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Post by: Hundley on July 22, 2008, 08:43:02 am
john huston
carol reed
wim wenders
richard lester
mike judge

just trying to be different



NOTE: my votes should count DOUBLE VALUE so michael bay and the rest of the knuckleheads eric nominated fail to make it

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Post by: Mongoloid on July 23, 2008, 04:34:05 am
hey dude i have a degree in literature so my answers mean more than yours
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Post by: baseball19225 on July 28, 2008, 01:24:13 pm
1. Orson Welles - kane rules touch of evil rules wotw rules
2. Stephen Soderbergh - schizopoly
3. Uwe Boll - yep this is a real list so you gotta count this vote BITCH
4. David Lynch - *jacks off*
5. Sergio Leone - cowpoys
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Post by: Bonehead on August 10, 2008, 12:38:41 am
Well, guess my list isn't as original as the others but yeah..

5. Richard Kelly (Southland Tales, Donnie Darko)
4. Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Marc Caro (Dunno which one's which since they both stand as directors for Delicatessen and City of the Lost Children >_>)
3. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown)
2. Tim Burton (Nighmare before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands)
1. Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Tideland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
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Post by: Roman on August 10, 2008, 07:26:22 am
man, i don't really know how anyone can take richard kelly as a serious, intelligent director after southland tales

did you know that the whole point of that movie is that CHRISTIANITY PREVAILS ABOVE ALL

what a piece of shit man.  it's kind of a shame because he's kind of a decent DIRECTOR i guess but man.
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Post by: tuxedo marx on August 10, 2008, 11:36:40 am
1. Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys)
2. Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission, City of Joy)
3. Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Matchstick Men)
4. Sergio Leone (A Fistful of Dollars, The Good the Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West)
5. James Cameron (Aliens, The Terminator, The Abyss)
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Post by: Lyndon on August 10, 2008, 12:09:19 pm
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. James Cameron
3. Wes Anderson
4. Steven Spielberg
5. David Lynch

The order isn't concrete, except Kubrick being number 1
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Post by: Bonehead on August 10, 2008, 10:47:35 pm
Quote from: Roman on August 10, 2008, 07:26:22 am
man, i don't really know how anyone can take richard kelly as a serious, intelligent director after southland tales

did you know that the whole point of that movie is that CHRISTIANITY PREVAILS ABOVE ALL

what a piece of shit man.  it's kind of a shame because he's kind of a decent DIRECTOR i guess but man.
Oh.. must have slipped me by. I just enjoyed seeing the two cars bonking each other and how he portrayed
media throughout the movie. So the whole one-soul-touch-ma-finger-thing was about that? Guess I'm too
stupid to note that hehe. Donnie Darko's pretty good though >_>
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Post by: Roman on August 11, 2008, 12:00:23 am
Quote from: Bonehead on August 10, 2008, 10:47:35 pm
Oh.. must have slipped me by. I just enjoyed seeing the two cars bonking each other and how he portrayed
media throughout the movie. So the whole one-soul-touch-ma-finger-thing was about that? Guess I'm too
stupid to note that hehe. Donnie Darko's pretty good though >_>

It's not entirely obvious from watching the movie, but here's an interesting little tidbit from IMDb:

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Is 'The Power' important for understanding Southland Tales?

Not really, but it explains why the tattoo of Jesus on the back of Boxer's neck starts bleeding at the end of the film. This means that Christianity has won the "contest" for Earth and is the one true faith.

Fuck!!!  What a douche. 

I don't know, Donnie Darko's ok at best but it does have a pretty good visual style (then again last time I saw it was a few years back so my opinion on this may have changed since then), but fuck, Richard Kelly shouldn't be allowed to write his own movies.  The sci-fi aspect of Donnie Darko's plot is just so ridiculous and relies too much on MADE UP LOGIC and it's just like come on man.  Other than that it's pretty good if you're a teenager I guess.
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Post by: Bonehead on August 11, 2008, 01:26:06 am
Heh, yeah well I guess it depends on how you watch the movie. There's stuff that ain't that good in those movies,
but also stuff I like in them. I didn't know about the christianity thing in Southland Tales until you said it and even
though it's a pretty cheesy conclusion to the movie, I still like the other parts of it. Also, in Darko, there's some stuff
about the whole schizofrenic thingis I enjoyed as well. Guess the taste's like the butt, split.

