I was thinking about going to see The Last Airbender, expecting it to bad, but hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but after reading all the reviews, yeah, I think I may wait until I can Netflix it.
On the positive note, Amazon had the DVDs on sale in honor of the movie coming out. I may take advantage of the long weekend and have an Avatar viewing marathon. (Hopefully I can get the gf to sit down and watch with me. She finally sat down to watch it seriously with me somewhere late in season 2 when I was watching my ahemed copies and really enjoyed it, but I haven't been able to convince her to put in the time commitment to watch it from the beginning.)
I liked Unbreakable better than Sixth Sense, but I think it was mostly visual. The costume design and color really impressed me.
I was so bored during Unbreakable I almost fell asleep in the theatre. The thing that made Sixth Sense work was that it was a good movie even if you knew the twist. It wasn't an HSQ-dependent story.
With Unbreakable, the twist was a thing I'd been assuming was part of the premise, so when the reveal it turned out to be the GOTCHA moment, I was pretty pissed off to have wasted that two hours waiting for something interesting to happen.
Although, I have to say that I just saw 6th Sense again last month, and it wasn't as good as I remembered it being.
I hadn't really seen it again since I watched it in the theater years ago.
I couldn't get over the level of stupid Bruce Willis's character displayed in Unbreakable. A student athlete who never notices he has no ceiling on how much he can benchpress? Yeah, sure.
Completely unengaging.
The DH loved Unbreakable. Me, not. I did love Sixth Sense, which I found on rewatch to be a totally different film, one about a scared kid very kindly helping a poor deluded dead guy move on.
io9 reviews
The Last Airbender:
M. Night Shyamalan Finally Made A Comedy
And The Last Airbender is a lavish parody of big-budget fantasy epics. It's got everything: the personality-free hero, the nonsensical plot twists, the CG clutter, the bland romance, the new-age pablum. No expense is spared — Shyamalan even makes sure to make fun of distractingly shitty 3-D, by featuring it in his movie.
damn.
I guess we found the summer "hit" that critics have been waiting to trash.
Oh, but you need to quote this bit:
a kind of Hero's-Journey bukkake
