Released July 1st, 2010, 'The Last Airbender' stars Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 43 min, and received a score of 20 (out of 100. Jul 09, 2018  Thank for watching, Please Like Share And SUBSCRIBE!!! Movies the best, Full Movies English Hollywood Latest Action Movie Full English Action Movies.

The world is divided into four kingdoms, each represented by the element they harness, and peace has lasted throughout the realms of Water, Air, Earth, and Fire under the supervision of the Avatar, a link to the spirit world and the only being capable of mastering the use of all four elements. When young Avatar Aang disappears, the Fire Nation launches an attack to eradicate all members of the Air Nomads to prevent interference in their future plans for world domination. 100 years pass and current Fire Lord Ozai continues to conquer and imprison anyone with elemental 'bending' abilities in the Earth and Water Kingdoms, while siblings Katara and Sokka from a Southern Water Tribe find a mysterious boy trapped beneath the ice outside their village. Upon rescuing him, he reveals himself to be Aang, Avatar and last of the Air Nomads.

Swearing to protect the Avatar, Katara and Sokka journey with him to the Northern Water Kingdom in his quest to master 'Waterbending' and eventually fulfill. Quotes first lines:A hundred years ago all was right with our world. Prosperity and peace filled our days. / The four Nations: Water, Earth, Fire, and Air Nomads lived amongst each other in harmony.

/ Great respect was afforded to all those who could bend their natural element. / The Avatar was the only person born amongst all the nations who could master all four elements.

/ He was the only one who could communicate with the Spirit World. With the Spirits' guidance the Avatar kept balance in the.». Shyamalan takes a stunningly sophisticated cartoon and reduces it to one of the most insultingly dumb films I've seen in years. From the script to the visuals, the directing, the acting, there is absolutely nothing that did well, either as an adaptation or as a film in its own right. Characters who were once powerful and spitfire (Katara) or entertainingly sarcastic (Sokka) are now bland and exist solely for the purpose of exposition. In fact, the entire film comes off as exposition, far too much of the dialog serving as 'by the way' explanations, never allowing the plot or characters to really take form.

The scenes seem episodic and unconnected, and the film never comfortably establishes its universe, always retreading with an 'as you know' or 'aren't you that guy who.' To establish (often unnecessary) continuity.

The style, too, is disappointing, capturing none of the magic of the series. Most noticeable was the 'bending'-while the series took its martial arts seriously, carefully aligning real-world arts with elements and making the benders' movements coincide with those of their elements, the film gives us characters flailing in generic martial arts forms for a few minutes, only to effect one splash, boulder, or blast of fire. In the series, every movement had a meaning; in the film, only about one in ten does. Many fans of the series who were angry at the 'whitewashing' of the cast hoped that it had at least resulted in the best actors for the parts.

However, the acting was at best uninspired, and at worst painfully awkward, though part of this can be attributed to a truly atrocious script. Dialog is stilted and unnatural, certain phrases are repeated needlessly throughout ('great library,' anyone?), and in all the only chance the script stands of being remembered is through memetic appreciation of its unintentional, awkward hilarity. Not even the collective will of a devoted fanbase wanting so much for this film to be good could make it even remotely watchable.

Running time103 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$150 millionBox office$319.7 millionThe Last Airbender is a 2010 American - written, co-produced and directed. Based on of the, the film stars as, with as, as and as. Development for the film began in 2007.

It was produced by and distributed. Premiering in on June 30, 2010, it opened the following day in the rest of the US grossing an estimated $16 million.The film was universally panned by critics, audiences, and fans of the original animated series alike upon its release, and is widely considered one of the. Many reviewers criticized the screenplay, acting, directing, casting, plot holes, unfaithfulness to source material, visual effects, editing, characters and 3D conversion. The Last Airbender opened in second place at the box office behind. Produced on a $150 million budget, the film grossed $131 million domestically and $319 million worldwide. It is the fourth highest grossing Nickelodeon film, behind (2015), (2014), and (2011). The film was originally envisioned as the first in a trilogy of Last Airbender films each based on the three seasons of the show, but due to the unpopularity and the low profits of the first film, the planned trilogy was left in doubt for many years.

