The worst films of the greatest directors

Unanimously voted one of the greatest flops in the history of sci-fi cinema (and beyond), see it again today, David Lynch’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel (and with Dino De Laurentiis’ Italian kitsch) is almost charming. , due to the deliberately (?) naive effect of the whole operation. Fans didn’t like it, critics don’t talk about it, but today – even though Denis Villeneuve’s version finally made happy the purists of the original book – it has become a bit of a cult. One thing is certain: Lynch doesn’t like to talk about this film today. And it will mean something too.

Even the names of a very weak final stage of the author’s career (from Other youth To Family Secrets – Grimbefore twistst: and now we are waiting for the most postponed metropolis) may even come close to the flop that was Jack. Between Benjamin Button this is ours When I grow up starring Renato Pozzetto (it’s an absolute masterpiece by comparison), a movie that doesn’t do justice to either Coppola or Robin Williams, also known as the kid who ages four times faster than normal (!). On Rotten Tomatoes, it averages 17%: and here we close it.

For all “sculpture” Jane Campion cutaway, a sexy thriller that was supposed to star Nicole Kidman and was instead played by the completely inept Meg Ryan. But there was a sincerity and shamelessness in it in its own way, which still make it interesting. Perhaps the New Zealand director’s real blunder is the title with Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel, between digressions from Hindi and New Age and a very dirty melo. After a hat trick like Angel at my table, piano lessons AND Portrait of a ladyA epic fail All right.

Yes, we know: there is Bill Murray (and ten thousand other very iconic faces, from Cate Blanchett to Anjelica Huston), Italian locations and David Bowie covers in Portuguese. But if we have to pick (albeit with difficulty) one “wrong” name for Mr. Anderson, it’s the fictional Steve Zissou biopic. The laughter is always strained, the rhythm is lacking and above all the film follows this masterpiece Tenenbaum: this is the real “original sin”, which many fans even today have not forgiven him.

Many feel that the Francocaprian homage to Old Hollywood is inadequate. Mr. Hula Hoop. a lot of people don’t like it First I marry you and then I bust you. But if there’s one title that everyone agrees on when it comes to the Coen brothers’ award-winning thugs, it’s for sure. Ladykillersdirty remake Lady murder Englishman Alexander Mackendrick. Tom Hanks takes the place of Alec Guinness in a classic shawl that deviates from the crazy (see the presence of Marlon “HorrorWayans), never hitting the right register. The next movie would be This is not a country for old people: This is good.

I know we’re ready to be lynched. But Quentin Tarantino is also wrong. And then this is not necessarily a list of bad films, but the least successful of the greatest. And there is no doubt that death proofepisode of “Double Show” meat grinder filmed with partner Robert Rodriguez, this is a divertissement show exploitation definitely an end in itself. There’s no shortage of iconic scenes – watch stuntman Mike’s 14-minute desperate escape chased by girls turned from prey to hunters – but Quentin did (and would have done) more and better.

The role of African American soldiers drafted into the US Army during World War II is a central theme of the film. But the episode that was “used” to tell about it – the massacre at Sant’Anna di Stazzema – is perhaps too three-tone to really bother the director. The Italian setting does not help either, in which the author Do the right things he can’t even visually find an aesthetic worthy of his cinema. The result is a bit of Paradise fantasy (sorry Spike). Years later, he would make a similar point about Vietnam in Da 5 Bloods – Like brothers: it is, however, a film misunderstood by many.

At the core Hugo Cabrébased on the novel by Brian Selznick, is the very invention of cinema, and cinema itself as a wonderful machine, born of the wisdom of “quality masters” (declared tribute to Georges Méliès, author of the famous Journey on the moon). But in what was supposed to be one of Scorsese’s most inspired films, the magic really lacks, and it all comes down to special effects that belie the aforementioned craftsmanship, two very touching young characters (Asa Butterfield and Chloë Grace Moretz) and 3D that eats everything. Sin.

In such a huge filmography as Spielberg, there are a lot of unsuccessful titles: recently useless animation The Adventures of Tintin – The Mystery of the Unicornone that many criticize Ready first playertoo childish BFG and obviously Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But what, perhaps, was the least convincing, including because it was born on paper as a great American epic, was the story of a hero horse that found itself on the front lines of the war. Despite everyone’s boredom, six Oscar nominations: Academy with Stevie is too good, we know.

Sorry Woody. Also because after the English rounds (Match Points above all) and Spanish (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) we were very happy that you would also come and shoot with us. But in this episodic film – “in Italian style” – there is only one really good movie (which starred Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Elliot Page), and the rest, including those with Roberto Benigni and Woody Allen himself, are really impossible protect. In particular, let’s throw a pitiful veil over suchwhite sheik with Riccardo Scamarchio and Alessandra Mastronardi: argh.