What have they done?! I knew the film was going to be bad, but somewhere inside I hoped it would somehow prove me wrong despite the whitewashing of the cast...
That was possibly the slowest, most boring action scene I've ever seen and they were even using magical bending powers. Honestly, if magical powers can't make your action scenes awesome then something is clearly wrong!
It was so horrible. I saw it. The husband and I spent the entire ride home recasting it and rewriting it (in a general, this-is-how-M. Night-f-ed-it up-way).
I now want to see a Last Airbender starring Ken Watanabe as the Fire Lord and Jackie Chan as Uncle Iroh. There has to be some young Jet Li-esque guy out there to play Zuko, and as far as the other kids go, you know, I'm open to suggestions for my mental version of the movie. That will never, even be made, because M. Night has taken my beloved cartoon and beaten it into the ground and then salted the earth, as far as the film industry is concerned. *weeps*
Although, I still think Battlefield Earth is the Worst Movie Ever.
Oh man. Well, my best defense for seeing it is this: it had the guy who played the sniper in Saving Private Ryan, and I really liked him. Plus, it was an SF movie, and a huge group of us SF geeks went to see it knowing pretty much nothing about it but the trailer. I think there were eight of us
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Shyamalan's career path is certainly weird. Every movie is worse than the last: Unbreakable, while decent, wasn't as good as The Sixth Sense, and it seems to have been a steady downward slide from there (certainly The Village was as awful as you say - I haven't seen any of the others).
What I think, is he's got a magic bottle like the one in Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp," except to get rid of it, instead of selling it for less than you paid, you make a movie worse than the one made by the last owner. Unfortunately for Shyamalan, every time he manages to fob it off on Uwe Boll, it comes back a few months later...
Oh My God. That was..worse than I had anticipated. I did not believe that was possible, but he achieved it.
How do you take such a wonderfully written, lovingly thought out animated series, and a scene that had kick-ass characters and honestly decent dialogue, and turn it into _that_??
I boggle. The evident racefail and genderfail are coupled with such unbelievably godawful craft I am not sure which part to hate on first.
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That was possibly the slowest, most boring action scene I've ever seen and they were even using magical bending powers. Honestly, if magical powers can't make your action scenes awesome then something is clearly wrong!
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I now want to see a Last Airbender starring Ken Watanabe as the Fire Lord and Jackie Chan as Uncle Iroh. There has to be some young Jet Li-esque guy out there to play Zuko, and as far as the other kids go, you know, I'm open to suggestions for my mental version of the movie. That will never, even be made, because M. Night has taken my beloved cartoon and beaten it into the ground and then salted the earth, as far as the film industry is concerned. *weeps*
Although, I still think Battlefield Earth is the Worst Movie Ever.
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What I think, is he's got a magic bottle like the one in Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp," except to get rid of it, instead of selling it for less than you paid, you make a movie worse than the one made by the last owner. Unfortunately for Shyamalan, every time he manages to fob it off on Uwe Boll, it comes back a few months later...
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How do you take such a wonderfully written, lovingly thought out animated series, and a scene that had kick-ass characters and honestly decent dialogue, and turn it into _that_??
I boggle. The evident racefail and genderfail are coupled with such unbelievably godawful craft I am not sure which part to hate on first.
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