"I close with the hope that the title proves prophetic."
June 30, 2010 12:52 PM   Subscribe

Flamey-O, hotmen! The much-dreaded (previously) The Last Airbender has a 0% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes (as of right now with 12 reviews). Honestly, this is the best thing that could've happened; if this movie totally bombs, then the other two movies will get canned, the animated series will remain "The" version, and maybe a few people who haven't heard of the series before will hear that this is a horrible movie rendition of a wonderful series and be encouraged to check it out.

I'm very pleased with Roger Ebert, whose 1/2-STAR review extols the virtues of the original show (I was firmly expecting him to be one of the many reviewers who say "this movie is based on some dumb cartoon for babies that I've never seen but that my nephew thinks is cool"). He also compares the actor who plays Aang to "a young Wallace Shawn". Yikes!
posted by luvcraft (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, a rotten tomatoes link and an ebert review confirming that a likely-bad movie turned out bed is kind of thin to start with, and your writeup reads more like a personal blog entry than a metafilter post. -- cortex



 
I would also like to take this moment to coin the term "punching the fish" to describe adapting something wonderful into an absolutely terrible movie.
posted by luvcraft at 12:52 PM on June 30, 2010 [2 favorites]


And maybe another result will be that M. Night Shamyalamallomar will never be allowed near a camera again?
posted by oneironaut at 12:55 PM on June 30, 2010


Tell us how you really feel.
posted by chunking express at 12:55 PM on June 30, 2010


I followed the Ebert link as I just love it when he eviscerates a movie. Critiques of good movies just aren't nearly as fun. It didn't disappoint. Opening lines of his review:
"The Last Airbender" is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here.
posted by Babblesort at 12:56 PM on June 30, 2010


While I'm a very vocal proponent of calling out Hollywood on yellowface, white washing, and basically the issue selling white supremacy to children... this doesn't seem like a good way to do an FPP here.
posted by yeloson at 12:56 PM on June 30, 2010 [1 favorite]


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