Top Ten Worst Directors

[66Crush]

I enjoy Ed Wood for his incompotence as a director, but in most cases it's unfair to blame the director for a bad movie. The studio will often take the directors cut and make him re cut the the thing until it's completly ruined. Happens everyday.

[Doggett]

I enjoy Ed Wood for his incompotence as a director, but in most cases it's unfair to blame the director for a bad movie. The studio will often take the directors cut and make him re cut the the thing until it's completly ruined. Happens everyday.

Yeah.

Its what happened with 'Bablyon AD' and 'The Avengers'...

[Hammock Rider]

Lest they be forgotten:

Al Adamson
William BeaudineLarry Buchanan
Don Dohler
Dwain Esper
Arch Hall, Sr.
Andy Milligan
John Polonia (sorely missed by family, friends, and fans)
Eddie Romero
Ray Dennis Steckler
Phil Tucker

Actually, Eddie Romero is still alive and kickin', pushing 90!

   William Beaudine may not have been a very good director, but he sure was prolific! I think he started directing in the Silent Era!

  I'm not a fan of Darren Aronofsky. I think he's over-rated. For me he never really delivers what he promises. And he looks too much like David Arquette.

[RCMerchant]

Lest they be forgotten:

Al Adamson
William BeaudineLarry Buchanan
Don Dohler
Dwain Esper
Arch Hall, Sr.
Andy Milligan
John Polonia (sorely missed by family, friends, and fans)
Eddie Romero
Ray Dennis Steckler
Phil Tucker

Actually, Eddie Romero is still alive and kickin', pushing 90!

   William Beaudine may not have been a very good director, but he sure was prolific! I think he started directing in the Silent Era!

  I'm not a fan of Darren Aronofsky. I think he's over-rated. For me he never really delivers what he promises. And he looks too much like David Arquette.

Mr.Beaudine's carrer started in 1915 and ended in 1968!!!!

He made such anti classics as BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA,The APEMAN, VOODOO MAN and lotsa Bowery Boys stuff....
but he mad the classic  Mary Pickford film SPARROWS (1926)....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSi0X28N0mc

[Psycho Circus]

Another director I forgot should be mentioned is Stewart Raffill.  He directed Ice Pirates, Mannequin 2: On the Move, Mac and Me (Praise be to Coca Cola).

Those are great films!  Honestly!

[InformationGeek]

Another director I forgot should be mentioned is Stewart Raffill.  He directed Ice Pirates, Mannequin 2: On the Move, Mac and Me (Praise be to Coca Cola).

Those are great films!  Honestly!

Then it must be a shame that he went from making that to making this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynHtoa-bi40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dyFl-NnAj8

[The Burgomaster]

Back to the Tim Burton thing.  I think ED WOOD and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS are his best movies.  I really like them.  PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE is amusing.  But I think he blew it with BATMAN (maybe not his fault, he was probably just the wrong director for the project).  He completely failed to make any of the action scenes exciting and his attempt to make a "dark" version of Batman really didn't work.  I think he forced it too much.  As for PLANET OF THE APES, I can't believe no one in the creative loop realized it just wasn't working right from the get-go.  And I've never been able to warm up to BEETLEJUICE.  Don't think it's funny.  Don't think it's clever.  Don't think it's amusing.  As things stand right now, the words "Directed by Tim Burton," are likely to make me avoid a movie I might otherwise want to see.  So, he's done some good stuff, but his bad stuff puts him . . . as I mentioned earlier . . . somewhere on the fringe of the worst directors list.

[RCMerchant]

Micheal Bay.
Not one dam thing in his resume is worth a plug nickel.

[66Crush]

I think Micheal Bay is only making the kinds of films the general public are interested in. Most people don't have the discriminating taste of the true movie fans like us. He thinks this is what the masses want, explosions, CGI and hot chicks. We do want these kinds of things, but in the context of a good story (or a bad funny one). Hollywood doesn't give the general public enough credit. The problem is the system promotes the movies they think we'll like, and most people fall for it everytime. They figure Micheal Bay can make movies for dumb people, while someone else makes the smart movies. Unfortunatly they'll put a dumb actor (Brad Pitt for example) in so-called smart movie (which is usually boring), then turn around and give the Oscar to a bad actor.

[RCMerchant]

Micheal Bay gives mental retards a bad name.

[Psycho Circus]

Hollywood doesn't give the general public enough credit. The problem is the system promotes the movies they think we'll like, and most people fall for it everytime.

Hollywood tells people what to like. It will shovel so much s**t down your throat until you think it's milk chocolate. People are fooled by promotion and because they play it safe by falling in line with what someone else likes. Once a new movie gets popular and makes money, it will be pushed to death via every single available medium of entertainment. Then, every other studio and director follows that formula until the general public develops brains and loses interest.

To sum up - Everybody should stop going to the cinema.

[Doggett]

Hollywood doesn't give the general public enough credit. The problem is the system promotes the movies they think we'll like, and most people fall for it everytime.

Hollywood tells people what to like. It will shovel so much s**t down your throat until you think it's milk chocolate. People are fooled by promotion and because they play it safe by falling in line with what someone else likes. Once a new movie gets popular and makes money, it will be pushed to death via every single available medium of entertainment. Then, every other studio and director follows that formula until the general public develops brains and loses interest.

To sum up - Everybody should stop going to the cinema.

Another problem is that cinema managers choose what films to shaow and they won't put more obsucre films on as they won't make money.

I'd love a 24hr cinema that showed the blockbusters as, on the whole, I rather enjoy them. But It would be great to see 2am showing of new b movies or old classics. More people went to a weekday midnight screening of Batman than went to a prime time Saturday evening showing of X Men Origins. People do want to see stranger or classic films ut don't get the chance.

[RCMerchant]

Wes Craven.
the Guy did some gross expliotation films.
Makes him good?
He built his rep on two movies in the 70's.
He sucks.

[ChaosTheory]

I have to agree about Wes Craven, even though I like the NOES series.  He's a schlock artist who got lucky with the critics for some reason.

Bill Rebane
Coleman Francis (I have to admit I find his movies kind of fascinating in their badness though)
Eli Roth
Arch Hall Sr.
Friedberg/Seltzer
Uwe Boll
Ulli Lommel - makes Dr. Boll look like David Fincher
Michael Bay
Ray Dennis Steckler
Bob Clark - who's sort of on the edge as he did the original Black Christmas, Children Shouldn't Play w/Dead Things and A Christmas Story, but on the other hand, the Baby Geniuses (shudder) franchise

[voltron]

Lest they be forgotten:

Al Adamson

You beat me to that one Raffine! Only film I saw of his was Icy Death and holees**t was it HORRIBLE.