Current Events > Let's list hack directors that keeps (somehow) getting work.

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Uwe Boll don't do movies anymore, right?
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Hack directors can bring in good money though.

Michael Bay is the obvious one.
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bay
snyder
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Kevin Smith
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M. Night Shyamalan
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foreveraIone posted...

Hack directors can bring in good money though.

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

That's partly what I'm referring to by "(somehow) keeps getting work".
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CrimsonAngeI posted...

M. Night Shyamalan

Split was good, at least.
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Not a director but the writer Akiva Goldsman. This is the same guy who wrote the screenplays for I am Legend, Winter's Tale, I, Robot and Batman & Robin.

He has a special talent for writing sub par adaptions for great works of fiction, and is one of the writers for The Dark Tower. Why?
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pinky0926 posted...

Not a director but the writer Akiva Goldsman. This is the same guy who wrote the screenplays for I am Legend, Winter's Tale, I, Robot and Batman & Robin.

He has a special talent for writing sub par adaptions for great works of fiction, and is one of the writers for The Dark Tower. Why?

So he's basically David S. Goyer lite?
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M Knight is unfortunate. He just relied too heavily on his twist endings for the works he wrote, people came to expect them and were always let down when they "twist" was really dumb or predictable....then he could only catch on to garbage projects. The 6th Sense, Unbreakable...a lot of his movies are really well shot and cinematic. Its the writing in the later projects that give him that stigma imo...

quentin tarantino
christopher nolan

i dont actually think theyre hacks, i just hate their movies with few exceptions

Kitt posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Not a director but the writer Akiva Goldsman. This is the same guy who wrote the screenplays for I am Legend, Winter's Tale, I, Robot and Batman & Robin.

He has a special talent for writing sub par adaptions for great works of fiction, and is one of the writers for The Dark Tower. Why?

So he's basically David S. Goyer lite?

Pretty much. I'm sure hollywood execs love him because he's a surefire money spinner even if fans of the source material will never be happy with the result.
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FrenchCrunch posted...

quentin tarantino
christopher nolan

i dont actually think theyre hacks, i just hate their movies with few exceptions

French why do you have bad opinions?
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Michael Bay
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Mernardi posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

quentin tarantino
christopher nolan

i dont actually think theyre hacks, i just hate their movies with few exceptions

French why do you have bad opinions?

i cant help what i like and dont like

Not a single Director but The Asylum
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FrenchCrunch posted...

Mernardi posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

quentin tarantino
christopher nolan

i dont actually think theyre hacks, i just hate their movies with few exceptions

French why do you have bad opinions?

i cant help what i like and dont like

this is a good answer I respect you
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Eli Roth
W.S. Anderson
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Tyler Perry
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Joss Whedon
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The Admiral posted...

Joss Whedon

His Avengers movies are good.
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drunkmuggle posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

Mernardi posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

quentin tarantino
christopher nolan

i dont actually think theyre hacks, i just hate their movies with few exceptions

French why do you have bad opinions?

i cant help what i like and dont like

this is a good answer I respect you

i respect you

These guys might be hacks, but they bring in money, hence why they keep getting work.
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DoctorVader posted...

These guys might be hacks, but they bring in money, hence why they keep getting work.

Kitt posted...

foreveraIone posted...

Hack directors can bring in good money though.

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

That's partly what I'm referring to by "(somehow) keeps getting work".

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Darren Aronofsky
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hideo kojima

Kitt posted...

DoctorVader posted...

These guys might be hacks, but they bring in money, hence why they keep getting work.

Kitt posted...

foreveraIone posted...

Hack directors can bring in good money though.

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

That's partly what I'm referring to by "(somehow) keeps getting work".

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DoctorVader posted...

Kitt posted...

DoctorVader posted...

These guys might be hacks, but they bring in money, hence why they keep getting work.

Kitt posted...

foreveraIone posted...

Hack directors can bring in good money though.

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

That's partly what I'm referring to by "(somehow) keeps getting work".

Did I stutter?
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Kitt posted...

Did I stutter?

Huh? You said somehow and people explained the somehow.
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Zack Snyder
Roland Emmerich
Adam Sandler
Brett Ratner
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DoctorVader posted...

Kitt posted...

Did I stutter?

Huh? You said somehow and people explained the somehow.

The "somehow" implies that I'm referring to a number of potential reasons as to why the aforementioned directors are still getting work.
Someone made a similar post and I elaborated that money is certainly part of the many reasons why these directors "somehow" continue to get hired.
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Paul W.S. Anderson
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Peter Jackson can't seem to do anything right except the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

ClunkerSlim posted...

foreveraIone posted...

