The Last Airbender suck-fest
By Sylver 35 Comments
Could the title be any more appropriate? 'Cause, let's face it ya'll, it SUCKED! I don't even know if that's a harsh enough word to explain what happened. 'Cause seriously.... What the crap happened?
Now before I tear into this... "movie" (I am reluctant to call it that), let me just say that I do respect M. Night Shyamalan. His movies are amazing. I was one of those stupid people who totally fell into the belief that Bruce Willis was still alive during the Sixth Sense. I was one of those people who will never look at chopsticks the same way again after watching someone impale themselves in the neck with one during The Happening. I'm also one of those people who is now perpetually freaked out about going into cornfields thanks to Signs (darn you bloody aliens!). So, yeah, his directing skills rock in thriller films. But what happens when it isn't a thriller film he's directing?
Well...we kinda have that answer already. The Last Airbender happened. It was basically this: some really boring idiot desided to make his own version of Avatar: The Last Airbender. He sticks the awesomely-hilarious TV show into a blender, tears it up, and kills off the soul of the movie. Then somehow, this guy gets the moola to create some really cool special effects to add to his soulless suck-fest. And being the idiot he is, he asks his idiot friends to be the actors.
And that, my good people, is The Last Airbender. Now it would be nice to say that that's what really happened and for some reason they put M. Night's name on it. But sadly...I don't think so. The actor's sucked, all humor was removed from it, the story line of constantly traveling around (when they could've just gone to the northern water tribe in the first place) was pointless and I'd-rather-watch-cereal-get-soggy boring. And then there were the good graphics. Basically, they tried to make roadkill look like a juicy steak by putting A1 sauce on it. That's how I see this catastrophy anyway...
And now we all wonder "what's next?". It's supposed to be a trilogy. That could either mean two more epic failures or two more attempts to bandage up the crap-of-a-movie the first one was. I'm sure the surge of complaints has hit the director by now...whether he'll listen to them or not is really what's either going to save or kill this trilogy.
The last time I saw a movie (copied from a book/tv series) that sucked this hard, was when I saw Eragon. Don't even get me started on that....
Now, we can either hope that 1. it gets a new director or 2. some sort of supernatural resurrection occurs to revive this perfectly good TV series-made-movie that they killed off. Better start hopin' people...