M. Night Shyamalan’s Response To Negative Reviews Of THE LAST AIRBENDER

By now you’d probably know that nothing is certain but death, taxes and that M. Night Shyamalan‘s adaptation of THE LAST AIRBENDER royally sucked. It was to the point I’m beginning to think Uwe Boll‘s movies might actually be decent, that’s how bad THE LAST AIRBENDER was. Vulture asked M. Night if he had read the negative reviews, but he said no. Either he was embarrassed to admit it or he chose to stay in denial. But the blog pushed some more, quoting Roger Ebert who called the movie “an agonizing experience in every category that I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.” and M.Night said this…

I don’t know what to say to that stuff. 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. It would be like asking a painter to change to a completely different style. I don’t know.
I think of it as an art form. So it’s something I approach as sort of immovable integrity within each of the stages. So if you walk through the process with me, there’s not a moment where I won’t treat with great respect. So it’s sacred to me, the whole process of making a movie. I would hope that some people see that I approach this field with that kind of respect, and that it’s not a job.

Somebody needs to tell him that his latest work got the lowest rate (8%) on Rottentomatoes and also about that protest regarding THE LAST AIRBENDER casting choices.
I remember last year, Watchmen wasn’t received well by audiences who never read the graphic novel it’s based on but fans of the book praised director Zack Snyder‘s effort for staying mostly faithful to the material.
The difference with THE LAST AIRBENDER is.. fans of the series and audiences who never watched it, both groups hated this movie with a passion.
Now, if you think this colossal failure means the plan for trilogy might not happen anymore, M. Night said he already wrote a draft for the sequel and he felt confident about it.
And this is his response to opinions about how the 3D conversion for the movie was not effective,.. of how, just like Clash Of The Titans remake, it didn’t enhance the experience whatsoever..

Really, it’s impossible to separate the effect of the CGI and the effect of 3-D in our movie. Every CGI thing is placed at a certain depth in 3-D and has a combination of effects, so when they say the CGI in the movie is amazing, they’re actually talking about a combination of the two. It’s really just got a bad rap for no reason. It makes the movie more immersive and it has to be handled with great delicacy so that it is invisible. A lot of music is invisible and then sometimes it stands on top of the movie and you really feel the emotion of the music. The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it’s just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

well… All I have to say is..
we’ll always have The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable