The Last Airbender

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Sabrina T

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Has anybody seen this yet? Already being billed as one of the worse films of the year (worse than SATC2) and perhaps a early contender for one of the worst films of the decade! (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45640) Is it as bad as critics make out? I saw a advert on the tv and it seemed to emphasize on the 3d effects above anything else haha
 
I hate 3D that plays on the fact that it is indeed 3D.

After seeing the god awful smug advert, (i'm always wary of adverts that just tell you what "audiences" felt), i'm glad i've avoided it.
 
it's not the worst film ever made, not by a long shot. But coming from M. Night Shimmyshimmyman (sic) it's a real disappointment. Not that is more recent films have been that great, mind.

If your taking kiRAB who are aware of the animated series, you should be on safe ground. Otherwise, avoid like the plague. It doesn't help matters that it has an inconclusive ending, due to the fact it's part of a planned trilogy.

Also, don't bother seeing it in 3D, truly woeful effects. Not sure what film the audience in the advert for the film are watching, but certainly not The Last Airbender.

Review here.
 
150 million budget but probably about 30 or 40 million on marketing on top of that. It's grossed about 140 million in America but the reviews have been so horrific, i can't see there being a sequel.
 
It's almost as dead as the Golden Compass. I'm surprised that the Nickelodeon crowd managed to get it to 150 million though.
 
Basically M.Knight Shymalan has killed his career with this film. It truly is bad, i mean seriously bad, probably up there with The Happening.

I wish someone would give him a good slap and just tell him to sort himself out and get his act together. But no one has the balls to. I imagine he has too many 'yes' people around him.

For me, The 6th Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and The Village all between okay and very good. Anything made after this is just pure and utter rubbish!
 
Saw this tonight. I hadn't read any reviews so I didn't have any preconceived ideas about how good or bad it might be.

Honestly, it was one of the worst films I've ever sat through. Just awful from start to finish, and I don't think I can even sum up in worRAB how bad it was.

The acting was pretty cringeworthy in places, but that was mostly because the script was terrible. Everything was explained about three or four times, and not even in a way that sort of worked. It was just exposition all the time, constantly reminding us what was going on. And there was no need, because the plot was so simple and mudane, anyone could have followed it.

There was no cohesion at all; it just jumped from one scene to the next, with many of them lasting just a few seconRAB and containing no dialogue. Even the action was dull, because the battles felt more like choreographed set pieces than anything else.

It was just a generally dreadful film, almost like a Lord of the Rings spoof, but completely unintentional. It was badly written, acted and directed, hopelessly contrived, simplistic, moralistic, flat and unengaging. The running time was only around an hour and forty minutes, but it felt like it went on forever.

When I go to the cinema with my frienRAB, we don't always agree, and perhaps I'm a bit harsh sometimes. But we all thought it was complete garbage and, weirdly, we all felt a bit angry that we'd chosen to go and see something that turned out to be so, so awful.
 
I've seen the TV trailer for it, and it looks like the most stupid plastic piece of rubbish I've yet been aware of to emerge from the world of 'cinema' - which is looking less and less like actual film and more like computer games with each passing year. The faux-heroics the title is calculated to invoke are equally vomit-worthy.
 
Yh i just got back from seeing this it really annoyed me such a stupid film and there is going to be 3 more i assume because this was book 1 Water so i assume there will be earth wind and fire. I did grin a bit with the bender reference:o
 
Thank goodness for this. I've only seen the trailer, from which you can just tell what kind of completely soulless tripe it it. Everything about this 'film' besides the ostensibly 'real' actors - the sets, the backgrounRAB, the special effects, even the texture of the celluloid itself - looked computerised/digitised to the nth degree. That is not film-making.
 
Aww :( I was looking forwarRAB to going to see this with my friend (we're big fans of Jackson Rathbone, who plays Sokka) and I loved the series. It's a shame it's not been done very well.
 
Wikipedia says the budget was $150,000,000 and so far it's made $198,691,000, so it's made a profit.

I imagine, after the universal panning it's been getting, that if it wasn't in token-value 3D then it wouldn't have broke even. 3D is a con. It's the saviour of shit films like this and Clash of the Titans (and by saviour I simply mean cash cow).

So, I guess Hollywood have learned an important lesson. If a film is crap just make it 3D and it'll sell.
 
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