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Here's The Super Bowl Ad For M. Night's LAST AIRBENDER...
Merrick here...
The trailer comes to us via UGO (find it HERE).
I'll not soon forgive any filmmaker who dared to put something as breathtakingly inane as THE HAPPENING on screens, but I'm trying...really trying...to remain open minded about this. I don't find the 'look' of this trailer altogether unappealing.
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Might get a few hundred million more at the box office if they did.
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Awesome. Ok
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The earthbender blocking the firebender's attack was impressive looking.
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I love the show, and i will be honest, the movie might suck ass..... But man to see the bending come to life is pretty bad ass. I will see this movie just for the hell of it...
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I know in the other M Night TB I already "outed" myself as a fan of his earlier work (his first 3 = cool, his last 3 = suck) so maybe I'm biased....but that looks pretty good!
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You heard it here first.
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That movie wasnt very good.
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Just for the bending, if nothing else, will I see this film!
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Make or break for Night. I'm fine with everything about this project and I actually think the man is a fine director... if only somebody would just take his pencil and paper away!
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maybe this is where M.Night can really make a come back.
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I watched the whole series with my kids and I think it's an awesome story. This looks good, I'm looking forward to the movie.
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He has 3 good movies out of 6 that he's made. Thats probably a better success ratio than other directors you guys give fellatio to on this site.
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Feb 04, 2010 12:49:17 PM CST
I only give fellatio to directors with an 80% track record of go
by bruce of all trades
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Feb 04, 2010 12:49:29 PM CST
Signs is debatable whether it's a good movie or not
by randomwordrandomword
So his record is 2 great movies, 1 mediocre, and 3 godawful movies. Not a very good trend he's on.
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You won't see me trying to get cozy with Richard Kelly.
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For me to poop on!
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Why do they put that in trailers anymore? Anyway, I think it looks decent. I might check it out.
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I'm probably going to see it since I've seen every other Shymalan film. But where is the bison looking thing from the cartoon?
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So it will be TURD..!
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too bad i'm boycotting this movie
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I am intrigued by this movie, but that's a pretty quick little blurb. Oh well, we hardly saw any of Avatar leading up to it's release as well. I guess that project was somewhat successful.
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Looked like sleight of hand, hiding a non-story behind razzle dazzle FX and not one decent stretch of choreographed ass kicking either. And I think the cartoon rocked.
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So this movie is racist because it pits different races against each other? Awesome! I've always wondered which one will win out. My money's is on the Mexicans
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But that trailer does look pretty good, even if only 30 seconds of the movie is good in the long run.
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as if Cameron's "Avatar" was the first fiction to use that word. Probably TSR's Avatar Trilogy series of books and modules set in the Forgotten Realms from the late 80's are what put the word into the geek (and later popular) lexicon in the western world, and why they started using the term when the graphical web was attached to the net in the 90's.
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WHAT A TWEEST!
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Hopefully it's the guy who did Signs, and The Sixth Sense.
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So fuck you all.
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After watching Cameron's Avatar, I STILL say that Nickelodeon should have just said "fuck off" and named this one Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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Really all of them, incl. Village, Happening, Lady/Water. He's a great director & fairytale filmmaker. But I agree with Merrick: Based on the trailer this film seems "altogether unappealing". Like the music though. ;)
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I mean, it's not like it was as bad as say, Alone in the Dark. Did I mention that 9/11 was an inside job, the swine flu scare was a hoax to sell vaccines, and global warming is a scam and they tried to form a global carbon tax but failed because of Climategate? Time to wake up, people. www.infowars.com
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It must involve promises not to bring any of his shit-flourishes to the material.
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this movie looks lk it could be real good, shyamalan can direct as long as hes not bogged down by his usual douche bag script
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Feb 04, 2010 1:25:23 PM CST
I am sorry: Lesser Directors Have Received More Respect
by darfurontherocks2
It is funny how TBers and AICN vary how much forgiveness they dole out...
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End of Season One takes place during Lunar eclipse.
As for the whole racial controversy, look at the actual characters. Is Aang drawn as Tibetan? No, he's drawn as a round-eyed boy.
The operative question is how many Inuits do you know who can act and do martial arts with good enough proficiency?
When we were taught screenwriting, we were taught to keep most aspects of appearance generalized. Why? Because people have to cast the roles, so if you specify every last detail, they're going to have to go looking for every last one. This program had to find actors capable of playing the parts, in additon to satisfying whatever appearance issues. Getting hung up on race on characters whose facial designs were generalized anyways is just more in the way of political correctness run amok -
Avatar was made by westerners.
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World's Most Uninteresting Championship Game EVER!!
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I can't stand his shite movies... I remember sitting in The Sixth Sense with a friend and halfway through saying "He's dead, duh..." Signs was bloody awful and it went downhill from there. I love the Air Bender cartoons but I'm gonna have to get over a lot of M. Night hate to enjoy it.
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Night's done it again!
