Once Great Directors That Have One More Great Movie Left in Them

He is still probably the greatest director of all time; even if he has recently done some films that were just okay, and also others that were just not very good at all. His last good film was Dracula (1992), so i think its about time he came back and started doing a film that he thinks will be great and that he will put his all into; and hopefully his career will go off with a deserved bang.

The true master of horror. He has been MIA for the past few years, and even when he pops up he does stuff that is only okay and not what we come to expect from such a great talent of the genre.

But if he's offered a great project that he loves, and will give his all into like he always did for his low budget classics like Halloween, we would have ourselves a welcome return for the Master of Horror.

Out of all the people on this list, McTiernan is the one i want to come back the most. Not just come back, but come back with a vengeance (see what i did there?).

Well first he has to get out of prison, where he's been the last decade and a half. He won't come back to films immediately and very well might not at all. If he does, however, I wish him the best to redeem all these years of absence and not so good films. (ahem Rollerball...)

He is probably the least likely on this list to make a good comeback. People's hatred for him is so strong i think even the most decent films he will ever do in the future will be panned and crucified.

But people aside, my POV is if he can get a really good writer that has a great story and screenplay for him to direct I think we could get a solid film. I really believe it, and I think it can happen.

Like Michael Bay, Shyamalan's hatred is so monumental that even a good film by him is gonna get torn apart just because of his past films. Even tho he has done some really bad films, I think there is still a great director left in him.

He needs to not do any more blockbusters with special effects and go back to the smaller films that he did so well. I would love it if we could get just one more great movie out of him. He can do it, he just has to do a small film, have a cast he knows he can work well with or has collaborated with in the past and have real passion for it! You could feel the passion in his first films, and I think he can bring it back.

He really hasn't done the best films recently. They aren't all bad but they aren't all up to par with what he used to do. In my opinion he can still bring in those great classic films he used to do, and here are the ways he can do it.

His films always have great settings, the style he uses all the time is cool and at times great. Recently he doesn't mesh his style with substance all that well. A lot of times his crazy style (thats been done over and over) takes up the entire film. Like Shyamalan, he needs to go back to smaller budget films, change up the tone, have a new/unique look and style to the film, and if at all possible get someone other than Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter to star in the film. Cause IMO they are in way to many of his films.

Fantastic Director. I think he is one of the greatest of all time. Princess Bride and A Few Good Men are some of my all time favorite films. He hasn't done a really good film i think since The American President (1995). Since then he's done pretty much nothing worth remembering. Which is sad, cause i love his movies and i hope he gets to do another great movie, i know he can do it, i just hope he does it. My guessing is it would be his last film, so i hope it ends his incredible career with a bang.

A director that has done nothing really good in over 20 years. You heard right, 20 years, Natural Born Killers (1994). Yet he is still known as a controversial but talented filmmaker. Which he still is, but he really needs another good film, he can do it. 20 years is way too long to have done nothing that memorable. Hollywood, please get this guy a something good to do!

I liked Revenge of The Sith fine, but not many people did. He sold Star Wars and LucasFilm to Disney and said publicly he wants to go back to smaller films, and I think that would be a great way to get back into film. I think it's very possible we will get another great film like American Graffiti. Maybe even something like the original star wars. A small budget film with big ideas, that would be great and i think he could bring it.

He is one of the best comedic geniuses. If he could Direct another film before he dies, honestly good or bad i would love it. Cause i just love Mel Brooks. Probably wont happen, but i hope it does.

One of the best Writers/Directors of all time. 3 time oscar winner James L. Brooks. From Simpsons to As Good as It Gets and all sorts of great work he definitely is one of the best we have. His last film How Do You Know was a huge flop and not what we expect from him at all. Before he officially stops doing The Simpsons and retires he should totally do another film. Write and Direct of course.

Groundhog Day has what many consider to be one of the best screenplays ever written, and he wrote it. Not only that, he did Caddyshack, which is one of the best comedies of all time. I say bring the crew of Ramis and Murray back and make another great movie.

He really needs to make another film. I know it will be cool or awesome in some type of way cause he just always delivers. Another bloody, campy, and overall awesome film would be fantastic. Or another great messed up thriller like Basic Instinct i would love.

