I'll tell you something else that's official. I'm officially ages behind on major movies. iice talking about Beowulf makes me feel like crap. The problem I have can be split into two. One; our friendly neighbourhood pirates are not working close to half the way they used to, thus they come out with udeless movies or too old ones, and unfortunately, even though I like to update my archive, I do not go out of my way to see an old movie out of its prime. Especially when there are tons and tons coming out hot and fresh everyday friggin day. Second part of my problem is even when the pirates come out with good movies, they now fix them among say 19 others that I've either seen before, not seen and not particularly ready to, or so stupid that I'd still not watch even if I was tied up and my eyelids were cut off.

mideval ass-whooping sounds like iice's kinda thing. Beowulf's got that and more packed from what I gather and someone told me the creep, Grendel's mother is so hot that she's on fire. Maybe seductive isn't appropriate to use for her. Well thanks for the warning, I'm not gonna be seeing beowulf with any of my parents anytime soon.

BTW, seeing iice drooling over Beowulf would be priceless, lol

I would love to vote on this poll but there are too many missing great directors!

Where is James Cameron?
Where is Sam Raimi?
Where is Micheal Mann?
Where are the Coen brothers?
Where are Tony and Ridley Scott?
Where is Christopher Nolan?
Where is Bryan Singer?
Where is Lucas? (I think he is crap personally but I know many who swear by him)

No disrespect to your people, but I think they're not in the same league with the guys I put in the polls. Great directors no bet, but the major criteria I used to sieve them is consistency and not just one, two or three times hits, out of probably ten. Personally I really like Ridley Scott with his 'shaky cameras' James Cameron in my opinion is a one time guy, Sam Raimi, I got my eyes on. In fact I've had my eyes on him since his, Hercules, Xena etc days. About Lucas, you couldn't be more dead on. Some folks are really fanatic about Star Wars. I like Willow more than anything he's laid his hands on, but then I'm not a regular guy. And iice is even more irregular especially for a gal. But on some thought I think I'll try to add RS, GL, and some other fellows that I think are real contenders. So I don't get people pissed.

And, um, one more thing. Viera, can I assume you're a gunner?

Yes o, I am a gooner!

But back to the list, you have added Peter Jackson and Tarantino yet you think the others are not consistent?

Let me list thier great works.

Cameron:
Terminator 2
Titantic
True Lies
The Abyss
Aliens

Ridley Scott :
Alien
Blade runner
Thelma and Louise
Gladiator
Black Hawk down
kingdom of Heaven
American gangster

Tony Scott:

Top Gun
Beverly Hills Cop 2
Last boy Scout
days of thunder
true romance
crimson tide
man on fire


Due to time and memory loss I will not list all the other directors and their movies. The lsit above is not even thier full works but based on those only they beat Peter Jackson and Tarantino!!

Jackson in my opinion is over rated, he does adaptations and to me they are just average. I liked his Kong Kong but the LOTR trilogy was to me an overblown tourist guide to kiwi land.


Let us discuss, I love talking movies.

Hey Vieira, you've just refreshed this thread! Nice to know you're knowledgeable. If you read through the previous posts you'll find out we love all these guys. It's just that I didn't want to overflow the polls and get people in a tight corner choosing. Besides those guys are my favorites. If I had increased the list to say 10 I'd have added Ridley definitely, maybe not Tony. Cameron indeed has great repertoire, but I view films in the light of making something outta nothing. Cameron was responsible for making the costliest film of one time, and I liked Titanic only really because it had a great ending. But the bulk of the film is just as good as 'A walk in the clouds' I liked 'Lost' with Hanks more than that film for godsakes. As far as I'm concerned Ridley Scott is the real contender that I guess I should have added but, guess what? I can't! It's not possible to delete, edit or do anything to the poll, except I'm missing something. But to tell you the truth I just couldn't put up all the tightest directors there, nowadays they're just too many.

P.S. I think you'd better hope iice missed the bit about you thinking the LOTR trilogy was 'an overblown tourist guide to kiwi land' I think you're in for it. Brace yourself man.

