Movie review: M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender"

[fixermark]

I've read some terrible, terrible reviews of this movie. I'd like to thank those reviewers for preparing me for the absolute worst. I believe that it was through their pessimistic help that I was able to thoroughly enjoy myself.

Let's get a couple of things out of the way. If you go in expecting a live-action Avatar cartoon, you will be extremely

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[sleepsong]

See, I saw all of the horrible reviews and was prepared to see a terrible movie, and I felt that the reviews hadn't prepared me enough for how incredibly bad the movie was.

Did we actually see the same movie?

[sleepsong]

Ahh! See, I experienced all of that, combined with painfully bad acting and booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing. That's probably why I hated it and you didn't. ;D

[fixermark]

Agreed. I attempted to cover that in noting the writer, director, and producer.

That's the thing I find interesting about this movie: the pacing and acting are not surprising to me, since I saw Signs back in the day. Since everyone else has covered it, I leave the question of who thought it was a good idea to the guy who (spoiler alert) made an alien attack movie all about hiding in a basement and staring at each other.

Honestly, given that I never saw Unbreakable, this is the most action I've ever seen in a Shyamalan flick.

As for whether that's bad... If their goal was to be faithful to the source material, I don't know what they were thinking. Subjectively, I had fun. The voids Shyamalan leaves in the on-screen emotion draw me in. I think that's one of the reasons his spooky movies are effective... He makes me as an audience member chase him into the fiction he's creating on-screen, and once I'm there, he can jump out at me and go booga-booga. It works, and he actually uses it in a couple of points in Airbender that I felt were