A Complete Waste of Time

[lazyfatbum]

Hola.

I'd like to hear from as many people as possible the answers to these fine questions; In no particular order.

Who is your favorite director or film author?

(Mine's Stanely Kubrick or Ridley Scott)

Who's your favorite Screen Play writer?

(Mine's James Cameron or M. Night Shyamalan)

What's your favorite film?

(Mine's Alien, Night of the Living Dead or The Shining)

What's your favorite film's art direction and lighting?

(Mine's Blade Runner, Terminator 2 or Jurassic Park)

Who's your favorite film composer?

(Mine's John Williams, James Newton Howard or Alan Silvestri)

What is your favorite scene?

(Mine's from They Live, when the main character put on the glasses and saw the billboards, or from Star Man when the alien uses his technology to heal the animal strapped to the car.)

What is your favorite special effects scene?

(Mine's easily the Rex attack from Jurassic Park, bridging live-action animatronics and CGI. I also love the "Surgery" from The Terminator, a perfect example of puppetry and animatronics. Also, Harry from Harry and the Hendersons - Still considered some of the most advanced animatronics to date)

Who is your favorite character from a movie (or series of movies)?

(Mine's easily Darth Vader, though Lt. Ripley is a close 2nd followed by Short Circuit)

What is your favorite line of dialoge from a movie?

(Mine's Aliens: "Game over, man." Also Short Circuit: "No disassemble, Stephanie!" And from Star Man: "I watched you very closely, Jenny Hayden; Green is 'Go' - Red is 'Stop' - Yellow is 'Go very fast'. )

What is your favorite film poster?

(The European production release poster of The Shining which exclaimed "The terror that swept through America!" which you would think was talking about the film, however this poster was released while the film was in production. This gives another clue iof The Shining's hidden context of America's and Europe's Indian wars.)

BONUS QUESTION: Name the first movie to have a robot/cyborg character.

BONUS QUESTION 2: Name James Cameron's first feature length film.

I'll be back for the answers!

[Laser Link]

You never emailed me... :bummed:

I'll try to answer these the best I can when I am not exhausted. I don't know when that will be.

[lazyfatbum]

I did email you! And I even typed *things* in the email! And it was all perfectly legal! Now I have to aggressively pinch my cell phone buttons. Hehe rubber button smoosh smoosh.

[Fittisize]

[OB1]

Who is your favorite director or film author?

Akira Kurosawa.

Who's your favorite Screen Play writer?

Akira Kurosawa.

What's your favorite film?

Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa.

What's your favorite film's art direction and lighting?

Hmm... "Hero" by Zhang Yimou.

Who's your favorite film composer?

John Williams and Danny Elfman.

What is your favorite scene?

The whole ending part of Return of the Jedi (Special Edition).

What is your favorite special effects scene?

Just about everything in Attack of the Clones. But if I had to choose one scene it'd have to be the Clone Wars battle.

Who is your favorite character from a movie (or series of movies)?

Yoda, Sanjuro (Yojimbo), and Indiana Jones.

What is your favorite line of dialoge from a movie?

Ah... I'll get back to you on that one.

What is your favorite film poster?

Hmm... I dunno. Any of the recent Star Wars ones (From the SE up till Episode II).

BONUS QUESTION: Name the first movie to have a robot/cyborg character.

Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)? Great movie.

BONUS QUESTION 2: Name James Cameron's first feature length film.

No clue.

[Darunia]

Who is your favorite director or film author?

None in particular.

Who's your favorite Screen Play writer?

None in particular.

What's your favorite film?

(Currently) A Fish Called Wanda

What's your favorite film's art direction and lighting?

None in particular

Who's your favorite film composer?

John Williams and James Horner

What is your favorite scene?

Battle of Cowpens / The Patriot

What is your favorite special effects scene?

Battle of Endor perhaps.

Who is your favorite character from a movie (or series of movies)?

Toughie...maybe Indiana Jones

What is your favorite line of dialoge from a movie?

(Currently)

TAVINGTON: Prepare to charge!
BALDWIN: Sir, we haven't been given that order...
TAVINGTON(cold glare): CHARGE!!!

What is your favorite film poster?

Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade perhaps

BONUS QUESTION: Name the first movie to have a robot/cyborg character.

That ancient French silent film To The Moon ?

BONUS QUESTION 2: Name James Cameron's first feature length film.

Alien?

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I never got your email. Unless I got it and the subject was really wierd so I assumed it was one of the many spams I get every day and deleted it... *cries*

[OB1]

So lazy, did I get the bonus question right?

[Fittisize]

Oh, for favourite screeplay writer I forgot to put Kevin Smith. And another fav. line...
"English motherfucker, do you speak it??"

[lazyfatbum]

BONUS QUESTION: Name the first movie to have a robot/cyborg character.

Fritz Lang's (Director/writer) Metropolis (1927). Made in Germany, it was the first movie to show a woman built from a machine with skin, hair, eyes and emotions. The first man-made cyborg.

BONUS QUESTION 2: Name James Cameron's first feature length film.

Xenogenesis (1978) Written and Directed by James Cameron. His second movie is Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) as director only.

BONUS QUESTION 3: Name the only Tagline for a film to include the word "Penis".

BONUS QUESTION 4: Name the first movie to have racist comments and/or images.

BONUS QUESTION 5: Name the machine that was used to create the first true motion picture camera and name its inventor and the year it was invented.

OB1/ Why do you like Akira Kurosawa over all of the European and American authors and directors? Kurosawa's films actually dont look that great in comparison to films of the same period from other parts of the world. I mean, at most, he's barely at the level of Spielberg and I wouldn't say he's that great either. He's a great DP and he knows how to light a scene but he really simply tells the story vividly without construction more on the basis of hidden context or the 'invisible parts' of the film.