I went to the Midnight screening this morning, I must say that the movie was awesome and awful at the same time. I loved it but the dialogue was terrible, and the Journey from Southern Water Tribe to the Northern Water Tribe was extremely rushed ( as I expected). They didn't even show the Kyoshi Warriors. On the plus side, the special effects were cool, and Sokka and Yue were perfectly cast.

I love the Last Airbender. Fantastic show with humour and philosophy that are some of the best for a youth show. The witty comments the over all flow was excellent. Airbender is one of the best animated shows in a long time.

I love Shamylan. I haven't seen his movies after Village. While I agree he is a bit predictable come Signs and later. They are still entertaining movies, but when you KNOW that there is a twist you already start looking for one and that pretty much blows the twist out already. So it's not a dis to him that his twists are bad. It's just bad that he continued to use them. You can't go into a detective brown book and not expect a mystery.

This movie is going to SUCK. yeah I know I love them both. I think Sham is a great director, but he's not the Right director for this movie. While I believe he could do a good job on the spiritual side that Avatar is. Witty comments are the other side and more than anything they are the biggest reason why anyone love the show that much. "It' Sparky Sparky Boom Man". Soka and the interaction between everyone makes the shows fast and humouras appeal. While it's spirituality really draws us to the Characters that we feel closer to them.

Shamylan is not a director that has the ability to do wit or get us attached to the Characters all that well. Who would have been a better director.  Joss Wheadon. His wit and the ability to get us close to the Characters would have done a fantastic job for this movie.

Good show, Good director, not the right fit. Sorry not going to be good.

i went to saw it and such horible dialogue, it was missing all the humor and witty comments. didnt make you connect with the characters as the series did.

I don't know what to think of M. Night anymore.  I thought The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were both great movies.  Then Signs was great...until the twist ending.  Water?  Good thing it didn't rain.  The Village was great until the twist as well.  I would have rather seen that movie played straight.  It would have been better if the monster had been real.  Lady in the Water was just strange.  This is the one that turns out the monster is real?  Ugh.  I never saw The Happening.  Maybe I will put that in my Netflix.

The Happening was kinda rubbish as well. Tried the same shit like he did with the water in Signs.

Stay as far away from The Happening as possible.  Horrible acting all around.  AND FREAKING PLANTS THAT KILL?!  "Well, not if you don't stand in groups."  What?  Where is the reasoning behind that one?  And it's kinda hard to be frightened of things that are stuck in the ground outside, while all the main actors are in a house.  And then the plants just out of the blue decide no longer to kill.  Makes sense, right?  The worst thing about that movie is they were trying to play it like it was special that it was M. Night's first rated R movie.  Big whoop.  I've seen hundreds of rated R movies.  Besides that movie barely even makes an R rating.

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I'm definitely not going to watch this.  Especially after M. Night talked about all the changes he made to it.  Plus, all the clips they showed on Nickelodeon seemed boring (the water training clip seemed to go on for hours).  And M. Night acted like the coolest scene in the movie was Aang jumping of a building and paragliding away.  Yawn.  On top of that the kid's acting hadn't seemed to improve from his promo tape he sent M. Night.  I guess noone thought it nessecary for him to take acting lessons.

My bro saw it last night and said it wasn't good at all.  I don't know why Shyamalan started so strong as a movie director and then started to suck.  I would say he is past his prime id it weren't for the fact that he is only 39.

Not just director, he is also the writer and producer for almost every movie he is involved in.  He may have just ran out of good ideas after his first two big hits.

I'm a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender... but I'm a little worried about M. Night directing this.  So far the reviews haven't been great, but we all know reviews aren't the telltale signs they used to be. 

The issue I see is that if you don't have the background story of the animated series which runs through 3 seasons, trying to compress the first season into a motion picture movie, I believe won't do it justice.  It will probably be fine with the current fans, but for those who don't know anything about it, it will probably be incoherent and confusing.

I'm off to see this tomorrow and I'm hopeful it will do well over the summer, I'd really like to see the trilogy.

SIgns was a masterpiece and i dont know what has happened since then BUT he knows what he is doing. I know the reviews are bad but he will probably fix it if he can get the contract for the next movie. Maybe a sequel will actually be good this time    he is a good director that has hit some rough times, keep faith in him