The Last Airbender
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
M. Night Shyamalan’s whitewashed adaptation of the beloved Avatar: The Last Airbender remains his most expensive and critically derided film. How did such acclaimed source material yield this unmitigated flop? Join Chris & Lizzie as unabashed Avatar fan-boy (and What Went Wrong producer) David Boman attempts to piece together an answer.
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| 0:00.0 | Emily Rossum was also in it. |
| 0:02.0 | Emmy Rossum. |
| 0:03.0 | What? |
| 0:04.0 | Her name's not Emily. |
| 0:05.0 | They're in women's names. |
| 0:06.0 | David just views all women as ladies. |
| 0:08.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:11.0 | True. Hot, hot, hot, hot. Sure. and actually. Hello and welcome back to what went wrong. |
| 0:26.0 | I am your host Chris Winterbauer here with my co-host, |
| 0:29.0 | Lizzy Bassett. |
| 0:30.0 | How are you doing this week, Lizzy? |
| 0:31.0 | Oh, Chris, great, better than last week, you know. I do have a bone to pick with the person who's going to be joining us shortly for forcing me to stop my 17 hour below deck marathon to watch this movie. |
| 0:44.0 | Not happy about that. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, let's get right to it. |
| 0:47.0 | This week we're very excited to bring on a guest host, |
| 0:50.0 | our producer David Bowman, who has elected to make us watch a movie that I have spent 10 years |
| 0:56.7 | avoiding. David, welcome to the show. Tell us about the movie that we are talking about today. |
| 1:01.6 | Thank you. So today we're going to be talking about today. Thank you. |
| 1:03.0 | So today we're going to be talking about M Knight Chamolon's 2010 most critically |
| 1:07.1 | pan film, his adaptation of Nickelodeon's Avatar The Last Airbender, |
| 1:11.8 | the film entitled The Last airbender the name was changed |
| 1:14.7 | because avatar correct avatar the James Cameron film had just come out in 2009 and |
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