M Night bashed because of The Last Airbender

I'm also a huge fan of Avatar; Last Airbender Series. But I have a bad impression towards M. Knight Shaymalan in doing movies. So before hitting the cinemas, I read the reviews first, so I won't be disappointed of spending cash in a not so worthy movie. Sorry I can't think of any other adjectives to describe it.. lol. The movie was okey. Ideally the movie is for the kids that is why the lines that were used were simple and not that deep. Unlike in the series, the movie was all talk less action. Probably they were trying their best to squeeze all in and that those who were not the Avatar fans won't get lost in the story, which the result is the movie was too dragging. I like the idea of the nations. Each nation has a certain culture, like the Fire Nation, all of them are Indians; the Water Tribe are Caucasians; the Earth people are Chinese; except for the Air Nomads which I'm not sure which culture are they. But the casting was not that impressive, the cast were too serious for their roles. I think M. Knight Shaymalan should watch the series a thousand times in order to absorb the whole story.. So the money that the Paramount spend in the movie won't go to waste.

In my opinion, M Night is a horrible director. He has made like..ONE decent film (the sixth sense). Admittedly, I haven't seen the last airbender..But based on the trailer alone I can comfortable say that I don't want to see it. It looks trite and unoriginal. Id just spend the whole time yawning. Special effects are not everything. They are not the sole key to a movies success. No doubt the masses will get a kick out of all the bright colours and pretty explosions though...*yawn*

I'm a huge fan of the original TV series. One of the best high fantasies ever to grace television! I also kinda like M. Night. I haven't seen "The Happening" (And I'm thinking I don't want to.) But I really like "Signs", "Unbreakable", and "Lady of the Water". I already knew James Newton Howard was brilliant... my sister's a huge soundtrack fanatic and he's her favorite composer. I really had high hopes for the movie! But like you, I was really disappointed. I thought the actors (With the exception of Zhao) did really well with the material that they had. The action sequences were really amazing, and of course the music was phenomenal. I think the movie's two big downfalls are in the writing and the editing. The story wasn't adapted well. Huge and important sections of the story were shoved off into the narrator's voice over. The scrolling text at the beginning and Katara's speech? Cheesy. Awkwardly written and poorly executed. And why does it take Aang until the Southern Air Temple to actually introduce himself? There are loads more I can name, but that would take all day. As for the editing, I could tell they'd planned for a much longer movie and then at the last minute chopped huge sections out. They shot scenes with the Kyoshi Warriors, with more Kataang... but for some reason they got cut. The cuts were jarring and cheap... you couldn't understand a lot of what was happening. I saw both Eclipse and The Last Airbender at their midnight showings, within 24 hours of each other. I was much happier with the adaptation of Eclipse, and I was extremely disappointed in The Last Airbender. I'm not going to bash M. Night. I actually liked most of his movies up until this point. I don't want my money back... the midnight showing was fun and I'm glad that I went. The original cartoon is still there for me to enjoy and it is by no means ruined. I'm kinda hoping to see a re-cut or extended cut. I think if they corrected loads of the edits then it would be significantly better. Not likely as good as I hoped it would be, but better.

According to many fans, M. Night, who claims he is a fan of the actual show, sucked all the life, and the humor out of the story and made it far too confusing to the audience, and the fans disliked his casting choices. It's pretty bad when the fans of the original source material hated it. I'm not going to see it until my local library gets the DVD. I won't waste my money, I won't mind wasting my time watching it because I can review it for myself, but that's why M. Night is getting bashed.

LOL and what about those Jacob fans? Apart from this, I have watched the last airbender in it was devastating, I hoped for so much more and in the end I got so much less than what my expectations were. In short, a very disappointing result, lame act of characters, many holes in plot because they got so many information down and too many moving with few effects!!! For example: the fight in the earth bender's prison, there were a group of many earth benders who danced together, eventually that dance which took so long made a stone, as small as a freckle to fly over to one of the guards, while those guards were just standing there and staring!!! Tough the customs were really good!

To be honest, I have only seen one or two episodes of the anime so I can't really compare the two. But the kids movement was kind of funny to me... I think Jaden Smith could have done the scenes better.