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makeshift
Teenage Dream
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 Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! 01. Stanley Kubrick - 3
02. David Lynch - 27
03. Terrence Malick - 58
04. Alfred Hitchcock - 2
05. Krzysztof Kieslowski - 85
06. Andrei Tarkovsky - 98
07. Brian De Palma - 22
08. Federico Fellini - 51
09. Robert Bresson - WTF
10. David Gordon Green - WTF
11. Dario Argento - WTF
12. Chris Marker - WTF
13. Peter Greenaway - WTF
14. Pedro Almodovar - 90
15. David Cronenberg - 33
16. Ingmar Bergman - 28
17. Akira Kurosawa - 19
18. Joel and Ethan Coen - 13
19. P. T. Anderson - 76
20. Wes Anderson - 57
The last two were an attempt to get some young bloods I love up real high, since I figured there would be a lot of support for them anyway. I was wrong.
If I could do it again I would shuffle around some of the rankings and add/drop a couple of names. There were a handful of directors that either didn't make the cut or I totally forgot about, too.
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Nebs
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Good list, trixster. Not perfect, that's only mine, but good. Ofcourse, I dislike around 17 choices. 
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Gulli
Jordan Mugen-Honda
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! yoshue wrote: One of the biggest films in UK history has Malcolm McDowell, Rhona Mitra, and Bob Hoskins toplining?
hahahahahahaahahahahahaha
They must hate money! Malcolm McDowell = AWESOME!! Rhona Mitra - HOT!! Bob Hoskins = AWESOME!!..................Surely you've seen the Long Good Friday Yos?
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Price
Gamaur's sex slave
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! yoshue wrote: One of the biggest films in UK history has Malcolm McDowell, Rhona Mitra, and Bob Hoskins toplining?
hahahahahahaahahahahahaha
They must hate money! Well, the highest grossing movie ever has Billy Zane, Kathy Bates and Gloria Stuart....  _________________
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makeshift
Teenage Dream
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! trixster wrote: 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 Strike off a few names here and there (okay, a lot of names) and it ain't that bad, friendo! Like Gulli said, you got roughed up a bit in the thread, but I hope you know it was mostly in jest, and that I actually appreciate you more than most folks around here. You are actively trying to learn and seek out great movies, and that is a lot more than most can say, and something you and I have in common.
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! makeshift wrote: Shack wrote: 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.  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. 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). Thanks.  Btw on the last page when you mentioned making assumptions about the way you take in movies, I think you're referring to my post in the Chinatown thread, which to be honest I almost wanted to edit out and would've if it wasn't quoted. I was mostly joking around in the review, the reply came out wrongly worded and was too generalizing. _________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
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Price
Gamaur's sex slave
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Any opinion about my top 20. Apart from : You suck!
1. Sergio Leone
2. James Cameron
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Steven Spielberg
5. John Ford
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Fritz Lang
8. David Lean
9. Robert Zemeckis
10. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
11. John Huston
12. Billy Wilder
13. William Wyler
14. Roman Polanski
15. Paul Verhoeven
16. Quentin Tarantino
17. Milos Forman
18. John Carpenter
19. Michael Curtiz
20. Dario Argento
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Johnny Dollar
The Lubitsch Touch
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Yes, I have seen The Long Good Friday. Bob Hoskins is a superb actor. Mona Lisa, anyone?
His talent is not the issue here.
As a trio, those names scream "Tonight, on a Sci-Fi Channel Original movie..."
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trixster
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Gullimont wrote: 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. Thanks. I know I'm hated for a bunch of my picks, but what's the point if I just choose directors that everyone else thinks is great? Sure Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, even Woody Allen may be great directors, but as I haven't seen any films by them, why should I give them the benefit of the doubt? _________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Nebs
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Price wrote: Any opinion about my top 20. Apart from : You suck! Well, not many options left then? Good list, though, haven't imagined you'd put the "obvies" at the top.
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Gulli
Jordan Mugen-Honda
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! yoshue wrote: Yes, I have seen The Long Good Friday. Bob Hoskins is a superb actor. Mona Lisa, anyone?
His talent is not the issue here.
As a trio, those names scream "Tonight, on a Sci-Fi Channel Original movie..." You do know I'm an Apocalypse Nut right? Hell I even found a copy of Damnation Alley to own, and thats one of the worse most laughable films ever made  But yeah, I can't beat the last line it got a laugh out of me.
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Shack and Trixster are two of my favorite posters. Both have shown a continuing interest in finding good films (although Trixster, like Gulli before him, refuses to give shit porn a chance) and are excellent writers.
It's just that the fun of revealing the list is in razzing everyone!
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trixster
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! I like how it's gone from Shack and trix bash time to Shack and trix love time.  _________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Gulli, do you just like doomsday movies, or does this doomsday thing carry over into real life? Like, can you be found on street corners wielding large imposing signs and screaming at passerbys who simply don't give a shit?
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! It was always that, Trixster. You just couldn't see it.
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Gulli
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! yoshue wrote: Gulli, do you just like doomsday movies, or does this doomsday thing carry over into real life? Like, can you be found on street corners wielding large imposing signs and screaming at passerbys who simply don't give a shit? Thankfully No, I just have an unhealthy interest in the genre.
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trixster
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Alright, so there's a lot of uncomfortable homo erotic love floating around this thread now....  _________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Gulli
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Oh yeah, great job on this Price.
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Gulli
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! trixster wrote: Alright, so there's a lot of uncomfortable homo erotic love floating around this thread now.... Hmmmm lets dissapate it. For Yoshue - Ron Howard is a visionary genius of cinema For Makeshift - Horror as a genre is repugnent For Nebs - Luca's is worse then the guy that killed Bambi For Price - Real Madrid suck, Barcelona rule!!
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Shack
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Quote: For Nebs - Luca's is worse then the guy that killed Bambi
 Btw Nebs, update the critics forum I've been quiet about it but last night I saw a foreign film from 1959 that I've film snob A+ over. Makes me feel like one of the gang.  _________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! ooooh, what was it? 400 Blows? Black Orpheus? Breathless?
My money's on the Truffaut.
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Shack wrote: Quote: For Nebs - Luca's is worse then the guy that killed Bambi
Btw Nebs, update the critics forum I've been quiet about it but last night I saw a foreign film from 1959 that I've film snob A+ over. Makes me feel like one of the gang. Yeah, I saw a New Wave film that makes me feel the same way. Haven't gotten around to writing my review yet, though. _________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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kypade
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! I'm hoping for Floating Weeds, only because 400 Blows, Black Orpheus and Hiroshima Mon Amour already have threads, to my knowledge.
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! Actually, I guess it was Room at the Top. Which I have not seen.
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Re: WOKJ 100 best directors: The Countdown! Playing NOW! trixster wrote: Yeah, I saw a New Wave film that makes me feel the same way. Haven't gotten around to writing my review yet, though. Only a week after writing off Resnais films for good, too (or something similar).
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