Overrated directors

[duggie walker]

Originally Posted by jasonjl

Michael Mann and Ron Howard

I'm with you on Michael Mann! I've never understood why he was so embraced by the film-studies lot. As far as I can tell, his use of neon and minimalist architecture seems to have impressed them.

He made horrible, cheesy 80s TV series and then he made some really pedestrian movies, carrying all his outmoded tropes with him.

MANHUNTER was scuppered by Mann's terrible taste in music. HEAT was horribly overlong and pretty vacuous. LAST OF THE MOHICANS, COLLATERAL, PUBLIC ENEMIES - all very average. His worst film by a mile is the laughable MIAMI VICE. The only films of his I've liked were THIEF and THE INSIDER.

I guess if you live in LA and spend all day on the beach, he'd make sense to you. If Michael Mann was a hairstyle, he'd be a mullet that someone's turned into a ponytail.