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Long before M. Night Shyamalan tainted the name of Avatar: The Last Airbender with his awful feature adaptation, millions of fans around the world were able to enjoy the animated Nickelodeon adventure series.

Not exact matches

Some of her family's favorite activities include watersliding, hiking, watching Avatar The Last Airbender, inspiring youth to live enriched lives, and playing pirates with their boys!

Now that I don't watch the network anymore and since this is a PG - 13 rated movie (the first was The Last Airbender), I'm gonna be sick if Nickelodeon had skipped out of the family - friendly business with classic Nicktoons and stuff.

He also made The Last Airbender; I don't even know where to start with that one.

It's not a masterpiece, I think the critics were too fair too it, it's by far an over rated ghost flick, but it does so much with so little resources and proves M Night Shymalan knew how to make films before recent lacklusters like 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).

Some lucky folks at the San Diego Comic Con this week were among the first audiences to see footage from James Cameron's highly - anticipated sci - fi film Avatar (not to be confused with M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender).

Like Shyamalan did with The Last Airbender, Jared Hess has accepted the seemingly inevitable, taking a for - hire directing gig on Masterminds rather than building another comic universe from the ground up.

Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).

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.

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.

Still, I went into «The Last Airbender» with some apprehension, wondering how Night would handle the challenge of adapting a pre-existing property (Nickelodeon's «Avatar: The Last Airbender» cartoon series) for the first time, as well as making his first FX - driven epic fantasy.

After a few high profile sci - fi / fantasy flops (The Last Airbender and After Earth), M. Night Shyamalan is returning to his lower - budget roots with this fall's The Visit.

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.

«After Earth» has had a string of different screenwriters working on it including director M. Night Shyamalan («The Sixth Sense», «Signs», «The Last Airbender»), Stephen Gaghan («Traffic», «Rules of Engagement»), Gary Whitta («The Book of Eli») plus additional dialogue from Michael Soccio who has previously worked with star Will Smith when he wrote four episodes of «The Fresh Prince of Bel - Air».

After the nightmare that was The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan probably thought all his Christmases had come at once when Sony hired him to direct another $ 100 million plus blockbuster with Will Smith - what could possibly go wrong?

After establishing himself with freak - out movies like The Sixth Sense, Signs and The Village, M. Night Shyamalan veered into blockbuster fantasy / sci - fi with the poorly received The Last Airbender and After Earth.

Sure, the critics may be having their usual fun with Shyamalan (The Last Airbender etc) though there really isn't a positive word to be found.

Leading the night with the most «wins» was M. Night Shyamalan's re-imagining of the popular television series «The Last Airbender.»

Since stunning the world with the iconic twist ending to The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan has increasingly alienated viewers with big - budget misfires such as The Last Airbender and 2013's pitiful Jaden Smith vehicle After Earth.

He even tried switching genres with The Last Airbender and After Earth but audiences stayed away.

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 only things I found that were wrong with «The Last Airbender» were 1 - they say Sokka's name wrong.

It means that rather than impress with lavish set - pieces, which he perhaps got carried away with doing with the likes of The Last Airbender or After Earth, he has to use smaller examples of his directional prowess.

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 Shyamalan.

Sadly, there is much more 3D planned for the future, but after the critical lashing that «Clash of the Titans» and «The Last Airbender» suffered, we should at least be at the end of the phase where 2D movies are retrofitted with cheap 3D effects.

I wasn't a big fan of «Avatar» but it's «Citizen Kane» compared with M. Night Shyamalan's «The Last Airbender,» based on the animated series «Avatar: The Last Airbender.»

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.

This movie should not be confused with The Avatar: The Last Airbender (an animated TV series), which coincidentally is also being adapted to the big screen under the name of The Last Airbender, to be released in the summer of 2010.

Shyamalan wrote himself into a corner of diminishing returns with his «thrillers with a twist ending» by the time The Village escaped in 2004, and endeavored to push his directorial ambitions in new dirctions with Lady in the Water (a fable), The Happening (apocalyptic horror), and The Last Airbender (grand - scale fantasy).

A new nubile young actress (The Last Airbender's Nicola Peltz) fills the leading lady vacancy left by Megan Fox and that Victoria's Secret model Bay cast to succeed her (undoubtedly making a point about actor replaceability) after Fox's since - resolved row with Bay.

With the release of The Last Airbender this past weekend, M. Night Shyamalan has been taking a lot of flack for his work as a writer and director, with a lot of people essentially declaring his career to be dWith the release of The Last Airbender this past weekend, M. Night Shyamalan has been taking a lot of flack for his work as a writer and director, with a lot of people essentially declaring his career to be dwith a lot of people essentially declaring his career to be dead.

The iBookstore remains reliably eclectic, with a heaping helping of kid - friendly titles (Avatar: The Last Airbender, My Little Pony) and some seriously adult titles (The Walking Dead, Blue Is the Warmest Color), as well as a mix of single - issue comics and graphic novels.

Dark Horse's big sale this weekend is on kids» comics, with 99 - cent issues of Axe Cop, Groo, and Usagi Yojimbo and heavily marked - down graphic novels, including Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and... [Read more...]

Dark Horse's big sale this weekend is on kids» comics, with 99 - cent issues of Axe Cop, Groo, and Usagi Yojimbo and heavily marked - down graphic novels, including Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and the Eisner - nominated Chimichanga — possibly the best $ 2.99 you'll spend this week, whether for a kid or an adult.

When I finally did spot their lone manga material, it was a single giant Gate 7 poster that — along with a poster for their newly announced Avatar the Last Airbender comic series — were placed facing inwards towards a garbage can against a support pillar.

With Avatar The Last Airbender finally available on Blu - ray Disc, we decided to revisit the series.

Were it not for the characters being still portraits instead of fully animated, it would be easy to mistake BCB for the next kids» TV show phenomenon - a new generation's Avatar: The Last Airbender and / or The Legend of Korra, but with cooking.

I always thought that Link was suppose to be a hero that was reborn in a new child with every passing generation, (Similar to the Avatar in Avatar The Last Airbender.)