The Last Airbender (2010)

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  TheMovieDiorama

  1 / 10

  The Last Airbender bends a variety of elements and your patience until it breaks. I'm not one for jumping on the bandwagon, especially for films that are universally detested. I like to think there are redeemable qualities even in the largest piles of rubbish. Howard's score is the only good aspect in this atrocity that has been named "one of the worst movies ever made". Holy. Monk. Dancing. Water. Bending. God! How? Just how can one man make something so irrefutably boring? I mean, I can't. I cannot fathom Shyamalan's thinking process on this. Aang is bending my mind. I can't think straight anymore! So, Aang is an Avatar who can bend all four elements to which he protects a water city from the Fire Nation and...oh I don't even know. "The Not-so-last Exposition Bender" has so much exposition in every line of dialogue, that it's like someone adapted a textbook. The introductory scene is just expositional text. Katara's constant expositional commentary, only used to summarise entire scenes because no one knows what the heck is going on, is unable to mute itself. The "acting" is horrific. The stuff of nightmares. More rigid than earth, less fluid than water. The casting, which coined the term "Racebending", was wrong and clearly angered fans. Shyamalan had total control being director, producer and writer (explains everything...) and yet couldn't direct a drop of rain even if he tried. The contemporary "bending" dances act as the exciting action set pieces but to be honest, I've seen more bending in a gay drag bar. The visual effects. Oh my, the human CGI on Aang was insulting. Then these Earthbenders spend like 5 minutes punching and kicking the air, just to launch a rock at someone. Just pick up the rock and throw it! Stop with this monotonous dancing and throw it! Sweet Lord help me now, my stress vein is visible. They didn't even end it suitably. Nickelodeon honestly thought they would get a trilogy out of this! Guys, he just condensed a whole series into ninety minutes. "My instinct was to edit it down". Do you even know what editing is!? I haven't frickin' talked about the lemur-bat yet! Bye.

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