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. Life changing 😀

[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 List and Saving Private Ryan 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]

5 hours 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]

5 hours 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]

4 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]

1 hour 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.

[westg]

Toughest one yet !.Bloody tough. Over their journeys so far I will go with Steve. And because Steve is such a great name. If you combine there first names together you get Steve Martin, he is a funny actor.  

So so many fabulous movies between the two of them. Martin's films I can watch multiple times and the dialogue is amazing. I think Steve has more diversity across his panoply of films. Why ? Because his name is Steve and not Martin. Therefore only he can be the better of the two. Just. 

[Capn_Jackson]

41 minutes ago, westg said:

If you combine there first names together you get Steve Martin , he is a funny actor.  

Those aren’t pillows!

[Capn_Jackson]

On an out-there point, it’s a shame that Scorsese has such a beef with comic book films. I really feel that he would be the best director for a Wolverine film, although James Mangold’s “Logan” was a delicious and gritty masterpiece. I’ve been a Wolverine fan since I was a boy, and I remember first thinking around 1995 that Scorsese could best bring him to the big screen. Imagine him directing Karl Urban as Wolvie, or even the weird fringe candidate that so many have proffered. Daniel Radcliffe as Wolvie. Scorsese could make that sh*t work a hundred times a hundred.

[Çnote]

I was violently for Scorsese and then i remembered Empire of the Sun and that alone weighs against all of Scorsese's masterpieces for me.

1 hour ago, Capn_Jackson said:

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.

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Spielberg is a safer director for sure for the box office.

33 minutes ago, Capn_Jackson said:

On an out-there point, it’s a shame that Scorsese has such a beef with comic book films.

Yes, it’s tragic that American cinema has devoled into superhero movies. It’s probably a reflection of the zeitgeist. Scorsese doesn't want to be safe either, so that doesn’t help.

37 minutes ago, Capn_Jackson said:

Imagine him directing Karl Urban as Wolvie, or even the weird fringe candidate that so many have proffered. Daniel Radcliffe as Wolvie. Scorsese could make that sh*t work a hundred times a hundred.

I really want this now. And a cigar.

[Li Bai]

Scorsese, no contest.

I love Spielberg though and I think he's a technical cinematographic genius, maybe the greatest, but not so much when it comes to storytelling imo.

There's this clip of Terry Gilliam who explains the difference between Spielberg and Kubrick and to me it's perfectly spot on and relevant here, even if Scorsese is no Kubrick either.

In the end it comes to personal preferences but to me it's a no contest.