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Biggest career turn around?


Night Is coming off 2 Box office hits and 2 critical hits in The Visit and Split....

Split was A Massive success and has now lead to a sequel/the completion of A Trilogy...


and The question is can you think of a bigger career turn around for a director....but first let me explain, the reason I think this might be the biggest career turn around is PURELY due to just how LOW this man sank....

He went from making 4 straight HUGE HITS and Being Universally Praised as A Great director....To Literally Making some of the worst and most mocked Movies ever in The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth....

He was A Punchline, Literally a Joke....Basically Black Listed and Thought of has a HAS BEEN....

I mean The Last Airbender and After Earth were Career KILLERS...

The Level at which he fell was astonishing.....

and Then somehow He comes back with a Micro budget Hit in The Visit....and Then KNOCKS Out of the park with Split....

Now Glass is HUGELY Anticipated and Looks to have Huge Box Office Potential....

somehow Night pulled off one of the most shocking career turn around's ever(at least for a director)...I can think of some actors who's probably had better turnarounds...

Thoughts?

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I thought the happening, lady in the water and devil all head amazing concepts which were executed poorly, i'm certain those could've been thrilling masterpieces if they had better directing. These are movies Hollywood should remake instead of targeting classic movies which are already completely fine.

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I enjoyed Devil...although in wasnt directed by Night...He just produced it under his label

The Happening had a great concept, Unfortunately thats all it had, Literally one of the worst endings ever...

and I really enjoy Lady in The water(I'm in the monitory here)

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