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The Last Airbender (2010)
I literally feel betrayed
I would just like to start this off by saying this is the only movie I truly felt like I deserved my money back for. After dedicating years of my life watching Avatar TLA, and continuing to be a fan, I felt like M. Night Shyamalan robbed me of my money and a decent Avatar movie. I will list off a few complaints I have with this movie.
1) M. Night Shyamalan lied to us about his experiences with Avatar. I remember seeing interviews where he talks about how he "fell in love with Avatar." After seeing this movie, there is no way he actually watched the series. The movie, in a nutshell, is just the Wikipedia plot synopsis of each episode with so much cut out. All this movie is is plot. There is no character development. Why would anyone care about these characters on the screen?
2) Where is half of the characters introduced in the first season? Where was Jet? Oh, that's right, he wasn't in the movie. If M. Night would have watched the show, he would have remembered how important Jet is to the series. And Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors? Apparently, they weren't important enough to make the cut either. SOKKA'S LOVE INTEREST DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT. Who is he going to cut next? Iroh? The Firelord? Again, if M. Night actually watched the series, these characters would have been prominent in the movie. Even the characters that are in the movie are represented poorly. The only actor that actually looks like their character is Aang, and his acting is on par with a five year old in a Christmas play.
3) Why is this movie 1 hour and 43 minutes including credits? In today's society, it's common for movie adaptations to be over 2 1/2 hours, if not over 3 hours. (I'm talking to you, LOTR) How come a movie based on 20 episodes is only an hour and a half? This movie more than doubled their budget in sales. People were going to pay to see this movie no matter what. Could they not spend more money to make it a three hour movie? Maybe they could have included some character development, or God forbid, more characters.
4) Bending, the one thing they could have done right, is laughable. Did anyone see the scene where six earth benders threw a pebble 5 mph? That's a complete joke. And why did they make it so the fire benders needed a source of fire to bend from? All the water benders need to do is put out their bonfires, and POOF, war over! If all $150 million you're spending is going to the special effects, do it right.
5) Where was any smiling or emotion? Did someone forget that this show is extremely happy and funny? One of the best messages in this story is how they are able to find happiness during war. There was none of that in TLA. It was just all explaining and plot. The worst offender in this movie is Sokka. He is the one with all the jokes! There was zero smiling in this movie.
So in conclusion of my rant, HOW DID ANYONE LET THIS MOVIE GET RELEASED?! Did no one object to this garbage? I feel like I've been robbed of a movie I deserve. I hope if they decide to make another Avatar movie, they'll just make an animated film continuing the story. Stay away from the live action, and stay away from Shyamalan.
Here Comes the Boom (2012)
Kevin James provides a refreshing and underrated performance in "Boom"
I would like to start off this review by saying that I was expecting to hate this movie with a burning passion. Kevin James seems to be on this trend of being in movies with a ridiculous plot line in hopes to attract the youth audience.
"Here Comes The Boom" was a refreshingly good movie that may not have provided me with gut-wrenching laughs throughout the movie, but left me in a great mood and happy I watched it. I feel that it was put in a difficult spot by being labeled a "comedy" movie because I feel it wasn't aiming to be the most humorous movie out there. I think it would have been better labeled to be a "feel-good inspirational" movie.
"Boom" may not be your traditional comedy, but it was a fun ride none the less. Give it a chance, but don't expect to be rolling from laughter. View it as if it was an inspirational movie, and you'll see what I'm talking about.