Post by laescoobyfan on Aug 13, 2012 9:08:52 GMT -5
Raja Gosnell, who directed "Scooby Doo" and "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed", is one of the "10 Directors Who Have Never Made A Good Movie" according to complex.com.
This is what the article said to introduce the list:
"Calling a filmmaker a “hack,” or a “scrub,” or just downright “terrible” can feel both pretentious and unfair. Think about it, no matter how poor a piece of art is, one must assume that its creators worked on the project with at least some good intentions. Does anyone truly set out to make something that’s awful?
But what is there to do when, in terms of cinema, an “artist” releases nothing but mediocre to full-on bad work? Call them out for such ineffectual practices, of course. Hey, it might not feel good, but they’ve left passionate motion picture fans no other choice.
Recently, we compiled a list of 10 directors who have never made a bad movie, and, once it hit the net, many film lovers voiced their disagreements, approvals, and anger over names they felt should’ve been included. As tough as it was to find a dime’s worth of folks with impeccable filmographies, though, putting together the inverse list was even more difficult.
That’s why the offenders filling out the following rundown of 10 Directors Who Have Never Made A Good Movie are so (unfortunately for them) special. It takes an extraordinarily futile player to strike out every time at bat."
And this is the part on Raja Gosnell:
"Losing streak: Home Alone 3 (1997), Never Been Kissed (1999), Big Momma’s House (2000), Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008), The Smurfs (2011)
The Smurfs don’t count as animals, right? For the sake of our case against Raja Gosnell, let’s consider the little blue creatures as such. In last year’s hit kids’ film The Smurfs, Gosnell bestowed the same kinds of corny one-liners and desecration of childhood nostalgia upon Smurfette’s crew that he did to our beloved Great Dane pal Scooby Doo in two equally poor films. Lovers of cute, pint-sized canines were treated with similar disrespect in Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
Not that Gosnell is any better with flesh-and-blood human characters. From overseeing one of Martin Lawrence’s worst comedies (Big Momma’s House) to turning Dennis Quaid into a one-note slapstick joke in 2005’s abysmal family nightmare Yours, Mine & Ours, the director’s ability to lower all of those around him knows no species-specifics bounds."
Link: www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/10-directors-who-have-never-made-a-good-movie/raja-gosnell#gallery
Do you agree with the article?
This is what the article said to introduce the list:
"Calling a filmmaker a “hack,” or a “scrub,” or just downright “terrible” can feel both pretentious and unfair. Think about it, no matter how poor a piece of art is, one must assume that its creators worked on the project with at least some good intentions. Does anyone truly set out to make something that’s awful?
But what is there to do when, in terms of cinema, an “artist” releases nothing but mediocre to full-on bad work? Call them out for such ineffectual practices, of course. Hey, it might not feel good, but they’ve left passionate motion picture fans no other choice.
Recently, we compiled a list of 10 directors who have never made a bad movie, and, once it hit the net, many film lovers voiced their disagreements, approvals, and anger over names they felt should’ve been included. As tough as it was to find a dime’s worth of folks with impeccable filmographies, though, putting together the inverse list was even more difficult.
That’s why the offenders filling out the following rundown of 10 Directors Who Have Never Made A Good Movie are so (unfortunately for them) special. It takes an extraordinarily futile player to strike out every time at bat."
And this is the part on Raja Gosnell:
"Losing streak: Home Alone 3 (1997), Never Been Kissed (1999), Big Momma’s House (2000), Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008), The Smurfs (2011)
The Smurfs don’t count as animals, right? For the sake of our case against Raja Gosnell, let’s consider the little blue creatures as such. In last year’s hit kids’ film The Smurfs, Gosnell bestowed the same kinds of corny one-liners and desecration of childhood nostalgia upon Smurfette’s crew that he did to our beloved Great Dane pal Scooby Doo in two equally poor films. Lovers of cute, pint-sized canines were treated with similar disrespect in Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
Not that Gosnell is any better with flesh-and-blood human characters. From overseeing one of Martin Lawrence’s worst comedies (Big Momma’s House) to turning Dennis Quaid into a one-note slapstick joke in 2005’s abysmal family nightmare Yours, Mine & Ours, the director’s ability to lower all of those around him knows no species-specifics bounds."
Link: www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/10-directors-who-have-never-made-a-good-movie/raja-gosnell#gallery
Do you agree with the article?
