Directors you are no longer a fan of.

Tarantino. His first 3 movies are so great, but after that it just went downhill.

I can't say that I'm no longer a fan of Quentin Tarantino. I'm just no longer a fangirl. The bloom has come off the rose for me with him. I finally saw both Kill Bills recently (after having seen the first one upon release years ago and never looking back). These movies are ASS. Junk. Complete and total shit. Of the movies I have seen post Kill Bill (Inglorious Basterds, OUATIH), it seems as if he's become a self-conscious parody of himself, like he's too afraid of ruining his public image. And now, I often wonder how many flashes of genius I've seen in his movies (the tavern scene in IG) wasn't borrowed from somebody else.

Ditto Martin Scorsese. Looking back, I noticed that there's always one really egregious flaw in his movie that would be rightfully called out as amateurish if it had been committed by any other director. For example: 1) Not ending Taxi Driver at the couch scene when Bickle does the gun gesture. 2) Having Henry Hill's wife narrate for part of the movie when this was his story to tell (and then, to make matters worse, all she does is describe what we can plainly see is happening in the scene).

Steven Spielberg
George Lucas

Agree on Soderbergh. I'd add Erin Brockovich to the good and Unsane to the bad.

And I don't like Fincher as much as I did.

Or Ed Zwick.

Or Gary Ross.

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Maybe David Fincher? Still really like his movies but I don't really hold them in as high of regard as before. And he also hasn't made anything of note since Gone Girl.

But lets see how that WWZ sequel pans out, think it might be pretty damn good, or at least really fun.

So much edginess in this thread. I don't think I can handle it.

I was going to say that Cameron Crowe's career has taken a bad turn after a strong start, but how can I compete with comments like Tarantino can't write dialogue anymore or Scorsese makes amateurish mistakes that a film student wouldn't.

I'm going to leave before I get a serious cut from all that edginess.

cameron crowe is definitely one of the bigger head-scratchers of recent years. it's almost bizarre how his films seem to have fallen off of a cliff - though, full disclosure, i haven't seen most of the post-almost famous stuff. i just know them by reputation. maybe i'd actually like them...but the subject matter he's gone into with them interests me not one little bit.

one director that i absolutely loved out of the gate, but who i've definitely cooled on is ben wheatley. i liked his first film (down terrace), and think his second, kill list, was truly great - one of my very favourite films of any era, any style.

and if he didn't make anything i liked as much, he kept making interesting things for a few years - a serial killer comedy (sightseers, pretty good), a mushroom trip psychedelic period piece (a field in england - too weird to be completely lovable, but i still dug it).

but then he did a jg ballard adaptation - high rise. ought to have been right up my alley, but instead, i found it to be numbingly boring.

and then he did a gangster crime shoot-out action film (free fire) and i found that just as dull, and disappointingly normal in most ways as i recall. weirdness & eccentricity all tamped down.

he has a 2018 film that i haven't seen at all, and doesn't seem to have been distributed outside of the uk...and weirdly enough, he is apparently directing a tomb raider film, which makes absolutely no sense to me, and interests me not at all.

please come back and be weird, ben wheatley - you're my only hope...