# He made the best of films he made the worst of films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-made-the-best-of-films-he-made-the-worst-of-films/339312 "2006-01-10T15:10:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-made-the-best-of-films-he-made-the-worst-of-films/339312/21 "2006-01-11T12:27:34Z")
Perhaps **Spike Lee**. After _Do The Right Thing_ he has done the wrong things. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-made-the-best-of-films-he-made-the-worst-of-films/339312/22 "2006-01-11T17:36:57Z")
Stanley Donen. _Singin’ in the Rain_ – woo hoo! _Blame It on Rio_ – oh, Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-made-the-best-of-films-he-made-the-worst-of-films/339312/23 "2006-01-11T22:52:10Z")
Gus Van Sant. High end of scale- _Good Will Hunting_. So low it doesn’t even register on the scale - _Last Days_. ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-made-the-best-of-films-he-made-the-worst-of-films/339312/24 "2006-01-12T01:00:07Z")
> [@Godfrey Daniels](#): > > Gus Van Sant. > > High end of scale- _Good Will Hunting_ … I like _Drugstore Cowboy_ much better. The other end of the spectrum: _Even Cowgirls Get the Blues_. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-made-the-best-of-films-he-made-the-worst-of-films/339312/25 "2006-01-12T07:03:13Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > **Stanley Kubrick** – Always hit-or-miss IMHO, but when he missed, he missed BIG! To begin your career with _Paths of Glory_ and _Dr. Strangelove_ , not to mention _2001_ and _A Clockwork Orange_ and still manage to make such detritus as _Barry Lyndon_ , _The Shining_ , and to end it with _Eyes Wide Shit_ …errr, _Shut_ --no one has ever hit both ends of the quality spectrum like that. > > Just MHO, ya understand. 🙂 Martin Scorcese put Eyes Wide Shut on his list of 10 best movies of the 90’s. Not that I agree by any stretch, thought it was awful in many ways. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-made-the-best-of-films-he-made-the-worst-of-films/339312/26 "2006-01-12T12:18:59Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > Martin Scorcese put Eyes Wide Shut on his list of 10 best movies of the 90’s. > > Not that I agree by any stretch, thought it was awful in many ways. Kubrick’s a tough sell in this thread. I know a guy who is a real Kubrick junkie and Barry Lyndon is his favorite movie ever. He’s probably watched it 50 times. I’m an “Eyes Wide Shut” fan. At least he’s nowhere in the realm of doing something like “In America” and then “Get Rich Or Die Tryin’”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-made-the-best-of-films-he-made-the-worst-of-films/339312.md?page=1)