Directors with only one great film

[JTStarkiller]

Has this been done before? Sorry if it has.

I was just thinking of directors that have made a number of disappointments, but have somehow managed to make one film that you enjoyed. Obviously this thread shouldn't include directors who've only made one or two films. I'll start...

Michael Bay - The Rock
Paul WS Anderson - Event Horizon

EDIT: The title says "great", but I suppose I meant to just say "good." Doesn't necessarily have to be a great film to post it.

 

[L0ngsh0t]

The only 2 Bay movies I actually dispise are Bad Boys 2, and the Island, I liked Bad Boys 1, Armageddon is entertaining, and Pearl Harbor has its momments inbetween lengths of awkward performances (which is a shame cause all actors in that movie have turned out to be capable actors)

 

[Fried Gold]

Paul WS Anderson - Event Horizon

Event Horizon is by no means a 'great' film.

 

[Catman]

This is a no-brainer:

Jan de Bont - Speed

Although Twister was pretty entertaining and he is a pretty good cinematographer.

 

[ghost_x]

He has only made 2 movies but Kurt Wimmer, I thought Equilibrium was a fine film. Ultraviolet, not so much. I'm looking forward to more from him in the future

 

[primemover]

Irvin Kershner with The Empire Strikes Back
Andy & Larry Wachowski with The Matrix
Kevin Costner with Dances with Wolves(though questionable)
Mel Gibson with Braveheart
M. Night Shyamalan could be considered with Sixth Sense though I believe many do believe Unbreakable to be great.

 

[ghost_x]

Irvin Kershner with The Empire Strikes Back
Andy & Larry Wachowski with The Matrix
Kevin Costner with Dances with Wolves(though questionable)
Mel Gibson with Braveheart
M. Night Shyamalan could be considered with Sixth Sense though I believe many do believe Unbreakable to be great.

Did you not like Never Say Never Again?
Have you seen Bound by the Wachowskis? great noir

 

[Catman]

Irvin Kershner with The Empire Strikes Back

He made small critically acclaimed films in the `70s. Plus, Never Say Never Again was pretty cool.

Andy & Larry Wachowski with The Matrix

Bound was awesome!

Kevin Costner with Dances with Wolves(though questionable)

Open Range

Mel Gibson with Braveheart

The Man Without a Face
The Passion of the Christ
Apocalypto was pretty decent.

M. Night Shyamalan could be considered with Sixth Sense though I believe many do believe Unbreakable to be great.

Signs

 

[ghost_x]

I like this thread, there has been many directors in the past who have made films that I had really liked and than seemed to disappear from the movie industry. Ironically Peter Jackson for me was one of them. I was a massive fan of Bad Taste, Brain Dead and The Frighteners and thought after these films he would never get another gig, years later he's one of the biggest directors in hollywood. Same goes for Sam Raimi

 

[phoenix_force]

Valarie Brieman -Love and Sex

 

[Rac]

Tony Scott - True Romance
Kurt Wimmer - Equilibrium
Rob Bowman - The X-Files

 

[ghost_x]

Tony Scott - True Romance
Kurt Wimmer - Equilibrium
Rob Bowman - The X-Files

You didn't like top gun?! or Enemy Of The State?

The Fan??

Crimson Tide?

or even Man on Fire?

 

[Rac]

You didn't like top gun?!

Hell no.

or Enemy Of The State?

Liked when I was a kid. Not so much anymore.

The Fan??

Njah.

Crimson Tide?

Haven't seen.

or even Man on Fire?

Too long and messy. I got a headache from the editing style.

 

[ghost_x]

wow, he's made some great movies, True Romance included. I give most of the credit for that movie to Tarantino though.

 

[Catman]

Same goes for Sam Raimi

Why? He was executive producer on Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess. Then, he moved on to more Hollywood friendly films like Quick and the Dead, For Love of the Game, and A Simple Plan.

 

[ghost_x]

I was never a fan of the Hercules and Xena series. As you said his movies became more orientated for mainstream audiences and I always felt he worked best with an intimate crew with some sort of fantasy-like genre.

 

[Rac]

wow, he's made some great movies, True Romance included. I give most of the credit for that movie to Tarantino though.

Me too.

 

[ghost_x]

Talking of the fellow, he's 44 today. Happy birthday QT.

Hope you have many more years of senseless violence and debauchery, with a side order of racism

 

[Catman]

I always felt he worked best with an intimate crew with some sort of fantasy-like genre.

Thats not the point. You said you'd never expected Raimi to ever get work again. The success of Hercules and Xena pretty much guaranteed him work in Hollywood. And, yeah, it was pretty iffy during the first two Evil Deads flicks, Crimewave, and Darkman but those movies were enough of a cult hit to keep him working.

 

[ghost_x]

Point taken, I retract my previous statement

 

[ghost_x]

a 2,000 post smile t:

 

[Catman]

a 2,000 post smile t:

congrats on all the spamming

 

[primemover]

Did you not like Never Say Never Again?
Have you seen Bound by the Wachowskis? great noir

I saw and liked Never Say Never Again and Bound, but they weren't 'great' in my eyes.

 

[primemover]

He made small critically acclaimed films in the `70s. Plus, Never Say Never Again was pretty cool.



Bound was awesome!



Open Range



The Man Without a Face
The Passion of the Christ
Apocalypto was pretty decent.



Signs

Are you saying all of these movies were 'great' though, or just awesome, decent and pretty good?

 

[livrule]

George Lucas.