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Not bad at all... and I LOVE the cartoon!
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Nice little trailer, and out just as Test Screen review begin (lukewarm-Narnia?), and ready for the Superbowl. Looks like a fun-fantasy flick for the family market, should do around 100-150...
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the first trailer I saw for The Matrix. Definately made me go, "whoa". One trend that I'm tired of is the fast zoom/track in - out.
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AWWW, Whats the matter? Never good at sports, geek?
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Understanding of the movie seems to go over everyones heads.
Not because they are dumb, but because they put mental blocks in their heads beforehand. When you look at a trailer or a persons past work and already think "this is going to suck"... it most likely will for you. And if it doesnt change your mind right away in the first few scenes, if it challenges you in any way to remove your preconceived notions... you wont accept it. You will just chalk it up to being overly dense and ultimately stupid. -
Bet the Airbender turns out to be a woman...ooooh or alien woman...with a TWIST!
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HEART!
By your powers combined, I am CAPTAIN SKEPTICAL!
I love the show. I love that it became insanely popular and the makers still decided to end it after three seasons, because the story they were telling was finished. That integrity permeated the series - sure, it was sometimes broad, but the characters showed genuine growth and depth.
Live-action bending looked cool. I will give it a chance because I so love the source material. I also enjoyed The Happening, which I found to be very, very funny and a bit creepy. I also think parts of The Village are amazing - notably, the Bryce Dallas Howard parts. Her turn in that film blew me away. Sure, the film around her was kind of meh, but her performance (and Joaquin Phoenix) saved it for me. -
None of these assholes even SAW the movie. they just hate Shyamalan because their either morins, racists, or both. As someone who has actually seen The Happening, and in the theater no less, I found it pretty cool and entertaining aside from Wahlberg's terrible performance.
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fuck me.
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Shyamalan at least know show to put a film together.
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Is the long anticipated prequel to the Golden Child?
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had the worst screen performance of all time courtesy of the Funky Bunch. Yes, even worse than Keira Knightley in Domino.
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At about 9-10 seconds in, the upper left hand corner in that mountain scene.
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If he didn't put himself in the movie this time, he certainly put himself in the title. It's called modesty, M. Night. look it up.
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Feb 04, 2010 2:01:51 PM CST
The Last U-Bender is no match for the REAL Avatar
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
2 Billion and counting. What a colossus. And for any morons - the reason Cameron has the legal rights to the name is because he registered it first, way back in the mid-90's before that shitty kids cartoon was even a twinkling in the eye of whoever created it. I find it hilarious that all the anime kiddies who were whining about JC having 'stolen' the name now have to live with the fact that to the vast majority of the world, the title Avatar now refers to one thing and one thing only - and it sure as hell ain't a Nickelodeon cartoon for pre-teens featuring a bald kid with an arrow painted on his fucking head! As for Shyamalan - wasn't this guy once touted as the next Spielberg? Never did see where that comparison came from - Shamalangidingdong got lucky with 2 flicks: the overrated but decent Sixth Sense and the underrated (and should have been a trilogy) Unbreakable. Rest of his output is sub-Twilight Zone garbage.
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And it's "they're" not "their".
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www. racebending .com
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Since Unbreakable (2000), he really has not made a great movie and certainly none that made a ton of money. I just want to know - why anyone is still hiring the guy?
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That was a great little ad. If anything, it sparked that little flame of hope I was shielding from the winds of recent negative talk of this movie.
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http:// tinyurl. com/yh95v64
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A few years ago when we first got a glimpse of "Matrix Reloaded." There were so many fantastic shots I must have watched the ad ten times. Then of course the actual movie came out and all that hype was squandered. Another one that got me was "Knight's Tale." I don't know why but for some reason I got a kick out of seeing those guys getting plastered. Fun movie, too.
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Feb 04, 2010 2:15:12 PM CST
Looks pretty cool, actually. I liked what little of the show I'
by chewtoy
I've caught a few episodes here or there... less then 10 overall, but enough to see that it was good. The one thing I worry about is that the show certainly had charm, and I don't know that I can say that anything Shyamalan has done has really been "charming". He does somber/spooky well, but that wasn't the vibe I got from the cartoon.
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with magic.
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...or hear about this movie can possibly make any difference. I have eight and eleven year olds. I'll be seeing this opening weekend.
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If this movie will just cover the first season and hopefully they'll make it a trilogy following the three seasons, or if it's all going to be compressed into one movie?
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this could be for the best at least, finally he'll have a hit again.
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after that tv spot, I have to say, it's restored some of my faith on it. Special effects look really freaking good, and aesthetically, it seems very faithful to the series. I'm crossing my fingers now. M. Night, PLEASE don't screw this up.
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...I think we should stick it up his...
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Looks pretty much exactly the same. But where's the flying buffalo?
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Looks pretty much exactly the same. But where's the flying buffalo?
