Top 10 Movies I Hate the Most

Well guys, this is it. The number one movie I hate. It is actually with a fair degree of caution I write this movie review because last night, while working on my trailer, I met someone who actually likes this film. I didn't know such people existed. As is, I'll try to be nice, but I make no promises.

1: The Last Airbender
 

      Why would I even watch this movie, you may ask. My answer is:
I have no answer. Not really. All I can say is that we are a flawed and broken people, prone to make serious errors in judgment from time to time.
      Besides, it was a Saturday afternoon and I was so bored, counting molecules on my bedroom wall seem fun at the time.
     You know what people say about the use of drugs; they don't solve your problems, they just compound them. These people are right, but they forget to mention movies can have the same effect. Not only was a bored silly for over 2 hours, I think I lost a few IQ points as well.
     This movie was awful. I personally have not seen the TV show very much. Pretty much every guy on my floor is a huge fan and all of them hated this movie. While the TV show doesn't appeal to me, I will at least credit it for not being this.
     I wonder what happened to M. Night Shyamalan. He was good a long time ago. The Sixth Sense was good (I was reeling from the twist ending), Signs is great and my favorite of his movies, and some of his other stuff, like The Village or Unbreakable I think is a bit underrated. Then this comes out. If there really is such a thing as a career-killing movie, this film didn't just kill Shyamalan's career, it tortured it, debauched it, fed it to sharks, curb-stomped it, and then did the same thing 20 other times just to be safe.
      To put it simply, this film is so bad, I hear it's being used in North Korean prison camps. The characters where lame, as was the story. While the idea of controlling various elements has much promise, why did the characters have to dance like constipated monkeys before they used their powers. Why not just extend their hand? Or at least do it much faster, like in the TV show, so I don't have to watch it too long. And of course, it commits the crime of using the concept I really don't like in films. The child warrior.
     Why do I hate this concept? Look at how it's always executed. A little kid beats up several fully-grown, fully-trained men. I just can't take that seriously. Why is it that adults have to be retarded down so the kids can fight them? That's just stupid and I can never suspend my disbelief far enough to buy it. I much prefer films like True Grit where the 14 year-old girl has to rise to the the adult's world. That is much more interesting and relateable because that's what we all have to do at some point. Plus, in True Grit, she's still in over her head in the adult world. Unlike this film, where the adults are in over their head in a kid world.
      This film also suffers from having way too many scenes of exposition. Now, I grant that exposition is very hard to do because it's usually the most boring part of the movie. One of the rare exceptions to this is Inception, where the exposition is actually fun. However, if you don't care at all about the story, the exposition scenes are going to drag like they did in this film. Since this film has so many scenes of explanation, the boredom factor went straight through the roof for me.
     Lastly, what happened to Shyamalan's writing? He was very good with it in his earlier films. But in this film, the writing is lousy, with bad dialogue and performances that suffer because of it.
     As for the person I met last night, this reflects only my view of the film and not of fans of it. This is all my opinion. However, as you said last night, there are different viewpoints out there. And this is my viewpoint.
     I personally think this is the worst movie I have ever seen so far. 

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