Although it is just plain fun to rank a director's movies, it may also help me think about the director's oeuvre of work as a whole. Comparisons can help me to discover elements of film that I am drawn to, what the director finds value in revealing through their movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
Johnson clearly loves exploring genres and creating big, imaginative stories that somehow fit within the genres whether it is expected or not.
He always tries to inject his stories with big themes and his actors often have to deliver some climatic emotional moments within the framework of the genre and complicated plot mechanics he often constructs.
Johnson crafts the worlds of his…
