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re: Worst director of the modern era
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:10 pm to Goose
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:10 pm to Goose
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Daddy's Little Girls - RottenTom 27%
Why Did I Get Married? - RottenTom 46%
The Family That Preys - RottenTom 50%
Why Did I Get Married Too? - RottenTom 26%
For Colored Girls - RottenTom 33%
Which one of these is his "pièce de résistance"?
Those are the percentages based on dozens of written reviews that actually appear on the site. You conspicuously left out the audience ratings. Let's take a glance at those:
Daddy's Little Girls - 80%
Why Did I Get Married? - 85%
The Family That Preys - 83%
Why Did I Get Married Too? - 68%
For Colored Girls - 73%
And let's take a glance the ones you didn't cherry pick to try to make your case:
I Can Do Bad All By Myself - 81%
Diary of a Mad Black Woman - 88%
*claps slowly*
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Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:12 pm to Afreaux
Well obviously the audience reception is good. Otherwise he wouldn't be making all of these movies.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:17 pm to TotesMcGotes
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Well obviously the audience reception is good. Otherwise he wouldn't be making all of these movies.
I personally can't speak for all of his movies.
I watched "I Can Do Bad All By Myself", and it's a good film. I'd bet cash that anyone who has actually seen that movie wouldn't be calling Perry the worst director of our era.
I think the issue is that some people just think the Madea concept is dumb, even if the movies carry uplifting messages.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:19 pm to Afreaux
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Those are the percentages based on dozens of written reviews that actually appear on the site. You conspicuously left out the audience ratings. Let's take a glance at those:
Daddy's Little Girls - 80%
Why Did I Get Married? - 85%
The Family That Preys - 83%
Why Did I Get Married Too? - 68%
For Colored Girls - 73%
And let's take a glance the ones you didn't cherry pick to try to make your case:
I Can Do Bad All By Myself - 81%
Diary of a Mad Black Woman - 88%
The same user reviews that gave Big Momma's House 68% when writers gave it a deserving 30%. The same users who rated White Chicks 62% when writers gave it 15%. The same users that gave Little Man 68%, that writers gave 12%.
George Tillman, Jr. is a much better African-American themed director. Perry is a hack.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:25 pm to Goose
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And let's take a glance the ones you didn't cherry pick to try to make your case:
I Can Do Bad All By Myself - 81%
Diary of a Mad Black Woman - 88%
From your original post
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I've been noticing a funny trend that the people slamming Perry as a director haven't actually seen any of his movies, let alone the dramas that don't focus on the Madea character.
I wasn't cherry picking, but basing my response on your own criteria.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:31 pm to Broken Coyote
I personally believe Uwe Boll to be much worse than Ed Wood. Yes, Wood's films were crap but at least one could find redeeming qualities inside of them. The man loved to make movies and brought a child-like innocence to the way he expressed his vision on screen. He was very bad at what he did but at least he tried to better the art form with his love for making movies.
Uwe Boll is a hack. He turns out crappy, low budget films just to make a quick buck. There is no emotion in his films, no passion, no vision. It's all just mindless crap. You could at least get a sense for Wood's passion in the films he made. You could clearly see he had it. Boll does not. He's just a self-promoter who makes very shitty films.
Uwe Boll by a landslide.
Uwe Boll is a hack. He turns out crappy, low budget films just to make a quick buck. There is no emotion in his films, no passion, no vision. It's all just mindless crap. You could at least get a sense for Wood's passion in the films he made. You could clearly see he had it. Boll does not. He's just a self-promoter who makes very shitty films.
Uwe Boll by a landslide.
This post was edited on 4/17/11 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:33 pm to RollTide1987
Uwe Boll i probably the worst making films today. Theres some pretty awful ones out there and I can't remember right now.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:45 pm to filmmaker45
Once again people don't understand the difference between directing and screenwriting/acting/whatever.
This post was edited on 4/17/11 at 8:47 pm
Posted on 4/17/11 at 8:53 pm to RollTide1987
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Uwe Boll by a landslide.
This.
