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The Last Airbender
Alex C:
--- Quote from: scarred on 30 Jun 2010, 21:31 ---I enjoyed The Happening inasmuch as I enjoy any schlocky B-horror movie.
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It had some similarities to The Mist, as far as flaws go. Both films try and have their cake and eat it too in regards to tone, since the plots are balls out goofy and the characters are in too odd of a situation to give you any sort of real grounding. It creates some weird moments where a person could be forgiven for not being to tell if it's unintentional comedy or not, which is hella distracting for a lot of people. Distracted audiences aren't terribly likely to start giving a shit about your characters, which is kind of a problem given the endings of each film. I can totally see how an audience might leave either one feeling annoyed and jerked around, although I think the Mist fared a lot better overall in that regard.
But yeah, man, does Ebert hate him some Last Airbender. Not a good sign for me, since our tastes tend to align pretty closely, particularly in regards to visual style. It's pretty easy to get me invested in a special effects loaded scene as long as the actors really sell it, but that sounds like it's an issue with this one, and that REALLY tends to distract me. I can handle schlocky '80s action movie fight choreography better than I can handle a serious case of CGI-actor disconnect.
LeeC:
wow, im hearing nothing good about this movie.
Ikrik:
With 71 reviews so far, only 4 of them are good...this could turn out to be the worst film of the year. This is AMAZING and I'm completely and utterly surprised by this. When I heard that he was making it I pretty much knew it was going to be horrible but this bad, I would never have guessed. And I'm definitely going to check out Eclipse over this.
Ozymandias:
Charlie Jane Anders of io9's fantastic review
knives:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 01 Jul 2010, 10:58 ---With 71 reviews so far, only 4 of them are good...this could turn out to be the worst film of the year. This is AMAZING and I'm completely and utterly surprised by this. When I heard that he was making it I pretty much knew it was going to be horrible but this bad, I would never have guessed. And I'm definitely going to check out Eclipse over this.
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The funny thing about those four is how half-hearted they are. Even Hex managed a few, 'it's totally awesome in a bad way reviews.'
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