Most Boring Directors?

Balzac is a great comparison I think.

Elston

Yeah, early Ozu is a lot different than his late films. He was a bit of a bad boy when he was younger and it shows in his early films. Five of his silent films are available on Criterion if you are in Region 1. The one that I really like that is not available is WALK CHEERFULLY which is a terrific comedy with gangster overtones. It even has a dance sequence that may remind many of the dance sequences in BAND OF OUTSIDERS and PULP FICTION.

I don’t care what people say about Ozu, he’s superior to you al mwahahahaha!

Tedious, dull, tiresome = Clint Eastwood.

Clint Eastwood’s problem is casting. He usually picks the most dependable/predictable person for the part, and that makes the film boring right out of the gate. That being said Breezy (and a fair amount of others) is a great film.

Claire Denis

ron howard is boring as hell.

Lars Von Trier from what I have seen of him (Antichrist, Dogville). Interesting concepts, but its just dull film making in my opinion. I didn’t care about any of the characters and found both films visually boring for the most part.

James Cameron for sure, except for maybe the first Terminator and Aliens.

@Sunny

While I do love Von Trier’s films, I have to agree that his technique is quite haphazard and off-the-cuff. I’ve always found his strength in writing. One thing I will give him credit for is for making a rather chaotic and frenzied film style work, when it really shouldn’t! (tho this is debatable). (Oh shit, there;s my period grammar mistake).

Clint Eastwood. – Especially when working with Haggis

Steven Soderburgh – “Che” especially.

Paul Haggis.

Forget Hotel for Dogs–what about Beverly Hills Chihuahua???

jim jarmusch

@Roscoe – Tedious, dull, tiresome = Clint Eastwood.

hear hear! never was a big fan

I’d have to say Robert Altman; I though M*A*S*H and Nashville were too slow paced. his movies seem like character studies with no general story. and the overlapping diologue can get a little irritating

and Ozu, “Good Morning” was cute but kind of dull

Godard and Antonioni

I’ll defend Altman up to a point. There are real rewards to be gotten from watching MASH and NASHVILLE, specifically the incredibly high quality of the acting. There’s nothing whatever to be gotten from Eastwood that can’t be gotten from the nearest fortune cookie.

I’m certain some posters are just trying to provoke an argument. Just because you don’t connect with a film or directors work surely doesn’t make the film or the director boring. I respect anyone who can create something unique and original. There are plenty of directors who’s work I don’t ‘get’ but I would never call them boring. I usually contribute it to a lack of understanding or experience on my part.

For example. with the exception of THE RED DESSERT I have never loved, or enjoyed really, an Italian film – maybe CINEMA PARADISO. Does this mean Fellini is boring or crap? No, I just fail to connect with or have any interest in that culture. But I respect him as an artist.

@It is Antonioni who directed The Red Desert, not Fellini. And that is why im suggesting Antonioni, that and Blow-Up.

Anyways, what are you whining about, we all know its a matter of taste, no need to always remember the population that taste are not facts. The question is: Most boring directors? We are simply giving our own answers.

And if you are refering to me, no I am not trying to provoke an argument by any cost.

Fair enough. No it wasn’t aimed at you. I realise it was Antonioni, I was saying Fellini hasn’t interested me yet but I would call him boring.

How about Barry Sonnenfeld? He’s pretty dull

Jim Jarmusch? Why? :O

Noah Baumbach…….zzzzzzzz

I assume “I had issues with my daddy” Anderson has his share of votes.

Nothing he’s done that isn’t pretty much a yawn fest. I’ve seen it claimed that he has an incredibly clever, dry sense of humor … sure passes me by.

Does the guy who wrote “The Eternal Boredom of the Empty Mind” count as a director?

Coen Brothers

Ozu
Bresson

Phillip Kaufman.

I could do without this thread for what it’s worth. If mods cannot erase it, please people let it die…boring is a consuming wasteland of a word.

Who ever directed ‘Channel and Stravinsky’. That guy was able to make the legendary ‘Rites of Spring’ Paris premiere dull….

Sorry Dimitris, I can’t let it die.

Elston said:

“This thread is for discussing a director whose work you find “tedious, dull, or tiresome”, not for starting fights. If you cannot think of someone or have nothing to add to what has already been said, probably better not to respond. & preferably explain why you find the director boring. Obviously art is subjective, but I’m sure everyone can relate to feeling bored, no?”

This childish remark is meant to chastise those who didn’t add any well thought out remarks to his opening query. Let’s look at it:

“Personally, I think I’d have to go with Yasujiro Ozu. I find such dissonance between his absurdly repetitive plots and his extremely assured and inimitable style. I think stylistically he is an incredible film maker, but otherwise his stories are pretty dull. One thing I cannot wrap my head around is how he almost literally made the same movie over and over again, recycling the story and even using the same actors in the same parts (not to mention shooting in the nearly the exact same style). This boggles my mind – that someone could do the same thing over and over again and still be respected. Intellectually his films are pretty tame, there is definitely some ideas going on there about society (ie Japan transitioning into modernism) and certainly about family struggles (traditional values vs. genuine feeling, attitudes of young vs. old etc) but otherwise there is not much going on. If there is anything that gets me is how people think he is some cosmically deep spiritual film maker. I don’t quite get that. Anyways, he is just really boring to me, though it’s possible I’m missing something, or I’m another wavelength.

I have highlighted the qualitative words Elston uses in his opening posts. None of these words he tosses around are will help anyone who has not seen an Ozu film understand what Elston finds “boring” about them.
Elston, if you want quality responses, next time take a few moments and paragraphs to do more than a shallow interpretation of a filmmakers work. Explain what it is about specific plots or scenes or performances that doesn’t excite you. Explain what it is in any film that excites you. You saying Ozu is just plain old boring does not deserve any greater response than a middle finger, the gestural equivalent to your OP.