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A:TLA and time-wasting
Apr. 9th, 2011 07:10 pmI guess I feel gabby all of a sudden.
I'm going to try to get FYMV 37 up a day late; I should have had it up today but I got distracted and wasted a bunch of time, although I completely know better than to go to The Agony Booth when I want to get anything done at all. But like a fool, I did, re-read the recap of the "The Last Airbender" movie trainwreck, and from there wandered through some of the old Racebending archives and read a bunch of demolitions of the movie (which I have not seen, but sometime I might buy the Rifftrax and go for it).
Some time before this, I had naively assumed based on The Sixth Sense that M. Night Shyamalan was a director I could trust... And bought Lady in the Water sight unseen. Yeah. (To make matters worse, I actually felt understanding and sympathy for the critic character, only to have a prissy director spit in my eye; it was lovely. I felt fortunate when Hastings gave me a quarter for the damn thing.) Between that and the stuff I've been reading about "The Last Airbender" --- especially contrasted with the "making of" material I remember from The Sixth Sense, in which Night had seen working with Bruce Willis as "pie in the sky" and cut most of his own cameo because he realized it wasn't working --- I'm gonna call it as a good old-fashioned case of "auteur undone by his own ego." Hey, it's claimed better men.
The whole thing has begun tempting me to re-watch the series, tho. (And to uselessly ponder how I would have boiled down the first season into a movie, but wth...)
I'm going to try to get FYMV 37 up a day late; I should have had it up today but I got distracted and wasted a bunch of time, although I completely know better than to go to The Agony Booth when I want to get anything done at all. But like a fool, I did, re-read the recap of the "The Last Airbender" movie trainwreck, and from there wandered through some of the old Racebending archives and read a bunch of demolitions of the movie (which I have not seen, but sometime I might buy the Rifftrax and go for it).
Some time before this, I had naively assumed based on The Sixth Sense that M. Night Shyamalan was a director I could trust... And bought Lady in the Water sight unseen. Yeah. (To make matters worse, I actually felt understanding and sympathy for the critic character, only to have a prissy director spit in my eye; it was lovely. I felt fortunate when Hastings gave me a quarter for the damn thing.) Between that and the stuff I've been reading about "The Last Airbender" --- especially contrasted with the "making of" material I remember from The Sixth Sense, in which Night had seen working with Bruce Willis as "pie in the sky" and cut most of his own cameo because he realized it wasn't working --- I'm gonna call it as a good old-fashioned case of "auteur undone by his own ego." Hey, it's claimed better men.
The whole thing has begun tempting me to re-watch the series, tho. (And to uselessly ponder how I would have boiled down the first season into a movie, but wth...)
