I friggin knew it! How I hate M. Night Shyamalan.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainme ... 0046.story

10% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes:

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

OUCH!

The only good thing about him is when Robot Chicken did running skits about him - "Oh, what a twist!" LOL

Crap, 10%???LOL that bad, huh?

Bummer. I was expecting more. But I don't really listen too critics too much.

Your first link didn't work BTW.

Fuk reviews. So much crap reviewers love. I cant wait for this flick as I loved the cartoon and just expect myself to be a little kid and love this too.

He SUCKS!

To be expected from this guy. All his movies are crap.
What does the M stand for? Moron? Mediocre? Muddled?

Its now 7% ... yikes

It stands for "Michael." He's always been known as "Mike" to people who know him. The "Night" nonsense is supposed to make you think he's mysterious and spooky, oooooh.

Despite the fact that his movies keep getting worse and worse, I actually expected this one to get slightly better reviews. Apparently "airbender" is slang for flatulence in the UK so you can imagine the laughs at the title there.

saw the trailer awhile ago and it looked impressive to me. I initially thought there were going to be 3 movies to cover the 3 seasons of the show, but after reading some of these reviews it seems he compacted all 3 seasons into 1 flick which is beyond ridiculous! Just gonna wait for this on dvd

Never saw the show but understood it to have a massive fanbase for a non Japanese animated show. Thought the trailer looked compelling enough. I find M Night to be a horrible director and was amazed Paramount gave him to rights to this beloved series. But when you see Ebert write this:

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

you know you should be afraid. While I'm not the biggest fan of critics this seems to have had critics totally fooled with the trailer and press circuit and is a complete and utter disaster. Good to see Night did not fail to disappoint again after they should have revoked his director's guild card after the Happening.

i dunno about that i read he is signed on for 2 more avatar movies, so i think they just royally fucked up the first book

Man, I don't even want to add it to my netflix queue now.

Really? Im curious as to what makes you say that. I always thought he was a pretty good director but a horrible writer.

i personally liked signs and unbreakable.
but yea, this movie it seems he totally demolished.
wouldn't be surprised if he never directs a movie for many years,
then does a comeback

They're both pretty decent on many levels. "Signs" is a tight, well-made movie ... I actually liked Mel Gibson's overacting and character in that one. A little corny on the "evil aliens helped me rediscover my religion" theme but oh well.

I think the problem is what came after those two. Progressively worse, making what came before look weaker in retrospect.

Unbreakable is probably my favorite of his craptastic movies.

wow.. 6% is pretty bad, i didn't think it looked THAT much like dragonball evolution. if this flops as much with people, maybe he can abandon this and make the happening a trilogy instead

Wow.. 7% thats has to be one of the worst scores ever.
I was looking forward to this also.

He struggles to bring the best performances out of his actors. It's gotten progressively worse as he's continued to make films. I can't imagine what type of direction he gave Wahlberg or Deschanel in the Happening. Neither seem 100% sure what they are doing and are quite possibly the worst in their career in that film. Steadicam, close up, steadicam, close up, over and over. I'm not sure if when he sits down with a director of photography who's actually calling the shots but his shot selection is poor and his blocking is sort of inconsistent (which people try to put off as 'experimental'.) Plus he uses a lot of shallow focus shots and that's a recipe for disaster in 3D. It's the complete opposite of what the 3D effect is supposed to bring.

So you have an average director who's got producers forcing post production 3D on it which they say is awful beyond the awful post production that Clash had, and the lack of a decent film in years. Young inexperienced actors and a director who fails to bring real performances out of his actors for years now. Overall average technique in his directing and an arrogance that he likes to put himself his own films like he's some modern Hitchcock sounds like Paramount was wise to give him a possible killer franchise to not only direct but write the screenplay for. I guess they never read the Outer Limits episode The Village or the enchanting fairy tale Lady in the Water he wrote.

M. Night Shyamalan is to fade to black as Homer is to star wipe.

This sounds so bad I might actually have to go see it, just to see how terrible it is.

There is a hilarious review on io9.

Favorite quote:
"Shyamalan has boiled every epic heroic story of the past 20 years down to its most basic, primal soup-y essence, so he can spray it all over the audience, in a kind of Hero's-Journey bukkake. You will be finding chunks of Joseph Campbell's calcified spooge behind your ears for three days after watching this film, no matter how many times you bathe."

http://io9.com/5576076/m-night-shyamala ... e-a-comedy

kinda disappointed to hear this but had a feeling this would happen.. still might check it out regardless.

Well at least I know now not to see it in the theater.

Hopefully Red Box'll have it for a buck when it's released to video.

Last time I did this, the movie was 'Battlefield Earth'. So, I applaud your courage and curiosity, but am wishing you had a better way to challenge yourself. Like walking across hot coals or bungie jumping off a bridge.