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Poll Question: Which of these do you prefer?
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Kubrick!
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David Fincher for me.  I love pretty much every film he has directed (minus Panic Room) and that includes my all time favorite film, FIght Club.  I'm really looking forward to his adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.


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Originally posted by Anthony H. Anthony H. wrote:

Tarantino. 
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Tarantino. 
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Its good to see Kubrick is getting well deserved acclaim and consideration here! Kurosawa comes second.
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Kubrick isn't one of my absolute favourites, but he's the only director I can think of who successfully changed genre with practically every film he made.
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^It moves slowly, but let me tell you - you´re in for a real treat if you´re into dramatic classical music. Again they work very well with the movie, and especially the fight scenes become so terrifyingly absurd, that you have to laugh once in a while. This is so weird to watch!
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In just moments I'm going to watch one of the movies I haven't seen so far from Mr Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (only Paths of Glory left), 3 hours epicness here we go... 
I look up, I'm almost blinded

by the warmth of what's inside me

and the taste that's in my soul,

but I'm dead inside as I stand alone...
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^Hey Iván.

I voted for Kubrick too, but then again I don´t find it particularly strange that Stanley is winning at a forum, that dwells in metaphysics, weird pictures and perhaps even more absurd stories about hares without spectacles and furry animals on Broadway.
Some of the scenes in 2001, The Shining, Clockwork and Eyes Wide Shut practically screams for proggers to make into some sort of epic. Just food for thought. 
I also think he was one of the first directors that did without the movie orchestras (which infuriated them as hell), because why should they bother to make stuff up, when he just as well could use some of the best music that already was at his disposal? He has a fantastic way of interconnecting what´s happening on the screen to the moods and tempers of the sometimes powerful music he chooses for the scene.  
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Stanley Kubrick takes my vote:

People like Orson Welles, Fellini, Bernardo Bertolluci, Martin Scorsese, Cronenberg, Einsenstein, Luis Buñuel, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties is a masterpiece), Francois Truffaut and Wiliam Friedkin should also be mentioned among many others .

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Love a lot of those guys, but I threw a vote to Fincher as he looked lonely.

But Alfred Hitchcock is probably my favourite off the list. Kubrick and Spielbergo get a mention too
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First Kubrick

then Spielberg
 
then Tarantino
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Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

Originally posted by tupan tupan wrote:

Originally posted by Eärendil Eärendil wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

 and Spielberg's a joke


Seriously?  Maybe over-rated, but definitely not a joke.


I think Spielberg is too "family-friendly" sometimes.
Shindlers List, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Indiana Jones are hardly family friendly,,,, imo, Indiana Joness is fearly graphical and violent and should not be shown childre, couse of obscure religous images, NO ONE CAN SAY THAT THE ARC WILL KILL PEOPLE WHO OPENS IT, and heads explodes give WRONg images of religious punishment WHAM


The ending of Minority Report could be better.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

It had some beautiful landscapes in it. Smile

There were some nice scenery shots, that's true. But nothing else about it was remotely good.


I think I liked enough of Antichrist to be interested in seeing what else this director does, but I would not call it an excellent movie either. Like I said I was impressed enough with the direction to be interested further.

I'd same the same for Sweetie from my list above.


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You guys need to watch his old stuff. He has been copycatting his own work for a long while now.
Check out Riget or Idioterne(The Idiots) - so much better, and Idioterne actually starts his whole love affair with fragile/insane women. It´s just original in this case... 
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

It had some beautiful landscapes in it. Smile

There were some nice scenery shots, that's true. But nothing else about it was remotely good.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

It had some beautiful landscapes in it. Smile

There were some nice scenery shots, that's true. But nothing else about it was remotely good.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

Antichrist (Director: Lars von Trier)

People actually liked Antichrist? Huh.

It had some beautiful landscapes in it. Smile
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Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

You may have just picked from the list, still: no Paul Thomas Anderson?

I like the Coens more than PTA. Just because I have this name doesn't mean it's my favorite movie of all time. ;-)
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

Antichrist (Director: Lars von Trier)

People actually liked Antichrist? Huh.

Coens brothers for me, I don't care much about most of the others.


You may have just picked from the list, still: no Paul Thomas Anderson?
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