[ENDGAME]: Film Directors.

#151

I'll be gone camping this weekend, so I may miss the Day 1 lynch, we'll see.

Also please don't lynch me.

#152

LOL, lynch. i get it xD

#153

A Person wrote:LOL, lynch. i get it xD

Yeah, poor David really doesn't stand a chance this game, does he?

#154

I'll also be in Bucharest until Tuesday, but I'll be able to pop in at least once a day, maybe just not chat so much about movies. Please don't lynch me either.

Bucharest, by the way, is a European capital where, at a movie theater in its city centre, I could not see Blackhat because I was the only one who showed up there wanting to see it.

#155

Can't make any promises about lynching.

#156

Ricochet wrote:I'll also be in Bucharest until Tuesday, but I'll be able to pop in at least once a day, maybe just not chat so much about movies. Please don't lynch me either.

Bucharest, by the way, is a European capital where, at a movie theater in its city centre, I could not see Blackhat because I was the only one who showed up there wanting to see it.

Yeah, but Romania.

#157

I'm home from work sick again today but I have to shimmy away for the landlord to show a prospective buyer the unit.

I'll have the Day 1 post up by 6pm EST. After that, we'll be on a more regular schedule. Thank you for your patience, and for joining in on the discussion. It should be a real fun time.

Remember to poke me with any questions and to poke Epi with any concerns. Have a wonderful day.

#158

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'll be gone camping this weekend, so I may miss the Day 1 lynch, we'll see.

Also please don't lynch me.

Votes Metalmarsh

#159

birdwithteeth11 wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'll be gone camping this weekend, so I may miss the Day 1 lynch, we'll see.

Also please don't lynch me.
Votes Metalmarsh

Yeah, let's vote out MM on D1 again.

Just kidding.

#160

You will al forgive me if I am a little quiet right now. After yesterday I need a srs mafia break.

#161

Roxy wrote:You will al forgive me if I am a little quiet right now. After yesterday I need a srs mafia break.

#162

MovingPictures07 wrote:
birdwithteeth11 wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'll be gone camping this weekend, so I may miss the Day 1 lynch, we'll see.

Also please don't lynch me.
Votes Metalmarsh

Yeah, let's vote out MM on D1 again.

Just kidding.

#163

Mongoose wrote:I'm home from work sick again today but I have to shimmy away for the landlord to show a prospective buyer the unit.

I'll have the Day 1 post up by 6pm EST. After that, we'll be on a more regular schedule. Thank you for your patience, and for joining in on the discussion. It should be a real fun time.

Remember to poke me with any questions and to poke Epi with any concerns. Have a wonderful day.

Ooh, wonderful, I can at least get my vote in before I leave.

I'll probably vote Ricochet since he will also be gone for a bit.

#164

That's ok, it's not as if I didn't dread the moment I'd be first to be sacrificed as the noob I am.

#165

I doubt I will vote for Ricochet or Metalmarsh. I have bigger fish to fry.

#166

Day 1: A Piece of Cake.

There were so many directors to learn about! How would they make it through all of them? Would they discuss the use of color in films like Punch Drunk Love? What about the use of light in the 1932 version of Scarface? Or the use of sound in Dassin's Naked City? It was an almost overwhelming ordeal.

Someone walked forward into profile. A corpulent, yet dignified gentleman. He cleared his throat.

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake," he said.

He pointed to a trunk.

"I believe in that trunk may lie a corpse of dubious origin," he said in a mid-Atlantic accent.

"Well, this got real quick," said Metalmarsh.

"No one hurt a kitty, did they?" asked A Person.

He said: "For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."

It is now Day 1. You have 48 hours to determine who put the junk in the trunk.

#167

Who is your favorite director? (This is just a check-in poll and has no bearing on the game).