Contents.Plot A century has passed since the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations of Air, Water and Earth in their attempt to conquer the world. And his sister, who belong to the Southern Water Tribe, discover an unusual. Breaking into the iceberg releases a beam of light and reveals a 12-year-old boy named and his flying pet named., the disgraced prince of the Fire Nation, detects the light from Aang's release and arrives at the Southern Water Tribe to demand the villagers hand over 'the Avatar': the only person capable of manipulating, or 'bending', all four elements of air, water, earth and fire. Aang surrenders himself to save the village, but escapes the Fire Nation ship and flies to Appa, brought by Katara and Sokka. The trio travel to the Southern Air Temple, where Aang learns he was in the iceberg for a century and that the Fire Nation wiped out the Air Nomads, including his guardian.

In despair, Aang enters the Avatar State and finds himself in the Spirit World where he encounters a Dragon Spirit. Katara's pleas bring Aang out of the Avatar State.Aang's group of companions arrive at an Earth Kingdom village controlled by the Fire Nation. When they are arrested and imprisoned, they incite a rebellion, battling and defeating the Fire Nation soldiers occupying the village. Aang tells Katara and Sokka that he only knows airbending and has yet to master the other three elements. They make their way to the Northern Water Tribe where Aang can learn from water-bending masters.During a side trip to the Northern Air Temple, Aang is betrayed by a peasant and captured by Fire Nation archers led.

However, a masked marauder helps Aang escape. Zhao realizes that Zuko is the masked vigilante, and has a crossbowman fire a bolt that knocks Zuko out, but Aang uses his skills to escape with the unconscious Zuko. Aang watches over Zuko until morning, then leaves to reunite with Sokka and Katara. Zhao tries again to kill Zuko, but Zuko secretly survives and sneaks aboard Zhao's ship.Upon arriving, Aang and company are welcomed by the citizens of the Northern Water Tribe, and Waterbending Master teaches Aang and Katara.

The Fire Nation arrives and Zhao begins his attack while Zuko continues his independent search for the Avatar. After defeating Katara in battle, Zuko captures Aang, who reenters the Avatar State to search for the Dragon Spirit for help to defeat the Fire Nation. The Dragon Spirit advises him to let his emotions 'flow like water'.Returning to his body, Aang battles Zuko until Katara freezes Zuko in ice, then leaves to join the battle. Iroh and Zhao make their way to a sacred cave where Zhao captures the Moon Spirit. Despite Iroh's pleas, Zhao kills the Moon Spirit to strip all the waterbenders of their abilities.

Enraged by Zhao's sacrilege, Iroh reveals his mastery of firebending, frightening Zhao and his entourage out of the sacred cave. Princess Yue gives her life to revive the Moon Spirit. Zhao finds out Zuko survived and again attempts to kill him, but Zuko is saved by Iroh and Zhao is drowned by waterbenders. Recalling his life before being trapped in the ice, Aang enters the Avatar State and raises the ocean into a gigantic wall to drive the Fire Nation back.The Fire Lord learns of the defeat and tasks his youngest daughter, with preventing the Avatar from mastering earth and fire.Cast. as:An airbender who disappeared from public sight a hundred years ago.

While chronologically one hundred and thirteen years old, Aang still retains his biological age of twelve. He is the latest incarnation of the Avatar Spirit. Though he is capable of bending all four elements, at the beginning of the film he has only learned to airbend. as:Age sixteen. A Fire Nation prince who travels with his Uncle Iroh. The former heir to the throne, he was exiled by his father, Fire Lord Ozai, who caused him a facial scar following a battle with him and ordered to capture the Avatar (who had not been seen in almost a century, making the assignment a ) in order to regain his lost honor.

as:Age fourteen. A girl of the and its last remaining. Since the death of her mother, Kya, she has served as the motherly figure in her family, and is no stranger to responsibility despite her young age. as:Age fifteen. He is Katara's brother and a warrior from the. He can be condescending and has no waterbending abilities. He often takes up leadership roles by virtue of coming up with most of the workable plans and tactics.

as:Zuko's paternal uncle and the brother of Fire Lord Ozai. He is very easy-going and friendly, and often acts as a surrogate father to Zuko. Formerly a great general of the Fire Nation, personal tragedies led to his retirement, and the role of heir-presumptive passed to his younger brother. He is the only firebender shown in the film who is advanced enough to bend fire using only his. as Admiral Zhao:A hot-tempered Fire Nation Commander in pursuit of the Avatar. He is Zuko's principal rival. He has an obsession with libraries.

