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Wow, Bear...it's a tough question. I've been thinking about it but to pick one is hard. I know for a fact the one film I've watched more than any other is Dr. Strangelove. That film just kills me every time. So Kubrick is a possibility. To be stuck watching only Kubrick films though...they are beautiful to look at but lean mostly to the dark side. I think it depends on my mood. Sometimes I just want to watch a western, sometimes a spy film, sometimes comedy...I guess I'm a spoiled brat used to having way too many options.If it's one guy I think I'd lean toward Orson Welles because his films are pretty mind blowing and I never tire of them. Picking one is very hard. It leaves out a big crowd of people though that in a different mood I might choose from. Also your choice was Adam Sandler and all joking aside has he ever directed or wrote a film? I mean if I picked Clint Eastwood I guess based on your Sandler choice I'd have the widest variety of films to choose from because Eastwood has made and been in all sorts of films from I think every genre and done a lot of great stuff. So if it was a deal where I wanted the most stuff to pick from I could take Eastwood and get everything under the sun...hell, I think he even did a musical with Lee Marvin. So going by that criteria I would go with Eastwood because I'd get all the Leone westerns, Dirty Harry movies, goofy comedy, all of Clint's other westerns, The Eiger Sanction, war films, films with a monkey as a costar, Bronco Billy...on and on and on...but do I think Clint is the greatest filmmaker, no, but he's damn good and prolific as they come.It's pretty tough...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Wow, Bear...it's a tough question. I've been thinking about it but to pick one is hard. I know for a fact the one film I've watched more than any other is Dr. Strangelove. That film just kills me every time. So Kubrick is a possibility. To be stuck watching only Kubrick films though...they are beautiful to look at but lean mostly to the dark side. I think it depends on my mood. Sometimes I just want to watch a western, sometimes a spy film, sometimes comedy...I guess I'm a spoiled brat used to having way too many options.If it's one guy I think I'd lean toward Orson Welles because his films are pretty mind blowing and I never tire of them. Picking one is very hard. It leaves out a big crowd of people though that in a different mood I might choose from. Also your choice was Adam Sandler and all joking aside has he ever directed or wrote a film? I mean if I picked Clint Eastwood I guess based on your Sandler choice I'd have the widest variety of films to choose from because Eastwood has made and been in all sorts of films from I think every genre and done a lot of great stuff. So if it was a deal where I wanted the most stuff to pick from I could take Eastwood and get everything under the sun...hell, I think he even did a musical with Lee Marvin. So going by that criteria I would go with Eastwood because I'd get all the Leone westerns, Dirty Harry movies, goofy comedy, all of Clint's other westerns, The Eiger Sanction, war films, films with a monkey as a costar, Bronco Billy...on and on and on...but do I think Clint is the greatest filmmaker, no, but he's damn good and prolific as they come.It's pretty tough...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
posted 2008.01.25
posted on January 25th 2008
Reg
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& if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – messybear on January 23rd, 2008-
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – edlorah on January 23rd, 2008-
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – messybear on January 23rd, 2008-
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – pkjensen on January 23rd, 2008
Kurosawa picks – edlorah on January 23rd, 2008
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – pkjensen on January 23rd, 2008-
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – blockdog on January 24th, 2008
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – Reg on January 23rd, 2008-
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – messybear on January 24th, 2008-
P.S. – messybear on January 24th, 2008-
Re: P.S. – Reg on January 24th, 2008-
Re: P.S. – pkjensen on January 24th, 2008-
SNL, Bond, & decades of film – Reg on January 25th, 2008
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – Reg on January 24th, 2008
Re: & if that didn’t agitate u, this probably will – Herring405 on January 24th, 2008
who is… the ONE filmmaker that I couldn’t do without? – Reg on January 25th, 2008
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