4. Tyler Perry
Filmography:
Madea's Family Reunion, Daddy's Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married?, Meet the Browns, The Family that Preys, Madea Goes to Jail, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Why Did I Get Married Too?, For Colored Girls, Madea's Big Happy Family, Good Deeds, Madea's Witness Protection Tyler Perry is the most successful black director of all time, something that should be resoundingly celebrated, especially considering his years of childhood abuse and how he overcame that through God, but Perry's movies are awful and do a great injustice to all the great black directors such as Spike Lee, John Singleton, Melvin Van Peebles, The Hughes Brothers, Antoine Fuqua and Steve McQueen. His cross-dressing and stereotyped buffoonery has garnered him fierce criticism from Spike Lee, who is never afraid to speak his mind, and Idris Elba, who was directed by Perry in Daddy's Little Girls. Perry's most famous creation is Madea, who he performs as in drag. Madea is vindictive and violent and horribly unfunny, each of the films that the character stars in are gruelling and tough to get through, not what you want from a comedy. Perry is just a bad screenwriter, he doesn't understand pacing and his films are a sprawling mess without a hint of humour doused in melodrama. Even when he has directed works outside of his Madea series, they have been a disaster, with a prime example being the aforementioned Daddy's Little Girls, which is by far the worst film Idris Elba has starred in, including Obsessed. In America, his films are incredibly popular, always doing big box office, and in cinema, it's the money that talks.