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*gunshot*"Oh no..""No what?""What, no..?""I know what?"Ok I kid, but not by much. The Happening had scene after scene of dialogue that never could of come out of the mouths of actual human beings, let alone movie characters. I remember one "apologist", claiming the Zooey character was actually mentally challenged to explain her loony dialogue/performance. I hope M Night returns strong though. He is talented, but his career trajectory is as if Spielberg followed CE3K with 1941, then Always, then Hook...
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because it's turgid nonesense. The film was just dire bullshit. Lady in the Water, Oh fuck I don't even have words for that crap.
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It is a sneak peak of the Superbowl trailer. The Superbowl trailer will be longer. Check your facts please.
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I'm in! And Shayamalan is a great director! All his films show that. It was simply the story that not many people liked, in fact I found his stories to be attempts and largely experimental, which despite not working all the time were at least interesting. But then again, I'm the guy who won an AICN contest for an essay trying to make sense of Serial Experiments Lain... If you are confounded by Shyamalan's work, then you definately don't wantto get into that one... though I have not seen Happening or the one about red riding hood in the woods or whatever... Anyway the point is as a fan of the avatar cartoon, that looked awesome!!!
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Which is a sentiment I've shared in many a TB on the topic. I avoided it for years. But I think it is one of the best things on TV. It's epic, solid, deep and stands the test of time. I hope the movie is popular enough to prompt the original creators to make another season. After all, we need to find Zuko's mom, right?
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But I'm not boycotting the movie for it. I save my boycotts for pedophiles.
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is a modern camp classic. I don't understanding how people are so offended by it. It's like being offended by Barbarella. I think it's Shayamalan's parody of himself. Everyone in it has done fantastic work in other films - and everyone in it (with the exception of Leguizamo, who plays it straight) is exceptionally, stunningly, knowingly bad.Plus I genuinely love the score, outside my camp affection for the rest of it.
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M Night has been on the decline recently. This movie could get him out of the basement, even though I have no desire at all to see a brainless action movie.
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But LOVE 6Th Sense, Signs and Unbreakable. Lady is pretty good. His only real misfire was The Village.
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Hoping Night can get back to form with this one!
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On all the pristine white kids! How could you M Night? You MONSTER!
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Yay for the dumbasses of the world. Oh and the Happening was pure garbage. There is nothing to get, kind of like how there is nothing ot "get" with James Cameron's Avatar.
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Idiotfuck, go piss in someone elses cheerios
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I like it. Hopefully paves the way for a Captain Planet reboot?
Shamylan can be good. I am VERY interested to see what happens when he makes a movie that doesn't have a "twist" at the end. Usually I felt like that what makes or breaks his movies. Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were good twists. Village and Happening....not so much... -
To watch the trailer and close your eyes when it says "From M. Night Shyamalan" and what do you see? A trailer for a movie that looks like a NINJA ASSASSIN prequel. This shit looks lame.
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...despite his recent stumbles...he needs this to turn a decent profit for a change...
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looks like shit. It's all post FX.
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Seems fine so far.
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Aren't we well passed the point of short previews for this film?
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you are a moron, Cameron's Avatar wasn't awesome enough to deserve exclusive name association, even if he did supposedly register it. Shut your hole.
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The last scene will pull back...back...back..till you realize they were videogame characters all along being played by an overweight man with red hair and a beard.
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I'm there. I was a casusal fan of the show. It wasn't appointment tv for me but if it was on I'd watch it. It didn't coddle to kids, had great characters and development and always some cool action setpieces (one of my all time favorites was the giant drill attacking the city at the top of that huge wall and Aang just obliterating it) And I know its popular to hate on the Sham but I after giving us Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs I'll forgive anything else. I liked but didn't love The Village part of that was probably me seeing the twist coming from a mile a way. I understood what he was trying to accomplish with Lady in the Water but it ultimately didn't work for me. And ugghh The Happening I wouldn't say it was terrible but it was pretty bad. I've heard the camp classic/wooden acting argument before and if that was what Sham was going for I could see it kind of working but I don't think thats what he was going for. I just think his pretentiousness finally caught up with him. He thought he was untouchable. Hopefully having him adapt from someone elses work will spark some life back into him and humble him because I believe there is still some life left in him creatively.
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Big fan of the show, and that trailer had some promise! I especially liked how they designed the air/water/fire/earth elements to look like how they used in the show. The punching of the fish thing (im guessing) is a reference to the end of the first season....interesting that they kept that story element in!
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What's the hate all about?
If you aren't interested in "Airbender", why are you here?
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Two masterpieces right there. I haven't seen a "summer" movie as good as Signs since it was released. Shyamalan can make denture commercials for the rest of his life and I will still love him.
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http:// tinyurl. com/yh95v64
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The major studios, through the MPAA, have a title registry. Cameron/Fox registered the title "Avatar" years ago. Long before the Avatar cartoon was even being developed. The studio would have to pay off Fox to use the title Avatar: The Last Airbender as it could easily be construed to be related to Cameron's Avatar.
