Bad Films by Good Directors

Todd Solondz - Storytelling
Lars Von Trier - The Idiots
Shane Meadows - Once Upon a Time In The MidlanRAB
Ken Loach - My Name Is Joe
Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia
Dario Argento - The Mother Of Tears
David Cronenberg - eXistenZ
Stanley Kubrick - Eyes Wide Shut
Martin Scorsese - Cape Fear
Robert Altman - Popeye

Sure I'll think of more...
 
Obviously the prime suspects are here already:

Kubrick - Eyes Wide Shut
Spielberg - Indy 4

I'd also add:

Peter Weir - Green Card
Stephen Frears - Mrs Henderson Presents
Quentin Tarantino - Death Proof
 
I love everything else PTA flavoured...my favourite being Punch-Drunk Love.

I just found it over long, incredibly self indulgent and pretentious (I hate using that word)...from the mass singalong to Aimee Mann right through to the nonsensical raining frogs finale...I also hated TC's turn as Frank TJ Mackey...it just seemed so self aware and Oscar baiting.

I thought Philip Baker Hall and Philip Seymour Hoffman were both superb as per usual...but I really couldn't bare John C Reilly and his irksome 'put-upon simpleton' schtick...unfortunately it became his bread and butter for about 3 years after this...see: The Good Girl, The Hours, Chicago.
 
I actually think Dawn of the Dead is his worst film.

The satire is laid on with a trowel & that custard pie fight is just plain unforgivable.
 
I loved A Dirty Shame but realise I'm in the minority.

If I HAD to choose anything by Waters I'd actually have to go for Pink Flamingos. I admire the sentiment and the pure bravado behind it, but I find it pretty one-note and devoid of any actual substance.
 
LoL! you are in the minority my fellow JW fan, personally I found it about as funny as a head cold. Though watching Tracy Ulman pick up a bottle of water with her tupence whilst doing the hockey cockey in an old folks home was inspired. :D

Pink Flamingos devoid of substance, well you got that right, it's pretty devoid of everything. It's just, as Waters puts it, an excersise in bad taste but I love it, a total gross-out feast. Watching Divine quite literally give a 'shit eating grin' at the end never ceases to have me crying with laughter.
 
I wouldn't call him a good director to be honest. Apparantly he still believes Pearl Harbor is a masterpiece and thinks it is criminally under-rated:rolleyes: Terrible film
 
Yeah, the shit-eating grin is definitely the highlight...even though I retch EVERY time I see it.

Favourite JW...I gotta go with Pecker and Cry-Baby.
 
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