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

Is he? You can't say his films don't bring in the cash. All 4 Transformers films made money and engergized a failing toy line. I'd argue with every choice that guy makes in a film, but you can't say that he doesn't succeed in where he chooses to invest his efforts. Hasbro cant stop throwing money at the guy.

Yes, he is. He may bring in money but that doesn't change the fact that he's a straight up hack at what he does. His films will never win any awards except for Razzie's.
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Feet_Fungus posted...

ClunkerSlim posted...

foreveraIone posted...

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

Is he? You can't say his films don't bring in the cash. All 4 Transformers films made money and engergized a failing toy line. I'd argue with every choice that guy makes in a film, but you can't say that he doesn't succeed in where he chooses to invest his efforts. Hasbro cant stop throwing money at the guy.

Yes, he is. He may bring in money but that doesn't change the fact that he's a straight up hack at what he does. His films will never win any awards except for Razzie's.

Yep, pretty much.
The amount of money something makes =/= Quality.
Though the two can be related but not all the time.
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foreveraIone posted...

Hack directors can bring in good money though.

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

This.

Transformers last Knight looks like the most fucking stupid thing ever.

What the fuck does this Medieval shit have to do with anything? Why do they still waste time making a human the main character? Why is Optimus prime being made evil? Seriously the brainwashed hero thing is so damn cliche.

Also that one trailer laying on the political/social messaging with the subtlety of a fucking supernova further turned me off what already looked like a shitshow.
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Tarentino.

Guy feels like he writes every movie with the same checklist of things to be included.
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I almost forgot about Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Good thing most of their recent shit have been going straight to DVD at the bargin bins at Family Dollars, where they should've been in the first place.
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Lars Von Trier
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Does Steven Seagal count? He just sucks in general.
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Bump
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Feet_Fungus posted...

ClunkerSlim posted...

foreveraIone posted...

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

Is he? You can't say his films don't bring in the cash. All 4 Transformers films made money and engergized a failing toy line. I'd argue with every choice that guy makes in a film, but you can't say that he doesn't succeed in where he chooses to invest his efforts. Hasbro cant stop throwing money at the guy.

Yes, he is. He may bring in money but that doesn't change the fact that he's a straight up hack at what he does. His films will never win any awards except for Razzie's.

I completely disagree, his movies are very well shot, they have great action sequences, he knows how to tell a story. His movies are basic, yes, but he is very good at what he does, even if what he does isn't what you'd call cinematic art. I'm not a fan of his, I haven't watched any of the Transformers movies, I only really enjoyed The Island... and Bad Boys is one of the best action comedies of the past few years. He has a lot of merit, imo. There are a lot of people who try to be as good as he is at filming a fast paced tense action sequence and they fall short. You can't say he doesn't have talent, because it's not just anybody who can make the kind of movies he makes, no matter what budget they have.
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Uwe Boll's movies were horrible on purpose. Had something to do with investors in Germany and Germany's tax code, where they could get money for funding a failure of a movie.
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Two of Michael Bay's movies are in Criterion, so he must be a great director.
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JJ Lensflare
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BillyKidd posted...

Uwe Boll's movies were horrible on purpose. Had something to do with investors in Germany and Germany's tax code, where they could get money for funding a failure of a movie.

I just watched Rampage 3 yesterday lol
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Mister_Spyker posted...

Feet_Fungus posted...

ClunkerSlim posted...

foreveraIone posted...

Michael Bay is the obvious one.

Is he? You can't say his films don't bring in the cash. All 4 Transformers films made money and engergized a failing toy line. I'd argue with every choice that guy makes in a film, but you can't say that he doesn't succeed in where he chooses to invest his efforts. Hasbro cant stop throwing money at the guy.

Yes, he is. He may bring in money but that doesn't change the fact that he's a straight up hack at what he does. His films will never win any awards except for Razzie's.

I completely disagree, his movies are very well shot, they have great action sequences, he knows how to tell a story. His movies are basic, yes, but he is very good at what he does, even if what he does isn't what you'd call cinematic art. I'm not a fan of his, I haven't watched any of the Transformers movies, I only really enjoyed The Island... and Bad Boys is one of the best action comedies of the past few years. He has a lot of merit, imo. There are a lot of people who try to be as good as he is at filming a fast paced tense action sequence and they fall short. You can't say he doesn't have talent, because it's not just anybody who can make the kind of movies he makes, no matter what budget they have.

Echoing this - my first Bay film was The Rock, and that was highly lauded by critics as well as successful. Iirc, even Ebert gave it four stars, and it really showed how an action movie can be engrossing and pulse quickening.