as Princess Yue:The princess of the Northern Water Tribe, who was Sokka's. In a tragic turn of events, she sacrificed herself to save the water tribe and the balance of the planet, by turning into the moon. as Fire Lord Ozai:The mighty leader of the Fire Nation, the brother of Iroh, and the father of Prince Zuko and Princess Azula. as:Age fifteen. She is the daughter of Fire Lord Ozai and sister to Prince Zuko. Upper: Water being animated.Lower: Final version of animated scene.Industrial Light and Magic was posed with visualizing the elemental tribes of Air, Water, Earth, and Fire; most importantly creating the 'bending' styles of these elements.

Additionally, they were required to animate creatures and enhance stunt work with digital doubles. 'The work was challenging,' shares Helman. 'We had to figure out what 'bending' is for fire, water, air and earth.' The project was started without the desired technology needed to create the effects. Rather than software, computer graphic cards were the basis for 'bending' the elements, allowing previews to be viewed more swiftly. This resulted in Shyamalan having to direct more than sixty takes before the effect was finished and lined up with his visions.Due to reality-based expectations, fire and water were the hardest elements to effectively bend, and because of particle work which was unable to be rendered in hardware, earth bending also was difficult to create.

With water, the variety in different scales required Helman and his team to create different techniques. The concept for air was derived from the animation of the television series. To create the air bending effect, visual effects art director Christian Alzman and digital matte department supervisor Barry Williams explained that seeing dust and snow particles, rather than seeing the air itself, helped shape the real world effect of bending the element. Before the bending effects could be applied though, the actor's movements had to be matched; Shyamalan therefore wanted each character's bending styles to be unique to fit with their unique personalities.The challenge for fire did not come with making it look realistic, but rather making the fire behave in an unrealistic way that would be believable to the audience. The film that inspired The Last Airbender 's fire style was film, which was re-engineered to reflect two-dimensional simulations. Helman's team referenced images of flames being pushed through the air by giant fans for certain shots needed throughout the film.

The team also considered using a meshed image of real and digital fire, but in the end, went with the richer, deeper texture of computer generated flame.In, this was the biggest show that Helman had ever done. The paintings had to be in 3D because the visual style included long duration shots in which the camera always moved.

The climax, which was enacted on a 200 by 200 feet (61 m × 61 m) set, had to be incorporated with still of the landscapes shot in Greenland, as well as the low-angle lighting that was captured on location there. The camera was animated to get angles needed for different shots in the film by importing these stills into the computer. Multiple cameras were used to capture the different wire-work and animation that was used to create the creatures and many fight scenes within the film. In creating these creatures, the team referenced nature. In order for them to be believable, they looked for examples of the same size and weight as the animated character and then developed hybrids from different animals to make each species unique. This was done by observing actual animals to get a take on how they would act. Shyamalan's take on the personality of each creature also influenced the creation stage of the creatures.

For example, the lemur has flying mechanics based on a giant fruit bat. Other elements, such as texturing, hair or scale simulation, and light and shadow complementary to the live action, were added to make the final animation appear as real as possible during the later stages of character development.made an announcement in late April 2010, revealing that The Last Airbender would be released in.

This decision came after an increasing number of films being made or converted to 3D, such as, and, made a decent profit at the. Although Helman stated that Shyamalan's way of shooting without fast edits and the film's visuals could lend itself to the 3D conversion well, voiced his disapproval on any film being converted using this process, saying, 'You can slap a 3-D label on it and call it 3-D, but there's no possible way that it can be done up to a standard that anybody would consider high enough.' Despite this, Shyamalan opted to work with Stereo D LLC, the company who worked on James Cameron's own Avatar. The conversion process for the film cost between $5 million and $10 million, adding to the reported $100 million that already went into the film. Main article:In December 2008, was announced as the composer for. The film marks the seventh collaboration between Howard and, after the 2008 film.

Howard had received acclaim for his work with on. On May 13, 2009, producer announced that Howard was recording music for the teaser trailer that was later released that summer; it was later confirmed by that all of the film's trailers featured original music by Howard himself. The soundtrack, released by Lakeshore Records on June 29, 2010, required Howard to hire a 119-member ensemble. Running at about 66 minutes, it contains eleven tracks ranging from three to seven minutes, with a twelfth track, called 'Airbender Suite' running at nearly eleven minutes. Reviews for the score were overwhelmingly positive.

