# Best movie from terrible directors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473 "2016-08-30T12:40:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/41 "2016-09-02T01:57:18Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > […]The Wachoswkis- Lots of points for ambitious concepts and style, but it only really came together once: the Matrix. Yes, I have a differing opinion. **Bound** was an excellent film, sexy and almost painfully tense. **The Matrix** was stoned-teenager dumb – what we think is real is a big illusion implanted in our brains and reality is really guys wearing long black coats dodging bullets. And wait till I tell you why THEY are making us imagine stuff! **Bound** scored a 92 on Rotten Tomatoes. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/42 "2016-09-02T02:00:21Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > I don’t disagree, but M. Night didn’t direct that one, he just produced it. Ignorance fought 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/43 "2016-09-02T02:05:50Z")
Hmm… thinks makes me wonder, what is the best movie by Uwe Boll since all of his movies are terrible? ---
**Author:** ![Human\_Action](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@Human\_Action](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Human_Action)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/44 "2016-09-02T02:32:16Z")
I submit Richard Kelly: _Donnie Darko_, 2001. 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, beloved cult movie today. _Southland Tales_, 2007. 36% on Rotten Tomatoes, incoherent, self-indulgent mess. _The Box_, 2009. 45% on Rotten Tomatoes, incoherent, self-indulgent mess. And he hasn’t directed since. He’s like a genre-film Michael Cimino; once he got some money and some freedom, he went off the rails into unwatchable, masturbatory dreck. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > _October Sky_ is the real gem of Joe Johnston’s resume, the only film for grown-ups (and with characters that have some depth to them) he’s made so far. No love for _The Rocketeer_? It’s about as well-crafted an adventure film as you could ask for. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/45 "2016-09-02T02:41:12Z")
According to rotten tomatoes the highest rated movie from Uwe Boll is “Assault on Wall Street” at 25%. I actually saw it. It is quite terrible. It is funny that this truly terrible movie is the best he could muster. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/46 "2016-09-02T02:46:54Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Hmm… thinks makes me wonder, what is the best movie by Uwe Boll since all of his movies are terrible? Someone already said Postal, though I have not seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/47 "2016-09-02T03:18:35Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > [Curtis Hanson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Hanson#Filmography) - L.A. Confidential and a whole bunch of other movies ranging from crap to forgettable. I recall liking “Wonder Boys”, but it’s been years since I’ve seen it. And didn’t “8 Mile” get good reviews? But, in any case, “LA Confidential” was a master work. Terrific movie. Irvin Kershner has 27 directing credits on IMDB, mostly forgettable TV stuff and a few films, including “Never Say Never Again”, hardly a high point in the Bond canon. Oh, and “The Empire Strikes Back”. That one too. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/48 "2016-09-02T03:49:00Z")
Doesn’t Uwe Boll only make movies because Germany wishes they had a real film industry? I just can’t imagine a world in which even the dumbest American studio execs give someone with Bolls’ track record $60 million to make a Dungeon Siege movie: > **[In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460780/?ref_=nv_sr_1)** > > In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale: Directed by Uwe Boll. With Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ron Perlman. A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son, two acts committed by... And the only way such great actors appear in his movies is because he’s got to be overpaying them. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/49 "2016-09-02T09:28:37Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > According to rotten tomatoes the highest rated movie from Uwe Boll is “Assault on Wall Street” at 25%. > > I actually saw it. It is quite terrible. It is funny that this truly terrible movie is the best he could muster. I know its something to be wary of “go and watch this Uwe Boll movie”, but [Tunnel Rats](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970462/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) is actually very good. Vietnam movie about US soldiers trying to hunt out the Vietcong in tunnels beneath the jungle. It’s more obscure, so I don’t think critics have tended to see it. So the likes of rotten tomatoes tends to miss those… I think I found it via one of those lists of good horror movies you may have missed… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/50 "2016-09-05T01:31:20Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > The Wachoswkis- Lots of points for ambitious concepts and style, but it only really came together once: the Matrix. Gotta disagree. I LOVED **Cloud Atlas**. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/51 "2016-09-05T02:39:49Z")
Schumacher also did Cousins and Phone Booth, right? So we have like five or six good films from him now ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/52 "2016-09-05T02:57:51Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Gotta disagree. I LOVED **Cloud Atlas**. I enjoyed **Cloud Atlas** too, but don’t forget Lana Wachowski directed it with Tom Tykwer (director of **Run Lola Run** ) I think the Wachowskis worked mainly on the Pacific Islands (1849), Neo Seoul (2144) and the Big Isle (2321) stories Tykwer directed Edinburgh (1936), San Francisco (1973) and London (2012) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/53 "2016-09-05T13:54:04Z")
I would imagine C’etait un rendezvous has to be a candidate. The film itself has become something of a cult classic, they even made a film about making the film. Claude Lelouch is not generally critically well regarded, despite a number of awards > **[Home – Le Film Guide | Le Film Guide](https://lefilmguide.com/biography/claude-lelouch.html/)** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/54 "2016-09-05T14:58:02Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Schumacher also did Cousins and Phone Booth, right? So we have like five or six good films from him now I can’t count A Time To Kill against him: Oscar-caliber actors field the supporting roles to a ‘T’ – since Chris Cooper is perfect, and you know exactly what you’re going to get with Samuel L. Jackson, and it’s not like Kevin Spacey can’t be counted on for a big dose of self-assured smirk – and Matthew McConaughey, in the ‘handsome everyman’ part that made him a movie star, just has to amiably keep from getting in the way while being talked at by everybody from Donald Sutherland to Ashley Judd until it’s time for the defense attorney to deliver that closing statement. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/55 "2016-09-05T18:58:15Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Schumacher also did Cousins and Phone Booth, right? So we have like five or six good films from him now Yeah - it’s like you make ONE movie where Batman has nipples on his suit, and everyone’s ready to condemn your ouevre… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/56 "2016-09-05T19:02:57Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > I enjoyed **Cloud Atlas** too, but don’t forget Lana Wachowski directed it with Tom Tykwer (director of **Run Lola Run** ) I think the Wachowskis worked mainly on the Pacific Islands (1849), Neo Seoul (2144) and the Big Isle (2321) stories Tykwer directed Edinburgh (1936), San Francisco (1973) and London (2012) …and your point is? It’s not as if the Twyker-directed segments are the only good parts, and kept the Wachowski-directed segments from dragging the film down into the Abyss. In fact, having a film with multiple directors and having it exist as a consistent, organic whole is probably a very difficult feat to pull off. Many of the actors who worked on the film praised the Wachowskis for their professionalism and attention to detail. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/57 "2016-09-05T20:06:29Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Hmm… thinks makes me wonder, what is the best movie by Uwe Boll since all of his movies are terrible? I have to say that I thought ‘Rampage’ was pretty good, and I’m not a fan of blood, gore and violence at all. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473/58 "2016-09-06T03:28:15Z")
Surely Michael Cimino who made the critically acclaimed The Deer Hunter (winner of 5 oscars), followed up by Heaven’s Gate which was such a financial disaster it bankrupted United Artists and [changed the way Hollywood made movies](http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/heavens-gate-the-film-that-changed-hollywood-and-filmmaking-forever/). His subsequent movies weren’t all that much better and he was pretty much done after that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-from-terrible-directors/764473.md?page=2)