MoFo Battle Royale Directors Edition Round 3: Sidney Lumet vs. Sergio Leone

[Harry Lime]

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Sidney Lumet

vs.

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Sergio Leone

[Used Future]

Leone.

[Harry Lime]

Sergio

[MovieMan8877445]

Leone.

[downthesun]

One of my all time favourites, Leone

[Swan]

Dag nabit. If this was before two days ago, I would've voted for Lumet hands down. But Friday night I saw Once Upon a Time in the West.

This is hard as pickles, but I'm going to give it to Leone.

[Fryzie_Film_Lover]

Leone

[planet news]

Obvi Leone. I've only seen Lumet's 12 Angry Men, and I always hated that play anyways.

Oh, he did Network too. I guess I liked that film, but it wasn't anything mindblowing. Same with Murder on the Orient Express. I don't think I've seen anything else from him sadly.

[downthesun]

12 Angry Men is a brilliant movie, it kept me interested the whole way thorough even though the whole movie is set in one room.

[DexterRiley]

Poll is closed but i would give it to Lumet. In addotion to the aformentioned 12 angry men, consider:

The 60's

Fail Safe (1964), The Hill (1965), The Pawnbroker (1965), The Anderson Tapes(1971)


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Serpico (1973) Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Network (1976) The Verdict (1982)
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Running In Empty (1988) Q & A (1990)

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Before the Devil knows you're dead (2007)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/Devil_youre_dead_ver2.jpg/220px-Devil_youre_dead_ver2.jpg

[will.15]

I think Leone is very overrated. Once Upon a Time in America is a ponderous bore no matter what version you're looking at.

Lumet at his best is far superior.

[Harry Lime]

I guess it's too bad you two weren't around back when we had this little tourney, it might have only been 17-4 for Leone.

[DexterRiley]

Once upon a Time in America, is a fine film, my argument for Lumet is he has made several terriffic pictures.

Some have had more acclaim than others, but Fail Safe for instance pre-dates War Games by 30 years.

I don't see how its close tbph.

[DexterRiley]

oh geez i just noticed the time-stamps on the OP..sorry bout that harry.

[will.15]

I noticed the poll was closed and old. So what? To compare a director of overblown spaghetti westerns with the range and quality of Lumet's films is a joke.

[Harry Lime]

It wasn't just a poll, it was a Battle Royale! And Lumet got his a$$ kicked.