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Taking a tip from Guy Ritchie's brilliant Sherlock Holmes remake, The Last Airbender (based on a Nickelodeon program) is throwing in plenty of doses of the supernatural, in hopes that M. Night Shyamalan won't be this movie's only enemy.

You can even see it in The Last Airbender.

Despite all the drama that went on during Big Ang's disco - themed wake on Saturday, Feb. 20, she still «looked gorgeous» in her open casket, a Avatar Aang (安昂, Ān Áng) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender (created

In The Last Airbender the characters sounded like they were from California, in After Earth they have some kind of British accent, it's odd and I can't quite place it, but mostly I don't carIn The Last Airbender the characters sounded like they were from California, in After Earth they have some kind of British accent, it's odd and I can't quite place it, but mostly I don't carin After Earth they have some kind of British accent, it's odd and I can't quite place it, but mostly I don't care.

The series stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga («Up in the Air,» «The Departed»), Freddie Highmore («Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,» «Finding Neverland»), Max Thieriot («Disconnect»), Olivia Cooke («Blackout») and Nicola Peltz («The Last Airbender»).

The progressively muddled storyline - coupled with the inclusion of a few decidedly underwhelming action sequences - slowly but surely transforms The Last Airbender into a lamentably tedious experience, and there's little doubt that the interminable build - up to the final confrontation results in as hopelessly anti-climactic an atmosphere as one can easily recall (with a noble sacrifice made by a periphery figure standing as the only reasonably compelling interlude within the movie's otherwise disastrous third act).

-10 s (Stinkers): Sticking to my vow to avoid obvious traps I missed, say, Little Fockers and The Last Airbender, but got unlucky and fell into Alice in Wonderland, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Wounded by the overwhelmingly baffled reaction to his tale of deadly pollen, and crippled by his growing reputation as an ultra-sensitive yet ham - fisted megalomaniac auteur, Shyamalan threw in the towel — trading his usual suspense for the generic CGI of The Last Airbender and After Earth — but it was too little too late.

Yahoo! Movies has unleashed the first film clip of the Fire Nation approaching in writer / director M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, which comes to theaters July 1.

Here's an awesome new movie still featuring Noah Ringer as Aang in the upcoming film «The Last Airbender», based on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon series «Avatar: The Last Airbender».

The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999) For anyone who discovers M. Night Shyamalan's body of work from the tail - end — The Happening, Lady in the Water, The Last Airbender, etc. — I am sorry.

Afterwards, he played a starring (and regretable) role as Prince Zuko in M. Night Shymalan's The Last Airbender.

My Bottom Five That I Thought About Discussing But Don't Want To Waste My Breath On (in descending order): Clash of the Titans, Jonah Hex, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Alice in Wonderland, The Last Airbender

There's been a lot of bloviating in the blogosphere about how Shyamalan whitewashed Airbender by casting Caucasians Rathbone, Peltz, and Ringer.

I was honored a second time back in April to visit ILM once again, this time to chat with those in charge of the effects for the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan film, The Last Airbender, which arrives in theaters nationwide on July 1.

Thus Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) and his sister Katara (Nicola Peltz), members of the Water Tribe, are startled by Aang (Noah Ringer), a 12 - year - old airbender who emerges from an icy embryo in the sea near their village.

And chances are slim, for the Fire nation, in its drive for power, has eliminated all airbenders.

After an update on Twitter from Box Office Mojo said the film would be released in 3D, people began worrying about a terrible, hasty 3D conversion akin to the atrocities committed in the moving pop - up book of Clash of the Titans or The Last Airbender.

The most recent predictions update substituted «The Last Airbender» (which failed miserably with critics) with «Salt» in the sound categories, and it wasn't blind speculation.

The Last Airbender is hopelessly overambitious, attempting to squeeze in all the major events from the 20 or so half hour - long episodes that make up the first season of the show into a 99 minute long feature film.

In Signs, Bo is perpetually paranoid about contaminated water which later on — as it does in The Last Airbender — literally becomes weaponizeIn Signs, Bo is perpetually paranoid about contaminated water which later on — as it does in The Last Airbender — literally becomes weaponizein The Last Airbender — literally becomes weaponized.

Death either finds them immediately in the director's films (Willis» death in The Sixth Sense, the train crash in Unbreakable, the child's funeral in The Village, the first outbreak in The Happening), or has found them in their lives before the film (the dead wife / mother in Signs, the murdered family members in The Village, The Lady in the Water and The Last Airbender).

In this clip from our Sundance interview, Mantzoukas illuminates the difference between a watchable bad movie (like The Room) and an unwatchable bad movie (like The Last Airbender).

Before Airbender fans begin hyperventilating about a crappy cash - in on their beloved property (wasn't Shyamalan's movie enough?!)

As for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, the decision to go 3 - D is a pretty surprising one, especially this late in the game.

The icing on the cake was this year's Last Airbender, an adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon cartoon — an adaptation so ill - received that in one online review, even the cartoon's hardcore fans, many dressed up as the characters, registered their seething hatred.

