About this episode

Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta discuss the misguided film The Last Airbender directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

This week, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta willingly wander into M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, which is a film so catastrophically misguided it briefly convinced audiences that one of Hollywood's most fascinating directors had misplaced his compass entirely. Before Shyamalan rediscovered himself by making horror movies on a shoestring budget, he somehow said yes to a blockbuster that bends everything except good judgment. The post Episode #165 – The Last Airbender (2010) first appeared on Boomstick Comics .

People in this episode

Host: Bryan Kluger

Guest: Preston Barta

Topics covered

• film analysis
• M. Night Shyamalan
• The Last Airbender
• cinema critique
• blockbuster films

Keywords

• The Last Airbender
• M. Night Shyamalan
• film critique
• cinema
• blockbuster

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Last Airbender

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