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04 Apr 2014, 3:50 pm

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04 Apr 2014, 6:32 pm

The Serpent's Egg by Ingmar Bergman deserves a place in any list such as that.

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05 Apr 2014, 3:31 pm

Revolver (2005) by Guy Ritchie.

How a man who created masterpieces like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and RocknRolla could direct such an awful movie is beyond me.

It does have one redeeming feature, though. Sorter. It begins at 2:24.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiPtaAwEa3Q[/youtube]
Because of the popularity of Sorter, some versions of the film actually leave out the last part, thus suggesting he survived.

I fail to see why Alien 3 is on the list in the OP, BTW. It is not the masterpiece of James Cameron's Aliens, but I still like the movie.

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05 Apr 2014, 6:24 pm

Alien Resurrection {Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997}

Psycho {Gus Van Sant, 1998}

I Heart Huckabee's {David O. Russell, 2004}

The Prestige {Christopher Nolan, 2006}

The Terminal {Steven Spielberg, 2004}

Intolerable Cruelty {Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2003}

Charlie Wilson's War {Mike Nichols, 2007}

The Darjeeling Limited {Wes Anderson, 2007}

The Good German {Steven Soderbergh, 2006}

The Black Dahlia {Brian De Palma, 2006}

The Brothers Grimm {Terry Gilliam, 2005}

Man Of The Year {Barry Levinson, 2006}

IMO, all of the above listed are awful movies.

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06 Apr 2014, 8:45 am

GGPViper wrote:

Revolver (2005) by Guy Ritchie.

I couldn't make sense of any of it, and thought it was me. Over time, I see it on more cinematic screw-ups lists, so maybe there really isn't much art below the surface.

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06 Apr 2014, 2:48 pm

Question to Everyone: What are "good" movies by "bad" directors that you like?

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06 Apr 2014, 9:32 pm

Showgirls

Avatar, Titanic.

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:

Question to Everyone: What are "good" movies by "bad" directors that you like?

Plan 9.., Glen or Glenda, etc. Edward D Wood Jr's movies are surprisingly entertaining, and he was very innovative. I am not sure that it's fair to call him a bad director except in a technical sense.

Bay's Pain and Gain is a pretty good film by a director that I don't usually have a lot of time for.

The Sixth Sense.

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07 Apr 2014, 2:22 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:

Question to Everyone: What are "good" movies by "bad" directors that you like?

Pain & Gain {Michael Bay, 2013}

Tower Heist {Brett Ratner, 2011}

X-Men: The Last Stand {Brett Ratner, 2006}

The Village {M. Night Shyamalan, 2004}

Red Dragon {Brett Ratner, 2003}

Phone Booth {Joel Schumacher, 2003}

Falling Down {Joel Schumacher, 1993}

Twister {Jan De Bont, 1997}

We Are Marshall {McG, 2006}

The Conjuring {James Wan, 2013}

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08 Apr 2014, 2:09 pm

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I'll add:

Dark Shadows {Tim Burton, 2012}

Planet Of The Apes {Tim Burton, 2001}

World Trade Center {Oliver Stone, 2006}

Cassandra's Dream {Woody Allen, 2007}

Beowulf {Robert Zemeckis, 2007}

Poseidon {Wolfgang Petersen, 2006}

Superman Returns {Bryan Singer, 2006}

Hugo {Martin Scorsese, 2011}

Spider-Man 3 {Sam Raimi, 2007}

Flags Of Our Fathers {Clint Eastwood, 2006}

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08 Apr 2014, 4:28 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:

The Prestige {Christopher Nolan, 2006}

Really? Thought this one was a pretty good movie. Far from embarrassingly bad.

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The Black Dahlia {Brian De Palma, 2006}

Actually, I thought the first 3/4 of this was great, bordering on excellent. But it completely blew the ending.

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08 Apr 2014, 6:00 pm

ScrewyWabbit wrote:

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:

The Prestige {Christopher Nolan, 2006}

Really? Thought this one was a pretty good movie. Far from embarrassingly bad.

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The Black Dahlia {Brian De Palma, 2006}

Actually, I thought the first 3/4 of this was great, bordering on excellent. But it completely blew the ending.

Actually, I thought The Prestige was a good movie too, but it left a lot to be desired. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale both gave great performances, but the movie no higher than a B- at the most.

As for The Black Dahlia, I agree with many who say that Brian De Palma's works from 2000 to now all suck.

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08 Apr 2014, 10:03 pm

"The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick has to be one of the bigger embarassments in cinema.

Also pretty much everything Wim Wenders has done (except possibly his documentaries) after "Wings of Desire" (and maybe even that, depending on how you look at it.)

Alfred Hitchcock's remake of "the Man Who Knew Too Much". The original was entertaining and well made. The remake seemed to be trying to use its stars to draw an audience without worring too much about telling a good story.

"Intolerable cruelty" by the Coen brothers has already been mentioned, but for my money, i think "the Ladykillers" is the lesser film.

"The Great Dictator" by Charlie Chaplin - too preachy.

I generally like Woody Allen's films, but when he makes a bad one, they can be pretty awful. "Hollywood Ending" and "Celebrity" were really atrocious.

"To The Wonder" by Terrence Mallick just didn't seem to go anywhere. It's the only one of his films i was bored by.

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08 Apr 2014, 11:28 pm

Oldboy, Spike Lee.
Howard The Duck, George Lucas.
Prince Of Darkness, John Carpenter

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09 Apr 2014, 5:21 am

I liked Twister and Flags of Our Fathers.

Alien 3 (David Fincher)

King Arthur (Antoine Fuqua)

Robin Hood (Ridley Scott)

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott)

The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)

Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)

Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)

Blade II (Guillermo del Toro)

The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)

What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis)

Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton)

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10 Apr 2014, 7:55 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:

I'll add:

Invictus {Clint Eastwood, 2009}

Jack The Giant Slayer {Bryan Singer, 2013}

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy {George Lucas, 1999 to 2005}

Leatherheads {George Clooney, 2008}

10,000 BC {Roland Emmerich, 2008}

Lost In Space {Stephen Hopkins, 1998}

The Hulk {Ang Lee, 2003}

Mary Reilly {Stephen Frears, 1996}

Van Helsing {Stephen Sommers, 2004}

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jagatai wrote:

"The Great Dictator" by Charlie Chaplin - too preachy.

To say the least. It's also not funny, and barely watchable in some scenes.

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