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Sorry for the 1-week absence in blogging but it has been really hectic. I will definitely try to blog more often from now on. Even with the busy schedule, I still managed to catch two movies on the big screen. As per the title, there was the good… and the bad.

I think we could all do with some positive news so let us start with the good. If there was one movie which was unfairly ripped off its right to use the name Avatar, The Last Airbender was it. After all, it was supposed to be based on the cartoon named Avatar: The Last Airbender. Too bad James Cameraon decided to go use it for his stupid blue people movie.

The Last Airbender is directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan and that might not be entirely good. His last few movies haven’t really been great, and probably the only great movie he has under his name so far is The Sixth Sense. This was probably his most non-artsy-try-to-be-different movie ever.

The action scenes were good, the effects were good, the bing-bang-boom! was good but the plot was draggy at times, the acting was rather bland. He even managed to throw in a nonsensical romance twist in the middle of it all. The kid that acted as Aang was probably shoo-in for lookalike contest but too bad his acting chops weren’t up to the standards. And I think he probably obtained his facial expressions from the lady in the second movie I will be reviewing.

Overall, it is another great popcorn movie and that is not necessarily a bad thing.

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The second movie features the sifu for Aang in the category of “one expression” only. I present to you Miss Angelina Jolie. I fell asleep in this movie. Even with all the car crashes, the gun shooting left-right-centre, the bombs, this movie couldn’t keep me awake.

The plot was predictable from the word go. You knew where the twists were coming from, and the acting by Angelina Jolie was simply, simply horrible! If this was acting, I probably could give it a go myself. If you have RM10 (or is it RM11 these days?), and you are thinking of spending it on SALT, you can do better than that. Keeping in your wallet and letting it rot is probably better.

I have made that mistake, don’t make the same one as I did. And that is it! We will be back with more Monday Movie Review next week!

I’ve got WPPM to attend, and an event to shoot but I am sure I can squeeze in the time to catch a movie or two.