The Panda Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 That's the worst reply. The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch Of Evil etc are brilliant masterpieces. Do people ever talk about them? No, they only ever talk about Citizen Kane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 The Wachowskis brothers are the very definition of one hit wonders. They had Matrix, then after had two big budget films that not only flopped, but also sucked with Speed racer and Cloud Atlas. They are the true winners of this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartonfink Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Do people ever talk about them? No, they only ever talk about Citizen Kane. Actually people often talk about long take opening of Touch Of Evil or mirror room scene of The Lady From Shanghai and some filmmakers paid homage to him numerous times. Citizen Kane is just most popular film of his filmography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 The Wachowskis brothers are the very definition of one hit wonders. They had Matrix, then after had two big budget films that not only flopped, but also sucked with Speed racer and Cloud Atlas. They are the true winners of this thread. You can have that opinion, but Cloud Atlas was one of the best films of the year imo. I don't think they are one hit wonders at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 A One hit wonder was Mark Pellington, well, he did two films but still, for a man as talented as him, I don't understand why he didn't do more. Arlington Road and Mothman Prophecies both terrified me and they were well done because of the director, imo. Very sad that he didn't do more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 You can have that opinion, but Cloud Atlas was one of the best films of the year imo. I don't think they are one hit wonders at all. Cloud atlas was amazing. In terms of box office they are a one hit wonder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 (edited) I question someone if they consider Orson Welles to be a one hit wonder. Orson Welles is anything but a one hit wonder. Edited October 27, 2014 by Fancyarcherreturns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Welles certainly not. Citizen Kane is his most celebrated work no doubt, but he's been considered as among the most important auteurs not because of just one film. All Welles works now are on the "critically acclaimed" list: Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, The Trial, Othello, Chimes at Midnight, Touch of Evil, and even down to Mr. Arkadin and F for Fakes. Welles is a purely personal cinema stylist and not an one hit wonder; it's just that Citizen Kane has been singled out of his body of works due to a variety of reasons. f for fake is his best work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 But this isn't about your opinion. Coppola has undoubtedly made many big hits and many acclaimed films. So he is not part of this discussion. coppola is often seen as a 4-hit wonder, with apocalypse now, godfather 1&2 and the conversation making up his 70s masterworks before collapsing into relative critical obscurity from then on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Charles Laughton directed Night of the Hunter and then....nothing fuck you you stole my joke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) You can have that opinion, but Cloud Atlas was one of the best films of the year imo. I don't think they are one hit wonders at all. I though Cloud Atlas was a very well filmed pointless piece of shit. It was pretentious as hell. Edited October 28, 2014 by jessie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 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. Stripes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Okay, just to clarify, does a movie need to to be a commercial and critical success to be considered a hit or just one or the other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Richard Kelly. Donnie Darko. That might be the all-timer. What happened? Then again, there are probably hundreds of bands out there with one hit wonder songs that make you think the same thing. What the hell happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Okay, just to clarify, does a movie need to to be a commercial and critical success to be considered a hit or just one or the other? the op's definition seems to be director who made one film you liked. But we shouldn't get too bogged down in what does or doesn't count. reading through this thread, that gets annoying pretty quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teardropmina Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 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. I'd say Reitman was once adequate studio director with one major hit in Ghostbusters. from Stripes throughout the 80s, he's done sufficient star vehicles for Murray and Arnold. Legal Egales a detour and failure, but Ghostbusters just hit the jackpot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Eric Leighton / Ralph Zondag - Dinosaur Lee Tamahori - Die Another Day Joel Zwick - My Big Fat Greek Wedding PJ Hogan - My Best Friend's Wedding Mike Gabriel / Eric Goldberg - Pocahontas John Pasquin - The Santa Clause Simon Wincer - Free Willy (had some pretty spectacular flops, too) Mick Jackson - The Bodyguard Penelope Spheeris - Wayne's World Ron Underwood - City Slickers Joseph Ruben - Sleeping with the Enemy Jon Avnet - Fried Green Tomatoes Steve Barron - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Danny DeVito - War of the Roses (I know Matilda has a following, but it did not do well at the box office) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashrendar44 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Dalton Trumbo. Johnny Got His Gun. He was a novelist and screenwriter primarly (Exodus, Spartacus). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Okay, just to clarify, does a movie need to to be a commercial and critical success to be considered a hit or just one or the other? 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
