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		<title>Movie Review: The Last Airbender (F)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ANDY MORGAN There are very few movies I completely and utterly abhor. Generally, I can usually find something positive or likeable in a film, even if said cinema is receiving disgust and scorn en masse from most fall-in-line movie critics. I relish the truth that I don’t always see eye-to-eye with most critics and can find some thread of hope in Hollywood’s efforts. Such is not the case with M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. I literally hated every cringe-inducing minute I spent at the Cineplex with the useless 3D glasses stuck to my face. And I’m even angrier because Shyamalan duped me back in 2008 with The Happening, another dreadful catastrophe from the guy behind Signs, one of my favorite movies of all-time. He’s been on the Tour of Suck since The Village and given every opportunity to succeed, he falls flat. Shame on Shyamalan. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about the story, because, frankly, I didn’t know what the hell was going on most of the time. The movie opens in some arctic, Igloo-infested area that is home to the Southern Water Tribe, whatever that is. We meet two of the main protagonists, Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her older brother Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), who, while having a frozen water-fight and hunting for food, stumble across some midget monk named Aang (Noah Ringer) frozen in the ice with some creature that looks like a Star Wars tauntaun and Falkor from The Neverending Story had a drunken, intimate night in the Hollywood Crazy Creature Stable. Apparently this 12 year-old Aang kid is the so-called Avatar, a being able to bend all of the four elements – fire, water, earth and air. Aang is perky after being frozen for 100 years, so the kids take him back to their village full of white people and, by my count, two actual Inuit persons. Oddly enough, the banished Prince of the Fire Nation, Zuko (Dev Patel), is cruising in his steampunk yacht nearby and goes to investigate, whereby he realizes Aang is definitely the Avatar and he knows if he takes him back to his father his honor will be restored. Of course, this isn’t going to happen – pouty Katara and stone-faced Sokka hop on Mr. Snuffleupagus and rescue Aang from the Fire Nation, who, ironically, all look like terrorists. Apparently if you are a person of color in this movie, you are an evildoer. The last third of Shyamalan’s disaster is basically spent at the Fortress of Solitude where the Northern Water Tribe holds court. These folks have serious skills when it comes to water bending and Katara and Aang go there to rally the troops and hone their abilities. The Fire Nation comes calling and, with the help of Industrial Light and Magic (damn you George Lucas!), Aang sends them home with a giant spanking from a humongous tidal wave. The movie wraps and we’re left to believe Shyamalan has more in store for...]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: The Last Airbender (C-)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DAN VINTON If there&#8217;s one thing The Last Airbender does well, it proves any mystique surrounding M. Night Shaymalan is gone. With this coffin-bound nail, all residual goodwill The Sixth Sense director retained from followup successes like Unbreakable, Signs and even the creepy but fatally flawed The Village has been throttled by his is own hands. Shaymalan&#8217;s latest, (based on the 2005-2008 Nickelodeon cartoon series I&#8217;ve never seen), builds a likable, tactile, genuinely fascinating and lushly art-directed world of mishmashed fantasy/Asian mysticism where unique, element controlling tribes seek Aang, a lost kid who must find himself before he can bring them all together. Along the way, Aang is aided by a couple white kids and and an unexplained floating Wampa-thing that looks like Falcor&#8216;s fat, lazy cousin&#8211; all while being pursued by angry members of the warmongering, machine-making Fire Clan. The story follows a traditional theme undermined and sabotaged by offputtingly miscast high school amateur hour &#8220;actors&#8221; (including Twilight&#8216;s awful Jackson Rathbone and Slumdog Millionaire&#8217;s still-wet-behind-the-ears Dev Patel) who force ear-punishing dialogue in cringe worthy combos in story progression unseen since Barney &#38; Friends. And while a third act showdown between armies of fire and ice picks things up a bit and the action is kinetic and interesting enough to warrant some moderate thrills, the movie collapses against the traveshamockery of its mutton-fisted, amateur and ultimately uninvolving first 70 minutes. That said, the failure of The Last Airbender isn&#8217;t any fault of its source material. Beneath all the missteps, The Last Airbender still hints at a larger narrative backdrop. There&#8217;s something genuinely thoughtful, new and thrilling in its mythology&#8211; almost enough to like&#8211; but a plodding screenplay continues an attempt to explain the story/backstory/future story up to the last frame, a kitchen sink approach that belabors the tedium when it lost virtually every adult in the theater from the first scene. I don&#8217;t mean to turn this into a critique of M. Night Shyamalan, but as a director who showed so much restraint and skill in his previous works and as a guy who takes credit as Director, Writer and Producer, the failure falls on his shoulders. It&#8217;s a mess that also sets up a disconcerting revelation that maybe, all along, we were duped; that Shayamalan was able to conceal the flaws in his previous directorial work thanks to casts composed of skilled actors who could pick up nuances and create characters instead of talking dialogue at a camera. Without the trappings of a solid cast and a &#8220;twist&#8221; device, the once heralded &#8220;Next Spielberg&#8221; has recently shown&#8211; and here virtually seals the deal&#8211; he&#8217;s a once-proud Emporer now standing naked in the mirror. To put it mildly, comparing the skills shown in his first four films to the directorial failures on display in The Last Airbender is like comparing an ice cold glass of spring water to a warm bottle of piss. Introduced as the setup to an obviously planned trilogy, The Last Airbender may force distributor Paramount...]]></description>
