CinemaBowl II: The Directors (Round Two: Blue Conference)

[slipjig3]

This is the last of the second-round ballots. Things will be whipped through pretty quickly from here on out: Round Three should take place on Monday and Tuesday, with Conference Semi-Finals on Wednesday and Conference Finals on Thursday. (And good riddance. I keep forgetting how annoying these things are.) As ever, your task is to choose the director you prefer from each pairing. Deadline for this one is going to be noon on Friday, May 9; the deadline for yesterday's is still 1 p.m. today. Poll closed; votes recorded. Thanks!


Blue Conference, Divisions A & B

[Poll #1184629]

Blue Conference, Divisions C & D

[Poll #1184630]

Comments

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

...losers like Errol Morris...

Oo. Fightin' words, those. *protectively cradles his copy of The Thin Blue Line*

[yendi]

God, I hated having to vote on D 3/4.

Refresh my memory -- who did Schmacher blow beat to make it out of the first round?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

That would be Guy Ritchie. You see the problem here.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

It's called Swept Away.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

I voted for Guy Ritchie because of Snatch and Lock Stock. I was teasing him just now for Swept Away because you'd mentioned Madonna. And the only reason he did that movie was because of her.

How anybody could vote for the guy who put nipples on the bat suit is beyond me.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I'd actually add to that list Falling Down.

I think what Schumacher should have done was keep making essentially B-movies that he could give some polish, like The Lost Boys (and what I've heard are pretty good, Cousins and Phone Booth), instead of trying to do blockbusters, where he's ofen blown. (By the way, Roger Ebert felt that Schumacher was a better director of The Phantom of the Opera than the material deserved, so he's talented on the technical side.) Or maybe Schumacher should've just been a casting director, because his taste in actors is impeccable.

Trivia: yes, Batman and Robin is a horrendous film. One of the slammers of that film was Kevin Smith. And he still actually met and got to like Schumacher. Turned out they're both big Hollywood gossip hounds, so they bonded over X-rated tales of how famous Hollywood people get their rocks off. Smith couldn't hate him so much after that. He still could hate his Batman films, though.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

Regarding Milos Forman vs. Fritz Lang (C-5/6)...

How can people not be voting for the guy who directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

That was one of the harder choices I've had to make, and came verrrry close to voting for Forman (Amadeus is probably the main reason I'm a movie fan today). In the end, though, I had to ask myself the question: How could I vote against the guy who directed M and Metropolis? And I couldn't.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

I have seen neither of those movies. In fact, I looked him up and have not seen anything he'd ever directed. But for me, no matter who he'd been up against, how could I vote against Cuckoo's Nest or Amadeus? I just couldn'tt.

[akfirefly76.livejournal.com]

You know how much I love both those movies... But Fritz Lang's movies are even better. Go see them. Milos Forman would probably agree with me.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I've seen both M and Metropolis. That includes seeing Metropolis on the big screen, and it's amazing.

/geekout

(It was the as-close-to-complete-as-we-can-make-it 2001 version with the original 1920s music re-recorded, not the uber-bizarre Giorgio Moroder reworking from the early Eighties...which I've seen, too.)