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Which director has the biggest gulf between their best and worst film?
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:00 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage Just watched Kubrick's Fear and Desire and it's pretty terrible but Dr. Strangelove is an all time masterpiece (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172578) |
Date: October 5th, 2026 2:03 PM Author: Brilliant Orchestra Pit Joseph Sargent (jaws 4 and taking of Pelham 123) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172599) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:04 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage I still gotta watch that I have the 4k blu ray in my backlog (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172606) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:12 PM Author: coiffed telephone fanboi Jaws 2 or Pelham 1-2-3? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172645) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:13 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage Pelham (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172652) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: coiffed telephone fanboi sad! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172700) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:13 PM Author: Brilliant Orchestra Pit This is the exact correct RT answer - 98 point difference. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172651) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:17 PM Author: disgusting karate You mean Jaws 4. Jaws 2 was very good in spite of a separate director-related drama. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172662) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:23 PM Author: Brilliant Orchestra Pit Corrected (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172677) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 5:51 PM Author: Fantasy-prone gunner persian Jaws 4 is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50173049) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:04 PM Author: Wonderful Wagecucks Mad Cow Disease M Night could be in the running. Or maybe I just want to have sex with a couple of his daughters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172602) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:05 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage Haven 't liked any of his Films tbh personally (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172608) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: Wonderful Wagecucks Mad Cow Disease Really? Sixth Sense was pretty good and so were some of the Unbreakable series entries
I couldn't bring myself to watch that movie with the Smiths, but it has to be about as bad as they come and just lol at the fucking elevator movie |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: Brilliant Orchestra Pit Trap was a legit fun movie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172638) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:11 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage Too reliant on twist endings imo and I think someone spoiled 6th sense for me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172644) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Magenta metal keepsake machete state The Village sounds retarded based just on the screenplay, but I rewatched it recently and thought the execution was very enjoyable. Guessing rewatching the sixth sense would be similar. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172668) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:16 PM Author: Titillating Jet-lagged Gas Station Preventive Strike His best film was Signs. What's his worst? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172658) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:34 PM Author: Mischievous Dog Poop never saw it but isnt last airbender supposed to be one of the worst films ever made (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172707) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:58 PM Author: Wonderful Wagecucks Mad Cow Disease https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_2_cdt_t_14
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1815862/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_after%20earth <--lol at Jaden Smith starring in anything
EDIT: Who the fuck let you out of your humiliation cage? Get back to work, slave! |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: low-t market multi-billionaire came here for this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172812) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:38 PM Author: Wonderful Wagecucks Mad Cow Disease If you mean sex with a couple of his daughters, the line starts after me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172840) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:05 PM Author: Brilliant Orchestra Pit I think Francis Ford Coppola is the clear winner here. He has multiple all time greats and multiple absolute disasters that make you wonder how he ever made a hit. Both Twixt and Megalopolis were insanely bad. Godfather 2 and Apocalypse Now may be the best movies ever made. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172610) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:06 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage Did you see Megalopolis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172622) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:08 PM Author: Brilliant Orchestra Pit I have seen the first hour twice. Couldn’t finish it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172629) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:10 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172640) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:05 PM Author: aphrodisiac blue principal's office hard to argue with this. everything since The Rainmaker has been terrible.
