-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
Directors with the highest highs and lowest lows
- Thread starter Fudgepuppy
- Start date
- Status
That's a good one. I just loved Snatch.
But his Madonna stuff is unwatchable and things like Rock'n Rolla.... meh...
Vintage_Creep
Banned
Lol c'mon, Event Horizon was decent at tops. One of the best sci-fi ever made? Please.
Anyway also Wes Craven. He made some of the most important and influential horror ever, from The Hills Have Eyes to Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream, but he also made:
Also he became victim of his own critics with Scream 3.
A lot of masters of horror made some shit movies to be honest.
Also Takashi Miike with his twenty movies per year sometimes makes something barely good.
Marquand was basically Lucas' yes man which is why we got teddy bears taking down the empire and Han not dying a hero's death as planned.
I LOVE CG Animation and motion capture, but Zemekis' motion capture efforts were CRAP.
Tintin and Monster House are GLORIOUS compared to Beowulf and Polar Express
Zemeckis movies before "Romancing the Stone" are not that good tood
Roger Rabbit and Back to The Future are amoung my favorite movies of all time
edit :
His The Hire short with madonna was awesome =x
Vintage_Creep
Banned
Oh well an easy one: John Landis with the Blues Brothers.
And the Blues Brothers sequel.
And the Blues Brothers sequel.
Beowulf was pretty over the top in it's content, but I consider it a better movie than Monster House, and was more exciting than Tintin, which I found to be very dull. And Polar Express is absolutely fantastic. But I agree that the motion capture was terrible; the tech he was using was nowhere near ready for making into a movie. His CGI movies are great despite the animation; and I wished he would have made them in live action instead.
And yeah, Roger Rabbit and the BttF trilogy is amazing, but let's not forget classics like Forrest Gump and Contact.
At least he makes her show her boobs in every movie.
The Cowboy
Member
There was no sequel, why do people keep saying this!?.
If we all pretend it didn't happen, then it will go away
I think he just had an amazing string of films in the 70s, and has never really hit that high point again.
equippedwithtowel
Member
The Conversation is pretty fucking great.
I thought conventional wisdom was Apocalypse Now spent his genius.
angular graphics
Banned
Not sure if people legitemately think Prometheus was SUCH a terrible movie. I mean I can name about 1000 high profile movies that were worse than that so..
Yup, The Conversation is his fourth masterpiece.
John Frankenheimer I always joked was actually two people. Seconds was his best film, Ronin was pretty good, Reindeer Games was actually underrated but I use that as the counterexample. I can't look up his films right now (phone) but his filmography is all over the place.
He directed The Manchurian Candidate AND The Island of Doctor Moreau. Both ends of the scale right there.
Whitechocolatekrispies
Banned
The fact it had so much potential, director, cast, setting etc and still turning out shit is why it's one of the worst.
Ok, that wasn't that bad. (well except for her acting)
Is Studios OK?
BONES: Darker than Black; one of the best Action Animes with great characters, amazing setting and bloody awesome soundtrack by Yoko Ono
Darker than Black; Gemini; One of the worst sequels ever. Turned Hei into louse drunk loser with nothing to show for, lost all its charm and the charcter introduced were absolutely lame
BONES: Darker than Black; one of the best Action Animes with great characters, amazing setting and bloody awesome soundtrack by Yoko Ono
Darker than Black; Gemini; One of the worst sequels ever. Turned Hei into louse drunk loser with nothing to show for, lost all its charm and the charcter introduced were absolutely lame
BertramCooper
Banned
Peter Jackson.
I love The Lord of the Rings and Heavenly Creatures, but I absolutely fucking hate King Kong and The Lovely Bones - especially the latter.
The Lovely Bones is one of my most hated films of the past decade, placed in the same contemptible category as other Oscar bait pieces of shit like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
I love The Lord of the Rings and Heavenly Creatures, but I absolutely fucking hate King Kong and The Lovely Bones - especially the latter.
The Lovely Bones is one of my most hated films of the past decade, placed in the same contemptible category as other Oscar bait pieces of shit like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
plagiarize
Banned
Roger Corman, and anyone who thinks otherwise can go shoot themselves.
Or, they could go watch The Intruder (his best), or some of his Poe movies (many of which are legit great).
But yeah, Carpenter. How does one of the greatest horror directors of all time make a horror movie that tells you at the beginning that everyone but the main character dies? And then it tries to build tension in flashback scenes where she is literally the only character on screen. Cigarette Burns gave me strong hopes that he could still give us one last great feature... but that was eight years ago.
