Directors who were completely wrong for certain films

M. Night Shyamalan-The Last Airbender

Even if the only movies he had directed beforehand were The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he still would've been an odd fit. He's known for small thrillers with low budgets, what exactly about that shouts "Director of a big budget fantasy family adventure"?

Sure directors can do different genres but it's pretty clear he's stuck in his ways. His movies usually have deadpan acting, dark lighting, and a slow pace, and The Last Airbender has all three of those things, which just doesn't work for the kind of movie people were expecting. Add that to the fact that he completely jumped the shark as a director and made so many stinkers that his last film was The Happening and, looking back, it's not that much of a surprise that the movie sucked. Annoying, yes, especially for fans of the show, but not really that surprising all things considered. Plus the CGI is poorly integrated into the movie and its poorly shot, which probably is due to the fact that he just wasn't comfortable directing big budget fantasy movies like this and smaller movies like The Visit or Split were more in his wheelhouse.

Same thing was true of After Earth. It was supposed to be a big budget fantasy family adventure but had all those things and people just did not like it because it was supposed to be fun but Shyamalan just doesn't make fun movies, it's not really his thing.

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