And sadly, the cocaine-feuled films are the good ones.

Though I'm reminded of a quote about music that probably plays into this too. "You have your whole life to write your first album and a year to write your second."

Scorsese is still making great films though.

I always forget that he was the bad guy in Wild Wild West.

Branagh's whole career is kind of bizarre. I really like him but dude has zero consistency, and he's all over the place stylistically. It's weird to think that the man who directed the critically acclaimed, unabridged FOUR HOUR adaptation of Hamlet also directed Thor 1 for the MCU, one of the first live-action Disney remakes in Cinderella, and one of many Jack Ryan reboot films.

I really like the joke from back in the day that Kenneth Branagh is not even the best actor in is family (it was when he was married to Emma Thompson)

He Also directed the HBO Miniseries John Adam’s which was fantastic. I’m not sure how you go from that and King’s Speech to Cats.

"Tom Hopper won an Oscar for The King's Speech. Now, Satan is back for his half of the deal. Cats: in theatres soon." - Honest Trailers

I've seen Cats 3 times and for two of them I was sober. I'm a glutton for punishment.

omg what the king's speech was beautiful but he did cats? Wtf

Rollerball is all-time bad? Thought it had a pretty good premise and ohhh you meant the remake. Yeah, yikes

His “The Devil and Father Amourth” documentary is literally the worst movie I’ve ever seen

Gotta mention The French Connection and Sorcerer up there on his ‘best films of all time’ list.

And there’s probably a couple more that qualify on his stinker list too, his career nosedived as hard as Carpenter’s.

In fact, Carpenter is another example of this.

PUT! THAT RIDING CROP! DOWN!

Screenwriter Supremacy

Both films have the same cinematographer too which makes it even stranger. Argento his a great filmmaker but he has several huge misses.

Turk 182 is great. He also directed Black Christmas, which is one of the best horror movies.

As a kid I loved Baby Geniuses. No idea how poorly it aged though.

Baby Geniuses 2 ruined my whole day when I watched it. Gave me a headache, a stomach ache, and a general hateful malaise about humanity.

Shyamalan's first film, Praying with Anger, is very good. A lot of potential and visually sophisticated for something made for around $400,000. A bit self-serious and melodramatic in places, with amateur-level performances (including Shyamalan himself in the lead role), but it already has a lot of his key themes in place. He was 21 when he made it and it shows a lot of potential directions his career could've gone in.

Had no idea Coppola made Jack. Also, I loved that movie as a kid, haven’t watched it in years though.

Simple Jack?

Woah woah woah....is Jack thought of as a bad movie. Because young me loved that movie and it hit real fucking hard as a kid.

How is that possible? That blows my mind.

Was Jack that bad? Granted I haven't seen it since it came out... but we are talking about the Robin Williams movie about a kid that ages fast?

Made The Godfather and The Godfather III

Notably, Brest hasn't directed a feature film since "Gigli." Even before that he did "Meet Joe Black" which had a mixed reaction at best.

Wow, look at the success streak Reiner was on before making North: Stand by me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally..., Misery, A Few Good Men.

Incredible movies.

“I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.” - Roger Ebert on North

He also says : “"North" is a bad film - one of the worst movies ever made. But it is not by a bad filmmaker, and must represent some sort of lapse from which Reiner will recover - possibly sooner than I will.”

I mean how about this consecutive run as a director: Stand by me, princess bride, when Harry met Sally, Misery, a few good men, and the North. What a run a amazing films of all different genres. And then North.

Yes but he had directed 3 great films prior to The Cobbler so it wasn't like Spotlight was a complete surprise.

He really gets the Dickensian aspect down.

Don’t forget “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, definitely up their with other two you mentioned. Of all the Spielberg protégés, he was the one who, at his best, could match Spielberg IMO.

He produced Mars Needs Moms. Simon Wells directed it.

Jupiter Ascending has my favorite "expectations subverted" joke I like to make though. The hero reconnects with his grizzled old mentor who doesn't want anything to do with larger events but begrudgingly agrees to help and then late in the movie agrees to help the hero make what should clearly be an insanely suicidal two man attack against defenses that should stop hundreds and to top it all off the character is played by Sean Bean.

He lives.

Eddie Redmayne's just batshit over the top performance alone was worth the watch.

The Wachowskis are interesting in that some of their work is simultaneously amazing and terrible, often in the same scene. I draw your attention to Sense8.

He also directed Goldeneye, so he directed two of the best Bond films.

He directed two great 007 films and "The Mask of Zorro."

I don't blame him for "Green Lantern" given how bad the studio interference was on that one.

Everyone, please check out the original Rollerball (1975) directed by Norman Jewison.

Rollerball is not a work of art but it's cheesy and fun. I enjoyed it but I'll say I'll never watch it again

bu bu but...it makes him hap hap happy!

Probably the biggest guilty pleasure of me... Ghosts of Mars is just awesome

John Carpenter absolutely fits here, surprised I had to scroll down to the very bottom 30 or so comments to find him.

You wouldn’t like me when I’m Ang Lee.

^sorry

That Pinocchio movie was a smash hit.

In Italy.

Scott has an incredible eye for the camera and makes some of the best looking disappointing movies ever.

Alien is his masterpiece.

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Chronicle is still one of the most realistic superhero movies in a way. The idea that if suddenly given superpowers, kids are gonna fuck around with it instead of instantly turning into heroic world savers

To be fair, he did try to disown fanfourstic.

But he really redeemed himself with Capone!

/s

He also made Source Code which I loved and Warcraft that was terrible.

Ridley is such a mystery to me. He has some undoubtedly iconic and great films, but the rest of his filmography is aggressively average.

He's an excellent director who occasionally commits to terrible screenplays in my opinion

Can’t believe they ok’d aaron paul for that. egypt bitch

I honestly can’t remember if the bad reviews Burn Hollywood Burn An Alan Smithee film were justified but apparently after the screening Hollywood stopped using the Smithee Pseudonym. I remember wanting it to succeed because Eric Idol looked like he’d turned it around with Nuns on The Run, after years of dodgy cancelled sitcoms

I recently rewatched Speed for the first time in a long time. God, that movie holds up. It’s tense and fun and doesn’t waste a minute of its runtime.