How Bad is M. Night Shyamalan's New Movie? (Really Bad.)S  Sixth
Sense director M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie out. It's
called The Last Airbender; it is apparently based on some kind
of cartoon; and it really, truly sucks. Like, "4 per cent
'fresh' on Rotten Tomatoes" sucks.  This is probably not very
surprising to anyone who was unfortunate enough to see
Shyamalan's last movie, The Happening, or his movie before that,
The Lady in the Water, or, for that matter, the one before that,
The Village, or its predecessor Signs, or, let's be honest, the
movie before that one, Unbreakable. It may be surprising to the
movie executives who signed off this project, because I assume
they have not seen any of those movies, due to, if you had, you
would not have allowed this to happen.  The Last Airbender is
the tale of, oh, who the hell knows. It is basically Star Wars
with a Buddhist "theme," and it stars Aasif Mandvi from The
Daily Show. You may remember when this movie was being made
there was a fair amount of cont