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Nobody bats 1,000. Like all artists, filmmakers can have an off day; unlike many artists, filmmakers are bound by contract to have their mistakes shown in public. Virtually every director has at least one movie on their resume that’s a stumble, disappointment, even an embarrassing miscalculation. For the big names, it’s an extremely dangerous precipice to walk, because they have higher expectations to fulfill. When someone like Brett Ratner makes a halfway decent film, we give him a pat on the head; if Stanley Kubrick made a less than spectacular movie, we would’ve crucified him.
Sometimes the weight of expectations is too much to bear — and so most of the great directors have a movie somewhere in their career that is deemed a “failure”, that is spoken of with derision and even shame, a movie that becomes widely accepted as “their worst film”. Sometimes, though, those films turn »
- C.B. Jacobson
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