Worst movie director of all time

[UltramanGoji]

By much of the logic displayed here, I could say Ishiro Honda is the worst director of all time, considering he made Varan, Godzilla's Revenge and Space Amoeba, despite having a few good films under his belt.

No but that's different because cool monster

[MandaSaurus]

By much of the logic displayed here, I could say Ishiro Honda is the worst director of all time, considering he made Varan, Godzilla's Revenge and Space Amoeba, despite having a few good films under his belt.

You've got to be kidding...

Ed Wood, hands down. Plan 9 from Outer Space is HILARIOUSLY bad...

[eabaker]

By much of the logic displayed here, I could say Ishiro Honda is the worst director of all time, considering he made Varan, Godzilla's Revenge and Space Amoeba, despite having a few good films under his belt.

You've got to be kidding...

Well, yeah. He was intentionally using a ludicrous example.

[MaxRebo320]

You've got to be kidding...

No, I'm serious. I only joined Toho Kingdom to talk about the only good Godzilla movie, directed by Motoyoshi Oda.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

By much of the logic displayed here, I could say Ishiro Honda is the worst director of all time, considering he made Varan, Godzilla's Revenge and Space Amoeba, despite having a few good films under his belt.

You've got to be kidding...

[Huan_of_Valinor]

Coleman Francis might just be the worst of all time

[HedorahIsBestGirl]

Coleman Francis might just be the worst of all time

I mean, technically speaking, B movie directors like Coleman Francis, Phil Tucker and, of course, Ed Wood are probably the worst but at least their films are so bad they’re entertaining. I think the worst director dishonor should go to a director who helms big budget films and does a horrible job. Like Shane Black.

[Terasawa]

Coleman Francis might just be the worst of all time

I think there were actually worse filmmakers whose movies were featured on MST3K.

[Huan_of_Valinor]

Coleman Francis might just be the worst of all time

I mean, technically speaking, B movie directors like Coleman Francis, Phil Tucker and, of course, Ed Wood are probably the worst but at least their films are so bad they’re entertaining. I think the worst director dishonor should go to a director who helms big budget films and does a horrible job. Like Shane Black.

I don't know about that. Nothing happens in Skydivers, Red Zone Cuba is so drab that I barely remember it, and the Beast of Yucca Flats is only memorable because of how incomprehensible it is. Not a single of Coleman Francis' films are so bad they're entertaining imo. They're just bad.

For so bad it's entertaining I'd say Suburban Sasquatch is a good example. https://youtu.be/XAUeYl3DBgQ

I do agree with the Shane Black comment though. Has he ever made a good movie?

Coleman Francis might just be the worst of all time

I think there were actually worse filmmakers whose movies were featured on MST3K.

tHe MASTER dOeS nOt aPpRoVe oF sUcH dEvIcEs

Whoever directed the back half of Monster a Go Go certainly deserves a nod.

[HedorahIsBestGirl]

I do agree with the Shane Black comment though. Has he made a good movie?

I guess The Nice Guys was okay. Iron Man 3 and The Predator are both unspeakably horrible though.

[Terasawa]

Coleman Francis might just be the worst of all time

I think there were actually worse filmmakers whose movies were featured on MST3K.

tHe MASTER dOeS nOt aPpRoVe oF sUcH dEvIcEs

Whoever directed the back half of Monster a Go Go certainly deserves a nod.

I was actually thinking of the man I nominated earlier in the thread: Larry "He Just Didn't Care" Buchanan.

You can say a lot of bad things about Francis' films, but I think he had was a vision. He may not have been able to convey that vision well on the silver screen but that's more than I can say for Buchanan, whose most notable movies were just soulless, cheap remakes with no artistic merit whatsoever.

[Huan_of_Valinor]

I think there were actually worse filmmakers whose movies were featured on MST3K.

tHe MASTER dOeS nOt aPpRoVe oF sUcH dEvIcEs

Whoever directed the back half of Monster a Go Go certainly deserves a nod.

I was actually thinking of the man I nominated earlier in the thread: Larry "He Just Didn't Care" Buchanan.

You can say a lot of bad things about Francis' films, but I think he had was a vision. He may not have been able to convey that vision well on the silver screen but that's more than I can say for Buchanan, whose most notable movies were just soulless, cheap remakes with no artistic merit whatsoever.

I completely forgot about Attack of the Eye Creatures. The monsters with the sneakers and the clothing. Touché

[mikelcho]

Glen Morgan directed the Black Christmas remake. He and Wong are frequent writing collaborators, but Wong only has one of the 15 or so producing credits on that particular movie.

I guess Glenn Morgan is the worst director then

I haven't seen his Black Christmas remake (curiosity may get the best of me eventually, but the trailers and word of mouth have never been promising), but I thought his version of Willard was quite good.

I liked Willard (2003) [second version], too. It's one of the few films in my home video collection that I've upgraded from DVD to Blu-ray.

I've also got Willard (1971) [first version] and its sequel, Ben (1972) both on DVD/Blu-ray combos (the three of them are from Shout! Factory) and I'd like to try to get Kiss of the Tarantula (1976) on Blu-ray as well. The only one that's left of the films in the "a social misfit uses his/her large group of trained animal friends to kill his/her enemies" horror subgenre that needs a Blu-ray release by now is Stanley (1972), but, as far as I know, that one hasn't been done - yet.

I'm also going to try to get the novel that started it all, Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gibert, and Ben by Michael Jackson (in the case of the second one, assuming it's still in print and on CD).

[Thatguy4683]

Uwe Boll, because the way that he reacts to criticism. Yes I know there are bad directors that did talk shit on the critics but you don’t see them inviting them to a boxing match because they say something mean about their film

[Tyrant_Lizard_King]

As bad as Emmerich and Sommers can be they don't even remotely compare to Uwe Boll. At least they have one or two decent films under their belt. Uwe Boll has absolutely none. Same with Shane Black, not to mention all the classic films he helped write.

[LegendZilla]

None of these choices can match the piece of human slime that was Vic Savage of The Creeping Terror infamy.

[Thatguy4683]

None of these choices can match the piece of human slime that was Vic Savage of The Creeping Terror infamy.

Who is he, and what he did?

[LegendZilla]

None of these choices can match the piece of human slime that was Vic Savage of The Creeping Terror infamy.

Who is he, and what he did?

His movie, The Creeping Terror was featured on MST3K. They even made a mock-documentary of his life.

[darthzilla99]

I don't know why everyone is saying Iron Man 3 is some atrocious movie that is an example of not one good movie under Shane Black. Yeah it's not the best mcu movie and does not follow lore of the Mandarian, but from a film standpoint it's not a bad film. It's competently paced, all of the actors do a good job, the plot isn't super incoherent, gives closure to Tony's heart problems arc, and we got to see Tony Stark at his full potential with the Iron Legion. It still has decent reviews from movie critics and the general public. It's not an example of a bad movie for Shane Black (granted maybe the flaws are his fault).

[LegendZilla]

I don't know why everyone is saying Iron Man 3 is some atrocious movie that is an example of not one good movie under Shane Black. Yeah it's not the best mcu movie and does not follow lore of the Mandarian, but from a film standpoint it's not a bad film. It's competently paced, all of the actors do a good job, the plot isn't super incoherent, gives closure to Tony's heart problems arc, and we got to see Tony Stark at his full potential with the Iron Legion. It still has decent reviews from movie critics and the general public. It's not an example of a bad movie for Shane Black (granted maybe the flaws are his fault).

I unapologetically and wholeheartedly hate Iron man 3.