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Here's a piece that I've been working on the for the past couple days to test out of the new set up and just to blow off some steam. Also, I came up with a fun new way of drawing fire! I think it looks pretty awesome personally.
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LAST AIRBENDER SPOILERS!!!
Yeah... I saw... It wasn't awful, but if you're a fan of the show it's huge let down. In retro spec they do a pretty reasonable job of breaking down the first season of the show into a single movie. The things that really stood out to me were that their fight choreography was pretty awful at parts. There's a lot of wasted movement before doing bending. (I'm sorry, but there's no reason you should have to do the equivalent of three aerial kicks and a back flip before you can start bending every time!) Half the time they're "practicing waterbending" but they're not actually moving water around. It's like they wanted to go LOTR epic battle scenes, but that left them with no special effects budget for anything outside a fight scene. They also removed a LOT of character development especially anything involving Katara. For the most part it's just a pale reflection of the show. And the end is a HUGE let down.
Also, I was having a hard time taking Aasif Mandvi seriously throughout the whole movie. He never really looked... angry enough. He said all the right things, but he always looked and sounded like he was about to call someone an immature name after delivering a huge insult. As for the rest of the cast. It's hard to say whether they questionable casting was alright. They all seemed alright, but maybe it's because they hardly ever have them actually act to tell if they were doing a good job.
Yeah... I saw... It wasn't awful, but if you're a fan of the show it's huge let down. In retro spec they do a pretty reasonable job of breaking down the first season of the show into a single movie. The things that really stood out to me were that their fight choreography was pretty awful at parts. There's a lot of wasted movement before doing bending. (I'm sorry, but there's no reason you should have to do the equivalent of three aerial kicks and a back flip before you can start bending every time!) Half the time they're "practicing waterbending" but they're not actually moving water around. It's like they wanted to go LOTR epic battle scenes, but that left them with no special effects budget for anything outside a fight scene. They also removed a LOT of character development especially anything involving Katara. For the most part it's just a pale reflection of the show. And the end is a HUGE let down.
Also, I was having a hard time taking Aasif Mandvi seriously throughout the whole movie. He never really looked... angry enough. He said all the right things, but he always looked and sounded like he was about to call someone an immature name after delivering a huge insult. As for the rest of the cast. It's hard to say whether they questionable casting was alright. They all seemed alright, but maybe it's because they hardly ever have them actually act to tell if they were doing a good job.
Yeah. That's what I've heard about it. I don't even want to watch it, it'll just make me feel sorry for Shyamalan. He used to be a great artist, The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, and The Village are all great movies, but after the Village (which wasn't as strong as his others before), his ability to write and direct a good film just jumped off a cliff and died. That mermaid movie was one giant convoluted, nonsensical, haphazard mess of a mystical story. The Happening was below average, just beneath mediocre. It wasn't terrible, but bad writing, acting, and casting made it into a mediocre film. But this new Avatar movie of his I've heard might be one of the worst movies ever made. I really do hope this isn't the end of his career, despite his latest fims being laughable pieces of trash, he really does have talent. Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable prove that.
tl;dr: Why Shyamalan why??!!?
tl;dr: Why Shyamalan why??!!?
See, I didn't mind Lady in the Water because it's supposed to be a fairytale story where everything magically works out in the end and has a teachable lesson and stuff. Signs was a catastrophe. The Happening was worse from what I've heard and the Village was mediocre at best. Unbreakable and the Six Sense were amazing though. I think the lesson here is that Shyamalan just needs to work with Bruce Willis more often. TLA had a lot of potential to be awesome, but it required intensely tight story telling to do it. The movie didn't have this. The story telling itself wasn't terrible, but it wasn't as tight as it needed to be, especially at the beginning. Still, the thing that REALLY killed the movie for me was the special effects. So many flashy, nonsensical movements. In a story where you're trying to condense everything down into it's simplest form. This needless takes up a good amount of time that could be spent on meaningful dialogue that was absent from the movie.
I simply disagree on Signs, I thought it was his best work. Slightly above Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. What made it a catastrophe?????
The Happening was the definition of mediocrity. The Village was definitely above Lady in the Water, that mermaid movie was so convoluted and ridiculous it just seemed like he was pulling it out of his ass as he went along. Honestly, despite that, I didn't hate it. I know it's not an excellent film, but for some reason I didn't hate Lady in the Water. I respected him for one of the messages he was conveying in that film: "I will make what films I want, it's my art, and you critics can suck it".
Yeah he has done some of his best works with Bruce Willis. I'd recommend re-watching Signs, it will probably be better then you remember.
Interesting thoughts on TLA. I have not yet seen it, although nearly every review I've heard is dismally negative, apparently Shyamalan has now made a truly abysmal movie. Which is unfortunate for his potentially spectacular career.
