Guest Vern Gagne Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 Alfred Hitchcock vs Martin Scorsece
Guest C.H.U.D. Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 Whoa, Scorcese beat out Welles? Fear the wrath of the movie elitists! My vote is for: Hitchcock
Guest Lethargic Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 Scorcese in the finals of best director, good lord, what a complete sham. Hitchcock is the winner.
Guest J*ingus Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 Christ, I have at least a dozen others I'd vote for in an instant instead of these two, but ah well, ya takes what ya can get. Scorsese
Guest godthedog Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! scorsese
Guest ArkhamGlobe Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 Gah! How to pick? Ah, fuck it, I'll go with Scorsese.
Guest Edwin MacPhisto Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 Scorcese, though I'd pick at least 3 people who were in the original poll before either of them. Boo, hiss!
Guest Lethargic Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 This is the saddest poll in the history of mankind.
Guest Gamengiri2002 Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 no this isn't the saddest poll ever, Kevin Smith could have made it to the finals.... Scorsese of course I'll go ahead and post my top ten, just to weigh in on the contest as a whole. 1.Martin Scorsese 2.Akira Kurosawa 3.Alfred Hitchcock 4.Howard Hawks 5.Francois Truffaut 6.Fritz Lang 7.Ingmar Bergman 8.Orson Welles 9.Stanley Kubrick 10.Roman Polanski Yes this contest could have been better but it appears as though my fav. is going to win. SO I'm not complaining.
Guest Ravenbomb Posted December 18, 2002 Report Posted December 18, 2002 YES! YES! YES! THERE IS A GOD! my vote, of course, goes to Martin F'n Scorsese! IN YOUR FACE, ORSON WELLS!
Guest godthedog Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 YES! YES! YES! THERE IS A GOD! my vote, of course, goes to Martin F'n Scorsese! IN YOUR FACE, ORSON WELLS! who is this wells you speak of? i learned from calvin & hobbes that hyperboles should be saved for when you really need them. this isn't even close to being the saddest poll in the history of mankind, nor is it even close to being the saddest DIRECTOR poll in the history of mankind. the saddest poll i could think of would have something like 'hal p. warren v. bert i. gordon' for the finals. my top five, for the hell of it: orson welles francois truffaut martin scorsese jean-luc godard akira kurosawa
Guest Ravenbomb Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 geez, SORRY, so I accidentally left out the second E. my top 5: Scorsese Kurosawa Hitchcock David Fincher Sidney Lumet
Guest Gamengiri2002 Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 hey godthedog, I thought I remembered you saying that you weren't that big of a Godard fan. Am I crazy? If not, did he just grow on you, and if so, suggest some stuff to me, I've seen "Band of Outsiders" and "A bout de souffle" both of which were pretty good, but didn't strike me as hard. I want to understand and appreciate him more but perhaps I'm unsurfacing the wrong material.
Guest ArkhamGlobe Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 Top ten, alphabetical order: Claude Chabrol Jean-Luc Godard Howard Hawks Werner Herzog Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Roman Polanski Martin Scorsese Francois Truffaut
Guest godthedog Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 hey godthedog, I thought I remembered you saying that you weren't that big of a Godard fan. Am I crazy? If not, did he just grow on you, and if so, suggest some stuff to me, I've seen "Band of Outsiders" and "A bout de souffle" both of which were pretty good, but didn't strike me as hard. I want to understand and appreciate him more but perhaps I'm unsurfacing the wrong material. you are correct, i've previously said on the board that he's the most overrated director ever. i had this weird obsessive thing where i hated him, yet i couldn't stop watching his movies. i kept looking for something that would give me some indication of how people could think he was good, till i saw 'pierrot le fou' in class. totally blew me away & instantly became one of my favorite movies, and i've seen it 3 times in the last 2 months or so. that's easily one of the best movies he ever made (even from an objective standpoint), & the best jumping-on point. godard's usual tendency to get talky & ponderous & boring is totally absent from that movie: everything is vibrant, exciting and a ton of fun to watch. amazing characters, & amazing ways of exploring the medium. here's how i'd rate the godards i've seen: excellent, must-see: 'pierrot le fou', 'weekend' (but don't see 'weekend' until after 'pierrot', or else you'll probably be bored to death) very good: 'le petit soldat' good, worth watching: 'band of outsiders', 'alphaville', 'woman is a woman', 'contempt' decent: 'breathless' marginally bad: 'vivre sa vie', 'masculine/feminine' total piece of crap, avoid at all costs: '2 or 3 things i know about her', 'hail mary' he made about 14 movies in a period of 8 years, & the diversity and depth of those 14 movies are incredible. i can't think of anyone else who did so much in such a small amount of time, which is the main reason i included him. the other reason is that he's an original, & for better or for worse his style is totally unique.
Guest godthedog Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 Top ten, alphabetical order: Claude Chabrol Jean-Luc Godard Howard Hawks Werner Herzog Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Roman Polanski Martin Scorsese Francois Truffaut guide me to some great chabrol movies. i studied him, but i never got to watch anything of his.
Guest El Satanico Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 This is another tough choice for me to make. Alfred Hitchcock
Guest 5_moves_of_doom Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh... Martin.
Guest DrTom Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 I like both, but I'll have to give the nod to Hitchcock. Good eeeeeeevening.
Guest Vern Gagne Posted December 19, 2002 Report Posted December 19, 2002 This is the saddest poll in the history of mankind. Cry me a fucking river! These are two of the most popular and critically acclaimed directors of all time. If you have a problem with this tournament than don't vote.
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