Why Do Good Directors Go Bad?

[@SamAronow]

Fun fact: When Reservoir Dogs came out, the press fell in love with Tarantino and said he'd be the next huge thing. The miracle isn't that his talent was recognized so early, but that he lived up to the hype.

[@karlkarlos3545]

+Sam Huddy Why don't you fan boys read some more reviews. He isn't that high priced as you think.

[@legofan370]

+Sam Huddy I agree with Karl. People have overlooked Jackie Brown and people despise Death Proof. He isn't as perfect as you may think.

[@MrBeastknows]

+Karl Karlos What the fuck are you talking about? No film he's made has been hated or considered bad at all. Especially by critics, the people who write the reviews. I'm not fanboying, I genuinely don't enjoy say Jackie Brown or Death Proof but I'm smart enough to know it's because those movies aren't for me (or that I'm just not into those types yet) and not because they're bad movies. You're a fucking haterboy who hates on shit just because it's famous. Quentin Tarantino has an extremely solid run and is an amazing director. His last three movies are even my favorite from him. But hey fine with me if you wanna hate, I'm not the one missing out on greatness.

[@karlkarlos3545]

Shane Benjamson I hope it's warm and cuddly in your bubble, Shane. Just for ecxample, listen to what Mark Kermode has to say about Tarantino.

[@twistedgambit9084]

+Sam Huddy and Tarantion suffered a hit or miss with H8ful because of that. I didnt see the film, but a run time of 3h 7min means that that film shouldve been cut. Ive seen long westerns before, but the way it was marketed as a comedy/drama with a western influence backfired with that long run time, and the same character set ups as in Reservoir Dogs. Hell they all have code names, with personalities of not liking each other, and are stuck in one place as each of their own personal stories are told from one perspective. It's the same trend with Inglorious Bastards a film I liked, but cant go back to watch because there's nothing different from a second viewing. Django Unchained deserved praised because of the controversy as well as being slightly different from Jackie Brown.

[@JrtheKing91]

either die a hero or live to see your self become the villain. what i'm trying to say here is nothing good last forever.

[@dylanhuang1598]

Well, you live to see yourself as the villain THEN die.

[@theboomandbang1]

+AlmightyCollage Ralph ellison, the man who wrote the 'invisible man' by your logic technically is the one perfect artist then. However, that was his only piece so there's technically not that much depth to him in the long run. So as a result, it can't be perfect path right? sure a hero but a brief one.

[@JrtheKing91]

+theboomandbang1 He had quality on his side with one piece of work. if he had continued than its possible that he would have suffered a sophomore curse. its all speculation.

[@theboomandbang1]

AlmightyCollage Speculation indeed. But what of this: die a hero or live to be the villain AND THEN redeem yourself?....

[@LordMoonshadowGaGa]

Except Twinkies. Those delicious yellow bastards stay good forever.

[@SnowBlind853]

Here's another factor I don't think you covered: Film is a massively collaborative project, just because a movie is bad doesn't necessarily reflect entirely on the director. The Director has their name attached to the movie but they can't do it alone, without great story boarders, editors, producers, actors, etc, the movie can start off as a great vision and end up being underwhelming. So just like in the example of starwars, a great movie is seldom made with just two hands at the wheel. Just my 2 cents.

[@longliverocknroll5]

Some directors are just shit though and got lucky with two films out of the majority of their filmography, like Shyamalan.

[@alienonlsd3209]

Heck ralph bakshi is proof of that with his final film breaking him in coolworld he was given a dcript on the first day of shooting that was made behind his back and had no idea whst he was doing

[@maverickdarkrath4780]

@@alienonlsd3209 and wanna know what's ironic his original idea was much better than what was actually made

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

When your awesome DM decides to write a screenplay

[@virz4432]

Good point. Then directors shouldn't get all the credit when the movie goes well. 🤷‍♀️

[@ECL28E]

Why do good directors go bad? Over-ambition, over-confidence, and lack of discipline

[@Rainbowthewindsage]

You sound like yoda

[@kosakukawajiri16]

ECL28E So you’re saying playing it safe is good

[@lightningbolt4419]

Wade Wilson you need a good middle ground

[@kosakukawajiri16]

LightningBolt I understand what ECL means. They become lazy and only care about money.

[@lightningbolt4419]

Wade Wilson yeah but I think Kubrick and Chris Nolan found a middle ground

[@ryan4393]

In the words of Harvey Dent: “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

[@adamshows1142]

Mr. Beane And by villain, you mean “a sell-out?”

[@martinbogadomartinesi5135]

i might have read this fucking quote at least 500 hundred times and it makes me cringe lmao, can't you say something more original?

[@NeoConnor1]

Sounds like people on KZbin comments.

[@theovaldes17]

@@martinbogadomartinesi5135 its a good quote you cant deny that

[@TheMrfoxguy]

@@martinbogadomartinesi5135 I know its everywhere

[@jack02krauser]

and yet... nobody asks if WE ARE THE ONES WHO CHANGE... we grow up, we change, our views, our personalities.... directors, viewers and so on, we all change.

[@MasterFhyl]

George Lucas was never a "Good director". He is however, no doubt a brilliant world builder, and one of the best marketers of all time. It is no coincidence that his best stuff is the stuff that he has the least to do with, and any time he is allowed to be more hands-on it turns to shit.

[@SamAronow]

According to Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Lucas hated the pressure of directing the first Star Wars, and vowed never to direct again afterward. I guess he forgot.

[@pseudofox]

This is true. He had something like a psychological breakdown in the first Star Wars and was essentially unable to do the full job because of the horrifying stress. The fact that so many other eyes were on the original series is a key reason, if not THE key reason, that it turned out so wonderfully. The RedLetterMedia reviews of the prequels are fantastic in pointing all this out.

[@Nebuchadnezzar31]

+promisedeyes yeah Mike Stoklasa is awesome

[@donalddeluxe6407]

true i've seen some stuff from the prequels that were epic in episode one the podrace and darth maul was good, in episode 2 the fight with jango fett and yoda fighting dooku was good and in episode 3 the opening scene and padme's rumination really helped it be better

[@judahhooper2619]

What you said was a bunch of bull crap, Have ever seen any of his work outside say star wars or Indiana Jones? No you haven't. he was a good director, He inspired a lot of directors in many different ways not just marketing you idiot. In certain Technics, in certain style, etc... just because you think the star wars prequels are bad doesn't mean you can judge him as an overall director. +MasterFyhl

[@jaymadethebeat]

you gotta look at the writers too. not all directors also write the movies they direct. some writers pay directors to direct because all they know how to do is write.

[@xylynthian753]

The directors can turn down a script if they want

[@jaymadethebeat]

Xylynthian exactly

[@Leartes-vq7yg]

+Jay gross Good point especially with Star Wars as when it to writing, Lucas had his wife and team help with the writing with the original trilogy while the prequels he had free reins.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

+Don Luu That is true, and Ant-Man turned out pretty good in the end anyway, though that won't always be the case.

[@andrewvasquez4238]

let's not forget shyamalan wrote devil but he didn't direct it, that was a disaster and the critic has a review on that.

[@gutz1981]

One could argue age is a factor. But then you got directors like George Miller (71) and Clint Eastwood (86) still dishing out great work. One of the most odd things that is the most unpredictable and major factors in a number of films ins TIMING. Too early, and a film could go over an audiences head (Blade Runner) too late, and it becomes a carbon copy of a tired story (Batman v Superman)

[@longliverocknroll5]

While Eastwood did make a fair number of good films in the last 20 years (Sully, Gran Torino, Letter from Iwo Jima, Million Dollar Baby, and Mystic River) he's also made an equal amount of shit (Blood Work, True Crime, J. Edgar, Hereafter, Jersey Boys and American Sniper's and 15:17 to Paris' god-awful glorification and propaganda) as well as just mediocre stuff (Invictus, Changeling, and Flags of Our Fathers). The constant criticism of Eastwood is also that his stories are minimalistic and one-dimensional or just boring.

[@leathery420]

I wouldn't say American sniper is terrible. It's definitely an america fuck yeah movie, but much better than most the other films based off stories coming from the war on terror. I'd say it belongs in the mediocre category. Also while flags of our fathers is somewhat mediocre i'd say that's only because of all the other high quality WW2 movies, but when viewed with letters from Iwo Jima as one film It can be used to give great perspective to someone who knows next to nothing about ww2, the pacific, and the two countries depicted in the films. Though I would agree in your assessment that Old Clint can be hit or miss with his films.

[@houndofculann1793]

gutz1981 I don't think Batman V Superman had a problem with the timing of its release, or at least it wasn't released too late. It just tried to do too many things at once instead of focusing on the titular conflict. It had to tease Wonderwoman before her solo movie, tease the upcoming Justice League and its heroes, introduce several villains (of which Doomsday was only a vessel to tease WW pretty much), have a great fight between the titular heroes, have darkish commentary on how one should judge a being as strong as Superman just doing what he thinks is right on a global scale, and even have an important character death only after 2 movies down in the DC cinematic universe. Had it waited for WW solo movie to come first and dropped Doomsday (and immediately-related plot points) onto a sequel entirely, it might have had time to show all of the other mentioned stuff in a manner that made a great movie. But they wanted to try to catch up to the MCU in one movie instead.

