The Worst Movies From the Best Directors!

Everyone has a bad day at the office. And even if a director has a fantastic set of films, one of them is the weakest. So here's my picks for the worst film from some of the best directors.

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00:00 Intro
01:25 Steven Spielberg
03:45 James Gunn
06:05 David FIncher
09:44 James Cameron
12:07 Denis Villeneuve
14:27 Matt Reeves
16:28 Martin Scorsesse
19:08 Quentin Tarantino
22:10 Sam Raimi
24:37 Christopher Nolan

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[申月営無営月無営有申]

That's a tough one. Imma cook a good list if Sean does the Best Movies from the Worst Directors in the near future tho👀

[CarlosMendoza-esrx]

Now Do Best Movies from Worst Directors please 🙏

[s]

The moment you said "Even the best directors can drop some stinkers" my mind instantly went to the Ryan George sketch about public toilets. And then you put it in the video. Get out of my head!

[robbielloyd]

Tenet is better than the prestige?!?
Huh?
How dare you!! 😂

[DarkEnv]

Oh you hit a nerve with me saying Prestige. It’s one of my favorite Nolan movies. I thought you would’ve said Tenet for sure.

[Extinguisher]

Editing in a clip of Ryan George must have been super easy, barely an inconvenience!

[israelalvarez]

3:45 James Gunn WTF ??? Are you kidding ??? Better put Kubrick, Hitchcock, Zemeckis, Burton, Polanski, Allen, or Donner, his only good film is guardians of the galaxy, and is not going to be a classic

[NinthShinigami]

I know that this is a top tier directors list, but I wanna list my personal favorites. To me, these guys are top tier

10. Edgar Wright
9. Denis Villeneuve
8. Martin Scorsese
7. Isao Takahata
6. Christopher Nolan
5. Quentin Tarantino
4. Makoto Shinkai
3. Akira Kurosawa
2. Steven Spielberg
1. Hayao Miyazaki (my GOAT, I have his entire filmography across my top 100 favorite movies)

Honorable mentions: Brad Bird, Hideaki Anno (for the entire Evangelion franchise ALONE), Matt Reeves, Alfred Hitchcock, Park-Chan Wook, Wes Anderson

[wardenmagellan]

Three Directors that I wish they had more movies:

Bill Paxton(1 movie, but Frailty is amazing!)

Frank Darabont(3 movies. The Mist is really fun but his other 2 movies are in my top 30 of all times!)


Mel Gibson(I loved Hacksaw Ridge but his other 3 movies are all in my top 50 movies of all times!)

[fallenhero]

Agree with you about James Cameron. I actually think PIRANHA 2 is a fun little piece of enjoyable schlock and I would happily rewatch it again over AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, which was lifeless and self-indulgent.

[m.c.s]

Sean Chandler is the most upbeat movie critic I know, anyone else agree?

[lexramstudios]

Are there good movies from bad directors? Because this is my idea

Good Movies from the Worst Directors

[ZacharySiple]

2:01 Actually, tons of his movies have been nominated- Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET, Saving Private Ryan, Munich, War Horse, etc.

But Schindler's List was his only ever win. He did get Best Director for that AND Saving Private Ryan.

[Filmbrocentral]

50. Frank Darabont (The Majestic)
49. Bong Joon Ho (Barking Dogs Never Bite)
48. James Gunn (Movie 43)
47. Danny Boyle (The Beach)
46. John Hughes (Curly Sue)
45. Jordan Peele (Us)
44. Guillermo Del Toro (Mimic)
43. Rob Reiner (Bucket List)
42. Tim Burton (Planet of the Apes)
41. Shane Black (The Predator)
40. Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
39. Sergio Leone (Colossus of Rhodes)
38. George Lucas (Red Tails)
37. Jon Favreau (Lion King)
36. Yorgos Lanthimos (Kinetta)
35. John Carpenter (Memoirs of an Invisible Man)
34. Brad Bird (Tomorrowland)
33. Mel Brooks (Life Stinks)
32. Richard Donner (The Toy)
31. John McTiernan (Rollerball)
30. Greta Gerwig (Nights & Weekends)
29. James Wan (Dead Silence)
28. Alejandro G. Iñarritu (Biutiful)
27. Alfonso Cauron (Little Princess)
26. The Coen Brothers (The Ladykillers)
25. Francis Ford Coppola (Jack)
24. Michael Mann (Blackhat)
23. Richard Linklater (Fast Food Nation)
22. The Russo Brothers (You, Me, and Dupree)
21. Sam Mendes (Empire of Light)
20. Matt Reeves (The Pallbearer)
19. Peter Jackson (Lovely Bones)
18. Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight)
17. Wes Anderson (Isle of Dogs)
16. Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark)
15. James Mangold (Heavy)
14. Sam Raimi (Spider-Man 3)
13. Ridley Scott (Exodus: Gods and Kings)
12. Robert Zemeckis (Pinocchio)
11. Damien Chazelle (First Man)
10. David Fincher (Alien 3)
9. Martin Scorsese (Boxcar Bertha)
8. Edgar Wright (Fistful of Fingers)
7. Quentin Tarantino (Death Proof)
6. James Cameron (Piranha 2: The Spawning)
5. Stanley Kubrick (Fear and Desire)
4. David Leitch (Atomic Blonde)
3. Denis Villenueve (August 32nd on Earth)
2. Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
1. Christopher Nolan (Following)

