The Directors Who Haven’t Made A Bad Movie Club
So I guess in anticipation of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, I got to thinking that QT hasn’t made a bad film yet. I know Death Proof usually isn’t a favorite, but I don’t think it can be classified as bad IMO.
So with a minimum of five feature films, what directors haven’t made a bad film? Quentin Tarantino Edgar Wright I’d love to put David Fincher in here, but Alien 3...(I enjoy it, but it ain’t good) |
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John Duigan (The Year My Voice Broke, Flirting, Lawn Dogs), though I'll admit I haven't seen a few of his oldest films, due to lack of availability.
Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor, Win Win, Spotlight). I suppose some might argue that The Cobbler was bad, but I enjoyed it. |
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Jean Pierre Melville
Andrei Tarkovsky Charles Laughton Elaine May John Cassavetes ,Sergio Leone, and Stanley Kubrick come very close. Leone's first film, Kubricks first film and Cassavetes last film were all sub par. More contemporary filmmakers, I'm sure I'll get pushback on these: Whit Stillman Quentin Tarantino Paul Thomas Anderson Wes Anderson Jeff Nichols Kelly Reichardt Aaron Katz Vincent Gallo Tom Ford Andrew Dominick |
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I would agree with Tarantino. Even if Death Proof isn't a favorite it isn't really a bad movie. He's the one who jumps out as most consistent to me.
Tempted to say Scorsese as I haven't seen a bad film by him, but I also haven't seen everything he's done. For as long as he's been around though he doesn't seem to have many that are consodered clunkers. |
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Originally Posted by Hazel Motes
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Elaine May
I will add two time Oscar winners Inaratu, Curon and (maybe) Ang Lee to the list -- depending on how you feel about Hulk and Billy Lynn's Long Walk. Also Warren Beatty (I liked Rules Don't Apply, though it was clearly his worst movie). |
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I guess it depends on if you count Four Rooms as one of Tarrantino’s Films (the count in his trailers doesn’t seem to). |
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Death Proof is one of QT's best movies. I'm seriously wearing a Death Proof t-shirt as I post this.
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Originally Posted by Decker
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(maybe) Ang Lee to the list -- depending on how you feel about Hulk and Billy Lynn's Long Walk.
No mention of Denis Villeneuve? Would include Peter Weir, although Green Card is pretty meh. Love Scorsese but Boxcar Bertha and his spiritual films Kundun, Last Temptation and Silence are his weakest efforts. His substandard efforts are still interesting so .. Mike Flanagan is another. Darjeeling would knock off Wes Anderson for me. |
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Originally Posted by The Questyen
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Death Proof is one of QT's best movies. I'm seriously wearing a Death Proof t-shirt as I post this.
Edgar Wright's The World's End was an unwatchable mess for me. Granted that could have been because Hot Fuzz and Shaun were so damn good. I haven't given it a second chance yet. I honestly can't think of any director that hasn't had a misstep. Can you be a good filmmaker without at least one turd on your resume? |
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I'd agree with Denis Villenueve. Fincher is out because of the Benjamin Button shitshow.
Tarantino never made a bad movie, but he made two that I think are lesser efforts (Django Unchained and Death Proof). Neither are bad, but they are weak compared to the rest of the ouvre. Still, he applies. Kubrick is a no-brainer. The Coen Brothers made "Hail Caesar" which, unfortunately, sucks. I'm even mostly forgiving of their Ladykillers remake and Intolerable Cruelty, but Hail Caesar is IMO their only bad movie. IMO Nolan hasn't made a bad movie. Interstellar is his weakest but it still mostly works. Others may disagree. Maybe not stvn. Wes Anderson has, IMO, never made a bad movie. But I was slightly disappointed with Isle of Dogs. |
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Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
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I'd agree with Denis Villenueve. Fincher is out because of the Benjamin Button shitshow.