[@kazinadbiralamadit6905]

@@houndofculann1793 you are right , as a DC and Marvel fan i think if they waited for all the pieces to fall in the correct order then dc would have caught up with marvel's success but the confused leadership at Warner bros did not know shit . I mean you have a monsterverse with godzilla and king kong they followed the rule marvel established and worked out very well why not just do that with dc characters , they are arguably more famous than marvel but they did not know what to do thankfully they realized their mistake and is trying to make things correct Wonder woman , Aquaman, Shazam all established the characters very well than the Justice league movie which was directed by Joss weadon not Zack snyder , and also he directed R rated movies not just pg-13 movies and Watchmen is his masterpiece.

[@Sci-Fi-Mike]

George Lucas had a fantastic editing team for his first Star Wars movie, including his now former wife. The influence of the people you collaborate with is vital to the excellence of a movie.

[@ForceMaximus84]

The pacing wasn’t the issue with the Prequels. It was weak dialogue and acting. If either one or both were improved, they movies would’ve been better.

[@seanchukwuezi3079]

It's scary thinking if he was given full control over the original trilogy it would have been a disaster I'm glad he got other directors to direct empire strikes back and return of the jedi the were other people to guide him and create his vision and then when the prequels were in production it's like no one had the balls or confidence to tell him that this is terrible adding cgi to the orginal film Is stupid because its geroge lucas

[@jackhealy3328]

I really liked how he ended it on a slow zoom into Ed Wood as he talks about the uncertainty of art in film. A truly poetic end.

[@00WhiteBlade]

UWE BOLL Highest Rated: 25% Assault On Wall Street(2013) Lowest Rated: 1% Alone in the Dark(2005)

[@retloclive9118]

As a gamer, I despise Uwe Boll for being a plague to video-game movies, but surprisingly, Rampage (2009) actually got decent reviews. One of his more under-the-radar movies that RT doesn't even have a rating system for it.

[@LockeWick]

+RetlocLive Rampage is the only thing I'll come right out and defend Uwe Boll for and even then I won't defend him if people call him the worst director of all time.

[@00WhiteBlade]

I feel bad for non film-fanatics. Like when The Last Airbender was announced, fans of the show went crazy! They were so excited! and us film-fanatics were like: "Oh no... oh... no, no, no! I'm so sorry but... you have no idea the soul crushing disaster of Shyamalan you are about to feel! May god have mercy on your poor, innocent, hopeful souls!"

[@LockeWick]

00WhiteBlade I warned my sister-in-law about The Last Airbender, told her they pronounce the names wrong in the trailer and that is clear enough to avoid the film, she didn't listen to me... she left the theater crying because of the amount of disappointment that she felt.

[@00WhiteBlade]

***** SHYAMALAAAAAANN!!!!!! YOULL PAY FOR THIS!!!! You should have shown her the rottentomatoes rating. maybe theyre not always right, but they get 6% you can usually safely assume they're going to be a letdown.

[@LeFinisterin]

Since when "Gangs of New York" and "Shutter island" are bad movies ?

[@KevinchuWylde]

+Breizh man Even worse. Since when "Hugo" is better than those two?

[@antoniaofcydonia]

i was thinking the same thing :S visually Hugo was good but it relied too much on the art of george melies instead of his own

[@whodatboi2567]

ikr

[@LeFinisterin]

+Chuchu vin i didn't saw Hugo, so i don't know, but the two first are excellent movie, i'm sory Doug, i love your work, but sometime you have some weird feeling about movies.

[@rhianne2107]

He didn't say "bad", he said "disappointing", which a lot of people did find with these films. I personally really enjoyed Shutter Island but it's all subjective I suppose.

[@Delta_Aves]

There are also those directors whose films don't start off well with audiences and critics, but get better with time. Two examples are Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. Most of their films, even famous ones like Vertigo and 2001 were critical and commercial failures when they were released even though nowadays people consider them masterpieces. I can only speculate that it was because no one really knew what to think of them at the time; they were very open ended and took a lot of weird turns that weren't in many other films at the time. They changed the way we saw films, and when it comes to changes in cinema, there's always gonna be mixed reactions among people. To me, a good director is one that can just make a decent movie every now and then, but a great director can challenge that preconception; what does make a good film good and a bad film bad?

[@TooCooFoYou]

1717Dave Those two examples are bad as both Hitchcock and Kubrick were already household names before those films (Hitchcock had Rear Window while Kubrick had The Killing, Lolita , Paths of Glory, and especially Dr. Strangelove.)

[@mallardduckjrh8048]

Interesting

[@antihinduismisbased]

@@TooCooFoYou sure, not all but some of their films initially weren't received well. That's the whole point of that comment.

[@Kascaded]

10:00 Shutter Island is a dissapointment? Are you serious Critic?

[@leob4403]

he's an idiot

[@091Butterfly011]

I love that movie

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

Yep. It's one of Scorsese' best films, in my opinion.

[@Kascaded]

+WheresWallace4883 I agree. One of my favourite movies of all times. I think I may have watched it atleast more than 5 times.

[@robinedwards3460]

Cliche and overwrought.

[@rickdufer]

Expectations are the worst nightmare of Creativity. Great video!

[@Frankwest1943]

Great quote!

[@mallardduckjrh8048]

*cough cough the Star Wars sequels

[@glizzdawiz]

'an artist respects the Silence that serves at the foundation of creativity' -- Doug Levinson

[@KTChamberlain]

Where does Don Bluth fit in these categories? His animated movies from 1982 to 1989 were really good films, in fact two of them trumped Disney at the box office in 1986 and in 1988. But starting with Rock-a-doodle in the 90's something went wrong. However, Don Bluth does have the potential to make a comeback with the new Dragon's Lair movie that was announced via Channel Awesome recently.

[@KTChamberlain]

Although to be fair, All Dogs Go to Heaven did sell three million VHS copies in its first month alone, and while Secret of NIHM bombed at the box office it did become a cult classic by 1989, or so I read.

[@Ben-do1bf]

+KTChamberlain *1 minute pitch for the movie. The crowd funding was for a one minute long pitch that would be used to sell the movie to companies who would then either fund or not fund the whole thing, so we don't know if it is actually being made yet

[@TheBayzent]

+KTChamberlain ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You kinda answered yourself. Let's see how the new Dragon's Lair goes, and if he does make a come back or not.

[@SirBlackReeds]

+KTChamberlain Actually, Anastasia was his first comeback. Hey wait, did NC mention Don Bluth at all in this video. That would be really weird since he even said something like "Don Bluth's good period ended with All Dogs and his bad period started with Rock-a-Doodle."

[@Yeti547]

I'm afraid dragon's lair the movie is gonna be bad because it's a video game movie

[@palerider9952]

**Sees M.Night Shamalaama in thumbnail** "Wait, he was *good* at some point?"

[@sebastieno.1614]

lol ikr

[@magicmisteur]

Well yeah the sixth sense is a well put together twist movie most people seem to agree on that. But yeah thay would be the only good one really...

[@genieofthelamp6739]

He made two good movies (Sixth Sense & Unbreakable) but the praise got to his head and thought whatever he made was great.

[@DeadYorick]

+MickMinnow Unbreakable is a legit good film

[@legogore911]

I thought his fans were people educated in film. If you were you'd now this.

[@mikerivera373]

Best director of all time: Tommy Wiseau

[@TheLJShow-ys8wr]

You're tearing me apart Lisa

[@lightsnakeus1648]

He's also the best actor and producer

[@AnnabelYskes]

😂😂😂

[@edviza1935]

I did not hit her it’s bullshit I did not. Oh hi mark

[@nra3zehuti781]

Not director ... he's a fucking God among men

[@MrLaxdude89]

When did the coen brothers make a long line of bad films? You mean 2? With intolerable cruelty and The Ladykillers. I admit I made a similar mistake in my own review of The Ladykillers, saying kind of the opposite, but I'm not entirely sure 2 bad films out of a plethora of great ones can be called a long line of bad movies.

[@outsidelookinginprod]

+Big Brother Gaming That really annoyed me. I am a fan of the Coen Brothers and this line was an over exaggeration, but that is not out of character for Doug Walker. I even liked Intolerable Cruelty and only considered The Ladykillers a true disappointment (though I also found Burn After Reading to be a small letdown). I enjoyed Intolerable Cruelty for two reasons: George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones' chemistry and the way the movie kept one-upping itself with each ridiculous twist in the third act. It goes from a traditional romantic comedy to a crazy screwball, Looney Tunes type adventure, and the final scene where the lawyers summed up the final act was hilarious. But, that's just my opinion.

