Yeah, this isn't going to be my 50th review, I miscounted
badly
With
13 Rage reviews
6 Guilty Pleasures reviews
9 Legend of Korra books 1-2 reviews
8 Legend of Korra book 3 reviews
4 Doctor Who review
2 Arrow season 1 reviews
3 Avatar: The Last Airbender reviews
A Batman (1989) review
3 Star Wars reviews
3 Lego Star Wars reviews, and
2 Star Wars: The Clone Wars reviews
I count this as my 55th review (excluding that Doctor Who retrospective which wasn’t really a review)
Ah, well, maybe I'll get the 100th review correct. This is my celebration, on one of my least favourite movies
ever, and it's fitting, since I've done more reviews on this franchise than any
other, that the Avatar franchise would be my focus. Ladies and Gentlemen, I
present M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender
M Night Shyamalan, what happened to you after the 6th
sense? People were calling you the next Spielberg, then came Signs, described
the Nostalgia Critic as "the invasion of the plot holes," "The Village" which I
cannot describe because I haven’t seen it at all, then came "Lady in the Water" where Shyamalan cast HIMSELF as a writer whose words will "change the world" and to top off this ego trip THE VILLAIN WAS A CRITIC. Then came "The Happening",
the movie that made Mark Whalberg look like a bad actor (before Michael Bay came close to him), and Shyamalan could
not describe the movie without using the word "Happening"
So, it makes perfect sense that Nickelodeon would turn down the
experience of people dedicated to the Avatar Franchise (Bryan Konietzko and
Michael Dante DiMartino) and chose Shyamalan, someone whose writing experience
is in the horror/comedy genres to write this martial arts family action
adventure movie, and not only write it, but produce and direct it as well.
Shyamalan was given $300 million for a 3-movie franchise, but the first movie
came out at $150 million and whilst financially successful was slammed
critically and no sequel has been announced (thank heaven for small mercies)
let's dig into The Last Airbender, and see how big a sh*t storm Shyamalan can
bend.
