Johnson is another good example, he has made some good shit, some really good shit. TLJ didn't suck because he got woke. It sucked because he either didn't understand or didn't care about the material. There's no amount of wokeness you can subtract that suddenly makes his vision of Luke something that fits the world and makes for a good story. If they'd had one less feminist in the writer's room that wouldn't have saved that movie.
I was referring to the original ST movie with the original cast. V'Ger was literally a complete ripoff of the episode Changeling done by the writer with his own characters inserted into the story. It is unquestionably the worst Trek movie out there.
Not really anything else good but he's probably best known for Brick. His shtick is being neo noire adjacent in that he really doesn't possess enough creativity or writing skills to actually function within the wider realm of neo noir but he transposes old noir character tropes directly into a modern setting, it's his one trick and he uses it in every single movie. It was decently fresh in Brick but the twist of high school kids filling in the roles of an old noir detective story really wasn't enough to carry the movie and it has aged into a bit of a goofy mess, it's a tonal disaster and you can really see the same influence he had over that movie's mistakes continue to reappear in everything else that he's done. His lackluster dialogue was masked well enough by the excuse that it was supposed to be high school students in Brick but he just keeps writing in that same manner and by the time you get to TLJ and Knives Out it's glaringly apparent that he can't write any type of natural feeling dialogue or develop characters in any way beyond the one dimension that he creates them within to parallel something from an old Dashiel Hammet story.
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