Casting controversy. Main article:The casting of white actors in the East Asian and Inuit-influenced Avatar universe, as well as the fact that the casting of the heroes and villains seemed to be backward racially from the show, triggered negative reactions from some fans marked by accusations of racism, a letter-writing campaign, and various protests. 'To take this incredibly loved children's series, and really distort not only the ethnicity of the individual characters but the message of acceptance and cultural diversity that the original series advocated, is a huge blow,' said Michael Le of Racebending.com, a fan site calling for a boycott of the martial-arts fantasy. As a result of the casting, the Media Action Network for Asian-Americans urged a film boycott for the first time in the organization's 18-year history.

'This was a great opportunity to create new Asian-American stars.I'm disappointed.' Stated Guy Aoki, president of the organization. After a casting call specifically looking for 'Caucasians and other ethnicities,' Shyamalan explained that 'Ultimately, this movie, and then the three movies, will be the most culturally diverse tent-pole movies ever released, period.' Furthermore, Paramount provided a statement about the casting choices, 'The movie has 23 credited speaking roles – more than half of which feature Asian and Pan Asian actors of Korean, Japanese and Indian descent. The filmmaker's interpretation reflects the myriad qualities that have made this series a global phenomenon. We believe fans of the original and new audiences alike will respond positively once they see it.' Shyamalan commented on the issues regarding fans' perceptions of the casting in an interview with columnist Jen Chaney, saying, 'Anime is based on ambiguous facial features.

It's meant to be interpretive. It's meant to be inclusive of all races, and you can see yourself in all these characters.This is a multicultural movie and I'm going to make it even more multicultural in my approach to its casting. There's African-Americans in the movie.so it's a source of pride for me.

The irony that protesters would label this with anything but the greatest pride, that the movie poster has Noah and Dev on it and my name on it. I don't know what else to do.' Rathbone was also one to dismiss the complaints in an interview with, saying, 'I think it's one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan. It's one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit.' The controversy was poorly received by critics as well.Film critic was one of the critical voices against the casting.

When asked about casting a white cast to portray the characters, he said, 'The original series Avatar: The Last Airbender was highly regarded and popular for three seasons on Nickelodeon. Its fans take it for granted that its heroes are Asian. Why would Paramount and Shyamalan go out of their way to offend these fans?

There are many young Asian actors capable of playing the parts.' Jevon Phillips of the noted that despite Shyamalan's attempts to defuse the situation, 'this is definitely not an issue that will fade away or be overlooked' and that this film exemplifies the need for a debate within Hollywood about racial diversity in its films.In July 2013, series co-creator Bryan Konietzko responded to an online comment about skin color in. Konietzko wrote that his work on the two series 'speaks for itself which obviously does not include the gross misinterpretations and misrepresentations of our work in Shyamalan's work.' Marketing Promotion The for the film was attached to, released in theaters on June 24, 2009. The teaser trailer was also shown exclusively on the June 22, 2009 episode of.

The trailer shows Aang airbending in a temple which is being attacked by a multitude of Fire Nation ships. A trailer was to be released around Christmas 2009, but it was pushed back until February 2010 because not enough visual effects shots were completed. This trailer was attached to the first film released on February 12, 2010. A trailer was later released on March 25, 2010.

It was then attached with. The last theatrical trailer is attached to which was released May 7, 2010.The first TV spot aired during on February 7, 2010. It showed parts of the film that were not shown in the teaser trailer and had no dialogue, but merely.

On February 10, the theatrical trailer was released online. It shows multiple scenes from the film and is an expanded version of the first TV spot. Sold to promote the film.On February 9, 2010, Nickelodeon Consumer Products also debuted the upcoming line of toys based on The Last Airbender.