I was gonna put Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 10.000 BC) instead cause I enjoy watching
brainless "humanity saves the world" kind of movies with epic soundtracks, but oh well..
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Post by: ATARI on August 11, 2008, 01:55:38 am
there's brainless but 10,000 BC and The Day After are just braindead man it's impossible to enjoy any of those movie on any possible level
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Post by: Roman on August 11, 2008, 02:05:41 am
Yeah seriously man, there's a scene in The Day After Tomorrow where they run away from COLD WEATHER, holy shit. 
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Post by: Bonehead on August 11, 2008, 01:29:38 pm
Sheesh you guys are tough. Should've skipped my fifth. Let's just leave it at that people watch
movies for different reasons sometimes.. I bet you hate Beerfest as well.
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Post by: Lyndon on August 11, 2008, 04:43:14 pm
Quote from: straightXedge on August 11, 2008, 01:55:38 am
there's brainless but 10,000 BC and The Day After are just braindead man it's impossible to enjoy any of those movie on any possible level

hey come on, at least it portrays a decent message at the end of day after tommorow about how the northern hemisphere shits all over the southern hemisphere with polution, but a twist of fate means that the northern hemisphere needs them to survive.

It's pretty melodramtic, but has its heart in the right place.

Also, the CGI is pretty incredible in that movie, although I do agree that the cold wouldn't chase them like it does in that one part. That's probably the worst part of the movie. Other than that, you can still enjoy it on a 'popcorn' level, unless you are one of these characters that will only like something that has a psuedo-intellectual message behind it.
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Post by: Roman on August 11, 2008, 06:02:20 pm
Quote from: Bonehead on August 11, 2008, 01:29:38 pm
Sheesh you guys are tough. Should've skipped my fifth. Let's just leave it at that people watch
movies for different reasons sometimes.. I bet you hate Beerfest as well.

Actually yeah, I didn't really think Beerfest was that funny.  You should have said Super Troopers, that one was much better!

edit: I didn't dislike Beerfest though, it just wasn't as funny as I was led to believe it was.
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Post by: Bill Murray on August 11, 2008, 06:29:25 pm
Beerfest sounds like a barrel of laughs.

Thank you, I'm here all week.
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Post by: ATARI on August 12, 2008, 01:53:18 am
never seen beerfest

Quote
hey come on, at least it portrays a decent message at the end of day after tommorow about how the northern hemisphere shits all over the southern hemisphere with polution, but a twist of fate means that the northern hemisphere needs them to survive.

It's pretty melodramtic, but has its heart in the right place.

Also, the CGI is pretty incredible in that movie, although I do agree that the cold wouldn't chase them like it does in that one part. That's probably the worst part of the movie. Other than that, you can still enjoy it on a 'popcorn' level, unless you are one of these characters that will only like something that has a psuedo-intellectual message behind it.

i'm all for being enviromentally friendly and the awareness and all that but that doesn't excuse a movie to be a terrible as horse shit
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Post by: Shadow Wolf on August 20, 2008, 08:14:23 pm
5: Ridley Scott - Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner
4: Andy & Larry Wachowski - The Matrix and V for Vendetta are good enough to forgive them for the Matrix 2 and 3.
3: David Fincher - Fight Club and Se7en are awesome. And you know it.
2: Quentin Tarentino - Well you know. Pulp Fiction.
1: Frank Darabont - For my 2 favourite movies of all time, The Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile.
(Note: This list is not completely thought through. I am too lazy to be assed.)
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Post by: Roman on August 20, 2008, 08:32:24 pm
The Wachowski brothers didn't direct V for Vendetta.  Just so you know.
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Post by: headphonics on August 20, 2008, 09:24:13 pm
Quote from: Roman on August 10, 2008, 07:26:22 am
man, i don't really know how anyone can take richard kelly as a serious, intelligent director after southland tales

did you know that the whole point of that movie is that CHRISTIANITY PREVAILS ABOVE ALL

what a piece of shit man.  it's kind of a shame because he's kind of a decent DIRECTOR i guess but man.
is it really?

i started watching southland tales and it was just all this ridiculous shit and i kind of had hopes for it being good in a really ridiculous way.  that's disappointing!
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Post by: Roman on August 20, 2008, 09:42:37 pm
Quote from: headphonics on August 20, 2008, 09:24:13 pm
is it really?

i started watching southland tales and it was just all this ridiculous shit and i kind of had hopes for it being good in a really ridiculous way.  that's disappointing!

Yeah pretty much.  Boxer Santaros has a bunch of tatoos on his body of different religious symbols, one of which is, of course, Jesus (naturally it's also in the center).  At the end of the movie the Jesus tattoo starts bleeding.  It isn't actually explained in the movie (being a RICHARD KELLY movie you have to do a bunch of outside reading to understand what the fuck is going on), but if you do some reading you'll find out that there was like a prophecy or some shit that said that at the end of the world, the tattoo of the ONE TRUE RELIGION will start to bleed.  As the IMDb FAQ so eloquently puts it, Christianity wins the contest of the religions.

