Movies I am not going to see, part 1
Jul. 3rd, 2010 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaTo be fair, I'm not much of a movie-goer. A movie has to attain some kind of critical mass in my brain before it can overcome my natural inertia. (Or else my friends drag me to see it, which works too.) But there are some movies that I don't get around to seeing, and some movies that I don't go see, and some movies that I actively avoid seeing...and then there are movies like THE LAST AIRBENDER.
I love the TV series. It's intelligent, it blends together humor and drama without undercutting its plot or its characters, it has actual character arcs, and it's fantasy that isn't Yet Another Tolkien Rip-off World. (I love me some Tolkien, but honestly, there's more to the world than pseudo-Europe, yo.)
The movie? Well, there's the race-fail (casting non-white characters as white actors? they have words for that). There's the script, which goes beyond the limitations of compressing an entire season's worth of episodes into 90 minutes, to sheer incomprehensibility. There's the acting (when reviewers are comparing the actor playing Aang unfavorably to Jake Lloyd in THE PHANTOM MENACE, there's something very wrong). There's the director, M. Night Shyamalan, who is pretty much responsible for problems #1 through 3 (he oversaw the casting, wrote the script, and apparently completely failed to direct the actors he chose).
But then they just had to add insult to injury.
According to reports, Iroh? Drinks coffee.
:rage:
I love the TV series. It's intelligent, it blends together humor and drama without undercutting its plot or its characters, it has actual character arcs, and it's fantasy that isn't Yet Another Tolkien Rip-off World. (I love me some Tolkien, but honestly, there's more to the world than pseudo-Europe, yo.)
The movie? Well, there's the race-fail (casting non-white characters as white actors? they have words for that). There's the script, which goes beyond the limitations of compressing an entire season's worth of episodes into 90 minutes, to sheer incomprehensibility. There's the acting (when reviewers are comparing the actor playing Aang unfavorably to Jake Lloyd in THE PHANTOM MENACE, there's something very wrong). There's the director, M. Night Shyamalan, who is pretty much responsible for problems #1 through 3 (he oversaw the casting, wrote the script, and apparently completely failed to direct the actors he chose).
But then they just had to add insult to injury.
According to reports, Iroh? Drinks coffee.
:rage: