I don't get it how a lot of critics didn't like the Phantasm series.
One director I really dig that has suffered at the hands of critics is Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case trilogy, Brain Damage and Frankenhooker). Henenlotter and Coscarelli both make highly original offbeat movies that I guess you either work or don't work for you.
I've really enjoyed the later John Carpenter films also..... which a lot of people hate with a venegeance they still have a certain spark to them and I always like his characters. People don't seem to get that Escape From L.A was meant to be bad.
Strange Days was a movie I watched recently that got a lot of undeserved shit from critics..... I thought it was great.
Fuck critics anyway they don't know shit a lot of the time.... I've stopped listening to them because they don't get the genre and shit on it out of ignorance.
"So many assholes..... so few bullets"