Aren't you the same poster that said we "didn't need a visionary director" to helm this movie?
or for comic book movies in general?
If you thought The Fountain was a bad movie then I have to sadly inform you that you don't really understand serious cinema. That's not an insult, just an observation that anyone else would make. Critics that didn't support The Fountain attacked it for pretty much everything it was trying to achieve. They wanted it to be inside the box and it wasn't. In other words, it did what it wanted to do. If that film was released this year they would all love it. They hadn't yet warmed up to Darren is all.
And 3:10 to Yuma phenomenal????????????
Dude, start watching the greats. Kubrick, Malick, Fellini...then we'll talk what's phenomenal.