Hey guys! Was thinking of doing polls for the entertainment forum. Looking for ideas on how we should do them. Some ideas we could do. I think we might have tried something early on with the site, but I can't remember. Gonna do one to start with Kubrick. Open to switching it up or doing multiples a week. Feel free to list anyone or franchises pertaining to this. ideas: Franchise Director Actor Director Poll: Favorite Wes Anderson Film • forum.chorus.fm Director Poll: Favorite Mel Brooks Film • forum.chorus.fm Director Poll: Favorite Darren Aronofsky Film • forum.chorus.fm Director Poll: Favorite Stanley Kubrick Film • forum.chorus.fm Director Poll: Favorite Martin Scorsese Film • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Spike Lee • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Steven Spielberg • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: David Lynch • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: The Coen Brothers • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: David Fincher • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Favorite Tim Burton Film • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Guillermo del Toro • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Quentin Tarantino • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Peter Jackson • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Wes Craven • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Christopher Nolan • forum.chorus.fm Director Spotlight: Ridley Scott • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Charlize Theron • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Denzel Washington • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Robert De Niro • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Adam Sandler • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Tilda Swinton • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Samuel L Jackson • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Bill Murray • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Bryan Cranston • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Anne Hatheway • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Laurence Fishburne • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Halle Berry • forum.chorus.fm Actor Spotlight: Jamie Lee Curtis • forum.chorus.fm
a few ideas: Mel Brooks Michael Bay Francis Ford Coppola M. Night Star Wars Marvel (could be something similar to the bracket stuff you guys love) Fast and Furious Horror series Nick Cage Bruce Willis
For directors Sidney Lumet Paul Verhoeven Spike Lee Claire Denis Steven Soderbergh Kelly Reichardt Akira Kurosawa Noah Baumbach Bong Joon Ho Jim Jarmusch Richard Linklater John Carpenter Pete Docter Alfred Hitchcock Tony Scott Elia Kazan David Lynch Terrence Malick Sofia Coppola James Cameron Actors Cary Grant Philip Seymour Hoffman Adam Sandler Marlon Brando Denzel Washington Channing Tatum Willem Dafoe Michael B. Jordan Laura Dern Michelle Williams George Clooney Chadwick Boseman Toshiro Mifune Eddie Murphy Toni Collette Samuel L. Jackson Mark Ruffalo Robin Williams Jennifer Jason Leigh Amy Adams Tried to mostly go with filmmakers/actors with a long enough body of work to pull a bunch of stuff from (roughly 5+ films for directors, around 7+ for actors), and pick names enough people here would have seen enough of their work to be able to talk about, apologies to most older and non-American filmmakers. People like Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Isabelle Huppert and Denis Lavant would be really fun but probably not get much engagement.
For franchises everyone debates their favorite comic book/Star Wars movies constantly here so something like Godzilla or a horror series would be more fresh
looking at his filmography, I think I've only see Harold and Maude and In the Heat of the Night. What else do you recommend?
I generally think every movie he directed in the 70s is a masterpiece or close to it and then everything in his 80s is pretty mediocre or bad. I think Being There is, in tone, closer to what Forrest Gump should probably have been based on the source material; Coming Home is probably one of my 5 favorite war movies; The Landlord is a true gem with surprisingly progressive takes on race and gentrification; and The Last Detail is one of, if not the most underrated Nicholson movies/performances ever.