imperialscum said:

CP3S said:

This can be true, I suppose. But a bad director could turn a great script into a disaster, and a great director could technically take a lousy script and turn it into something enjoyable to watch. There are movies with awful writing that are still visually and stylistically engaging to the point of being a decent films. I feel the director is still the maker or the breaker.

I kinda disagree with this. If the screenplay/idea is great and the director is bad the film will probably turn out good. If the screenplay is bad then there is no director who can make a good film out of it.

The great Akira Kurosawa would agree with you:

http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/quotes

fourth quote down from the top.

I just feel like there are too many other variables that the director has control over for this to be true. Bad acting alone could butcher and destroy the greatest words ever written.

Heheh, can't decide if I like Jar Jar Abrams or J. J. Binks better. Maybe we have stumbled upon the real reason Abrams initially turned down the offer to do the next Star Wars. ;)