10 Bad Movies Oscar-Winning Directors Went On To Make

10. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Ang Lee

Over the years, director Ang Lee has become synonymous with the superb visuals commonly found in his movies (with colourful 3D epic Life Of Pi earning him his second directing Oscar), but ultimately, it was this desire to change the way films are viewed that contributed to the failure of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

Because, as you'll see from glancing at any slice of footage from the film, Lee shot this at a much higher frame rate than the traditional 24 - 120, to be exact.

The result is a war picture with the grit taken away and the gloss heaped upon it to a ridiculous degree, and the difference between the subject matter and the way that subject matter is portrayed visually, is jarring.

The film has other problems, too. The story feels like a series of overly-selective flashbacks and moments rather than a fully-formed, cohesive narrative. This would also have been the case without the heightened frame rate, but with it, the film's issues are so much more noticeable.

It would be good to see Lee return to the simpler, but no less effective style he employed with the likes of Brokeback Mountain and Sense and Sensibility. Recently, the director seems much more interested in the technology behind a film rather than the film itself, and Billy Lynn is proof that this decision can backfire drastically.