What are directors who tried doing big budget filmmaking that it didn't work out for?
Tim Story arguably
His Fantastic Four movies aren't the worst superhero movies ever but they're just so...visually flat. The color palette, shots, and even most of effects look like something out of an early 2010s Direct to TV Fantastic Four show you'd see on ABC than the big budget blockbuster these movies were marketed as.
They're okay movies but the guy's just not really great with big budget filmmaking honestly; actually most of his movies in general are not great. I liked the first Barbershop and The Blackening but that's about it...