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		<title>Full Length The Last Airbender Trailer Pushes Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Andy&#8217;s convinced The Last Airbender will suck, I&#8217;m not so sure. Nothing I&#8217;ve seen so far has turned me off &#8212; opposite, even. Elements battling elements, dudes being thrown to oblivion, world creation and a kid&#8217;s skull lighting up like a Tron car. Despite its inherent kid focus (it&#8217;s based on a Nickelodeon cartoon after all)&#8230; I think it looks cool and will be, at worst, mildly entertaining. Earlier trailers have focused on the high-flying gee-whizery of the movie, but the latest focuses a little more on story&#8211; and I kinda like the direction. Sure, it&#8217;s your standard journey of a hero, but I like the Fifth Element-esque idea of a super powerful kid who&#8217;s all alone and emotionally vulnerable&#8211; in need of a &#8220;family&#8221; or connection for safe harbor. There&#8217;s a fine line there between cheesy and resonant, but judging by this trailer at least, it&#8217;s hopefully steering closer to resonant. Recent story missteps and name poison aside, M. Night Shyamalan remains a skilled, if now finally humbled,  filmmaker. I&#8217;m willing to give him all kinds of benefit of the doubt on The Last Airbender, namely because this world/universe isn&#8217;t his material, so the twist gimmick is probably out on this one. Choose sides below:]]></description>
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		<title>Rating the 2010 Super Bowl Trailers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints on winning Super Bowl XLIV in what may have been the most boring NFL championship since, well, the last time the Indianapolis Colts went to the Super Bowl in 2007. And while I love football as much as the next dude, I won’t lie – I anticipate the commercial breaks in the hope I’ll see some genius advertising or some phenomenal movie preview. This year’s commercials and trailers were ho-hum, except for the Google “Search On” ad (who thought you could tell a love story using a search engine in less than a minute?), the Doritos “House Rules” commercial and the Careerbuilder.com “Casual Friday” spot, the rest were either bizarre, unfunny or beyond stale (Bud Light, I’m talking to you).  Even more glaring was the absence of trailers for Iron Man 2, The A-Team, Clash of the Titans, Toy Story 3, Shrek Forever After, Despicable Me and Tron: Legacy. Here’s a rundown of the movie trailers shown during Super Bowl XLIV. Click the movie name to watch the preview. The Last Airbender I really hope there is more to this movie than a gut full of lame CGI and crazy karate, because that’s all I got from this spot. Plus, happily pasting M. Night Shyamalan’s name in the 33 second spot three times doesn’t give me any confidence in the project. Did you see The Happening? I did. This movie will suck. Robin Hood I love Ridley Scott, but there’s nothing new here to whet my appetite for this May 14, 2010 release. It was recycled footage and actually seemed dated, as the 30 second clip didn’t even have the movie’s release date at the end, instead simply saying “summer.” I’ll see Robin Hood based on my sheer adoration of Scott’s films, but I’m just about done with the close up of the arrow leaving the bow. Lame. The Wolfman Nothing new to see here – just more replays of Benicio Del Toro not needing make-up to play the hairy wolfman &#8211; but I suppose with it hitting theaters on February 12, this wasn’t a bad placement. I am so happy they rated this movie R, because anything else would have been akin to dry-humping the Twilight fanbase, and heaven knows they don’t need any more candy. Shutter Island Once again, like The Wolfman, nothing spectacular, just a nicely timed trailer for Martin Scorsese’s new film that hits theaters on February 19th. I’ve read the book, and if the movie is in the same ballpark as what Dennis Lehane put on paper, this ought to be a nice treat. Still, will anyone remember this when awards season arrives next year? Alice in Wonderland Ugh, if the rest of America is like me, then watching this short preview probably cemented the monumental bomb this Tim Burton movie will assuredly prove to be. Sure, Alice in Wonderland is lathered in Burton’s quirkiness, but is that a good thing? I’m not so sure. Bright colors and craziness...]]></description>
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		<title>Trailer Tuesday (Dan&#8217;s Pick): The Last Airbender (aka: That&#8217;s a Crapload of Candles)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the last few years haven&#8217;t been good for one Manoj (that&#8217;s &#8220;M.&#8221; for short) Night Shyamalan. The trouble all started with The Village, which was genuinely creepy but lost audiences with bait and switch marketing and yet another twist ending that deflated almost all of the preceding narrative. Lady in the Water, commendable for its intent, failed to connect with anyone but the actors, ego and monkey tree-things it cut paychecks for. The Happening&#8230; wince. So yeah, yeah, M. Night has hit the skids as of late. Not because he&#8217;s a bad director&#8211; as his early catalog attests, the dude&#8217;s deliberate and fantastic when he wants to be&#8211; but because the guy became way too reliant on his ability to surprise and overconfident in his increasingly egocentric and convoluted storytelling ability. What M. Night needed was a reinvention via 3rd party material. With The Last Airbender, he&#8217;s been given his chance at that reinvention and cinematic redemption. While Airbender isn&#8217;t really high-concept (it&#8217;s based on a Nickelodeon cartoon, after all) the conceit of &#8220;Elemental Nations&#8221; of Fire, Water, Air and Earth at war is interesting enough  to put it up on the radar. But will it connect? The mystical martial arts Asian genre feels spent and the overly cliched voiceover doesn&#8217;t help in that regard, but I have confidence in M. Night&#8217;s skills and like the trailer&#8217;s tease. C&#8217;mon ol&#8217; buddy, don&#8217;t let us down.]]></description>
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