The Happening was the definition of mediocrity. The Village was definitely above Lady in the Water, that mermaid movie was so convoluted and ridiculous it just seemed like he was pulling it out of his ass as he went along. Honestly, despite that, I didn't hate it. I know it's not an excellent film, but for some reason I didn't hate Lady in the Water. I respected him for one of the messages he was conveying in that film: "I will make what films I want, it's my art, and you critics can suck it".
Yeah he has done some of his best works with Bruce Willis. I'd recommend re-watching Signs, it will probably be better then you remember.
Interesting thoughts on TLA. I have not yet seen it, although nearly every review I've heard is dismally negative, apparently Shyamalan has now made a truly abysmal movie. Which is unfortunate for his potentially spectacular career.
I'm still just trying to wrap my mind around how you can think Lady In the Water was convoluted and Signs wasn't. I mean the end, where it turns out that aliens are allergic to water (why they thought invading a planet that is almost covered in stuff that will kill them was a good idea I still have yet to figure out.) and we had the girl who conveniently leaves glasses of water everywhere combined with baseball player who always swung at every pitch so that your big climactic fight is a guy swinging a baseball bat to knock glasses of water on the alien to kill it. Why he could just apply the baseball directly to the alien I have no idea. I'm also clueless on why the dad let the girl just leave glasses of water everywhere around the house.
The whole thing was a train wreck. It starts off with a dieing woman giving cryptic messages. Continues through a lot of boring "mystery parts" has a climax that's so contrived I felt dirty having watched the movie and then the guy magically gets his faith back because of all the "coincidences" that led to them surviving or something... I'm sorry, I'm willing to expend my suspension of disbelief pretty far, but when you're dealing aliens who invaded planet where a [i]think fog/i] could kill them, that's not a miracle, that's just stupidity.
The whole thing was a train wreck. It starts off with a dieing woman giving cryptic messages. Continues through a lot of boring "mystery parts" has a climax that's so contrived I felt dirty having watched the movie and then the guy magically gets his faith back because of all the "coincidences" that led to them surviving or something... I'm sorry, I'm willing to expend my suspension of disbelief pretty far, but when you're dealing aliens who invaded planet where a [i]think fog/i] could kill them, that's not a miracle, that's just stupidity.
Well, one could say that the Aliens didn't know that water had such an effect on them. Perhaps it's only the liquid form of water that has that effect on them. Although I do see your point.
And the baseball guy does use the baseball bat on the alien, until he figures out that water kills it, in which case you'll see he strikes the alien itself until it falls into some water.
I'm going to be honest with you, I remember adoring Signs back when I was a christian. Signs is a movie for the religious minded. You are taught to believe that things are for a reason, that nothing is just by chance, and that everything fits a purpose. The girl's purpose of leaving water around the house was to help kill the aliens later in the film. The purpose of the son's asthma is that his lungs will be closed when the alien tries to poison him, thus leaving him unharmed. The purpose of the baseball player being a passionate, powerful, strong player is that he can later use this power to strike down the alien later in the film, defending his family. The father didn't clean up the glasses because A. he doesn't care anymore, he's depressed with his wife dying. B. it's one of those things that at first you take care of, you clean it up, but when it happens enough, you just stop caring, it's become normal now.
Yes all these are of course, coincidences. Some of them, arguably quite trite. However, the point of the film is to get you to believe that they're something more. More then just coincidences, more then just sheer chance. The point of the film is get you to believe that there's a greater force that helped these people in this time by putting certain things in their lives to prepare them for this dire moment. As I said, it's a film for the religious minded, or, a film for those who are willing/able to believe. Back then, I was able to believe, I adored the film, and saw it as his best work. I still do to this day. Yes I see the possibilities of inaccuracies, yes I see some of the possible plotholes, but, I do still recognize that the writing, acting, directing, cinematography, suspense, and score are all excellent.
What's interesting is, like religion, I am making rationalizations for believing in this film. My favorite rationalization is that when you watch a movie, you put yourself in the world of the film. You say "in the universe of this film, is this consistent with how this universe is portrayed?". The world of Signs is a fantasy realm. A realistic fantasy, but still a fantasy realm. In this fantasy realm, god exists, aliens are landing, and one broken, tired family has to somehow survive. When you put yourself in the world of the fantasy, in its own little world, everything makes sense: the glasses, the water, the kids, the baseball player, it all fits into place. One of the biggest critiques of this film was that when removed from the fantasy realm that it creates, it simply crumbles. This is true. This film must be viewed in the realistic fantasy realm that it attempted to create. I, for one, enjoy it, and still do. I recognize the possibility of its shortcomings, but then when you put these "shortcomings" in the context of the film, they all make sense.
