Australia
Ghost (1990): Some directors make a smooth transition from prankish, exuberant youth to just-as-interesting elder statespersons; witness Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire and David Fincher's Zodiac (though we'll see about this Benjamin Button business). Others, meanwhile, can't help but sell out. And so, while his former Airplane! partners David Zucker and Jim Abraham have kept the spoof train going, Jerry Zucker took a 180 and made Ghost. Fucking Ghost. Zucker followed that up with First Knight before making an inauspicious return to comedy with Rat Race. The lesson: Don't grow up.
Forrest Gump (1994): Just like Rob Reiner, Robert Zemeckis was a brilliant creator of pop masterpieces in the '80s who calcified into an Oscar baiter. Unlike Reiner, Zemeckis then took another zigzag, this time into films that exist solely as technological marvels (The Polar Express, Beowulf). Come back, Zemeckis.
The Pianist (2002): Roman Polanski hasn't been great since the '70s, but it took till the '00s for him to throw up his hands and make a generic, award-pandering Holocaust movie. The Polish great actually survived the Holocaust, making the film's lack of sensibility all the more galling.
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004): Maybe it doesn't seem like a great loss that the well-named Rowdy Herrington of the now-legendary Road House would segue from trashy DTV movies to this clean-as-a-whistle, creepy Christian golf biopic starring a post-Christ Jim Caviezel. But it absolutely is.
World Trade Center (2006): An Oliver Stone movie about 9/11 that could've been directed by, say, Rob Reiner? The only way he could've topped himself is by making a movie about George W. Bush that not only doesn't engage in nutty conspiracy-theorizing but also doesn't dwell on items like Dubya and Laura's volcanic near-divorce. Oh, wait.
Australia (2008): Did I almost fall asleep during a Baz Luhrmann movie? How the annoying have fallen.
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1. Lee said... on Dec 3, 2008 at 10:06AM
“Your trailer for 'Australia' is wrong. It is a fake fan made trailer using scenes from various other movies with the same actors. Also I agree...it was incredibly boring and an awful let down especially for Baz Luhrmann. Oh how I wish it was not titled 'Australia' they should have stuck with the 'Faraway downs' name. I have heard that it has gone down very poorly in Australia, no one is happy with it. Lee - Originally from Melbourne, Australia. Currently South Philly. PS. Nicole Kidman has never been able to act.......ever..”