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All right, one more in this outburst, another game:

Name the worst of all living film-makers.

This is meant to get an answer in the form of a director, writer or producer. A name, not a joke or a studio or a channel or corporation or a trend or genre or other generality. Though feel free to advance any of those, if you are so moved. My question nevertheless is:

Who is the worst mother making movies to bludgeon the life out of you, bar none, and why?

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maybe whoever was behind Faces of Death?

Easy. Akiva Goldsman.

Upward failure of Bushian proportions. He wrote "Lost in Space" for godssake.

The man has his fingers in everything. Extremely influential. And he is utterly talentless.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326040/

How does he do it? Bomb after bomb .......

Anyone else, had they written both Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, would have experienced a sudden crash into a brick wall, career-wise. But this guy? Just keeps going. Hell, most people's careers would have ended with Lost in Space.

And he wrote the absolute WORST piece of garbage EVER, the most amateurishly written script I've ever seen produced by a major studio, The DaVinci Code.

He is the personification of everything that is wrong with the film industry in Hollywood.

tarantino. soulless.

Initially, I put all my chips on the Qliphothic John Ford, Michael Bay. Now I'm wondering whether he's just another false face of the shambling horrors, Spielberg and Lucas.

Jerry Bruckheimer. That answer covers Michael Bay. In addition to that, he gives us a lot of military propaganda and big-budget brain dead crap, often starring Nicholas Cage. Lately he has moved into television police procedurals.

bardobailey wrote:tarantino. soulless.

Agreed. I haven't watched a thing by him since Pulp and do not intend to, notwithstanding all the people who raved around me about Kill Bill and shit.

But Pulp Fiction does have some good lines that I still use today.

Michael Winner's got to be top 5..Death Wish & its several ever more dismally bad sequels

Jane Campion
Responsible for utterly over-rated lumpen self-consciously didactic plodding dreck.
By the time Holly Hunter went overboard in The Piano, I was hoping she would be eaten by a giant Cephalopoda on the way down. Yay!

The other one is a Brit director called Danny Dyer who produces utterly 'knowing' misogynistic bilge pretending to be "lads culture, innit"
This review of him is Most Excellent :thumbup: from one of the UK's best film critics, Mark Kermode.

S08 wrote:The other one is a Brit director called Danny Dyer..

no no no no - Dyer is the chav who does the..."acting"
the sensitive auteur who writes the stuff ( presumably during visits to the lavatory or whilst out shopping ) is Nick Love

semper occultus wrote:

S08 wrote:The other one is a Brit director called Danny Dyer..

no no no no - Dyer is the chav who does the..."acting"
the sensitive auteur who writes the stuff ( presumably during visits to the lavatory or whilst out shopping ) is Nick Love

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"An army of pissed off man-hating feminist zombie cannibals"

Might I add to this, whoever it is who made the Saw movies? I mean seriously, yes, they're really great for psychological terror (it works!), but they're just way the hell over the top, and what I call "gore porn." I swear, movies like that (splatter films) are just made to totally immunize a person's sensitivities... and this from a horror fan. They're just right up there with Faces of Death, and frankly? Faces of Death didn't get to me as badly as Saw does.

Michael Bay.

Edit to add this:

http://www.michaelbaysucks.com/

Ron Howard. I'm too old for Willow to have been a formative experience for me like it seems to be for a lot of people, but Ron Howard films always seem like they're made by a committee of robots.

Robert Zemeckis, if only for Forrest Gump, the most insulting, reactionary American film within living memory. Runner up: John Milius(sp?).