[@MrLaxdude89]

outsidelookinginprod I really have to agree with just about all of that. I found Intolerable Cruelty to be way better than The Ladykillers, and yeah I myself wasn't the biggest fan of Burn After Reading (But I acknowledge what makes it so great, I guess it's just not for me) I think Intolerable Cruelty definitely had a lot to like about it, and by no means do I regret watching it (Well, since they're some of my favorite directors, it's pretty much a requirement to see every film of there's so yeah)

[@outsidelookinginprod]

***** I actually just watched Intolerable Cruelty on Netflix after writing my comment and laughed throughout. The reason I enjoy it is because it is so clearly a Coen Brothers' version of a romantic comedy. It shows how they managed to create a mainstream product without compromising who they are as filmmakers. Instead of falling victim to all the conventions that are expected of romcoms, the Coens injected their dark sense of humor, while subverting the recognizable tropes, and I love that about this film. The only time I am ever disappointed by the Coen Brothers is when they indulge too much in excess, and that is what The Ladykillers and Burn After Reading felt like to me. They just feel gratuitous at points, and could have been reigned back. I have no problem with vulgar content if it suits the story, but that just didn't feel like the case in both of those movies.

[@MrLaxdude89]

outsidelookinginprod For me, The Ladykillers was just filled to the brim with things that are below them, like overly predictable characters, plot lines, and jokes so bad at times that you'd swear Tyler Perry wrote that. The movie kind of became a reference to when movie remakes don't work. But then they made True Grit, which proved that they can actually work significantly well when done correctly.

[@outsidelookinginprod]

Agreed, and that's what I mean by "indulging in excess." Those movies feel like the worse of them turned up to 11, like the Coen brothers unchained. They are "kitchen sink" type movies, with every thing thrown in to them without any real reason, so the jokes fall flat and a lot of the vulgarity feels forced. I think the Coen brothers' dark humor works best when contrasted with the mundane. Fargo had the juxtaposition of violence and friendliness, The Big Lebowski had a laid-back stoner who would rather just bowl thrown into action, Raising Arizona had over the top comedy but at it's core was just about a couple who wanted a child, and Intolerable Cruelty intentionally subverted romcom tropes. There was no emotional core to The Ladykillers or Burn After Reading and it lacked characters that are worth the investment, so the humor didn't feel motivated. It just felt like a series of madcap scenarios tied together.

[@kimaniwilsonhunte]

I can't wait to see what's "happening" on Tuesday's review.

[@smashwolf4662]

We knew this day would come, we just didn't know when. But the prophesied day shall come. :) Even IF it means waiting longer, it will come.

[@Carnivvhore]

It took me awhile to get that joke but it's pretty funny

[@juanreyes6455]

What? What's he gonna do?

[@AnimatedIdiotGuide]

+Kimani Wilson-Hunte Plot twist: Next week's review is Stuart Little XDD (Actually Shyamalan IS credited as the writer for that movie XDD)

[@numatruehome100]

+Kimani Wilson-Hunte I can see that your pun is definitely HAPPENING

[@masoncombs6578]

Francis Ford Coppola gave us 3 of the greatest films of our era he can do what he wants.

[@nikhilhembrom8952]

4

[@denniswilsonishere]

The Conversation and Rumble Fish are great too

[@ThaqtRamone]

@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 Your username applies to Coppolla as well, obviously in a larger quantity. It's what it is

[@random-jn8ec]

@@denniswilsonishere Apocalypse Now

[@avanishdutta2658]

@@denniswilsonishere The Outsiders. I know, not one of his best, but still one of the best.

[@ThaLoser]

i've been reading George Lucas' biography and after seeing what he went through in his early filmmaking career and remembering all the hate he gets i just want to give him a big hug and tell him i'm sorry for any of it i've been a part of (internet wise) and that God loves him

[@michael.mejia.]

cringe

[@BoleDaPole]

It's really sad how much hate these legendary directors get from these critics who couldn't make a film half as good.

[@BLZ231]

@@BoleDaPole Yes, because if I get food poisoning after eating at a gourmet restaurant I'm not allowed to complain because I can't cook anything that fancy, right? In all seriousness, this is a stupid argument, not least of which because most of us don't have the hundreds of millions of dollars necessary to make a major film. It's easy enough to say that we couldn't make a film half as good when the vast majority of us will never have the opportunity to test that one way or the other.

[@schizophrenic_AI]

You want to pat a billionaire on the back because he authorized a sympathetic biography? Wait my mistake, sorry, I misread that. You want to give him a big old hug and tell him he’s going to be OK? Just show up to his house and don’t let security stop you; both of you deserve that embrace. 🙏

[@Mialikesthings]

@@schizophrenic_AI umm you good?

[@robertbloom4424]

There's a real danger with vids like this: the assumption that directors are singular entities rather than the creative head of a team of people. Teams of people lose the game sometimes.

[@NeoNovastar]

Indeed.

[@TheMinarus]

Yeah but the director is the one "Directing" this group of people.....It's just like a General...You don't blame soldiers for loosing a battle, they were doing what they were told and what they were trained to do...It his the General's plan that actually fails, his failure only engages the choices he's made and what he trained and told people to do....A director Directs, it's his job, it only rests on him to get the vision he's looking for and to make it come alive, regardless of the people he chose to work etc...

[@robertbloom4424]

TheMinarus In real life, it's not nearly that simple. Try it some time.

[@TheMinarus]

Robert Davis LOL I didn't claim the contrary.....I'm not a movie director, and I don't claim to be, just saying that's what a director does....

[@gaphic]

Exactly. Editors in particular make or break a movie, and are almost never given credit for how they change our perception of a film.

[@Ahmedbohamad]

Am I the only one who loved Shutter Island?

[@humansvd3269]

+AHMED ALBOHAMAD I loved Gangs of New York but apparently it's crap to him. I'd like to know why. Never saw Shutter Island.

[@TheMadDogpunk]

I like it

[@humansvd3269]

I'll have to see it then. Whatever faults Leonardo DiCaprio may have, he's a good actor, and his movies usually aren't shit.

[@Ryanmiller70]

+AHMED ALBOHAMAD Shutter Island is actually one of my favorite films.

[@imeanokaysureman]

I quite liked it, and I thought Gangs of New York was great. Then again, I disliked Hugo (when I was a kid I LOVED the Invention of Hugo Cabaret, being a movie buff from a young age)

[@freedfg6694]

People still hire shyamalan because even if the movie is shit. People will go see it because every body gets hype around his movies saying. "Maybe this movie will be good" or they go to see the shit show.

[@josemarques2304]

+Freedfg I just watch to see what will be the plot twist.

[@freedfg6694]

Jose Marques And it usually turns out to be completely underwhelming.

[@ChristianDiaz-dy9yh]

even tho i really hate shamalamadingdong for the last airbender (such a good series) but the visit was pretty good and the twist was also good

[@anon7596]

*hire

[@freedfg6694]

Jay CFC Yeah I realized the typo too.

[@brningpyre]

Martha Lucas was the unsung hero of the original Star Wars. The Lucas divorce doomed the prequels even before they started filming them.

[@brningpyre]

No, she edited them. She actually won an Academy Award for Best Editing for Star Wars. Correction: Marcia Lucas, my bad.

[@Salty010]

i see so it's like behind every great man there's a great women who support him. i think that's why star wars the earlier version is great. also people around him that contribute for that movie.

[@motor4X4kombat]

WHY DID YOU SAID THAT NAME!?

[@VinVonVoom]

THX-1138, American Graffiti and the 4 other editors: Am I a joke to you?

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

Its called arrogance, when someone gets big and famous and stays big and famous for a long time it'll eventually go to their head which will then go straight into their ass which is grossly apparent with Ridley Scott who has ruined the very franchise that made him the big and famous man he is today

[@riftshredder5438]

Employee: "Um sir, I don't think this is gonna work well in this film" Famous Filmmaker: "Shutup!!! Who's the genius here? Is it you? No it's me!!! Now just do your job!!!!

[@LeFinisterin]

+Rift Shredder (TJbro9) that is basicely what happenned with the star wars prelogie.

[@whodatboi2567]

lol

[@Arausito]

+Rift Shredder (TJbro9) Kingdom of heaven was the very opposite though

[@riftshredder5438]

+kurvos I actually enjoyed the prequels as well as the Special Editions of the originals, and especially The Force Awakens, although it was pretty much a copy cat of A New Hope, just like Into Darkness was just like Wrath of Khan, I too am hopeful that the next two episodes will be originals, just like I'm hopeful that Star Trek Beyond will be an original, but I'm sure they will keep an open mind to know what will work and what won't

[@riftshredder5438]

+Rift Shredder (TJbro9) But don't worry, I am definitely in with the crowd when I say I did not enjoy Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, that movie was just unnecessary

[@bkr1895]

What's wrong with Gangs of New York and Shutter Island both are awesome

[@Zoltan1251]

+Vladimir Lenin sometimes this critic is really full of shit..... he is too subjective...... most of the critics liked the movie but he doesnt so he says its bad...... what a moron

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Gangs of New York wasn't a big hit at the time maybe he was going on that And shutter island is just an ok neo-noir flick,nothing more,nothing less

[@Zoltan1251]

Kosta Jovanovic he said good directors going bad.... Martin Scorsese was never bad, Gangs of New York had 10 oscar nominations.... Shutter island was weaker but not a bad film.......... nostalgia is just really annoying with shoving his opinion down our throats..... could be better if he adressed opinion of majority not just his

[@twistedgambit9084]

+Vladimir Lenin Shutter Island is cool but Gangs of New York is kind a hit or miss.

