Discuss: Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith… Most overrated directors?

Checking my RSS earlier I saw Rope of Silicon begging the question for “Who is the most overrated Director” and the top 3 choices were Quentin Tarantino, M Night Shyamalan and Kevin Smith after doing some research on the Internet.This is absolutely mind boggling, how could anyone consider Tarantino or Smith overrated? Not understanding the appeal of their movies is not the same thing as being overrated.

First off, M Night was probably overrated at one point in his life, but I only know of a couple of people that even rate him as a top director now, so he shouldn’t even be hanging out with the dudes mentioned around him.

Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino are a couple of names you dont take in vain like that, especially on our site and lets talk about why.

First Kevin Smith. His first time out as a writer/director he made a movie with $27,500 that has become one of the biggest cult classics of our generation. He was adorned by EVERYONE, including Miramax, and the Wiensteins. The movie got picked up, hit a few screens and grossed $3.15 million! He also has one of the most hardcore fan bases of any director I know of.

Kevin might be famous for having a bunch of crude humor, but there is always some type of underlying tones that you have to seek out and once you find them its easy to see why he is such a huge indie icon.

Then you have Quentin Tarantino who has given us some of the greatest action/exploitation films of recent memory. Not only does he write all his own stuff, he directs it, and usually does the soundtrack as well. Tarantino is responsible for bringing some incredible Martial Arts films over to the US with major distribution deals and the tagline of “Quentin Tarantino Presents”. The guy does it all, and everything he touches typically turns to gold(Death Proof was kick ass,  I don’t care what Ebert thought of it).

So what do you guys think? Do you think they are overrated directors? Who would you put on the list?