5. Wes Anderson
It's not that I think Wes Anderson is a terrible filmmaker, but just that he's one who has had his reputation horrendously over-inflated beyond the amount of talent he has. I like a lot of his films - Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums are excellent, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Bottle Rocket are
good - but simply don't see the overwhelming appeal in his self-consciously quirky films which posit themselves as
so different from everything else, while constantly looking over their own shoulder to make sure they are. There's a common phrase I've heard from Anderson defenders both online and in real life, that "if you didnt like it, you must not have gotten it". Oh, I get it, I just find it wearisome and exhausting, the unrelenting otherness of his work, so keen to distance itself from everything else that it also departs from intrigue and
entertainment. He's what his detractors refer to as "the hipster director", and I tend to agree that his films do often prove as maddening as they are enjoyable.