In this Nickelodeon animated series, seventy years has passed in this world since the end of the first series – Avatar: The Last Airbender. Korra, a young woman from the water tribe, has been designated the new Avatar after the passing of Aang. Korra travels to Republic City to learn airbenging from Aan’g son Tenzin, […]
Tag: The Last Airbender
And the Losers Are… The 2010 Nominess for the Golden Raspberry Awards [Razzies]!
The nominees for the 31st Annual Golden Raspberry Awards [Razzies] – for the absolute worst in filmmaking in 2010 – were announced this morning. Offered without comment – because, let’s face, none is really necessary – the list of nominees follows the jump. Note: Unlike the 2011 Oscars®, which gives awards for the best […]
Movies: Sheldon’s Bottom Feeders of 2010
Despite protestations to the otherwise, 2010 provided a fair number of good, even great, films. Sadly, that meant there were still some real dogs to found – and I found some of them. In several instances, they were films I was seeing an invited critic, but several others where the result of being seduced by […]
The Last Airbender: Book One: Water – It’s Not as Bad as Lady in the Water!
The question is this: how does one adapt over four hundred minutes of story from twenty episodes of an excellent animated series into a one hundred-minute movie? The answer is, apparently, not very well. A slightly less pressing question might be: why did anyone think a hastily applied 3D conversion would help this muddled excuse […]