Posts Tagged ‘shyamalan’

With M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil coming to theaters this weekend (he produced it, but didn’t direct or write it, thankfully), it only seems fitting to review his summer disaster The Last Airbender. Here’s the movie review for this movie:

Let’s not even dwell on M. Night Shyamalan’s career. He used to make good movies. Now he makes terrible ones. And for some reason, studio executives at Paramount thought it would be wise to hand the reins of a potential franchise – and hundreds of millions of dollars – to the struggling director to make The Last Airbender.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Last Airbender movie review.

Everyone knows that M. Night Shyalaman’s last two movies have sucked big time, so there’s a lot riding on his latest film The Last Airbender, which is apparently the first of a trilogy. I recently read an article at a respectable website where the one of the authors was describing The Last Airbender as his most anticipated movie of the summer. Really. Really?

The Last Airbender – and here’s my professional opinion – will be the bomb of the summer. It will make some money, perhaps even a respectable amount, but it cannot possibly live up to whatever wild expectations there are of the film. Because, apparently, there are expectations for the film.

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Wow. I finally watched The Happening last night, after over a week of listening to bad reviews and a warning from my brother that M. Night Shyamalan had inflicted upon audiences something worse than death. But the movie looked cool, and I was willing to look past the quasi-disappointing The Village and the downright bad Lady in the Water in hopes that The Happening would be more along the lines of his first three major films, which I liked.

I didn’t think The Happening could be that bad. At the very least, my expectations were so hampered by other people’s opinions that I figured I’d like it on those merits alone – after all, if you’re expecting something bad, you can often come away enjoying the picture (like Fantastic Four 2).

The Happening was worse than I could have ever imagined. In fact, it will most likely go down as the worst movie of 2008 and a likely candidate for the ultimate Razzie. It’s amazing, but it’s true. Read my full, profanity-laden The Happening movie review here.