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05-23-2006, 11:01 PM
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A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
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
A Møøse once bit my sister ... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
We apologise for the fault in the signature. Those responsible have been sacked.
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
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05-24-2006, 12:55 AM
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Re: A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
Good idea!
I'll say that 2001... is a better Kubrick effort than Dr. Strangelove.... Not much that I want to add, other than that I love both films, but consider 2001... an unparalleled achievement in Kubrick's incredible oeuvre
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05-24-2006, 08:29 AM
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Re: A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
Tough film to top, although I do prefer DS-oHILtSWaLtB.
I'll piss someone off and say that Ray Lovejoy did a better job as editor on Aliens, just because that whole ending sequence just seems to drag on and on every time I watch 2001 but the pacing on Aliens always feels just right.
Brad
A Møøse once bit my sister ... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
We apologise for the fault in the signature. Those responsible have been sacked.
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
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05-24-2006, 05:27 PM
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Re: A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
Bill Paxton performed better in the film Frailty.
His 'acting' in Aliens is grating and as annoying as hell!!
My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: (Toronto International Film Festival) Deadgirl (2008,Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel) 2/5, Fear Me Not (2008,Kristian Levring) 3/5, Flame & Citron (2008,Ole Christian Madsen) 3/5, Detroit Metal City (2008,Toshio Lee) 1/5, Zift (2008,Javor Gardev) 4/5, Vinyan (2008,Fabrice Du Welz) 2/5, All Around Us (2008,Ryosuke Hashiguchi) 5/5, Linha de Passe (2008,Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas) 3/5, The Sky Crawlers (2008,Mamoru Oshii) 3/5, Achilles and the Tortoise (2008,Takeshi Kitano) 5/5, JCVD (2008,Mabrouk El Mechri) 1/5, Waltz with Bashir (2008,Ari Folman) 4/5, Plus Tard, tu Comprendras (2008,Amos Gitai) 2/5, Hamlet 2 (2008,Andrew Fleming) 4/5, Pineapple Express (2008,David Gordon Green) 3/5
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05-24-2006, 09:41 PM
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Re: A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
i like this poll.
mcconaughey was good in frailty, but great in Contact.
CJ
And then when I feel so stuffed I can't eat anymore, I just use the restroom! And then I CAN eat more!
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05-24-2006, 10:22 PM
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Re: A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
I think I preferred Jodie Foster in Panic Room
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05-24-2006, 10:43 PM
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Re: A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
Jodie Foster was far better in Silence of the Lambs
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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05-24-2006, 11:09 PM
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CJ
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Re: A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
not sure if this is allowed...but Manhunter is a better film than silence of the lambs, both are based on thomas harris books.
CJ
And then when I feel so stuffed I can't eat anymore, I just use the restroom! And then I CAN eat more!
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05-24-2006, 11:13 PM
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Re: A Better (Blank) By (Blank) Is...
That is totally allowed.
And Heat is a much better directorial effort from Michael Mann than Manhunter was.
Brad
A Møøse once bit my sister ... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
We apologise for the fault in the signature. Those responsible have been sacked.
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
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