June 30, 2010
"The Last Airbender" is out, and word is that it reeks. As I post this, it's at 7% on the Tomatometer. It's all because Cameron camped on the name "Avatar", I tell you!
UPDATE: James Berardinelli hated it.
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Posted by: BigD at June 30, 2010 06:13 PM (LjWr8)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 30, 2010 08:07 PM (mRjOr)
Posted by: pgfraering at June 30, 2010 08:19 PM (xlmQD)
Posted by: metaphysician at July 01, 2010 05:11 AM (OLeXB)
Posted by: Mark at July 01, 2010 06:26 AM (aUPJJ)
Did these people think Sheboygan would actually _get better_ from "The Happening" if they gave him more money?
He didn't become this bad overnight. He did "The Village" and "The Happening" and instead of losing money, he made it. So he got positive reinforcement from making bad movies.
So now he's made a worse one. Surprised?
Posted by: pgfraering at July 01, 2010 07:28 AM (xlmQD)
Posted by: RickC at July 01, 2010 07:28 AM (UJl8O)
pgfraering, The conventional wisdom was that Shyamalan wasn't a bad director so much as his writing was horrible and that working on someone else's story would produce better results.  Unfortunately, it looks like Shyamalan was in charge of adapting the story and writing the script for this, so his issues with stilted dialogue and awkward exposition are still coming through.  I would still be interested in seeing him direct someone else's script. Â
In any case, you're point about not supporting bad movies is well taken. Â It's certainly not something I'd see opening weekend (perhaps a matinee in a few weeks), but I'm still interested...
Posted by: Mark at July 01, 2010 08:04 AM (aUPJJ)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at July 01, 2010 02:22 PM (/ppBw)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 01, 2010 03:42 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at July 01, 2010 04:01 PM (/ppBw)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at July 01, 2010 06:33 PM (/ppBw)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 01, 2010 08:09 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: BigD at July 01, 2010 11:51 PM (LjWr8)
Posted by: Mark at July 02, 2010 06:34 AM (aUPJJ)
Since this movie came out their main pastime has been shouting out particularly cutting bits from reviews of the movie. In fact I think that reading reviews of the movie has directly affected out productivity- even the owner of the company is spending more time reading the reviews than he is spending animating. I know I can't get anything done when I am chortling over bon mots like "It seems that Wood is the only elements humans can't manipulate [in the Avatar world], and that's too bad, as it might have helped in directing the actors."
The reviewers have been having fun- there's nothing more fun for them than to have a movie that really deserves a savaging. I suspect that this will go down in history as the worst movie ever made by someone who had once been considered a serious director.
Posted by: tds at July 03, 2010 12:26 PM (D3yNk)
I suspect that this will go down in history as the worst movie ever made by someone who had once been considered a serious director.
No, not a chance. It can't possibly rival "1941".
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 03, 2010 01:17 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: ubu at July 03, 2010 04:17 PM (wxR6Z)
I haven't seen it yet, and I probably never will, but... I work with people masochistic enough to have gone to see this at the first midnight showing. Their reports are starting to trickle in. I think that _at best_ this will be considered equally bad. _At best._
Posted by: tds at July 03, 2010 10:30 PM (D3yNk)
No, not a chance. It can't possibly rival "1941".
Aww, but it's not like it bombed at the box office or like Spielberg having a one hit shot and then blazing the field everywhere every time he decided to inflict the world with another of his films. =P
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