Octopus Overlords

Let's get to know your opinion on the important stuff:

Martin Scorsese
Margo Martindale
Denzel Washington

Quentin
Streep
DeNiro

Q was an easy pick for me. The other 2 were much more difficult to decide on and I am still torn.

Quentin Tarantino
Aubrey Plaza
Jeff Bridges

This is a hard one!

All of my favorite directors and acting people are dead. This doesn't mean that I don't like modern movies, but it's very hard to decide who's best among the living.

Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg

…he’s that good.

hepcat wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:59 pm Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg

…he’s that good.

You know, you post some pretty funny stuff sometimes but this is just over the line.

Does it matter if my favorite actress would be upset not being called my favorite actor?

Not as of yesterday.

Ethan Coen
Hayley Atwell
Jeff Bridges

Director: Gosh. The Coen Brothers in my head and Terry Gilliam in my heart.
Actress: Frances McDormand
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix

The latter two categories are just too crowded. Curse you for making me narrow it down! I'm too stoned for this. And also I'm sorry Jimmy J., I wanted to include you but I think I'll always love you disproportionately for Dead Man.

hepcat wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 9:22 pm Not as of yesterday.

This is quality material.

Sam Raimi
Streep
Mads Mikkelsen

This is tough to answer as I don't know that I have one favorite of any of these, though there are many that I admire and appreciate and who I like most will fluctuate day by day.

But for a snapshot answer, I'd say:

Director: Robert Eggers
Actor: Barry Keoghan
Actress: Toni Collette

These don't represent "favorite of all time," but who I currently am paying attention to and would actively seek out their work.

John Carpenter
Milla Jovovich
Emilio Estevez or Ice Cube

Okay, you got major respect out of me for putting John Carpenter in that list.

I wish I could make a list, but who I think is the best living director/actor/actress changes almost daily. Every time I see a new movie or show and come across someone that impresses me, it gets updated.

But favorite director would have to be either Takashi Miike or Coen Bros (they're a team, you can't separate them).

Favorite Actor would be either Barry Keoghan or Mark Rylance

Favorite Actress would be either Sigourney Weaver or Frances McDormand

But these could all change by tomorrow at this time.

hepcat wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:01 pm I wish I could make a list, but who I think is the best living director changes almost monthly. Every time I see a new movie or show and come across someone I like, it gets updated.

Same. There are really no actors or directors where I will watch their stuff by default, no matter how much I normally like them - whether because some of it isn't good or it's a genre that I don't like or a story that I don't care for.

On the flipside, I'll watch some stuff that's objectively not good because I'm in the mood for it or the actor is hot or it's a TV show that I started and now feel compelled to finish (looking at you, Blacklist - speaking of James Spader, he's one of my favorites but there are movies of his that I can't watch).

So without putting too much thought into it - for the moment:
Director: Richard Linklater or Wes Anderson
Actress: Cate Blanchett or Toni Collette
Actor: Cillian Murphy or Bradley Cooper

gilraen wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:26 pm

hepcat wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:01 pm I wish I could make a list, but who I think is the best living director changes almost monthly. Every time I see a new movie or show and come across someone I like, it gets updated.

Same. There are really no actors or directors where I will watch their stuff by default, no matter how much I normally like them

The ones I listed above I'll definitely watch/seek out if they put out something new. However, in the case of Miike, that's almost impossible as he's made over 100 films since he started in 1991, bouncing between big budget films to arthouse films to tv shows and tv movies. He makes incredibly controversial and transgressive films one day, and the next he's making a kid's tv show. The guy's a friggin' chaos machine.

Director - Living: Miyazaki, Still working: Nolan
Actress - Blanchett
Actor - Either Murphy or Denzel, depending on my mood on any given day