Goodbye Steven Soderbergh

This guy has had one strange career.  It can be argued that he caused the independent film world to explode after his classic Sex Lies and Videotape.  He got nominated for Best Director twice in one year, (Traffic, Erin Brokovich), and won for Traffic.  He has blockbusters(Ocean's Eleven) and offbeat, unique movies(Out of Sight, The Informant).  Yet, the guy has done way too many things to result in his sad fall from grace.  He made a 2 part, 4 hour epic on Che Guevara (Why??), that nobody saw.  Literally.  He made two sequels to Ocean's Eleven that redefined the word sucking.  And his last few artsy, low-budget films failed to catch on with any type of audience.  It's been recently annoucned that he's retiring from filmmaking at the young age of 48, and one can only wonder if it's because he's completely lost his touch, or has become so discouraged at how obsure his once A-list status has become.  Either way, let's remember that Traffic was an epic, he made Julia Roberts look like a great actress in Erin Brokovich, and made robbing casinos look like the coolest shit in the world in Ocean's Eleven.  There is also not one film ever made that is anything close to what he did in Sex Lies and Videotape.  So goodbye Mr Soderbergh, I hope you return, but next time, please refrain from the boring and pretentious art-house flicks, because nobody is going to see them.