Directors who never make good films

[Maltin]

Not everyone thinks so.

Of course they don't! Very few films get universally praised and I'm sure if you counted non-critics, no film would have everybody in agreement that a film is good.

On the link I gave, it had 79% positive reviews which suggests that 21% of the reviews collated didn't like it. However, the score isn't bad and sems to contradict the claim that all films that Woody Allen makes now are shite.

 

[Maltin]

Paul W S Anderson

Event Horizon was OK. I'm looking forward to Death Race though.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/deathrace/

 

[Maltin]

Michael Bay

I think he has made some enjoyable nonsense such as The Rock and Bad Boys.

Joel Schumacher

I really like Falling Down.

Uwe Boll

Not seen any of his films. Don't intend to just yet.

Guy Richie

I enjoyed Lock, Stock and Snatch.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Event Horizon was OK. I'm looking forward to Death Race though.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/deathrace/

Event Horizon was ok for a remake of Alien, but hardly great, or even very good, just ok.

 

[Maltin]

McG

I'm hoping that the new Terminator film will be good.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810025211/video/8841482

Renny Harlin

I like Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger

Roland Emmerich

I thought that Stargate, Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and The Patriot were all enjoyable nonsense.

 

[Maltin]

Event Horizon was ok for a remake of Alien, but hardly great, or even very good, just ok.

That's why I didn't say it was great or very good.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm hoping that the new Terminator film will be good.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810025211/video/8841482


I like Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger

I thought that Stargate, Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and The Patriot were all enjoyable nonsense.

I think Bay and Boll also make enjoyable nonsense (though I've only seen one Boll film, whilst under the influence)

 

[october_lost]

Event Horizon was ok for a remake of Alien, but hardly great, or even very good, just ok.

Remake? The story was lifted straight off the Doom game, minus a few details.

 

[badlands]

I think Bay and Boll also make enjoyable nonsense (though I've only seen one Boll film, whilst under the influence)

What Boll film is enjoyable (nonsense)?

 

[Orang Utan]

What Boll film is enjoyable (nonsense)?

I think it was called In The Name Of The King - a Lord Of The Rings rip off/video game adaptation with Jason Statham, Matthew Lillard, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds

 

[Maltin]

Jason Statham, Matthew Lillard, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds

Great cast. Sounds a quality film!

 

[badlands]

I think it was called In The Name Of The King - a Lord Of The Rings rip off/video game adaptation with Jason Statham, Matthew Lillard, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds

Jason Statham

 

[8den]

I think it was called In The Name Of The King - a Lord Of The Rings rip off/video game adaptation with Jason Statham, Matthew Lillard, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds

I'm working on a movie this week. Burt Reynolds plays King Lear.

Joel Schumacher
I really like Falling Down.

No bad and wrong, never has a film gone so badly off the rails as the last 3rd of that movie. The PJs, the rocket launcher, the cliched ending, bad and wrong.

 

[Dask]

Armageddon
The Island
Bad Boys
Bad Boys 2
The Rock
I even have a soft spot for Transformers, even though it's utterly ridiculous and confusing


I haven't seen Pearl Harbour yet

Words escape me

Michael Bay is possible my least favourite director of all time.

 

[Orang Utan]

Words escape me

Michael Bay is possible my least favourite director of all time.

He just makes fun movies - big explosion, car chases and dumb exposition - he's no Bergman for sure, but he's fun

 

[perplexis]

I'm hoping that the new Terminator film will be good.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810025211/video/8841482

OMFG That looks like a bog-standard futuro robots vs people survival "thriller". Poor Christian Bale. Has he lost his self-respect completely after being shit Batman or something?

 

[mrsfran]

That Alan Smithee's rubbish.

 

[g force]

He just makes fun movies - big explosion, car chases and dumb exposition - he's no Bergman for sure, but he's fun

I disagree...his films aren't fun in a throw-away trashy manner, they're just turgid shite.

 

[kabbes]

God help me, I actually enjoyed Transformers.

 

[perplexis]

God help me, I actually enjoyed Transformers.

I doubt even God can help you now.

 

[kabbes]

I even enjoyed its attempts at humour. I actually laughed when they were trampling the boy's garden.

 

[Pat24]

i think Sophia Coppola makes really pretentious films. Lost in translation bored me to death and the virgin sucides didn't quite do it for me.

 

[El Sueno]

Christopher Smith.

First he made 'Creep' (still shuddering at the memory of that), then flushed a few more million quid from the BFI down the toilet with 'Severence' starring Danny 'Fucking' Dyer (nuff said). People are buying lottery tickets to fund this fucknut's fantasies of becoming a filmmaker.

 

[kabbes]

Creep was one of the best horror films ever. Fact.

 

[El Sueno]

Creep was one of the best horror films ever. Fact.

Within the first half-minute of opening dialogue it's pretty obvious the film's been written by a child/moron. Half the audience left when I saw it in the cinema, at the point when the heroine 'has a bit of a think' about whether or not to stab the monster with an ice pick, consequently giving it plenty of time to escape. Someone called his mate on the phone to tell him "I'm watching the worst film ever". It was absolute shite from beginning to end, I've never felt so insulted as an audience member.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Creep was one of the best horror films ever. Fact.

I watched Creep with my finger on the fast forward button - managed to get through it in about 15 minutes.

It aint no Death Line is it?

 

[El Sueno]

I watched Creep with my finger on the fast forward button - managed to get through it in about 15 minutes.

It aint no Death Line is it?

I've watched more artistic and better written/acted/directed porn.

 

[blooper]

Words escape me

Michael Bay is possible my least favourite director of all time.

Armageddon, Bad Boys and The Rock are all fantastic... for what they are.

 

[May Kasahara]

I enjoyed Severance, even allowing for the presence of Danny Dyer.