Is iice a LOTR fan?? I am hated at work due to my views on LOTR, I work with an office full of geeks and nerds (including myself).

For me a great film has to leave behind indeliable memories of great moments, like the "can you handle the truth" moment in a Few Good Men or the lobby scene in the "Matrix" but in the whole 9 hours (12 if you watch the extended versions) of the LOTR trilogy there only about two worthwhile monents for me!
Seriously if Frodo looked longingly at the ring one more time I was about to scream!

Nolan did Memento which is my current No.1 movie of all time, hence why I rate him so highly. His Batman was also the best of the lot so far.

Singer for me makes it more for his film The Usual Suspects than his X-Men, he is NOT a good action director and I find his X-Men movies very uneven in terms of pacing and climax.

The gun battle in Heat is one of the best shoot outs till date and will take some beating but Mann is like the opposite of Singer, he is a great action director but not so great on the drama and human side of things.


I saw Beowulf and while it was okay I was not blown away. Animation is good but the eyes still look dead.

I know what iice meant about the king having bad genes, I thought that as well.


I am looking forward to the Golden Compass, I liked the books (not soo much the 3rd one).

What a comeback, akin! Well I don't think I could have put it in a better way than u did, nice take. I liked the 'to whom much is given, ' bit most. Waiting on iice to spill her guts (figuratively) soon. Well I know what viera meant with the dialogue in LOTR but I still think there's a lotta good dialogue in LOTR. My favorite was Two towers where the dialogue was almost like poetry sometimes, but about the longing looks Frodo gives the damn ring, it's annoying. I wonder what makes him sooo strong to be able to resist the ring that's supposedly so powerful.

About Memento being ur best movie of all time, you might get back on the good side of iice. I also loved the movie when I saw it but my memory is kinda low cuz it's been a very long time since.

About everything u said well I think you're right on. And I'm wondering where you've been all this while Viera!

My claim to fame:
I was in Nolan's Batman begins.!!

Nolan's Batman was quite good even though I was disappointed by the fight scenes generally. They always seemed very dark and uncertain.

To me the Spider-man movies are by far the best superhero movies yet.

Superman Returns was an absolute borefest but again I repeat Singer is not really ideal for superhero movies, despite what he has done with the X-men.

I musta forgot to tell you that iice is Mrs. Batman. She's in loff with the character more than the movie, so she can still appreciate the spidey movies as the best superhero movies of all time. In as much as I didn't like Superman, I think they were largely handicapped cuz there's really not much material and it'd be a sin to present Superman in a whole new light. He's still the most popular superhero. why? cuz he's super! The story of superman has been mostly the same cuz his love interest has always been Lois, his antagonist has always been Lex Luther, and he's always worked for Daily Planet and so on. Not much to change without spoiling the whole idea. Actually, I hated the film before I saw it.

and, uh, iice, I'll be more careful not to present you as a gun-totting war monger.

Why is Sam Raimi even mentioned? All his movies are garbage.

well nice of Akin to ask after me,i just prefer to read what vessy and ice and vieiera(movie addicts-with ice ranking 1st ) have to say really.

Well, good old Jiddah. I'll take that as a compliment. And I'm sure iice does too. D-reloaded, please enlighten us on why you'd think Sam Raimi came up with garbage. Giving you a chance to explain before I go ballistic!

LOL! I was alos upset by the Raimi comment.

I loved his Evil Dead movies and I also love his Spider-man movies.

Hey y'all. iice, where have you been? Jiddah is like 'omnipresent', trust me. Burton, Helen and Depp. Never seen anything like that before. I think I'll download the trailer too, seeing how excited u are. Musicals in my own opinion too should be left to the indians or for Disney. Moulin Rouge and Chicago, never really seen them and never will really see them, know what I mean? I learned that Ironman won't be ready till next year. I don't know if they're running from competition or what, cuz the trailer looked pretty ready to me. Beats me.

