The Last Airbender and Salt

Movie makers seemed to have added a new element into their concoctions - at least that's what seemed apparent in Salt and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Something called "to be continued".

Irritating to the max.

Who is Salt? Salt is an overrated film, in my opinion. Everyone woo-ed and ahh-ed when the trailer with Angelina Jolie kicking badasses screened in the cinemas. I came out of the cinema with a million question marks all over my face, and a nagging feeling that I've been conned into watching the movie, and a worse feeling that I'm being forced at invisible gunpoint to watch the sequel. So what if you had Liev Schreiber (Wolverine) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (2012)? It's pure unethical, in my opinion, to black out the screen on your audience.

Second movie we caught within the day was Avatar: The Last Airbender, and it had to play the sequel card as well. But give it up to the producers; they could turn the original plot around and reshuffle whatever they like. When was the Avatar Aang ever a kungfu-kicking Caucasian? Why were the supporting actors and actresses also Caucasians when they came from a village which comprised mainly of Asian faces? Can't their wise old grandmother be an Asian? Then the little voice in my head rang : who were you expecting then? Zhang Zhiyi? Jackie Chan? Jet Li? I guess I have to give M. Night Shyamalan credit for the graphical effects used in the film. I guess I'll just have to stop lamenting and wait for the next parter or two.