Ed wood was he really the worst director ever

[cryptic name]

Well, I think the guy had good intentions but definitely bad ideas about what made a movie good. I think he tried, and had a true love for the art, he just had radically different ideas about how to go about it.

I'd say the worst director is Michael Bay. He doesn't seem to care for movies more than he cares to want to impress people with his explosions and over the top action sequences. I don't see a love for the art there, just a desire to get the paycheck.

He also represents the worst of Hollywood; overindulgent high concept films that cater to the lowest common denominator of audience and require as much brain power to understand as it does to flush a toilet (which coincidently both deal with crap).

Actually, I change my mind. Uwe Boll is worse than Bay. Unlike Bay who may have one redeeming quality, Boll has a negative amount of redeeming qualities. Take what I said about Bay and multiply it by 19090225 and you'll get my assessment on Herr Boll.

the difference here is that bay, whether we like to admit it or not, has the undeniable technical ability to make a movie. boll's movies, while garbage, also are at least competantly shot and edited.
wood, on the other hand, could not make a movie to save his life. he sure as hell had the spirit, in fact if he had any of bay's cinematic sense, he might be remembered as one of the best directors. he simply payed little attention to actual filmmaking and just wanted to BE a director.

 

[terry78]

As much as we claim to hate Michael Bay, the man delivers on adrenaline pumping popcorn, which the masses, aka no one on SHH love to see. He knows what the average joe wants, and they love him for it.

 

[aaron]

No way is Michael Bay ever gonna be on a list for Worst Director Ever.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Yep Michael Bay keeps continuing to get these huge budget films and people are still going to see them. Doesn't sound like someone who should be on a worst director list to me.

 

[The Kid]

I don't see what's so wrong with bay or his movies either. Just looking back at hits from the 80s puts things in perspective for me. What he does is the same type of stuff in a genre that's not going away any time soon so the hate towards him as if his stuff is completely unwatchable really confuses me. I can see hating the cliches that he might use or something but really his stuff is made for and sold to people who do enjoy it and I think they're generally teenagers. If teenagers are hating bay then ok... yeah maybe something's really wrong. Pearl harbor was a mess of course and I can't stand to watch it, but so was war of the worlds... shrugs...

 

[ultimatefan]

He was a guy who truly loved movies, simply didn´t have the talent to match his passion. In some ways people like Bay may really be worse, in the sense that they are successful in banging crap on people´s heads.

 

[Cinemaman]

Bay is a really bad director. I haven't seen anything yet from him what would make me say "this was a great movie, bravo!"

 

[cabel]

I've seen the first 30 minutes of Plan 9 and am watching the MST3K Bride of the monster, entertaining