Your Top Five Worst Film Directors?

Orson Welles
Akira Kurusawa
Ernst Lubitsch

 

Orson Welles had some turkeys, that's for sure. And some of those Kurosawas were a chore to sit through.

 

Lol. Did you see Spike Lee's latest movie "Oldboy?" I thought I was on candid camera watching that thing. It was so poorly constructed and presented. A really odd movie-going experience. The Olsen twins' younger sister was very fetching though, as well as being the only person in the film director Lee allowed to not act horribly.

 

Elizabeth Olsen is an excellent actress, I predict great things for her in the future.

 

M. Night Shyamalan. I sat though a lot of his bad movies mistakenly thinking the next one will be as good as Sixth Sense. Didn't happen.

 

Guy Ritchie

 

I don't know if I responded to this before, I will again--that was a dreadful directing job.

 

Unbreakable was just as good as The Sixth Sense... maybe even better.

 

Spike Lee and Good Night ding dong. Awful films from both of them, yech.

 

Yes,he is the worst of them.

 

Again, these "which do you hate most" threads always go nowhere, and always show off the forum at its worst.

 

Fully agree. He's the kind of director who thinks he's smarter than everyone else . . . but isn't. I did enjoy much of Drugstore Cowboy, but My Own Private Idaho was more like a couple of hours in a private hell. Awful.

 

I've only seen 6 of his films, but there were at least 2 or 3 of them that I'll likely never watch again.

 

The guys at Red Letter Media were reviewing Wolf of Wall Street and they said how surprising it was that out of that group of directors (Lucas/Scorsese/De Palma/Coppola/Spielberg) it's only Scorsese that still delivers time after time.

What happened to the others' mojos?

 

Unbreakable, possibly the worst movie I've seen at the cinema and I watched Batman & Robin and Brando's Island of Dr Moreau.

A movie that divides opinion certainly.

 

Lee ruined "Clockers" too...completely omitting the
most memorable character and the most compelling
scene in Richard Price's original novel.

 

"To Die For" was pretty good trash cinema. Loved Dave Cronenberg's cameo.

 

Bay and Schumacher are the only two directors I really hate -- Bay for taking a national tragedy and turning it into a bubble bath, and Schumacher for taking the genius of Burton's moody Batman and turning it into the world's worst produced-for-MTV special. Both should change their names to Alan Smithee, although that wouldn't really be fair to the ficticious Mr. Smithee, now would it?

 

I don't get a lot of the vitriol for Tim Burton. He has had a good number of turkeys, and I thought "Willy Wonka" stunk, but he just as many very good films.

I thought "Sleepy Hollow" was one of his more underrated films, though not among his very best. "Big Fish" was really good, as was "Ed Wood", and "Edward Scissorhands".

 

Not as good or better imo. A sillier concept for a story would be hard to imagine, though Bruce Willis gave a fine performance.

 

Bay

Seriously, I can't watch that drivel without getting a headache and grand mal siezure...

 

Luc Besson is in there for sure. The fifth element really annoyed me.

 

I saw Haywire a few weeks ago and I totally agree on that one... Soderbergh manages to make movies that I totally forget half an hour after I've seen them (Oceans, 11,12,13), but Haywire is the only movie ever that made me forget wat is was about during the 90 (or so) minutes it lasted. Great cast and a cardboard James Bond/Tob Raider hybrid mess.

 

Ummm.... Leon ??

 

Some of the anti-Burton sentiment might be due to opinions that he used to be really good but has gone downhill over the last 15 years or so.

I'd be in that camp. Actually, his "Sweeney Todd" was pretty good, and I did like "Big Fish", but stuff like "Dark Shadows", "Apes" and "Charlie" didn't work for me.

Burton just seems to be out of ideas at this point. I love a lot of his work but he's no longer someone I can count on for good movies - I'm surprised when I DO like his material now!