Because I feel like being annihilated, I'm just going to go with the best regarded film directors that I don't particularly like. Some might have films that I like a lot, but repel me overall. Also, this is based on seeing 3-4 films from a director, not the whole body of work. Filmspotting-length marathons. Last - I don't know if there's a director where I've seen 3-4 of their pictures and didn't like at least one. Still wanted to take this challenge.
1. Billy Wilder - I'm 0 for 3 here and don't know which film I'd go to next to change my mind (so far, Sunset Blvd., Double Indemnity, and Some Like It Hot)
2. Alfred Hitchcock - This pick is partially for the hype, partially because I find the plots kind of pretentious. I do think Vertigo is super great.
3. Sam Mendes
4. Carl Theodor Dryer - 0 for 3 here as well, and pretty sure I've seen the most "important" ones (Joan of Arc, Ordet, Gertrud)
5. David O. Russel - A case of really liked him before, still like 3 Kings and I Heart Huckabees, find his work Silver Linings Playbook and beyond to be insufferable, and have no interest is seeing another one of his films
He who is without sin cast the first stone.