After forgettable misfires («Lady in the Water,» «The Visit») and downright abominations («The Last Airbender,» «The Happening»), Shyamalan returns to an atmospheric piece best suited for his uneven talents.

Full of lazy dialogue, unconvincing performances, and lackluster action sequences (made nearly incomprehensible if you have the misfortune to see the movie in its 3 - D version, inarguably the worst conversion to stereoscopic imaging since the trend began anew), The Last Airbender is an unintentional laugh riot.

At least The Last Airbender is funny in its overblown, underperformed, substandard, and superficial way.

The complex mythology introduced in «The Last Airbender» concerns four nations, each of which is host to «benders» who can control either Air, Water, Earth or Fire.

The title card «Book One: Water» at the beginning and the cliffhanger at the end suggest that Shyamalan and his backers plan on «The Last Airbender» being the first film in a trilogy (mirroring the TV series» three seasons).

But Shyamalan doesn't even pen the script either, in fact, the screenplay was written by Brian Nelson, which just makes me wonder why the marketing team even bothered to emphasis M. Night's name in the trailers — it doesn't make sense, especially since The Last Airbender (which was absolutely atrocious) is still fresh in everyone's mind.

I've written before about the near - vertical trajectory (in a bad way) of M. Night Shyamalan's career over the past decade, from the idiocies of The Village to the did - that - really - happen awfulness of The Happening to the generic ineptitude of The Last Airbender.

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The Happening, starring Zooey Deschanel and Mark Wahlberg, prompted the New Republic to assert,» [A] n astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined,» though Shyamalan's career eventually reached its nadir with the infamous Last Airbender (2010) about a 12 - year - old boy who provides the last hope of restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos.

Will Smith [L] Stars In «After Earth», Which Pulled In Only Marginally Better Reviews Than «The Last Airbender», Starring Dev Patel [R]

The Last Airbender is set in a world where certain citizens can control of these four elements.

«The Last Airbender,» featuring Dev Patel from «Slumdog Millionaire,» is an adaptation of a previous animated series, and although aimed at kids in the end seems tentative and... aimless.

Jackson Rathbone won Worst Supporting Actor for both «The Twilight Saga: Eclipse» and «The Last Airbender,» which also won in this year's new category, Worst Eye - Gouging Mis - Use of 3D.

His major films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense (1999), the neo-noir superhero drama thriller Unbreakable (2000), the science fiction thriller Signs (2002), the psychological thriller The Village (2004), the fantasy thriller Lady in the Water (2006), the natural horror thriller The Happening (2008), the fantasy adventure film The Last Airbender (2010), the sci - fi action - adventure film After Earth (2013) and the horror comedy film The Visit (2015).

The Last Airbender (Unrated) M. Night Shyamalan directs this initial offering in a live - action trilogy based on the popular, animated TV show «Avatar.»

However, the film is a step in the right direction, with Shyamalan finally delivering the goods again after dropping the ball a few times with pictures like The Happening (2008) and The Last Airbender (2010).

The Last Airbender (July 2)-- M. Night Shyamalan tackles the summer blockbuster in this adaptation of a popular TV cartoon show.

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Paramount Pictures released a few new movie stills featuring Aang in the upcoming film «The Last Airbender», based on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon series «Avatar: The Last Airbender».

The film received a total of 17,755 votes, not far off Last Airbender, which came in 5th with 18,086 votes. Surprised?

Admittedly the bar has been greatly lowered when approaching any new film from M. Night Shyamalan, quondam wunderkind of cinema, whose SIXTH SENSE left us breathless with delight, and whose subsequent work left us more and more dismayed as the work deteriorated from the thoughtfully disturbing SIGNS, through the kitsch of THE VILLAGE, the silliness of THE HAPPENING, the self - indulgence of THE LADY IN THE WATER, THE LAST AIRBENDER, which left us gasping in shocked disbelief at its grandiose ineptitude, and finally the legendary disaster that was AFTER.EARTH, a film rumored to have been directed more by star Will Smith than by director - for - hire ShyamalaIN THE WATER, THE LAST AIRBENDER, which left us gasping in shocked disbelief at its grandiose ineptitude, and finally the legendary disaster that was AFTER.EARTH, a film rumored to have been directed more by star Will Smith than by director - for - hire Shyamalain shocked disbelief at its grandiose ineptitude, and finally the legendary disaster that was AFTER.EARTH, a film rumored to have been directed more by star Will Smith than by director - for - hire Shyamalan.

«The Last Airbender» is like a Care Bears movie that got waylaid in the fourth dimension.

Aang (Noah Ringer) is the prophesied airbender who must defend his people against the Fire Nation in its quest to dominate the tribal nations of Air, Water, and Earth.

With the director's perhaps inevitable branching out in recent years to an R rating (The Happening), story / producing - only (Devil), and adapting another well - known family property (The Last Airbender), his departures have become less striking.