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.
Ignorance fought 
Hmm… thinks makes me wonder, what is the best movie by Uwe Boll since all of his movies are terrible?
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.
No love for The Rocketeer? It’s about as well-crafted an adventure film as you could ask for.
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.
Someone already said Postal, though I have not seen it.
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.
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:
And the only way such great actors appear in his movies is because he’s got to be overpaying them.
I know its something to be wary of “go and watch this Uwe Boll movie”, but Tunnel Rats 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…
Gotta disagree. I LOVED Cloud Atlas.
Schumacher also did Cousins and Phone Booth, right? So we have like five or six good films from him now
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)
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 awardsI 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.
Yeah - it’s like you make ONE movie where Batman has nipples on his suit, and everyone’s ready to condemn your ouevre…
…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.
I have to say that I thought ‘Rampage’ was pretty good, and I’m not a fan of blood, gore and violence at all.
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. His subsequent movies weren’t all that much better and he was pretty much done after that.