{"id":569,"date":"2010-07-13T19:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T01:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=569"},"modified":"2010-07-13T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T01:47:20","slug":"what-a-tweest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2010\/07\/what-a-tweest\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Tweest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M. Night Shyamalan made another critically panned movie. Wait a minute, that&#8217;s not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/The_Last_Airbender_Poster.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-570  aligncenter\" title=\"His head reveals the direction of Shyamalan's career.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/The_Last_Airbender_Poster-202x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/The_Last_Airbender_Poster-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/The_Last_Airbender_Poster.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s disappointing that the movie didn&#8217;t live up to its potential, there have been several funny comments made in its criticisms:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: .90em; padding-left: 2em\"><em>* And The Last Airbender is a lavish parody of big-budget fantasy  epics. It&#8217;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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Shyamalan even makes sure to make fun of  distractingly shitty 3-D, by featuring it in his movie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: .90em; padding-left: 2em\"><em>* Burdened by a never-ending onslaught of expository dialogue awkwardly delivered by actors giving career-worst performances across the board, THE LAST AIRBENDER is so outrageously bad it&#8217;s a wonder it ever got before cameras.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: .90em; padding-left: 2em\"><em>* Where to start with this one? How about this: If any movie ever  warranted a class-action lawsuit against the filmmakers, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>The  Last Airbender<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: .90em; padding-left: 2em\"><em>* After his breakthrough with <em>The Sixth Sense<\/em> in 1999, M. Night  Shyamalan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career has been painful to contemplate. Hailed as the new  Spielberg, he has made five movies, ranging from the  awkward-but-promising (<em>Signs<\/em>) to the ridiculous (<em>Lady in the  Water<\/em>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: .90em; padding-left: 2em\"><em>* &#8220;The Last Airbender&#8221; is an agonizing experience in every category I can  think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance  suggest that <em>something<\/em> should have gone right. Not here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: .90em; padding-left: 2em\"><em>* This one looks like &#8220;The Karate Kid&#8221; got lost in a Nickelodeon cartoon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: .90em; padding-left: 2em\"><em>* &#8220;The Last Airbender&#8221; is a pacifist&#8217;s action movie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ouch. Not sure if all the criticism is warranted, but at least it&#8217;s entertaining. The sad thing is&#8230; this is supposed to be a trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M. Night Shyamalan made another critically panned movie. Wait a minute, that&#8217;s not a surprise. Although it&#8217;s disappointing that the movie didn&#8217;t live up to its potential, there have been several funny comments made in its criticisms: * And The Last Airbender is a lavish parody of big-budget fantasy epics. It&#8217;s got everything: the personality-free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-airbender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}