everybody has something to hide and
these famous directors would love to
make these movie mistakes disappear I
wish there was something I could do
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most embarrassing movies by critically
acclaimed directors Madame we must have
waffles we must all have waffles
forthwith for this list we’re looking at
directors who’ve been rewarded for their
work both with awards and box office
returns but who have at least one film
in their catalogue that stands out as
dull mediocre or just plain bad number
10 alien 3 David Fincher long sad story
hold on a little melodramatic try me
David Fincher’s work on films like the
social network has been justly applauded
I don’t understand
which part but the stinger that is alien
3 has been justly derided the movies
horrible dialogue lousy pacing and total
lack of suspense aren’t all Fincher’s
fault we tolerate anybody even the
Intolerable not only was it his first
big-budget film he was also brought in
late in the game and started filming
with an unfinished script why
why are the innocent punished the final
insult that sealed this flix fate the
studio recut the film without Fincher’s
input or consent by the sacrifice number
nine a good year Ridley Scott because I
didn’t shag you at the Christmas parties
it why did Ridley Scott the director of
gladiator and Blade Runner think that he
had anything to bring to a soppy
romantic comedy secret to riches labrats
is the same as the secret to comedy
timing
dude you’re all about action and manly
men what are you doing filming fuzzy
long shots of picture-postcard French
scenery are they good memories the grand
the critic for The Guardian called a
good year a humorless cinematic slice of
tourist gastro porn
yeah what he said
times like this one everyone hates you
that’s one was fun number eight Hulk
angly hey there okay angley’s Crouching
Tiger Hidden Dragon was amazing but
everything that made it cool was missing
from the directors 2003 take on the Hulk
I’m sorry really look on one level the
character of Hulk is about the beast
inside everyman but really what he’s all
about is simple Hulk get mad Hulk smash
puny human Lee’s crushingly boring
seemingly endless film took itself way
too seriously
and is one of the least fun superhero
films ever made
number seven The Ladykillers Joel and
Ethan Coen oh ma the brothers Coen are
known for their offbeat quirky
subversive take on life as evidenced by
films like The Big Lebowski when they
stick to black comedy no one can beat
them yeah well you know that’s just like
your opinion man so what the hell were
they thinking with The Ladykillers not
repeat the L up of Sinkin you go to a
Coen film looking for a certain degree
of subtlety but in Ladykillers it’s like
they channeled their inner
three-year-olds proving that even smart
filmmakers can do dumb things
yeah boy he go I’d like it with some
pussy oh shit man yo mouth this is a
piston house boy no hipot you have
language in here number six
Elizabethtown Cameron Crowe a failure is
simply the non-presence of success
memo to Cameron Crowe when making a
movie something needs to happen to keep
the viewers interest you think after all
most famous he’d know that I have to go
home
but he seems to have totally forgotten
it with Elizabethtown where it’s he live
in Lowell actually he’s near Louisville
Louisville Louisville Louie bold he’s in
Elizabethtown
yeah Orlando Bloom’s a nice guy but two
hours of him aimlessly puttering around
is too much especially when he’s uh
Turing dialogue that makes a first
grader cringe that’s what they say huh
yes that’s what they say I’ve always
wondered this who are they
you know them lesson learned never make
your lead character a shoe designer or
let him say things like a shoe is not
just a shoe it connects us to the earth
number five AI artificial intelligence
Steven Spielberg maybe if Stanley
Kubrick who originated the idea for AI
had finished it the film would have been
a masterpiece stop it David stop it stop
it and you would think that the man who
brought us jaws and et could pull off a
film like AI humming pad trouble but
somehow under Spielberg’s handling a
potentially dark tale of robots
interacting with humanity became a
sticky sweet tale with forced humor
false emotions at a structure that keeps
falling apart
Spielberg at his best is genius here
he’s floundering
history repeats itself number four the
dilemma
Ron Howard Ron Howard’s known for
touching powerful films like Apollo 13
and a beautiful mind so why did he agree
to direct 2011’s the dilemma houston we
have a problem this 70 million dollar
mess wants to be a lowbrow comedy I got
some serious lady wood here
but Howard clearly feels uncomfortable
with the material and that shows in
every frame I have to fix it on my own
Ronnie you’re not fixing anything and
you’re breaking more stuff from its
first trailer with its electric cars are
gay line ladies and gentlemen electric
cars they’re totally gay the dilemma was
marked as a loser I don’t mean that
they’re homosexual gay but I do mean
your parents are the chaperone at the
dance gay right you tuck it in and wear
it real high gay
I don’t want disrespect anybody because
I’m not about that number three
alexander oliver stone never will there
be an Alexander like you Alexander the
Great they say it takes a genius to make
a really terrible movie so Alexander
certainly puts Oliver Stone high on the