I guess iice's wish was fulfilled earlier than she'd expect. Politically correct iice! Indians and indian, Columbus' bad. Ten episodes into Heroes. One girl came into my office and was like 'what! u're still watching season 1?' Men I felt like crap. Plus my laptop can't play the DVD for some blasted reason. And I don't have a DVD player where I'm living currently. It's like providence ganged up to make it the slowest season watching a season of anything, catch my drift? It's alright if u don't cuz I'm not sure if I do myself.

Akin, knight in shiny armour. Benevolent knights also get their ass kicked, you know. Protecting D-reloaded and all can get u in the way of my artillery, lol. Nice to hear from ya bro. Sneak away more often and remember the cardinal rule: you're not doing wrong as long as you don't get caught. hehe, but u didn't hear that from me.

vescucci:

D-reloaded, please enlighten us on why you'd think Sam Raimi came up with garbage. Giving you a chance to explain before I go ballistic!

Is this a joke? What's so special about his portfolio? he's just known for B-grade horror and his spiderman movies that could be directed by any idiot.

Anything else?

aw now you done it. I'm going nuclear. Just kidding. But I'm really curious to what you hate so much about Sam. Not my favorite or even close but on behalf of Spidey lovers, he didn't spoil my mental image at all. In fact he enhanced it, cuz Spiderman became my favorite superhero after the film. D, can u tell me who your favorites are, so we don't get off the wrong foot (or feet) here, y knowattamean?

Everyone knows Batman is the best superhero. Everyone else is lame especially Superman. Like I said any director could have done what Sam did with the spiderman movies. If you wanna congratulate anyone, give praises to teh camera and special effects crew.

Directors?

I dont have fav directors really, just fav movies I do enjoy Tarintino and Scorcese movies and Von Tier is good too. Oh and Gullimero Del Toro (check out Pan's Labrinyth and Devil's Backbone)

For GOOD suspense thrillers/psycho-horror, Chan-Wook Park(OldBoy, Sympathy For Mr Vengence) is excellent and so is Takeshi Mike. (Battle Royal, Audition, etc)

Tim Burton is great too, if you wanna gogo-gaga over Sam Rami for Spiderman,. you might as well give it up to Tim for what he did for the two Batman movies

Hiya.

Just catching up on all the fun you guys've been having since I've been away and I must say I missed a bit. Welcome D-reloaded and my one-time-brother-in-comicdom Viera.

D, you landed with a bomb o! Sam Raimi did help with the revival of the comic-book movie though Blade would have to count as the forerunner and helped Marvel like manna from heaven. His original Evil Dead was actually good and while the other sequels were more absurdist comedies, the guy try sha but you definitely cannot list him among the uber-directors. Also Superman is not lame (most of the movies were but it's all the revisionist attitudes that make him appear so) but still "Mr iice" puts them all to shame mainly because he has no superpowers and they all still fear him, that beats everything and everyone. I bought a Batman comic yesterday, I'm very proud of me, LOL

Vesc, welcome to Heroes, I really hope it was as fun for you as it was for most of us first time round.

Tim Burton's Batman was the gold standard for quite a while and I still think his opening scene with Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne sitting pensively with a very disturbing scowl on his face bathed under a weird blue light before the bat-signal comes up (Batman Returns) still is very memorable for me. He does very artsy-gothic movies that no other director can.

Oga Akin, I hail you, good sir! Jiddah too.

Sorry for the silence, just came back into "civilization" but prior to that I actually had written an extra-long post written out and everything and I actually thought I'd posted it but somehow I didn't and that ticked me off to everything.

Next year is going to be bumper for Iron Man/Batman fans etc

Oscar season's coming again, any frontrunners? Guys, over to you.

spikyn:

Oscar season's coming again, any frontrunners? Guys, over to you.

1. The Assisination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (A+)

2. No Country For Old Men (A-), (-) for the ambigious ending

3. There Will Be Blood (I intend on seeing this soon)

American Gangster MIGHT be nominated too.