M. Night Shyamalan Finally Made A Comedy

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"This is the part where I would insert a quick plot synopsis of the film, but it's really unnecessary - Shyamalan has boiled every epic heroic story of the past 20 years down to its most basic, primal soup-y essence, so he can spray it all over the audience, in a kind of Hero's-Journey bukkake. You will be finding chunks of Joseph Campbell's calcified spooge behind your ears for three days after watching this film, no matter how many times you bathe.

Shyamalan's true achievement in this film is that he takes a thrilling cult TV series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and he systematically leaches all the personality and soul out of it — in order to create something generic enough to serve as a universal spoof of every epic, ever."

http://io9.com/5576076/m-night-shyamalan-finally-made-a-comedy

Best. Review. Evar.

Comments

[jane-huahua.livejournal.com]

Don't mind me, I'm passing by and rambling^^
I don't actually watch Avater: The Last Airbender (though it definitely seems popular, esp on ff.net), was completely exasperated by the sucky film trailer, and after reading your posts and links I definitely will never go and watch it. It's kinda surprising how many people are taking a stand in this matter!
I'm Chinese, living in Singapore, so there's no Sinophobia or something like that here.
Though when I went to Europe on a school trip, apparently everyone thought we were Japanese. Random Europeans went "Sumimasen", "Arigatou" and etc to us without even bothering to find out whether we're Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. Ask any random Asian and they can tell you that these three races DO look different.
It's nice to know there are awesome people out there who do have sense, lots of it, and are serious about anti-racism.

[jane-huahua.livejournal.com]

and AWESOME, I just got huge inspiration for my English Speech assignment which I've been stuck at for ages. ^^
Yep, I'm talking about Racism.