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If he controls wind and had a big downward arrow on his forhead, he must be the obscure DC character, right?
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Bunch of racists.
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Feb 04, 2010 4:42:21 PM CST
??? who the hell is a fan of Avatar and the Superbowl??
by brannagins law
stupid marketing twats wasting more money
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You are one of the heroes of the Avatar TB Wars, and an asset to AICN... and while I can understand the M. Night hate, and the pre-emptive slapdown of the same anti-Avatar trolls that are going to disingenuously use this movie as a way to further wax their Cameron hate-boners, the Avatar cartoon was actually great, one of the few actually engaging, well-made, thoughtful non-anime cartoons in the past decade at least. And if you continue to slander it in the name of defending Avatar, I will have to break out the harsh language. Nobody wants the harsh language. Think of the children. -
M. Night Shyamalan.
There are established directors that have made than one really great film who can give themselves the kind of billing that you do with your movies. Not you. You have produced some of the worst suck ever made... just let the title stand on its own... not "M.Night Shyamalan's (insert shitty movie)".... just "Shitty Movie" will do fine -
started watching the animated series with the nieces and nephews ("you gotta see this, it's so awesome!) and got hooked. They'd be trying to watch tv, the show's on, and they're going 'aww, we saw this one already', and I say 'yeah but Unc hasn't, it's my TV, what?'
The animated series had a distinctly more Eastern Asian vibe to it, so I'm not that hip to the casting for the live action. But the story, especially (spoiler) the redemption of Zuko has a nice arc to it. Great themes of loyalty, grace and redemption. Hope it comes off well, the source material is pretty solid. It's a familiar tale, but they told it quite well in the animated series. Strong conclusion, too.
"Unbreakable" earned a mile of leeway for M. Night Shyamalan for me, 'Lady' and 'Happening' didn't do much to dent the good will I have toward his storytelling. Not every movie can be so fiercely original, flawlessly logical and epically well acted as 'Avatar'. Unless it's 'the Phantom Menace'. -
I checked out the site in question. It is quite possibly the most asinine thing I've ever seen.
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Isn't it Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko's?
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where's the tease in the teaser trailer. all we got was a kid waving a stick and a million evil Chinese/Asians
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Rock music? All action and no humor? This movie is being marketed in a completely different direction than what made the animated Nick show so popular.
As for "written by"? Screw that. That Nick show ended up being an incredible entertainment experience because it is a well-rounded and, yes, deep story about redemption and the power of nature vs. machines. I really hope that this trailer is just a fraction of what this movie will be. Looks to me that M. Night is screwing up something else that could be incredible. -
That are designed to get the non-show watchers anyway. It looks like the first book of the show to me fairly faithfully. Except of course, the casting of pretty little white kids....
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Feb 04, 2010 5:57:34 PM CST
Shamalangadingdong has PUNCHED THE FISH with this one.
by stereotypical evil archer
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DAS LAST ÜBERBENDER!! What a waste of reeeeeeel.. Or binary?
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They didn't wrap everything up at the end of the cartoon series. It was ripe for a spin off/sequel series, but instead they've let the momentum die out and focused on THIS, which frankly doesn't look that interesting yet. I hope it improves.
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What am i on about eh, seeing some good CGI is few and far between and i always keep and eye out for the stuff that is looks really real. If that effect is cgi it looks good on par with the elemental battle between dumbledor and voldermort. The part when dumbledor lifts voldermort in a globe of water was a shit hot effect in my book.
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Fantastic opening scenes, and some great scenes throughout. Night has a lot of talent as a director (more so than as a writer. But hey.) Would you rather see a Night movie or a Michael Bay movie?
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He is actually the 1st airbender and everyone on earth is born with the power so he's not unique.
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Why do all the fanboys only start county MNS movies with "The Sixth Sense"? It was his third film, not his first, even if "Praying With Anger" got only a minuscule release.
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"Hey look at me, I made a movie where something cool and exciting happens and it dosen't have to put you to sleep! Come check out! Go Hinduism!"
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than the predecessor. Unbreakable and Sixth Sense are pretty close in quality. But after that each successive film made a major drop off in quality.
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Nope. I'm not a racist; I'm not going to boycott a movie because they don't cast certain races.
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Give up already. Just because you are nerdy enough to boycott a movie because you don't like the cast does not mean that you have to spam the same message. In fact, the more you spam begging people to join your boycott, the more you are going to get laughed at. If I see a bunch of fat white people outside the theater holding "Racebending" signs when I go to see this movie, it will be a pretty sorry sight.
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No need to see this movie, the teaser trailer was more than enough.
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Any film with Zooey Deschanel in it is ok by me. If Zooey had been in Battlefield Earth, she would have saved it from horrible-ness. And as long as I'm talking Zooey......I WANT ZOOEY to be LOIS LANE in the next SUPERMAN movie!!! She would be perfect! You know it!! Now, if they can get her AND Nathan Fillion as SUPES, then we are golden. Who's with me?!? Eh?? Eh??? Ehhhhhhhhhhh?????
