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Worst Big Budget Directors of All Time

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1. Roland Emmerich
Worst: The Day After Tomorrow

Who doesn't love Roland Emmerich and his cgi-wolves? Well, I don't.
The Day After Tomorrow is even dumber than Armageddon. How is that even possible? Worst scene: people running away from freezing. That's right, this is not the most clever movie in the world.
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2. Michael Bay
Worst: Armageddon
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3. Brian Levant
Worst: Jingle All the Way
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4. Brian Robbins
Worst: Norbit

Fat is funny. Or not.
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5. Renny Harlin
Worst: Nightmare on Elm Street 4:The Dream Master
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6. Rob Cohen
Worst: Dragon: Bruce Lee Story
It is very possible that this is the most tasteless and also the most ridiculous biography movie ever made.

First of all, what were they thinking when they gave main role to Jason Scott Lee? He has no experience about martial arts at all and you can clearly see it. Also, he looks absolutely nothing like Bruce Lee. Probably producer thought: "Hey, he has also Lee in his name so he must be the right choice!"

And what's up with those demons? That's right, because when we go to see a movie about Bruce Lee, all we need to see is some cool DEMONS! Why they couldn't just explain Lee's philosophy in the movie? Demons would be ok, if this was a horror movie, but it isn't.

Then there's actually a scene, where's Bruce is dreaming and he sees his own grave and starts shouting. And he also fights against one of those demons at graveyard. Yeah, that's not tasteless at all.

What we learned about Bruce Lee after watching this movie? Well, nothing really. This movie is just so full of lies that it would take forever to list all of them.

Probably the most insulting lie is that this movie suggests Bruce Lee injured in a combat against some crazy guy, which is of course complete bullshit. Also, he didn't fight against anyone in the set of "The Big Boss" -movie.

Forget this movie, it doesn't have any messages and fight scenes sucks. Other Cohen's movies are about same quality and I think we can all agree that all he cares about is making money. That Mummy -movie he directed is actually his most shallow movie but it is not as morally repugnant as Dragon: Bruce Lee story.
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7. John Moore
Worst: Behind Enemy Lines

This war-action movie includes probably the worst and most ridiculous ending I've ever seen in a movie like this. Main hero runs in the middle of field and entire army is shooting him. And no one hits him!
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8. Raja Gosnell
Worst: Home Alone 3

Even more stupid and even more violent sequel than the last one.
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9. McG
Worst: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

McG is not a movie director. As a music video director he could be ok.
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10. James Wong
Worst: The One

What about seeing a movie about killer traveling through parallel worlds? What about not?
James Wong also directed pretty implausible Final Destination and The One makes even less sense.
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11. Marcus Nispel
Worst: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Another music video director doing a remake of an old horror classic. Everything that was done right in the old movie was done wrong in this. And I'm quite sure that I've never hated an ending so much as the one in this movie. Also the evil characters in this are not scary because they are just annoying.

Gongratulations Marcus Nispel, you succeeded in leaving out all the parts which made the original movie the classic horror it is.
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12. Andrzej Bartkowiak
Worst: Cradle 2 the Grave

This guy also directed movie Romeo Must Die which is as over the top, ridiculous and unrealistic as this action trash. Best thing about it is end credits because you can spot there some pretty fine meta jokes. But skip the movie because it's just all flash with no content.

I don't hate Andrzej Bartkowiak because he have some talent. His directing is either bad or very bad but he can be a good cinematographer. For example, he was cinematographer in movies "Falling Down", "Speed" and "Losing Isaiah" and his work in these is nothing to be ashamed of.
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13. Dennis Dugan
Worst: Beverly Hills Ninja
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14. David McNally
Worst: Coyote Ugly
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15. Chuck Russell
Worst: The Scorpion King
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16. Simon West
Worst: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
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17. Len Wiseman
Worst: Live Free or Die Hard

I was really disappointed by this. Bruce Willis is bland and he doesn't have any memorable one liners. Other characters are even less interesting. Worst thing about this movie is that it doesn't feel like a die hard movie at all. Somebody should have told the producers that getting Bruce Willis isn't enough.

I doubt I'll see any other Len Wiseman's movie. And isn't it pretty pompous to have a name like "Wiseman"?
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18. Frank Coraci
Worst: Click

There are some ideas that should just be forgotten forever. One of them is to make a movie about a magical remote control.

Needless to say, this movie is as unfunny as most Adam Sandler -movies and so full of plotholes and illogical situations that I'm not going to bother counting them.
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19. Jonathan Mostow
Worst: U-571
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20. Paul W.S. Anderson
Worst: Mortal Kombat
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Comments

Posted : 6 months ago at May 21 11:39
imho Wolfgang Petersen should be definitely added. also, a list of their work (and maybe some little explanation) wouldn't hurt ;).
Posted : 6 months ago at May 21 21:58
I'm glad Bay is #1. McG deserves to be on the list simply because he calls himself "McG" plus his movies are hack jobs. What a piece of shit. I know it's only the top 10; but Barry Sonnenfeld is up there too - Wild Wild West, RV, Big Trouble, Men in Black I & II, Addams Family I & II. And George Lucas destroyed any respect he gained from the original Star Wars.
Posted : 6 months ago at May 23 8:04
I was thinking about adding Wolfgang Petersen on the list but in the other hand he directed The Neverending Story which is my childhood favorite movie and he also directed "Das Boot" which is very respected movie.
Posted : 1 month, 4 weeks ago at Sep 24 11:17
Whats wrong with you? Day after Tomorrow is NOT bad. Roland Emmerich's worst movie is more like Godzilla. And his movies kick ass anyways! Independance Day is just pure awesome. And Godzilla is such a guilty pleasure lol. Can't wait for 2012. And John Cusacks in it! So much awesome.
McG!!!!! :woop: Prefer his TV stuff to movies.
I love Renny Harlin movies. I know most of em are trashy trash, but Long Kiss Goodnight is awesome.
As for Michael Bay, I had no idea he did Armageddon lol. Not a fan of how blue alot of his movies are... always with the tinted lenses or whatever.
Posted : 1 month, 4 weeks ago at Sep 24 15:02
McG
Posted : 1 month, 3 weeks ago at Oct 1 4:58
Roland Emmerich's worst movie is Day After Tomorrow because it bored me to death and I hated how they did those wolfes. They didn't look believable at all and they acted like idiots. Godzilla is a stupid movie also but not as boring in my opinion.
Posted : 1 month, 3 weeks ago at Oct 1 4:59
A added Mcg. He most certainly belongs to this list
Posted : 1 month, 1 week ago at Oct 15 3:11
War of the Worlds!!!

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Thank you for all the votes!

I'm going to add some explanations as soon as I can. Maybe later I also add some more directors.

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