Paul Thomas Anderson
2
Mongoose (1), A Person (7) 9%
Wes Anderson
0
No votes
Sam Peckinpah
0
No votes
David Lynch
0
No votes
John Huston
0
No votes
Clint Eastwood
0
No votes
Opie
0
No votes
Susanne Bier
1
Canucklehead (4) 4%
Lars von Trier
0
No votes
Alfonso Cuaron
0
No votes
Mike Leigh
0
No votes
Mike Nichols
1
Ricochet (8) 4%
Catherine Bigelow
0
No votes
James Cameron
1
Long Con (14) 4%
George Lucas
1
birdwithteeth11 (18) 4%
Steven Spielberg
1
nijuukyugou (20) 4%
JJ Abrams
1
Spacedaisy (23) 4%
Christopher Nolan
2
MovingPictures07 (2), Lizzy (21) 9%
Sam Raimi
0
No votes
Oliver Stone
0
No votes
Nora Ephron
1
Dom (3) 4%
Tyler Perry
0
No votes
Roman Polanski
0
No votes
Francis Ford Coppola
0
No votes
Sofia Coppola
0
No votes
Woody Allen
1
FZ. (17) 4%
Robert Zemeckis
1
Metalmarsh89 (5) 4%
Martin Scorsese
2
Bass_the_Clever (6), S~V~S (10) 9%
David Fincher
1
thellama73 (13) 4%
Sergio Leone
0
No votes
Tim Burton
0
No votes
Peter Jackson
2
DFaraday (15), sabie12 (19) 9%
Ridley Scott
0
No votes
Wolfgang Peterson
0
No votes
Terrence Malick
0
No votes
Frank Capra
0
No votes
William Wyler
0
No votes
Andrei Tarkovsky
1
Vompatti (11) 4%
Brian de Palma
0
No votes
Spike Lee
0
No votes
Werner Herzog
0
No votes
Steven Soderbergh
1
Turnip Head (16) 4%
David Cronenberg
0
No votes
Terry Gilliam
0
No votes
Elia Kazan
0
No votes
Mel Brooks
1
Roxy (12) 4%
Richard Linklater
0
No votes
Frederico Fellini
1
timmer (9) 4%
Akira Kurosawa
0
No votes
Yasujirō Ozu
1
Made (22) 4%
Total votes : 23

#168

And... ACTION!

#169

I like the use of color in Chris Nolan's Memento. Very blue palette for the bulk of the film, and more yellow for the flashbacks. It gives it a nice consistent feel that is almost subconscious to the viewer.

#170

HOST: are votes changeable?

#171

thellama73 wrote:I like the use of color in Chris Nolan's Memento. Very blue palette for the bulk of the film, and more yellow for the flashbacks. It gives it a nice consistent feel that is almost subconscious to the viewer.

I like using colour palettes as well, but man it has GOT to be subtle, or at least not garish and distracting. Peter Jackson did some wonderful work with colour tinting in the LOTR trilogy, for instance. It was noticeable, but added such an otherworldly feel to everything. I wasn't a fan of Soderbergh's blue/red/yellow work in Traffic, though. It was just so THERE, I found myself distracted. Maybe it's my own problem, but such things are important.

#172

timmer wrote:
thellama73 wrote:I like the use of color in Chris Nolan's Memento. Very blue palette for the bulk of the film, and more yellow for the flashbacks. It gives it a nice consistent feel that is almost subconscious to the viewer.
I like using colour palettes as well, but man it has GOT to be subtle, or at least not garish and distracting. Peter Jackson did some wonderful work with colour tinting in the LOTR trilogy, for instance. It was noticeable, but added such an otherworldly feel to everything. I wasn't a fan of Soderbergh's blue/red/yellow work in Traffic, though. It was just so THERE, I found myself distracted. Maybe it's my own problem, but such things are important.

I completely agree with you. There was some movie I was watching (I forget which one, I want to say Swordfish or something like that) where everything was SO YELLOW it was terrible and distracting. I think you can get away with a little more of it in an artier film like Memento, but it can easily be taken too far.

#173

And I meant to say this during Day 0 but was too distracted by the champions game: I am HAPPILY BLOWN AWAY by the cinematic knowledge on display in this game. Obviously I expected the host to bring it, but man, you guys are dropping names I never expected people to know outside of the film websites I frequent elsewhere! And shit, I had to look up two of the names on Vompatti's list! Basically, it's not that I expected you guys to have no film knowledge, and I knew some of you were cineastes, but I didn't know so MANY of you were. It makes a guy like me feel at home

#174

Some question for Mongoose:

Kubrick can "reshoot a day period" once in the game. Does that he reverses a day, annulling the lynch, or just simply that we get two day periods in a row?

The Duplass, Wachowskis and Emmerich seem to not have any powers? Is this true?

Uwe Boll - what does "lock the thread" mean, exactly?