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to get my hopes up yet. I'll admit that the action looks nice, completely different from the shakey came quick cuts of most films today, but I'll wait until the reviews start pouring in before I give this film much thought.
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Big fan of the series, getting less of M. Nights, so rpessure is on, but this... looks... PERFECT.
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Well yeah, this IS an ad that plays during a football game...
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The opening dialogue was confusing (and il convinced this wasn't intentional) and Marky Mark's first scene was badly written and badly acted. Not a single part of that classroom scene rang true.
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His only good movie was "The Sixth Sense" every other movie he did, while it showed potential in the trailers, ect., they were all awful!
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I thought that would be the hardest thing to get right, if the actors nail the characters and they stick the story we should have a solid film on our hands.
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is getting mentioned on Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. FACT
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Feb 04, 2010 8:28:15 PM CST
Also, looks like they tried fairly hard to hide Aang's face?
by outlawsdelejos
Surely not because of the whole racial issue?
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That actually *looked* like a live-action adaptation of the cartoon. Those FX sequences are gonna be great I feel.
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Its hard to describe this movie to people.
The best way i can think of is to compare it to Watchmen sort of. Watchmen the book not the movie.
If you get Watchmen then you probably get this movie too.
They are very different of course, not just in the obvious genre style... but similar in how there is a purposeful underlying sarcasm without the wink wink that lets you know its sarcasm. Thats a shitty explanation because its not sarcasm. I cant really think of the right word at the moment.
Its more like... these are things you come to expect in this type of movie, so the director will give you some of what yo uexpect, but in a way that will show you how completely retarded is for you to expect such things. He is showing you how you as a viewer is as conditioned in what to expect as the characters are conditioned to believe what is happening is terrorism or something else.
But that is merely the first level of what Sham is doing here.
People always miss the fact that Zoey's character is fighting her own demons where she is sort of closed off from her emotions. She is a metaphor.
Her acting wooden has nothing to do with a poor performance, she is not a bad actress.
Same with Mark Wahlberg. The dude is no Jack Nicholson... but he has proven he can act decently in the movie he did with Jack, The Departed. And in Boogie Nights.
If you paid attention to all the things that simply dont make any sense in the movie, and instead of deriding them for not making sense start to ask yourself WHY the director would put these nonsensical things in the movie... then maybe you would start to get it.
The "twist" in this movie doesnt actually happen in the movie... if you get what i mean.
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Nice.
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The special effects look insanely polished, but that's the norm in big budget Hollywood these days-I would bet money (if I had any) that this movie will definitely be released in 3-D. If Night doesn't shy too far from the origional story concept, I think we might have the biggest Hollywood comeback since Tarantino revived Travolta..... Or the movie will just suck ass due to a poor story. Either way, I will be shelling out the moolah to check this out.
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Marky Mark was intentionally acting like an idiot in his opening scene, choosing to be a parody of himself instead of acting like a real character? It was just bad writing and bad acting. I do, however, think he got better as the movie went on. But that opening scene just made me laugh.
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If he sticks to that first season of the show. No way he can fail in the story department. At least he shouldn't.
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http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/the-last-airbender-primer/
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Looks pretty cool and this is from someone who a) has never watched the cartoon and b) can take or leave Shyamalan's work.
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Most trailers - especially TV trailers - don't put the director's name out front unless he's a Spielberg or a Scorcese, a name that helps to sell the movie. I'm amazed that the studio still sees Shyamalan in that way. I would think it would be the opposite - his name actually scares people away after his last few movies.
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Ahhhh, RACISTS!!!
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Let's take The Sixth Sense for a good movie, i didn't like it but the majority seemed to like that one.
After that its one pile of crap worst than the precedent, Unbreakable, embarrassingly bad, the Sam Jackson character... urm.
Signs, oh my god... Mel Gibson gave on of the most laughable performances i can remember...
The Village was a step up, had good moments, a regular movie with yet another plot trying to have a genius twist at the end.
Lady in the Water and The Happening are two of the worst movies i've seen in a long time, right down there with utter $hit like Pearl Harbor or Armageddon...
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This will be the biggest piece of turd since... well, his last movie.
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Feb 04, 2010 9:12:21 PM CST
SuperBowl Ad For 'Robin Hood' HERE http://www.fanboyweb.com/
by revengofthega
http://www.fanboyweb.com/
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THEY SHOW TOO MUCH TITS AND ASS AND IT DEGRADING TO WOMEN!
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Notice how the bulk of the Asians are from Fire Nation and play the bad guys, wile all the White Actors occupy the MAIN roles and are good.
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Look at my face. Do you see the tears streaming? That's what your post did to me man. Beautiful.
