I think I'll just reread the entire run of Yu Yu Hakusho. Yes, even that weird last arc.

I prefer dubbing to horrible subtitles.

Brian De Palma?

And even the first segment had some great animation only gags such as the separation of planes.

That's really the thing I don't get. He's never been bad yet he gets treated like he's directed every bad gore porn ever.

Metacritic.

And turn into Bill Murray?

I don't remember that much silence in drive.

Is the opening sentence really necessary? Hack is a pretty harsh label and there's nothing in those two (decent) films which suggest hackiness.

He died like five years ago.

That was my first thought too. Could throw in The Wall as a chaser.

Seriously no Pink Floyd? They made whole albums about Syd Barrett. Yeah not dead, but all things considered he might have as well been.

Or just John Hurt's cameo.

That is a major difference. Oy vey.

Also directed Choke.

I feel those positive qualities are more Avery and Gaiman's fault. Zemeckis even admitted he didn't understand the original poem and some of the script.

I always tend to blame Roger Rabbit on Spielberg whose work as a producer on the film was perfect. My Zemeckis film of choice is Used Cars.

Beowulf is a great film looking for a director who understands the script.

This and its director aren't really mumblecore except under the broadest definition. For example all of his films have been shot on film while mumblecore is generally DV.

AT does story arcs for an older (10-13) age base so that comparison isn't quite right. Maybe that new Teen Titans show is a better point of comparison, though this is all irrelevant because they have reviewed this show before.