10 Films Directors Wanted You To Hate

[@danielgengler4342]

I remember watching Mars Attacks! for the first time and enjoying the whole thing. I was confused why some people hated it. Then I realized that was because I got the joke.

[@baxtersmom279]

I didn’t like it when I first watched it, but I did the second time when I watched it again a few years later.

[@lorenclarke7815]

Gak gak gak gak

[@MarkWiseTechno]

My parents and I all liked Mars Attacks a lot when we watched it in theaters.

[@TheUltrahypnotoad]

Do not run. We are your friends.

[@tomthespaceknerd5396]

I hated it when I first saw it, but I was a child. I saw it again, while extremely drunk, years later and thought it was hilarious. Now I bloody love it.

[@GregOrCreg]

I absolutely adore Mars Attacks. I saw it on its opening night in the UK, at a midnight screening (which is perfect for this type of film) and I've loved it ever since. The trailer primed me for what to expect: a subversive big-budget campfest featuring several A-list actors being killed by maniacal Martians in various bizarre ways courtesy of one of my all-time favourite filmmakers, and I was not to be disappointed. I've also grown to appreciate that I'm in a small club of fans who get off on this type of film, and that it's admittedly not to everyone's taste, for whatever reason.

[@savage751]

Same here except in the US....I've shown this film to about 13 different people and maybe 3 liked it the rest hated it lol but it's one of my all time favorites

[@AllfatherBlack]

reminds me of another movie on this list, Tusk, in that its bad qualities don't override the natural appeal of the idea and adequacy of the execution

[@grifftowninc]

Makes a list of "films that directors wanted you to hate" and immediately starts with one that the director wanted to be enjoyed with the understanding that it was an homage to a different director...

[@AllfatherBlack]

by making an Ed Wood movie one is INHERENTLY making a hateable since he's famous for making bad movies. homage or not, the understanding that audiences would hate an homage to an Ed Wood movie is obvious, so yes it still applies

[@Hewylewis]

1:29 Mars Attacks is an adaptation of a bubblegum card series from the early 1960s.

[@mrdth1987]

I remember 1996 I'm pretty sure Mars Attacks was well received at least it was here in Greater Manchester.

[@AllfatherBlack]

was in CA at the time, i loved that movie, no one else even knew what it was.

[@TheSykobanana]

No Matrix 4?? And when Mars Attacks came out it was not advertised as linked to ID4, it was promoted as a call back to B-Grade Movies.

[@wyldhowl2821]

Yeah, it never said it was taking a shot at movies like ID4, and the style is certainly different, but it's no doubt a send-up of all the slick alien invasion action films.

[@AllfatherBlack]

i went into matrix 4 excited for another matrix movie despite that i heard the budget and execution was inferior. im like okay np i dont need high production value. i didnt make it half an hour before i stopped. that was made in spite of the people who funded it. im happy for the wachowski sisters for getting that paper, movie scks tho

[@AJHyoton]

The Dead Don't Die. Let's take a zombie movie that says zombie movies suck...(deep inhale) and everyone keeps mentioning a stupid song (exhale) that is the same as the title of the movie. (Chopping sound of credit card against glass mirror) Then let's make the only creative decision in the whole movie (snorts powder) is Tilda Swinton as a samurai mortician (twitch) and alien.

[@ryanbauer3680]

This is going to end badly...

[@mancima]

I was going to make a comment but you put it so well there’s no reason to.

[@louisegrimhelm3041]

If they had anyone but Bill Murray deliver those lines it would have fallen flat. His tone was just perfect

[@PacoPWND]

If no one is aware Jack Black was in Mars Attacks and now you all know

[@pariahred13]

? Who was he?

[@PacoPWND]

@@pariahred13 he is the guy assembling his rifle in the camper van and he is the first close up soldier being disintegrated in Mars Attacks

[@pariahred13]

@@PacoPWND legend

[@AllfatherBlack]

@@pariahred13 he's the most annoying character in the movie, lol (intentionally)

[@DianaPrinceIsFreakingAwesome]

I totally forgot he was in that movie! Thanks 👍

[@alm2187]

"There can be no valid criticism of my work." Didn't Rian Johnson say that? How are we to reconcile the same director inviting hate yet denying its validity.

