3. The Wachowskis - Acid Trips
I'm well aware that The Martix trilogy, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas are all of varying individual genres but they all can be classified under the greater genre of the cinema of the fantastic so I'm using that loophole to talk about them here. The Wachowskis suffer from the same problem as Baz Luhrmann. Their films are much too large and far too convoluted to achieve any sort of qualitative success. The Matrix was just their way of showing off some cool slow motion technique they thought was rad. Speed Racer was a glorified lights show. Cloud Atlas just didn't make sense, which is sad because the book can be just as difficult to follow at times and yet makes perfect sense when it's all said and done. But that's a consistent problem the Wachowskis have, they just don't really care about the story. Their first feature, Bound, is a not-too-shabby picture that limits itself visually to present a clear-cut narrative. If they had structured Cloud Atlas as the book is structured, or had focused less on the gimmicky lights and sounds in Speed Racer, what could those films have been? If Andy and Lana plan to continue their epileptic episode inducing style of filmmaking, I suggest trying their hands in the avant-garde.