Binge Movie Aftertaste – M Night Shyamalan Retrospective w/ Matthew Goudreau and Michael Guarnieri: The Last Airbender (2010)

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Manoj Nelliyattu, "M. Night" Shyamalan has had one of Hollywood's most interesting stories that could well have come from one of his scripts. After two independent movies which amounted to little success, Shyamalan set the world afire with 1999's The Sixth Sense, which took critics off guard, gathering six Academy Award nominations and rolling to an almost $700 million box office take, making it the most successful horror film all the way until 2017, when It finally knocked it off. But after a financial and critical success such as that, where do you go from there? Join myself, Matt, and the returning Michael Guarnieri as we take the journey to answering that question, which we begin with The Sixth Sense and will eventually lead to Shyamalan's new film Old, scheduled for release this July. By the year 2010, the name M Night Shyamalan was akin to being a laughing stock. The trailer to his producing project Devil was being laughed off screens, and Shyamalan was at a serious crossroads at what he was going to do next. It was when he saw his daughter dress as Katara from this film for Halloween that he realized what he wanted to do. After swearing off franchises for years, Shyamalan took on the challenge of doing a film based on one of Nickelodeon's most popular cartoons, Avatar: The Last Airbender. But wouldn't you know it? The film is still looked at as being one of the worst franchise films in history. But how do we feel? Join Matt, Mike, and myself as we look at M Night Shyamalan's most notorious and peculiar bomb, 2010's The Last Airbender. The Last Airbender (2010) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10) CLICK ABOVE TO LISTEN NOW! Subscribe to Binge Cast on iTunes