Comments on: New “Last Airbender” Trailer: This Could Spell ‘Redemption’ For Shyamalan

By: tyrantking

tyrantking — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:58:11 +0000

M. Night’s been miss of late, but I don’t think it’s fair to criticize him for trying new things. That’s what we’re always asking for from Hollywood. I liked Sixth Sense, Signs and the Village. Not so much Unbreakable, Lady in the Water and the Happening. My goodness the Happening was bad. The one thing each of those “films” had in common was that M. Night was the source of the material. Here he isn’t being asked to be the source, just to execute somebody’s material. Hopefully this will relieve him of the obligation to throw in an M. Nighty type twist. Honestly, I think he lost me when he cast himself as the genius savior writer in lady in the water.

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:38:20 +0000

I have no real connection to this franchise, much like the Percy Jackson one. But neither M. Night nor Chris Columbus are directors who particular inspire me, so I’ll just end up waiting for the reviews. Which is fine with the studios, though, since I’m not the target audience. They prefer directors who can provably make mediocre spectacle movies with huge budgets — they see it as an opening-weekend-only-plus-DVD investment, and even a mediocre movie can make that back if it has enough shock and awe and doesn’t totally suck. Look at Golden Compass and Eragon.

By: Allie Townsend

Allie Townsend — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:23:01 +0000

@bignumone Steve is a real person. I promise.

By: bignumone

bignumone — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:14:14 +0000

It looks really good.
But I became a Shyamalan NON-fan when I was listening to him on the DVD “Unbreakable”.
He had taken a great idea and screwed it up by only doing “the first act in a three act play”. He said “it is a director thing” and he lost me for good. As though I wouldn’t understand why he did what he did, because I just am not smart enough.
BTW, I did understand why he (screwed it up), he wanted to do a trilogy so he could make a pile of money. Instead, he made a poor to mediocre film that COULD have been great!
So I will see this, hoping he doesn’t do “a director thing” again. On second thought, I will wait for reviews from real people. That has kept me away from his other bombs.

By: charlieromeobravo

charlieromeobravo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:05:49 +0000

Well, it does look cool but is it really M Night’s redemption is he makes a movie that isn’t really an M Night movie? By that, I mean if we were to watch it without any knowledge of who made it would we be able to tell it was his movie? If the answer is no, then I’m not sure that becoming a director for hire who can handle CGI is really a redemption.

By: doubleang

doubleang — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:57:25 +0000

@Villafranca – that could be interesting; probably would have been more lighthearted and closer to the cartoon (as far as dialogue and tone) than I expect Shyamalanadingdongs to be.

By: Villafranca

Villafranca — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:46:36 +0000

Am I the only one who wishes this was a Steven Chow movie instead of an M. Night Shyamalan one?

By: doubleang

doubleang — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:23:02 +0000

I havent liked Shyamalan since Signs (and even then I was wavering). However, I have actually been looking forward to this one. It is a story that is not his, and we know the general plot, so no Twists! (“no, thats not an idea, thats a twist”)

@yogi, no offense taken

By: Mischa

Mischa — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:21:50 +0000

I liked all Shyamalan Movies I saw (yep even Signs and The Happening) but this is going to be a heavy one. The Last Airbender was the best Kids Cartoon Series ever, yes EVER. It’s gonna be interesting if he can pack the story, the complex an big story, in a movie. I addmit I’m a bit excited.
Sorry for the bad english.

By: planckzero

planckzero — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:20:36 +0000

The only reason to fear a Shyamalan production is fear of the inevitable twist ending. Seeing as he seems to have the backing of the creators of the original Avatar we can assume that suddenly finding a twist ending in The Last Airbender that isn’t really an issue to worry about.

By: yogi

yogi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:53:40 +0000

Haha, when we all saw that preview during the super bowl we all said “hey that could be cool” until the name Shyamalan came up. Nope, not going to happen. He might as well give up and become an accountant now (no offense to accountants).