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Reading your above post, oliver, I can't help but make the comparison that some (maybe more than I personally know) people compare and rate a certain "name-brand" director by their notables, their bombs, but overall, the sum of his parts thorughout the years, not unlike those who are total baseball geeks.
It is like you take all the films that, say, another unnamed director in this discussion, Stanley Kubrick, has directed throughout his lifetime, and you add a certain weighted argument towards his notables (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey) and his critical failures, (A Clockwork Orange, The Seafarers, Eyes Wide Shut) and you total them up to arrive at his "batting average".
From the quick little glance I took at the total body of his work and how it rates among the online film community, Kubrick might be the gold standard for a director's total accomplishments (which, of course, means someone will state he is overrated).
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