[NinthShinigami]

From the directors on here, I would pick:

Spielberg - 1941 (it’s actually bad)
Gunn - Guardians of The Galaxy 2 (I do like it tho, a lot)
Fincher - Alien 3 (I don’t like this at all)
James Cameron - Piranha II
Denis Villeneuve - Incendies (I like it but nowhere near as much as his other stuff)
Matt Reeves - Cloverfield (solid but nowhere near Batman or Apes for me)
Martin Scorsese - Hugo (solid I just gotta see thru the rest of Scorsese’s stuff)
Raimi - Multiverse of Madness (I don’t like this movie and it ranks low for me with the MCU)
Nolan - Tenet (the only Nolan film I find boring)

[wardenmagellan]

Sean, can you please do a top 10 movie side characters that stole the show? Love your channel

[azo]

• Spielberg - The BFG
• Gunn (?) - Guardians 2
• Fincher - Alien 3 / Mank
• Cameron - Avatar
• Villeneuve - Dune Part One
• Reeves - Let Me In (haven't seen The Pallbearer)
• Scorsese - Cape Fear (great movie, this is just compared to the rest of his filmmography)
• Raimi - Oz the Great & Powerful
• Nolan - Dunkirk

[samuelbarber]

Unpopular opinion: my least favourite Scorsese picture is The Wolf of Wall Street. I’ve seen it three times and can’t stand it. I haven’t seen all his movies though, it’s just all the others that I have seen are so much better.

[MichaelTomsyck]

For Top Tier directors, I’d go:
James Cameron - Piranha II: The Spawning-This one’s a bit of a cheat because it’s not technically a James Cameron film, but when you learned about the production of this film involving Cameron, it makes an already really bad “B” movie even worse
David Fincher - Alien 3-By no means is Fincher to blame for this cinematic middle finger to James Cameron’s Aliens, but still, it’s a movie built on an entirely faulty foundation that actively steps on my toes
James Gunn - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2-While I still think is a pretty decent movie, I don’t think this movie fully comes together because of its weaker story structure and tonal inconsistencies, in particular, its more mean spirited humor
Christopher Nolan - Following-Because of its incredibly low budget, this movie shows Nolan’s potential as a storyteller, even if the actual movie isn’t the easiest to watch or fully follow along with
Sam Raimi - Oz the Great and Powerful-As a massive Raimi fan, I find it rather unfortunate how devoid of wonder and magic I think this Wizard of Oz film is
Matt Reeves - The Pallbearer-For how talented Reeves has proved himself after this film, his directorial debut didn’t show those talents because it’s a rom com, whereas the rest of his films have darker tones and elements
Martin Scorsese - Boxcar Bertha-Like with pretty much every Scorsese film, there’s a certain amount of artistic merit here, but when the story and characters aren’t engaging, the movie feels like it was filmed and released several years before it actually hit theaters, which isn’t in this one’s favor
Steven Spielberg - 1941-A complete and total misfire that consists of way too much physical comedy for a WWII film, as well as a movie of a tone, story, and quality level that doesn’t make sense in Spielberg’s phenomenal filmography
Quentin Tarantino - Death Proof-Even though it’s still has Tarantino’s flavor of characters and dialogue, I don’t think Tarantino’s strengths overlap with what Grindhouse films serve up, making for the only Tarantino film I wouldn’t go positive on
Denis Villeneuve - Enemy-While there are plenty of well done technical elements to this film, this isn’t a form of storytelling I connect with much, which doesn’t make for a satisfying experience for me

[ryanking]

My opinion:
Spielberg- 1941
Cameron- Piranha 2 (haven't fully watched)
Nolan- Tenet
JJ Abrams- Star Trek Into Darkness
Michael Bay- Transformers: The Last Knight

I haven't seen enough of David Fincher, James Gunn, Denis Villeneuve, Matt Reeves, Martin Scorsesse, Quentin Tarantino, and Sam Raimi films to give an opinion on his worst film