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Post by malbowski13 on Jan 22, 2008 20:15:38 GMT -5
Wow! If that's not a best-of-the-best list, I don't know what is. I will think about it overnight and post first thing tomorrow.
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Post by lazario on Jan 22, 2008 20:51:14 GMT -5
Dario Argento. Is there any (real) question?
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Post by lowkey on Jan 22, 2008 22:51:01 GMT -5
F.W. Murnau. Come on now. He literally had to invent everything as he went, and he was able to pull off some things that still has special effects experts puzzled. Imagine if he had of had access to pretty much everything modern directors take for granted.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Jan 22, 2008 23:18:07 GMT -5
out of the guys up there i would go argento..not really a huge fan of any of the other guys
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Post by lazario on Jan 22, 2008 23:29:45 GMT -5
F.W. Murnau. Come on now. He literally had to invent everything as he went, and he was able to pull off some things that still has special effects experts puzzled. Imagine if he had of had access to pretty much everything modern directors take for granted. What films did he direct, aside from Nosferatu?
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Post by piggsy on Jan 22, 2008 23:30:45 GMT -5
I would have a good laugh if anybody voted for Eli Roth.
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Post by lazario on Jan 22, 2008 23:40:57 GMT -5
I'd probably have thought he were going somewhere, if it weren't for Hostel: Part II. What the hell was he thinking?
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Post by vincentprice on Jan 22, 2008 23:42:06 GMT -5
Sorry, but you're all wrong.
It's John Carpenter, no one comes close.
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Post by lazario on Jan 22, 2008 23:49:21 GMT -5
Sorry, but you're all wrong. It's John Carpenter, no one comes close. John Carpenter has only directed 3 decent horror-themed films. Halloween, The Fog, and Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns. After The Fog, he became an action director and decided characterization wasn't important. A great horror director understands character is important. He took that for granted to make stupid movies like Christine, The Thing, They Live, Vampires... Crap, basically. They're all either westerns or action movies with gore, so that Studios and Video Distributers could call them "Horror" and make lots of money.
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Post by lowkey on Jan 23, 2008 0:24:37 GMT -5
Sunrise is considered one of the greatest films of all time, and it was one of the first movies with a soundtrack and sound effects recorded on film. He won "Unique Artistic Representation" at the first Academy Awards for it. It was his first American film.
Four Devils is considered his masterpiece, but sadly no known copy of it is known to exist any longer.
Phantom was long thought lost, but finally surfaced, and was remastered onto DVD in 2006.
Tabu was his last film--he died shortly before it's release--and it has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress, and was selected to appear on the National Film Registry.
Faust is my personal favorite.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Jan 23, 2008 2:01:08 GMT -5
i liked assault on precinct 13, ghosts of mars and pro-life for carpenter.. everything else from him i thought was decent at best.. but he has made alot of crap
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Post by lazario on Jan 23, 2008 6:49:38 GMT -5
i liked assault on precinct 13, ghosts of mars and pro-life Action, Action, Action. Only, with gore so distributers could sell them as "Horror" to make money.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Jan 23, 2008 10:06:50 GMT -5
well yea i know its action.. while im not a huge action movie fan i do like a bloody, gory action movie once ina while
which is why i cant wait to see rambo ;D
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Post by piggsy on Jan 23, 2008 10:07:57 GMT -5
I'd probably have thought he were going somewhere, if it weren't for Hostel: Part II. What the hell was he thinking? I know. He had a promising start with Cabin Fever and the highly successful Hostel....but now it looks like his 15 minutes of fame are over. I just can't get over how he whined about Hostel: Part II bombing at the box office, blaming it on the film being leaked onto the internet. Rob Zombie's Halloween did very well, even though that same thing happened.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Jan 23, 2008 10:11:07 GMT -5
i liked hostel II the best out of his movies
hostel I was good but not as good as II
and cabin fever was just awful..except for the fact cerina vincent was in it.. the ONLY good thing about the movie
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Post by lazario on Jan 23, 2008 13:49:25 GMT -5
I'd probably have thought he were going somewhere, if it weren't for Hostel: Part II. What the hell was he thinking? I know. He had a promising start with Cabin Fever and the highly successful Hostel...but now it looks like his 15 minutes of fame are over. I just can't get over how he whined about Hostel: Part II bombing at the box office, blaming it on the film being leaked onto the internet. Sequels have a long and lustrous history of going about 50/50 at the box office. They're either bigger hits than the first, or they bomb because the studios or financeers spent more money on it than the first movie (or spent more money than was spent to make the first movie), and less people want to see it, so a slightly disappointing return actually means it bombed pretty big because there was more money spent than on the first movie. Calculated risk, really. But I can totally see from a studio's point of view why they'd want to put up big money for this movie. They want something to compete with the Saw franchise. But any idiot will tell you- spend less money if you can on a sequel these days. I don't hear any buzz for another Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake-prequel-sequel - do you? Anyway, I'm sure you know I don't feel bad for Roth. Hostel: Part II is the kind of huge disaster only a fool would make. How many horror directors fell into the sequel trap and at a point only (basically) got sequel job after sequel after sequel? George Romero, Don Coscarelli, Brian Yuzna, Frank Henenlotter, and today it's happening too with that guy directing all the stinky Saw sequels. Though, I must admit, I like the way he whines. He can cry on my shoulder anytime. As for the world-famous Cabin Fever... I haven't seen it yet. I am completely at odds about what it will be like. Ebert and Maltin say it sucks. But... I have another source I often trust and they say it's a really good movie. Rob Zombie's Halloween did very well, even though that same thing happened. Nothing confusing about that; the world's got Zombie-fever. It's sad, really. He's not that much to hype up. It's a mystery. i liked hostel II the best out of his movies hostel I was good but not as good as II We'll remember that, T. We really will.
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Post by piggsy on Jan 23, 2008 14:00:23 GMT -5
I'd recommend Cabin Fever, Lazario. It's a movie that grows on you, as the first time I watched it, I hated it with a passion. Then, for some reason, it pulled me in like a gory tractor beam.
And as for Eli Roth, I'll give him one thing. He's not too hard on the eyes.
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Post by lazario on Jan 23, 2008 15:18:13 GMT -5
That's for sure.
I heard he's Jewish, too. And then I became intrigued...
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Post by piggsy on Jan 23, 2008 15:41:44 GMT -5
Jewish? I didn't know that.
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Post by lazario on Jan 23, 2008 16:29:45 GMT -5
After I heard that, I wasn't surprised. I think you can see it, if you look real hard, in the Bravo 30 Scarier Movie Moments special.
And, I have a monster thing for Jewish guys. I don't know why. One day, someone actually asked me why. Who knows? I just go psycho for Jewish guys.
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