32. "That's precisely the point." In response to Reply # 3
I enjoyed the books and think it's a fantastic property to adapt for TV. Shyamalan's involvement completely kills my excitement.
My reaction would be different if it wasn't attached to a guy with a history of creating cinematic garbage out of great source material along with his own terrible, half baked, underdeveloped ideas.
So yes, aren't thrilled about the involvement of a guy with such an abysmal track record. He's completely exhausted the pass he earned between Unbreakable and Signs and has earned his naysayers.
5. "Look's good to me. I hope M. Night comes back." In response to Reply # 0
His writing declined steadily since Unbreakable (which is fucking underrated), but his direction and visual style only sucked in The Happening and The Last Airbender.
The Last Airbender is based off of the very popular Nickelodeon show Avatar: The Last Airbender. That show was excellent and M. Night said that his kids loved as well as he did. Everything that is wrong with that movies is 100% his fault. I mean fuck, the pronounced Avatar wrong.
The Happening just sucked. The script was shitty (it was the trees!!!), the actors looked lost and were fucking awful. That's shitty direction.
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13. "Nothing you said disagrees with what I said, lol." In response to Reply # 9
I said The Happening still looks good. It is a very bad movie.
I know where Airbender comes from. That's why I said I hope it was a cash grab-- an attempt to ingratiate himself to a studio with a hit kids movie instead of his normal stuff. It didn't because it was really really terrible.
21. "But it's not a cash grab. He came into it with good intentions, but..." In response to Reply # 13 Fri Mar-20-15 01:21 PM by bwood
>I said The Happening still looks good. It is a very bad >movie. > >I know where Airbender comes from. That's why I said I hope it >was a cash grab-- an attempt to ingratiate himself to a studio >with a hit kids movie instead of his normal stuff. It didn't >because it was really really terrible. > >We agree.
Those good intentions were misguided as fuck. Everyone wants to do something for kids especially based off of a property they love, homeboy just really fucked it up. I remember vividly him stating how much he was fan of the show and how much justice he was gonna do the show with the movie. Sadly, it didn't turn out that way.
27. "RE: But it's not a cash grab. He came into it with good intentions, but...." In response to Reply # 21
>>I said The Happening still looks good. It is a very bad >>movie. >> >>I know where Airbender comes from. That's why I said I hope >it >>was a cash grab-- an attempt to ingratiate himself to a >studio >>with a hit kids movie instead of his normal stuff. It didn't >>because it was really really terrible. >> >>We agree. > >Those good intentions were misguided as fuck. Everyone wants >to do something for kids especially based off of a property >they love, homeboy just really fucked it up. I remember >vividly him stating how much he was fan of the show and how >much justice he was gonna do the show with the movie. Sadly, >it didn't turn out that way.
basically. even from the interviews he did during the press tour for Airbender it was clear he not only did it for his kids BUT he really knew the source material quite well and is clearly a fan of it...
10. "It's an "event" series. It's not designed to have a second season " In response to Reply # 0 Fri Mar-20-15 09:05 AM by mrhood75
If it does, then they've gone ahead and planned out what's happened after the three books.
The main thing giving me pause is that this has been filmed and has been sitting on the shelf for a while now. So much so that Howard has had time to revitalize his career with Empire. I dunno, maybe they were waiting to see how that panned out.
It's one of those things where, with Night at this point it's the game of anticipating the twist, and basically unreasonable expectations based on that. This seems like a decent premise I guess but there's two options - dude gets out or he doesn't. If it were a longer series you'd pretty much have to go with the latter, at which point the whole tension of not being able to leave is softened, making it a you gotta stick around through the possibiity until it's clear he's not gon leave and you can get to the good part. I wouldn't think audiences would be patient enough for that. But as a mini it might work. *shrug*
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16. "I'll just say this: You might as well read the three books" In response to Reply # 15 Fri Mar-20-15 12:44 PM by mrhood75
They read exceedingly quickly, and you should be done with them in three days tops. They're not great fiction, but they lend themselves to be translated into TV form.
31. "I wanted to watch this until you said "M. Night"....." In response to Reply # 0
We the children of the Light, you know what I mean? That's why I'm hating on the darkness like Paula Deen Cause in my hood they masked up like it's Halloween We going hard for the Rock, but we not some fiends - Andy Mineo
33. "Finally got around to the trailer. It's hilariously lazy." In response to Reply # 0
If you've seen the trailer, you may as well hold out for the last two episodes because the trailer tells 70% of the entire first book.
I see it's only ten episodes. I think this will get two more seasons of this gets good ratings. I don't see the whole trilogy being done in ten eps. Book one doesn't need ten eps but could benefit from ten if they clean up a few flaws from the book.
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