Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors

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Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors Apr 3, 2024 16:09:02 GMT

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50 - ‘Renaissance Man’ (Penny Marshall)
49 - ‘The Fountain’ (Darren Aronofsky)
48 - ‘How Do You Know’ (James L. Brooks)
47 - ‘The Truth About Charlie’ (Jonathan Demme)
46 - ‘Look Who’s Talking Too’ (Amy Heckerling)
45 - ‘Bicentennial Man’ (Chris Columbus)
44 - ‘Basic’ (John McTiernan)
43 - ‘Assassins’ (Richard Donner)
42 - ‘Girl 6’ (Spike Lee)
41 - ‘The Good German’ (Steven Soderbergh)
40 - ‘Random Hearts’ (Sydney Pollack)
39 - ‘Jupiter Ascending’ (The Wachowskis)
38 - ‘Downsizing’ (Alexander Payne)
37 - ‘Garbo Talks’ (Sidney Lumet)
36 - ‘The Ward’ (John Carpenter)
35 - ‘The Stepford Wives’ (Frank Oz)
34 - ‘Gemini Man’ (Ang Lee)
33 - ‘Buddy Buddy’ (Billy Wilder)
32 - ‘Goya’s Ghosts’ (Milos Forman)
31 - ‘Sphere’ (Barry Levinson)
30 - ‘The Last Tycoon’ (Elia Kazan)
29 - ‘Oz The Great and Powerful’ (Sam Raimi)
28 - ‘Beyond Therapy’ (Robert Altman)
27 - ‘Pocketful of Miracles’ (Frank Capra)
26 - ‘Wild Wild West’ (Barry Sonnenfeld)
25 - ‘Phobia’ (John Huston)
24 - ‘The Wings of Eagles’ (John Ford)
23 - ‘The 15:17 to Paris’ (Clint Eastwood)
22 - ‘Joan of Arc’ (Victor Fleming)
21 - ‘Juno and the Paycock’ (Alfred Hitchcock)
20 - ‘What Planet Are You From?’ (Mike Nichols)
19 - ‘Death Becomes Her’ (Robert Zemeckis)
18 - ‘A Good Year’ (Ridley Scott)
17 - ‘Alien 3’ (David Fincher)
16 - ‘Jade’ (William Friedkin)
15 - ‘Club Paradise’ (Harold Ramis)
14 - ‘Junior’ (Ivan Reitman)
13 - ‘Boxcar Bertha’ (Martin Scorsese)
12 - ‘The Stupids’ (John Landis)
11 - ‘The Ladykillers’ (The Coen Brothers)
10 - ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas’ (Ron Howard)
9 - ‘She’s Having a Baby’ (John Hughes)
8 - ‘Amsterdam’ (David O. Russell)
7 - ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace’ (George Lucas)
6 - ‘Piranha II: The Spawning’ (James Cameron)
5 - ‘Planet of the Apes’ (Tim Burton)
4 - ‘Psycho’ (Gus Van Sant)
3 - ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ (Steven Spielberg)
2 - ‘North’ (Rob Reiner)
1 - ‘Jack’ (Francis Ford Coppola)

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Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors Apr 3, 2024 16:20:20 GMT TylerDeneuve likes this

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Out of the ones I've seen I don't think I really outright hate any of them. The ones I've rated the lowest I would classify as more aggressively mediocre than overtly terrible. There are even a few of them that I think are actually great and my personal favorites from their specific director(s).

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Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors Apr 3, 2024 16:27:11 GMT

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1. Their (well, Andy Greene's) definition of a great director is certainly... questionable. Penny Marshall? Amy Heckerling? Chris Columbus? Barry Sonnenfeld? Yeah, nah.

2. Movies from this list I consider good:
- The Fountain (The Whale was right there, Andy)
- The Good German
- Jupiter Ascending
- Downsizing
- Joan of Arc
- Death Becomes Her (as if there was nothing else to choose from Zemeckis's catalogue... and WTF is this: "the special effects were cheesy even by 1992 standards"? They were kind of boundary-pushing, Andy. Which is why they won an Oscar)
- A Good Year
- The Ladykillers
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

And plenty of other picks aren't really bad, just flawed: stuff like Girl 6 or How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

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Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors Apr 3, 2024 16:51:05 GMT

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* Spike Lee has more films close to Girl 6 than he does Do The Right Thing........just sayin' how can they tell?

* Jack is a depressing film - and I remember Gene Siskel said there is not "one Coppola memorable shot" in the movie which strikes me as one of the wisest things he said related to film criticism

* There's almost nothing on this list that's even arguably a "hidden gem"

* Sphere has the single stupidest ending in film history - and I have seen Immaculate and Love Lies Bleeding in the last 2 months so I know of what I speak

* Mad City is missing.....though some people like that........Man Trouble........they went too middle brow.........Von Trier ffs........

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Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors Apr 3, 2024 17:20:25 GMT mikediastavrone96, JangoB, and 1 more like this

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Post by Mattsby on Apr 3, 2024 17:20:25 GMT

Girl 6 is one of Spike Lee’s best.

Crystal Skull is easily the most fun Indiana Jones.

Altman’s Quintet is worse than Beyond Therapy which has its moments.

Death Becomes Her... isn’t it a beloved popular fav? Bad pick.

Alien3 is great. It always was.

Jack, a guilty pleasure, is sweet.

Grinch is wild - kids really love it. Ron Howard shouldn’t be on the list but if he is: you pick The Dilemma.

Also clearly this list brought their bitch to the Waffle Hut, bc The Ladykillers is pretty hilarious.

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Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors Apr 3, 2024 17:47:32 GMT Mattsby likes this

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Apr 3, 2024 17:20:25 GMT Mattsby said:

Girl 6 is one of Spike Lee’s best.

Crystal Skull is easily the most fun Indiana Jones.

Altman’s Quintet is worse than Beyond Therapy which has its moments.

Death Becomes Her... isn’t it a beloved popular fav? Bad pick.

Alien3 is great. It always was.

Jack, a guilty pleasure, is sweet.

Grinch is wild - kids really love it. Ron Howard shouldn’t be on the list but if he is: you pick The Dilemma.

Also clearly this list brought their bitch to the Waffle Hut, bc The Ladykillers is pretty hilarious.

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Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors Apr 3, 2024 17:48:38 GMT

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either words doesn't mean anything anymore or the bar is really low to what's consider a GREAT director. In any case the "bait" picks are the only ones to cause some sort of noise. Death Becomes Her is for some reason beloved, The Fountain, The Wings of Eagles are sometimes highlighted as some of the directors' best. And most of the other movies have their strong fanbase, even Russell's somniferous Amsterdam!!!. (I do like the Taytay scene)

If I had to pick one wagon to jump into that would be Downsizing, even if that movie is working with some of the most basic characterizations (almost on the verge of being racist) I think the scope and the ideas are clear enough to consider it a terrible movie, plus Hong Chau is a delight, that was her oscar!!

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The wild thing about picking Death Becomes Her which has been a cult classic for decades now is it's such a layup to pick almost any Zemeckis movie post-Cast Away. Nobody would bat an eye if Welcome to Marwen or Pinocchio were on here. But then again I guess there wouldn't be as much online engagement either.

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Rolling Stone: 50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors Apr 3, 2024 21:03:24 GMT

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Post by ibbi on Apr 3, 2024 21:03:24 GMT

These lists are always so stupid, and this one is no exception. I know twitter erupted at the inclusion of Death Becomes Her, but there's plenty more dumbness where that came from. Also, yes, some of these great directors are... I mean, these are just famous movies made by popular directors. It's like it was put together by a 12 year old.