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Filmmakers who ruined their own good thing

posted 5 years ago by PeteRose (2893)
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M. Night Shyamalan.

I'd long given up on Night. He's made some great movies, but then he started making, well, shit. The Happening is the filmic equivalent of chalkboard nails. Don't even try it.

Then a strange thing went down. As I was finishing up a film I was enjoying, I thought, hmm, I wonder who made this? It was Split and Mr. Shyamalan himself. As the movie rounded out Split [spoiler]is revealed to take place within the same character universe as Unbreakable. [/spoiler]

Cut to me finding out that the long awaited sequel to what is arguably his best film is, dare I say, happening. I was super stoked, and all the principals were returning.

Cut to me finally seeing Glass. It totally sucked and amounts to 19 years of anticipation with basically no payoff.

Shyamalan wrecked his best thing. Any other filmmakers do this?

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

Peter Jackson, following up the marvelous "Lord of the Rings" movies with the absolutely godawful mess he made of "The Hobbit".

I don't know exactly how "The Hobbit" managed to go so terribly wrong, but studio interference and labor disputes seemed to make it a miserable experience behind the scenes and the push to make three films instead of one or two resulted in a bloated over-long mess. The movies are unwatchable, and Jackson seems to have given up on making any more big studio films.