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ANOTHER dinner party massacre!!! I think we've seen the last of Vicki. Good riddance. She's like a walking M. Night movie - total disaster.
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Oh, well. That's the end of that.
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says that he DOESNT find the look altogether unappealing. Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee. Get it?
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Feel free to boycott this movie for an idiotic cause, it will keep you from effing up more important issue (you wouldn't happen to be one of the 41 GOP votes in the Senate would you?)
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and the millionaire Harry Knowles archaic talkback system. Meh, I already forgot what I was gonna say.
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The effects, the cinematography and the script.....and I haven't got a fuckin' clue who they are. They they didn't bend me over a banister like Shy-Am-A-Lama did.
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The trailer got me to rewatch the series finale, and my girlfriend who hadn't watched any of the show before totally got sucked in. It's hilarious. Let's just hope that Mr. Shyamalan's writing doesnt screw up the characterization, because if you nail that then it would be hard to fail. And he better make it funny, cause this show is a riot!
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Sweet merciful christ, fucking choke yourself.
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But I still gotta say it:
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Loved the Nick show. Had some of the most creative concepts and intelligent writing I've ever seen in a toon. As for the casting "controversy" - COME ON YOU DICKWADS, the show gave no indication as to anyone's race. Jeezus, people can be so goddamn dumb...
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Question, I couldn't have a more opposite opinion than your take on Signs, Unbreakable, and Sixth Sense. So who's right? That's my problem with those who come off as just so damn indignant and self righteous. Just know that there are ardent fans of the movies you so emphatically dislike and dismiss.
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He's gonna knock this one out of the park JUST YOU WATCH!
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Excellent trailer, some great and creative FX. I don't know anything about the source material, but M. Night's always-great visual style plus this seeming quality of effects is an appealing combination.Liked his earlier works, passed on The Happening due to the terrible word of mouth. This looks fun, hope it's good.
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is that like Halfrican, Japanic, and Chinegro? White people are so boring.
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...having veto power in editing the final cut which is painfully obvious at times. There are certain scenes that are like his "pets" and he insists they are included even though they might not fit in with the final product. Smart guy tho...very creative.
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.....it's my ass isn't it? *sigh* Damn.
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nah it's people moaning about the actors not being the same colour as the cartoon counterparts. Silly buggers.
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You spend money for a superbowl ad and that's the best you can bring? This movies going down faster than a horney flight attendant.
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Since the site never has a Super Bowl talkback for some reason...just had to say that I hope the Colts and Peyton Manning get completely wiped out by the Saints on Sunday.
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I had a dream that I saw this movie in the theater and it was a musical. The little bald kid has all these musical numbers and it was very abstract. Weird dream.
I wonder how many women M. Night Shyamalan has had anal sex with? Or not at all? Whenever someone is as famous and pretentious as he is I always wonder how many chicks have let him stick it in the pooper. It really is too bad that sex doesn't feel as good when you use condoms. -
I just read some dick, twat talkbacker talking shit about Unbreakable, which is M. Night's best movie! Actually it is one of the best original superhero movies of this decade, right after The Incredibles, so all the haters can eat a dick for having shit tastes.
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"The Last Airbender"
The Last Air Biscuit" is betta. -
"The Last Airbender"
The Last Air Biscuit" is betta. -
*GASP* OH NO HE DIH_ENT!!! OH YES I DID!!
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Feb 05, 2010 1:14:16 AM CST
Wait a minute, Hitchcock would never have directed a "franchise"
by zacdilone
...oh, wait. M. Night is NO HITCHCOCK.That explains it.
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Feb 05, 2010 1:17:53 AM CST
Why the hate On MKS? He's a talented Director despite his medioc
by the founder
Serioulsy the guy can direct very well. He needs to give up his writting for some time and just freaking direct. I know he wants to have that title of Writer and director and even producer probably but every one can't make. I give him creidt for trying to being some originalty to his films with his stories but it caused to man to have more misses then hits. Just direct dude.
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I'm there.
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Because he could be so much more. Unbreakable and Sixth Sense proved that. I want him to make a great film. But he seems to have this "don't ask questions of my work" attitude. In an interview about the Happening he implied it was a good movie because it was SUPPOSED to be cheesy. That's ridiculous. He needs to humble himself, take a good critical look at his work, and make a masterpiece. I know he can, because he damn near did it with his two films. Stop fucking around and thinking your infallible.
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Why all the hate for M Night? So his last couple of films sucked, but his ones previous were genre busting. Airbender actually looks like a lot of fun for younger audiences.
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any more chances? He's made some of the worst films I have seen in the last twenty years.
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Feb 05, 2010 2:23:16 AM CST
You know, all of this has made me want to go back and revisit th
by dogsoup
So movie or no movie I got a shit-ton of cartoons. I'm good, son.
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and not just "shit". THE shit means it is not. But, TV ads can twist a film into anyhting the studio wants to sell. Where's the actual trailer?!