Thanks, and items of interest to throw out there:

The Coens Bros have been picked to lead this year's Cannes jury!

Also, in light of Welles being in this game, his unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind, starring Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, John Huston and featuring all kinds of filmmakers like Claude Chabrol has actually now been completed and will screen at Cannes in May on Welles' 100th birthday!!!

#175

timmer wrote:
thellama73 wrote:I like the use of color in Chris Nolan's Memento. Very blue palette for the bulk of the film, and more yellow for the flashbacks. It gives it a nice consistent feel that is almost subconscious to the viewer.
I like using colour palettes as well, but man it has GOT to be subtle, or at least not garish and distracting. Peter Jackson did some wonderful work with colour tinting in the LOTR trilogy, for instance. It was noticeable, but added such an otherworldly feel to everything. I wasn't a fan of Soderbergh's blue/red/yellow work in Traffic, though. It was just so THERE, I found myself distracted. Maybe it's my own problem, but such things are important.

It was pretty in-your-face in The Matrix, what did you think of that?

#176

Mongoose wrote:
It is now Day 1. You have 48 hours to determine who put the junk in the trunk.

I wouldn't mind putting my junk in your trunk IYKWIM.

#177

Long Con wrote:
It was pretty in-your-face in The Matrix, what did you think of that?

In your face colours etc. can work, if it matches the rest of the film, which it totally does in The Matrix (one of my fave films of all time, sequels notwithstanding)! I think I've seen it over twenty times, lol.

#178

birdwithteeth11 wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
It is now Day 1. You have 48 hours to determine who put the junk in the trunk.
I wouldn't mind putting my junk in your trunk IYKWIM.

Well, this got real quick.

#179

thellama73 wrote:HOST: are votes changeable?

Nope.

I went ahead and self-voted since I won't be around. Have a good weekend y'all.

#180

Serious question: Who wants to discuss lynch possibilities now, and who wants to wait until several hours before the vote ends?

#181

thellama73 wrote:Serious question: Who wants to discuss lynch possibilities now, and who wants to wait until several hours before the vote ends?

What could we lynch someone based on? We could see who is named MetalMarsh to find someone who matches up to that famous criminal profile.

#182

thellama73 wrote:
I completely agree with you. There was some movie I was watching (I forget which one, I want to say Swordfish or something like that) where everything was SO YELLOW it was terrible and distracting. I think you can get away with a little more of it in an artier film like Memento, but it can easily be taken too far.

Probably not the one you're talking about, but the only recent movie with intentionally sickening use of yellow (actually, pretty much the whole piss palette) I can remember is Enemy - it even gets much of its flak for this particular aspect, but I personally feel the whole movie (thus, even the use of color) is done in a very smart way.

I'm not very good at judging visual aspects, usually. I pretty much scratch my head every year with the Oscar nominations for Cinematography and especially Art Direction, except if one movie really stands out.

#183

So OMG, it starts. Now that it started, I want to thank Alison for my role and, of course, the Academy...

I knew it was Hitch, but the quote "For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake" made me think of Wes Anderson, but Alison cut him out of the picture as well.

#184

Long Con wrote:
thellama73 wrote:Serious question: Who wants to discuss lynch possibilities now, and who wants to wait until several hours before the vote ends?
What could we lynch someone based on? We could see who is named MetalMarsh to find someone who matches up to that famous criminal profile.

We could lynch someone based on a wide variety of things. We could randomize, we could self-vote, we could analyze playstyle up to this point, we could go for no posters, high posters, or people we have personal grudges against outside of mafia. There are many options. I have a couple of thoughts already, but I have been lynched before for "pushing an early day 1 lynch" so I want to make sure people are cool with it before I start tossing out names.

I generally think it is less productive for everyone to roll in five minutes before the lynch and say "no time to catch up, voting so and so."

#185

I'm fine with going ahead and looking at potential lynch candidates. I figured I would spend some time on that this evening.

#186

thellama73 wrote:
Long Con wrote:
thellama73 wrote:Serious question: Who wants to discuss lynch possibilities now, and who wants to wait until several hours before the vote ends?
What could we lynch someone based on? We could see who is named MetalMarsh to find someone who matches up to that famous criminal profile.
We could lynch someone based on a wide variety of things. We could randomize, we could self-vote, we could analyze playstyle up to this point, we could go for no posters, high posters, or people we have personal grudges against outside of mafia. There are many options. I have a couple of thoughts already, but I have been lynched before for "pushing an early day 1 lynch" so I want to make sure people are cool with it before I start tossing out names.

