How did he lose all his talent over night?

Was an excellent comedy

Hold it right there Cred Forums.

The curse of success and yes-men. Like George Lucas or the Wachowskis he was too successful from the start so everyone assumed he knew more about what he was doing than he did. No one questioned his dumb ideas or stopped him from overdoing it.

Once he realized his name was associated with twists across the world he should have just started taking up pen names for his movies. It's sad to say it, but his name literally ruins movies for most people. The greatest twist of all could have easily been him being behind dozens of critically acclaimed movies after the peak of his career.

Not "Cred Forums", they're idiots. I'm just stating the FACT that Hollywood and the rest of the film industry is longing for a major talent who doesn't fit the white male mold... and we haven't come even close.

Seconded

It wasn't overnight, it was gradual.

Signs was still an amazingly crafted films with genuine moments, great characters and moments, it was just lazy in how it got to its finale.

The Village felt like a mash of two scripts, one genuine period drama that M Night wanted to make, and a movie the studio forced him to do for a twist. One on hand it's incredibly well staged and directed, beautiful mood with elegant and understated moments. On the other, the plot twist is truly shockingly bad, and the story overall isn't the most interesting.

Lady in the Water is where it came crashing down, the full was full on nonsense and he began to slowly deteriorate in regards to staging, blocking actors, basic directing things. Like he was on auto pilot...

no...just no Cred Forumstard. The sixth sense was fucking brilliant, him being a poo doesn't change the fact that he was talented.

I'm surprised this doesn't happen to more filmmakers. They spend their whole lives with an idea forming in their head, they have years to work it out and fine tune it. Then they finally get their shot and they blow it out of the water.

Hell, even his second movie was great. Unbreakable was capekino before capekino was a thing, and still holds up.

Then it all went to his head and we get shit like Avatar a decade later.

He believed his own hype.

He did an Ovitz.

It really is quite strange when you think about it. Yes, technically the idea behind the twist was inspired by something else, but even if 100% of the screenplay was plagiarized (which it wasn't), it was still a very well crafted, well directed, effective movie. Compare that to something like The Happening or The Last Airbender and it's like he forgot even the most basic principles of filmmaking. They are just weird fucking movies. They play like they were made by a space alien approximating what he thinks humanity is like. The acting choices are bizarre, the pacing is bizarre. Bizarre is the only word that really describes it.

He started off with three great films though.

Extraordinary talent comes in waves. Sometimes it only lasts a few years depending on the persons state of mind, change of environment, personal problems or lack there of or a combination of other factors

Most of you wouldn't understand

but lady in the water was comfy like a stephen king movie

he didn't lose it

as an envoy of the white race, I can confirm that it just took our scientists a little longer than expected to reconfigured our talent-stealing machine away from black to "bibidy-bibidy brown"...just also too late for slumdog millionaire to take a shit on the silver screen.

bingo
I watched his films in order last year, and Lady in The Water was the (sudden) drop off.

I was shocked because The VIllage was 9/10.