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I read an interview wth M. Night ages ago on Empire where he talked about his aproach to this type of story telling and I was quite impressed with what he had to say. And the teaser delivers.
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I'm a fan of the show and I'm excited to see how Shymalanalalan (whateveh) pulled it off with live action. Plus Jackson Rathbone is Soka. That oughta be awsum all on it's own. =)
But as far as tech goes, Night grabbed a lot of pivitol scenes from the series and it looks absolutely amazing! The bending looks fantastic and too cool for words. Can't wait to see it! -
Everything Shyamalan does he slaps his name all over. "A film by M. Night SHYAMALAN" "An M. Night SHYAMALAN film" "Written, produced and directed by M. Night SHYAMALAN"
He goes out of his was to show you how his name is spelled. It's not that fucking difficult. I know action flick junkies who can't spell SCHWARZENEGGER and it scares the shit out of me, but he only gets one big-letter name shot per flick. There's hardly any excuse for not knowing SHYAMALAN by now. -
Feb 05, 2010 4:17:51 AM CST
Frank Marshall is producing, so it will be entertaining at least
by mr gorilla
But I'm totally stunned that after Lady In the Water and The Happening, M Night STILL gets his name on black, as if his name is some kind of guarantee of quality. Pushy agent?
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Gaaaaaaaaaaylord!!!!!! Poof!!
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Why is he doing water bending? isn't he an air bender? lol. isn't that the whole point?
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Yes you are missing something. In the universe of Avatar: TLA, the world is divided into four nations, one for each element; earth, air, fire, water. The people born into those nations will only ever be able to manipulate the element of there nation state so people born in the fire nation can only "bend" fire. In the series it seems to be about fifty/fifty inherited and training. However there exists in the world one person who's capable of manipulating all four elements (assuming he gets trained) and that person is called the avatar. That person is born into one of the four nations and he will first master the element of his home nation and then he will be sent to the other nations to learn there element. The nation of the avatar changes with each rebirth so aang was born an airbender but in his previous life he was born a firebender and before that an earthbender etc etc. The role of the avatar is to keep the peace between the four nations however aang past life fucked up and when he died the fire nation started a war with the other nations. They started by attacking the air nation because they knew the avatar would be born into the air nation hence why aang is the last airbender because he managed to escape whilst the rest of his people died.
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Aang is the Avatar.He has the ability to bend all 4 elements.If they follow the arch of the first book by the end of it he will have learned how to bend water
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Let me answer the obvious.
Nobody is "Right"
you gave your opinion and i gave my, i say what i say in a determinant tone because that's what i truly feel.
I just don't feel the need to write every time something as granted as IMO. I'm the one who saying this stuff, who else's opinion would that be?
You think Unbreakable, Signs, Lady in the Water etc are good movies? Fine then, that's your taste and take on those movies.
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I'm a little confused by which DVDs to get if I want to start through all the Avatar series. Is this the first one?
http://www.amazon.com/Avatar-Last-Airbender-Complete-Collection/dp/B000FZETI4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1265378286&sr=1-3
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the baloney bender?
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http://tinyurl.com/y95da6t
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he is an awesome director,Hitchcock would be proud of him,but as other guys already said,he should put his ego aside,get a good script and make a fucking masterpiece.he can do it,but he is too high of himself to achieve it.
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WHOA! Whoa! Lets not get crazy. I was not referring to "Lady" or "Happening" I should have reread your post. My point was your strong feelings towards Unbreakable and Signs which I loved. Happening had a great premise that didn't come together. I just illustrated my own point though. Even know I have strong negative feelings about "Lady" and "Happening" there may be folk who liked them..........Nah!
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Once again a marketing department has found the few seconds of decent looking moments in an inevitably atrocious movie and made us all think it will be good - enough that we'll ignore the reviews and give it a shot. You can put lipstick on a dead duck but in the morning it's still gonna stink. I fell for this shit (shame on me) with both The Village and The Happening. Decent trailers made me think, maybe despite the last film this one could be good. But no. The Happening defenders astound me. I can get Signs defenders, Village defenders, even Lady in the Water defenders (that was hugely misrepresented in the marketing, setting it up for a colossal fall) but The Happening? Laughable dialogue, wooden acting (not just from the always reliably terrible Wahlberg but also from usually decent actors), a complete lack of tension or intrigue. I admire what the marketing guys have managed to pull together here but i'm not falling for it again, Shyamalan should not be allowed to make movies anymore. He has one really good movie (Unbreakable) and one entertaining but massively overrated one (Sixth Sense - a friend of mine guessed the ending from the trailer it was so damn obvious) from a decade ago and nothing decent since.
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Give an alternate take on an established genre. Like Unbreakable with Comic book super heroes. The 6th sense with ghost stories, and Signs with Alien invasions. With LITW its RPGs. But unless you get that you don't really get the movie.