[@Zoltan1251]

***** FR is great piece of cinema..... cinematography, great original well made shots, great character arcs, understandable complex motivations, well made detailed world...... all in all great movie, not trying to overreact but its so good, probably modern classic, even fucking fun to watch as for his review..... he can talk so much and say so little.... dont think he kissed up to the fanboys.... why?.... by simple fact that its one of the best reviewed (big budget) movies of past years.... cant argue with that

[@marilynmalone1381]

wow wow wow, Mars attacks is fucking awesome!

[@mycolddeadeyes]

+Emperor Dude Totally agree with you on that.

[@Smeagolthevile]

+Emperor Dude Came here to say exactly that. He took what was a trading card series, and turn it into both a deconstruction of horror/scifi movies, AND made it hilarious.

[@maxxymanny765]

I love mars attacks. I have a mars attacks shirt and I also got an auto graph from that alien chick that bites that guys finger off in the white house.

[@TheWayoftheSith]

+Emperor Dude Meh, if felt like it had way too much pointless filler and the actors where horrible. I couldn't stand any of them.

[@francesco8000]

+Emperor Dude I'm more confused by the fact that he put gangs of new york between the "miss"

[@goreycinema]

To the people in the comments: Yes. We get it. You disagree with the Critic's opinion on Shutter Island and Gangs of New York. Stop acting like the end times have fallen upon us and grow the fuck up.

[@michaelpatton3477]

I actually read Invisible Man recently, it was quite good.

[@issacflores2010]

No kidding Sherlock

[@michaelpatton3477]

Well, I hadn't heard of the book, so I had no preconceptions going in. I'd heard of was H.G. Wells's "The Invisible Man," but not that.

[@hassaanmirza4628]

I had as well, studied it at school. Very vivid and dense with symbolism.

[@ImmaLittlePip]

funny thing the same thing happened to the people who made the killing the joker comics

[@keatondayne4536]

+Michael Patton whats it about?

[@RowanJColeman]

Okay I have to ask, what the hell is people's problem with Spielberg's War of the Worlds? People act like it's a fucking Uwe Bol movie. I just don't get it.

[@karlkarlos3545]

+Rowan J Coleman It's falling straight into Spielberg's dark post 9/11 period, which some people didn't expect from him. It was bleak and unheroic. I expect they rather wanted to make him Jurassic Parks an E.T.s again.

[@Epicness1000]

+Rowan J Coleman War Of The Worlds is awesome, I really can't see why people would dislike it.

[@FrancoisDressler]

War Of The Worlds and A.I get a lot of unwarranted shit from people who just want light popcorn adventures.

[@karlkarlos3545]

That. And you can also add Munich to this list.

[@FrancoisDressler]

Karl Karlos Yes, fantastic film.

[@RazEdits]

I... I really hope Nolan doesn't go down this route (touch wood).

[@jdg20042001]

+Fernando Yanmar "Wahhhh everyone likes him more than me."

[@zeemod1556]

+Raz Edits (knock on wood) I think just touching wood is... something different >_>

[@ayapapaya2532]

+Raz Edits should be knocking on wood, bro.

[@santiagoaner433]

+Zeemod155 I don't know from what country he is, but I speak spanish and here we say "Tocar madera" that means "touch wood" and "Knock on wood" is, literally, the same thing. the english language have different words for the same thing depending the situation. For example in spanish we have the word "probar" that is the same thing and his meaning vary for the actions you make, in english the word "probar" can be "Taste", "Prove", try", "test", etc. sorry if I made this so extensive, I was bored and I wanted to practice my english a bit more, see the positive way, you've learned something hahaha.

[@ayapapaya2532]

Santiago Aner ooooh nice. thanks bro.

[@MrManlify]

One of the things that could have been mentioned is an idea in writing called, "Killing your babies." Sometimes when you have an idea, you feel it is massively amazing, so profound and brilliant, it has to be in there. You have to look out for that because thats a red flag its a BAD idea. Think of your favorite Teddy Bear, you would remember the good times you had, the amount of effort that went in, the sad nights it got you through and hard times of your life. Now imagine a new person saw it for the first time, he/she would see a dingy old bear, with all its fluff smashed out, and a button eye. This is an important part of a second opinion, sometimes you make a scene that feels so great, and you are so inspired, but it does not fit in. It is hard to see bad ideas, especially when you are invested in them, which is why its good to have a second opinion.

[@walkerdude7903]

The phrase I always heard was "killing your darlings", but ditto.

[@jaccuse4086]

Night of he fight, you might feel a slight sting. You know what that is? That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride.

[@_lithp]

This is how dreams feel... ...I write mine down sometimes when i think I've dreamed something brilliant, but the next day, it's shit because i no longer have the same perspective.

[@skyrimosity7842]

And then sometimes, you put that Teddy Bear into Artificial Intelligence and confuse audiences with an impossible to understand character

[@Vooblebooble]

Aamir Quraishy Good point. However you can always fix your teddy bear if it gets to old or make it better. Sure it might be super difficult to do, and it doesn't always work, but it's not impossible.

[@WillyToons]

How did Contact end up on this list? One of Zemeckis' most celebrated films.

[@anti0918]

+Willy105 Yeah, no idea. Roger Ebert put it in his Greatest Movies collection, and it beat The Fifth Element, Gattaca, Men in Black, and Starship Troopers, to win the Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Society.

[@57wookie]

+Willy105 Because its incrdibly heavy handed and condescending, Matthew Mcconaughey is bad in it and pretty unnecessary, and there are many gaping plot holes, for the short list

[@WillyToons]

57wookie Never heard of that 'short list' before. Movie is amazing.

[@57wookie]

Willy105 Those are my gripes with it, I get the movie is pretty well liked, but its not without its flaws, and I personally take serious issue with them

[@impalabeeper]

+brian0918 Contact is good but I wouldn't rank it along with Gattaca. Contact is kind of like 2001 but sappy. Gattaca has more substance and depth to it. Speaking of Contact, Interstellar seemed to have rehashed the father-daughter relationship of Contact!

[@triumph2992]

What is going on? Are you using the general consensus or your personal opinion on several points? 9:48 I found Men in Black 3 to be just terrible. Why would you use that as a director's turn around film? Even people who liked it, didn't like it THAT much. Rotten Tomatoes: 69% - 70%, IMBD: 6.8/10, Metacritic: 58% 10:00 Gangs of New York was a pretty decent film. Rotten Tomatoes: 75% - 81%, IMBD: 7.5/10, Metacritic: 72% 10:09 The visit was also a disappointment, not as bad as his other films granted Rotten Tomatoes: 63% - 55%, IMBD: 6.3/10, Metacritic: 55% I hate when people present opinion as fact. Especially if it's your profession.

[@ogahpuro]

to be fair many times doug's personal tastes are implied when critiquing a movie, hence makes subjective reasonings, similar with many movie critiques. I dont take their critiques as facts but as guideline opinions

[@Dreadjaws]

+Bravo Kilo You're reading too much into this. He says those films aren't as good or bad as expected due to the previous works of their directors.

[@GreekDudeYiannis]

+Bravo Kilo I remember watching the Visit and thinking it was pretty terrible. Looking back on it now, I still think it was bad, but at least the premise was...kinda unique I guess? It's something I hadn't really heard of before. But then again, everyone's expectations were probably pretty low due to his last movies, and anything thats a mild improvement over those is probably gonna be well praised. I didn't like how it relied on gross old people tropes though, I thought that was just...disgusting. While that was the point of the movie to be gross on purpose, that still doesn't mean it was hard to watch. One of my criticisms of it though is that it belongs in 2008. It was made 7 years too late to jump onto the shaky cam era, along with the whole white boy rapping thing. Now a days those things just feel dated.

[@DiamondPugs]

+Dreadjaws No, he clearly said they were bad.

[@DiamondPugs]

+Bravo Kilo I was looking for this comment. Have your thumbs up!

[@humansvd3269]

What was wrong with Gangs of New York? I loved it.

[@adex1238]

I'm guessing when you consider the same guy also made goodfellas, Casino, The Departed And Wolf of Wall Street. It's easy to say Gang Of New York is his worst film. That being said its still a great film and honestly the worst Martin Scorsese film is still better than a lot of other films. Though honestly Gangs Of The New York is a grand film.

[@humansvd3269]

You call it grand but say it's his worst film? I'm still failing to see why it was said to be bad in the video. Saying it wasn't as popular compared to his other works doesn't explain why it's bad. And for the Departed, I loved it.

[@JLDReactions]

+Adex 123 Uh, Didn't Gangs of New York win or at least get nominated for best picture at the Academy?

[@humansvd3269]

Yeah, I thought so too. So why is Doug saying it's bad?

