I'm inclined to agree with your quoted comments. I'm pretty sure that each of us have movies we consider stinkers, but, based on popular opinion and/or critical acclaim are probably not considered so, despite our personal opinion that says otherwise. Hell, I even think the opposite is true for...
Let's cease with such discussion right now! I don't want to start deleting posts which I just did with one post, but I will do so along with thread bans to keep political references out of this thread.
On this forum, I think we all march to our own drummer! As to popular directors, there isn't a prolific director that hasn't directed a bad film with just about all of them doing so multiple times.
I can't disagree with you more as the films listed below are among my favorite films of all-time and are not boring at all to me. Hell, even "The Brother from Another Planet", "Sunshine State" and "Passion Fish" have their moments.
Eight Men Out
Matewan
Lone Star