IMO Nolan hasn't made a bad movie. Interstellar is his weakest but it still mostly works. Others may disagree. Maybe not stvn. |
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Tarantino (though JB a little subpar for me)
Villenueve and haven't disliked a Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson movie yet. Also, love John Badham as he hasn't missed for me (back when he was making movies and all that). Just about anything Polanski, Coppola (Francis or Sophia actually), Scorsese... |
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I like Tomorrowland but it would probably keep Brad Bird out of the club for most. Outside of that one movie though the rest are pretty universally loved.
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don't think i've hated a Leone, Lumet, Eastwood directed film yet...
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Originally Posted by Spiderbite
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I honestly can't think of any director that hasn't had a misstep. Can you be a good filmmaker without at least one turd on your resume?
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I haven't seen or heard much about the Bad News Bears remake and the delays have me worried about Where'd You Go Bernadette , but as of now I'm fine with including Richard Linklater in the club.
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Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
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I'd agree with Denis Villenueve. Fincher is out because of the Benjamin Button shitshow.
I agree with you about Nolan though.
Originally Posted by OldBoy
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Eastwood directed film yet...
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Originally Posted by OldBoy
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don't think i've hated a Leone, Lumet, Eastwood directed film yet...
Lumet - Gloria, The Wiz, Guilty As Sin Eastwood - Hereafter, 15:17, Jersey Boys |
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Depending in how you feel about Dune, David Lynch Depending on how you feel about Fast Company, David Cronenberg |
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I admit I haven't seen every movie ever made.
Therefore, rather than stating "NEVER made a bad movie," I'll go with "NEVER made more than 1 bad movie" (Hey, what can I say? I'm lazy). Tarantino, Scorsese, Kubrick, Coen Bros., jump right out at me. More criteria: must have made > 5 films and been around > 10 years. |
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Originally Posted by OldBoy
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don't think i've hated a Leone, Lumet, Eastwood directed film yet...
Lumet is a Master, but The Wiz is a shitshow. |
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Originally Posted by inri222
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Depending in how you feel about
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Originally Posted by majorjoe23
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Charles Laughton. |
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Originally Posted by Spiderbite
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Edgar Wright's The World's End was an unwatchable mess for me. Granted that could have been because Hot Fuzz and Shaun were so damn good. I haven't given it a second chance yet.
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I'm finding everyone's lists incredibly skewed toward still-living and -working directors. What's up with that? There are only two directors mentioned in all of the posts above that made a pre-1950 film, and one of those was uncredited. Where's the love for Hitchcock? Keaton? Ford? Hawks? Browning? Wise? Kazan? Bergman? Whale? Chaplin? Curtiz? Stevens? Capra? Wilder? Truffaut? Kurosawa?
I'm not saying that everything that the above-listed directors made is pure platinum, but I think that a case could be made for each of them that they don't have any out-and-out stinkers in their filmographies. |
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^ A neat bit of trivia I learned the other day when I was watching The Quiet Man. John Ford, known for his great Westerns won 4 Best Director Oscars. Not one of them was for a Western. Thats gotta tells you something about how great of a director he was. |
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Originally Posted by Finisher
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Would include Peter Weir, although Green Card is pretty meh.
. Not much higher praise than that! |
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Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
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IIMO Nolan hasn't made a bad movie. Interstellar is his weakest but it still mostly works. Others may disagree. Maybe not stvn.
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I was thinking Cameron Crowe
Singles Jerry Maguire Almost Famous Vanilla Sky Elizabethtown We Bought a Zoo The last two aren't the strongest of his catalog, but they're enjoyable enough. Then I checked his IMDB... what the hell is Aloha? I must have missed that one. < checks Rotten Tomatoes... 20% fresh.
Originally Posted by Nesbit
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I like Tomorrowland but it would probably keep Brad Bird out of the club for most. Outside of that one movie though the rest are pretty universally loved.