[@ScaryMason]

Did Ryan J. also say that about the movie BRICK? It’s comparing apples to oranges the difference between being a gun-for-hire on Disney’s STAR WARS part 8 vs. his original & stand-alone movie Brick: the film that quote was actually about. I like both movies but for very different reasons. Brick is a throw back to Raymond Chandler that highlights how timeless that style is. Star Wars part 8 was a radical move after THE FANS all complained “part 7 is part 4 all over again”

[@DrNothing23]

Mars Attacks came from the Children's Collector Cards set of the same name, that Burton collected as a young boy...

[@wilsonscott2370]

I hated the one where they disintegrated the kid's dog.

[@DrNothing23]

@@wilsonscott2370 That, I've heard, is the one that effected Burton most as a child.

[@hdervish2497]

Mars Attacks is a beautiful love letter to mid century monster movies and perfectly campy. The cast is perfection, and any film that mentions Slim Whitman is awesome

[@mantislake4141]

Where's The Matrix Resurrections? Lana Wachowski sabotaging her franchise so the studio couldn't continue it.

[@christopherkim7549]

I am actually a huge fan of Mars Attacks.

[@freddie488]

I loved Mars Attacks!, I wouldn't have paid to see it in the cinema but when it was aired in TV I laughed my wee socks off

[@wyldhowl2821]

The Last Jedi was a mostly not-good film, but the fact it gets more bad press than The Rise Of Skywalker (which was no doubt more terrible) still surprises me. The whole trilogy honestly was like people snuck into the production process who hated Star Wars and everything about the franchise, so they made 3 films that cheapened it, then damaged it, then burnt it at the stake. The monster egos on some people like Rian Johnson who are actually just trying to draw controversy & "heel heat"towards themselves just shows they are the wrong sort of people to make films like this. Go make some sketchy "art film" like Last Tango In Paris, if you want to make it about how edgy a director you are.

[@kris242]

No mention for ‘Funny Games’ or ‘The House That Jack Built’? Those two are easily my favorite giant-middle-fingers to the audience ever 😂

[@DianaPrinceIsFreakingAwesome]

Yes! Funny Games pissed me off so bad lol

[@joels5150]

As a listener of Kevin Smith podcasts, I have to correct your claim that Johnny Depp’s character in Tusk was based on Inspector Clouseau. In a podcast subsequent to the one that formed the basis for Tusk, Smith and Scott Mosier were reading about a maple syrup heist that had recently been uncovered in Quebec. The investigation was being led by a man named Guy LaPointe (they literally used the same name for the character). They spent most of the podcast imagining what this detective was like, including a French-Canadian accent to fit his dialogue. Suffice to say the character was more inspired by their imaging of his real-life namesake than the bumbling inspector from the Pink Panther films

[@THE_CDN]

Mars Attacks was well received. It was also an homage to B-movies. Johnson simply didn't know how to make a Star Wars film, so he lied and said he was "subverting expectations" Ugh. It's a poor attempt at trying to be profound. "I can't make something that stands with the original, so I'll just tear it all down! Look at how smart I am!"

[@domdisco6507]

Why isn’t “Freddy Got Fingered” not on this list. Probably the biggest F-You to the movie studios, and the audience.

[@vaguener]

Number one should be Funny games, that shit is perfect

[@nickperry3255]

You gotta add Alex Cox’s Walker to this list. That movie is the best example of punk rock filmmaking. He literally is spitting in the face of American history, the biopic genre, and the very concept of telling a coherent story. He wants people to hate the movie and hate Walker.

[@RAWnoSmackDown]

I loved when Mars attacks i seen it on like a premium channel as a kid and every time I caught it on tv I would watch it regardless of what point the movie had made to already

[@familyguy1530]

I remember watching the dead don’t die starring Bill Murray and Adam Driver back in 2019 when it first came out, thinking “wow this is gonna be such a funny zombie movie”. It was not instead it was disappointing and traumatizing, I left the theater knowing this was the worst movie I had ever seen and have been praying to someday meet the director to yell at him for making Bill Murray unfunny.

[@sanddagger36]

Most of these were passion projects, but Last Jedi was a major stone in a franchise and Johnson was under contract with Disney at the time. I don't think whatever he got by being an idiot in the driver seat was worth it.

[@AMilesDavis]

Mars Attacks was hilarious. Dead Don't Die was hilarious. Last Jedi was the best of the last 3 movies.

