Directors Who Made One Movie You Love, BUT..

Judd Apatow: 40 Year Old Virgin
Mary Lambert:,Pet Sematary
Jan de Bont: Speed
Tamra Davis: Half Baked/Billy Madison
Rick Rosenthal: Halloween 2
Micheal Gondry: The Green Hornet

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I think its his best film anyway but besides that I would say its the one that seems to exist halfway between his earlier naturalism and the latter more overt artiness so I can definitely see some people preferring it more than either of those by themselves.

With Duncan Jones I still thought Source Code was pretty good but you could see the demands of the studio starting to have an impact there and then he started wasting his time with Warcraft.

Wouldn't say I dislike the rest of his stuff but Zodiac is by far Finchers best film for me.

Duncan Jones is a good pick, except I'd swap in Moon as the exception (and even then that's a film I like more than love).

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John Landis is one of the most underrated directors in my opinion. The man is behind some of the greatest comedy and horror classics: Trading Places, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, Spies Like Us, and Coming to America, not to mention his collaborations with Michael Jackson on the Thriller and Black Or White videos. I even love his 1991 comedy Oscar starring Sylvester Stallone, which I believe is criminally underrated.

The Twilight Zone helicopter incident that ended up killing Vic Morrow and 2 children sadly still overshadows his movie achievements, which is why many people do not mention him as a great director I guess.

Kevin Smith on the other hand is a director I never took seriously, but many of his films that I watched were enjoyable: Clerks being his masterpiece, Mallrats was stupid fun, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was hysterical, Jersey Girl was mildly entertaining, Cop Out was average, Clerks 2 was okay, Tusk was original and genius. The films I did not like by him were Chasing Amy and Dogma. Aside from his filmmaking repertoire, the man is hilarious. His An Evening with Kevin Smith series are really funny. He's the kind of guy who can talk for hours and I would not get bored of listening.

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I've watched a fair few Landis movies (most of the ones you've mentioned - not Coming to America, though it is on my to-do list - plus Animal House, Into the Night, Three Amigos, Beverly Hills Cop III, and Blues Brothers 2000) and, aside from The Blues Brothers (and, to a lesser extent, American Werewolf), none of them have ever really worked for me. Most of them are middling, some of them are downright bad. When I think of directors where I only really like one movie they've done, he's obviously the first one I think of.

Smith, on the other hand...I used to like Mallrats but think it's aged rather badly now, have never truly liked Chasing Amy (though it's significantly better than Mallrats), like Dogma well enough but never feel the need to rewatch it, revisited Jay and SIlent Bob Strike Back a while ago and that's also aged poorly, Jersey Girl is an extremely passable step out of his comfort zone, Clerks II was a fun enough retreat into the comfort zone that's about on par with Dogma for me, Zack and Miri Make A Porno is awful, Cop Out is about the same, Red State is a somewhat decent little horror that I doubt I'll ever revisit, Tusk was atrocious and my least favourite of his films (and in contention for one of my least favourite films ever), and Yoga Hosers...well, the best thing I can say about it is that it's not Tusk. I have been meaning to watch the Evening with Kevin Smith DVDs (picked them up cheap a while back), but considering my feelings about his actual films I can't quite muster the enthusiasm to watch four to eight hours of him just talking.

(while I'm talking about my choices, I picked Cox because Sid and Nancy is just okay and I even put Straight to Hell and Walker on my all-time worst movies list a long time ago, though I obviously don't consider that list to be very current and thus I really want to revisit them to see if they're just things I just didn't get at the time - who knows how I'd feel about any of the film he's done since then, though)

(as for Robinson, well, it doesn't help that he's only directed four movies - aside from the all-time fave of Withnail, there's the significantly lesser - but still somewhat watchable - How to Get Ahead in Advertising and the extremely dull adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary. I did pick up a cheap DVD of Jennifer 8 for the completionism's sake but it just looks like such a generic '90s Hollywood detective thriller that I may never get around it)

Right now the only one I can think of is Sofia Coppola.
Hate Marie Antoinette, hate Somewhere, hate The Bling Ring, love The Virgin Suicides.

I could include Noah Baumbach as well since Greenberg and Margot At The Wedding are two of the worst movies I've ever seen, but I thought the one-show documentary De Palma was wildly fascinating, though that's mostly due to the director himself talking about his experiences as a filmmaker and offering some of his own reflections.

Falling Down was superb but most of Joel Schumacher's work has not impressed me.

SPLIT (1989) Chris Shaw

I love this movie.

The director went back to software design and math.

Russell Mulcahy with the original Highlander comes to mind I spose although its been along time since I'v seen his latter work.

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What, I found Eternal Sunshine overrated as heck, Jim Carrey should stick to better roles

.....The Green Hornet though.

Good example! Some works are so well-written, and when you add a GREAT performance... it was destined to be good. I always call it the 90s "Taxi Driver" and wish there were more good ones.. "Joe" is probably the first, with John Avildsen directing (Rocky, Save the Tiger, Karate Kid) and with Peter Boyle starring, and a young Susan Sarandon.

The camera work is not bad, and I just wish he would really stop doing sappy films

I mean, that's not exactly high praise. The camera work is not bad. Seems like a low-bar. Whatever, to each their own.

scott cooper the director...crazy heart was good movie. After that he started trying way hard on movies with very weak script.

David Leitch: John Wick

F. F. Coppola. I liked "Bram Stoker's Dracula" with Gary Oldman, but the rest were not my cup of tea.. not even The Godfather.

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