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There aren’t many (if any) directors who haven’t made a strange film choice or a really bad movie. We count down the strangest.

I’ve got a new episode of the 11 Points Countdown today. (Although it was filmed back when we were stuck in the weird turquoise room seen a few previous times, not the usual location.)

I really loved this discussion with my friends from Battleship Pretension about weird missteps by famous movie directors. It was definitely an interesting one — and a deep examination of the difference between a weird movie choice, a misstep and a weird misstep.

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Here are the full results of the poll (highlight the first 11 to avoid spoilers)…

  1. Ang Lee – Hulk
  2. Steven Spielberg – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  3. Francis Ford Coppola – Jack
  4. George Lucas – Howard the Duck
  5. Michael Mann – Miami Vice
  6. Robert Rodriguez – Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
  7. James Cameron – Piranha II: The Spawning
  8. Gus Van Sant – Psycho
  9. Brian De Palma – Mission to Mars
  10. Peter Jackson – The Lovely Bones
  11. Tim Burton – Planet of the Apes
  12. Stanley Kubrick – Eyes Wide Shut
  13. Steven Soderbergh – Oceans Thirteen
  14. Oliver Stone – Alexander
  15. Sydney Pollack – Sabrina
  16. Roman Polanski – Pirates
  17. John Landis – Oscar
  18. Sam Raimi – For Love of the Game
  19. Terry Gilliam – The Brothers Grimm
  20. Ridley Scott – Robin Hood
  21. Alfred Hitchcock – Frenzy
  22. Darren Aronofsky – Noah
  23. Ron Howard – The Missing
  24. David Lynch – Dune
  25. Danny Boyle – The Beach
  26. Spike Lee – Oldboy
  27. Barry Levinson – Envy
  28. Martin Scorsese – Wolf of Wall Street
  29. Cameron Crowe – Vanilla Sky