Most inept movie director...

[Alleya]

There's much worse out there than the ones you listed.

[Stolin]

There's much worse out there than the ones you listed.

Oh lord, Santa's Slay is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.

[Tyche]

I can't recall every aspect of a movie I watched several years ago. With Superman, it's completely unrealistic. He can leap tall buildings, take bullets in the eye and watch them bouce off, and be killed by a rock. Everything in inconceivable and that's ok with me. With unbreakable, it tried to be a modern realism spin on a superhero movie, and just killed it with the water thing for me.

@ Correction. I understand the argument, there's a lot of others I could add. I almost added Bay. I wanted to kind of stick to well known directors. I didn't think of the Wachowski (sp?) brothers.

[archibaldcrane]

Just because I might hate grey hummingbirds, doesn't mean that a director sucks because he makes a movie containing them. Besides, a "realistic superhero movie" is a premise developed by a writer, not a director. You can lambast Shyamalan for not appealing to your specific likes/dislikes by completely changing the script I guess, but that doesn't really seem to get to the point of whether he's a good director or not. He's a plenty fine director, he's just way overused his writing tricks.

It is exceptionally, almost preposterously difficult to make a genuinely good film out of a bad script. Moviegoers care about "what happens" more than just about anything else - a shitty story will torpedo any director you care to name.

[Anyway]

If you've seen the clip from The Happening you'd know that somehow, someway, Shamalan made Wahlberg into a horrible actor. Seriously, I love Wahlberg but he looks dreadful in this one.

[Tyche]

nevermind that, i'll work on another edit.

Was it his weakness, or the only way he could die was to drown? Big difference there. I'm sure the dude bathed. As I said, I watched it years ago, so maybe I'm missing something. The key thing here was that it was in a 3ft pool, he could have stood up. Unless you want to argue he got tangled in the tarp.

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[Maxxthepenguin]

Boll is clearly the worst; Brett Ratner's movies are artistically vacant but enjoyable and M Night Shamalamadingdong has some merit to his movies, he just tries way too hard on the exact wrong things. Boll is Ed Wood reborn.

[Jaybar]

You can be a muscle building freakshow, but be scared as fuck at little tiny spiders.

You can't relate Phobias to Superpowers. There's a huge gap between them, and if you have ever had a Phobia, you would know how easily they can overpower you.

You can ask the people that are scared of swimming if they bath. They probably don't, they probably take showers and keep face away from the stream (waterboarding!!).

[Correction]

Now that I think about it, I'd put George Lucas on that list. :D

[blister1]

-Signs started out decent enough and then just fell.
-I despise ghost flicks, so I only watched Sixth Sense once and thought nothing of it.
-Unbreakable was pretty good, the sequel would have cleared up a lot of shit, but alas it was scrapped.
-Lady in the Water was fucking brutal.
-Same for The Village.

nevermind that, i'll work on another edit.

Was it his weakness, or the only way he could die was to drown? Big difference there. I'm sure the dude bathed. As I said, I watched it years ago, so maybe I'm missing something. The key thing here was that it was in a 3ft pool, he could have stood up. Unless you want to argue he got tangled in the tarp.

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I think they mentioned that he nearly drowned when he was a kid and thus the phobia/weakness.

[archibaldcrane]

Was it his weakness, or the only way he could die was to drown? Big difference there.

We don't know as viewers since the lead character doesn't die - how would he, or anyone actually know unless it happened? - one of the marks of a strong director is to "show, don't tell" (same for a strong writer) and Shyamalan (unlike the goddamn motherfucking Wachowski brothers - and yes I'm including the first Matrix in this) hasn't burdened down the proceedings with a shitload of expositional storytelling - he does actually "show" you the story for the most part.

[Tyche]

I'm sure Bruce Willis' character would have seen a weakness to water and wouldn't have been flabergasted when Sam jackson told him that. Did he ever drink a coke, or anything containing water in the movie, which was immediately followed by an epic scene of Bruce almost dying? I'll admit I'm probably being unfair to M. Night, because I'm looping his writing and directing together. I can acknowledge that. I thought The Sixth Sense was excellently written.

[Suburbanelite]

You know, I was going to say something, but after reading through this, this topic has turned into a hatefest, not commentary on professional skill or lack thereof. Meh to you sacks.

