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

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.

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

H I L A R I O U S

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

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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

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.

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

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.