Overrated Directors

Well, Empire Magazine for one, they're always banging on about them... But the issue isn't how highly they're rated, it's that they're overrated.

I've never seen anything by Michael Haneke and from a quick look through his IMDB resume and box office take I'm pretty confident I'm in the 99.5% of people who haven't, either...
 
Dont talk to me like that. If Speilberg's films were so* shit *and * crappy * no-one would surely want to watch them but he remains to direct many great films, so no tar you gtfo please. And how is there bias in Munich ? You talk aload of shit LOL.
 
I agree with your comment. I also enjoyed their earlier films (in particular The HuRABucker Proxy & Barton Fink) but their latter films have been woeful - this is what happens when people start to believe their own hype unfortunately.
 
Been dying to see Manhunter, I've heard a lot of good things about it. Will try and get it asap.

Michael Mann is pretty good, Heat and Collateral were superb but Miami Vice wasn't good and Public Enemies was pretty average.

He hasn't made a lot of films so theres soo much more to expect from him.
 
IMO, theres no way that Steven Spielberg belongs in this thread.
He is a wonderful film maker and a great director.

I can't imagine a world without Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders, E.T, Minority report, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Poltergeist, Private Ryan, etc, etc. (I know that he didn't personally direct all of these movies)

I can't think of one other director who's body of work would be missed so much.
 
Well, yes? Following was a very good film, as was Memento. The Prestige is one of my favourite films of the last few years. I'm less keen on his other films, but the only one I really dislike is Insomnia. (I've not seen Doodlebug.)

So right now there aren't many other directors I'd rate higher. He's done enough good work that I'll allow him several duff films before I downgrade him.

Cameron is pushing it, though. I like his earlier stuff, but in the last 10 years he's just done Titanic and Avatar and both are weak.

del Toro is an interesting case. Most of his work leaves me cold, but I've come to love Pan's Labyrinth. I look forward to seeing what he does with The Hobbit. With so many directors producing mediocre films, any director who can produce one with the calibre of Pan's Labyrinth neeRAB to be cherished and supported.

An exception to this is Richard Kelly. His Donny Darko is indeed brilliant, but his director's cut shows he didn't really understand why, and his later films haven't been as good. He was lucky, or had a good cast/editor or something. There's no particular reason to expect his future films to be good.
 
er... You really think they actually shot drowned blew-up dismembered and burned real actors in the beach landing scenes in Saving Private Ryan :confused: :D

...but I do agree with you that not all of his stuff is SFX laden. Here are some further examples to disprove what others have said...

Duel, The Colour Purple, Empire of the Sun, Amistad, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, Munich
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Well he hasdirected 5-6 films which is more than enough to qualify him as a director.

Apart from Star Wars this guy really is talentless, his keep on milking the franchise with all these Star Wars animation and tv shows etc;
 
Keep telling yourself that.

Chris Nolan films are character and story dependant. You'd be lying if you don't agree.

Saving Private Ryan is a effect gore throughout. Non stop crazy shootings going on, not extactly a great example by any means.

By settings I meant Christopher Nolans doesn't heavily glitterise the whole set like Spielberg does. He doesn't pay attention. Look at War of the WorlRAB and Saving Private Ryan you could tell the amount of work that has went into the background effects and making the settings looking as good as possible.

Oh yeah lets not forget Indiana jones 4 and the feast CGI jungle throughout and the Aliens. :rolleyes:

Watch Memento, Insomnia and The Prestige and you'll know what I mean about the settings. ;)
 
Sherlock Holmes was enjoyable and a fantastic musical score by Hans Zimmer.

But how on earth could someone mention Guy Ritchie as an over-rated director is beyond me. He barely has any critically acclaimed films or award nominations.
 
"nobody"?

2 wins, 7 other nominations for Best Director, including two Oscars nominations. Look around the net and you'll find his name on some of the "Greatest Directors" lists. It's all past achievement but it's enough to inflate his worth.
 
It seems a lot of the directors mentioned here are labelled overrated due to their output falling in quality compared to their better, often earlier works that got them rated in the first place.

So then , directors who have lost it:

Steven Spielberg. Fine in his 70s/80s heyday. Extraordinarily patchy since.

Joel & Ethan Coen. Largely rubbish since The Man Who Wasn't There, though I do seem to be the only person who didn't take to No Country For Old Men (pompous and unrewarding).

Brian De Palma. Perhaps it's time to call it a day after the shockingly awful Redacted, eh? Femme Fatale had a fair sprinkling of the old hokey magic, but that was eight years ago.

Martin Scorsese. Shouldn't have hooked up with Miramax, frankly.
 
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