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00% at Rotten tomatoes...even Ebert panned it.


Ugh I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but now....not so much.


GG

edit....it's at 10% now 2 out of 21 critics liked it.
edit..edit...well it's back down to .05% only 2 out of 41 critics liked it.

I really hope Hollywood learns that it shouldn't make movies out of any cartoon show that has more than five fans, especially BEFORE! we see Spongebob Squarepants, the Live Action Movie.....

Wow, really? They did some good work with the trailer, then.

Ol' M. Night just keeps freefalling. I think Unbreakable is very underrated, but since then every single movie has been worse than the last.

I really liked Signs and thought Sixth Sense was decent. the rest of them have been purely meh. Didn't see the last two.

Frazzled wrote:I really liked Signs and thought Sixth Sense was decent. the rest of them have been purely meh. Didn't see the last two.

This.

Signs was good the first time. After that, it loses its charm. I can watch Sixth Sense anytime. Good script and decent characters.

The Village was not great. I didn't bother with The Happening or The lady that Lives in the Pool or whatever its called. The trailers just didn't appeal to me. The Airbender looks too weird for me.

The Happening was excruciating. All involved will have to something pretty damn impressive in cinematic terms to atone for this crime. Zooey Deschanel is on the right path though after (500) Days of Summer.

The Happening was one of the worst films I've ever seen. The actors didn't respond like real people. Example:

*guy jumps off a building to his death and lands right in front of the character*

Character: *calmly* Why would he choose to jump?

I actually forgot the main couple was supposed to be a couple mid-film due to the severe lack of romantic chemistry between the two. Ugh.

I had great hopes for M. Night Shamwow, but after Lady in the Water he seems to have lost it. Could he have picked a more lame cartoon to make into a movie? (No, since somebody else already did speed racer.)

generalgrog wrote:I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but now....not so much.

Why? Do you like it when directors cast across race?

I won't be seeing it.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

generalgrog wrote:I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but now....not so much.

Why? Do you like it when directors cast across race?

I won't be seeing it.

Someone should have taken to task all those Asian artists who draw so many Anglo looking characters in shows like Airbender.
I can envision the cries of outrage if Naruto is made a live movie and a blonde kid is cast as the main character.

Relapse wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:

generalgrog wrote:I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but now....not so much.

Why? Do you like it when directors cast across race?

I won't be seeing it.

Someone should have taken to task all those Asian artists who draw so many Anglo looking characters in shows like Airbender.
I can envision the cries of outrage if Naruto is made a live movie and a blonde kid is cast as the main character.

Relapse wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:

generalgrog wrote:I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but now....not so much.

Why? Do you like it when directors cast across race?

I won't be seeing it.

Someone should have taken to task all those Asian artists who draw so many Anglo looking characters in shows like Airbender.

Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that Asian artists were required to draw their characters as racist caricatures envisioned by ignorant white folks.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Relapse wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:

generalgrog wrote:I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but now....not so much.

Why? Do you like it when directors cast across race?

I won't be seeing it.

Someone should have taken to task all those Asian artists who draw so many Anglo looking characters in shows like Airbender.

Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that Asian artists were required to draw their characters as racist caricatures envisioned by ignorant white folks.

Don't mean to get your panties all bunched up there, John, over the fact that a lot of main characters in these shows are drawn as Anglos, so there shouldn't be any surprise when anglos are cast in live action versions of these films. If you think drawings of Asians equate to ignorant stereotypes, I guess that's your thing.

Frazzled wrote:I really liked Signs and thought Sixth Sense was decent. the rest of them have been purely meh. Didn't see the last two.

Im with you, Signs was great, so was Sixth....everything else..........


...wait...unbreakable was pretty sweet too....Lady in the Water makes me want to inject bleach into my eyeballs with a hypodermic needle.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

generalgrog wrote:I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but now....not so much.

Why? Do you like it when directors cast across race?

I won't be seeing it.

Actually I had not even heard of the whole anglo casting controversy until I read a few reviews on rotten tomatoes today. I was just psyked because the trailers made the movie look like it was going to be awesome.

but when Roger Ebert doesn't like it...it's got to be bad.

GG

@Relapse: They're not drawn as Anglos. The fact that you incorrectly perceive them that way, merely demonstrates your ignorance.

I was thankfully spared having to see this film,as my girlfriend,who is a big fan of Avatar,decided to take our children to see it,but said I could stay home since I don't much care for the program and wasn't in the least bit interested in the film.

I got three relaxing hours to myself,which I used to paint.

Upon the missus return,she informed me that " The film was awful and completely butchered the series" and that " M.knight Shamalon has made his worse film to date"

My kids apparently loved it,but then again..it was in 3D and stuff was getting broken,so I wasn't surprised.

All in all, I'm happy I got to stay home and finish up some Terminators,seems like I had more fun.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:The Happening was one of the worst films I've ever seen. The actors didn't respond like real people. Example:

*guy jumps off a building to his death and lands right in front of the character*

Character: *calmly* Why would he choose to jump?

