Worst films by the best directors

List creator: kamapuaa Created on: November 26, 2004 - 8:34 PM PST Description: The ugly sister of this list of current directors ranked by quality of director. Complete with snide quips.

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Fallen Angels (1995)			Not Rated
#1 - Wong Kar Wai - I liked "Chungking Express" better the first time.
	A Hero Never Dies (1999)
#2 - Johnny To - Takes half the movie to get anywhere, then never gets anywhere.
	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
#3 - David Lynch - Whatever drug he was on, I don't want any.
	The Ladykillers (2004)
#4 - Coen Brothers - If you've ever wanted to see a remake with Tom Hanks playing the Alec Guinness role, stop watching movies.
	Dead or Alive 2 (2000)
#5 - Takashi Miike - Take a hit Miike movie, remove the puerile juvenilia, and this is all you have left.
	Roja (1992)
#6 - Mani Ratnam - A terrorist subplot is squeezed into a Bollywood romantic musical. 'Nuff said.
	Kikujiro (1999)
#7 - Takeshi Kitano - A foreign movie for people who like cliches and subtitles, in that order.
	Kill Bill vol.2 (2004)
#8 - Quentin Tarantino - Carradine is the perfect actor to stretch 20 minutes of material into a full-length movie. Certain careers died for a good reason, QT.
	Alien Resurrection (1997)
#9 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet - $70 million and the ending is the most ridiculous campy piece of shit this side of the studio system.
	Porco Rosso (1992)
#10 - Hayao Miyazaki - "Why the hell is he a pig?" you ask. "Why the hell was this movie even made?" I ask.
	Crash (1996)			Not Rated
#11 - David Cronenberg - Pretty much makes the movie his detractors had accused him of making.
	Killing Me Softly (2002)			Not Rated
#12 - Kaige Chen - Somehow, melodramas work a lot better with Leslie Cheung and Gong Li than Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes.
	Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
#13 - Woody Allen - The best justification for armed class struggle since Eisenstein.
	Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
# 14 - Satoshi Kon - Stereotypes somehow pass as insight in this turd.
	Hero (2002)
#15 - Yimou Zhang - A cynical attempt to cash in on "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"'s foreign popularity.
	Jack (1996)
#16 - Francis Ford Coppola - Perhaps Coppola thought Williams wasn't getting smarmy enough roles?
	The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
#17 - Guy Maddin - Maybe this would be a good idea for a short. Maybe.
	Popeye (1980)
#18 - Robert Altman - Making a full length "Popeye" movie is such a bad idea, getting Robert Altman to direct is just icing on the cake.
	High Plains Drifter (1973)
#19 - Clint Eastwood - It takes guts for a beginning director to match themself against the classic works of Sergio Leone. It takes more guts to not quit after falling so miserably short.
	1941 (1979)			Not Rated
#20 - Steven Spielberg - Sucks in a different way than Spielberg's current movies suck.
	Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001)			Not Rated
#21 - Karan Johar - A point-by-point remake of "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai," stripped of all that was vital and fun.
	Planet of the Apes (2001)
#22 - Tim Burton - Just bad.
	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
#23 - Michael Moore - Repeat to yourself "George Bush sucks!" ten times, skip this movie.
	King of Chess (1991)
#24 - Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Sort of like flipping back and forth between MTV and the weather channel.
	First Name: Carmen (1983)			Not Rated
#25 - Jean-Luc Godard - Skipped film school as a youth, so he could direct pretentious crap when he was more established. And as a final note, some directors deserve to be on this list more than others.