No.3230
ITT: Post your absolute least favorite directors.
I want to punch these motherfuckers right in the face.
No.3231
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You don't like Woody's films or his "affection" for little girls?
I think he put out plenty of great stuff until the 90s or so. And even though I haven't seen recent work, it's notable that he's made at least one film per year since 1977.
No.3233
Beyond the obvious ones like Bay, Boll and Shyamalamadingdong; I fucking hate Spike Lee
No.3236
Maybe not "least favorite" but close enough. This picture alone has so much affectation it's kind of infuriating, ha ha.
Who looks at a filmstrip wearing sunglasses? Too much smoke in the eyes from that cool dangling cigarette?
No.3237
>>3236The smoke is also gonna damage the film, now I kinda understand how /k/ feels when someone doesn't use proper trigger discipline
No.3238
>>3231I made the thread strictly because I hate his films, but that doesn't mean I don't hate him as a human being either. What filth.
No.3246
>>3233> BayI prefer his early stuff tbh
No.3249
>>3230Jesus christ, yes.
I hate von Trier with a passion; his movies are overrated, needlessly complicated and almost always contain Tarantino-level edge. That, and he's a
massive prick in real life.
Fuck von Trier.
No.3252
>>3249Oh my fucking god, von Trier is the biggest, most conceited asshole ever. The edge and complication in his movies never bothered me too much, but while some would argue that his biggest flaws come from that old "style over substance" thing, I wouldn't even say his films HAVE style, outside of his cool-looking title cards.
Another big issue I have with him that I've never actually seen people talk about is how blatantly he talks through his characters. YMS touched very briefly on it in his Nymphomaniac review, and even though I hugely disagree with him in a lot of ways about movies in general, he knows kind of a lot when it comes to calling Trier out on his fucking bullshit. Trier talked blatantly through Gainsbourg in Antichrist, through her AGAIN in Nymphomaniac, and through Dunst in Melancholia. Those are the biggest examples of Trier blatantly talking through characters.
An easy way to tell when he's talking through a character is when a female character says something controversial, and another person reacts negatively to it, while the female just keeps deadpanning her edgy bullshit about women being inferior to men, pedophiles deserving so much respect in the world, or that life has no meaning and God doesn't exist.
No.3253
I'm not sure who's worse, Uwe Boll or Micheal Bay. They're both extremely inept at directing. The shit Boll churns out is kind of funny due to how bewilderingly awful it is. Everything Bay makes is just a cynical cash-grab that embodies the worst aspects of mainstream cinema.
No.3255
Tim Burton.
No.3259
>>3255No love for Ed Wood?
No.3260
Wes Anderson, but mostly because of his popularity and mediatic bloating as one of the greatest modern auteurs. His movies are Jackie Chan-level shit. I can't stand the prick.
No.3262
>>3260I liked him up to a point. Life Aquatic was probably the beginning of the end for me. His stuff seems to be so predictably precious now I stopped caring about it.
No.3267
>>3259I mean the current Tim Burton. Also hate him because he's very popular amongst mexican teenage girls lol
No.3269
>>3267I hate Gillermo del Taco too, because he's fat and mexican.
No.3304
No.3314
I think it's hard to hate on guys like michael bay. He says he's making movies for an adolescent, male audience. He's just cashing in stupid people's/unimaginative kids' money. He produces shit, obviously, but he seems to know it. You can helplessly hate the director, but there's always gonna be a crowd for shit tier shit. Someone else will take his place.
It's another thing entirely with directors who disgustingly claim to be artists, or who thrive on making it seem like they are making good, original content, but whose actual artistic level is Bay-ish.
As for Trier.. People hatin' and I get that. I've seen all his stuff. A lot of it is boring or plane dumb. But I remember laughing several times watching the idiots. Analyzing it in university made me think come to like it more. Maybe we just found things that weren't really there. Whatever. In any case, his rules of dogme concept is just a rip-off of the nouvelle vague.
No.3341
>>3230You already posted mine. (Lars)
I don't have a opinion either way about woody allen because I have never watched any of this films but none of then strike me as interesting either.
No.3360
Terry Gilliam
Werner Herzog
Mel Brooks
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Michael Moore
Steve McQueen
J.C. Chandor
No.3361
I might say Jess Franco simply because he made so many movies that are rarely ever good, containing so much nudity that's rarely ever sexy.
Yet I've stupidly watched his stuff hoping for some alternative, better outcome.
No.3364
Harmony Korine
The Coen Brothers
Quentin Tarantino
No.3373
These two should be tortured for what they've done to film.
No.3374
Directors who insist on composing all their own music are insufferable. Why can't they spread it around a little bit? Two that stand out are Robert Rodriguez and John Carpenter. Instead of being auteurs, they seem like control freaks and/or glory hogs.
Carpenter in particular has made some pretty terrible music. Assault on Precinct 13 sounds like babby's first synthesizer. With Halloween he fell assbackwards into a memorable theme, but he since doesn't know how to structure a composition he runs it into the ground by endlessly looping the same few bars.
No.3375
>>3373Did you like Spike in Three Kings? I thought his whole southern thing was
really cute. No.3400
>>3364one of these things is not like the other
No.3597
I never really "got" Chabrol
Saw 4-5 of his films and only halfway liked one (The Butcher). The others were mostly forgettable dramas, even when someone was murdered.
No.3601
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Lars von Trier is a great director
No.3602
>>3601jesus fucking christ, pure autism
dat edge do