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Cracked.com recently revealed, in list format the darkest moments in the careers of nine of the film industry's most acclaimed directors. We here at OMGLists are giving it the Re:List treatment, providing commentary on the original picks and making a few of our own. Hit the jump to Re:List!

Let's start with some quick commentary on the picks made by Cracked.

9- Francis Ford Coppola's "Jack"

Wow. Talk about your mistakes. I had absolutely no idea that Coppola was involved with such a travesty. Quite frankly, it should have been listed even closer to 1.

8- Spike Lee's "She Hate Me"

Having never seen it, I can't really argue its inclusion. Judging by the film's robust half-million final gross, not many folks can. By virtue of the fact that Lee typically makes poignant statements on race and city life, a film about a guy fucking lesbians is probably not his brightest moment.

7- Guy Ritchie "Swept Away"

Ritchie doesn't strike me as an awesome director in any way. Snatch was great, but retreading the same formula does not a successful director make. With such a small slate of films under his belt, I can't be sure whether "Swept Away" is his status quo.

6- Terry Gilliam's "Tideland"

Having never seen it, I can't argue that "Tideland" was awful. I can vouch for the dropped ball that was "The Brothers Grimm". Let's just call a mulligan for Gilliam in 1995.

5- Steven Spielberg's "Hook"

Maybe I'm viewing it through nostalgia-colored glasses, but i thought "Hook" was a darn good movie. It did moderately well in theaters. As far as sequels to classic novels go, it does better than, say "Return to Oz".

4- M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water"

As far as I'm concerned, M. Night has been treading water since "The Sixth Sense." Are you telling me that this manages to make "The Village" look appealing? Not an awesome director, in my opinion.

3- Clint Eastwood's late 90's work

Here's my theory about Clint Eastwood's directorial slate. He's making movies for the small "guys in their fifties who still idolize Clint Eastwood" contingent. Sometimes he makes a movie like Million Dollar Baby or Unforgiven that manages to slip out of that oeuvre, but really, he's not making movies for anyone who'd read online lists. Not to disparage either group, but they just don't mix.

2- Sidney Lumet's "The Wiz"

Wow. This really does deserve the drubbing Cracked gives it. I let Spielberg off the "Hook" (sorry) for its imaginiative spin on Peter Pan, but "The Wiz" is dated, boring, and bizarrely awful. Looking even further into his past, Lumet handled such classics as "Network" and "12 Angry Men", yet he completely botched "The Wizard of Oz."

1- Ridley Scott's "A Good Year"

I wish I could speak ill of this movie, but I haven't yet seen it. Based on the other wine-guy movie I've seen, "Sideways," it can't be all bad. As long as it has fat-people sex. It has that, right?

As for my own picks, I'd place Harold Ramis' "Stuart Saves His Family" somewhere near the middle (who'da thought that the director of National Lampoon's Vacation and Caddyshack would make the worst SNL movie?!), and Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" at the top, since it managed to outsuck the four sequels to the original. What do you guys think of Cracked's picks? And my own, for that matter?

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