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Anyone who's ever had a conversation with me about Hollywood blockbuster movies for longer than ten minutes, they know that eventually the topic will turn to my absolute and utter hatred of M. Night Shyamalan and everything he stands for. I can't believe how many Shyamalan apologists there are - I'm sorry, but Unbreakable only LOOKS like a decent movie relative to the dreck he's produced since, and The Sixth Sense is enormously overrated. I genuinely believe the guy is the end result of everything that is wrong with Hollywood, and why he keeps getting funding to make his increasingly offensively-awful films that MAKE NO MONEY is one of the true mysteries of the modern world.
Having said all of that, my foundational notions of Shyamalan have been shaken by this teaser trailer for The Last Airbender. I know it's less than two minutes of actual film content but I am genuinely unsettled nonetheless. Add to that the fact that a) I am not in any way an anime fan and have never seen a single second of the animated series and b) everything I've read about this production suggests that it will be yet another Dragonball or Street Fighter... Yet the clip speaks for itself. I am, despite myself, impressed.
In other news related to films named "Avatar", 24 minutes of James Cameron's sci-fi juggernaut screened at Cinema Expo and essentially destroyed the minds of everyone present with its incredible awesomeness. I've been ambivalent towards this project since I started hearing about it, but I will admit that this early buzz has me kind of stoked.
And in news completely unrelated to anything preceding this paragraph, USA Today has some pretty astounding early artwork and character designs up for Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland.
And this is what I'm doing instead of writing a paper due in three hours.
Having said all of that, my foundational notions of Shyamalan have been shaken by this teaser trailer for The Last Airbender. I know it's less than two minutes of actual film content but I am genuinely unsettled nonetheless. Add to that the fact that a) I am not in any way an anime fan and have never seen a single second of the animated series and b) everything I've read about this production suggests that it will be yet another Dragonball or Street Fighter... Yet the clip speaks for itself. I am, despite myself, impressed.
In other news related to films named "Avatar", 24 minutes of James Cameron's sci-fi juggernaut screened at Cinema Expo and essentially destroyed the minds of everyone present with its incredible awesomeness. I've been ambivalent towards this project since I started hearing about it, but I will admit that this early buzz has me kind of stoked.
And in news completely unrelated to anything preceding this paragraph, USA Today has some pretty astounding early artwork and character designs up for Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland.
And this is what I'm doing instead of writing a paper due in three hours.