Overrated directors

[SanJose90]

Martin Scorcese.

 

[minute bull]

Two. In.

 

[clutchCAT420]

Bradley cooper

 

[Lights Out 101]

Joss Whedon. His cheesy bubblegum style of directing ruined Avengers 1 and 2.

 

[samfromhtown]

Wes Anderson.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

@Madmick @MacDuffle @Dragonlordxxxxx


Who ya got as overrated..?

Top of my head, I'd say Steven Spielberg from 2008 onwards.

 

[MacDuffle]

@Madmick @MacDuffle @Dragonlordxxxxx


Who ya got as overrated..?

Tarantino, easily.

 

[Rod1]

Gonzalez Irrañitu

Because i hated the movie Babel and ill never forgive him for it.

 

[djacobox372]

Yeah he's made some great movies but he's made some not so great movies as well.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Tarantino, easily.

Wow, surprised you didn’t set your sites on Kubrick tbh lol..

 

[Graves The Elder]

tarantino

 

[sweetviolenturg]

James Cameron. I love TERMINATOR & ALIENS. I like THE ABYSS. Beyond that, I think he's vastly overrated.

 

[Khabibs Tiramisu]

My vote also goes to Quentin tarantino. Suck snyder next.

 

[ufcfan4]

Oliver Stone

Fuck him.

How does a fellow infantryman turn into a Douche bag. Hollywood corrupts

I give him a pass for Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street, and Nixon alone. Three movies I really think are awesome.
JFK has its ups and downs. I love the last twenty minute courtroom finale, but find the earlier stuff spotty.

He had a major downturn in quality of films though. Snowden was like his best film in nearly two decades and even that was more of a good not great caliber.

 

[ufcfan4]

Knew that Spielberg and Scorsese would come up and I was dreading reading the names lol. C'mon. If they're overrated, then everybody who is given any positive regard must be because they are, in my opinion, deserving of every accolade and positive comment they get.

If your system for gauging the quality of the director is that every single movie is stellar than you have an argument. Both guys have had their missteps. But that is not the basis for gauging a body of work. Spielberg and Scorsese should have cachet for life for films like Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park/Goodfellas, Casino, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Wolf of Wall Street, etc.

 

[Madmick]

Who is super overrated as a film director in your opinion?

I gotta say Guillermo Del Toro.

His films look good visually but I think they generally suck.

Pacific Rim sucks. Hellboy 1+2 suck.

I did like Blade 2 though.

Wow. OP nailed it. Full agreement. Del Toro is probably the most overrated director of the moment.

MOVIES

• Pan's Labyrinth is an amazing film, but I don't think nearly as highly of it as everyone seems to.
  
• Cronos is spectacular. My favorite thing he's ever done.
  
• The Devil's Backbone is good, but it's not an all-time horror masterpiece.
  
• Mimic is an underrated horror, but it's not some classic.
  
• The Hellboy movies are solid, but the MCU exposed how shallow they are even within their adolescent-minded genre.
  
• Crimson Peak was interesting, but deeply flawed, and just okay. Bit of a mess.
  
• Shape of Water was pedestrian. Average film with spectacular set design and cinematography, but a weak story leaning on tired cliches. Massively overrated. Most overrated thing he's done.
  
• Pacific Rim sucked.

TV

• Trolls of Arcadia is a delight. I put it on par with the How to Train Your Dragon series.
  
• The Strain blows. Garbage television. It's what cable trash used to be before cable got better than regular network television.

He's definitely talented, but he's not one of the best directors alive, or anything.

 

[ufcfan4]

James Cameron. I love TERMINATOR & ALIENS. I like THE ABYSS. Beyond that, I think he's vastly overrated.

To be fair though, he has a small body of work. I feel like when you have a small body of work, then making three movies on the level of Terminator, T2, Aliens is absolutely massive in terms of overall prestige. He's directed what, 9 movies? A third of them are classics.

 

[Skevious Manholelicker]

All movies are 'meh'. Movies are a stupid human trick. The whole concept of movies, film, and acting could be wiped from existence and there would be a net positive effect on humanity. Unless you view directors along the same lines of a child making a mud pie, you're over rating them.

 

[DeepCover]

Woody Allen fucking sucks.

 

[Madmick]

Top of my head, I'd say Steven Spielberg from 2008 onwards.

Maybe by the Academy and Rottentomatoes. Nobody outside those manufactured echo chambers has been nutriding Spielberg the last decade: certainly not the people (who ironically have always been the source of his prestige and influence as opposed to critics, professors, film institutes, and hoity-toity film festival panels).

• 2018 Ready Player One (7.5)
  
• 2017 The Post (7.2)
  
• 2016 The BFG (6.4)
  
• 2015 Bridge of Spies (7.6)
  
• 2012 Lincoln (7.4)
  
• 2011 War Horse (7.2)
  
• 2011 The Adventures of Tintin (7.3)
  
• 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (6.2)

I've seen every one of these films get mauled by Sherdog except Lincoln (and Tintin since pretty much nobody watched it). Some aren't bad. Bridge of Spies is the highest rated movie on there, but it only ranks #83 for 2015 counting films with at least 1,000 votes on IMDb.