Razzies

The Last Airbender 'won' the most Razzies... 'good' for M Night... *dripping with sarcasm*

http://old.malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20110227/ten-entertainment-us-film-oscars-razzies-1dc2b55.html

Nomination: Razzies

The Golden Raspberry Awards or the Razzies are given out to the worst achievements in filmmaking... the nominees are:

Worst Picture

“The Bounty Hunter”

“The Last Airbender”

“Sex and the City 2″

“Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

“Vampires Suck”

Worst Director

Sylvester Stallone, “The Expendables”

M. Night Shyamalan, “The Last Airbender”

Michael Patrick King, “Sex and the City 2″

David Slade, “Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, “Vampires Suck”

Worst Actor

Jack Black, “Gulliver’s Travels”

Gerard Butler, “The Bounty Hunter”

Ashton Kutcher, “Killers” and “Valentine’s Day”

Taylor Lautner, “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and “Valentine’s Day”

Robert Pattinson, “Remember Me” and “Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

Worst Actress

Jennifer Aniston, “The Bounty Hunter” and “The Switch”

Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker, “Sex and the City 2″

Miley Cyrus, “The Last Song”

Megan Fox, “Jonah Hex”

Kristen Stewart, “Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

Worst Supporting Actor

Billy Ray Cyrus, “The Spy Next Door”

George Lopez, “Marmaduke,” “The Spy Next Door” and “Valentine’s Day”

Dev Patel, “The Last Airbender”

Jackson Rathbone, “The Last Airbender” and “Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

Rob Schneider, “Grown Ups”

Worst Supporting Actress

Jessica Alba, “The Killer Inside Me,” “Little Fockers,” “Machete” and “Valentine’s Day”

Cher, “Burlesque”

Liza Minnelli, “Sex and the City 2″

Nicola Peltz, “The Last Airbender”

Barbra Streisand, “Little Fockers”

Worst Screenplay

“The Last Airbender”

“Little Fockers”

“Sex and the City 2″

“Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

“Vampires Suck”

Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble

Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, “The Bounty Hunter”

Josh Brolin and Megan Fox, “Jonah Hex”

The cast of “The Last Airbender”

The cast of “Sex and the City 2″

The cast of “Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel

“Clash of the Titans”

“The Last Airbender”

“Sex and the City 2″

“Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

“Vampires Suck”

Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D

“Cats and Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore”

“Clash of the Titans”

“The Last Airbender”

“Nutcracker 3D”

“Saw 3D”

Full List: http://www.razzies.com/

Review - Devil

M Night Shyamalan has been getting a lot of flak lately, especially for that blunder that is The Last Airbender.



He first exploded onto the scene with the kick-ass The Sixth Sense, even though he had made a couple of movies before that. And he was always wearing at least two hats: Writer and Director. Sometimes Producer as well...



Unfortunately for him, his movies are not as good as The Sixth Sense but not that bad either. Unbreakable. Signs. The Village. But then again, the quality seemed to have been dropping since Unbreakable. Either he peaked too soon or The Sixth Sense was just a fluke.



We kept hoping his next movie would be half as good as The Sixth Sense but he had never been able to deliver. Lady in the Water clearly showed that he had lost his touch, although the movie had a pretty decent storyline. The Happening was just too weird and/or not really able to be made sense of...



Then he decided to tackle The Last Airbender. Hmm, maybe it'd work out well since the material has already been laid out in front of him. But noooo, he had to poo-poo all over that. Yup, I am an avid Avatar fan. He got a lot of it wrong and he took the life, soul and fun out of everything we hold dear about Team Avatar.



MNS really should stick to just writing and not direct. That way he could concentrate on making the script kick-ass instead of having his attention diverted into a million different ways.



But I am not a M Night Shyamalan hater. I am just disappointed. He had a lot of talent and potential to pull off The Sixth Sense. Of course, I also know that he is not the only one to be blamed for all those lacking movies coz there are other producers in charge and the studio execs... they could have easily forced him to make something better... or not... I guess we'd never know...



Anyway, with Devil... once I saw his name is on it... I was simultaneously excited and nervous. Rolling my eyes and clapping giddily.



MNS is back to The Sixth Sense territory. And he's only writing the script. So he won't be helming it lazily like he did The Last Airbender.



Watching the trailer, Devil does seem pretty interesting. And it totally was. As I have said many times before... what you don't see is genuinely scarier than something you can see on screen... it's like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity... scary shit right there... Devil also employs the same technique and it's all done within that one elevator car...



The tension and suspense... wow... the acting was also pretty good, featuring mostly unknown actors...



And the writing was excellent... I normally would have caught the red herring a mile away but this time, I did not see it until the pivotal moments before the unveiling of the red herring... MNS did such an amazing job tying everything together... kudos... hopefully, he'll stick to what he does best from now on... not directing, not acting... just writing scary movies...



Although I did find some storylines unnecessary but I guess it was a bit to throw us off the scent of the real killer behind it... excellent horror movie! :)

Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender is an anime on Nickelodeon. I've heard about it before but had never gotten around to watching it until recently.

Okay, okay, because the movie's coming out, so the interest got kick-started...

There's no one really famous in the movie, except maybe that kid from Slumdog Millionaire. Here's the thing. Every adaptation, be it from books, comics or video games, the fans will be disappointed.

Yes, I was a bit disappointed. Because the movie deviated slightly from the original storylines. But then again, it's trying to establish itself as an entirely different entity so guess that's forgivable. But still, I don't heartily accept some stuff like Katara's waterbending abilities... and I don't accept the movie version of Aang. This Aang has none of the cartoon Aang's charms but they make him sound like the cartoon version.

What of the casting? None of them actually looked like the original characters.

Sokka, Aang, Katara

Movie Aang

See what I mean?

Anyway, the movie in itself is not too bad. Some of the fight scenes are nice enough. But like I said about Aang, this movie lacked the warmth and charms of the animated series...

But I guess newbies to the Benders world would like the movie.

Hopefully the second movie would be better...