Bad Movies by Great Directors

[Trumpysgirl]

Got the idea while posting in the Titan A.E. thread.

Every great director has at least one crap film on their resume. Either it was done when they were younger and still learning their stuff, or later on when their careers were already established and their heads were inflated to the point that they thought everything they touched was gold.

Nonetheless, we've all had a moment where we went to see a truly bad movie and by the end credits exclaimed, "What the hell?! SoandSo directed this???"

I'd say that moment came for me when I saw The Bros. Grimm and saw that Terry Gilliam directed. When did that moment come for you?

[Rattrap007]

1941 gets a bad rap. It is considered a bad film, But I'm going to say A.I. it is the bad film from Spielberg and Kubrik.

[GregMcduck]

Hahahaha WRONG

Spielberg's true failure is clearly Hook.

[Petey Wheatstraw]

Got the idea while posting in the Titan A.E. thread.

Don Bluth has never been a "great" director. Much of his work is quite terrible, roughly one level removed from the worst that Disney has ever done. All the pandering storylines, musical numbers that don't need to be there, and a forced "dark" tone that is supposed to cry out to us "hey! We're different! We're the alternative to the mainstream!" But it's not an alternative to the mainstream. Bluth's films ARE mainstream. Bluth is the cinematic equivalent of Linkin Park.

That being said, though, The Secret of NIMH is actually a good movie, and showed promise that Bluth would actually deliver something different from the Disney corporate machine he escaped from. He didn't. What's even more despicable is when Bluth tries to dumb down historical events in order to pander to a corporate-envisioned kids' audience, like in Anastasia. That story didn't need bad musical numbers and an over-the-top villain; the real people the characters were based on were more interesting.

[bratpop]

Martin Scorcese directed Michael Jackson's "Bad."
Francis Ford Coppola directed "Captain EO."
Michael Jackson - ruiner of talent.

Steven Spielberg directed "Hook."
Francis Ford Coppola directed "Jack."
Robin Williams - ruiner of talent.

I'd list more, but I don't know any other "great" directors.

[Tripe]

Got the idea while posting in the Titan A.E. thread.

Don Bluth has never been a "great" director. Much of his work is quite terrible, roughly one level removed from the worst that Disney has ever done. All the pandering storylines, musical numbers that don't need to be there, and a forced "dark" tone that is supposed to cry out to us "hey! We're different! We're the alternative to the mainstream!" But it's not an alternative to the mainstream. Bluth's films ARE mainstream. Bluth is the cinematic equivalent of Linkin Park.

That being said, though, The Secret of NIMH is actually a good movie, and showed promise that Bluth would actually deliver something different from the Disney corporate machine he escaped from. He didn't. What's even more despicable is when Bluth tries to dumb down historical events in order to pander to a corporate-envisioned kids' audience, like in Anastasia. That story didn't need bad musical numbers and an over-the-top villain; the real people the characters were based on were more interesting.

Even though he's not the director, she got the idea because Joss Whedon is involved in the film.

[Rattrap007]

Hahahaha WRONG

Spielberg's true failure is clearly Hook.

Damn I forgot that!

Change Spielberg to Hook and Kubrick to Eyes Wide Shut...

[a pretty girl is like]

Hahahaha WRONG

Spielberg's true failure is clearly Hook.

Damn I forgot that!

Change Spielberg to Hook and Kubrick to Eyes Wide Shut...

I liked the pirates in Hook.  It was the multi cultural Lost Boys that ruined the movie. 

The Terminal is the worst Spielberg movie for me.

[bratpop]

There's nothing wrong with Hook. Or The Terminal.

Bram Stoker's Dracula, on the other hand...

[mrbasehart]

Alfred Hitchcock had Topaz.  Geez, what a euro-stinker that movie is.  Dial M for Murder isn't particularly brilliant, even though it comes in the middle of his "great" patch.

And I really didn't think much of Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead. 

[D.B. Barnes]

I'm going to toss Woody Allen's "Match Point" into this mix.

[mrbasehart]

Really? I prefer that one to Deconstructing Harry, or Small Time Crooks, or Curse of the Jade Scorpion.  That new one Cassandra's Dream, or whatever, is meant to royally stink too. 

Oh, and Scoop blew too.

[bratpop]

I can't even keep up with Woody Allen anymore. What am I, made of money?

And um, hello, you're no kind of Woody Allen fan if you just watch his comedies. His worst movie is Interiors. It's like being waterboarded (I don't know what that is, but I hear all the kids talking about it, doncha know). It's shoot yourself in the head bad. It's "I'd rather watch Mad Monster while listening to Yoko Ono" bad.

[Doctor Who?]

Indy 4.

Nuff said.

[Petey Wheatstraw]

I can't even keep up with Woody Allen anymore. What am I, made of money?

And um, hello, you're no kind of Woody Allen fan if you just watch his comedies. His worst movie is Interiors. It's like being waterboarded (I don't know what that is, but I hear all the kids talking about it, doncha know). It's shoot yourself in the head bad. It's "I'd rather watch Mad Monster while listening to Yoko Ono" bad.

See, here's where you go wrong. The Mad Monster was intended to be a cheap monster movie for mainstream audiences, and failed miserably. Yoko Ono produced art albums that ended up influencing artists and genres. Her first album laid the foundation for punk.