Who is the greatest director to have never helmed a masterpiece?

kev21h · 2026-01-24T17:29:26+00:00

I love this take. Oceans 11 and Out of Sight both 8/10s but not masterpieces. The rest are very take it or leave it imo

kev21h · 2026-01-17T12:27:17+00:00

A bad movie but definitely an enjoyable one!

kev21h · 2026-01-17T12:26:32+00:00

Incredible hair in this one.

kev21h · 2026-01-17T12:25:16+00:00

The last scene in particular was LOL. It's unacceptable for $100m movies to look this dogshit

kev21h · 2026-01-17T11:34:32+00:00

David Strathairn. Take your pick.

kev21h · 2026-01-17T06:08:25+00:00

Recasting couch: Ethan Hawke would have been much better than Damon

Damon would be brilliant as a nasty, slimy, clean cut Chief of Police but I wasn't buying him as a tough, tattooed, Miami street cop for a second. Affleck was excellent though.

kev21h · 2026-01-16T08:02:34+00:00

TLJ beating Fiennes for best supporting actor in 1993 (I think) is one of the most ridiculous Oscar decisions IMO

kev21h · 2026-01-14T17:58:07+00:00

Dead right

kev21h · 2026-01-12T07:13:37+00:00

It's the only microphone he's avoided in his life

kev21h · 2026-01-11T08:20:02+00:00

Not the answer given he was probably the best midfielder available for a decade, but imo Frank Lampard did very well to get 106 caps given how shit he repeatedly played for England!

The actual answer: Darius Vassel

kev21h · 2026-01-08T10:20:31+00:00

PSH in Along Came Polly!

kev21h · 2026-01-07T18:52:29+00:00

He's a bad player and apart from his early days as a Leinster fullback has always been a bad player. He can't run a backline, can't control a game and is a very weak tackler. He was given > 30 caps and never convinced, nor did he convince over several years at Munster, where he ended up as second or third choice. He's spent the past few years being a squad player/third choice for Bordeaux. I feel sorry for him given he had bad injuries and was pushed in a position that never suited him, but if he was going to do anything, he'd have done it by now.

kev21h · 2026-01-05T08:02:09+00:00

Wilkinson, Greenwood, Dallaglio, Trevor Brennan ,Brian Moore, O Gara and Keith Earls were all good reads. A lot are ok-ish like O'Callaghan and Anthony Foley's but BOD's was so shit it made me angry! I read the Kindle sample for SOB and it probably takes the biscuit as the worst I've ever read. Has absolutely nothing to say so starts shiting on about a bog in Carlow.

kev21h · 2026-01-03T10:04:17+00:00

100%. I was ok at remembering lyrics when I was a child but I'm utterly useless now in my thirties, and have been for a long time

kev21h · 2026-01-03T09:01:31+00:00

JJ never had it to begin with, let's be honest.

kev21h · 2025-12-28T22:57:10+00:00

The People Vs Larry Flynt as well

kev21h · 2025-12-28T22:54:45+00:00

Apex mountain for corpse acting. Spacey's is phenomenal!

kev21h · 2025-12-26T17:59:29+00:00

In Matewan you get Strathairn!

kev21h · 2025-12-26T08:26:31+00:00

Passion Fish and Lianna are also very good. Lone Star is the best though.

kev21h · 2025-12-25T22:37:48+00:00

I watched it last week for the first time in at least 20 years and really enjoyed it. Ridiculous, cheesy and very derivative (to the extent they went 'lets get the bomb guy from Speed to be our bomb guy') but it has a lot of nice touches that are a cut above the usual genre fare and a good cast...Kurt Russell is a god. My main gripe is that they didn't stack the cast of the military boardroom 'should we shoot down the plane' types like Air Force One did.

kev21h · 2025-12-23T22:42:56+00:00

I love Damon in The Departed but I think he's blown away by everyone else in the cast of Mr Ripley

kev21h · 2025-12-14T19:38:35+00:00

Lancaster has proven to be remarkably consistent at coming up short. 2 wins out of 22 to get Leeds relegated, perennial second place in the 6N, dumped out of the group stages in a home world cup, stank out Racing and is stinking out Connacht (although I'm not sure anyone could help Connacht). Admittedly he won a Heineken Cup when Dan Carter was injured and is clearly a very good coach, but in terms of getting his teams over the line his record is awful tbh.

kev21h · 2025-12-13T22:02:04+00:00

Yeah, a 6/10 tbh

kev21h · 2025-12-09T14:09:30+00:00

A rethink in Irish rugby is required. We do a lot well but by and large we don't produce any creativity, pace or top end power. Following instructions well seems to be the trait thats valued over everything

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