Every week, we’ll pose a new “five favorites” question. You just list your five favorites that fit in that category (preferably in preference order) and you’re welcome to discuss and debate the selections and see just how much you do or do not have in common with others. If you want to take a look back at our past articles to comment or enjoy, here is a post set aside to track all of our articles.
No one would ever accuse Michael Bay of being a “good” director, but he has made popular films. For an interesting exercise this week, who are some good directors who can’t seem to make anything but bad movies?
What are your 5 Favorite good directors of bad movies?
2 responses to “5 Favorites #128: 5 Favorite Good Directors of Bad Movies”
Peter J Patrick
I agree with Mike. It’s a bad premise. If a director’s films are consistently bad, the director is most likely the reason.
Shyamalan belongs to a long list of directors who had a major success early in their careers who were then indulged by producers who gave them carte blanche to do what ever they wanted to disastrous results. The most famous example is probably Michael Cimino who after the success of The Deer Hunter made the generally panned Heaven’s Gate and has had only sporadic success since.
I’m having a difficult time with this topic. It just seems to me that if a director’s movies are consistently bad, the director has to shoulder some, if not most of the blame. Every good director has his or her share of clunkers, but it is usually a small percentage. Some good directors, in my estimation have closer to a 50-50 success rate. These would include Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma and Rob Reiner. I’ve come up with only one director that I believe is good, but after his initial film, has made progressively worse films. That’s M. Night Shyamalan. In his case, I don’t feel it’s his direction that’s to blame, but his screenwriting.
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