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Notice the jump in points from 3 to 2.

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Come on Stevie, you can do it!


Yes, lets go! #2 please!

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Oops, sorry. Thought I read something about 19 and you...might've been 3 years ago. ;)

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2. Alfred Hitchcock - 61.5 points

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Damn! Stevie beat Hitch!

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Well shit. :(

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Hitchcock is great.

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Exchange Spielberg and Kubrick.

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Post Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW!
And with just 1 point more than number 2, the winner is (as expected):

1. Steven Spielberg - 62.5 points

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Damn! Stevie beat Hitch!


Steven has yet to make a bad movie.

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1. James Wan - 65.5 points

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Good job. Thanks Price. All involved too.

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We don't see eye-to-eye on this one, Groucho.

I have not truly liked a Spielberg film since Schindler's List...14 years ago!

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Groucho wrote:
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Damn! Stevie beat Hitch!


Steven has yet to make a bad movie.



Well, if you don't count "horrible" under "bad", than yes. :-p

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01 Jean-Luc Godard 94
02 Alfred Hitchcock 2
03 Ingmar Bergman 28
04 Stanley Kubrick 3
05 Richard Linklater 67
06 Woody Allen 16
07 Krzysztof Kieslowski 85
08 Wong Kar-Wai 83
09 Orson Welles 17
10 Martin Scorsese 4
11 Akira Kurosawa 19
12 David Lynch 27
13 David Gordon Green --
14 Joel Coen/Ethan Coen 13
15 Terrence Malick 58
16 Satoshi Kon --
17 François Truffaut 87
18 Charles Chaplin 12
19 Steven Spielberg 1
20 Quentin Tarantino 6


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My top 20.

1.Steven Spielberg
2.John Ford
3.Charles Chaplin
4.Stanley Kubrick
5.Alfred Hitchcock
6.Frank Capra
7.Akira Kurosawa
8.Hayao Miyazaki
9.Federico Fellini
10.Luis Buñuel
11.Martin Scorsese
12.Orson Welles
13.John Huston
14.David Lean
15.Robert Zemeckis
16.Elia Kazan
17.Ingmar Bergman
18.Peter Weir
19.Ridley Scott
20.Peter Jackson



All but 1(Buñuel) made it.


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01 Jean-Luc Godard 94
02 Alfred Hitchcock 2
03 Ingmar Bergman 28
04 Stanley Kubrick 3
05 Richard Linklater 67
06 Woody Allen 16
07 Krzysztof Kieslowski 85
08 Wong Kar-Wai 83
09 Orson Welles 17
10 Martin Scorsese 4
11 Akira Kurosawa 19
12 David Lynch 27
13 David Gordon Green --
14 Joel Coen/Ethan Coen 13
15 Terrence Malick 58
16 Satoshi Kon --
17 François Truffaut 87
18 Charles Chaplin 12
19 Steven Spielberg 1
20 Quentin Tarantino 6


List updated for Kypade. And not bad, 18 of your top 20 made it.

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1. Woody Allen 16
2. Ernst Lubitsch 84
3. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger IGNORED
4. Orson Welles 17
5. Charles Chaplin 12
6. Billy Wilder 20
7. Alfred Hitchcock 2
8. Buster Keaton IGNORED
9. John Huston 73
10. Bob Fosse IGNORED
11. F.W. Murnau IGNORED
12. Vincente Minnelli IGNORED
13. Howard Hawks 49
14. Preston Sturges IGNORED
15. Elia Kazan 68
16. King Vidor IGNORED
17. François Truffaut 87
18. Ingmar Bergman 28
19. Josef Von Sternberg IGNORED
20. Robert Altman 70


12 of my 20.

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Post Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW!
My own ballot

1. John Carpenter
2. Sam Peckinpah
3. Krzysztof Kieslowski
4. John McTiernan
5. James Cameron
6. Samuel Fuller
7. Neil Marshall
8. Neil Jordan
9. Hayao Miyazaki
10. Paul Verhoeven
11. Peter Weir
12. Mel Brooks
13. David Cronenberg
14. Clint Eastwood
15. Roger Corman
16. Francis Ford Coppola
17. Michael Haneke
18. Paul Greengrass
19. Sergio Leone
20. Edgar Wright

16 of those appeared so I'm relatively happy.

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Post Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW!
makeshift wrote:
Shack wrote:
Groucho wrote:
It's just frustrated to have to deal with certain posters on this board who have this attitude that any film made before they were old enough to watch movies must be not worth watching and thus anyone who wants to do so must be pretentious...


I assume by the pretentious comment trix was referring to yosh and makeshift pretending their taste is better than anyone else's.


Not everyone's, just your's. :thumbsup:


Thanks for confirming my point

There is really nothing that says you have > or < taste than me, trix, Zingaling, or that schlub across the street.

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01. Joe Dante 97.
02. Paul Verhoeven 32.
03. George Lucas 30.
04. Tim Burton 14.
05. John Milius --
06. Sam Peckinpah 64.
07. John Carpenter 41.
08. Brian DePalma 22.
09. Blake Edwards --
10. Terry Gilliam 46.
11. David Lynch 27.
12. Ernst Lubitsch 84.
13. John McTiernan 47.
14. Martin Scorsese 4.
15. John Sayles --
16. Steven Spielberg 1.
17. Ridley Scott 11.
18. Walter Hill --
19. Frank Capra 15.
20. David Fincher 10.

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Nebs voted for Fincher and Burton :ohmy: ...get the ropes...

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You are obviously free to place whomever you like on your list, Gullimont.

But Edgar Wright? :zonks:

And what's a Neil Marshall?

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Well, yoshue, you and I were the only ones to have Powell/Pressburger in our top 20. :thumbsup:

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Price: :hug:
When will people learn?

What was the P&P vote total?

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