Roger Ebert on the Last Airbender

[Ns1]

oh god I love Ebert

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender/

 

[cliftonite]

Oh man I had high hopes for this one

 

[KeithTalent]

Yowzer, only one positive so far and it only seems to be mildly positive.

KT

 

[mrCide]

6%? fml

 

[darkxshade]

M. Night Shyamalan was not a great choice to direct... he got lucky with Sixth Sense, everything else he has ever made was mediocre at best.

 

[Kirby]

oh god I love Ebert

:thumbsup:

 

[HumblePie]

M. Night Shyamalan was not a great choice to direct... he got lucky with Sixth Sense, everything else he has ever made was mediocre at best.

This.

And dang, I actually watched the animated series on netflix just to see if the storyline would be any good for a movie to watch. The story isn't too bad, not the greatest, but I could see if being a decent entertaining flick. But alas, I guess it is not the case.

 

[Kabob]

Did you all really have even mediocre expectations?

 

[Slick5150]

How M. Night keeps getting high profile directing gigs after flop after flop is beyond me.

I actually liked Unbreakable. It was interesting. Everything since that has been really awful.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Wow...talk about slaughtered. I was looking forward to this one too.

 

[MJinZ]

How M. Night keeps getting high profile directing gigs after flop after flop is beyond me.

I actually liked Unbreakable. It was interesting. Everything since that has been really awful.

He has an awesome sounding name. That's about it.

 

[KeithTalent]

How M. Night keeps getting high profile directing gigs after flop after flop is beyond me.

I actually liked Unbreakable. It was interesting. Everything since that has been really awful.

Really the only one that was a flop was Lady in the Water (good lord that was awful) and even that one earned more than its production budget: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=shyamalan.htm even The Happening made over $160 million worldwide on a $48 million budget. He's been making money consistently on almost all his films. Village made over $260 worlwide and Signs was over $400!

KT

 

[joesmoke]

ive never seen this series, but has there ever been a badass cartoon that made for a good movie?

 

[darkxshade]

He has an awesome sounding name. That's about it.

The first syllable of his last name is pronounced "sham"

 

[GagHalfrunt]

How M. Night keeps getting high profile directing gigs after flop after flop is beyond me.

I actually liked Unbreakable. It was interesting. Everything since that has been really awful.

Because despite being awful his movies are not flops. The Happening was a $50 million budget and a $150 million worldwide gross. Lady in the Water broke even, The Village made $150 million in profit, Signs made more than $300 million profit, Unbreakable about $150 million profit and The Sixth Sense made half a billion profit.

The studios don't care if his movies are all 0% on RT, if they keep making money like that the studio execs will happily blow him to keep making garbage.

 

[rocadelpunk]

M night shall be awarded no points and may god have mercy on his soul

 

[Ns1]

Because despite being awful his movies are not flops. The Happening was a $50 million budget and a $150 million worldwide gross.

50MM budget + 150WBO =/= profitable

 

[dwell]

How is M Night still making films?

 

[gorcorps]

Go figure, a shitty director adapts a shitty anime into a shitty movie and it gets bad reviews...

 

[Gibsons]

The critics seem to be competing for who can give the worst review:

...gives us all a ringside seat at the sight of Mr. “I See Dead People’s” career gurgling down the drain.

Let's just be honest: M. Night Shyamalan is an idiot.

The Last Airbender is a joyless, soulless, muddled mess, but the worst part of all doesn't come until the very end. That's when it makes the clear suggestion that two more such movies are in store for us.

I believe M. Night can ruin the world.

 

[KeithTalent]

50MM budget + 150WBO =/= profitable

I'm not sure what that all means. :hmm: Are you saying it is or is not profitable?

KT

 

[sandorski]

The Critic Summary bits are good for some lols: "
The most well-rounded failure of the year so far."; "

I believe M. Night can ruin the world."; "Even in 3D, [it's] one-dimensional."

 

[guyver01]

Shame... i had some hopes for this movie...

An article i read said M. Night never heard about the show until his daughter wanted to be Katara for halloween. He then had to look it up and thought it would be a good movie plot. The thought he didn't want to disappoint his daughter, and the fact that they weren't rushing thru 3 season in 1 90+min movie (this movie only covers Book 1:Water.. the other 2 books are supposed to be made into separate movies).. gave me some hope...

but after seeing pictures of Dev Patel's Zuko (his scar is practically non-existant, he's missing the archetypical top-knot of a Fire Nation prince, seen for most of Book 1) and Noah Ringer's Aang (his Arrow tattoos are made up of hundreds of smaller tattoos.. instead of one big tattoo) ... i'm giving up all hope.

 

[waggy]

pity i had high hopes for it. i have seen some of the anime and was hoping the movie would be good

 

[DougK62]

I hate how him and Tyler Perry have to prefix their names to the title of everything they do. Ugh.