Brad Porter
Screenwriter
- Joined
- Jun 8, 1999
- Messages
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This isn't a tourney or a poll or a checklist. Anyone can post at any time following these rules:
1. Start with the film identified in the previous post.
2. Pick an actor, director, producer, writer, composer, cinematographer, etc. significantly involved in that film.
3. Choose another work from the artist you selected in step 2 that you feel is better than their work from step 1, preferably work that is recognizably better (but this will of course be your own opinion of that work, not some general consensus).
4. If you absolutely get stumped then use the wildcard step of saying "A better film from that same year is..."
5. Try not to use the same artist as the previous poster, please.
Example:
The previous film is Top Gun.
I could post that a better performance by Tom Cruise is Taps. Or that a better soundtrack song from Kenny Loggins is "I'm Alright" from Caddyshack. Or that a better directorial effort from Tony Scott is True Romance. Or that a better produced film by Jerry Bruckheimer is Kangaroo Jack...
Be obscure. Be controversial. Push the debate towards your favorite films, if only for a single post. And argue the merits of someone's prior posting as much as you like... as long as you end your argument by accepting the previous film as your starting point and pointing to a new film that is in some aspect better than the one you started with.
To start it off, one of my favorites:
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Brad
1. Start with the film identified in the previous post.
2. Pick an actor, director, producer, writer, composer, cinematographer, etc. significantly involved in that film.
3. Choose another work from the artist you selected in step 2 that you feel is better than their work from step 1, preferably work that is recognizably better (but this will of course be your own opinion of that work, not some general consensus).
4. If you absolutely get stumped then use the wildcard step of saying "A better film from that same year is..."
5. Try not to use the same artist as the previous poster, please.
Example:
The previous film is Top Gun.
I could post that a better performance by Tom Cruise is Taps. Or that a better soundtrack song from Kenny Loggins is "I'm Alright" from Caddyshack. Or that a better directorial effort from Tony Scott is True Romance. Or that a better produced film by Jerry Bruckheimer is Kangaroo Jack...
Be obscure. Be controversial. Push the debate towards your favorite films, if only for a single post. And argue the merits of someone's prior posting as much as you like... as long as you end your argument by accepting the previous film as your starting point and pointing to a new film that is in some aspect better than the one you started with.
To start it off, one of my favorites:
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Brad