genius list I’ve known many great men in
my life
but only one Colossus the director had
already proved himself with successes
like platoon and JFK now went through
the looking-glass here people white is
black and black is white but everything
is wrong with this biopic of Alexander
the Great from a miscast Colin Farrell
to an annoying Angelina Jolie you can
love them for the years feed them
nurture them not still they can turn on
you the script is ludicrous the pace is
deadly and even the history is
inaccurate
sorry Olli but this Alexander is not so
great when it’s over all that matters is
what you’ve done number two piranhas to
the spawning James Cameron
Titanic made James Cameron but 1981’s
piranha to the spawning made him king of
the worst I suppose you think that’s
hysterically funny a film about piranhas
that have learned to fly we kid you not
should at least be trashy fun but this
is simply inept with monsters that one
critic said look like haddock with
dentures I didn’t have so much to drink
tonight I swear I was seeing things
piranhas too would have sunk another
directors career
but with Terminator Cameron proved that
he’ll be back
before we attempt to wipe our top pick
from our memories here are a few
honorable or dishonorable mentions we’ve
got a situation here
Sarge you’re breaking up I can hardly
hear you the command is dead
and everybody in the mines got inside
the job I had before was as a psychic I
know but I bet it’s true she just comes
no man sometimes we all go though man
sometimes hey your stinking hands off me
you damn dirty human number one Jack
Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford
Coppola showed genuine brilliance with
films like The Godfather but he’s had
more than a share of bombs and Jack is
the a-bomb of his career what a vile
done to make you take me so
disrespectfully this dramedy is about a
boy played by Robin Williams aging at an
accelerated rate hey Jack
ever get a boner you know any rector not
yet I’m hoping to get one for Christmas
Coppola can’t reconcile the shifts in
tone between melodrama and comedy and he
lets Williams ham it up shamelessly hey
Dad I got to play basketball today they
picked me yeah not just as I’m humongous
because I’m real good watching Jack you
marvel at its sheer awfulness
if it weren’t for his earlier successes
you’d think that Coppola didn’t know
jack about making movies do you agree
with our picks
what other directorial embarrassments
should we have added to the list I’m
more than a straw I am devastated I’m
beside myself I’m a positive loss for
words for Moore in throttling top tens
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com so if you want to hit me
again if that’s gonna
these famous directors would love to
make these movie mistakes disappear I
wish there was something I could do
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most embarrassing movies by critically
acclaimed directors Madame we must have
waffles we must all have waffles
forthwith for this list we’re looking at
directors who’ve been rewarded for their
work both with awards and box office
returns but who have at least one film
in their catalogue that stands out as
dull mediocre or just plain bad number
10 alien 3 David Fincher long sad story
hold on a little melodramatic try me
David Fincher’s work on films like the
social network has been justly applauded
I don’t understand
which part but the stinger that is alien
3 has been justly derided the movies
horrible dialogue lousy pacing and total
lack of suspense aren’t all Fincher’s
fault we tolerate anybody even the
Intolerable not only was it his first
big-budget film he was also brought in
late in the game and started filming
with an unfinished script why
why are the innocent punished the final
insult that sealed this flix fate the
studio recut the film without Fincher’s
input or consent by the sacrifice number
nine a good year Ridley Scott because I
didn’t shag you at the Christmas parties
it why did Ridley Scott the director of
gladiator and Blade Runner think that he
had anything to bring to a soppy
romantic comedy secret to riches labrats
is the same as the secret to comedy
timing
dude you’re all about action and manly
men what are you doing filming fuzzy
long shots of picture-postcard French
scenery are they good memories the grand
the critic for The Guardian called a
good year a humorless cinematic slice of
tourist gastro porn
yeah what he said
times like this one everyone hates you
that’s one was fun number eight Hulk
angly hey there okay angley’s Crouching
Tiger Hidden Dragon was amazing but
everything that made it cool was missing
from the directors 2003 take on the Hulk
I’m sorry really look on one level the
character of Hulk is about the beast
inside everyman but really what he’s all
about is simple Hulk get mad Hulk smash
puny human Lee’s crushingly boring
seemingly endless film took itself way
too seriously
and is one of the least fun superhero
films ever made
number seven The Ladykillers Joel and
Ethan Coen oh ma the brothers Coen are
known for their offbeat quirky
subversive take on life as evidenced by
films like The Big Lebowski when they
stick to black comedy no one can beat
them yeah well you know that’s just like
your opinion man so what the hell were
they thinking with The Ladykillers not
repeat the L up of Sinkin you go to a
Coen film looking for a certain degree
of subtlety but in Ladykillers it’s like
