Who is the most overrated director?
 

I'll say Quentin Tarantino. I liked "Reservoir Dogs". I loved "Pulp Fiction". But how many times can he make movies in a non-linear fashion with a soundtrack full of classic rock and funk hits with references to thirty year old tv shows? All I want is to see something new from him.

Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Bros. I've never seen a movie from any of them that I've ever enjoyed yet people love them. Shyamalan would be another but I at least liked Signs and the Sixth Sense.

Quentin is indeed overrated because of the Pulp Fiction craze, which sold Kill Bill, which sold Hostel, which will sell a zillion other projects desperate enough to put his name on them. But I think something should be said for Quentin's Jackie Brown. If i had to pick a favorite Tarantino flick, (and im hesitant), it would be this one. As the least inter-textual movie, plus its structure and all that, it stands alone from all his flicks. Following after both Pulp and Dogs, it seemed for the time that he was growing as a director. It wasnt movie magic by any means, and its distance from Tarantino's other movies make it easy to dismiss- but i think if Quentin really wanted to develop some of that talent and actually go somewhere, he should make more flicks like Jackie Brown. (Or rather, build a trend out of it.)


And personally, i think Tim Burton is pretty overrated. There is all this craze about him, mostly with Nightmere Before Christmas (Which he didnt even direct!) Yeah, ive had some fun, but he's not a god, people. ;)

First, it's M. "Night" Shyamalan. Second, good movies have good casts; that's how it works. You can't factor out the quality of the actors and actresses involved as if they weren't one of the measures of a film's quality. Third, he chose those actors and actresses. You can have a brilliantly conceived character, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't get the right person to portray them; that's part of directing. and we have numerous examples to contradict the idea that you can throw a superstar into any role without regard for the character they're playing.

Fourth, I trust in people's ability to figure out why they're seeing a movie, and I've heard plenty of people rave about The Sixth Sense, or Unbreakable or Signs while barely mentioning Willis and/or Gibson.

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Stanley Kubrick. His films are fine, ok, alright, but some people talk about him as if he is God of Film.

Tim Burton, hes the new emo kid fad.

Martin Scorcese Or Stanley Kubrick, although I loved Casino and The Shining

Totally agreed with Symphony and Zeiken :)

And thats the way it should be...MuaHaHA!

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And thats the way it SHOULD be ;)

Haha, that's awesome. That is true, he is way overrated, but he does have an artsy style that can't be touched...which also gets really old really fast.

I probaly would pick Shaymalan becuase his ideas are good and creative but when he tries putting his ideas to film, it rarely has a good outcome and ends up being crap (With the exception of Sixth Sense). I thought "Signs" wasn't bad. It had good pacing and good filming but a bad screenplay.

I thought "The Sixth Sense" was really good and a far-cry/relief from the other suspense/horror/sci-fi garbage that was out at the time. Other than that, I thought his other films have stunk.

After Shaymalan, I would pick Tim Burtn, which is painful for me to do.

I'd also say Tim Burton. He's a good director, I like most of his movies, but he's just not as good as people say he is. I think the only films of his that deserve their praise are Ed Wood and Beetlejuice. And Big Fish is his most overrated.

So many great suggestions... I totally agree with Tim Burton and Tarentino...

I have trouble agreeing with Shymalan cause he hasn't been around that long really...

Shyamalan's films are indescribably awful, Unbreakable was one of the worst films ever made and The Sixth Sense wasn't much better. It's the kids; that little Hayley Joel Osment bastard makes me want to scream.

Spielberg, too, hasn't made a really good film in a long time, these days he churns out toss like AI and Munich (OK, fair enough, that wasn't as bad as AI, but it was still pretty poor, the ending in particular was atrocious). He should have hung up his boots after Saving Private Ryan or even The Last Crusade.

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