Kubrick?
shareIncredible only 16 credits and 3 of those are shorts. I can't think of anyone off the top of my head with #credits/reputation ratio!
sharei agree, almost every single one of his movies is iconic. he was very meticulous and picky, hence the small amount of work, he only made movies he believed in.
shareMichael Cimino. Learn how to ruin your career in one easy lesson.
shareDid you like "Heaven's Gate"?
(I rented it once, and it had scratches all over the DVD - no way I would put up with 4 hours of that, missing scenes, etc).. The only movie friends of mine who liked it can only seem to say how beautiful the cinematography was (which is not the reason I watch a movie)
Saw it right around the time it came out and was bored to tears. The fact that I don't particularly like Westerns didn't help any.
"It is notable for being one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, losing the studio an estimated $37 million ($144 million in 2019 dollars). It was also initially viewed as one of the worst films ever made.
There were major setbacks in the film's production due to cost overruns, endless retakes, negative press (including allegations of animal abuse on-set) and rumors about Cimino's allegedly authoritarian directorial style; the film resultantly opened to scathing reviews, earning only $3.5 million domestically (from an estimated $44 million budget), eventually causing its parent studio, United Artists, to collapse, and effectively destroying Cimino's reputation as a filmmaker, previously a rising auteur from the success of his 1978 film The Deer Hunter, winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director in 1979. Cimino had an expensive and ambitious vision, pushing the film nearly four times over its planned budget. Its resulting financial problems and United Artists' consequent demise led to a move away from the brief 1970s period of director-driven film production in the American film industry, back toward greater studio control of films, as had been predominant in Hollywood until the late 1960s.
In the decades since the release, however, general assessment of Heaven's Gate has become more positive. The 1980 re-edit has been characterized as "one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history" and later re-edits have received critical acclaim. The BBC ranked Heaven's Gate 98th on their 100 greatest American films of all-time list."
Shooting demands, overruns, and endless retakes (see full article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(film))
A few years ago I tried to re-watch it but didn't get far. Not sure which cut it was. I've been meaning to make another stab at it...
Boring as hell, even though the true story it was inspired by is not that uninteresting. The last time it was on I spent all my time researching the story instead of watching the rest of the movie.
shareChristopher Walken looked ridiculous.
shareterrence malick is the first name that comes to mind, though that's less the case now, given the rate he's been releasing films the last decade or so.
And he's not done yet. He's kind of ruining his legacy.
sharei have to admit i have not watched one of his films since tree of life (which i genuinely loved, more than anything else he's done). so i can't comment on any of them personally.
there have been some positive words said about this year's 'a hidden life.'
but it's 3 bloody hours long!
James Cameron.
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