Quote (-=vasya=- @ 6 Feb 2017 14:59)
so he makes one of the greatest films and then he makes total garbage like Elysium and Chappie...when threes clearly room for another few district 9 films
i just dont get it...why
He probably wanted to recreate District 9's success. I think he mistakenly believed people wanted social issues mixed with action. He focused on concepts he considered interesting/appealing such as a ring world or robot protagonist, which he figured he should couple with action scenes for impact and entertainment, and he figured that would be enough to deliver the social theme he believed people wanted. He forgot to work on the script/story.
Apparently he also had much more freedom in Elysium and Chappie... District 9's script was heavily revised and he had more people helping him. Now he's doing most of the stuff by himself, which is exposing him as a mediocre writer. It feels like George Lucas trying to recreate his original Star Wars trilogy without any help, because he's the genius that came up with the successful concept and so nobody can write stories better than him.
At this rate he's going to become like the guy who directed "The Sixth Sense", who reached the conclusion that people wanted plot twists, plot twists and more plot twists, and just went on to making soulless movie based around an interesting concept (like a closed social circle in "The Village" or contact with aliens in "Signs") but with an awful story/script to deliver the message, which he would just add a plot twist to, expecting to achieve the same success he achieved with "The Sixth Sense".