a special mention for John McTiernan who had a great run from Predator through 13th Warrior, then went to jail for the dumbest reasons and now makes crackpot political grudge movies about himself
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:10 PM Author: Histrionic Faggot Firefighter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172765) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:07 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage James Cameron just directed a Billie Eilish concert film that bombed horribly cause she is a fat sentient can of monster energy drink so honorable mention to him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172626) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: Brilliant Orchestra Pit I watched it on a plane. It was fine. He was mostly playing with cameras, is why I assume he agreed to do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172632) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: disgusting karate He also directed Piranha 2: The Awakening which makes him a candidate for this list. I think he flips out and leaves if an interviewer ever mentions that turd. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172666) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:21 PM Author: Brilliant Orchestra Pit He got his start doing special/practical fx and set design for Russ Meyer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172676) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:11 PM Author: Histrionic Faggot Firefighter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172768) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:14 PM Author: Magenta metal keepsake machete state I wanted to say Scorsese, but the worst films I could think of were "just ok". (Thinking of The Departed, come at me.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172654) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:16 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage I bought the Complete Kubrick collection on Criterion $480 for his entire filmography on 4k. Once it arrives I can watch the ones I'm missing (Spartacus and Lolita) and poast a Kubrick tier list. Stay tuned
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/9000-the-complete-kubrick
-Sponsored Poast-
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:16 PM Author: disgusting karate Bob Clark (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172660) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:10 PM Author: Histrionic Faggot Firefighter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172764) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Mischievous Dog Poop ted kotchoff did first blood and wake in fright(180 australian movie)
he ended up directing tv movies and law and order svu episodes |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 2:24 PM Author: disgusting karate That’s a good one. A lot of journeyman 70s-90s directors have resumes that are all over the place. George P. Cosmatos is another (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172679) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 9:05 PM Author: aphrodisiac blue principal's office he did Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe? which is an very solid, underrated and forgotten comedy
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:16 PM Author: Histrionic Faggot Firefighter *Dario Argento; had an insane 15-20 year run from about 1970 to 1990 and everything since then has been unpleasant and unwatchable
*Tobe Hooper: Texas Chain Saw Massacre is incredible; almost everything else he made is crap
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: aphrodisiac blue principal's office Funhouse is great. I know there is some debate over who actually did the work, but Poltergeist is great. And I have a giant soft spot for Invaders from Mars.
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:23 PM Author: Histrionic Faggot Firefighter I haven't seen the Invaders remake but I think Funhouse is incredibly effective and underrated. Poltergeist is too.
I think the right answer is the obvious one of Coppola, here. Maybe Cameron although from what I've heard he wasn't even in the driver's seat in Piranha 2 enough to properly lay it at his door.
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:35 PM Author: aphrodisiac blue principal's office IFM is worth the hour and a half. it is cheesy as shit, but entertaining. also clearly inspired The Faculty which i also really enjoy.
has an entertaining cast incl Karen Black, Bud Cort, Louise Fletcher and James Karen. |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 6:47 PM Author: coiffed telephone fanboi I liked this movie a lot as a kid but I probably wouldn't think much of it as an adult.
Lifeforce is underrated. |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 9:18 PM Author: Histrionic Faggot Firefighter i rewatched the original a few months ago and the first half holds up well (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50173306) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:25 PM Author: Histrionic Faggot Firefighter John Frankenheimer: Manchurian Candidate, Seconds, 7 Days in May, etc.
Also John Frankenheimer: The Island of Dr. Moreau |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:37 PM Author: supple swollen really tough guy mediation Coppola, as discussed above.
but because "Jaws" is so nearly perfect, Spielberg is in second place. it could be "1941" or "‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" or "Ready Player One" or "Hook."
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:41 PM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage Disclosure Day is one of the worst movies I've ever seen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50172843) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 8:48 PM Author: awkward home Tie btwn Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan
Michael Mann close runner up |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 9:06 PM Author: aphrodisiac blue principal's office troll tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50173294) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 4:45 AM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage Which are the worst of each (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50173652) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 8:58 PM Author: Lake vivacious area stock car there was a japanese director named Kon Ichikawa who made some of the most acclaimed war movies in history (burmese harp; fires on the plain), and then he was hired in the late-60's to do a feature film with the italian mouse character Topo Gigio. he wanted to make a somewhat serious 'message movie' about nuclear war, but the italians wanted a goofy puppet film, and it ended up becoming a baffling, bizarre, awful production called The Missile War. minimalist sets, weird janky plot, jarring tonal shifts, etc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCS21BRXCs8 |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: Histrionic Faggot Firefighter this is the second time i've stumbled upon a reference to topo gigio today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50173305) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: Lake vivacious area stock car the puppet's original voice actor died recently. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50173308) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 11:40 PM Author: Khaki Bearded Center sounds like a scholarly take to me, cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50173509) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 4:45 AM Author: bronze friendly grandma stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50173653) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:06 AM Author: outnumbered racy abode cuckold Billy Walsh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50174033) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:13 AM Author: Doobsian soul-stirring theater giraffe I don’t know enough about film to have meaningful input on the director. But I do know enough about human nature to be pretty sure that it’ll be some guy who debased himself for a giant paycheck, probably because he let his overhead run wild and got painted into a financial corner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50174045) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:14 AM Author: Fantasy-prone gunner persian Cimino - Deer Hunter to heavens gate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909973&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5304212#50174049) |