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Here's my list:

Paul Thomas Anderson - Inherent Vice

 

Martin Scorsese - Wolf of Wall Street (unpopular opinion)

 

Steven Speilberg - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Ready Player One, War of the Worlds

 

Ridley Scott - Robinhood, Exodus: Gods and Kings

 

Honorable Mention: Lady Killers (Cohen Brothers) Downsizing (Alexander Payne)

 

I was going to list Oliver Stone. But is he a good director? He has had some great movies (Talk Radio, Wall Street, Platoon, Born on the 4th of July, JFK), but he has a laundry list of bad movies, he has declined big time. Same goes for M Night Shyamalan, his bad to good ratio is bad. 

Am I missing anyone?

 

 

 

For Martin Scorsese, I've never been able to sit through Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.  Ellen Burstyn and her son are just so screechy and off putting. 

Maybe it's the sound mix. 

 

You are wrong, Wolf of Wall Street was awesome. It's not traditional Scorsese drama, but that's not what he was going for. The qualoods scene was the best bit of acting in Dicaprio's entire career. 

Also, it gave us this:

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Francis Ford Coppola - Jack

Brian DePalma - Mission to Mars

Godfather III - Uwe Boll

3 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

You are wrong, Wolf of Wall Street was awesome. It's not traditional Scorsese drama, but that's not what he was going for. The qualoods scene was the best bit of acting in Dicaprio's entire career. 

Also, it gave us this:

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Yep. That movie is fucking hilarious. The Rob Reiner scene where he comes in all pissed off, bitching out Belfort and them is gold. Same with airplane scene where they showed up fucking hammered. Just a glorious all around movie 

I love the Lady killers.  Classic Coen brothers, but with more cartoonish characters.

Wolf of Wall Street was cheesy and over the top but it was still solid entertainment.  I wouldn't call it shitty, but it's certainly not one of Scorsese's best.

3 hours ago, Bash Riprock said:

Steven Speilberg - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Ready Player One, War of the Worlds

1941.

 

20 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Negged.

Dude. I WANT that movie to be good. Belushi. Aykroyd. Matheson. NED BEATTY. CHRISTOPHER FUCKING LEE!

It's just not good.

1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Wolf of Wall Street was cheesy and over the top but it was still solid entertainment.  I wouldn't call it shitty, but it's certainly not one of Scorsese's best.

Yep. 

As a huge Scorsese fan I don't think there's much debate about the fact that Bringing Out the Dead is the biggest WTF of his career. It's so bad I've often wondered if he had a temporary relapse & got coked up again. It's unwatchable.

Just saw Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore on TCM a few months ago. Underrated film.

Every great director who's prolific enough has made a bomb or shitty movie or two..... Only directors who rarely work or had their career cut short may not qualify.  Chris Nolan is a guy who some believe hasn't had a bad movie (maybe not good movie, but not bad) and he'll eventually have one....

20 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

As a huge Scorsese fan I don't think there's much debate about the fact that Bringing Out the Dead is the biggest WTF of his career. It's so bad I've often wondered if he had a temporary relapse & got coked up again. It's unwatchable.

Just saw Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore on TCM a few months ago. Underrated film.
 

Agree with this..... It was during Nic Cage's zenith but it's a pretty terrible watch.  Silence is another movie folks didn't care to see although critics liked it.  He also brought us Vinyl, a series on HBO that sucked shit.

Wait, you put Ridley Scott in there but not for Prometheus, the stupidest fucking movie ever?

Also, James Cameron: Avatar

27 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Every great director who's prolific enough has made a bomb or shitty movie or two..... Only directors who rarely work or had their career cut short may not qualify.  Chris Nolan is a guy who some believe hasn't had a bad movie (maybe not good movie, but not bad) and he'll eventually have one....

I really wanted to love Dunkirk.  It was meh at best.

13 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

I really wanted to love Dunkirk.  It was meh at best.

you’re meh at best. 

10 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

I really wanted to love Dunkirk.  It was meh at best.

Disagree, but did you consider it bad?  Maybe not great, but a shitty movie?

Here are Nolan's major full-length movies:

Following

Memento

Insomnia

Batman Begins

The Prestige

The Dark Knight

Inception

The Dark Knight Rises

Interstellar

Dunkirk

 

Some didn't like Inception or maybe Memento's non-linear storytelling, but are they shitty movies or simply not something someone prefers....

