Before The Happening, he was my very favorite filmmaker, no doubt. He was the reason I got into filmmaking, and I pored over his movies like they were religious text. To this day everything between Sixth Sense and even Lady in the Water is amazing, some of my very favorite movies.
But then it Happened, and it Happened all over the place. Now it seems like he's used up every good idea he ever had. It's like he had some magic potion during those early years and it finally ran out. And watching him fall has been one of the saddest things I've ever had to witness. I can only hold on to the idea that maybe his stuff is terrible now because he's making films for the audience now, and not for himself ("I've got to make this scary! I've got to make this epic! I've got to do what I think people want me to do!"), and that someday he'll return to form with something not, er...RETARDED.
Currently playing:
Bloodbath Paddy Wagon Ultra 9
