4 Movies that Should Have Ended Someone's Career

And One that Actually Did

1. The Village

Should Have Ended The Career Of: M. Night Shyamalan.

Look, I was fine with M. Night Shyamalan for the first few movies of his career, basically because his middle name is "Night" and that's pretty fucking badass. You don't just name a kid Night unless he slides out of the womb on his socks with sunglasses on a la Risky Business. But around the time he made Signs, people started to notice that he wasn't particularly great at making kickass movies, a la Risky Business.

However, he had some creepy effects and there was always a twist ending that caught you a little bit by surprise. "Oh, Bruce Willis is dead," or "Oh, Bruce Willis can't die," or "Oh, Mel Gibson was given Easter-egg like hints from God how to stop the coming Alien invasion by using glasses of water that his daughter left all over the house which is the aliens' one weakness, which kind of makes one wonder why in the holy fuck of hell they would decide to land on a planet that's 80% water."

The Village skipped all the boring "scary" stuff and instead consisted of about, I don't know, maybe six hours of teenagers running around in the woods looking for medicine or something before you find out that they're not actually in the 1800s, but on some reservation that apparently is large enough that they didn't notice an entire community of weird, scared-shitless-of-monsters Amish type people but small enough that one of those people only needed to walk for a few hours in any given direction to find a highway, complete with M. Night Shyamalan himself making a cameo as a cop or something.

How'd It Do?

$114 million gross, then another $140 million worldwide. Good enough for Shyamalan to keep making movies, including the abysmal Lady In The Water, a movie bad enough to make this list but disqualified because it actually might have ended Shyamalan's career.

2. Catwoman

Should Have Ended The Careers Of: The writers, directors, and pretty much everyone but Halle Berry (cuz she's purty).

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