Actors who have a go at directing (themselves in) turkeys

[ska invita]

High profile actors who get enough power to have a go at directing, usually keeping themselves in the lead role, and create spectacularly shite films in the process. A unique subgenre of film as it usually has a mix of ineptitude mixed with egomania and vanity.

Thread inspired by Steven Seagals one shot at directing, On Deadly Ground. Pretty much every scene in this has something wrong with it

I was trying to think of similar ones and the only other one I could think of was Kevin Costner's The Postman, which I remember left me with aching sides and tears of laughter. Havent seen it in years - I wonder what id make of it now.... Could make a good double bill...

any more?

 

[krtek a houby]

Yes

 

[ska invita]

Yes

Who directed that one? wilhelm shatner?

 

[krtek a houby]

Who directed that one? wilhelm shatner?

Indeed. Shatner directs Shatner and the rest. Some very forced comedic scenes and some very forced philosophical scenes. I get confused trying to tell them apart. Oh and Shatner has Kirk taking on "God". Guess who wins?

 

[Reno]

This year Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner, a vanity project if there ever was one.

 

[ska invita]

ah yes william shatner...not sure ive seen that.
I see he also directed another thing with him in it called Groom Lake - 2.3 on IMDB Looks like a classic

 

[ska invita]

it looks very special

 

[ska invita]

This year Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner, a vanity project if there ever was one.

Has anyone here seen it? Was it shit?

 

[ska invita]

I didnt realise leonard nimoy directed star trek 3 + 4... and then directed 3 Men and a Baby

 

[Orang Utan]

ska invita Costner did direct the much better received Dances With Wolves, though I found both films interminable ponderous and humourless trash

 

[Orang Utan]

Freddy Got Fingered is undeniably awful.
I could only manage five minutes of The Room.
Dare I mention Braveheart?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Ben Stiller's Walter Mitty remake springs to mind.

 

[Orang Utan]

Ben Stiller's Walter Mitty remake springs to mind.

He did do The Cable Guy though

 

[krtek a houby]

ska invita Costner did direct the much better received Dances With Wolves, though I found both films interminable ponderous and humourless trash

Loved DWW. Beautiful film, beautiful score, beautiful cinematography.

 

[Santino]

This is almost the opposite - a director casting himself (in this case as a messianic writer who will change the world for the better): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_the_Water

 

[Orang Utan]

Loved DWW. Beautiful film, beautiful score, beautiful cinematography.

But boring as fuck

 

[Pseudopsycho]

Clint Eastwood has made a decent stab at directing, but less successful at political speech-making ((invisible Obama))

 

[ska invita]

Clint Eastwood has made a decent stab at directing, but less successful at political speech-making ((invisible Obama))

some dodgy politics in his films though yeah? I forget what now

 

[Pseudopsycho]

I've seen Gran torino, Letters from Iwo Jima,Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven and to be fair they don't come across as hooray right wing prop pieces at all.

ETA: Having said that though I notice that on IMDB his last piece was American Sniper

 

[ska invita]

American Sniper

oh yeah, that was the one
Was Iwo Jima okay then?
The rugged individualism of Westerns can be a bit suss too - I dont think Ive seen any of his directorial turns apart from The Outlaw Josey Wales, which is a great film tbf

 

[belboid]

Kevin Spacey Beyond the Sea

In which 45 year old Kev plays the teenage Bobby Darin. No, just no.

Nicolas Cage Sonny

Cage isn't in it much, but it is a piece of shit

 

[ska invita]

Kevin Spacey Beyond the Sea

In which 45 year old Kev plays the teenage Bobby Darin. No, just no.

Hah! Kevin Spacey is just the right sort for this thread. Nic Cage too

 

[belboid]

Hah! Kevin Spacey is just the right sort for this thread. Nic Cage too

that'd be why I chose them

 

[Sue]

Keanu Reeves would be another ideal candidate for a self-directed stinker...

 

[Reno]

I like George Clooney as a film star, but I find his films as a director deadly dull. I lost the will to live during Monuments Men.

 

[ska invita]

that'd be why chose them

do you know what i mean though? both come across as men with a lot of vanity, and especially with Kevin Spacey, seems to think highly of himself as an artiste

Keanu Reeves would be another ideal candidate for a self-directed stinker...

He's just done one ! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2016940/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1

 

[Reno]

May I just turn this around for a moment and mention that Drew Barrymore directed and co-starred in a film called Whip It! which I thought was great. Unfortunately it flopped and she never got to make another one, but she has potential to be one of the recent movie stars who become good directors (see also Sean Penn and Ben Affleck)

 

[ska invita]

May I just turn this around for a moment and mention that Drew Barrymore directed and co-starred in a film called Whip It! which I thought was great. Unfortunately it flopped and she never got to make another one, but she has potential to be one of the recent movie stars who become good directors (see also Sean Penn and Ben Affleck)

i saw that! roller derby thing yeah? Really liked it too... Drew seems cool

 

[Sue]

do you know what i mean though? both come across as men with a lot of vanity, and especially with Kevin Spacey, seems to think highly of himself as an artiste

He's just done one ! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2016940/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1

That looks bloody awful...

 

[belboid]

May I just turn this around for a moment and mention that Drew Barrymore directed and co-starred in a film called Whip It!

great film. I thought it had eventually done okay, no DVD etc