4. Steven Spielberg - The Lost World & Indiana Jones: The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
Steven Spielberg is an American treasure, he seemingly can do no wrong. Until
The Lost World, that is. Now, it's nowhere near as bad as
Rocky V was, but I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you hit perfection, as he did with the original
Jurassic Park in 1993, then you shouldn't attempt to follow it up unless you're absolutely sure that you can hit another home run. Spielberg didn't drop the ball, rather he smashed someone's face in with the bat. All the things that should have been cool about the second
Jurassic Park, namely Jeff Goldblum and the T Rex rampaging around San Diego, just weren't. Later, in 2008, he tried returning to another great franchise,
Indiana Jones. That didn't work out well, either.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull played out like a parody of the films that went before it, with further insult added by putting Shia Labeouf in as Indy's apprentice, and Cate Blanchett doing what I think is supposed to be a Russian accent. It's a mess. A bigger mess than
The Lost World, in retrospect. I see what you did there, Spielberg, covering your tracks, made an even worse sequel to distract us from the already pretty bad sequel...I can't wait to see how his sequels to
War Horse and
Lincoln turn out.