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Quentin Tarantino
Christopher Nolan S. Crag Zahler James Cameron |
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
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I was thinking Cameron Crowe
Singles Jerry Maguire Almost Famous Vanilla Sky Elizabethtown We Bought a Zoo The last two aren't the strongest of his catalog, but they're enjoyable enough. Then I checked his IMDB... what the hell is Aloha? I must have missed that one. < checks Rotten Tomatoes... 20% fresh. . Crowe's career through Zoo was a perfect parabola with Almost Famous at the peak. Aloha made the line dip way below the zero axis though. |
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Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
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Quentin Tarantino
Christopher Nolan S. Crag Zahler James Cameron |
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another one for Cameron, including Avatar. love all his stuff thus far...
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Originally Posted by inri222
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Leone - The Colossus of Rhodes Lumet - Gloria, The Wiz, Guilty As Sin Eastwood - Hereafter, 15:17, Jersey Boys |
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Have the posters mentioning Nolan not seen the giant turd that is The Dark Knight Rises?
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Another knock against Cameron for me is I don’t think True Lies holds up that well anymore. |
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Originally Posted by rbrown498
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I'm finding everyone's lists incredibly skewed toward still-living and -working directors. What's up with that? There are only two directors mentioned in all of the posts above that made a pre-1950 film, and one of those was uncredited. Where's the love for Hitchcock? Keaton? Ford? Hawks? Browning? Wise? Kazan? Bergman? Whale? Chaplin? Curtiz? Stevens? Capra? Wilder? Truffaut? Kurosawa?
I'm not saying that everything that the above-listed directors made is pure platinum, but I think that a case could be made for each of them that they don't have any out-and-out stinkers in their filmographies. Hitchcock's duds: Topaz, Torn Curtain, I Confess, Under Capricorn, The Paradine Case, a bunch of his silents Ford: guy made a ton of shit with masterpieces mixed in Hawks: Red Line 7000 and most of his late stuff is frankly bad (Hatari, Land of the Pharoahs, Man's Favorite Sport?) and early stuff Kazan: The Arrangement, Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Last Tycoon .. Kazan is the closest of the names you mentioned because he was a selective filmmaker and most of his films are masterworks that hold up but a few misses particularly The Arrangement Bergman: his very early stuff, I find his later work insufferable but probably personal preference Wilder: Avanti!, Buddy Buddy, Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Truffaut: hard to name an outright dud, had a couple late meh movies like The Green Room Kurosawa: The Idiot, Maadayo, Dodes'ka-den Tarvoksky came close Eastwood's Hereafter, 15:17, J Edgar aren't very good. The Rookie and White Hunter Black Heart looked bad to me so avoided them. |
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Originally Posted by stvn1974
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Have the posters mentioning Nolan not seen the giant turd that is The Dark Knight Rises?
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Originally Posted by Hazel Motes
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Jean Pierre Melville
Andrei Tarkovsky Charles Laughton Elaine May John Cassavetes ,Sergio Leone, and Stanley Kubrick come very close. Leone's first film, Kubricks first film and Cassavetes last film were all sub par. More contemporary filmmakers, I'm sure I'll get pushback on these: Whit Stillman Quentin Tarantino Paul Thomas Anderson Wes Anderson Jeff Nichols Kelly Reichardt Aaron Katz Vincent Gallo Tom Ford Andrew Dominick
Originally Posted by Decker
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I haven't seen or heard much about the Bad News Bears remake and the delays have me worried about Where'd You Go Bernadette , but as of now I'm fine with including Richard Linklater in the club.
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
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I was thinking Cameron Crowe
Singles Jerry Maguire Almost Famous Vanilla Sky Elizabethtown We Bought a Zoo The last two aren't the strongest of his catalog, but they're enjoyable enough. Then I checked his IMDB... what the hell is Aloha? I must have missed that one. < checks Rotten Tomatoes... 20% fresh. Brad Bird was the first that came to mind so I looked him up to see what I was forgetting. Tomorrowland -yack- What an abysmal nightmare that was. |
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