The Directors Who Haven’t Made A Bad Movie Club
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David Lynch
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Fuck you, Dune is awesome.
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Even the best directors who are reasonably prolific make films that are poor. Truffaut and Chabrol (whose films I much prefer overall) are two directors who were quite consistent in quality, but I did not like Truffaut's Small Change or Chabrol's Les Biches.
The only director I can think of who has not made a bad feature-length film is Victor Erice, but he only has three credits to his name over a 55-year career.
The only director I can think of who has not made a bad feature-length film is Victor Erice, but he only has three credits to his name over a 55-year career.
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Asghar Farhadi
2018 Everybody Knows
2016 The Salesman
2013 The Past
2011 A Separation
2009 About Elly
2006 Fireworks Wednesday
2004 Beautiful City
2003 Dancing in the Dust
Everybody Knows may be his weakest, but it's still a pretty good movie.
2018 Everybody Knows
2016 The Salesman
2013 The Past
2011 A Separation
2009 About Elly
2006 Fireworks Wednesday
2004 Beautiful City
2003 Dancing in the Dust
Everybody Knows may be his weakest, but it's still a pretty good movie.
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Even the best directors who are reasonably prolific make films that are poor. Truffaut and Chabrol (whose films I much prefer overall) are two directors who were quite consistent in quality, but I did not like Truffaut's Small Change or Chabrol's Les Biches.
The only director I can think of who has not made a bad feature-length film is Victor Erice, but he only has three credits to his name over a 55-year career.
The only director I can think of who has not made a bad feature-length film is Victor Erice, but he only has three credits to his name over a 55-year career.
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Exactly.
For instance, John Carpenter is my favorite director, but he’s made some bad movies. I really like Alien 3, but it’s a borderline bad film.
Its hard to look past our favorites, but bad movies are bad movies.
For instance, John Carpenter is my favorite director, but he’s made some bad movies. I really like Alien 3, but it’s a borderline bad film.
Its hard to look past our favorites, but bad movies are bad movies.
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Cameron is definitely on the list. I don’t care for Avatar, but I don’t consider it a bad movie by any means.
shit I forgot about Piranha II.
shit I forgot about Piranha II.
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i was mostly joking and ignoring the OP with my response to you. He really only directed one film, The Night of the Hunter. On The Man in the Eiffel Tower he just directed scenes that the director, Burgess Meredith, was acting in.
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Bresson is kind of a cheat code because his trash like Lancelot by the Lake was deliberate.
And speaking of Truffaut I think he wrote something to the effect of "if you like a director you have to like all his films [i.e. it's one big body of work]" which I believe is fairly valid and explains how people can gloss over obvious pieces of cinematic fecal matter like Inland Empire and Cosmopolis.
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I can't believe someone mentioned Clint Eastwood who had done a slew of bad/mediocre films. Just shows how non-objective this subject can be.
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Small Change is critically lauded, but I thought it was below average. It has been quite a few years since I saw it, and I can't remember what I found lacking.
inri222, I agree that Haneke and the Dardennes are among the very best and most unvaryingly good directors of modern times, but with the former I found Time of the Wolf mediocre and Code Unknown awful; and with the latter, La promesse was just fairly good.
I find it extremely hard to think of directors who have made only good films. That's a tall order.
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I’ve always found Eastwood to be a thoroughly mediocre director, and it comes off like the industry and press elevate his middling efforts into masterpieces. Put someone else’s name of Million Dollar Baby and it doesn't get a single Academy Award nomination. His films aren’t bad, just very workmanlike and unremarkable.
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I’ve always found Eastwood to be a thoroughly mediocre director, and it comes off like the industry and press elevate his middling efforts into masterpieces. Put someone else’s name of Million Dollar Baby and it doesn't get a single Academy Award nomination. His films aren’t bad, just very workmanlike and unremarkable.
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I take it all back. Of his 8 directed movies, I have loved everyone. Even Curley Sue. John Hughes!
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Martin McDonagh. "In Bruges, "Seven Psychopaths" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri".