Who's the worst movie director of all time? One's known for notoriously awful game adaptations, one for notoriously awful "spoofs", two for really bad explosion porn movies with tropey characters and butchering of beloved franchises (Transformers and Godzilla), one for notoriously bad torture porn movies (Eli Roth), one for making a godawful trilogy of films that's gross just for the sake of it, one for notoriously bad horror films with B-movie scripts and logic holes, one for butchering of DC movie adaptations and original IPs (Sucker Punch), and one for his butchering of adaptations of classic videogames and horror/sci-fi flicks. So, who's the worst?

Of those choices, Seltzberg is the worst IMO. I would say Uwe Boll, but his movies at least have a "so bad they're good/funny" vibe to them (gotta love petrified teens suddenly becoming Matrix-dodging kung fu masters when fighting zombies in HotD ), and they at least have SOME semblance of a plot. Seltzberg's movies you can't even sit back and laugh at how stupid they are, and they actually ARE supposed to make you laugh because they're comedies, and virtually no plot. They don't even really qualify as movies, nothing but shit jokes, corny pop culture references and people getting crushed by something, stuff that only someone with the mindset of a 2 year old would find funny. There's a reason why they WERE 2 of the 6 writers from Scary Movie: they were fired for being talentless hacks.

J.J. Abrams for raping Star Trek.

Not really sure how M night could be considered in the worst category. Even though he has some stinkers, he has some of the best movies ever to his name as well like sixth sense. There are a few directors in your list that don’t really deserve to be on the list. To be a worst director, your whole body of work needs to be complete and utter crap.

So naturally, the worst has to be uwe boll...

This is a mess of a list, you cant compare most of these people. Uwe Boll is by far - with almost no competition - the worst of them.

Eli Roth, Emmerich, Snyder and Anderson have no business being in this list at all whatsoever. Theyve made shit films as well as cult classics, and a couple of them good films. Despite his reputation M Night is an oscar nominee as well as succesfull in the box office and has, at the very least, 4 good worthwile films. I hate Michael Bay films as much as the next guy but he is MASSIVELY successful in the box office and if you actually bothered to check his filmography a couple of his films - like The Rock or Bad Boys 1/2- are quite decent.
I assume they are in the list because of bad rep, cause "the worst director of all time" is def. Not any of them.

Seltzer/Friedberg are shit and I could understand their being in the list, but between doing unfunny attempts at comedy vs whatever you wanna call what Uwe Boll does its an easy pick at least for me. Theres just no comparison.

Willard Huyck or the dude that did Catwoman fit this list better.

Edit: oh yeah, Tom Six's films are shit. Not gonna defend that guy.

M. Night.

That... abomination of a hollywood adaptation, is the one and only utter disgrace and black stain to what is otherwise, the greatest animated show of all time.

I don't think I have ever hated any movie as much as I hated The Last Jedi and Predator 2018, so even though I actually know that these two roundheads are really not the worst directors of all time, I would give my vote to any of them any time of the day.

The poll is terrible. Some of those directors shouldn't be on there. Terribly subjective.

Zack Snyder is a visionary director, very good when he is just directing.
Roland Emmerich has made my favourite movie of all time (The Patriot) so that rules him out right there.
M. Night has Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, the Village, and Split (all great movies).
Michael Bay has made some extremely entertaining movies. The Rock (Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris) is one of the best/most fun action movies ever made. The Island was a pretty decent sci-fi. I haven't seen it personally, but the Bad Boys movies have quite the following.

Rian Johnson should be on that list.

My vote is for Uwe Boll.

George Lucas, he used to be good, but he butchered Star Wars with that crappy trilogy of prequels, making also things even worse sneakily editing the original Trilogy to make it fit with the anally retentive, excessively and unnecessarily detailed prequels (specifying so many things, it was granted they wouldn't fit with previously made sequels), not to mention all the annoying things like Jar-Jar.

Emmerich is bad, but I liked a lot Stargate and I didn't dislike Godzilla. Independence Day though was really crappy, I wouldn't even say it aged badly, it just was born old and obsolete.

I wouldn't blame Bay for Transformers, maybe many of you don't know or don't remember it, but the original TV series was utter crap made just to sell toys, and it kept its extremely commercial nature also later.

Some of these directors aren't worth discussing :P

- Micheal Bay can make good action stuff, but he needs a good writer/story. And Ehren Kruger isn't that.
-Same for Zack Snyder. If the story sucks, they won't make it look any better on camera. But they did make some really entertaining movies. Although I have to admit, I can feel really irritated watching some of the movies they made.

- Haven't seen anything of Tom Six, Eli Roth,
- Night Shyamalan did make some good movies. (the sixt sense, Unbreakable, The village, split and glass were all decent or better. He did make The last airbender and after earth, but still. Shouldn't be on this list.
- Roland Emerich made movies that were decent or better (and/or really entertaining, Stargate, Independance day (the perfect popcorn movie), the day after tomorrow , patriot, 2012 and White house down). Why is he on this list? Ok, he did make Independance day:Resurgence.

- Aaron Seltzer/Jason Friedberg. They only made awfull movies, but they never pretended something else.
- Haven't seen anything from Uwe Boll, but he has to be the worst. But like I said, Uwe Boll and Seltzer/Friedberg aren't worth discussing.

Rian Johnson - for The Last Jedi - only he could turn Luke Skywalker into a pussy, afraid of a fight.