Genre Directors Who Have Never Made a Bad Movie

The story of science fiction and fantasy at the cinema is litter with wreckage . It ’s hard enough to make a motion picture , and most impossible to make a good motion-picture show . So it ’s not surprising that even some of the honorable directors in Hollywood have at least one so-and-so in their survey . With The Dark Knight arise , Christopher Nolan confirm his membership in an elect night club : musical genre film - makers who ’ve never made a truly too bad movie .

Here are six science fiction and fantasy movie directors who ’ve never made a bad movie .

Note : We ’re not admit director who ’ve only made a few moving picture full . So no Joss Whedon , and no J.J. Abrams . And obviously there ’s some subjectivity about what constitutes a “ unfit flick ” — for example , Peter Jackson is disqualified strictly on the foundation of Lovely Bones . Even if you like Prometheus , Ridley Scott is probably bumped already , thanks to Legend . With that out of the room , here ’s our forgetful , exclusive list :

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At this point , he ’s not only made apretty strong Batman trilogy , he ’s also made a degree of doing his own challenging task as well . His caterpillar tread record includes the mind - bending Memento and Inception . But also , he succeeded in taking Christopher Priest ’s tricky “ feuding magicians ” novel The Prestige and turning it into a fashionable , cagey film . He easily earns a piazza on this tilt .

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Yes , we think eXistenZ is a decent picture , trippy “ trapped in a weird body revulsion television game reality ” chronological succession and all . We wish M. Butterfly fine . And Dead Ringers , his unearthly “ matching gynecologists ” picture , is pretty solid as well . And of course , Cronenberg has more than his fair share of classic under his belt too , from Scanners to Videodrome to The Fly to Eastern Promises . His office on this list does depend on the other reports that Cosmopolis is a clunker being false , however .

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His former Mexican films are just outstanding . Mimic is n’t his bully work , and it decidedly has some flaws — but it ’s not a bad movie at all . And after that , you get into a string of films that are either good or neat , including the two Hellboy picture show , Blade II , and the dead beguiling Pan ’s Labyrinth . Andafter go through the first footage from Pacific Rim , his “ gargantuan monsters vs. giant robots ” motion picture , we ’re confident that it will be at least becoming .

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But wait — what about Avatar ? Actually , we do n’t think you may call Avatar a bad moving-picture show , even if you do n’t opine it was a dandy movie . It ’s a well - worn tale , but Cameron tell it pretty well , and it ’s also gorgeous as fuck . And if you allow him Avatar , then Cameron ’s record depend pretty impregnable . Titanic is sentimental — but more solidly fabricate than its namesake . The Abyss actually holds up quite well . Then there are True Lies , the two Terminators , and Aliens , all of which are great . You do have to unfit Piranha 2 as having been take by Cameron , however .

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She ’s spend a lot of her career shuttling back and off between skill fiction films and straight - up activeness thrillers , before get gamey and topical with The Hurt Locker and her raw Osama Bin Laden movie , Zero Dark Thirty . Her action and science fable movies admit the classic vampire film Near Dark , the cop movie Blue Steel and the “ undercover agent ” picture show Point Break . Really , though , her property on this leaning depends on what you call up of Strange Days , her movie about a weird futurity where people buy and betray memories . It ’s decidedly catch some ungainly bits , and it ’s not a great motion-picture show — but we ’d argue Strange Days has enough jarring , weird moments to stick in your mind . And it never descends into real “ bad movie ” territory .

And finally , the only conductor to make the transition from Pixar to live activeness successfully . ( Bird ’s workfellow Andrew Stanton nearly makes this list — but even though John Carter succeeds at doing many things , it also fails at a nearly equal amount of its goals . ) And Brad Bird ’s filmography include not just the Pixar classics The Incredibles and Ratatouille , but also The Iron Giant — which takes Ted Hughes ’ sad , beautiful nestling ’s book and turn it into an perfectly lovely film . And even though Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol is mostly a reasonably brainless action film , Bird progress to it look just astonishing , especially in IMAX . We ’ve never seen anything like some of the Dubai sequences , plus Bird pull off to make Tom Cruise look like he ’s really frightened and engaged during those military action scenes , rather of just competent and disengaged .

Thanks to Annalee , Meredith and Keith for the input !

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