View Poll Results: Who is the best actor/director team of all time?
George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh
1
2.04%
Kurt Russell and John Carpenter
4
8.16%
Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis
2
4.08%
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg
1
2.04%
Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron
6
12.24%
John Goodman and the Coen Bros.
0
0%
Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe
0
0%
Sylvester Stallone and Renny Harlin
4
8.16%
Michael Keaton and Tim Burton
0
0%
Other (Please specify)
31
63.27%
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Who is the best actor/director team of all time?
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Who is the best actor/director team of all time?
On this poll please pick your favorite actor/director team of all time. What I mean is, name a director and a actor who made 2 movies or more together.
My vote goes straight to Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis. Tom Hanks is my second favorite actor right behind Sly. I enjoy every Tom Hanks movies and I look forward to every single Tom Hanks movies that comes out in the theater. I love everything Hanks had done from 80's comedy to what he is doing now. My favorite part of Hanks is him working with Robert Zemeckis as I love the movies that they did together like "Forrest Gump" and "Cast Away". I'd love to see them two work together again.
My second favorite actor/director would have to be Kurt Russell and John Carpenter (another one of my favorite directors). Everything they had done together was excellent, not one of their movies sucked. They are such a fantastic team together. I love everything from "Escape From New York", "Escape From L.A.", "The Thing", "Elvis", and "Big Trouble In Little China". Now I think John Carpenter's career started going downhill ever since Kurt Russell stopped working with him. It would be cool if they would reunite to do a new movie together.
Name your pick on this poll.
Oh and if you're wondering why I didn't pick Stallone/Harlin, I really loved "Cliffhanger", but I didn't like "Driven" enough to make it the best actor/director team. "Driven" still was an entertaining movie but not the best.
My vote goes straight to Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis. Tom Hanks is my second favorite actor right behind Sly. I enjoy every Tom Hanks movies and I look forward to every single Tom Hanks movies that comes out in the theater. I love everything Hanks had done from 80's comedy to what he is doing now. My favorite part of Hanks is him working with Robert Zemeckis as I love the movies that they did together like "Forrest Gump" and "Cast Away". I'd love to see them two work together again.
My second favorite actor/director would have to be Kurt Russell and John Carpenter (another one of my favorite directors). Everything they had done together was excellent, not one of their movies sucked. They are such a fantastic team together. I love everything from "Escape From New York", "Escape From L.A.", "The Thing", "Elvis", and "Big Trouble In Little China". Now I think John Carpenter's career started going downhill ever since Kurt Russell stopped working with him. It would be cool if they would reunite to do a new movie together.
Name your pick on this poll.
Oh and if you're wondering why I didn't pick Stallone/Harlin, I really loved "Cliffhanger", but I didn't like "Driven" enough to make it the best actor/director team. "Driven" still was an entertaining movie but not the best.
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How could you not include DeNiro & Scorcese? Herzog & Kinski? Wayne & Ford? Mifune & Kurosawa? Stewart & Hitchcock? Grant & Hitchcock?...
I know you're a fan of Sly but Stallone/Harlin!?!?!?!?
I know you're a fan of Sly but Stallone/Harlin!?!?!?!?
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Based upon the selections listed, I take it you dont watch a lot of foreign/independent/classic film.
My vote would be for Kurosawa and Mifune, NO CONTEST, based on:
- Rashomon
- Seven Samurai
- Throne of Blood
- High and Low
- Yojimbo
- Red Beard
Not too mention almost a dozen other *great* films the pair did together. Including Sanjuro. ESPECIALLY Sanjuro.
My vote would be for Kurosawa and Mifune, NO CONTEST, based on:
- Rashomon
- Seven Samurai
- Throne of Blood
- High and Low
- Yojimbo
- Red Beard
Not too mention almost a dozen other *great* films the pair did together. Including Sanjuro. ESPECIALLY Sanjuro.
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Did you really mean of all-time?
John Wayne/John Ford, Jimmy Stewart/Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart/Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola/Al Pacino, Francis Ford Coppola/Marlon Brando, David Lean/Alec Guiness are all better choices than most of these... I'm sure others on the forum can come up with 20 other choices.
Edited to say: How could I forget Kurosawa/Mifune...
John Wayne/John Ford, Jimmy Stewart/Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart/Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola/Al Pacino, Francis Ford Coppola/Marlon Brando, David Lean/Alec Guiness are all better choices than most of these... I'm sure others on the forum can come up with 20 other choices.
