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Originally Posted by hiroic
I think Richard Donner deserves to be in this category. He does solid action dramas, but I don't think he has any distinctive narrative theme or style.
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Richard Donner and Joe Johnson likely qualify, albeit on the more A-list side of the equation than, say, Harold Becker, John Badham, Ron Underwood, or Ted Kotcheff.
In fact, there are MANY A-list directors who helm huge movies, often very GOOD huge movies, though I'd be hard-pressed to find much linking their films thematically beyond a polished studio sheen. Anything Barry Levinson has done outside of his Baltimore pictures qualifies, Ron Howard and Rob Reiner qualify, and even the great Sydney Pollack and arguably Zemeckis himself fall under this category.