Bryan Yuzna could be another. The guy gave us Society and Return of the Living Dead Part 3. And Rottweiler eurgh.
it's just hyperbole. anyone calling Prometheus 'shit' or 'awful' or whatever is spouting hyperbole, nothing more. it wasn't a genre defining classic like Alien or Blade Runner.
Or, they could go watch The Intruder (his best), or some of his Poe movies (many of which are legit great).
But yeah, Carpenter. How does one of the greatest horror directors of all time make a horror movie that tells you at the beginning that everyone but the main character dies? And then it tries to build tension in flashback scenes where she is literally the only character on screen. Cigarette Burns gave me strong hopes that he could still give us one last great feature... but that was eight years ago.
Bryan Yuzna could be another. The guy gave us Society and Return of the Living Dead Part 3. And Rottweiler eurgh.
it's just hyperbole. anyone calling Prometheus 'shit' or 'awful' or whatever is spouting hyperbole, nothing more. it wasn't a genre defining classic like Alien or Blade Runner.
Not even close. He's probably the greatest living American filmmaker when you look at his resume.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
It wasn't SUCH a terrible movie as it was a disappointing one.
The guy makes one film a year no matter what, and more than a few were just rehashes. Same with Hitchcock, some great films, but there's just such a volume, and so many are forgettable.
His lowest lows have NEVER been close to some of the films metioned above. He's incredibly consistant as a filmmaker. He had a string of duds in the early 2000's...but I don't even think movies like Small Time Crooks and Melinda and Melinda could be called bad by any stretch of the imagination.
BertramCooper
Banned
I can't believe Andrew Niccol didn't instantly come to mind.
Wrote/directed Gattaca.
Wrote The Truman Show.
Wrote/directed In Time and The Host.
What the fuck.
Wrote/directed Gattaca.
Wrote The Truman Show.
Wrote/directed In Time and The Host.
What the fuck.
Yea that's a good one. It Time was so bad I didn't even want to red box The Host.
equippedwithtowel
Member
In the space of ten years Woody Allen made:
Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hanna and her Sisters, and Radio Days.
Every one of those is great to classic.
I wanted to jump on you so hard but then I remembered Swept Away. Is Madonna's shit that good?
SneakySneaks
Member
It's not a horrible movie, it's a horribly written movie. It looked great and the performances were decent but everything else was middling to godawful.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
I have tattoos of Carpenter movies. He's my favorite director and a huge inspiration for me. Halloween is my favorite film. Of all time.
Anyway, my vote goes to Dario Argento. Man made Profondo Rosso and Suspiria. He also made Phantom of the Opera and Giallo (a movie that wastes the talent of Adrien goddamn Brody!).
way more
Member
I think these two deserve to be here for the same reasons. It's pretty clear to see that they each get a sudden inspiration then decide to film it before anything is finalized. This whimsical style can make for great, inventive and thrilling work or it can end with something cobbled together without focus.
It's not a terrible way to do it but it means you'll always be suspicious when they announce a new project.
Ugh, Prometheus shit, It will nice when that hate-fad goes away.
Origami Superman
Member
Tim Burton
Just look at Ed Wood and then Alice in Wonderland.
Just look at Ed Wood and then Alice in Wonderland.
I agree.
When I look at those movies I just see Burton doing Burton they can all be ok to great if you dig his style. If you really wanna see his lowest low you check out a little movie called Planet of the Apes. Burton was not doing Burton and those unfortunate enough to have watched it payed the price.
Yeah, I'm a fan, and those are good movies. The guy's made close to fifty though, and Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Scoop, Whatever Works and other stuff just isn't that great. He's not Kubrick or Kurosawa where he's only got one or two genuinely sub-par films.
Ridley Scott isn't a terrible choice for this topic, but Prometheus isn't a good example of one of his 'lows'. Even if you think it's a shit movie (it isn't) it's hard to argue it's the director's fault.
Saw Robin Hood and Body of Lies mentioned as well, both really solid movies.
Now G.I. Jane. That's a low.
Coppola wins this thread though. Shame about Niccol too, thought for sure he was destined for great things after Gattaca.
Saw Robin Hood and Body of Lies mentioned as well, both really solid movies.
Now G.I. Jane. That's a low.
Coppola wins this thread though. Shame about Niccol too, thought for sure he was destined for great things after Gattaca.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
Woody's films of the past 10 years or so have been hot and cold, but nobody's questioning his record before that.
crazy monkey
Banned
. this guy made amazing movie except his last three.
Discotheque
Banned
except burton doing burton was fantastic in the 90s. ed wood was so good and edward scissorhands made me tear up
what a load of shit after sleepy hollow tho
Megalosaro
Banned
I miss Tim Burton when he was subversive. Edward Scissorhands, Peewee, Beetlejuice were all fantastic movies
- Status