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I f you look at those particular directors you mention in the first post, I don't think John Singleton was really a big deal, more like a one hit wonder, like Dennis Hopper on Easy Rider, so maybe he was a fluke. The Farralley Brothers showed early promise, hit their stride with There's Something About Mary, then got progressively worse. To be honest, I never cared that much for Mary, they don't know how to stage slapstick, and they are more crude than funny. As they have gotten older, they ran out of tricks. I doubt they will make a comeback with that Stooges movie. They need to stretch and do something a little more ambitious, but they seem to be going the other way. Shyamalan is a peculiar case. As good as The Sixth Sense is, you can see where he could run into trouble in future films. He is very focused on a certain narrow style and he is a better writer than a director (at least on that film). He seems to be running out of stories. He needs some collaborators, get somebody to help him write those screenplays, and stop taking himself so damn seriously.