It's stupid.
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Post by: Lyndon on August 20, 2008, 09:44:29 pm
you're expected to read the three graphic novels, which occur before the movie to understand it. That's horse shit
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Post by: Wash Cycle on August 27, 2008, 04:10:06 pm
Since all these guys are pretty well known I will just list my favorite by them

1. Coen Brothers (Big Lebowski)
2. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove)
3. Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
4. Steven Soderbergh (Kafka)
5. Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man)
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Post by: Herr Artischocke on August 27, 2008, 05:33:10 pm
1. Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, The Nightmare Before Christmas)
2. Cameron Crowe (Say Anything, Jerry Maguire)
3. Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Cast Away)
4. David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac)
5. Steven Spielberg (in general)
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Post by: TheMonster on August 27, 2008, 08:33:49 pm
seriously I could never get into the Coen brothers, they're style and story telling is so boring and plain. Take Fargo it seemed so interresting but ended so boring and dull, maybe I just overlooked allot of themes but whatever.

Also Cameron Crowe has allot of average films but Vanilla sky was just great..... Roman what did you think of that film?
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Post by: Master Tea on August 28, 2008, 06:11:51 am
1. Charles Chaplin
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Billy Wilder
5. Martin Scorsese

honorable mention: mel gibson
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Post by: Roman on August 28, 2008, 05:03:05 pm
Quote from: TheMonster on August 27, 2008, 08:33:49 pm
Also Cameron Crowe has allot of average films but Vanilla sky was just great..... Roman what did you think of that film?

I've only seen parts of it and I thought it was pretty unwatchable.  I mean the IMDb plot synopsis makes it sound like the type of movie I would enjoy but I couldn't really get past the shitty music and some other stuff that I can't remember right now.  But just in case I downloaded it and I'm going to give it another chance but I fully expect to not like it.  WE'LL SEE I guess.
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Post by: Blitzen on August 28, 2008, 05:41:55 pm
Mel Brooks
Peter Wier
Stanley Kubrick
Mel Brooks
Sergio Leone
Mel Brooks (lol)
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Post by: TheMonster on August 28, 2008, 08:16:27 pm
Quote from: Roman on August 28, 2008, 05:03:05 pm
I've only seen parts of it and I thought it was pretty unwatchable.  I mean the IMDb plot synopsis makes it sound like the type of movie I would enjoy but I couldn't really get past the shitty music and some other stuff that I can't remember right now.  But just in case I downloaded it and I'm going to give it another chance but I fully expect to not like it.  WE'LL SEE I guess.


Yeah the soundtrack was actually to good for the film, every scene had like a epic pop-icon song.... however it was Camerons idea to put in as many references to popculture.
The film was rather hollywood-ish but I think that in this case it really worked, if it was too; "hollywood" for you I suggest Abre los ojos, it is exactly the same concept just a different director and penelope Cruz is still in it  :naughty:


I am guessing that the synopsis gave away the ending?
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Post by: Roman on September 03, 2008, 05:13:51 am
Quote from: Roman on August 28, 2008, 05:03:05 pm
I've only seen parts of it and I thought it was pretty unwatchable.  I mean the IMDb plot synopsis makes it sound like the type of movie I would enjoy but I couldn't really get past the shitty music and some other stuff that I can't remember right now.  But just in case I downloaded it and I'm going to give it another chance but I fully expect to not like it.  WE'LL SEE I guess.

man that movie fucking sucked
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Post by: TheMonster on September 03, 2008, 06:20:22 am
elaborate
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Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on September 03, 2008, 02:56:38 pm
it's a pretty dumb movie.

heres my opinion by some other guy.

http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/vanillasky.html
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Post by: Roman on September 03, 2008, 03:46:43 pm
Quote from: Pidgeotto221 on September 03, 2008, 02:56:38 pm
it's a pretty dumb movie.

heres my opinion by some other guy.

http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/vanillasky.html

This guy is the best, by the way. 

Anyway, short answer is that everything about the movie sucked; long answer coming after class.
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Post by: Parker on September 04, 2008, 01:50:17 am
Quote from: TheMonster on August 27, 2008, 08:33:49 pm
Also Cameron Crowe has allot of average films but Vanilla sky was just great..... Roman what did you think of that film?
I couldn't enjoy that movie. I tried really hard, but the movie tried harder. The movie tried too hard. It just tried too hard... way too hard...
Also, here's my list:

1. Coen Brothers (Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Fargo)
2. Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Life Aquatic)
3. David Fincher (Zodiac, Seven, Fight Club)
4. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove)
5. Steven Soderbergh (Oceans 11, Traffic)
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Post by: Bill Murray on September 04, 2008, 02:10:07 am
btw pzyburn posd a seriaus lict
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Post by: PTizzle on September 15, 2008, 04:19:58 am
I hate hate hate Vanilla Sky.