Black Cat Bone

Seeing as we had a Top 5 Directors Thread, lets list the ones we hate.

Shall I start, don't have to give reasons, if you don't want to.

1) Gaspar Noe
2) Wes Anderson
3) Nicolas Winding Refn

I don't care to watch Woody Allen movies much any more but that's my look out.

I didn't enjoy anything I've seen directed by the Coens, including The Big Lebowski but with the exception of Miller's Crossing.

Tarantino talks about Django Unchained ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9794854/Quentin-Tarantino-in-furious-rant-over-Django-Unchained-violence-questions.html

I am careful with what I see nowadays, I simply don't have enough time left to waste two hours on tripe. So, can't say I have been let down repeatedly by any director in recent years.

I have noticed a precipitous drop in quality by some directors whose early work I enjoyed, to the point where I avoid them now:

George Lucas
David Cameron
Peter Jackson

Also, based on what bits and pieces I have endured, I wouldn't consciously seek out anything by:

Shyamalan
Jodorowsky
Michael Bay

GoogaMooga wrote:I am careful with what I see nowadays, I simply don't have enough time left to waste two hours on tripe. So, can't say I have been let down repeatedly by any director in recent years.

I have noticed a precipitous drop in quality by some directors whose early work I enjoyed, to the point where I avoid them now:

George Lucas
David Cameron
Peter Jackson

Also, based on what bits and pieces I have endured, I wouldn't consciously seek out anything by:

Shyamalan
Jodorowsky
Michael Bay

Yet, you waste hours buying and listening to tripe.

Jeemo wrote:

GoogaMooga wrote:I am careful with what I see nowadays, I simply don't have enough time left to waste two hours on tripe. So, can't say I have been let down repeatedly by any director in recent years.

I have noticed a precipitous drop in quality by some directors whose early work I enjoyed, to the point where I avoid them now:

George Lucas
David Cameron
Peter Jackson

Also, based on what bits and pieces I have endured, I wouldn't consciously seek out anything by:

Shyamalan
Jodorowsky
Michael Bay

Yet, you waste hours buying and listening to tripe.

To you, yes, but not necessarily to the rest of the world. I'll admit I am pickier with films, two hours is a lot to invest.

GoogaMooga wrote:David Cameron

Yeah, The Referendum was pretty much the end of the line for his directing career.

I've yet to enjoy a Wes Anderson film.
Peter Greenaway was a bugbear of mine back in the day, but it's so long since I've watched one that maybe I'll come round. I don't know what his reputation is these days, you don't hear much about him.
There's probably all sorts of contemporary Hollywood blockbuster type directors I wouldn't have much time for, but I don't waste my time watching those films to begin with.

Greenaway is so easy to hate, one doesn't even need to have seen the films. The titles alone...

Forced to see a Jarman film, I might pick "Blue", such a calming color...

Michael Bay is pretty much a surefire sign it won't be "my kind of movie."

Most everyone else is inconsistent - I mean, I like Spielberg and Tarantino a whole lot less than the rest of the world seems to. But I can't deny they've both done a few great movies in their time.

There are zillions of directors who are rubbish, or who are probably rubbish but I'm not going to watch one of their rubbish-sounding films to find out.

But I don't "hate" them.

There are a handful who get critical acclaim who I consider to be vastly overrated - Haneke and Del Toro spring to mind - but again, I don't hate their work so much as find it lacking. They are still no doubt more talented, creative and intelligent than the masterminds behind Alien Vs Predator.

Michael Winner

HEN wrote:Michael Winner

What even this..?

oh I don't know

I'm not going to spend several hours to find out which directors have made really bad films

Spielberg
Judd Apatow
Baz Luhrmann

Bearing in mind that I more or less stopped going to the movies in the 1980s, so have no experience of Bay or Cameron, for instance, or many of those on here, I'll go with old bugbears
1 Jean-Luc Godard
2 Stanley Kubrick
3 Antonioni
4 Alain Resnais
and offer no explanation beyond that they bored and/or alienated me, more than once
Edit oh, and JC reminded me
5. Michael Winner

HEN wrote:oh I don't know

I'm not going to spend several hours to find out which directors have made really bad films

Most of Winner's 60s films are actually quite enjoyable in a lightweight way.
He was a bumptious and arrogant person though and made some terrible films in the latter part of his career, so I can understand why you'd say him.

I suspect it might be the politics of Winner's vigilante films, that are the issue here. Me, I collect his films.

Hmm... 8 out of 42 might not be enough to judge, but he had a good 1970s.

Oliver Stone