Poll Comp: "Don't make me choose!" or "No contest"

[MoeFOH]

Simple comp: Two questions (sometimes about cigars but mostly not). 

First question will ask you for your choice between two things. 

Second will be to ask you if that was a "don't make me choose!" or "No contest" question for you. 

Vote in the poll, discuss below if you wish . 

All participants go into the random draw for a 5-pack of MOFOH Robusto Trinity . 

(drawn Tuesday mornings AEST)

[Chibearsv]

No contest here.  Scorcese is brilliant.  Quirky sometimes for sure, but brilliant.  

 

[Gubbins]

Love me a bit of Scorcese, but has to be Senior Spielbergo for me.
   I went with no contest. I love a gangster flick, which is what I generally associate Scorcese with, but when Spielberg goes big, he’s in his own league.

Kubrick and Coppola would have been tougher for me.

 

[bmac]

Hard to pick against Spielberg and Jaws.Lifechanging😀

[Ford2112]

Both different animals. I picked Scorcese but it could go either way. Close Encounters Jaws and Saving Private Ryan are epic. Plus Band of Brothers. But Gangs of New York, Casino, Goodfellas, The Last Waltz. So many great films. I am a gangster film fanatic so I edge Scorcese by a hair.

[Chibearsv]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Just let that sink in for a bit.

[carsncigarsuk]

Spielberg, no contest. First 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan alone wins this, yet alone the sheer depth of his catalogue. 

[BigGuns]

Scorsese, don’t make me choose…while both have plenty in my top 10/20, Scorsese has more and had more influence in my formative years…

[Ford2112]

Raging Bull. Taxi Driver. Cape Fear. The Color of Money. All bangers.

[zacca]

Marty, don’t make me choose. I acknowledge Spielberg’s hits, but overall I like more of what Scorsese put out. 

[riderpride]

Senior Spielbergo for me as well. Schindler's and Saving just hit hard. It was a close call though. 

Cheers!

[Hoosh]

This is a super tough choice, but I went with Scorsese, because I feel his general body of work has more gritty* movies than does Spielberg. 

* Movies that afterwards made me say “Damn” verses movies that made me say “That’s nice.”

[Gubbins]

39 minutes ago, Ford2112 said:

Raging Bull. Taxi Driver. Cape Fear. The Color of Money. All bangers.

Jaws, Jurassic Park, raiders of the lost ark, saving private Ryan, ET, Close encounters, band of brothers, Schindler's list.

It could be nostalgia for me, but I think Spielberg at his best creates cinematic magic that allows for true escapism.

Scorsese has truly made some of the best films ever made, but where Spielberg will have you leave the picture feeling exhilarated, Scorsese will leave you feeling exhausted.

 

[BigGuns]

45 minutes ago, Gubbins said:

It could be nostalgia for me, but I think Spielberg at his best creates cinematic magic that allows for true escapism.

 

Yeah, but he never put Tony Dogs' head in a f*#($%in vice, did he?  Making eyes escape and whatnot.

[Lucas Buck]

Scorsese no contest. His films have had an impact on me that is hard to describe. 

[Ford2112]

2 hours ago, BigGuns said:

Yeah, but he never put Tony Dogs' head in a f*#($%in vice, did he?  Making eyes escape and whatnot.

Nicky is the best hahah " Don't make me have to do this, please. Don't make me be a bad guy, come on."🤣

[BigGuns]

6 minutes ago, Ford2112 said:

Nicky is the best hahah " Don't make me have to do this, please. Don't make me be a bad guy, come on."🤣

And all for Charlie M of all people

[Ford2112]

We can't even quote that scene or the ban hammer will come down hard!

[Capn_Jackson]

“Oh come on.” That’s what I said when looking at these two choices, because this is just too hard at first. I chose Spielberg because he is so multi-faceted. Mostly, I chose him because my favorite novel is Jurassic Park and while I will always contend that the novel FAR outshines the film, that film is one of the greatest things ever put out there. E.T. is another that captures my imagination, and Hook. Nobody does whimsy like Spielberg, but he also captures gripping war and terror in films like Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List.

Scorsese has committed to film some proper bangers, and I’ve enjoyed many of them countless times, but I don’t think he has the diverse scope that Spielberg does. Scorsese has very few “whimsical” films, and no “war films,” unless you count Gangs of New York. It’s probably my favorite of his movies, and does have warlike skirmishes, but his movies deal with the aftermath of war more than the actual battlefield, whereas Spielberg has brought that plane of reality to our screens so well. What Scorsese does, better than Spielberg, is bring the internal conflict of a mind like Travis Bickle to the forefront, exploding on the screen in a magnified vision of chaos.

Again, this was a hard choice, but Spielberg edges out. Jaws, for instance, is a film tour de force a la Hitchcock. That alone almost seals it for me. Also, think about how each director directed Leonardo. Scorese has guided Leo through some stellar pictures, but I personally feel that Spielberg’s “Catch Me if You Can” tops them all. Leo’s character went through so many levels of confidence to abysmal despair, and played beautiful counterpart to Tom Hanks… and Christopher Walken!

As far as numbers go, Spielberg has it five-fold. Over 10 billion dollars at the box office, to Scorsese’s 2 billion or so. I know that art is not just about money, but that’s an undeniable factor.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s a masterpiece. I don’t know where to fit it into this conversation other than to simply throw it out there, if you haven’t watched it in twenty or so years, go remind yourself of how long Spielberg has been contributing greatness to the screen. 

I mentioned Jaws and how I feel it’s very Hitchcock. For Scorsese, I think Shutter Island is his best in that vein but it doesn’t come close. I like it, and it’s one I’ve watched a handful of times over again, but it holds nothing to Jaws.

Scorsese has phenomenal stuff. I for one loved The Irishman, when many of my friends said it was too indulgent. I found it captivating. Casino is as timeless as a Rolex! Taxi Driver is so deliciously disturbing but I could watch it back to back to back. Raging Bull is brilliant! Even The Departed is such a fun romp. However, he doesn’t have a Jurassic Park. He doesn’t have a Raiders. He doesn’t have Saving Private Ryan, and he doesn’t have Schindler’s List. More importantly, though, he doesn’t have John Williams.