they channeled their inner
three-year-olds proving that even smart
filmmakers can do dumb things
yeah boy he go I’d like it with some
pussy oh shit man yo mouth this is a
piston house boy no hipot you have
language in here number six
Elizabethtown Cameron Crowe a failure is
simply the non-presence of success
memo to Cameron Crowe when making a
movie something needs to happen to keep
the viewers interest you think after all
most famous he’d know that I have to go
home
but he seems to have totally forgotten
it with Elizabethtown where it’s he live
in Lowell actually he’s near Louisville
Louisville Louisville Louie bold he’s in
Elizabethtown
yeah Orlando Bloom’s a nice guy but two
hours of him aimlessly puttering around
is too much especially when he’s uh
Turing dialogue that makes a first
grader cringe that’s what they say huh
yes that’s what they say I’ve always
wondered this who are they
you know them lesson learned never make
your lead character a shoe designer or
let him say things like a shoe is not
just a shoe it connects us to the earth
number five AI artificial intelligence
Steven Spielberg maybe if Stanley
Kubrick who originated the idea for AI
had finished it the film would have been
a masterpiece stop it David stop it stop
it and you would think that the man who
brought us jaws and et could pull off a
film like AI humming pad trouble but
somehow under Spielberg’s handling a
potentially dark tale of robots
interacting with humanity became a
sticky sweet tale with forced humor
false emotions at a structure that keeps
falling apart
Spielberg at his best is genius here
he’s floundering
history repeats itself number four the
dilemma
Ron Howard Ron Howard’s known for
touching powerful films like Apollo 13
and a beautiful mind so why did he agree
to direct 2011’s the dilemma houston we
have a problem this 70 million dollar
mess wants to be a lowbrow comedy I got
some serious lady wood here
but Howard clearly feels uncomfortable
with the material and that shows in
every frame I have to fix it on my own
Ronnie you’re not fixing anything and
you’re breaking more stuff from its
first trailer with its electric cars are
gay line ladies and gentlemen electric
cars they’re totally gay the dilemma was
marked as a loser I don’t mean that
they’re homosexual gay but I do mean
your parents are the chaperone at the
dance gay right you tuck it in and wear
it real high gay
I don’t want disrespect anybody because
I’m not about that number three
alexander oliver stone never will there
be an Alexander like you Alexander the
Great they say it takes a genius to make
a really terrible movie so Alexander
certainly puts Oliver Stone high on the
genius list I’ve known many great men in
my life
but only one Colossus the director had
already proved himself with successes
like platoon and JFK now went through
the looking-glass here people white is
black and black is white but everything
is wrong with this biopic of Alexander
the Great from a miscast Colin Farrell
to an annoying Angelina Jolie you can
love them for the years feed them
nurture them not still they can turn on
you the script is ludicrous the pace is
deadly and even the history is
inaccurate
sorry Olli but this Alexander is not so
great when it’s over all that matters is
what you’ve done number two piranhas to
the spawning James Cameron
Titanic made James Cameron but 1981’s
piranha to the spawning made him king of
the worst I suppose you think that’s
hysterically funny a film about piranhas
that have learned to fly we kid you not
should at least be trashy fun but this
is simply inept with monsters that one
critic said look like haddock with
dentures I didn’t have so much to drink
tonight I swear I was seeing things
piranhas too would have sunk another
directors career
but with Terminator Cameron proved that
he’ll be back
before we attempt to wipe our top pick
from our memories here are a few
honorable or dishonorable mentions we’ve
got a situation here
Sarge you’re breaking up I can hardly
hear you the command is dead
and everybody in the mines got inside
the job I had before was as a psychic I
know but I bet it’s true she just comes
no man sometimes we all go though man
sometimes hey your stinking hands off me
you damn dirty human number one Jack
Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford
Coppola showed genuine brilliance with
films like The Godfather but he’s had
more than a share of bombs and Jack is
the a-bomb of his career what a vile
done to make you take me so
disrespectfully this dramedy is about a
boy played by Robin Williams aging at an
accelerated rate hey Jack
ever get a boner you know any rector not
yet I’m hoping to get one for Christmas
Coppola can’t reconcile the shifts in
tone between melodrama and comedy and he
lets Williams ham it up shamelessly hey
Dad I got to play basketball today they
picked me yeah not just as I’m humongous
because I’m real good watching Jack you
marvel at its sheer awfulness
if it weren’t for his earlier successes
you’d think that Coppola didn’t know
jack about making movies do you agree
with our picks
what other directorial embarrassments
should we have added to the list I’m
more than a straw I am devastated I’m
beside myself I’m a positive loss for
words for Moore in throttling top tens
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com so if you want to hit me
again if that’s gonna
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