It includes various 3​ 3⁄ 4-inch action figures, as well as larger, action-enabled figures, costumes and other props. Among the toys featured in the line were figures based on, and a fully ride-able Appa the Sky Bison. 'We worked very closely with M. Night, the rest of the Paramount team and our in-house design team, along with our partner Spin-Master, to come up with the right assortment, the right size for these action figures and make sure we had representation of all the nations within the 'Airbender' series,' said Nickelodeon's Lourdes Arocho. The Last Airbender action figures are expected to be released in three 'waves'; wave one on June 1, wave two near the film's July release date, and wave three near the 2010 holiday season. Also developed a video game based on the film. Titled, it was released on June 29, 2010 for the and the.

Graphic novels Two original black-and-white, entitled and The Last Airbender, drawn in the style, were written. 'We're excited to be working with Nickelodeon to bring these great stories to the manga audience', says Dallas Middaugh, Associate Publisher of.

' Avatar: The Last Airbender has shown incredible crossover appeal with manga fans. The release of The Last Airbender movie and original tie-in manga gives us the chance to share completely new stories with Avatar fans looking for more about Aang, Zuko, and their favorite characters.'

The second manga, The Last Airbender, illustrated by Joon Choi, was released on June 22, 2010. The plot, like the film, is a condensed version of the of the series.The prequel, Zuko's Story, is co-written by Alison Wilgus and Dave Roman and illustrated by and was released on May 18, 2010.

The synopsis for the graphic novel was released in early 2010, 'When Prince Zuko dared to question authority, his father, Fire Lord Ozai, banished him from the Fire Nation. Horribly scarred and stripped of everything he held dear, Zuko has wandered the earth for almost three years in search of his only chance at redemption: the Avatar, a mystical being who once kept the four nations in balance. Everyone he encounters believes that this is an impossible task, as the Avatar disappeared a century ago. But Zuko stubbornly continues the search.

He must regain his honor, so his quest is all he has left.' Roman and Wilgus, who developed comics based on the series for, consulted series creators Mike Dante DiMartino and, and head writer for the show while they were developing Zuko's Story. The four wanted to try a comic that would fit into with the continuity of the show. The prequel, though mostly associated with the film, was meant to be a prequel to the series. Roman explained, 'In a lot of ways, it's like an expanded origin. With the film and the series, there are differences and there are places where they split off, but the setup for both is exactly the same – so when you're introduced to the characters, that's the part where they're completely identical.' The prequel allowed the expansions of different details told in the series; for example, an episode called 'The Blue Spirit' in the series was seen in the film.

However, since explaining everything that happened in that episode was hard to translate onto film, the prequel allowed for them to 'delve' into that specific story. What more, when asked about whether he answered some questions that were left open at the end of the series, Roman stated that, while he had a strong relationship with the show's creators and got their blessing for his project, it wasn't his plot to address.

Release The Last Airbender was rumored to be released in the summer of 2010 before it received a formal release date of July 1, 2010. To avoid confusion with James Cameron's, the title was changed from Avatar: The Last Airbender to simply The Last Airbender. On June 16, 2010, it was revealed that the film would be released on July 1, 2010, and after questions about the definition of the release being limited or wide, was later confirmed by the studio to be a full nationwide release.

The film premiered in on June 30, 2010, and opened the following day in 3,169 theaters, against which also stars Jackson Rathbone. Home media The Last Airbender was released on and on November 16, 2010. At the same time, a Blu-ray 3D version was also made available exclusively at locations. The Last Airbender was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 25, 2017.The film has earned $48.7 million from DVD/Blu-Ray sales, with 1.6 million DVDs and 300,000 Blu-Ray discs sold as of December 2010.

Reception Box office The Last Airbender had grossed $131,772,187 in the United States, and $187,941,694 in other countries, making for a total of $319,713,881 worldwide.On its opening day in the United States, The Last Airbender made $16,614,112, ranking fifth overall for Thursday openings. For its opening three-day, Fourth of July weekend, The Last Airbender accumulated a total of $40,325,019. The following Monday, it grossed $11,479,213. 54% of its total gross was from 3D presentations at 1,606 screens. On Thursday, July 1, 2010, its opening day, it debuted at #2 behind The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

It stayed #2 until Monday, July 5, 2010, when it went down to #3 now behind Eclipse and Toy Story 3. On July 9, it went down to #5 behind,. By Friday, July 23, it was down to #9 behind Inception, Salt, Despicable Me, Ramona and Beezus, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Toy Story 3, Grown Ups, and Eclipse.Opening overseas in 923 sites, the film grossed an estimated $9 million, $8 million of which was from 870 sites in, making it the number one film there. The film grossed $9.4 million from its second weekend in overseas markets.The film was the twentieth highest-grossing film of 2010. Critical response The film was panned by critics and fans of the animated series.