[Mojo]

Bruce Willis' character didn't have a 'weakness' to water, or anything like that. The premise his powers was that his body was indestructible('unbreakable', if you will). He could die from other methods(suffocation, starvation, etc.) Having his head submerged under water for a prolonged period of time just happened to be one of those means. I don't think it was ever implied that he would shrivel up and die from drinking a can of soda.

[Jaybar]

I'm sure Bruce Willis' character would have seen a weakness to water and wouldn't have been flabergasted when Sam jackson told him that. Did he ever drink a coke, or anything containing water in the movie, which was immediately followed by an epic scene of Bruce almost dying? I'll admit I'm probably being unfair to M. Night, because I'm looping his writing and directing together. I can acknowledge that. I thought The Sixth Sense was excellently written.

Not knowing how to swim coupled with a great fear of being submerged in water could easily inhibit rational thought (i.e. stand up).

[tyven]

god i hate m night shamalama. i was forced to vote for him over the other two because every time he releases a movie it gets so much hype where as the other two bring little to no expectations.

[spoiler:3u1cv610]last night i read the spoiler for the happening, i dare any of you to read it and keep a straight face. this guy's movies are such crap. da spoilers[/spoiler:3u1cv610]

[Artemas]

Boll is horrible.
The Dungeon Siege movie is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
The special effects/costuming were decent, the writing and dialogue wasn't too bad, the story was completely predictable, but the list of actors..
Matthew Lillard, Ron Perlman, Krsitanna Loken, Jason Statham and John Rhys-Davies.. these are all credible, competant actors.
Ever scene reeked of corny/overdone "acting". It was like some sort of permeable taint that spread from scene to scene. God, this movie. Was. So. Bad.
My household and I just would look at each other in incredulous disbelief at how terrible some of the things we were watching.
Before this, I'd never seen an Uwe Boll film.
If you were dating someone you wanted to break up with, but didn't have the balls to tell them, give them a DVD of this movie. That will let them know the full amount of contempt you have the relationship and they'll never see you again. They'd be too full of shame that another human being thinks so little of them.

Ratner.. Sigh. You know, I'm kind of mixed on him. He's not Scorcese by any means, but like someone said above, he gets the movie done. His movies are entertaining and when I view one, I know it won't be even in the same hemisphere of the catastrophe that is Boll. He's doing Beverly Hils Cop4..

Shyamalan.. The Sixth Sense was great. But that movie was his peak. Ever since that, it's been a steady de-evolution of entertainment, appeal and cleverness that is almost covered by the bigger budgets and bigger actors that have graced his films. He has some good ideas, but his executions always seem to be a little off now. Heard he bought the rights to "The Life of Pi" which was a great read, so I have that and The Happening (I'm Wahlberg fan) to look forward to.

[Aerin]

god i hate m night shamalama. i was forced to vote for him over the other two because every time he releases a movie it gets so much hype where as the other two bring little to no expectations.

[spoiler:1x0nhfr2]last night i read the spoiler for the happening, i dare any of you to read it and keep a straight face. this guy's movies are such crap. da spoilers[/spoiler:1x0nhfr2]

I don't know it seems like an interesting premise to me, but maybe in book form. I can't really imagine a way to make that into a movie for the masses.

I'm not sure if I hate Bret Ratner or not. The Rush Hour movies were okay to me, the 3rd one just sucked. I can't even begin to explain how disappointed I was with X-Men 3. But that may have just been the studio's fault for pushing so hard to get it done asap and not wait for Bryan Singer.

[Melchiah]

No, I'm saying the movie was based on realism, and I hated it, then it decided to almost kill a man in a 3ft pool. See anything wrong with that?

The premise here is that every super hero/villain has a weakness(at least, the ones that aren't shittily written wastes of frames). Bruce Willis' happened to be water in this film, while Mr. Glass' was his brittle bone structure.

[Headspace]

No, I'm saying the movie was based on realism, and I hated it, then it decided to almost kill a man in a 3ft pool. See anything wrong with that?

The premise here is that every super hero/villain has a weakness(at least, the ones that aren't shittily written wastes of frames). Bruce Willis' happened to be water in this film, while Mr. Glass' was his brittle bone structure.

I also liked how Mr. Glass was the exact opposite of Bruce Willis' character, being insanely brittle, therefore making him his arch enemy.