Here’s another case of the visionary line being applied to a director who’s not even the director of the movie they’re advertising.
A Cure for Wellness is a visually impressive movie, and I actually like Gore Verbinski as a director.
Another weird theme on this list: Even when it’s applied to a legitimately great director, “visionary filmmaker” tends to get trotted out to promote those great directors’ weakest films.
I wrote a grad school paper about Arnold Schwarzenegger that extensively featured Terminator 3, and even I am like “Visionary and Terminator 3?
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