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A few suggestions for Poll Suggestions

There are a few poll ideas of mine now gathering dust in the back of my brain. If anyone would like to use them, feel free to do so. And in that case I would of course help find options and construct the poll, too, if that is wished.

-National Filmmaker: after this poll, maybe other countries could be considered as well. Which filmmaker most embodies the culture of France, Italy, etc.?
-Three Continents of Comics (or of Comic Book Movies): which is your favorite among North America, Europe, and Asia? One could also leave out Europe and make it a two-way face-off between the biggest contenders.
-Directors Group, Nov. 1972: before Ellen's Oscar Selfie, there was a photo of comparably (if not more) prestigious persons, made on occasion of a meeting of directors hosted by George Cukor. See here for the photo and the names. Who is your favorite?
-Friendly Filmmakers: The opposite of Frightening Filmmakers. Whom would you most look forward to work with?

-Another kind of sequel: Prophets in their Countries- Actors Edition. Or generally moviemaking people who are not directors.
-a bit similar to the above, but with a different focus: people or movies that are surprisingly big in one specific country. I only had trouble coming up with options, except David Hasselhoff. But maybe someone has ideas.
-Stanley Kubrick Facts. There are so many intriguing things to learn about him, they should be used in some poll.

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I was thinking about creating and presenting as a (my first) poll suggestion a list of child actors who dropped out of cinema/television but later "resurfaced" there in adulthood. I haven't even created the IMDb name list yet. It would include the actor who played Atreyu in The NeverEnding Story, as well as the actor who played Andy in Child's Play. I would want more than only those two to be in the list. (Maybe Ethan Hawke would fit the criteria, as there was a short gap in his career after his screen acting debut, if you'll recall.) Anyway, it would be fine if somebody else created a list and suggested a poll, regarding such an overall subject.

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I'm often more concerned about quality (accuracy, utility and comprehensiveness) than speed, so that may hold things up; not to mention that I'm often busy with other aspects of IMDb.

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6 years ago

Good idea

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6 years ago

Why not suggest them yourself? Lack of time?

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Lack of an IMDb account :)

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Hi Alby,

Create another IMDb account...we need you on this board...please don't leave like forever.

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Aww! I’ll be coming back and comment here as long as there are interesting conversations to be had. But the attitude that led to the deletion of my old account hasn‘t changed and if IMDb sees it as an offense of the highest degree then there‘s no use in starting anew.

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I don't know what happened but I'm so sorry it did because you always made such intelligent, informative, and sophisticated polls. I'll miss them. I'm so glad you'll still be around on GS, though. :) 

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If you really aren't going to make another IMDb account, I'd love to be one of the pair of legs that make this ideas actually walk into poll form. Your ideas are too smart to not become concrete. 

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Ruby, you'll find information here: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/ot-almost-everything-ive-done-has-been-deleted

I'll be glad if you take some of these ideas. With you as the author they will be lovely polls for sure :)

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6 years ago

So much great ideas... 

One of them is a bit similar to one of mine which is in the earl stages of development, but it has a very different focus. 

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6 years ago

Another idea I forgot to mention above: Movies that have not been released on Blu-Ray yet (which would you most like to see on Blu-Ray?). Of course not about recent movies that are likely to get a release soon, but older ones. Could also be done with DVD, although I don't know if there are enough noteworthy examples. Or foreign language movies that haven't yet been released with English subtitles.
And another one: Who is your favorite film critic? The problem would be to choose the right options because most of them don't have their own IMDb page. Maybe each critic's favorite movie? Or an arbitrary combination: The first 20, 35 or whatever entries in the IMDb Top 250; or a movie with 1 in the title for the first option, a movie with 2 in the title for the second, etc.

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One of my all-time most favorite movies, Lunatics: A Love Story (1991) was never even properly released on DVD! The closes thing was the official bootleg of sorts - a SATRip done by director himself. 

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6 years ago

Sorry for bumping again but I couldn‘t find this poll idea: Movies that should be remade. Remakes are based on good/successful movies, however it would often make more sense to remake movies that failed to convey interesting concepts. (suggested by poll board members?)

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6 years ago

I like some of the ideas, but I would struggle to come up with options.

What options do you have in mind for Friendly Filmmakers?

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I‘ll get back to this when I‘ll have better internet. Steven Spielberg is one I‘m pretty sure was in the original list.

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Some of them:

The Coen Brothers (source)
David Lynch (source; source; source)
Sidney Lumet (source; source)
Christopher Nolan (a start)

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6 years ago

You're not making polls anymore?

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So I just swallowed my pride and created a new IMDb account. If any of you is working on any of these ideas, please tell me so I won't make them :)

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Good to see you back ! :)