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Topic	Hopes were crushed
Zeus 06/06/18 1:47:56 AM #9:	tbh, I picked up X-Men Destiny during a black friday sale years ago and still need to play it >_> I know it also had a handheld port or something but it looked terrible. keyblader1985 posted... I recently watched Avatar: The Last Airbender on DVD. In the bonus features there was a Comic Con panel with a blurb from M. Night Shyamalan for the live action movie, and fans went nuts cheering. Broke my heart. Oh, those poor fools... ParanoidObsessive posted... That's the real issue, honestly. The movie itself was just mediocre fantasy aimed at younger kids. Younger kids who saw it didn't necessarily hate it. And for people who never saw the cartoon (and thus, had zero previous emotional investment), it was forgettable more than it was terrible. Most of the backlash against it was because the older people (and let's be honest, a very specific demographic of people) who'd loved the cartoon couldn't accept that the movie wasn't really made for them. And because it's trendy to hate on Shyamalan, so it picked up that stink before anyone ever even saw it. That and the movie was intrinsically flawed simply because it tried to compress an entire season of events into one film, which is why there's so much linking narration. I didn't think it was great (and, for all that kids movie talk, I'm not sure many children thought it was great), but I still wanted a sequel. And, honestly, the real problem was trying to follow the general story arc too closely which was completely infeasible... actually, scratch that, they could have made it work. If they had broken the individual events into episodes/segments, the film wouldn't have seemed as messy. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:902631261] in Hopes were... [t:76672308]...</cite> <quote>tbh, I picked up X-Men Destiny during a black friday sale years ago and still need to play it >_> I know it also had a handheld port or something but it looked terrible. <cite>keyblader1985 posted...</cite> <quote>I recently watched Avatar: The Last Airbender on DVD. In the bonus features there was a Comic Con panel with a blurb from M. Night Shyamalan for the live action movie, and fans went nuts cheering. Broke my heart.</quote> Oh, those poor fools... <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>That's the real issue, honestly. The movie itself was just mediocre fantasy aimed at younger kids. Younger kids who saw it didn't necessarily hate it. And for people who never saw the cartoon (and thus, had zero previous emotional investment), it was forgettable more than it was terrible. Most of the backlash against it was because the older people (and let's be honest, a very specific demographic of people) who'd loved the cartoon couldn't accept that the movie wasn't really made for them. And because it's trendy to hate on Shyamalan, so it picked up that stink before anyone ever even saw it.</quote> That and the movie was intrinsically flawed simply because it tried to compress an entire season of events into one film, which is why there's so much linking narration. I didn't think it was great (and, for all that kids movie talk, I'm not sure many children thought it was great), but I still wanted a sequel. And, honestly, the real problem was trying to follow the general story arc too closely which was completely infeasible... actually, scratch that, they could have made it work. If they had broken the individual events into episodes/segments, the film wouldn't have seemed as messy. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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