[@jacobwilkins8761]

+Joshua Leonardo It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards that year.

[@adthomp]

wait.... gangs of new york was bad?

[@Nebuchadnezzar31]

Doug hates it, but he's the minority, myself and a lot of people love the film, it was nominated for the best film and Daniel Day Lewis is amazing in the film.

[@leob4403]

The idiots knows nothing about films. He calls Shutter Island a bad movie and the useless Hugo a return to form. smh

[@Craterbiglarge]

Don't call someone an idiot for having an opinion, if you don't like hearing opinions that you disagree with, don't watch videos that criticize media.

[@hal900x]

I agree with your two examples in particular. It seems there are some similar minded people when it comes to disagreeing with the Critic. He's not an idiot though...just has different tastes.

[@Nebuchadnezzar31]

+hal900x he states his opinions as facts though, that's what annoys me

[@lewisbean4250]

The only reason Star Wars was successful as it was is because Lawrence Kasden and Lucas's ex-wife edited the scripts a ton- both admitted Georges original draft was "crap". Kasden didn't do return of the Jedi, which wasn't as good as the others, including Lucas replacing the wookie planet with ewoks. The reason the prequels were terrible is because Lucas had no one holding him back- he is the guy who did Howard the Duck after all.

[@lewisbean4250]

+Bubo 25 ah that's probably true. It may have been the ex-wife who was left out of ROTJ, leading to giving Lucas more power.

[@BugLondon]

+Lewis Bean Lucas' wife edited the films not the scripts. Kasdan was just there as a script aid and in ESB just helped rewrite Leigh Brackett's script.

[@iansmart4158]

+Lewis Bean He also did American Graffiti. Don't shit on Lucas too much there is major talent there

[@Underworlder5]

+Lewis Bean just letting you know. the name of the "wookie planet" is kashyyyk. not trying to put you down, just wanted you to know (and no, its not a typo. the name does indeed have 3 Ys)

[@lewisbean4250]

+very mad guy thanks. The wookies would have been better though, few can argue with that.

[@JJJthebest]

10:00 "There's no perfect way to make continuously great art" *cough cough Stanly Kubrick cough cough*

[@JJJthebest]

10:50 my bad

[@carmaj156]

+That One Slayer Fan Akira Kurosawa.

[@lulucool45]

+That One Slayer Fan oPINIONS.

[@Raving_Rando]

+That One Slayer Fan He's extremely overrated. Now bring me the Kubrick fanboys! You know the ones I speak of. I wish to kill zem all.

[@Raving_Rando]

***** ...Okay, I want to know. What would you say if I told you that 2001 was boring, confusing, was nothing like the book and is ridiculously overrated and praised by critics? Would you attack me? Would you rush to defend 2001? Or would you let me just have my opinion and leave me alone? Most likely one of the first two. You see, every time I talk about 2001 in a negative way hordes of Kubrick fans rush to silence me. Now if I recall correctly, some idiot critic claimed that 2001 brought mankind to another level of evolution. If that isn't over praising I don't know what is.

[@orhungedik1983]

Edgar Wright is the director I always have faith in. He never dissapoints.

[@thebadfella5296]

6 years later this still stands

[@subroy7123]

"Remember when the Coen Bros. made the long line of bad films?" When was that?

[@branagain]

Early 2000s, with the Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, etc.

[@subroy7123]

brunswickphoto Two movies? He said "long line". :/

[@RedThunder5227]

he said Ect.

[@subroy7123]

RedThunder5227 What films were in that "etc" was what I would have liked to know.

[@RedThunder5227]

its fine and all that you think that but why are you here then? if you dont like nostalgia critic then why are you even at this video? just to bring your negativity? or just to make people feel bad for liking something?

[@slandersir7255]

Why when talking about not so good films by Martin Scorsese, Doug shows a picture of Shutter Island?

[@acidrain92]

Because its a shit movie with an incredibly obvious twist.

[@5carecrow94]

I'll be honest, you can call me a fanboy if you want, but even though I'm completely aware of the flaws and similarities in his films, I enjoy literally everything Nolan puts out. Every time I see that a movie is written or directed by him, I'm completely stoked. Maybe that makes me a sucker or a fanboy, but I honestly don't care. I just love Nolan's work.

[@MelMelodyWerner]

You're not a fanboy unless you say that everyone else's opinions are shit because they aren't yours. That being said, I've never been a huge fan of Nolan, though I thought Inception was okay and Interstellar was pretty good.

[@5carecrow94]

Steven Grant Yeah, I guess that's true. A lot of people say his films are too slow and dialogue-heavy and I can honestly understand that point of view. To each his own as the expression goes.

[@proudtobeme1ashkente]

As long as you enjoy the movies, no one can take that from you. That's what they are made for or at least should be made for: to entertain people. And if even just one person loves your work, then you should consider it a success. That's what I think, at least.

[@SirBlackReeds]

+5carecrow94 Or maybe they're just good despite their flaws, which is exactly what a good movie is supposed to be.

[@5carecrow94]

jacoblgames +P. Roud Tobi Mi Also very true. Man, there's a lot more positivity in this thread than I thought there would be.

[@maxxymanny765]

HEY! MARS ATTACKS WAS A GREAT MOVIE!

[@BrianRetro]

+maxxy manny So were Beetlejuice and Pee Wee's Big Adventure but he doesn't mention either of those two!

[@robertstuart480]

+maxxy manny Yes, "Mars Attacks" was darn fun.

[@AlrauneDollmind]

+maxxy manny Nyak? Nyak nyak, nyak NYAK NYAK nyak nyak! Nyak!

[@MacBamboocha]

+maxxy manny: So far the only Tim Burton movie I didn't enjoyed a lot was Alice. I don't know what it is, but he got a style I always can appreciate at some level, that includes Planet of Apes believe it or not! I recognize it's just a personal guilty pleasure, but honestly I always look forward to Burton's work. Even if it's not at the level of Corpse Bride or Big Fish! Even if I don't understand why I can't stand Alice as much as his other movies. And yes, Mars Attack is freaking awesome on its own regard. \m/-

[@Dreadjaws]

+maxxy manny It's like NC sometimes can't understand when a movie it's parody. He has the same problem with Last Action Hero.

[@andrascsizmadia6595]

Gangs of New York and Shutter Island as "disappointments". Okay.

[@leob4403]

makes no sense whatsoever, both are classics

[@NeoNovastar]

It's an opinion. Critic isn't a god :P

[@donotlookatmyprofilepictur9444]

András Csizmadia igen.

[@jongon0848]

Compared to some of Scorsese's other films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, & The Last Temptation of Christ, they are a little inferior but not bad by any means.

[@teacherfromthejungles6671]

yes

[@jdg20042001]

M. Night Shyamalan did 3 great films : THE SIXTH SENSE, UNBREAKABLE & SIGNS and then fell off for over a decade until just last year with THE VISIT while not great but was good.

[@jdg20042001]

ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΙΟΣ Yes or can you not read?

[@jdg20042001]

Petronia More like your minority opinion.

[@jdg20042001]

***** SIGNS isn't so much an alien movie but more about a man who lost his faith after his wife died. Was refreshing to not see the same old alien invasion films we've seen a million times.

[@knifetoucher]

+jdg20042001 Signs was shit. The plot made no sense, moved slowly and was extremely boring. The alien payoff at the end failed miserably. Oooh doors and water could stop an advanced civilization with the power of space travel? OK. Unbreakable was OK. Sixth Sense was the only good movie he's made.

[@jdg20042001]

ZeitLan Inc. All your minority opinion.

[@MetalHearts100]

Then there's Quentin Tarantino.. I don't know how he does but all his movies are amazing.

[@karlkarlos3545]

+MetalHearts100 He only makes shlock movies for adolescent boys. His best and most adult movie is ironically his least loved (by his fans) - Jackie Brown.

[@MetalHearts100]

Karl Karlos Ironically enough, you sound like an adolescent boy, so what are you Mr? 40 years old? 50? yeah I'm 20 and I love Tarantino, and his movies, be for adolescents, kids, adults or old men with erectile dysfunction.. they are still awesome.

[@karlkarlos3545]

Ironically enough you sound like 13.

[@radenks7176]

+Karl Karlos As much as I don't agree with the "adolescent boys" thing... I do love Jackie Brown the most.

[@karlkarlos3545]

What really annoys me about Tarantino's latest movies is that they have actual potential. But every time he throws it into the dumpster and it ends in the same silly over the top gore fest. What a waste.

[@charleswoodsongoat1258]

The wachowski's are so overrated. They're bad directors who made a great film (one of my favorite films of all time) but have done nothing good since and have actually made a lot of crap.

[@1nONLY_DRock]

Try Sense8. It's actually pretty good.

[@kissmyasthma3155]

I really liked Cloud Atlas though, very underrated movie. In the future though I think this movie will eventually become a cult classic.

[@huybii3021]

Speed racer is underrated

[@user-bu3xt6mj4s]

Speed Racer is shit

[@MeenToss]

You didn't like V for Vendetta?

