Blu Man

The filmmakers with the larges amount of total votes will contend against the filmmakers with the least amount of votes. 30 randomly selected filmmakers from the “Versus” polls have been chosen. All votes were recorded at 8:30 PM Pacific time or 11:30 PM Eastern time.

1.) Stanley Kubrick (62)
2.) Christopher Nolan (50)
3.) Martin Scorsese (47)
4.) Quentin Tarantino (45)
5.) David Fincher (39)
6.) J.J. Abrams (39)
7.) David Lynch (37)
8.) Steven Spielberg (30)
9.) Paul W.S. Anderson (30)
10.) Terry Gilliam (27)
11.) Wes Anderson (26)
12.) Paul Thomas Anderson (24)
13.) Ridley Scott (24)
14.) Sergio Leone (19)
15.) Oliver Stone (19)


16.) Francis Ford Coppola (17)
17.) James Cameron (16)
18.) Kevin Smith (15)
19.) Frank Darabont (14)
20.) Alfred Hitchcock (14)
21.) John Hughes (13)
22.) Michael Bay (13)
23.) Tim Burton (13)
24.) Francois Truffaut (11)
25.) Akira Kurosawa (10)
26.) John Woo (10)
27.) Michael Mann (9)
28.) Steven Soderbergh (8)
29.) Jon Favreau (4)
30.) Clint Eastwood (3)

Cardsfan111

I would only caution you that someone will inevitably respond either here or with a thread in feedback claiming that there are too many director polls dominating the movie forum.

For that reason, I say go for it. I always enjoy those debates.

Supermallet

I'm shocked someone hasn't already started a thread in feedback about the Director threads.

JumpCutz

Those are my threads... you leave them alone!

Hey you forgot my Cronenberg/Carpenter poll.

I like the discussion generated in the one on one match-ups.

Anyway I'm done making these polls for awhile...

I'm certainly not interested in debating the merits of hacks like Boll, PT Anderson, Bay etc..

I'm game for a tourney though if you want to put something together.

Solid Snake

I'm game..make it a tourney.

William Fuld

Or you could just save yourself some time and put up "Nolan vs. Tarantino".

Solid Snake

ooooooooooor that could work too.....

Blu Man

Ok, I'll go for it. It could lead to some interesting discussions. Here are the instructions of how the tourney is going to work.

* All "Director vs Director" threads that are going to be included in the tourney must be posted by 9:30 AM Pacific Time, or 12:30 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday August 3rd 2010. At this same time the polls for the tourney will officially be closed. Meaning if Tarantino for example is only one vote ahead of Lynch at 9:30, but at 10:00 Lynch is ahead of Tarantino, the spot still goes to Tarantino.

* If we have an odd number of threads, then the director with the most dominant win will get to sit out every other round.

* All rounds will have a 3 day life span, meaning polls will be open for exactly 3 days.

* The winner of each round will randomly be paired up with another director up until only two directors are left, at which point the champion will be "crowned".

* The final round's poll will be open for 4 days as opposed to 3.

* All Directors being included in the first round of the tourney are highlighted in green in the opening post.

* If a poll is tied, both directors will move to the next round.

If you have any rule suggestions or questions feel free to PM me. Also if I happen to have missed a "versus" thread PM me or respond in this thread. Thanks.

Supermallet

You don't think it's going to come down to Fulci vs. Lynch?

Solid Snake

Now out of all this madness...I'm pretty sure our list of films to see for each of us has grown a bit more.

Cardsfan111

There's so many of these things going now that I just entered into the Laurel & Hardy thread in the DVD forum, intending to vote for one or the other.

RocShemp

I'd like it to be a tourney.

Solid Snake

Yeah, I know. I'm getting all these things I have to see. I knew they existed but w/ these threads and a brief but respectable understanding people are giving out it gets my interest for sure.

FRwL

These are all pretty good threads, and really only the Charles Shyer or Richard Benjamin? one makes me go "who the fuck are they?" and also its the only one on the 2nd page now.

MrSmearkase

/\ Indeed, that one was kind of a headscratcher for me. I was worried with my Reiner/Marhsall thread that it may be seen as a joke, but I maintain that those two are a decent comparison.

JumpCutz

You're welcome.

Travis McClain

Holy damn, there are a lot of these match-ups! I enjoyed discussing Eyes Wide Shut in the Coppola/Kubrick thread, but most of the other discussion seems to largely be of the "The one I didn't vote for hasn't done anything remotely as great as the one I did vote for" persuasion. Hopefully, there'll be some more interesting discussion about the actual work of the directors in question as we proceed.

JumpCutz

Yeah I started this shitstorm entirely by accident. I did the Fincher/Nolan thread a week or so ago, and followed it up with 3 more director/poll threads.

I come back today and this place has gone crazy.

I think If I would have just worked in one poll a week, this probably wouldn't have happened.

I do enjoy Suprmallet's match-ups though.

Supermallet

Well thank you! This whole thing has been a lot of fun, although I don't think we should add too many more at this point.

superdeluxe

So is there a reason why we have great directors vs other great directors in the qualifying round?

JumpCutz

Yeah I hear you. But I do want to do my Friedkin/Boorman match-up tomorrow.

FRwL

Yes that is the perfect match, i was thinking of who was the guy that did Point Blank but didn't know much of anything else from him and Friedkin had to be on here but didn't put those two together for some reason. Perfect

Mountain Biker

Exactly

There should be a nomination process so the Directors with most votes get seeded highest and are pitted against Directors with least amount of votes

Blu Man

All of the directors that are going to be included in the tourney are now in the opening post, no more will be added. So people can STOP making these threads if there goal is to make it into the tourney.

This was not started off as a tourney, it's just transformed into one.

Ok. Let me figure something like that out.

Blu Man

Here are the revised tourney rules, as I'm following a new format.

* The directors with the most votes will be seeded first and will be pitted against the directors with the least amount of votes. All directors in a "versus" thread will be included. Voting ends on Monday, August 2nd at 8:30 PM Pacific Time.

* 6 directors will be included in each poll, vote for your favorite. The top 3 will stay in the tourney, the bottom two will be eliminated.

PM me if you have any suggestions, as this is my first tourney. I'm compiling the information as we speak, and director placement will be added to this thread soon. Thank you.