As I've said, this is a religious film. Like religion, when removed from its own little world, its own little doctrine and view of life, its logic fails and the belief crumbles. It is culturally approved fantasy. However, this is a film, it IS fantasy, and as such, these fantastic ideas of "destiny" and "divine intervention" and "everything is for a purpose" all make sense. When viewed in the context of Shyamalan's fantasy wrorld, the movie is a masterpiece. When removed from this fantastic context, it utterly flounders. Whether or not you choose to view it in context, whether or not you choose to believe, that's up to you. I can completely understand somebody discarding this film as rubbish because in the real world, yes its logic fails. But, like every film, it must be viewed in its own fantasy context. When done so, I think you'll find this is really an excellent film.
You cannot make the same argument for Lady in the Water, because it fails even when you look at it in its own context.
Now I've droned on long enough, I honestly don't feel like going over in detail what's wrong with Lady in the Water, I do think it's not nearly as bad as everyone says it was, I thought it was only mediocre, but for a more reasonable critique of it, please read this article. I did like LitW, I thought it had some strong moments, but overall it was....somewhat ridiculous. Please read this article, I was happy to find it because it basically summarizes my view on it, in a slightly more critical way then I would have. I'd give it 2 stars myself, not the 1 1/2 that Ebert gives it.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps.....VIEWS/60720002
And the baseball guy does use the baseball bat on the alien, until he figures out that water kills it, in which case you'll see he strikes the alien itself until it falls into some water.
I'm going to be honest with you, I remember adoring Signs back when I was a christian. Signs is a movie for the religious minded. You are taught to believe that things are for a reason, that nothing is just by chance, and that everything fits a purpose. The girl's purpose of leaving water around the house was to help kill the aliens later in the film. The purpose of the son's asthma is that his lungs will be closed when the alien tries to poison him, thus leaving him unharmed. The purpose of the baseball player being a passionate, powerful, strong player is that he can later use this power to strike down the alien later in the film, defending his family. The father didn't clean up the glasses because A. he doesn't care anymore, he's depressed with his wife dying. B. it's one of those things that at first you take care of, you clean it up, but when it happens enough, you just stop caring, it's become normal now.
Yes all these are of course, coincidences. Some of them, arguably quite trite. However, the point of the film is to get you to believe that they're something more. More then just coincidences, more then just sheer chance. The point of the film is get you to believe that there's a greater force that helped these people in this time by putting certain things in their lives to prepare them for this dire moment. As I said, it's a film for the religious minded, or, a film for those who are willing/able to believe. Back then, I was able to believe, I adored the film, and saw it as his best work. I still do to this day. Yes I see the possibilities of inaccuracies, yes I see some of the possible plotholes, but, I do still recognize that the writing, acting, directing, cinematography, suspense, and score are all excellent.
What's interesting is, like religion, I am making rationalizations for believing in this film. My favorite rationalization is that when you watch a movie, you put yourself in the world of the film. You say "in the universe of this film, is this consistent with how this universe is portrayed?". The world of Signs is a fantasy realm. A realistic fantasy, but still a fantasy realm. In this fantasy realm, god exists, aliens are landing, and one broken, tired family has to somehow survive. When you put yourself in the world of the fantasy, in its own little world, everything makes sense: the glasses, the water, the kids, the baseball player, it all fits into place. One of the biggest critiques of this film was that when removed from the fantasy realm that it creates, it simply crumbles. This is true. This film must be viewed in the realistic fantasy realm that it attempted to create. I, for one, enjoy it, and still do. I recognize the possibility of its shortcomings, but then when you put these "shortcomings" in the context of the film, they all make sense.
As I've said, this is a religious film. Like religion, when removed from its own little world, its own little doctrine and view of life, its logic fails and the belief crumbles. It is culturally approved fantasy. However, this is a film, it IS fantasy, and as such, these fantastic ideas of "destiny" and "divine intervention" and "everything is for a purpose" all make sense. When viewed in the context of Shyamalan's fantasy wrorld, the movie is a masterpiece. When removed from this fantastic context, it utterly flounders. Whether or not you choose to view it in context, whether or not you choose to believe, that's up to you. I can completely understand somebody discarding this film as rubbish because in the real world, yes its logic fails. But, like every film, it must be viewed in its own fantasy context. When done so, I think you'll find this is really an excellent film.
You cannot make the same argument for Lady in the Water, because it fails even when you look at it in its own context.
Now I've droned on long enough, I honestly don't feel like going over in detail what's wrong with Lady in the Water, I do think it's not nearly as bad as everyone says it was, I thought it was only mediocre, but for a more reasonable critique of it, please read this article. I did like LitW, I thought it had some strong moments, but overall it was....somewhat ridiculous. Please read this article, I was happy to find it because it basically summarizes my view on it, in a slightly more critical way then I would have. I'd give it 2 stars myself, not the 1 1/2 that Ebert gives it.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps.....VIEWS/60720002
i know a cool and easy way to draw fire http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4182065/
Fucking awesome. Ever seen the black flames of a shadow demon?
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4944512
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4944512
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