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was better for its time, but we'll see
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...because their hate-on for the teaser/movie is fairly empty. Pretty much every other talkbacker who is even somewhat familiar with the source material (including myself) actually seem excited by the teaser. All the bitching is mostly coming from the TBers who blindly (and illogically) insist that since Shyamalan has made a string of movies they don't like he won't ever be able to make another quality flick
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Book 1: Water
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But the problems with his bad films is normally his writing. Look, some directors can do writing, others can't. M. Night has lost his touch in that department, but the guy's still a great director. And thankfully, this is an ADAPTATION of a well-written animated series, so that gives me hope that it'll be good. And this TV sport wasn't bad either. And the music they used for it is TOTALLY understandable, since they're gonna be showing it to the football-watching crowd...
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I didn't see Eddie Murphy in that spot, didn't he sign on for the sequel? I said I-I-I-IIIII-I want the knife" "Give me the knife.....please" "Teddy? Teddy can kiss my ass."
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His THIRD and FOURTH films, not first two films. Obviously, you and everyone else can't read my earlier post or MNS's IMDB listing. He made two movies before "The Sixth Sense." This is MNS's NINTH film, not his seventh.
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Apparently you didn't notice where the good guys of the Earth Nation are made up of Asians too.
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Don't mind SavageJuiceBox... He's probably another one of those fat white guys who thinks that by whining about Asian culture being misrepresented enough he'll have a better chance at bedding an Asian girl.
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There was a "behind the scenes" M Night parody a couple of years ago by, Attack Of The Show maybe, that was pretty funny.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBiGRraX3Fs
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almost all his films in recent years to be anti-life experienves. But this looks okay. Too bad they couldn't/didn't use Avatar in the title, now claimed in a all by Cameron-land.
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Was just a lame fucking excuse.
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It wasn't that bad, actually, and for the most part the writing got the job done. Sure, there was a lot that was derivative, but on the whole I have my hopes up, Slightly.
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Thanks! Will do!
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Feb 05, 2010 4:26:10 PM CST
I'm rewatching book two presently working my way back through th
by dogsoup
Heh. SE2EP2 Those nomads were fucking stoned.
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There is a persistent myth and belief that actors of color cannot carry films. This bias has been apparent for decades, since the era of Charlie Chan – the most popular film character of the 1930s, based on an actual Asian American police officer… played by a Caucasian actor in yellowface.
For the Charlie Chan films and television series, the main actor had to be white.
The performers of color – people of genuinely Asian descent – could make appearances as family members or other background extras. That was then and this is now.
Eighty years later and still people of color are only allowed in the background. An entire tribe populated using extras from Greenland – a nation that is almost 90% of Inuit heritage – is championed by two Caucasians.
www. racebending .com/v3/featured/the-last-airbender-movie-trailer-first-super-bowl-ad-first-look/ -
Am I the only one who is amazed that the three Harry Potter kids were the highest paid actors in Hollywood last year. It blows my mind that the studio didn't get some sort of contract down where they were just 11 years old. They must have had an inkling of what was coming even then.
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isn't that the director's job, to direct the actors? shamalamadingdong is to blame for his performance. He was good in many movies, Lovely Bones included. He wasn't even that bad in the Happening, lol.
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for m night's style. his characters are often very subdued, mark just did not pull it off.
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...all the TB lechers that downloaded her countdown clock. Wait..they would like that...
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Don't know the cartoon at all, but that had me intrigued enough. Plus, I'm not on the hate M. Night Bandwagon. (Although I never bothered with The Happening) The only flick of his I didn't like was The Village and even then, I didn't hate it.
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There is a persistent myth and belief that actors of small stature cannot carry films. This bias has been apparent for decades, since Lord of the Rings – the most popular film character of the 2000s, based on an actual novel character of small stature… played by a tall actor in CG midgetface. For the Lord of the Rings films, the main actor had to be tall. The performers of small stature – genuine little people – could make appearances as stunt doubles, small Orcs or other background extras. That was then and this is now. 10 years later and still little people are only allowed in the background. An entire tribe populated using extras from the Shire – a nation that is almost 90% Hobbits – will be championed by a tall man. www. midgetbending .com/v3/featured/the-hobbit-is-midgetface/
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...as far as American animated series go, this one is pretty good. My son used to watch this, and I was impressed at how well written it was. This could actually be good.
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shrimp fly lie.
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As in "bend over and get raped by one of the worst directors in the modern age."
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OK. M. Night’s last few pics have sucked donkey dick, so for him to be handling thin project is pretty much a make or brake deal. But this really really looks good. All the elements that made the cartoon seem to be there, but if the story is weak or just plain fucked up its gonna fail big time. Hopefully, he doesn't add on one of his "famous" twists. I really do hope that he pulls it off and the movie is great. I only wish they would have stuck with the original cartoon’s title.
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You know, no movie or three can compare with the equivalent of 30 movies. Im going to start on the last book now and have a whole story, done right. If the movie is good awesome, if it sucks ass, oh well it doesn't hurt the show at all.
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