[@DisabledDoll]

I always forget Tim directed this

[@Lucarius1]

I love "Mars Attack". The perfect movie to turn off your brain and enjoy the silliness of it all...

[@gfear24]

If you "get" Mars Attacks, you understand why it's brilliant. If you don't, then you need to.

[@democlips1]

If Tim B. wanted me to hate “Mars Attacks”, he failed miserably. I loved it!!!

[@ScanloncommaJ]

If you have Tim and Eric on here, you can't not mention Freddie Got Fingered.

[@carleakins2153]

I figured that was Burton's intent for just about everything he made after Sleepy Hollow, with the exception of Big Fish.

[@stooch66]

Mars Attacks is awesome, because it is meant to be “bad” and it does it in a brilliant way.

[@Daeduluus]

No surprise The Last Jedi was number 1 who else can say they killed a multi billion dollar franchise

[@mrsocko316]

Kathleen Kennedy

[@arby796]

Ohhhhh I WAS supposed to hate his Halloween 2, all these years I did not know that. Also it's been long enough and I feel like I can say that after time and reflection Last Jedi is still absolute trash.

[@thamoose2179]

I was working at Marvel Lionsgate about 20 years ago... and the crew could hear grumblings of Sam Raimi's frustration working on Spiderman 3. When we saw the finished product, it was obviously a big "Middle Finger" to Marvel and Sony for all their meddling

[@anthonywaggett9317]

The Monkees' Head is a perfect example of this type of film, Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson hated the 'manufactured' element of the group and set out to destroy any legacy they may have had even down to the songs 9Sample lyric - the money's in where made of tin). If you listen to the CD release of the soundtrack with studio outakes it does appear the boys where in on the 'joke'. Needless to say, I love this piece of weirdness - who would have expected a Nicholson co-scripted movie featuring a Frank Zappa cameo from that fun made up band.

[@kristentaylor5359]

If Burton wanted me to hate Mars Attacks! he failed miserably. I've seen it several times and love the camp of it

[@NateAdam8]

It's true Mars Attacks wasn't very popular but I have met anyone that thought it was a parody of Independence Day especially after seeing the trailer.

[@jules-yi8rn]

Honestly, I prefer Halloween 2 over Zombie's original. It was 'out there' alright, but far more watchable.

[@GregOrCreg]

I never saw Halloween 2, mostly because the first Rob Zombie Halloween was so awful.

[@timlowdon2943]

The Tim and Eric movie wasn't helped by the fact that they released it early for free. All you had to do was sign a contract agreeing to never see the Lorax movie.

[@AllfatherBlack]

i would sign any contract to not be forced to watch that tim and eric movie. i like their comedy, cannot stand that movie

[@cameronhermann9400]

Thought the Dead Don’t Die was fun. A fun weird journey to go on

[@IammaleYT]

Mars Attacks! Must cater more to british humour, I and many I know love this movie. It's quirky, comedic and all round fun.

[@GregOrCreg]

There are so many unheard of people out there who probably have a great movie in them, so it's depressing to see Hollywood throw money at lazy, uninspired filmmakers who simply want to waste their money just to see if they can get away with producing something unwatchable.

[@brorjordas1979]

Absolutely loved Mars Attacks!, both then and now. Sin City 2 was also damn okay by me. And Wet Hot American Summer had Janeane Garofalo in it - so, oh man it was more than just okay by me..😁😁 But, yeah, probably most of the listing I did not really even care for anyways..😂😂

[@MC-by2ez]

Calling bs on rob zombie he's trying to cover up the fact that his "vision" for Halloween was f@%king garbage and everyone hated it.

[@JasonJones-og2ft]

Matrix resurrection should be on the list

[@alm2187]

Frank Miller changed after 9/11. Sin City 1 & 2 are both collections of his classic stories out of sequence. I'm told one of the stories from 2 is his post-crazy phase but I've never looked into which one.

[@travisbewley7084]

No one should take Frank Miller seriously after Holy Terror. It's a book so bad it makes you rethink all the earlier work. Even the first Sin City movie I look at and think "Oh did he actually intend for us to think that guy was a good guy? Have I just been reading more satire into this then is actually warrented?"

[@alpharius365]

You forgot Jack Black in Mars Attacks.