The review aggregation website gives the film a 5% approval rating based on 189 reviews with an average rating of 2.78/10, making it the lowest-rated film ever produced by, and Shyamalan's worst-reviewed film to date. The critics' consensus reads, ' The Last Airbender squanders its popular source material with incomprehensible plotting, horrible acting, and detached joyless direction.'

On which gives a weighted average score based on reviews from the top mainstream critics, it has an average score of 20 out of 100, based on 33 reviews, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'. Polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was 'C' on an A+ to F scale.Liam Lacey of stated the film had little chance to develop its characters and therefore suffered, with the overall storyline of the film becoming a run-on narrative. According to from, who gave the film a C, ' The Last Airbender keeps throwing things at you, but its final effect is, in every way, flat.' Of the gave the film half a star in his review, stating that it 'bores and alienates its audiences,' and notes the poor use of 3D among the film's faults. Keith Phipps of gave the film an F, criticizing the performances of the child actors, overuse of exposition, and shoehorned 3D special effects, calling it the worst summer blockbuster of 2010. Kirk Honeycutt of said that the lack of correct casting caused the film to lose substantial credibility in regard to its source material, but did praise the casting and acting of as Aang. Peter Debruge of criticized the casting and the score, saying that the overall effect of each play into making the film a bore.

Put the film at number 5 of The top 10 Worst Movies of All Time, saying 'We CAN state for the record that it is quite easy to detest this movie even if you've never seen a frame of the TV show.' 'The Last Airbender' is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.—,Charlie Jane Anders in the review by criticized 'the personality-free hero, the nonsensical plot twists, the CG clutter, the bland romance, the new-age pablum.' , concluding that 'Shyamalan's true achievement in this film is that he takes a thrilling cult TV series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and he systematically leeches 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.' Anders summarized the experience of watching the film by stating that, 'Actually, my exact words when I walked out of this film were, 'Wow, this makes look like a masterpiece.' ' ' review questioned why Shyamalan was allowed to write the script, as well as why he was even chosen to direct such a high-profile film after a string of previous flops: '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's a wonder it ever got before cameras.'

Scott Bowles of gave a generally favorable review, claiming that Shyamalan delivered on fight scenes and the film worked as a kid's film, although he also added that poor scriptwriting made some of the performances sound wooden. Another favorable review came from Stephanie Zacharek of MovieLine, who praises the way Shyamalan captures the art of action and human motion.

David Roark of accused other critics of having a bias against Shyamalan and gave the film a positive review, stating that its visuals and heart far outweighed the clunky plotting and 'awful' dialogue.of noted an unfortunate linguistic problem that reduced British viewers to 'a state of nervous collapse' due to laughter. In, 'bent' is a slang term for gay, with 'bender' meaning a gay man, giving an entirely different meaning to lines such as, 'I could tell at once that you were a bender.' Bradshaw commented that the response from the audience to such lines was 'deafeningly immature' and would 'inevitably be repeated in every cinema in the land showing The Last Airbender.' Bradshaw expresses his amazement that Shyamalan has managed to make a film worse than. Kirk Honneycut of The Hollywood Reporter says 'Shyamalan, who never has mounted an epic film before, gets only passing grades. Huge sets and unit work from Greenland to New Zealand all look strangely underlit.

One wonders whether the projector blew a light bulb. The movie was foolishly converted to 3D after principal photography, but if anything, this conversion is worse than Clash of the Titans.' A review says: 'I’m calling it: The Last Airbender is the worst movie of 2010.

It’s too disturbing to consider that there could be something even more hideous out there.' Later expressed regret and dislike for his role and his experience with the film. At a 2016 actor's roundtable with while promoting his film, Sitting alongside with, and, Dev, Andrew and Jeff where asked about big budget movies. He said, 'I don't know what I would like to play, but I know what I'm afraid of playing: those big studio movies. After, I did a film that was not well received at all.

The budget of Slumdog was like the budget of the craft services of this movie.' He added, “I completely felt overwhelmed by the experience. I felt like I wasn't being heard.

