Rolling Stone's 50 Worst Movies by Great Directors List

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50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors

Cinematic disasters Hollywood's greatest geniuses would love to forget
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50.Renaissance Man (Penny Marshall)

The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)

How Do You Know (James L. Brooks)

The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme)

Look Who’s Talking Too (Amy Heckerling)

Bicentennial Man (Christopher Columbus)

Basic (John McTiernan)

Assassins (Richard Donner)

Girl 6 (Spike Lee)

The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)

Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack)Jupiter Ascending (The Wachowskis)

Downsizing (Alexander Payne)

Garbo Talks (Sidney Lumet)

The Ward (John Carpenter)

The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz)

Gemini Man (Ang Lee)

Buddy Buddy (Billy Wilder)

Goya’s Ghosts (Milos Forman)

Sphere (Barry Levinson)

The Last Tyc00n (Elia Kazan)

Oz The Great and Powerful (Sam Raimi)

Beyond Therapy (Robert Altman)

Pocketful of Miracles (Frank Capra)

Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld)

Phobia (John Huston)

The Wings of Eagles (John Ford)

The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)

Joan of Arc (Victor Fleming)

Juno and the Paycock (Alfred Hitchcock)

What Planet Are You From? (Mike Nichols)

Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)

A Good Year (Ridley Scott)

Alien 3 (David Fincher)

Jade (William Friedkin)

Club Paradise (Harold Ramis)

Junior (Ivan Reitman)

Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese)

The Stupids (John Landis)

The Ladykillers (The Coen Brothers)

How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Ron Howard)

She’s Having a Baby (John Hughes)

Amsterdam (David O. Russell)

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)

Piranha II: The Spawning (James Cameron)

Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton)

Psycho (Gus Van Sant)

ndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)

North (Rob Reiner)

1.Jack (Francis Ford Coppola)
 
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That list sucks ass. First off, The Fountain is an amazing film and arguably Aronofsky's best. The other issue I have is that the list seems to have a problem with great directors doing genre films. To me when a great director tackles genre shyt (heist, horror, action, thriller, etc) he's trying his hand at tropes and familiar things we've all seen before. You get a unique vision of something you're familiar with, and even if the film isn't great it's often still worth watching. Case in point from the list:



If you fukk with erotic thrillers you're gonna love this movie, I guarantee it. It's got a lot of classic Friedkin shyt too including a wild car chase. The cast is amazing and the mystery is compelling. Are there issues, including some 90s cheese and corniness at times? Sure but overall it's good, and the fact that it bombed at the box office is irrelevant. This is a good example of a great director still displaying his talents years after "falling off" and while it's not a classic by any means it's well worth watching.
 
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