And Ready Player One for Spielberg was a really good movie.  That's a terrible opinion.

1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:

1941.

 

Bet you're gonna bomb John Wayne's house, aren't ya?

5 hours ago, tantric superman said:

War of the Worlds by Spielberg is terrific.

So is Ready Player One

18 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

I really wanted to love Dunkirk.  It was meh at best.

Yeah, Dunkirk could have been so much more but it just fell flat.  Zero character development.  It needed special effects (or are those 80 boats going to get 300k soldiers out of there?).  Seems it was filmed the way it was in order to win awards, not to entertain audiences.

9 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Disagree, but did you consider it bad?  Maybe not great, but a shitty movie?

Here are Nolan's major full-length movies:

Following

Memento

Insomnia

Batman Begins

The Prestige

The Dark Knight

Inception

The Dark Knight Rises

Interstellar

Dunkirk

 

Some didn't like Inception or maybe Memento's non-linear storytelling, but are they shitty movies or simply not something someone prefers....

And Ready Player One for Spielberg was a really good movie.  That's a terrible opinion.

just really disappointing.  For the magnitude of the situation I didn't get much sense of drama from the movie.

I certainly wouldn't say it is "shitty", but really disappointed for how much I like Memento, Inception and The Dark Knight.

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15 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

So is Ready Player One

maybe I shouldn't have read the book first.

6 hours ago, Bash Riprock said:

Here's my list:

Paul Thomas Anderson - Inherent Vice

for what the book was I’d say PTA did a fine job with his screen adaptation.  

Damn, Dunkirk was so damn great in part because you only saw bits and pieces of persons and events.  To me the movie seemed exactly like I would have expected everything to be like if I stepped on to the beach, exhausted, just hoping I would make it back home. 

The camera zipping around was the perfect way to do that.

29 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

maybe I shouldn't have read the book first.

The book was definitely better (aren't they always?), but the movie was great.  

8 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

Damn, Dunkirk was so damn great in part because you only saw bits and pieces of persons and events.  To me the movie seemed exactly like I would have expected everything to be like if I stepped on to the beach, exhausted, just hoping I would make it back home. 

The camera zipping around was the perfect way to do that.

no no, the experience isn’t what matters.  we needed to learn more about who harry styles’ character was as a person to better understand that pivotal moment in WWII history.  

13 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

Nobody on this site has read Pynchon lol

A crazy woman once gave me a Pynchon book. 

8 minutes ago, futureman said:

no no, the experience isn’t what matters.  we needed to learn more about who harry styles’ character was as a person to better understand that pivotal moment in WWII history.  

How about knowing who any of the characters were?  I didn't give a shit about the kid that died on the boat because his character wasn't developed at all.  

8 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

How about knowing who any of the characters were?  I didn't give a shit about the kid that died on the boat because his character wasn't developed at all.  

why?  the movie wasn’t about that kid or anyone else.  the movie was about dunkirk.  

Every director's career has a high point that ends followed by disappointments.  They know it as well.  It's why Tarantino says he wants to walk away eventually. And hes still made some bad ones.

This thread really includes every director of the modern era.

As for PTA, personally I'd like him to rediscover humor.

16 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

How about knowing who any of the characters were?  I didn't give a shit about the kid that died on the boat because his character wasn't developed at all.  

Guessing you didn't like 2001 A Space Odyssey.

9 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Dunkirk would have been great if they somehow worked in a love triangle. 

So character development is not important in movies?  Am I understanding where you and futureman are coming from accurately?

10 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

So character development is not important in movies?  Am I understanding where you and futureman are coming from accurately?

I bet you loved pearl harbor.  

8 minutes ago, futureman said:

I bet you loved pearl harbor.  

character development does not mean love interest.  It means (to me) making me care about the characters.

25 minutes ago, futureman said:

the movie was about dunkirk.  

Which guy was dun kirk?

And for the record, I'm not calling Dunkirk shitty, but it could have been so much better.

20 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

character development does not mean love interest.  It means (to me) making me care about the characters.

So you were rooting for the Nazis?!?!  Shame.

34 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

So character development is not important in movies?  Am I understanding where you and futureman are coming from accurately?

Anyone who is a slave to "character development" as a necessary component of a good film is not a smart or good or cultured person.

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