10 Horribly Incompetent Movie Directors Who Keep Getting Work

4. Brian Robbins

A Thousand WordsFilmography:Good Burger, Varsity Blues, Ready to Rumble, Hardball, The Perfect Score, The Shaggy Dog, Norbit, Meet Dave, A Thousand Words Brian Robbins is a genuine curiosity: how has somebody with zero knowledge or appreciation for the comedy genre sat behind the camera and directed Eddie Murphy on three occassions? More to the point, why did Eddie Murphy agree to work with this guy two more times after the diaster that was Norbit? Norbit should have been the clearest warning sign in the world: "This guy is a hack. Abort project. Do not work with him again." Presumably Eddie Murphy knows just as little about Brian Robbins as we do, in the sense that he must've forgotten that he worked with him that first time around. Their collaborations, up there with the likes of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, obviously, have resulted in some of the unfunniest comedy movies to have ever graced this good Earth. Robbins is a ship that needs to bombed from afar: he's fully-fledged Hollywood poison. Upcoming Movie: Nothing right now. There is a God.
 
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