10 directors with the biggest difference in quality between their best and worst films, according to Reddit
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With more news coming out about M. Night Shyamalan’s new horror film currently in production, Call the cabin, fans will be waiting for him to add another masterpiece to the director’s illustrious library. Shyamalan has also had some infamously poor films, including much-maligned ones The last airbender so the excitement surrounding his projects tends to be somewhat cautious even now.
However, he is not the only director to whom this applies, as many acclaimed directors have suffered major drops in quality. Reddit is only interested in directors who have the biggest difference in quality between their best and worst films, and these were the directors they found.
Martin Brest
One of the few directors to be nominated for an Academy Award and a Razzie, which he won, Martin Brest’s relatively short directing career was anything but inconsistent. Redditor fishbiscuit156 summed up his highs and lows as he directed “one of the best movies of the 80s” at The Beverly Hills Police but “he also made Gigli, considered one of the worst films ever made.”
The Beverly Hills Police was a sensation when it was released in 1984 and launched both the director and Eddie Murphy to stardom. On the other hand, Giglia disastrous disaster of a movie that made it seem like recently married Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have no chemistry, it still sits at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, and Brest hasn’t directed again since.
The Wachowskis
The Wachowski Sisters have a habit of dividing opinion, with Lana Wachowski’s most recent effort, The Matrix Resurrections, dividing critics and fans, some of whom felt the film should not have been made. Redditor c0dearm explains its reputation for inconsistency, as “they made The Matrix and then Jupiter Ascending.”
While there was a 16-year gap between the mind-blowing iconic classic the matrix and the monumental failure of critics and box office Ascendant Jupiter, that’s nothing compared to the gulf in quality between the two. Despite a well-intentioned message and a star-studded cast, the film was panned by critics for its boring characters and endlessly tedious dialogues.
Rob Reiner
Having directed some of the most iconic films of the 80s and 90s, among them This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, When Harry met Sallyi A few good menRob Reiner has managed to come away with his reputation intact despite some notable missteps, which is why many are excited to see him in the director’s chair during This is Spinal Tap 2.
Redditor BigMartinJol notes the director’s “incredible string of multi-genre films” but notes that he “also made North.” Starring a pre-lord of the rings Elijah Wood, north not only did it bomb at the box office, but it was also derided by critics who saw it as a schmaltzy comedy that seemed to lack a decent joke. Lumbar puncture Fans will be hoping that the worst of Reiner is well behind him.
John McTiernan
It’s always a shame when a director’s last film is also his worst, but it would be hard to overshadow the best of John McTiernan’s directorial career. Redditor Warden72 recognizes the best of his career, including some of the must-see movies from the 80s to Die Hard i predator.
They follow that up with “And then the Rollerball remake…” With tensions between the producers and director so high that he became the focus of a federal investigation, as the New York Times reported at the time, Rollerball it turned out to be an overblown mess and all the worse for unfavorable comparisons to the original. It sits at an almost impressive 3% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Clint Eastwood
Although his most recent film Macho cry was a box office disappointment, the 92-year-old likely isn’t too worried about commercial success these days. However, that doesn’t mean the director can’t produce incredibly successful films as well as flops, with Redditor BrendanCLittle noting that he “has 2 Best Picture winners and 15:17 in Paris.”
Movies like the Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby as well as his illustrious acting career ensure that Eastwood’s legacy is secure but 15:17 towards Parisa well-intentioned biopic about the 2015 Thalys train attack, proved that the director is far from perfect, as critics and audiences felt that the use of real-life participants in the events along with a poor structure it meant that you could not see the limit.
Francis Ford Coppola
As a film director included The Godfather trilogy i Apocalypse Now, if anyone could get away with making a high-profile flop and quickly forget it afterward, it’s Francis Ford Coppola. That seems to be the case, as the low-quality moments of his illustrious career haven’t stopped his next project, megalopolisto cause already emotion.
One Redditor helped remind everyone of his lowest moment, saying “Compare Padrís first couple to Jack.” Jack is a 1996 comedy-drama starring Robin Williams as a 10-year-old boy with the body of a 40-year-old man. Williams’ distinctive charm only becomes off-putting in this context, and after being panned, Coppola is probably glad most people don’t remember the film.
Tim Burton
Although he remains one of Hollywood’s most bankable directors, Burton’s relationship with critical success is much more complicated. Years 2010 Alice in Wonderland is a great example of how he can still achieve incredible ticket sales without winning over the critics. Redditor MovieBuff90 suggests this is part of a wider problem with the director.
They think it’s a shame that the director of “some of the most unique and daring mainstream films ever released” in the 1980s and 1990s has entered a “phase of making uninspired adaptations of classic stories” , which resonated with a lot of people. Although it’s not as obvious as it is with directors who make box office disasters, Burton’s modern films certainly lack the real style and quality of his earlier work.
M. Night Shyamalan
One name that dominates discussions of wildly inconsistent directors is M. Night Shyamalan. As director of The sixth sense, signs, unbreakableand, i the townit once seemed like Shyamalan could do no wrong, but that turned out to be far from true.
Redditor EqualDifferences emphasized how big the difference is between Shyamalan’s best and worst films by saying that while watching The past, “kept wondering how it was even possible that this was the same man” who once created cinematic masterpieces. With his most recent films like Split i glass showing more signs of quality, many expect his return to grace to continue.
Tom Hooper
While some argue that cats Already a chilling musical before Tom Hooper’s critically panned and visually unpleasant adaptation arrived in 2019, it’s hard to argue that it’s the work of a director at his best. Obviously, he can’t be blamed for all of this movie’s problems, but as Redditor Grandahl13 points out, it’s the fact that it went from “the best winning movie to the worst movie of the decade” what makes it stand out.
That Academy Award winning film was The King’s Speech that there was no shortage of praise for its visual style and Hooper’s excellent direction. However, cats it won two Razzie Awards and a critical rating of just 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. The two are very different films, though, so it wouldn’t be at all surprising to see Hooper bounce back in style.
Sir Ridley Scott
It cannot be denied that Sir Ridley Scott occupies a special place in the history of cinema. Any of alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louisei gladiator could have made him a legend in his own right and he is still directing acclaimed films like House of Gucci today. Unfortunately, as Redditor Rhett9able succinctly explains, he doesn’t just direct good movies, he also “made EXODUS Gods and Kings.”
A biblical epic with an all-star cast including Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver, Exodus: Gods and Kings it had all the makings of another classic. Unfortunately, it didn’t live up to the hype in terms of critics and audiences, earning a score of 52% on Metacritic. On the other hand, the fact that it’s considered such a huge difference in quality from his best films shows just how incredible his best was.
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