THE LAST AIRBENDER is a hate crime against those who love movies!!!!- Page 2

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/1/10 at 6:56pm

One reason why Hollywood may keep having him back is his movies appear to be made rather inexpensively.

This one, however, was made for something like 280 million and--unless those wacky Europeans fall in love with it for some reason--has absolutely no hope of being a hit. Mr. Shyamalan is in trouble.

Updated On: 7/1/10 at 06:56 PM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 7/1/10 at 7:04pm

His movies since The Village have done well first week but putter out the next week. Get the same feeling with fans of the cartoon wanting to check it out this weekend but only to feel disappointed by it and completely disown the film.

Michael Phillips in his review (like Ebert, he is familiar with the source material and liked it a great deal) compared it to Dune. While that movie was by no means good that is implying Dune is sh!t of a film (it is just meh) and MNS is like Lynch. Not in a million years. That said I hope it is the same failure at the Box Office like Dune was, if only because MNS needs to be put to sleep as a filmmaker.

[romantico]

Posted: 7/1/10 at 7:39pm

H I L A R I O U S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNl3j3Snkbs&feature=

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 7/1/10 at 9:06pm

LADY IN THE WATER was so pretentious! I think it could be better had M. Night not cast himself as the savior. Isn't there a line about, "The writer will save the world"??

Crap, crap crap!

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 7/2/10 at 5:37pm

i didn't enjoy this movie... it was just badly written and acted... eesh... i never watched the series so i was hoping to have a good background on it but set up of the series and the characters was just bad, bland and boring... that being said... i hope it does well so i can see a sequel with a better director and writer... this movie had potential but for some reason Shyamalan just screwed it up

[Taryn]

Posted: 7/2/10 at 6:40pm

The best part of this whole mess has been the amazingly hilarious reviews.
M. Night Shyamalan Finally Made A Comedy

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/2/10 at 8:19pm

From Lou Lumenik of the NY Post

Zero Stars

"If M Night Shyamalan sold his soul to the devil for the success of "The Sixth Sense" , I think his Satanic Majesty has finally collected in full with " The Last Airbender"

This statement is eerily similar to what was said about Michael Cimino's Heavens Gate

At least James Oster of Joblo.com liked it whoever he may be.

Updated On: 7/2/10 at 08:19 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/2/10 at 8:27pm

These reviews are actually making me want to go see this movie.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 7/2/10 at 8:56pm

I'll wait for it when it is on cable in September or so.

I think what makes it different, and arguably a worse offender, than Heaven's Gate (OK maybe that is a stretch since I do not think anybody went bankrupt making this film) is that the source material is so well-known and well-liked by a powerful demographic. Heaven's Gate came all from Cimino's crazy mind and nobody was actually quite sure what he was trying to do. Really, who spends the first 30 minutes of a film recreating 19th century Ivy League in Cambridge, England or having a painstakingly long roller skating scene to a tune of a fiddle player in what was advertised as a Western? Michael Cimino apparently.

Shyamalan already had a target on his back before making this project, whereas when Cimino got UA to do Heaven's Gate he had Oscars, for being formulaic and it seems all of the decisions he in moving a successful animated TV series to live-action in less than 2 hours failed miserably.

[AudreyTwoTwo]

Posted: 7/4/10 at 12:11am

I was excited to see this movie because of the series, but I think I'll just go see Toy Story 3. I still haven't seen it, and I feel ashamed. -_-