teardropmina Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Dalton Trumbo. Johnny Got His Gun. He was a novelist and screenwriter primarly (Exodus, Spartacus). the movie is superb. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashrendar44 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 If we are looking just at critical hits, then Michael Bay. "The Rock" is his only movie which is "Fresh" on RT. But I think the conversation here is just on the commercial side of things. The OP states: Commercial side is not correlated to the discussion. Quality is. A movie that made a splash critically but didn't set BO on fire is qualified in this conversation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Commercial side is not correlated to the discussion. Quality is. A movie that made a splash critically but didn't set BO on fire is qualified in this conversation. "Quality" is far more of a gray area than commercial success. The original term relating to music is applied only in a commercial sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashrendar44 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 (edited) "Quality" is far more of a gray area than commercial success. The original term relating to music is applied only in a commercial sense. "Quality" as well received by critics and well received in general. That the movie represents a good entry in the director's filmography for many in general but the follow-ups (if any) pale in comparison. Narrowing down to commercial success only deprive us to discuss many movies that are one gem artistically in a flood of mediocrity. Edited October 29, 2014 by dashrendar44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Narrowing down to commercial success only deprive us to discuss many movies that are one gem artistically in a flood of mediocrity. But this has been the basis of a ton of confusion in this thread. People are arbitrarily defining what "quality" is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Reuben Fleischer. Zombieland was a lot of fun. 30 Minutes or Less and Gangster Squad both really sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 John Singleton. After Boyz n the Hood, Higher Learning, and Poetic Justice.....meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 John Singleton. After Boyz n the Hood, Higher Learning, and Poetic Justice.....meh. Oh god, I hadn't thought of that preachy and self-important hokum in years. Remember at the end when Tyra got shot in the stomach and yelled "WHHHHYYYY?!?!" at the top of her lungs while dying in Omar Epps' arms? Talk about maudlin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Herk Harvey, CARNIVAL OF SOULS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 (edited) having just seen ghostbusters, i'd suggest ivan reitman would come close to fitting this. certainly his career outside ghostbusters isn't much to speak of, with a couple of films receiving box office runoff from ghostbusters and one critical success (dave), but nothing outside that.Ridiculous. Stripes is one of the all time great comedies and it made piles of money. Plus he did Kindergarten Cop if memory servves me correctly. Reitman is faaaar from OHW. Plus Meatballs and Twins. Hes a giant among directors. Edited October 30, 2014 by baumer 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 (edited) for some reason i didn't see national lampoon or stripes that he made before ghostbusters, so that cancels that one. Edited October 30, 2014 by lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 for some reason i didn't see national lampoon or stripes that he made before ghostbusters, so that cancels that one. I think you have Reitman mixed up for John Landis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 (edited) Everything Reitman did before Junior was either financially or critically successful. I think Legal Eagles was his only miss. Calling Reitman a one-hit wonder director for Ghostbusters is more inaccurate than calling Shyamalan a one-hit wonder director for The Sixth Sense. Edited October 30, 2014 by TServo2049 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I think you have Reitman mixed up for John Landis. whatever, i just looked at box office mojo! :'( i'm not all clued up on these nasty mainstream people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 (edited) whatever, i just looked at box office mojo! :'( i'm not all clued up on these nasty mainstream people I see. Not independent enough for you. Edited October 30, 2014 by Pokearcher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Disney Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Ridiculous. Stripes is one of the all time great comedies and it made piles of money. Plus he did Kindergarten Cop if memory servves me correctly. Reitman is faaaar from OHW. Plus Meatballs and Twins. Hes a giant among directors. Reitman is one of the greatest directors of all-time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Walt Disney is one of the greatest boxoffice.com forum posters of all-time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Futurist Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Adrian Lyne : Jacob s Ladder. A true masterpeice of psychological horror, if you haven t seen this film, do it as soon as you can, it is exquisite fear. The actress from this movie, Elisabeth Pena just died recently. I am talking about movie quality here, I know Lyne had very big hits in his filmography, Flashdance and Fatal Atraction which adjusts to 300 m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 P.J. Hogan - My Best Friend's Wedding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
department store basement Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Joel Gallen only directed one movie, Not Another Teen Movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
