8 points: 3.5+2.5+1+1

The director of Dog Soldiers and The Descent Yos....................horror movies

Actually even though I love the guy he isn't top 20 material for me in reality but I was hoping a high placing would push him onto the list.

Price, I blame the school systems. And Jesus.

While we're on the subject, I wanted to introduce P&P to some friends, but I wasn't sure where to start. What was your first? I can't remember if mine was Colonel Blimp or Black Narcissus.

my ballot,some were write ins,
but what can you do.
I'm glad for Verhoeven

1 Howard Hawks
2 Raoul Walsh
3 Alfred Hitchcock
4 Sam Peckinpah
5 John Ford
6 Paul Verhoeven
7 Billy Wilder
8 John Milius
9 Katheryn Bigelow
10 Robert Benton
11 Don Siegel
12 Joseph Ruben
13 Brian DePalma
14 John McTiernan
15 James Cameron
16 Samuel Fuller
17 Robert Aldrich
18 Walter Hill
19 David Cronenberg
20 Cameron Crowe

And please, no fighting because of taste. Everyone has a different one, and if you like something, who am I to say if it's good or bad.

What I don't like is when people generalize, and automatically say something old must be bad or viceversa, that because it's new it can be as good as something old. Be open to everything and give it a chance.

I actually caught the Descent a few weeks ago. Didn't like it much. But apparently my mother did.

I say you mail everyone a copy of Supersonic Man to give them a taste of flawless cinema.

Ooooo you actually watched it, well thats good enough for me : )

First one I saw was The Tales of Hoffman, then Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going and the last one A Matter of Life and Death.

Before all that, I had seen Peeping Tom, The Battle of the River Plate and They're a Weird Mob by Powell alone.

Probably the most worth it line of the whole thread. Pretty brilliant, yosh.

That's a CLASSIC!!! And I will add a copy of the soundtrack! Watch out, John Williams!

Dumped on by a fellow horror fan, the hurt!!

Supersonic Man....I WANNA BE!!

Doomsday's coming! Then they will understand!

I tried to say that, but your words were better : )

Anyways here's my ballot. Kind of uninspired, mostly because I haven't seen a third of the movies I'd like to yet.

1. James Cameron - 5
2. Alfred Hitchcock - 2
3. Stanley Kubrick - 3
4. Quentin Tarantino - 6
5. P. T. Anderson - 57
6. Joel Coen/Ethan Coen - 13
7. Martin Scorsese - 4
8. Wolfgang Petersen - 66
9. Terry Gilliam - 46
10. Oliver Stone - 26
11. John Carpenter - 41
12. Sidney Lumet - 25
13. Ridley Scott - 11
14. David Fincher - 10
15. David Lean - 21
16. Tim Burton - 14
17. Frank Capra - 15
18. Mel Gibson - 74
19. Rob Reiner - 61
20. Francis Ford Coppola - 7

The December release seems to have been delayed at us thou

I just looked up this Doomsday stuff.

So it's 28 Days Later with an action bent, starring Malcolm McDowell, Rhona Mitra, and Bob Hoskins?

hahahahahahahahaha

I suspect Joe will be name dropping it in one of the Direct-to-DVD threads any moment now.

Oh you know, except things like context, general consensus, history, knowledge, etc.

Look, I'm not saying that I know all there is to know about movies. That's not possible, and I would never assume anything that asinine. There are thousand of amazing movies I have never seen, and hundreds of movies I love that I probably shouldn't (and will look back on in great embarrassment). But what I am saying is that there are instances of absolute truth in everything, and this includes movies. Rob Reiner not being one of the 20 greatest directors of all time is one of these instances. To dismiss this with something like "Well it's just my opinion, and all opinion's are equal and valid" is nonsense. If all opinions are the same, what is the point of talking about anything? What is the point of watching movies if what you like has the same value of what everyone else likes?

Anyways, Price requested this conversation not take place, so that be it from me I 'spose. But what I'm trying to say in a roundabout way is I ain't mad at ya boo (boo being Shack, naturally).

Not at all! Neil Marshall is kind of great.

I just thought yoshue's line was hilarious.

Not with a budget of 17 million pounds, one of the biggest in UK film history they won't

I'm not saying all opinions are equal or valid, I'm just saying that 'fighting' because of them is stupid, especially in a place so trivial like a movie forum.

e.g. Yoshue loves Woody Allen. I didn't include him in my top 100, but at least I watched his movies before having that opinion of them. I love the Hammer movies of the 50s and 60s. I don't know if Yoshue likes them or not, but if he doesn't, who is to say that his taste is better than mine?

My top twenty, are you ready for it?

01. M. Night Shyamalan - 40
02. David Fincher - 10
03. Stanley Kubrick - 3
04. Alfred Hitchcock - 2
05. Steven Spielberg - 1
06. Terry Gilliam - 46
07. Tim Burton - 14
08. Ridley Scott - 11
09. Christopher Nolan - 18
10. James Cameron - 5
11. Alfonso Cuarón - 37
12. David Lynch - 27
13. Michael Mann - 36
14. Robert Zemeckis - 8
15. Peter Jackson - 23
16. Fritz Lang - 62
17. David Cronenberg - 33
18. Bryan Singer - 39
19. Jean-Luc Godard - 94
20. Brian De Palma - 22

One of the biggest films in UK history has Malcolm McDowell, Rhona Mitra, and Bob Hoskins toplining?

hahahahahahaahahahahahaha

They must hate money!

You've got beat around in this thread alot, so Ill offer some nice words and say you'd be in my top 5 posters who's opinion I'd take seriously as a helpful barometer.

Yoshue's on the roll.