'Jaynestown'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Despite an onslaught of scathing reviews, casting backlash and negative publicity, M. Night Shyamalan's "Airbender" grossed a respectable $16.4-million Thursday at the domestic box office -- the fifth-biggest Thursday opening ever.
Crap. Looks like Night'll be getting more studio funding.
CJ and I are heading out to see The Last Airbender with a bunch of ninjas from the dojo. Looks like I'm going to go into it with low expectations, like I did for Eclipse.
I'm watching Avatar: The Last Airbender on the Roku box (Netflix) and I just pumped my hand in the air and shouted: "I want a flying bison!"
I am definitely going to skip the movie.
Crap. Looks like Night'll be getting more studio funding.
Plus a hearty round of "movie criticism doesn't matter".
Though I bet the receipts (I wanted to say BO, except I don't think the stench is coming off of this one anytime soon) drop off precipitously by next weekend.
I'm watching Avatar: The Last Airbender on the Roku box
How appropriate.
Btw, Raq, your name came up this morning.
Emmett came out into the living room playing with the letter opener/dagger you sent him.
Matilda asked what it was and he explained, but he didn't remember who gave it to him.
"That's from Raq," I said. "Her husband's a diplomat and she got that in Greece. Or maybe Turkey."
"Really? That's badass!"
I went in with low expectations. And I was disappointed. CJ enjoyed it.
Now we are home and watching Precious.
To cheer yourself up?
I was gonna say.
I liked it, but, you know, Simon fan. I watched Generation Kill over Christmas once. My amusements are not like other people's.