Worst Director EVER! (Nominations)

[Taylirious]

Basically nominate your "Worst (Film) Director EVER!" If someone has been nominated already, please choose another candidate.

Completely subjective & not relegated to box office/ commercial success.

Basically who & why.

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I will go first...

Michael Bay

Some may argue Transformers & Transformers (3) - Dark Of The Moon are pretty good but NO! They are horrible movies all 4. Ugh. He hasn't done good since The Rock if we are being intellectually honest.

ETA: Accepting nominees for 10 days & I will put up a voting thread.

 

[Starbreaker]

Marcus Nispel (Pathfinder, Conan the Barbarian, Friday the 13th). His only movie that's anywhere near watchable is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, and I haven't even seen that since I was a kid. It might be worse than I remember.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Uwe Boll

/thread

 

[Green Shirt]

Ed Wood - for Plan 9.

 

[1001001]

Joel Schumacher.

Batman Returns and Batman and Robin.

 

[Admiral2]

Stephen King


Maximum Overdrive

 

[Goji]

Coleman Francis. The Beast of Yucca Flats makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like a masterpiece. Throw in Red Zone Cuba to clinch it.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Brett Ratner

 

[the G-man]

Ed Wood - for Plan 9.

...and Glenn and Glenda...and Bride of the Monster and everything else he did.

 

[auntiehill]

^this. He wasn't just a bad director, but was bad on such a scale that he became famous for the insane magnitude of the suckage.

Uwe Boll is also notoriously bad, but in a much more mundane, boring, tax-shelter kind of way.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Whoever invented Dogma-95.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I don't know, I think you can find worse directors on Youtube than you could find among anybody who's ever worked in Hollywood. As much as I abhor Michael Bay.

 

[Richard Baker]

Quentin Dupieux - Director of 'Rubber' (a story about a homicidal automobile tire)

Pretensions with delusions of grandeur, looks like he read a lot about art films and understood nothing.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I don't know, I think you can find worse directors on Youtube than you could find among anybody who's ever worked in Hollywood. As much as I abhor Michael Bay.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

@Locutus

When people create 'Worst' topics on message boards they really mean 'Famous thing that I am most annoyed is famous'. I'd just like to see acknowledged that this is what the thread is really about. No need to be rude.

My nomination for 'Famous director I am most annoyed is famous' is Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer. The team responsible for most of the '_____ Movie' parodies.

 

[Mojochi]

Tom Six, A.K.A. the genius behind The Human Centipede. I blame those smartasses at South Park for even knowing who he is

 

[Avon]

McG

 

[Orac]

I nominate William Shatner for Star Trek V.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Tommy Wiseau, director of the Room.

 

[Silvercrest]

Ed Wood - for Plan 9.

...and Glenn and Glenda...and Bride of the Monster and everything else he did.

^this. He wasn't just a bad director, but was bad on such a scale that he became famous for the insane magnitude of the suckage.

Uwe Boll is also notoriously bad, but in a much more mundane, boring, tax-shelter kind of way.

I tend to give Ed Wood the win by default, but-- for the sake of giving others a chance, I nominate Vic Savage for The Creeping Terror and Tommy Wiseau for The Room. I can't fairly throw in Harold P. Warren yet because I haven't seen most of Manos: The Hands of Fate -- but from what I have seen ....