The most overrated director of all time?
Probably
shareNot a bad choice. Mine would be Denis Villeneuve.
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Tarantino
shareThank you! I honestly cannot see what people see in Tarantino.
shareI too loathe Tarantino. His first few films were somewhat interesting, but then I rented the two Kill Bill films. I got through Kill Bill, Part I and realized he was a hack that I had no interest in whatsoever. I never did watch Part 2, or indeed any QT film thereafter.
shareTarantino is an excellent writer/director, his work is and will be taught in film schools, just like De Palma, Scorsese, Pekinpah, Kubrick and Kurosawa. His stories are all about human emotion, the action is just a byproduct. J.J. Abrams movies are all about action, the stories are there just to connect the spectacle.
shareI'll leave both Abrams and Tarantino to those that like them.
shareHe certainly was a half-successful con artist when it came to making "good" movies. Yeah, he managed to charm people with some of his Star Trek films and the TFA, but if you take a closer look at his work, he doesn't have an original idea bone in his entire body.
JJ is the son of two major Hollywood producers, meaning he was born and raised among their quieter version of "hollywood royalty," and never had to truly work to get into the position he has now. He had connections from the beginning.
He’s not so much a bad DIRECTOR, but he’s not really good at developing stories. If he stuck to filming someone else’s script, he’s be fine, but he has way too much of a creative hand in the movies he makes.
shareCorrect. He can't do story even if his life depended on it. And moviemaking is storytelling.
shareI dunno, I think too many people already hate him for him to be considered overrated. I’d say Nolan is the most overrated.
shareNolan is definitely overhyped, and very overrated.
shareNolan is brilliant. Maybe you should try rewatching the movies he made.
shareI did. Quite a few of them. He is very overhyped.
shareIt depends on how somebody takes "overrated". I think it's perfectly possible to think a given artist is both brilliant AND overrated depending on how much hype they have. All it takes is for the hype to outpace the artistry and they're "overrated".
From that perspective, I get how somebody would think Nolan is overrated.
How could he possibly be? He's constantly referred to as the guy who ruins franchises and have you ever seen him on a list of best directors?
Everything after Cloverfield has been terrible.
shareCloverfield sucked as well. Just another stupid "found footage" Godzilla remake.
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