I generally think it is less productive for everyone to roll in five minutes before the lynch and say "no time to catch up, voting so and so."

I'd like to hear your thoughts, llama. I pinky swear I won't accuse you of "pushing an early day 1 lynch".

#187

thellama73 wrote:Serious question: Who wants to discuss lynch possibilities now, and who wants to wait until several hours before the vote ends?

I dunno, waiting until 10 minutes before deadline worked real well in the Champions game.

I think people should jet put lynch ideas out there when they think their idea is a good one?

#188

Ricochet wrote:So OMG, it starts. Now that it started, I want to thank Alison for my role and, of course, the Academy...

I knew it was Hitch, but the quote "For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake" made me think of Wes Anderson, but Alison cut him out of the picture as well.

It seems obvious, but just to be clear... Mongoose=Alison?

#189

timmer wrote:
Ricochet wrote:So OMG, it starts. Now that it started, I want to thank Alison for my role and, of course, the Academy...

I knew it was Hitch, but the quote "For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake" made me think of Wes Anderson, but Alison cut him out of the picture as well.
It seems obvious, but just to be clear... Mongoose=Alison?

#190

I'm pretty smart.

#191

timmer wrote:I'm pretty smart.

If you're so smart, who do you think we should lynch?

#192

timmer wrote:
Ricochet wrote:So OMG, it starts. Now that it started, I want to thank Alison for my role and, of course, the Academy...

I knew it was Hitch, but the quote "For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake" made me think of Wes Anderson, but Alison cut him out of the picture as well.
It seems obvious, but just to be clear... Mongoose=Alison?

Sorry about that. I should probably stick to forum names from now on.

#193

We could all abstain from this lynch and let Metalmarsh lynch himself entirely by his own hand.

#194

thellama73 wrote:
timmer wrote:I'm pretty smart.
If you're so smart, who do you think we should lynch?

Two hours in to Day 1? I said pretty smart, not Rain Man smart.

#195

If I ever make a role based on Llama, it will be an Indy. The win conditions will be "Lead as many lynches as possible (first vote for the lynched) without being lynched for it yourself. Extra Credit if the people you lynch are low posters".

Llama loves lynching people just for the pure joy of it.

#196

S~V~S wrote:If I ever make a role based on Llama, it will be an Indy. The win conditions will be "Lead as many lynches as possible (first vote for the lynched) without being lynched for it yourself. Extra Credit if the people you lynch are low posters".

Llama loves lynching people just for the pure joy of it.

It's sort of the whole point of mafia, isn't it?

You're not wrong though.

#197

timmer wrote:Some question for Mongoose:

Kubrick can "reshoot a day period" once in the game. Does that he reverses a day, annulling the lynch, or just simply that we get two day periods in a row?

The Duplass, Wachowskis and Emmerich seem to not have any powers? Is this true?

Uwe Boll - what does "lock the thread" mean, exactly?

Thanks, and items of interest to throw out there:

The Coens Bros have been picked to lead this year's Cannes jury!

Also, in light of Welles being in this game, his unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind, starring Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, John Huston and featuring all kinds of filmmakers like Claude Chabrol has actually now been completed and will screen at Cannes in May on Welles' 100th birthday!!!

Kubrick's role - more annulment in scope.

True, they do not have any powers, per se.

Lock the thread, meaning no one can post for a period of time.

I was hearing about Jason Segel playing David Foster Wallace at Sundance and that was very intriguing. And also a new Duplass Bros series with 10 episodes. So stoked.

#198

Probably not the one you're talking about, but the only recent movie with intentionally sickening use of yellow (actually, pretty much the whole piss palette) I can remember is Enemy - it even gets much of its flak for this particular aspect, but I personally feel the whole movie (thus, even the use of color) is done in a very smart way./quote]
I loved Enemy's use of color, it was very controlled.

#199

Anyone seen the controversial foreign film I Am Curious (Yellow)?

#200

Mongoose wrote:Anyone seen the controversial foreign film I Am Curious (Yellow)?

First time hearing about it.

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