'One Hit Wonder' directors?

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Also maybe Gregory Hoblit with Primal Fear.

I haven't seen any of his other films but I haven't heard anything great about them either.



Guy Ritchie for Snatch
Guy Ritchie has some decent films..... I think RocknRolla was a very entertaining and good film.

as was Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels



Tony Kaye - American History X
Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez - Blair Witch Project
Tony Kaye also made ''Detachment'' which is a very good movie in my opinion...
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The 1981 comedy classic Arthur was directed by Steve Gordon, who died a year later. I'm also pretty sure that the 1955 film Night of the Hunter was the only film directed by Charles Laughton and the 1972 film Beware the Blob! was the only film directed by Larry Hagman.



A few of these really don't count.

Even if you don't like any of Guy Ritchie's movies other than Snatch, he made truckloads of money with the Sherlock Holmes films. Even if American Beauty is the only Mendes film you enjoy, he made the 11th highest grossing film of all time...
I think people are going by how good they think the films actually are as opposed to how much money they made.

Although I'd agree with both of those directors because they have other films that are well acclaimed.

Some of the names mentioned in here are incredibly subjective though and I doubt people have even seen many of the directors other films, like Tony Kaye, I think he made a documentary about abortion that was meant to be really good, and Detachment too. Loads of people love Jackson's horror films too.
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I think people are going by how good they think the films actually are as opposed to how much money they made.

Although I'd agree with both of those directors because they have other films that are well acclaimed.

Some of the names mentioned in here are incredibly subjective though and I doubt people have even seen many of the directors other films, like Tony Kaye, I think he made a documentary about abortion that was meant to be really good, and Detachment too. Loads of people love Jackson's horror films too.
I thought the subject of the thread was directors who only directed a single film.




LSaTSB was a mini-snatch!
Shouldn't it be other way around as the the latter film was made first?
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I think "American Beauty" is a great example. Road to Perdition and Jarheads were alright, but I don't think he'll ever do a picture like his first.
WTF?!?!?!

Am I the only person who liked Skyfall?!?! (no, since it made over a billion dollars!!!)
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Stuart Gordon - Re-animator
Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
Guillermo Del Toro - Pans Labyrinth
Joss Whedon - The Avengers
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Kevin Smith - Clerks
The District 9 guy - District 9
James Cameron - The Terminator
John Carpenter - The Thing
d.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation
Alfred Hitchcock - that one movie that he kept making over and over again



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Stuart Gordon - Re-animator
Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
Guillermo Del Toro - Pans Labyrinth
Joss Whedon - The Avengers
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Kevin Smith - Clerks
The District 9 guy - District 9
James Cameron - The Terminator
John Carpenter - The Thing
d.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation
Alfred Hitchcock - that one movie that he kept making over and over again
M Night - Unbreakable
John Carpenter - Escape from New York, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China
Alfred Hitchcock - You mean a revolutionary thriller he made over and over again? Don't see it as a problem.



M Night - Unbreakable
Yeah, I forgot about that one. I think you can still make a case for Shyamalan though, as Unbreakable isn't The Sixth Sense.
John Carpenter - Escape from New York, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China
I suppose it's just my prejudice against Carpenter. You could've even mentioned several more, but personally The Thing is really the only one of his films that I think of highly.
Alfred Hitchcock - You mean a revolutionary thriller he made over and over again? Don't see it as a problem.
I have some thoughts on this statement, but I'll hold it for a more appropriate thread. Please excuse the slight argument bait; I really said that last one on impulse



Stuart Gordon - Re-animator
Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
Guillermo Del Toro - Pans Labyrinth
Joss Whedon - The Avengers
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Kevin Smith - Clerks
The District 9 guy - District 9
James Cameron - The Terminator
John Carpenter - The Thing
d.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation
Alfred Hitchcock - that one movie that he kept making over and over again
Uh. What? Haven't you seen Intolerance or Broken Blossoms?

Also disagree with John Carpenter and Alfred Hitchcock, the rest I can see someone liking just one of their films though.



Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
Guillermo Del Toro - Pans Labyrinth
Joss Whedon - The Avengers
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Kevin Smith - Clerks
James Cameron - The Terminator
John Carpenter - The Thing
Alfred Hitchcock - that one movie that he kept making over and over again
- Tobe Hooper I'm not agree because Poltergeist is also a great flick
- I'm agree with M.Night Shyamalan even if I don't like The Sixth Sense
- Guillermo Del Toro I'm not agree because he made several very good movie...
- Joss Whedon also made Age Of Ultron which is better than the first one Avengers in my opinion.
- I don't like Mel Gibson at all...
- Kevin Smith also made Clerks 2 which is in my opinion better than Clerks.
- James Cameron even if I HATE him he made several blockbuste like Avatar , Titanic and Aliens
- John Carpenter I'm TOTALLY disagree because Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13 are both masterpiece.
- I'm agree with your statement about Hitchcock but Psycho is an awesome movie.



I agree with Shyamalan, even though the only movie by him I actually like is Signs.

I don't agree with Del toro though I absolutely loved Pacific Rim and few others by him

And I have to disagree with Sam Mendes as well I loved Road to Perdition unlike most people
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Stuart Gordon - Re-animator
Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
Guillermo Del Toro - Pans Labyrinth
Joss Whedon - The Avengers
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Kevin Smith - Clerks
The District 9 guy - District 9
James Cameron - The Terminator
John Carpenter - The Thing
d.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation
Alfred Hitchcock - that one movie that he kept making over and over again
Not a single one of those directors is a one hit wonder. Zero out of twelve. That's pretty bad.



By the way, everyone who's seriously saying that Hitchcock just kept making one movie over and over again is extremely out of touch.



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Stuart Gordon - Re-animator
Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
Guillermo Del Toro - Pans Labyrinth
Joss Whedon - The Avengers
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Kevin Smith - Clerks
The District 9 guy - District 9
James Cameron - The Terminator
John Carpenter - The Thing
d.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation
Alfred Hitchcock - that one movie that he kept making over and over again

Do you know the definition of "One Hit Wonder"?