I actually forgot the main couple was supposed to be a couple mid-film due to the severe lack of romantic chemistry between the two. Ugh.

I agree O weird one. It was incredibly BLAH. Literally BLAH! And the worst part is, alot of the "main" characters I liked in other movies. But yea it was very dry and literally boring.
*guy gets run over by lawn mower*
Oh my goodness! Did you guys see that?
*person shoots self in head, then everyone around repeats until gun empty*
Oh my goodness, did you guys see that?

Now repeat all that for 2 1/2 hours and youll get the just of this movie.

Yeah, I completely don't get why people think Shamalan is any good. Saw Unbreakable, and was completely unimpressed.

How does he make something which should be interesting imto completely boring?

Shame, really. Shyamalan disappeared up his bottom a while ago, ever since Unbreakable his films have been poor, each slightly sillier than the one before it. But he does have talent, and I really hoped that a really different project, like heading up a big budget adaptation, would force him to come out of his comfort zone, which might get him out of his bottom and start making decent movies again. Guess that didn’t happen, and maybe now he’ll never get out.

Frazzled wrote:I really liked Signs and thought Sixth Sense was decent. the rest of them have been purely meh. Didn't see the last two.

Signs? Good?

Sure, it could have been good, Gibson and his family were well drawn and they all performed well, and the film built tension quite well. But is it too much to require a film to make just a little sense? I mean, honestly, it turns out his wife was killed so that she could give a cryptic message about how to defeat some aliens that were killed by water… and this was enough for Gibson’s character to find his faith in God again. The God I’d have faith in would have just made it rain, and wouldn’t have killed his wife at all.

Stupid, stupid movie. That was followed by even stupider movies.

I liked Unbreakable okay, and The Sixth Sense was good. I thought Signs was pretty damn stupid. Why weren't the aliens wearing, you know, waterproof clothes or something? They have space ships. They must have realized that the planet is saturated with a substance that burns their skin off. It didn't make any fething sense.

Orkeosaurus wrote:I liked Unbreakable okay, and The Sixth Sense was good. I thought Signs was pretty damn stupid. Why weren't the aliens wearing, you know, waterproof clothes or something? They have space ships. They must have realized that the planet is saturated with a substance that burns their skin off. It didn't make any fething sense.

First time you watch it's good, maybe even scary. After the first time you start to notice things like that.
But I still find it a nice way to waste an afternoon.

Signs made no sense. They would have died because of the water in the atmosphere, it would have killed the aliens.

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:First time you watch it's good, maybe even scary. After the first time you start to notice things like that.
But I still find it a nice way to waste an afternoon.

This is the problem. Lots of films have bad endings, and while the ending to Signs is worse than almost all of them, a bad ending doesn't necessarily make the whole film bad. If there is a lot of good stuff along the way a film can still be pretty good despite a poor ending.

But Signs is meant to be a scary movie that builds towards that final revelation where all that fear is replaced by faith and hope. A film like this needs a strong ending, or everything that came before that is undercut. And when the ending is that stupid, then you’ve got problems.

But it’s still better than The Lady in the Water or The Happening. And, if the reviews are anything to go by, it’s better than The Last Airbender.

I think as timed has progressed, M. Night Shamallamma has gone from reclusive genius to locked away nut job clutching an AK-47 and wearing a tin-foil hat to criticism for his directing style, which lacks direction and is known quite prominently for its lack of style other than the twist his movies bring.

That being said, I hope Airbender sinks him faster than a North Atlantic iceberg sinks a nigh unsinkable ship.

Yeah, I live in the town they filmed the Happening in. It wasn't fun. And it wasn't even that good. I refuse to see what he did to my beloved cartoon. At least he didn't ruin Scooby Doo for us...

Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:Yeah, I live in the town they filmed the Happening in. It wasn't fun. And it wasn't even that good. I refuse to see what he did to my beloved cartoon. At least he didn't ruin Scooby Doo for us...

Well, if you want another cartoon series ruined, tune into live action Cowboy Bebop starring KEANU FETHIN' REEVES as Spike Spiegel.

Let that spin around in ur hed for awhile.

WarOne wrote:

Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:Yeah, I live in the town they filmed the Happening in. It wasn't fun. And it wasn't even that good. I refuse to see what he did to my beloved cartoon. At least he didn't ruin Scooby Doo for us...

Well, if you want another cartoon series ruined, tune into live action Cowboy Bebop starring KEANU FETHIN' REEVES as Spike Spiegel.

Let that spin around in ur hed for awhile.

whoa

WarOne wrote:

Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:Yeah, I live in the town they filmed the Happening in. It wasn't fun. And it wasn't even that good. I refuse to see what he did to my beloved cartoon. At least he didn't ruin Scooby Doo for us...

Well, if you want another cartoon series ruined, tune into live action Cowboy Bebop starring KEANU FETHIN' REEVES as Spike Spiegel.

Let that spin around in ur hed for awhile.