[@Sibernethy]

4:16 "But think about it, if you were a writer or director in the same situation, would that possibly happen to you too?" And that's why I'm here, learning what I can so I don't go down the same road. A lot of eye-opening info here, especially for me, seeing as I'm working towards a career as an animation writer/director. The thing that stood out the most as important for me is when you mentioned that while certain directors of fame were producing the films that made them famous, they got advice. Thank you :)

[@Moscato_Moscato]

I wonder what movie will be the next Citizen Kane and who's going to be the Orson Welles of our time?

[@mgunter]

Citizen Cain was more a product of it's time and/or overhype, when I saw it in my film studies class in college nobody in the class thought it was anything more than okay.

[@frozenaorta]

+Deebo Molina People have been saying this since Citizen Kane was released. But we've seen much bigger directors than Welles since. Citizen Kane just gets that trophy case treatment. It sits on an untouchable shelf with movies like Casablanca, Ben Hur, and The Godfather. All great films (especially the latter), but there are good films being made all the time. It's just that history makes us appreciate things more--we never adorn modern films, songs or athletes as much the ones from the past. It's human nostalgia. But in time, we'll all appreciate more films being made today.

[@1997residente]

Well crítics said it was Goddard with Breathless...and then they said it was Robert Altman with Nashville. I can't think on another with the same skills

[@1997residente]

I would like to Say Tarantino with Pulp fiction (Let's face it, none of his other films are that influent) or The Coen with Fargo or Lynch with Mulholland Drive. But to be honest...I don't love many films as I love classics

[@TheLazySleeperLives]

+frozenaorta Well, it might have something to do with Kane doing many things as a first. One has to look at a film in the context of the time period it was made. Yes, many things now we've seen in a billion films, but at the time, they were brand new, some even first debuted in this film cornerstone

[@dubbingsync]

Ok, quick question for people. What is the problem with Spielberg's War of the Worlds? I don't see why people dislike it, though I can appreciate that some people don't.

[@LordMoonshadowGaGa]

Dakota Fanning's character, mostly. She effing sucked big time. She spends half the movie crying or being captured.

[@MelMelodyWerner]

Turned a downright masterpiece into a cliche alien invasion film, did nothing new with the property, and still ended up being a pretty shit alien invasion film. So not only is a terrible adaptation, but it's also a terrible film in general, though contemporary audiences seem to like it fine.

[@unvergebeneid]

+Rhys Causon Good movie right until after the aliens show up. Then it becomes a directionless mess.

[@TheNotverysocial]

+Penny Lane This is a fault with Herbert George Wells too. The entire book tells us nothing about the narrator who is presumably an avatar for Wells himself other than the fact that he is a scientist who knows a thing or two about physics and has presumably been to medical school. All of it is told in the first person, and we never learn his name or anything about his upbringing or much about his family. The whole story is the first person narrator being lucky enough, swift enough and stealthy enough to survive while making scientific acknowledgements the entire time. Just recording events as they happen, but telling us little to nothing about anybody he meets. The movies, both 1953 and 2005 give our hero a background, a family, a past, even a name.

[@crazymaner2003]

+Penny Lane Spielberg's direction of WOTW is fantastic.

[@davidstumpfl5889]

Personally I don't think Scorsese has made a truly bad movie... just bad for him. You put on the weakest Scorsese film next to something like The Last Airbender, and you'll see they're not even close.

[@Gileum]

A better question: Why do good website turn out to not pay their contributors and manage themselves to the point everybody abandons it?

[@Krokodilius]

guy creates world and characters people love, in turn, people bitch when he doesn't do it their way. also: i loved What Lies Beneath; one of the few movies that scared me.

[@Krokodilius]

well i'm sure jim henson gets some minor credit for doing a fine job but don't go overboard; he didn't create the ninja turtles either.

[@rodrigocastro3394]

+ryan phillips Irvin Kershner... Lawrence Kasdan... Leigh Brackett... George Lucas own wife...

[@zipperman1448]

+ryan phillips Saw Lies Beneath when I was very young, couldn't sleep without blanket over my head for years because of that drowned chick lol.

[@TheAntiSanta]

George Lucas made a world people love, but then he actively worked against that world in the Prequels. Doing things to punch massive holes in the Plot of the Original Trilogy and changing things that make a lot of the backstory we are given in that Original Trilogy just not true or stupid.

[@Krokodilius]

that's what happens with prequels. they have to pose questions to which we already have answers. the real problem here is the time between so lucas had a lot of time to think, reflect and change what he liked.

[@bridgeanimatorx6550]

🎶Why does everyone keeps on hiring me?🎶 🎶All of my work are shiiiit!🎶

[@jeremysincerbeaux6040]

This is why I love Doug. It's honest reviewing.

[@tombert512]

I actually liked Contact...

[@Eldoctorador]

Contact is great. WTF critic

[@Vebjorhk]

Its fucking awesome, wtf critic

[@TMSlovacek]

I agree, Contact is a good movie, I always enjoy it.

[@theresaguzman1745]

me too

[@ZemeckisTEN]

Same here. I LOVE Contact. Hell, I love practically EVERY film directed by the genius Robert Zemeckis. Except for Welcome to Marwen. It’s not as bad as everyone says it is, but I do agree that it’s not that good. It had LOADS of potential, but got squandered by some REALLY stupid bullshit.

[@EthanS1481]

Shutter Island - 'a disappointment'? Your not serious, right?

[@jimmy5933]

he said The Visit was good lmao... would take what he says about films with a grain of salt

[@EthanS1481]

YEO's Film Canal ...and the result was pretty brilliant. Ive watched that movie a number of times, and id watch it again in a heartbeat. Beats most of the shit that comes out these days.

[@chrisrembert6928]

Jimmy Abdallah It was to most... Even MNS haters liked it.

[@supastar25]

Disagree with him 100% there...I loved that film

[@neveroddoreven6597]

8:56 I think it was good due to it’s atmosphere and the fact that Drew Goddard wrote it. All of his movies are wonderful, except when the studio hinders his creations.

[@EdVarkarion]

Hugo better than Gangs of New York and Shutter Island ? Doug you and I need to have a long talk

[@LucyLioness100]

“Hugo” was okay, but no one really talks about it like they did in the year of its release. “Gangs of NY” & “Shutter Island” are way better

[@Hannahdabeast]

Since when is sexually abusing children 'an embarrassing personal life'? Finding out someone is a furry, or a foot fetishist, is an 'embarrassing personal life'. Being accused of sexually abusing children is on an entirely different level. Maybe child sexual abuse wouldn't be such a rampant problem in the industry (as reported by actors like Elijah Wood and Corey Feldman) if people would actually at least say out loud what these people are doing. They're not embarrassing themselves. They're being accused of sexually abusing children.

[@taiya001]

Truly sad so many people defend him too. He married his ADOPTED DAUGHTER, that should tell you where his morality stands. He has no place in my movie library and I refuse to even rent one of his films because it will mean money for an obvious sexual deviant.

[@ZemeckisTEN]

I agree with everything here except for thinking that someone being a furry would be an “embarrassing personal life”. I’m not going to act like being a furry is a perfect mindset, but furries are NOWHERE near as bad as people say they are. Especially considering that it’s better to be a furry than to be something TRULY embarrassing like a Teen Titans Go fan.

[@marctaddei7524]

If anyone wants to know the music in the back ground, it's: Topher Mohr & Alex Elena - Space Coast

[@Sinmyfountain]

+Antoine Wolfgang Thanks, man

[@Ian-oe9wp]

Antoine Wolfgang not all hero's where capes ... oh wait

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

On the subject of George Lucas, I always wait to see if people will bring up "American Graffiti," which he co-wrote and directed prior to Star Wars. That film was very well received and, if I remember correctly, was part of the AFI Top 100 American Films. How much of that film's success can be attributed to him? [not being rhetorical, I'm genuinely curious about this]. For those who say that George was a one-hit-wonder director, I always think of "American Graffiti."

[@DavisWOW]

+Amelia Doubleyou Americcan Graffiti, ANH, and ESB have one thing in common: Gary Kurtz. He helped Lucas thats why those movies are good. He got too few credit for them. When he left what happened: ROTJ (which is not a good movie in my opinion). The rest is history.

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

DavisWOW And...part of the mystery has just been solved. Thank you!

[@DavisWOW]

Amelia Doubleyou A lot of people think Star Wars was George Lucas's movie. But thats not entirely true. Dozens of great artists worked on it. Actually Lucas's original idea was nothing like the final product. E.g: Han Solo was supposed to be a 60 years old alien in the type of a used car sales man (???). And the dark side was called the ,,the booger". And in the very first draft every stormtrooper was supposed to have a lightsaber. Gary Kurtz (the producer of the movie and friend of Lucas) helped him to make his movies good. He helped him with Americcan Graffiti and ANH and ESB. When Lucas got too much fame and started to become more and more arrogant (plus his divorce also had a huge impact on him) he started to listen less and less to other artists. Gary Kurtz thought that the moral and the characters were the reason why people loved Star Wars. Lucas said it was the special effects. Kurtz also didnt want 2nd death star and ewoks (he found both idea uncreative and childish) so he left the project and never worked with Lucas anymore. So ROTJ, the worst of the OT was born. During the making of the prequels he surrounded himself with yes men and we know how it turned out to be. Note, some of these are only assumpitons, because noone was there but those two, but this is most likely what happened.

