Anya ,'Touched'
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But, but! The writing contributed to LOTR by Fran and Phillipa sucked!
Insert very long, irate and possibly incoherent rant about the complete destruction of the confrontation between Gandalf and the Witch King, and the confrontation between Eowyn and the Witch king (the two best scenes in the book) in RotK ---->HERE.
Ah, but TTT had that wonderful scene between Eowyn and Wormtongue which was a brilliant example of shifted lines (from Gandalf in RotK to Wormtongue, who would have known more about her than Gandalf).
I think that scene might be the best acted scene in the entire trilogy.
That looks fun!
Wow, Film School Rejects really hates this thing.
To the fans of the original series: I am offended on your behalf.
As you might imagine, the offense was committed by the director, M. Night Shyamalan, but that’s not where it ends. On the whole, Paramount’s The Last Airbender is perhaps the most well-rounded failure of 2010. Whether it’s the wooden performances of its young cast, the action sequences, the community theater-level dialog, the story’s pace or even James Newton Howard’s score, nothing works.
I feel like, instead of the other way around, MNS has gotten worse with each film he's made. The Sixth Sense was really good, Unbreakable was interesting, Signs sort of grew on me after a while (and it was also filmed largely in Bucks County, PA, where we lived at the time -- I knew all those small-town locations), and the rest are just completely ridiculous.
He hasn't been offensive till now, though.
I thought The Sixth Sense was okay, and I hated Unbreakable, so I stopped seeing his movies. Those were supposed to be the good ones, after all. I was curious about Airbender until the casting nonsense. I already don't like his work, so it wasn't a hard call.
I know he has one earlier movie, pre- Sixth Sense, that I never saw. I wonder what that was like.
The Village and The Lady in the Water were absurd. I never bothered with The Happening.
It's odd to see someone with so much promise go farther off the rails every time.
And yet, when will studios quit giving him money?
I hate MNS.