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telepresence's post on the subject in its entireity cause he pretty much summed it up quite well:
Were you, like me, feeling conflicted about seeing The Last Airbender? Welp, apparently the pressure is off, because the movie is crap.
Last I checked it's at 10 percent at Rotten Tomatoes. The tacked-on 3-D is supposedly terrible, the action is tepid, and the acting terrible.
It's actually down to 7% and presumably falling.
A sampling of pull quotes:
"The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
"The Last Airbender is a joyless, soulless, muddled mess," - Christy Lemire, Associated Press
"This colossal folly, the fiasco of the summer of 2010 — gives us all a ringside seat at the sight of Mr. “I See Dead People’s” career gurgling down the drain." - Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
"The Last Airbender is dreadful, an incomprehensible fantasy-action epic that makes the 2007 film The Golden Compass, a similarly botched adaptation of a beloved property from another medium, look like a four-star classic." - Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Also, on top of the dodgy racial issues that have dogged the movie since the cast was revealed, apparently it sucks for gender too, with no Suki, no Kyoshi Warriors, and most of Katara's top moments either excised (no fight between Katara and Master Pakku for her right to train with boys) or given to Aang. Bleah.
Ah well, there's always the DVDs of the original show.
Yeah, wow. I think Hollywood just invented Failbending, lol. And, as one oftelepresence's friends pointed out, when's the last time you enjoyed something getting as savaged by the critics to this extreme of a level? (When was Uwe Boll's last movie?)
I'm going to go over here and relish my schadenfreude sandwich now.
telepresence's post on the subject in its entireity cause he pretty much summed it up quite well:Were you, like me, feeling conflicted about seeing The Last Airbender? Welp, apparently the pressure is off, because the movie is crap.
Last I checked it's at 10 percent at Rotten Tomatoes. The tacked-on 3-D is supposedly terrible, the action is tepid, and the acting terrible.
It's actually down to 7% and presumably falling.
A sampling of pull quotes:
"The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
"The Last Airbender is a joyless, soulless, muddled mess," - Christy Lemire, Associated Press
"This colossal folly, the fiasco of the summer of 2010 — gives us all a ringside seat at the sight of Mr. “I See Dead People’s” career gurgling down the drain." - Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
"The Last Airbender is dreadful, an incomprehensible fantasy-action epic that makes the 2007 film The Golden Compass, a similarly botched adaptation of a beloved property from another medium, look like a four-star classic." - Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Also, on top of the dodgy racial issues that have dogged the movie since the cast was revealed, apparently it sucks for gender too, with no Suki, no Kyoshi Warriors, and most of Katara's top moments either excised (no fight between Katara and Master Pakku for her right to train with boys) or given to Aang. Bleah.
Ah well, there's always the DVDs of the original show.
Yeah, wow. I think Hollywood just invented Failbending, lol. And, as one of
telepresence's friends pointed out, when's the last time you enjoyed something getting as savaged by the critics to this extreme of a level? (When was Uwe Boll's last movie?)I'm going to go over here and relish my schadenfreude sandwich now.
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Date: 2010-07-01 12:49 am (UTC)From:They also have an interview with the guy who played General Zhao, a certain Aasif Mandvi, whom you may have seen on something called the Daily Show: http://www.avclub.com/articles/aasif-mandvi,42627/
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Date: 2010-07-01 07:40 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-07-01 01:57 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-07-01 02:00 am (UTC)From:"The story takes place in the future, after Man has devastated the planet and survives in the form of beings with magical powers allowing them to influence earth, water and fire."
I haven't facepalmed like this since the Transformers movies.
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Date: 2010-07-01 02:37 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-07-01 05:48 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-07-01 07:33 am (UTC)From:Where to start with this one? How about this: If any movie ever warranted a class-action lawsuit against the filmmakers, it’s The Last Airbender. - Keith Phipps, AV Club