[@mantislake4141]

Natalie Portman

[@johnglielmi6428]

Rubber made me laugh so hard, Murdering tire! and Mars Attack was super campy AKK...AKK...AAAKKK... Akk! and Slim Whitman's singing would make anyone's head explode!

[@yeeloongong]

everyone hated TLJ - so Rian Johnson failed

[@shakaomni]

Loved Mars Attacks as a kid

[@zanethomas6865]

I liked The State. But after repeated attempts, I can't like Wet Hot American Summer. I did like Paul Rudd's performance and Zak Orth was a laugh riot.

[@cubbdacrossfacecrippler]

It's a yes for Mars Attack.

[@yuumain264]

Poor Movie 43... made to mock lazy types of comedy, and everybody thinks the "jokes" are to be taken at face value, when the joke is how bad of a joke the films within are making. It's amazing how I have only seen hate towards the movie with nobody else defending it. I really doubt Hugh Jackman would put balls on his chin for face-value comedy; it's for the meta-humor of it.

[@Luciphell]

What is this weird background music for this video? o_0

[@francisarmitage8142]

In 1997 I visited my family in the UK and we watched Independence Day followed by Mars Attack. Both were absolutely fabulous!

[@danielsliwa1045]

Am I going crazy or was this uploaded a few months ago, taken down then reuploaded? I swear I already watched this and guessed most of the numbers 😅

[@lucaskobain]

Was that annoying loading screen background music always present in WhC videos?

[@wilsonscott2370]

I didn't care for the movie but i loved the trading cards it was based on in the sixties.

[@jimstebbins8273]

I'm sorry but Paul Rudd was big before Wet Hot, he was in Clueless a decade before it. 😂

[@TheMetalMAN1987]

Omg I totally forgot that Tim Burton directed Mars Attacks !😅🤣

[@brentirwin10]

Mars Attacks is based on a series of collector cards

[@thatpaulschofield]

I was waiting for Freddie Got Fingered at #1. How is it not even on the list? Or maybe I missed it...

[@rickfalcon5572]

Don’t forget John Carpenter’s: “Ghosts Of Mars.” From what I’ve heard, this was Carpenter’s chance to give a big F🤬k You to both Exec’s & Critic’s alike.

[@wyldhowl2821]

I don't know anyone who hated Mars Attacks. It was hilarious then, and is still hilarious now. It was never meant to be taken seriously, and even as a parody of movies like Independence Day instead of as a homage to 1950's camp, it works. (Throw any logical / usual sci-fi reasoning for the attack right out the window - this film's aliens are perverse little assholes. They just enjoy being bad.)

[@purplep6070]

Your movie sucks! Oh ya? Well, I totally made it suck on purpose so there!

[@petergalione1414]

Wet Hot American Summer is one of my favorite movies of all time

[@AllfatherBlack]

HOLY SH guys we finally found him, the one guy

[@MarkWiseTechno]

I remember seeing Mars Attacks in theaters with my parents as a kid. We all thought it was really funny and good. And Rubber is a fucking brilliant, hilarious film. It's so out there and absurd. Great one.

[@real-lomas-chenko]

Insert pretty much anything disney makes here

[@ericsaunders2485]

I love mars attacks

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

Postal In My Opinion The Stereotypes and Outdated 9/11 humour was scarier than any horror film just look at the opening scene for Corn sake the film was released In 2007 6 years after the early 2000's terrorist Attack

[@Wickedred413]

Whoever was the person that decided to give Rob zombie full creative control should've been fired. Rob zombie much like Billy Corgan needs to understand that he is a musician first and director last. (In corgan's case the owner of a legendary wrestling company) there's just some people you can't give creative control to.Because they end up making shit house disasters like Halloween 2

[@kaelhyun2401]

That comment by Ryan Johnson proves to me he's a horrible filmmaker next to me films should try and bring people together not tear people apart

[@kamandi1362]

Try using punctuation. Your post is gibberish without it.

[@itsatrap1017]

I disagree. I think most people who are passionate about the films they are making want to provoke emotion, however they can. Someone who just makes movies with the intention of “bringing people together” isn’t going to attract a large following because their stories won’t have enough to analyze or draw on.

[@jaegerbomb269]

Last Jedi is an abomination and Ruin Johnson is a hack.