That was really scary for me, and that's really when I learned the power of no, the idea of saying no. Listen to that instinct you get when you read those words for the first time.'

He described his performance as Prince Zuko as being as though he “saw a stranger on the screen that I couldn’t relate to.” Creators' responses In an interview with, the original voice of Prince Zuko, when he was asked what he thought of the Last Airbender film, he responded by saying that the show's creators, and, told him not to see it.In a podcast interview from 2014, Konietzko and DiMartino said that the project was given the go-ahead without their approval, and when they tried to provide input, it all got pushed to the wayside. Konietzko added even further that 'A) We didn't want it to be done at all. Before anyone was attached, we didn't want it. And then B) If it was going to be done, we wanted to do it, but they weren't going to let us.

C) When they attached Night, we just thought, 'Well, this is what we've been dealt. We'll just offer help when it's asked of us, and if it's not, we'll stay out of the way.' In the beginning, it was more positive and we offered help, but then we had a big falling out.' Director's responses In a interview, Shyamalan argued that his style and art-form of storytelling resulted in the negative reviews of the film and compared it to asking a painter to change to a different style: 'I bring as much integrity to the table as humanly possible.

It must be a language thing, in terms of a particular accent, a storytelling accent. I can only see it this certain way and I don't know how to think in another language.

I think these are exactly the visions that are in my head, so I don't know how to adjust it without being me.' Shyamalan also addressed criticisms about the barely 90 minute runtime of the film, which was considered bizarre given that it had to condense a 20-episode TV season into one film, and is a far shorter runtime than is typical for summer blockbusters. Shyamalan's response was that all of his previous films were 90 minutes, because they were small-scale supernatural thrillers, and as a result his instinct for the pacing of the film was to edit it down to 90 minutes. This short runtime indirectly led to several other problems which multiple critics listed above objected to: characters frequently resort to giving long speeches of exposition to summarize entire scenes that were cut for time, and a running voiceover commentary by Katara was added in which she summarizes entire subplots (e.g. Sokka's relationship with Yue) that barely appear on screen.When Shyamalan gave the Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence lecture at on April 16, 2019, he revealed that he regretted accepting the directing gigs on The Last Airbender and 2013's. 'I did a couple huge, big-budget CGI movies,' he said.

'There has always been this inexorable pull to join the group, a constant seduction in the form of whatever you want to tally, in the form of money, or safety, ease, not getting criticized. I did these movies, and I rightfully got crushed, because they rightfully said, 'You don't believe in yourself, you don't believe in your own voice, and you don't believe in your values.' I felt really lost. It just didn't work. There's probably something Darwinian about all this.'

When Shyamalan went on to make, he made the decision to begin investing in his own productions. 'I pay for my movies now,' he said.

'After this 10-year period of working at studios on junk movies, I was not happy.' Accolades The Last Airbender received nine nominations at the including Worst Picture. The film went on to sweep the with five awards: Worst Picture, Worst Director (Shyamalan), Worst Screenplay (Shyamalan), Worst Supporting Actor , and a special award, 'Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3D.' AwardYearCategoryNomineeResultChoice Summer: MovieThe Last AirbenderNominatedFilm Music Composition of the Year for 'Flow Like Water'Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror filmBest Performance in a Feature Film (Leading Young Actor)Best Performance in a Feature Film (Supporting Young Actress), andWonNominated, also forWonNominatedThe Entire CastThe Last AirbenderWonCancelled sequels Shyamalan or Paramount/Nickelodeon did not immediately confirm the 'go-ahead' or whether the plug will be pulled on the trilogy.

While filming The Last Airbender, Shyamalan mapped out a for a second film that is 'darker' and includes, portrayed by, as the main antagonist. In a July 2010 interview with, Shyamalan commented 'In the next few months we'll be able to know whether we have that opportunity or not' when asked about the sequel. No such announcement was made, and in a September 2010 interview when asked if he knew when the sequel will be made, he replied, 'I don't, because there are so many factors they take into account', adding, 'I guess it will get into an area where it becomes a discussion – like pros and cons.' In September 2015, Shyamalan told that he may work on the sequel after completing his next thriller, which was supposed to start shooting in November 2015.In October 2018, an unrelated live-action of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender for was announced, ending speculation of further films. See also. From the original on January 8, 2017.

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