On the other hand, Spider-Man 2 was written by a Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. (There's actually a reasonable amount going on there, too.)

One of my problems with the two latest Shyamalan films is that they seem to be written to a theme rather than progressing from a premise. They're too cerebral and calculated. So I'd have to disagree with the notion that he spent less time thinking about them than I did. But that does make them more interesting to deconstruct, even if it is just a passing waste of time.