[@BugLondon]

+DavisWOW Lucas was nowhere near arrogant. He approached all his friends to direct the prequels first but only did himself when they were all too intimidated. Star Wars was the product of many visions but that is true of most movies including the prequels. The final product was very different from the concept but that is true of most moves including the prequels.

[@DavisWOW]

Apothecary2 The prequels are 100% Lucas' s work, the final product is basically the first draft of the script. Only very few changes were made. E.g: The factory scene in aotc wasnt in the script.

[@NumeMoon]

_"When you grow up, your heart dies."_ Allison (Ally Sheedy in John Hughes' _The Breakfast Club_)

[@oldstoffire]

I liked Mars Attacks :(

[@SnapdragonFilm]

Me three :3

[@damnationdan5253]

Four

[@TheFramecutter]

I like Contact too ... )

[@Nebuchadnezzar31]

***** I like both movies too, IMO Zemeckis's career was good until he got wrapped up in motion capture animated films, Beowulf has some fun moments though. But I am happy he's returned to live action films, both Flight and The Walk were really good.

[@gorillapancake]

Me too. Mars Attacks was Burton's last great movie.

[@AValveFanboy]

I would disagree with saying that the Wachowskis went completely downhill. I mean, they have had their ups and downs, but projects like Cloud Atlas and Sense8 show that they still have some aces up their sleeves.

[@karlkarlos3545]

+AValveFanboy To bad that so few people know that Cloud Atlas was co directed by Tom Tykwer. Thoug I don't know exactly which part was from the Wachowskis but I have a guess.

[@AValveFanboy]

Karl Karlos I know it was co-directed. But Tykwer only directed two of the six stories, which means the majority of the film was Wachowski product.

[@karlkarlos3545]

do you know which one?

[@AValveFanboy]

Karl Karlos The 1930s one and the 1970s one.

[@karlkarlos3545]

Thanks. So he did the good stuff. Just kidding.

[@hwsucksass]

okay but gangs of new york and shutter island were fucking great movies

[@genieofthelamp6739]

I know right

[@Tyngdlyftning1]

+Dean Winchester Well, Gangs was good cause of Daniel Day Lewis.

[@noahking3723]

"Remember when the Coen brothers made a long line of bad films." Yep, Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty. 2 movies. Such a long line.

[@markdwalton]

Except I liked Intolerable Cruelty!

[@EchoWinters]

Mark Walton oh, hi mark! 🏈 what’s new with you?

[@alexandervarveris8311]

Hey, I liked the Ladykillers. I can't understand why so many people throw shade on it

[@n-riv8101]

Honestly I don't think there will ever be a more tragic case of this then with Rob Reiner, like the man had basically spent the bulk of the 80s making some of the most beloved classic films loved even to this day but then after a decade of nonstop greats just fell off hard and never recovered

[@RDog4484]

Wait, you have "Contact" as a miss? That movie is great.

[@kumonoameai]

+RDog4484 It's not as good as the book though, they changed too much when they adapted it.

[@elanadavis8491]

+RDog4484 I couldn't help but think the same thing when Doug listed it as one of Robert Zemeckis', "misses." And imo Robert Zemeckis shouldn't have been listed as one of the hit or miss directors. Not all of his movies are great and a good chunk of them are mediocre at best, but he's not the kind of director who makes movies that are usually hit or miss nor does he have many movies that were huge failures. The only two movies that come to mind are What Lies Beneath and Death Becomes Her. Most of the other Robert directed movies were either meh, good, or the Forrest Gump, Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Flight and The Walk type movies.

[@anti0918]

+RDog4484 Yeah, I didn't understand why he listed Contact as a miss. Critics generally favored it, and Roger Ebert put it in his Greatest Movies collection. It won the Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Society, beating out The Fifth Element, Gattaca, Men in Black and Starship Troopers. Oh and it was a life-changing experience for me as kid. :P

[@anti0918]

+Elana Davis Agreed, Zemeckis shouldn't have been on his list.

[@derekchauvinistrockwellthe4917]

I guess I'm alone on this but I really like the "foul stench" line. I think it's a legit good line. Why is that such a hated line of dialogue?

[@MontySlython]

+Anteye Much too cheesy and over the top.

[@GlassMufasa]

+Anteye I don't get why Critic relates that line to the prequels either. Yeah it's cheesy, but it's snappy and comes from that specific character's traits. That's more than can be said about the dialogue in the prequels. You know, I actually watched a New Hope last night and while I'm sure it was improved in editing, it still had more heart and energy than the prequels ever did. The characters bicker and demonstrate how they are different from one another. Their conflicting personalities set up some great jokes. Like when Han fucks with Luke when he figures out he's got the hots for Leia. The script may have been a bit meandering before the editors focused the film, but there's a beating heart in A New Hope that just wasn't in the prequels. It's not just story and characters that Lucas failed to recreate in the prequels, he seemingly forgot basic blocking and scene construction. It's honestly baffling how the guy went from THX, American Graffiti and Star Wars to where he is today. It's like he just forgot how to make a motion picture.

[@skateordie002]

+GlassMufasa There were 22 years between A New Hope and The Phantom Menace. He probably did.

[@Disappearit]

gangs of new york is not a disappointment

[@crankadub5627]

+Ice Man Neither is Shutter Island

[@floraposteschild4184]

+Ice Man Not if you didn't expect much. It didn';t have much of a story, it looked like chunks were pulled out at the last minute, and Leo -- well, I know he has his fans, but I don';t think anyone believes it was his best performance. Daniel Day-Lewis was great, though, and it did have an epic film feel. But it wasn't an epic.

[@BuckDanny2314]

+Ice Man I agree. Though it's not perfect, it is far from a bad film.

[@tsukishiro70]

+Ice Man Gangs of New York as a film devoid of its musical soundtrack is near perfect. Gangs of New York WITH its musical soundtrack is a cinematic disaster. What persuaded Scorsese to bin Elmer Bernstein's work in favour of that shit we actually got is a mystery for the ages.

[@markbermejo1010]

i totally agree Ice Man

[@LVCMPA]

I... I liked Gangs of New York

[@TheMinarus]

And War of the Worlds too LOL

[@LVCMPA]

TheMinarus Ehm.. maybe not War of the Worlds... yeah...

[@TheMinarus]

Abc LOL No actually I did like it..

[@pseudofox]

Gangs received a strong positive response from both audiences as well as general critics. I respect people's opinions if they say that they don't like it, but they should be aware of the context.

[@atenga5881]

probably my favorite performance from Daniel Day Lewis. Fucking love gangs of New York

[@koolaids-man8668]

And then there's Quentin Tarantino, who in my opinion has never made a bad movie (yes, Death Proof is bad when compared to his other works, but a lot of good movies would be considered bad when comparing them to his movies, but I still think Death Proof is an overall good movie)

[@tigers121998]

Good directors career prank (GONE WRONG) (GONE SEXUAL) (IN THE HOOD) 2016

[@genieofthelamp6739]

Nice GradeA reference

[@dairecrilly3097]

+Genie Of the Lamp its more of a pyrocinal reference

[@FIREPOISONandICE]

+Genie Of the Lamp Right

[@josemarques2304]

+tigers121998 It's just a prank bro

[@whodatboi2567]

lol

[@leopardbunny]

Still waiting for the sequel, "Why Do Good KZbin Channels Go Bad?"

[@manospondylus]

Dialga The Time Lord Some people say they were never good to begin with

[@shady8045]

All KZbin channels are low quality though

[@TheMelnTeam]

As a human being, it's PRETTY TOUGH to have a perfect batting average, regardless of what it is you're using to swing.

[@DrShaym]

I don't understand why the Nostalgia Critic portrays Shyamalan with that mask. Is that a reference to something?

[@Cicero532]

Avatar.

[@Venom3254]

Legend of Korra

[@Fantallana]

+Dr Shaym That mask is worn by a character from The Legend of Korra, named "Amon." He's the main villain from season 1 of the show. The reason he uses Amon to represent Shyamalan is basically just a play on words-- he's the ShyamAMON. Or... Shyamon. I dunno, something like that. (Plus, Amon is character known for taking people's powers away, and Critic joked that Shyamalan is known for sucking the quality out of movies. So, there's that.)

[@DrShaym]

+felis bieti That's a stretch. That's like if he portrayed Michael Bay dressed as Cobra Commander because G.I. Joe is tangentially related to Transformers.

[@doverin5732]

+Dr Shaym Actually mate the whole joke was part of a sketch NC did for the Last Airbender review, which was directed by M. Night and absolutely SUCKED! The movie was based off an incredible animated series of the same name that was popular enough to spark a sequel series - The Legend of Korra. There was apparently some paranoia that an equally shitty adaptation might be made of Legend of Korra, and NC chose to commentate on this by working it into his review.

