Top 10 Most Disappointing Movies by Good Directors

The Top Ten
1 Avatar - James Cameron

This movie was boring and relied too much on special effects. Besides the Ferngully/Pocahontas thing, I also felt it was too similar to Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, that film was superior to this. - SailorSedna

Am I the only one on this entire site who actually likes this movie.

The best thing to come from this movie was Pandora at Animal Kingdom.

Forget the Oscars! This should have won Best Picture, not The Hurt Locker!

2 Justice League - Joss Whedon

Justice League sucks. It is the worst movie to ever come out of DC. And it had a high budget. Justice League was so bad it ev n lost Warner Bros. about 100 million dollars! The only good thing in this film is Wonder Woman. Props to Gal Gadot doing her best to not sink the ship. But the ship sunk down. DC needs to have improvements.

I'm honestly just fine with this movie. I actually enjoyed watching it. I don't hate it, and I don't love it.

Justice League was worse than BVS in my personal opinion. The CGI was forced SO MUCH to the point where I got bored halfway.

I for one enjoyed the movie, but I am not a fan of Joss Whedon directing the film, but I don't mind at all.

3 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Steven Spielberg

This movie was bad. I did not like it and was a huge dissapointment. Should have been so much better.

It was awesomely wonderful

Come on this movie was great

I love Steven Spielberg’s movies. But this wasn’t good. The CGI was bad. The blue/green screen was terrible. The forest scene made no sense. Why fence? Just SHOOT HER! (get the reference? ). The movie had a lot of room for improvement.

4 Spider Man 3 - Sam Raimi

I found this movie not that bad but it is nowhere near as good as the last two. Am I the only one that finds the dance scene hilarious?

For me, this should have been great but was not that good and I would consider it for to have been better.

5 Iron Man 2 - Jon Favreau

This man is such a good director. But this was a dissapointment to the definition of the word.

6 Planet of the Apes (2001) - Tim Burton

Wow. Tim Burton. Oh Timmy. How bad was that script? Worse than awful.

7 A Wrinkle in Time - Ava DuVernay

The fact that this isn't above Moonlight just goes to show how stupid most people on this website are.

It was hard to adapt, but was still not a good movie and also had a lot of potential.

This shouldn't have been adapted to a movie. Really big mistake

Wait a wrinkle in time is a Disney movie?

8 Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

This was ok. Nothing more, nothing less and also it was extremely overrated and was not that great.

9 Cars 2 - John Lasseter

Its Just the Worst Movie From Pixar Well Maybe good dinosaur looks awful Mostly Because Disney Make A Amazing Looking Dinosaur Movie 15 Years Before

But it's actually not that bad.

10 Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino

This was meant to be good. This, considering good reviews, was a dissapointment to me.

This movie gets better with time...

The Contenders
11 Ready, Player One? - Steven Spielberg

This movie is so great. The characters are good, and Mechagodzilla's cameo was the best part of the film. This movie should be removed. It's such a great film, should not be on this list at all.

This movie is pretty good, though.

12 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - George Lucas
13 The Last Airbender - M. Night Shyamalan

This is like if Christopher Nolan just went and made the Emoji Movie or Spielberg made Food Fight. I just can't understand how he made something so bad.

14 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Reminder to those saying praising it being so faithful to the book: Willy Wonka did not have a dentist father in the original book. That subplot ruined any "faithful".

To be honest it isn't as bad a people say it's just everyone unfairly compares it to the orginal while this reboot is a lot closer to the book.

It would be good if they had the Oompa-Loompa song from the original. I'm sorry but that was the best scene in the original movie.

To be honest, I find this more appealing and interesting than the original

15 Iron Man 3 - Shane Black
16 Alice in Wonderland (2010) - Tim Burton

This was awful and a live action adapation should have been great, considering who was the director of the movie and the book itself.

17 Solo: A Star Wars Story

Worst Star Wars movie. Disappointing since it was directed by an accredited director such as Ron Howard

18 Godzilla (1998) - Roland Emmerich

But both the movie and director are super bad! Roland Emmerich is a very bad Director. And this movie is huge flop!

19 Dune - David Lynch

Possibly the most disappointing movie of all time, really. First there was the problems with Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune adaptation, then Ridley Scott's soon after, all of which failed due to financial troubles. David Lynch, who had already made fantastic movies like The Elephant Man and Eraserhead at this point, took over the project and finally got the movie done after around a decade. The end result? It was fine, nothing higher than average and nowhere close to the quality of the original book. It isn't the worst movie or anything, but all of the build up that lasted an entire decade lead to something that most don't even remember. Here's hoping Denis Villeneuve's Dune turns out much better, or at least gets released.

20 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
21 Captain Marvel - Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

Both the directors and the movie sucked. Captain marvel was a boring movie that made the mcu worse. The story and characters are very bland and there is a lot of plotholes

This film is a piece of garbage!

22 Everybody Wants Some!! - Richard Linklater
23 Hulk - Ang Lee
24 Rent - Chris Columbus
25 The Emoji Movie - Tony Leondis

It ruined the Emojis. Everything on Emojis you normally find something from the movie.

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