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)…
- Ang Lee – Hulk
- Steven Spielberg – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Francis Ford Coppola – Jack
- George Lucas – Howard the Duck
- Michael Mann – Miami Vice
- Robert Rodriguez – Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
- James Cameron – Piranha II: The Spawning
- Gus Van Sant – Psycho
- Brian De Palma – Mission to Mars
- Peter Jackson – The Lovely Bones
- Tim Burton – Planet of the Apes
- Stanley Kubrick – Eyes Wide Shut
- Steven Soderbergh – Oceans Thirteen
- Oliver Stone – Alexander
- Sydney Pollack – Sabrina
- Roman Polanski – Pirates
- John Landis – Oscar
- Sam Raimi – For Love of the Game
- Terry Gilliam – The Brothers Grimm
- Ridley Scott – Robin Hood
- Alfred Hitchcock – Frenzy
- Darren Aronofsky – Noah
- Ron Howard – The Missing
- David Lynch – Dune
- Danny Boyle – The Beach
- Spike Lee – Oldboy
- Barry Levinson – Envy
- Martin Scorsese – Wolf of Wall Street
- Cameron Crowe – Vanilla Sky