He's made a shitton of bad movies based
on weak ideas (Little NIcky, Jack and Jill).
Some might think that opaque prose is a deliberate choice, as summarized by Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes): «I realized that the purpose of writing is to
inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.»
Some have
weak ideas; others have inexperienced people behind them, and others are downright useless.
The strong ideas for making money «survive» and win out over / kill
the weak ideas for making money.
If students put forth a great deal of effort and do not succeed at a task, it may lead them to believe they are unlikely to succeed at the task in the future, or if students only succeed when they receive help from others, they will have
a weaker idea of their own capability of being successful in the future (Usher & Pajares, 2008).
The Lost And Damned is a stiff rebuke to all the haters; an expression of what DLC could and should be at a time when the rest of the industry seems to regard it as a repository for
their weaker ideas.