Uwe boll couldn't direct a 6 foot blind kid out of a microwave box. Tyler Perry is shitty but a far off second compared to Boll.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 9:39 pm to OMLandshark
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Roland Emmerich
I retract my previous answer. Emmerich is definitely one of the worst film makers in history. He has used the same basic plot for every one of his films and just put them in different manipulative settings... actually sometime not at all. Day After Tomorrow and 2012 are basically the same plot.
Yeah but he is clearly making huge CGI fests for the studios now that make money during the summer. That's all. And I have enjoyed 3 of his films as cheesy as they may be - The Patriot, Independence Day, and Stargate
Posted on 4/17/11 at 9:48 pm to etm512
What, no hate for Michael Bay? Explosions people, explosions!!!! 
Posted on 4/17/11 at 10:05 pm to coolpapaboze
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What, no hate for Michael Bay? Explosions people, explosions
But again, Bay is not trying to make Gone with the Wind here. You know what you're getting.
And I really enjoyed Bad Boys 1 and 2.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 10:10 pm to etm512
Bay can make a enjoyable film. Bad Boys 1 and 2 aren't too bad. Transformers is pretty entertaining also and everyone loves THE ROCK
This post was edited on 4/17/11 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 4/17/11 at 10:18 pm to etm512
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Yeah but he is clearly making huge CGI fests for the studios now that make money during the summer. That's all. And I have enjoyed 3 of his films as cheesy as they may be - The Patriot, Independence Day, and Stargate
I enjoyed Stargate through no fault of Emmerich, and I enjoyed the Patriot, although I think the only reason I enjoy that is Nason Issac's performance.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 10:23 pm to coolpapaboze
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What, no hate for Michael Bay? Explosions people, explosions
At least Michael Bay tries to get creative with plots. Emmerich doesn't, which by default makes Bay better.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 10:23 pm to xenythx
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Once again people don't understand the difference between directing and screenwriting/acting/whatever.
This.
It's like calling Trent Cooper a shitty director just because he shot Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. He didn't write it, and the persona of Larry the Cable Guy (which is completely fabricated all the way down to the Southern accent) has nothing to do with his involvement in the film.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 10:30 pm to Afreaux
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This.
It's like calling Trent Cooper a shitty director just because he shot Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. He didn't write it, and the persona of Larry the Cable Guy (which is completely fabricated all the way down to the Southern accent) has nothing to do with his involvement in the film.
the fact that he agreed to direct it means he either lost a bet, is doing someone a favor, or has bad tastes. Plus you can take most film school graduates and give them a huge budget and a cheese dick comedian plot and they will rarely frick it up.
Posted on 4/18/11 at 4:28 am to Afreaux
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Just out of curiosity, exactly how many Tyler Perry movies have you seen from start to finish?
I've been noticing a funny trend that the people slamming Perry as a director haven't actually seen any of his movies, let alone the dramas that don't focus on the Madea character.
No shite. I think Tyler Perry is very good at what he does, with a few head-scratchers thrown in. If he didn't have so many movies and shows and people weren't racist, I don't think many would speak poorly of him. I saw him perform live many years ago and he was very very good.
Posted on 4/18/11 at 4:34 am to Broken Coyote
On topic, the worst director of our era is a name none of us know. There are some guys who've directed tons of shitty indie movies whose only claim to fame is an updated, unnoticed IMDB page.
Posted on 4/18/11 at 9:02 am to Afreaux
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I've been noticing a funny trend that the people slamming Perry as a director haven't actually seen any of his movies, let alone the dramas that don't focus on the Madea character.
How is that funny? Like it was some brilliant discovery of yours.
I've seen one or two of M Nights "bad" movies and I completely bash ALL of his stuff. And I do the same for Tyler Perry. You make enough bad movies as those two you are past the point of getting a pass. and don't act like Tyler Perry doesn't have a demographic that he caters to that would go watch a turd float across the screen for two hours and then go give it a positive rating on rottentomatoes just because it was directed by Tyler Perry. The man can do no wrong to a large group of people and that is a bullcrap/terrible/laughable opinion of film in general.
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