[@sanddagger36]

why was Christopher Meloni in a lot of these movies?

[@christopherkim7549]

I did not hate Rubber. I just thought it was way weird.

[@elijahmodnar1]

kind-of-kindness...

[@Mangolorian-je3eo]

Rian Johnson really did think that "subverting expectations" is far more important than success and tanked a squillion dollar franchise. Although looking at the rest of the sermons by the cultural mark zits, bringing down western mythology was clearly the plan.

[@WhoTube277]

Pretty much EVERYONE hates The Last Jedi. And it didn't get anyone talking about Star Wars in a DESIREABLE way. Just look at the utter state of the franchise, for God's sake.

[@PennywiseThedancingclown-ws1lh]

Mars attacks is awesome

[@keaganthedude]

Oh that’s why wet hot American summer sucked? I thought it was just a shit movie not a shit movie on purpose.

[@TySama0]

Mars Attacks! is a terrible movie, don't get me wrong but, it's a gem.

[@LOLrigole]

Mars Attacks is brilliant and I will die on that hill.

[@georgedunnells50]

You didn’t laugh when they shot the doves?

[@turbo8628]

"Do not run, we are your friends" as they are on their killing spree gets me every time

[@turbo8628]

​@@LOLrigole no friend, WE will die on this hill 👍

[@kaelhyun2401]

Mars attacks is awesome I don't understand anyone who can think that's a terrible film

[@MsFreshadenu]

I hated billion dollar movie. I guess i got it.

[@RandJohnson]

I think that Johnson is an objectively bad director. He strikes me as capable, but too full of himself. His glass onion works are so irredeemably Hollywood that they hurt to watch. I don't know why he keeps getting money.

[@bsmartr806]

I wouldn't say people are divided right now the middle with SW. I would say 99% of the people hate episode 8/9 and 1% are so blindly stupid they could go to a restaurant, be served the chef's literral crap on a plate, pay $100 for it, and then say thank you.

[@alm2187]

If I had some Q & A time with this Quentin Dupieux, I'd ask why one artistic medium isn't equal to another. There's a clearer case that all art is pointless than singling out cinema.

[@RAWnoSmackDown]

Also the music in this video was loud and annoying

[@mathieuwilkens3721]

A bunch of douchey artists who lost a bunch of people a ton of money to make a point no one cares about. That's what I got from this one.

[@nikg6232]

Jarmusch mighta been trollin' us, but I loved Dead Don't Die. It's amazingly funny. I don't get the hate.

[@andydee1304]

Luke's behvaiour in the Last Jedi makes perfect sense, if you understand how character development works.

[@GregOrCreg]

I have no problem with Luke's character development in TLJ. What I object to is the stupid humour, pointless side characters and narrative cul-de-sacs.

[@Creepachrist]

No wonder why I love the dead don’t die I have the same exact opinion I love the classic George a romero movies and even at one point used to work as a zombie in a haunted house and the whole schabang but I can’t stand how overdone and oversaturated zombies have become

[@LograyX]

I loved Dead Don't Die because I went into it knowing it was going to be a deeply weird movie.

[@travissmalley4349]

I love Lana Wachowski made the Matrix Revelation bad to smite the studio

[@alexius23]

🎬🍿🎥🎞🧙🏻‍♂

[@eldritchhummingbird]

I haven't seen Rubber, but it looks pretentious and hypocritical.

[@caweakley]

I was so excited when it was announced that "Mars Attacks" was going to be directed by Tim Burton. I fully expected him to directly adapt the original trading cards. Then the movie came out. Toned down with a highly unfunny script. The only characters I cared about were Pam Grier and Jim Brown. You can make a film with unlikable characters, but at least make them funny. They weren't. Just annoying. And the way to kill the Martians was dumb and already dated by the time the movie came out.

[@SamuelMcAlpin-ft3uu]

I will gladly die on the hill that The Last Jedi is the best of the Star Wars sequels.

[@GregOrCreg]

Says a lot about how bad the sequels are.

[@ryanbauer3680]

I can see why people dislike it, but I can also see what Rian Johnson was trying to with it. Honestly, I blame JJ Abrahams for not having his shit together before filming started on the first movie and kept pulling crap out of his 'mystery box'.

[@Aelto]

First

[@StanHalen1936]

Virgin nonsense