Bad Movies from Great Directors : Nobodies perfect.....
Submitted by jgandcag on Mon, 03/03/2003 - 12:52
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- Alfred Hitchcock: Under Capricorn just ekes it out over Torn Curtain
- Martin Scorsese: New York New York
- John Ford: Cheyenne Autumn
- Steven Spielberg: Hook Always was another strong possibilty
- Howard Hawks Land Of The Pharoahs
- Orson Welles The Immortal Story
- Billy Wilder Fedora
- Steven Soderbergh Erin Brockovich Though to be honest, not a horrible movie and I like a lot of his movies and I have not seen Full Frontal yet.
- Elia Kazan The Arrangement
Author Comments:
This list idea came to me while I was writing up a couple of Kurosawa Films for my Damn lists. The premise is simple Great directors and their worst movies. This is based on only movies I have seen which could eliminate some real stinkers because though I watch many, many movies I try very hard not to watch too many bad ones.
I will add more names as time passes and I am always open to requests.
Great list! You know, I *will* have to clone this some time...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
How about
David Lean: The Greatest Story Ever Told
Did you consider 1941 for Stevie?
Hook is pretty bad, though, but oddly, I am finding an amazing number of younger people who count it, along with the atrocious The Goonies, as a favorite.
Don't ask me. I don't get it either.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
My Four least favorite Spielberg movies in order are
Hook
Always
1941
ET
Jurassic Park
Of course I never saw Lost World. I think that might have a chance to top the list if I ever do.
1941 was a huge mess but Belushi always made me smile so it was hard to completely hate it.
Hook was just atrocious....
Well, glad to see it was considered. I had a hard time picturing you loving that film, so I was half-hoping that you had been lucky enough not to have seen it. Of course, this is *you*, of course, so I knew the chance of you missing it were very slim indeed. :)
Glad to see it was a contender. I also haven't seen Lost World. God willing, I never will.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I saw your State of Listology poll response and decided to skim your ouput. If you have a wide age gap then I feel positively calcified. I personally find it tough when new movies are all targetted to adolescent males (what with movies being the majority of postings.) I wish there was more material in the culture for people who aren't either adolescent or male or both. But that's the ocean we swim in, full of kelp and driftwood... and the occasional dead body.
I'm sooo jealous of your Springsteen experience. But that's not enough to make me defer to your judgement. In that vein:
What! are you nuts?!
John Huston : Annie
Mike Nichols : The Day of the Dolphin
They say the memory is the first to go and, if so, I envy you. As well as admire you. And in some ways pity you (there is no such thing as "Essential Robert Mitchum".)
Live long and prosper! (It's something that all the kids are saying nowadays.)