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Your Favorite Steven Soderbergh Film Is:

sex, lies, and videotape
10 (8.2%)
Kafka
0 (0%)
King of the Hill
3 (2.5%)
Underneath
1 (0.8%)
Gray's Anatomy
0 (0%)
Schizopolis
2 (1.6%)
Out of Sight
26 (21.3%)
The Limey
6 (4.9%)
Erin Brockovich
5 (4.1%)
Traffic
27 (22.1%)
Ocean's Eleven
21 (17.2%)
Full Frontal
1 (0.8%)
Solaris
2 (1.6%)
Ocean's Twelve
0 (0%)
Bubble
2 (1.6%)
The Good German
0 (0%)
Ocean's Thirteen
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
1 (0.8%)
don't like any
7 (5.7%)
Che
1 (0.8%)
The Girlfriend Experience
2 (1.6%)
The Informant!
3 (2.5%)
And Everything Is Going Fine
1 (0.8%)
Contagion
1 (0.8%)
Haywire
0 (0%)
Magic Mike
0 (0%)
Behind the Candelabra
0 (0%)
Side Effects
0 (0%)
Logan Lucky
0 (0%)
Unsane
0 (0%)
High Flying Bird
0 (0%)
The Laundromat
0 (0%)
Let Them All Talk
0 (0%)
No Sudden Move
0 (0%)
Kimi
0 (0%)
Magic Mike's Last Dance
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 119

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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2008, 03:22:19 PM »
I'm voting for Traffic. It isn't often that a big Hollywood director deals with critical subject matter in such a real and mature way. Definately an achievement.
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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2008, 03:46:29 PM »
I'm voting for Traffic. It isn't often that a big Hollywood director deals with critical subject matter in such a real and mature way. Definately an achievement.
yeah, I think that movie really paved the way for somthing of a 70s revival that's been going on this decade with movies like Munich and Michael Clayton.
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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2008, 03:48:11 PM »
Was Traffic the one where the new drug czar's daughter became a crack whore?

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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2008, 03:57:15 PM »
Ouch! If by drug czar you mean the bureaucrat that leads the fight, then yes, that's the movie.
You burned that character!
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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #24 on: April 14, 2008, 08:15:13 AM »
That's a spoiler?

I think that turns up in a lot of reviews...but oh well...
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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #25 on: April 15, 2008, 10:19:19 AM »
That's not a spoiler. You're not really giving anything huge away by mentioning that. It's what basically sets up that entire plotline. I wouldn't consider that a surprise.
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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #26 on: April 18, 2008, 01:53:38 PM »
Out of Sight with The Limey a close second.

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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #27 on: April 18, 2008, 05:14:16 PM »
I'm ashamed to admit I've only seen Ocean's Eleven :-[

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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #28 on: August 09, 2008, 01:00:32 PM »
sex, lies, and videotape

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Re: Directors Best Poll #11
« Reply #29 on: August 09, 2008, 11:47:58 PM »
thanks for resuscitating the thread coco :)

i went with Underneath, which i have always known as The Underneath, Out of Sight is in a virtual tie for first

The Underneath
Out of Sight
sex, lies, & videotape
Schizopolis
Ocean's Eleven

The Limey
Eros
The Good German
Kafka
King of the Hill

Solaris
Traffic
Erin Brokovich

Ocean's Twelve
Ocean's Thirteen



I can't believe i've done so many of his films, and they are mostly pretty solid, except the final two.  each of the bunches signifies roughly the same impression of the films.  i feel like i should give EB another go, haven't done that one in ages and didn't much care for it at the time.
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