I donāt see Baz Luhrmann on this list. How he keeps getting movies made, and successful ones at that, is baffling to me. Iāve seen multiple films of his unfortunately and theyāre all terrible. Absolutely horrible.
I had to vote for my nominee, Jerry Warren. By the way, if you havenāt seen his movie āThe Incredible Petrified Worldā, it is another awful treat. A deep sea diving bell accident leaves four characters stranded in an undersea cave lit by algae, with plenty of air and ample wood for a fire. They also manage to bring their dry clothing into the cave. Hereās a clip where we are introduced to a character I call Cave Torgo:
Neil Breen (Double Down) has made 5 movies.
Andrew Jordan (Things) has made two, with a third in post-production.
Michael Paul Girard (Over-sexed Rugsuckers from Mars) has made over 20!
I wonder what happened to Jonathan Betuel? He directed My Science Project, which was pretty good, did a couple of TV episodes, then divebombed his career into the ground with Theodore Rex.
Oof! Theodore Rex is painfully bad. Whoopi Goldberg tried to back out of the movie, but the producers forced her to do it with threats of legal action.
Oh yeah, itās astoundingly bad by every metric, and Beutel wrote, directed and produced the film, so itās pretty much squarely on his shoulders. I have no idea how it got greenlit in the first place.
I havenāt seen all the movies referenced, so I had to go with what I know. And the director of Rollergator gets my vote. Such an awful, awful film. I would never watch it again, riffed or not.
(I think I might be misunderstanding the question but over all Iād say heās got the worst filmsā¦)
Some of these Iām not really sure I can understand, like George Lucas ( I get the prequels have there problems, but that doesnāt necisarily mean every movie heās made is badā¦) Kubrick has some of the most admired films ever made, albiet he was very difficult to work withā¦ And Piranha II was literally James Cameronās first time directingā¦He later went on to do stuff like Titanic, T2, Avatarā¦movies that, regardless of how critics feel about them lacking any sort of substance, still are enjoyable filmsā¦
I think you do understand the question. The nominations were from the Top Ten Worst Directors thread. Everyone didnāt have the same criteria, but I think the list represents those who posted.
Re the Cameron thing, it is a little like calling Spielberg āthe Columbo directorā because that was his first major directing job (the first episode of Columbo).
Gotta go with Coleman. Thereās a fine line between bad and unwatchably bad, and Iāve never seen Coleman anywhere but on the Unwatchable side of the line.
And Iāll go right out and say it: I am charmed by James Nguyen. No, his movies are not āgoodā by any definition, but heās so dang sincere about them. Heās a man who loves Hitchcock and was inspired to try to do what he did. He also apparently knows a thing or two about technology sales. He puts so much of himself into what he does. I can watch his movies sans riffing.