What To Think?

I think continually of those who were truely great,
and on those who weren't that great at all.
Who from the womb remember the soul's history,
although some barely remember breakfast.
Through corridors of stone I travel my mind,
only to find myself at the beginning.
If only I didn't dream up a maze,
a maze of bible stories and blasphemy,
of dogma and ambiguity.

Ostracized for my beliefs,
yet I prevail nonetheless.
I find a door to lead me to the outside,
only to find myself further in my mind.
I travel far to bring me back,
My compliance to the world gives me recognition,
yet it strips me of my freedom.
To me,
the meaning of the world is not even my most difficult of conundrums,
Well what is the hardest question of all?
To me it is,
What to think?

The Last Airbender

So i'm not a movie critic and this blog is supposed to be about my music but more then that it is my heartbeat. So I find it appropriate for me to spill my feelings for this movie. Plus I am not tired and I need a way to channel my time better then just sitting on www.omgpop.com playing "Balloono". So here is my critic of the movie.

So I have very mix feelings for this movie. I watched the cartoon series "Avatar:The Last Airbender" and I like the cartoon series but this movie is shallow. There is close to zero character development and the whole plot isn't exactly black and white. It seemed more like a giant field test for special effects. If special effects was any definition of how good a movie is then this movie is the "Titanic". Now, i'm not saying this movie is bad. I am also not saying it's good. M.Night Shyamalan had his hands full with this movie. 

He had to fit in a nearly 14 hour series into a 2 hour movie. He didn't quite have the time to develop the world, characters, and plot like the series had. Top that off with a poor script and you have your self a pretty big let down for those hardcore "Avatar" fans. 

I sympathize with M.Night, he had quite the task with bringing this world to life. For the effort i'm sure he did his best and I don't think many people could have done better but with poor acting (Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire being probably the only notable actor in the cast) and a poor script this movie is at best mediocre. Albeit the scores and special effects were good. 

If you are looking for a movie that isn't "Twilight:Eclipse" like me, you want to see some really cool special effects, or you just don't want to have to think during a movie I'd probably recommend it. I'd have to give this movie a 2/5. 

PS:

If you are a fan of the series you will be ticked off at the way they say the names of Aang, Sokka, and Iroh.