3. M. Night Shyamalan
Had M. Night Shyamalan stopped making movies after
Signs, he probably wouldn't even be on the list. After
The Sixth Sense and
Unbreakable,
Signs was his third effort, and I'll say now that I think all three of those are good movies. Still, everyone was pretty annoyed at him by then, 'cause all they could see was what appeared to be a filmmaker slowly getting worse and worse. Is that true? That's for you to decide, I guess, but I think there's merit in both
Unbreakable and
Signs. Why, then, you're asking, have I included Shyamlan on this list if I think he's only made three good movies? My answer: M. Night Shyamalan is a joke, and he would have been far better regarded as a filmmaker had he just stopped at
The Sixth Sense and went on a permanent hiatus. If he'd have stopped at three movies, he'd still have that lacking street credit built around his obsession with "twist endings," and it's only served to ruin his career since. If it were at all possible in anyway, it'd be worth Shyamalan completely erasing his filmography all the way back to
The Sixth Sense, because that must've been the happiest time of the man's life. Now, all he gets his disrespect. I mean, yes, there are probably better uses should we invent time travel than for fixing M. Night Shyamalan's failing career, but still, movies are important, too.