David Lynch is one of the strangest but most effective filmmakers. Every single one of his films has a huge fan base and Cult Following of some kind. It's just that he hasn't had a big masterpiece since Mulholland Dr. (2001) since then he's done a lot of small shorts but nothing that has met the heights of some of his other stuff. I think he should totally make another film again, make it weird, twisted, confusing and all around brilliant like a great portion of his filmography is.

All his films have visual brilliance. With a few exceptions they all just focus on pretty shots and no substance whatsoever. I know Malick probably has a system of doing movies, and he would probably not take any of these tips i have for him in for consideration, but I'm going to say them anyway.

He needs a writer. He writes all his films, and they are all (again with a few exceptions) recycled, not used in the ways they should be, and instead he just directs scenes and uses his scripts for location and narration (which always consists of whispering). If he has someone write something for him and not try to tweak it in any way I think that would be really good for him and all of us for that matter. Another tip.

Just have one editor to work with, and don't spend months and months and sometimes years editing. He always has 3 or more editors for all his films (Tree of Life had 5 editors) and always takes forever to put the film together. It's too much. Have a consistency, don't cut out any important scenes, lines or characters (I'm looking at you Thin Red Line). If he were to take these tips in for consideration I guarantee that the film he makes will be more than just a Planet Earth style film.

He is a master or the genre. Without him we wouldn't have Nightmare on Elmstreet, Scream and (if you think about it) we wouldn't have Johnny Depp as a young and up and coming star. So there's a lot of great things this director has given us. But he has definitely fallen flat the last few years when it comes to not just making movies, but making what he knows how to do best, horror films. There's a great director of that genre still in him, he just needs to get it out. Make another horror film that's great and memorable unlike most of his other films in the last decade or so.

Hear me out. I know loud and clear that he directed Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. It is hard to forget that, but besides those films he is actually a solid director. Films like Lost Boys, A Time to Kill and Phone Booth I really enjoyed (Phone Booth was post Batman & Robin btw, so he really didn't loose all his directing chops after that, at least IMO). Also Phantom of The Opera I don't think is a bad film, had great singing and stellar production design.

Alright Batman and Good films he did aside. The last decade of his filmography is truly cringeworthy (The Number 21, Blood Creek, Trespass and more), but I saw an episode of House of Cards that he directed, and it was far better than those films. Benefitted from a great set up by David Fincher and some great writing, but it was still pretty good.

I know that films like Batman & Robin and The Number 23 will make people want to run for there lives if his name is involved with a film, I however see a decent director that just makes a few misses and gets a little more crap than he deserves.

I love this director! He makes films that are very unique that you don't see very often and sometimes never. Very cool visual director. His last movie Knowing was only okay. Had some very well done scenes and some suspense but had some terrible lines and one of the worst ending in movie history IMO.

I don't want him to make one more good movie and be done, I want him to keep making movies, cause even the not so good ones have good things about them. He just needs to get back on the horse and make some more unique, cool and visually impressive films.

He has made some classic films. There is no doubt about it, he is truly a classic director. However, I think that the classic director isn't really there anymore. Cause his last good film was Dave (1993). 20 years people. 20 years! He has done some truly bad films since Dave. Maybe because he's just a different director from when he last did Dave, or he constantly picks bad projects that he has no real connection with. I don't know. I really think he collaborate with his past writers Harold Ramis and Gary Ross. Really work with those two men and make another great film that they have great passion for. It can happen. I really hope it does.

Directed two of my favorite movies of all time, The Mask of Zorro and Casino Royale. Two superb action films. It's true Green Lantern was not that good, but I don't think it was all his fault. The script was just so bad, and I thought some of the visuals were impressive enough thanks to him. All I would say to him is do what you do best, action movies, and make it count.

Always makes very interesting concepts and settings, but doesn't always pull them off well. In time had a very cool setting but not a great story, overall generic movie. The Host was a total disaster, which is why he makes this list. I don't want such a talented and creative man like him to go down the crapper. I don't have any real good advice for him other than there's no where to go but up after The Host. So make sure you go all the way up this time!

No one pays him any attention. After doing a masterpiece like Silence of The Lambs or a great acting piece like Philadelphia I am shocked. He's done lots of TV which is cool, but he does movies especially well, and I think he should go back to making them more often.