Edited to say: How could I forget Kurosawa/Mifune...
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Looks like 'Other' wins in a landslide.
I also voted Scorcese/DeNiro.
I also voted Scorcese/DeNiro.
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Good lord, do you think there were no films made before 1984 or so? This is pathetic. Go educate yourself, man!
Here's a vote for Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; my second choice would be Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart.
Here's a vote for Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; my second choice would be Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart.
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Damn it damn it damn it, I knew I was forgetting some people... Deniro/Scorsese and Mifune/Kurosawa, D'OHH!!!! My bad, sorry guys.
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Don't forget:
Orson Welles / Orson Welles
Woody Allen / Woody Allen
Jacques Tati / Jacques Tati
Blake Edwards / Peter Sellers
Sergio Leone / Clint Eastwood
Stanley Kramer / Spencer Tracy
Orson Welles / Orson Welles
Woody Allen / Woody Allen
Jacques Tati / Jacques Tati
Blake Edwards / Peter Sellers
Sergio Leone / Clint Eastwood
Stanley Kramer / Spencer Tracy
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How in the world could you leave out the best duo ever?
Vin Diesel & Rob Cohen? C'mon, it doesn't get much better than The Fast & The Furious & XXX. And what loyalty? Cohen turned down 2 Fast 2 Furious cuz they wouldn't pay his man Diesel.
Nah, but on a serious note, I immediately thought of Deniro/Scorsese.
Vin Diesel & Rob Cohen? C'mon, it doesn't get much better than The Fast & The Furious & XXX. And what loyalty? Cohen turned down 2 Fast 2 Furious cuz they wouldn't pay his man Diesel.
Nah, but on a serious note, I immediately thought of Deniro/Scorsese.
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I love ya Rock, so I'll go easy on ya. You know who belongs on there, so no point rehashing your list. But I did have to vote other, as tempting as Stallone/Harlin was.
Hard to ever compete with Kurosawa/Mifune, because both are so much better together than apart. It's nearly the same dynamic with Scorsese/Deniro, so for sheer output plus importance of the team, those get eternal props. And Stewart/Hitchcock is right up there, but how great is Stewart man. It could easily be Stewart/Ford or Stewart/Capra for that matter, all probably did their best work with Lord Jim.
EDIT: I just wanted to throw a bone toward the Fellini/Mastrioanni collaboration, I meant to include them earlier. A bit avant garde and over looked in recent years, but they did brillant things together.
But I'd like to cast my "Other" vote toward and unsung team. Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham. Their pairing:
Smokey and the Bandit
Hooper
Smokey and the Bandit II
Cannonball Run
Stroker Ace
Cannonball Run II
(Ok, I'll give you the last 2 are unqualified turkeys, but The Bandit and The First Cannonball are unquestioned classics in my book, and Hooper and Smokey II are decent enough flicks, not classics)
And a slight small, non vote nod of mention to John Hughes and Anthony Michael Hall:
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Weird Science
And how about the Writer/Actor combination of Harrison Ford and George Lucas?
American Graffiti(small but memorable role)
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Return of the Jedi
Indy and the Temple of Doom
Indy and the Last Crusade
Hard to ever compete with Kurosawa/Mifune, because both are so much better together than apart. It's nearly the same dynamic with Scorsese/Deniro, so for sheer output plus importance of the team, those get eternal props. And Stewart/Hitchcock is right up there, but how great is Stewart man. It could easily be Stewart/Ford or Stewart/Capra for that matter, all probably did their best work with Lord Jim.
EDIT: I just wanted to throw a bone toward the Fellini/Mastrioanni collaboration, I meant to include them earlier. A bit avant garde and over looked in recent years, but they did brillant things together.
But I'd like to cast my "Other" vote toward and unsung team. Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham. Their pairing:
Smokey and the Bandit
Hooper
Smokey and the Bandit II
Cannonball Run
Stroker Ace
Cannonball Run II
(Ok, I'll give you the last 2 are unqualified turkeys, but The Bandit and The First Cannonball are unquestioned classics in my book, and Hooper and Smokey II are decent enough flicks, not classics)
And a slight small, non vote nod of mention to John Hughes and Anthony Michael Hall:
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Weird Science
And how about the Writer/Actor combination of Harrison Ford and George Lucas?
American Graffiti(small but memorable role)
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Return of the Jedi
Indy and the Temple of Doom
Indy and the Last Crusade
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