[@swagner15333]

Mars Attacks was awesome.

[@swagner15333]

Gangs of New York and Shutter Island were awesome too. Especially Gangs of New York, DDL was badass as the Butcher.

[@terrancevanliew1814]

+Stephen Wagner Gangs of new york is one of my favorite films. Shutter island was fun but nothing ground breaking. It felt like an episode of the twighlight zone so I enjoyed it.

[@christaborn8535]

+kyotheman69 that was the fucking point. It was supposed to be campy.

[@maesb.2705]

Stephen Wagner Yes but the story is stupid

[@FreddyScouser]

Unpopular opinion : I actually liked Prometheus. And even if you didnt like it, you have to admit that the poster is just amazing. And I thought The visit was a little interesting at times, but really annoying many other times as well. Like when the boy tries to rap, it made me cringe.

[@ariqarisya]

P.S: some critics like Roger Ebert (also most people call him "Critic's justin bieber") ignored Critic's hatred on Prometheus and approve reviewers like Jeremy Jahns

[@bloodrunsclear]

Where's Peter Jackson?

[@etereo15]

Agreed.

[@Nebuchadnezzar31]

His films have been hit and miss since RoTK. King Kong was an overlong, mediocre mess with 3 amazing scenes amongst the flotsam, the Lovely Bones was fucking depressing, and all 3 Hobbit movies were bloated, unfocused rubbish, with only the smeagol/Bilbo scene, and Smaug and Bilbo scenes worth watching. He seriously needs to edit his damn movies down.

[@jhibbitt1]

i wouldn't say he's gone bad, i'd say that he peaked at such high there was nowhere to go but down and films like the hobbit trilogy and king kong i'd say were partially viewed the way they were because they were being measured against lord of the rings not just as films. there are other reasons though. king kong was a remake so it's a bit hard to really care that much especially when its a remake of a film that was a revolutionary milestone and set cinema in the direction it went in, the same story even if it does have great special effects isn't really going to become a duplicate milestone. the hobbit trilogy had several things working against it. jackson didn't want to do it at first and took over from del toro and there was alot of improvising as opposed to lord of the rings when jackson and his crew had a massive greatly detailed vision that was worked at for years before filming. jackson also misjudged fan expectations or maybe succumbed to hollywood marketing. the constant complaint you hear is that it was 3 films. it seems ppl didn't want to see this, they just wanted to see a single film faithful adaptation. the hobbit also suffered the disadvantage of being released after lord of the rings. this wasn't jackson's fault, but as a result this means it was in some ways doomed to not do as well as it would have if it had come out first. i base this on the fact that its hard to care about what's happening in this smaller scale story when you've already seen the big story. pixar used to put animated shorts after their films as an extra until they realised the proper way to do it was to show the short before the main feature. jackson tried to compensate this in all honesty by making it feel big and epic, but this actually made things worse because the scope wasn't the point, it was still a prequel and it still wasn't the main story. how much can you honestly be invested in the battle of 5 armies when you already know everything that's going to happen afterwards, which characters will survive and ultimately how this story is going to end? as opposed to return of the king when the climax held the responsibility of having the entire world we've gotten to see and the future of all these characters we've spent so much time in at stake. now personally i like the hobbit films, but they don't come within an inch of the quality of lord of the rings and i can see why lots of ppl wouldn't like them. the desolation of smaug is especially annoying to sit through at times, but i quite like the battle of 5 armies with the exception of the running time. anyway conclusion of this long essay, peter jackson hasn't gone bad, he might do, but i haven't seen cause to think he's has at the moment. we'll just have to see what he does next

[@HarryThomasPictures]

Peter Jackson Has Never Made A Bad Film. Even After The Return of the King. I Loved King Kong and one of the Few People That Liked The Hobbit Trilogy Even if It Was Weaker in Comparison To Lord of The Rings. And the Lovely Bones While Probably His Weakest Film Wasn't Terrible.

[@Nebuchadnezzar31]

+Harry Thomas Pictures He's made bad films. Have you seen the tasteless rubbish Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles? The Lord of the Rings films are amazing, but I won't say that everything he's done is gold. The Frighteners was meh. Lovely Bones was depressing as fuck. I like some parts of King Kong but omg that movie is way too long for what is just a monster movie. He needs to edit his films down.

[@getlostlser]

What about Fincher? Most solid director out there

[@nathanmcguire932]

+DJ Revolver Fincher's one of my favorites

[@57wookie]

+DJ Revolver He did make Alien 3

[@getlostlser]

57wookie yea but if you watch the documentary about that, you know that the studio wouldn't let him make it the way he wanted and were constantly telling him to change things. So I give him one pass on that one.

[@57wookie]

DJ Revolver yeah honestly I do too, I just wanted a counterpoint

[@cinemaslut9034]

Paul Thomas Anderson has more solid movies TBH and never made a bad movie....

[@WiloPolis03]

Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs: *HOLY CRAP SHYAMALAN CAN DO NO WRONG* The Last Airbender, The Happening, and After Earth: *HOLY CRAP SHYAMALAN WILL NEVER REDEEM HIMSELF* The Visit, Split, and Glass (?): *HOLY CRAP SHYAMALAN IS BACK BAY🅱️*

[@williamturner875]

I don't consider Gangs of New York a disappointment, I felt it was really well directed and had great aesthetics. It really felt like a Scorsese film but in a different time period.

[@travis_redfern6771]

I know 2 directors that were always consistent. Andrei Tarkovsky and Hayao Miyazaki.

[@belias360]

"What Lies Beneath?" Really? I actually liked that movie...

[@TheGollddMAN]

Question: Why do good critics go bad?

[@peterc4719]

+A GollddMAN I was searching these comments to see if anyone else saw the irony. I remember back when critic was funny. Good times.

[@TheGollddMAN]

Peter C Yeah.

[@Paul91-]

+A GollddMAN Doug still is good and funny. He even proves so with interesting videos like these.

[@TheGollddMAN]

irish91ify That's debatable and completely subjective. His long skits basically bored me so much that I watch just the older episodes. He is not funny anymore. Not to mention those god awful actors he has hired doesn't make things any better.

[@TheBigSlugger]

A GollddMAN so your saying hes not as good bc your attention span.

[@RonsaRRR]

10:00 - Shutter Island and Gangs of New York were awesome

[@easportsaxb8057]

I don't usually agree with what you say, but this video opened my eyes. I didn't realise how hard, exciting and daring creating a masterpiece is. Thanks for this video Doug.

[@finasol1019]

This was an awesome video, Critic! You always have such amazing analyses and metas

[@link8440]

I love the background music he uses it's so relaxing.

[@TrollDragomir]

Wachowsky brothers (or rather siblings as of recently) made some great movies after the Matrix was complete. I loved V for Vendetta and Cloud Atlas.

[@benace75]

+TrollDragomir And Speed Racer! It's such a criminally underrated movie.

[@TrollDragomir]

Oh, that kind of flew over my mind, I just remember their names big in the credits, but yeah, the scenario was by them, and based on an amazing comic book, but the movie was directed by someone else. Cloud Atlas was co-directed by them and Tom Tykwer, which shows. The Perfume: Story of a Murderer is in my opinion the most beautiful and well done movie of the 2000's until now. I really wonder what Doug thinks about that one. Or a few other of my favourite movies, like The City of the Lost Children for example.

[@SirBlackReeds]

+TrollDragomir They'll always be brothers. Nothing will ever change that. Why do you think Andy's so cool with it, huh?

[@crazymaner2003]

+Garrick Groover The Wachowskis took over direction on V For Vendetta after production troubles. Does V For Vendetta look like a Wachowski movie or a Jame McTiegue movie? It's as obvious as Spielberg's direction of Poltergeist.

[@petros1q]

watch sense8 another really good series made by the wachowskis

[@brifox]

Another thing to mention: even when directors go bad they still maintain an air of self-awareness occasionally. Such as Shyamalan being offered the chance to direct an adaptation of "Life of Pi" and turning it down because of the book's twist ending and the feeling that his reputation might color the average viewer's perspective on it.

[@PedroFelix456]

There's a Game called "The Begginer's Guide" that makes an interesting talk about what the critic was saying at the start, I don't want to say too much about because it could ruing a very heatbreaking and worring game, I recommend you guys check it out

[@therealfreeman]

.. backfires with Contact?? That is one of my all time favourite movies.

[@leob4403]

word

[@felixLucretius]

I was about to type something along those lines, too. Incredible, unique film.

[@5daysastranger]

Contact was a good movie, sure it had it 's flaws, but still a good movie. Personally, i didn't really like Judy Foster's performance that much, but hey! That 's just me.

[@neo06m2003]

I don't think most directors seek out to make a bad movie. I think in their mind they're making a good movie. it's just how the audience interpret how the movie is either good or bad.

[@blaketindle4703]

They either keep nothing but yes men around them who won’t tell them their work is shit, or people around them do tell the truth that it’s shit but their egos are so overinflated from early success that they ignore all criticism.