Sardonicast 170: Trap, The Last Airbender (2010)

[@thedogmaticdirector]

21:35 I snorted out loud at work hearing him call Knock at the Cabin the "OMG, there's a bang at the door" movie.

[@mortal_meatbag]

read this comment before getting to that part, but after all these years i hear that line so clearly in my head 😂 makes me wanna go binge old YMS

[@Tyler.the.contentcreator]

RIP Ralph. It’s a shame he got caught in the Trap

[@officialxomusic]

But for real what happened to him? is he not a part of the podcast anymore?

[@devilous90]

good riddance

[@badlula17]

@@officialxomusic Yes, they parted ways after Ralph said he wanted to focus on personal projects. He also left the door open to come in occasionally as a guest.

[@Tyler.the.contentcreator]

@@officialxomusic He died in a Saw Trap

[@IDHLEB]

​@@badlula17what personal projects?

[@etgohome1343]

Can we all just take a second to appreciate Michael Scott and his efforts before the time stamps were consistently on this podcast? Man was a hero and deserves the credit for those old episodes, I salute you sir

[@RickRaptor105]

As fun as Adam's conspiracy theory is, the more hilarious truth (or at least what's reported) is that apparently some rich white producer demanded his daughter to be cast as Katara, so that necessitated the entire water tribe be cast as white, and since you can't have all nations in this movie be one race it just kinda spiraled down from there...

[@nabilkhan2971]

It's not the princess. It's actually Katara.

[@RickRaptor105]

​@@nabilkhan2971thanks, edited

[@hamdog5441]

Yeah actually her father is an Ashkenazi Jew. Should edit out that the producer was white and say that he's Jewish. Gonna do that?

[@Davon85J]

Yup, it was some top level executive at Paramount. It’s the same reason why that same actress from Avatar was cast in Transformers: Age of Extinction as the daughter. Literally forcing directors to hire her to jumpstart her acting career.

[@redatom104]

"Not really an actually racism, just your classic hollywood nepotism" - Pointless Hub

[@C.G.Jr.]

The budget for Lady in the Wtaer was so high because M. Night insisted on building his own proper motel lot - and he did lol. That's maybe the only thing I 'like' about the movie

[@ad-sd-vids5332]

The funniest part of last airbender was when the guy walked to the line of soldiers and went “OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo” and shaking his head

[@PauLtus_B]

“Trap" but with Jigsaw sounds like crazy fun.

[@EmeraldSoda51]

It’s hilarious seeing how reviled The Last Airbender is by both the fandom and those who worked on it. I got to meet Greg Baldwin, the voice of Uncle Iroh a few months ago, and when I was in line I overhead him say “there’s an Iroh in the movie that doesn’t exist” when talking about other the Iroh actors (Rest in peace Mako). I almost saw it in the theater when it came out, only to end up asking my mom to take me to see Toy Story 3 again instead. Happy with young me’s choices.

[@brokensanity5252]

Bro you can tell Alex watched the original show, he went so hard this episode😂

[@SapientGalaxy]

Maybe they didnt release the budget for Trap because like with Lady in the water, he required a stadium to actually be built.

[@EricWoodend]

I still can't believe they built that hotel/motel set for Lady in the Water for absolutely no good reason.

[@ianmillerdevilsfan1223]

But they released it though it cost $30 million

[@Dethmaster64]

The thumbnail reflects how the general critical opinion of M. night Shyamalan films declined from 1999 to the late 2000s

[@Mr_mateo]

1:10:51 There's an Easter egg at the end of The Happening that hints that M. Night was going to be involved with an Avatar the Last Air Bender movie in 2010 so clearly he was already far enough into production to put that Easter egg in his movie

[@RohanAgrawalpeepeepoopoo]

Oh my god, yeah it was the little girl's backpack (correct me if I'm wrong)

[@snarkcast483]

Still remember when I was in my high school Web Tech class and had to make a website. I parodied one of those conspiracy theory websites, said that M. Night Shamalan was a llama, and found images of llamas that were eerily similar to how he looks. M. Night Shamallama looks a lot like a llama.

[@luiginastro8831]

Well, this will be my new rabbit hole. Thanks!

[@RextheDragon881]

M night shama-llama. Catchy. If I had a llama that would be thier name

[@chjejones]

​@@RextheDragon881 M Night Llama-shan

[@zeebooboo9663]

This feels like a jar comment

[@RextheDragon881]

@@zeebooboo9663 more of a bottle comment

[@1997residente]

Kathleen Kennedy gets ridiculed for producing Disney 's Star Wars but not Last Airbender. And don't get me wrong: i'm a FAN of her work. Thanks to her, we got movies like E.T and Roger Rabbit. But Somehow...The director of The Happening was going to make your next big Lord of The Rings-ish movie, Kate?

[@cameron2069]

Kathleen Kennedy gets an absurdly bad rep because of Star Wars (“fans”). Of course she’s not immune to criticism, but she also has an extremely storied resume which includes big hits and big duds.

[@gandhiguerrero3668]

She also produced the diving bell and the butterfly for some reason

[@Charles12]

Yea I think she misses the Spielberg Lucas days of the 80s and this might be her way of reliving it.

[@sjoerddondersteen1337]

The polar opposite disconnect between the source material & the movie adaptation for the 'fights' remains an enigma. It's not even an overblown sensory-overload 'hollywood' take on the OG material. Just an idiosyncratic anomaly in absurdity. Honestly, how aren't the movie 'fights' (un)intentional comedy gold? How is this even possible? This is borderline experimental.

[@tylercolby3118]

It's funny listening to Alex revisit The Last Airbender after all these years. TSFTW is how I found IHE.

[@SapientGalaxy]

I completely forgot that he made Aang's arrows unnecessarily complex until i saw the thumbnail. Truly, this is a movie that keeps giving.

[@Pagan_Fears]

You guys should talk about Mike Figgis’ Leaving Las Vegas. Then talk about Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[@jcmurie]

Then Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas. Then Chevy Chase's Vegas Vacation

[@luiginastro8831]

Then The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

[@Firemandan86]

1:11:14 there’s actually a little Easter egg at the end of the Happening for The Last Airbender. I think Chris Stuckmann pointed it out. The little kid is wearing a an Avatar: The Last Airbender backpack, and the school bus has the release date - 6/30/10

[@Firemandan86]

Actually went to check, and I remembered the backpack thing, but the bus number just says 2010

[@polygonvvitch]

The only good thing that came from Shyamalan Avatar is it let Seychelle Gabriel meet the creators of the show and led to her being cast as Asami in Korra.

[@danielbarrero2815]

This video is Crispy.

[@WhiteVelvet40]

1:00:45 Truly devastating and I completely buy into Adum's theory that M. Night was just a hired gun

[@TylerRJenkinsMusic]

“Crisp Crispy is NOT a fat pig!”

[@Jormbis]

17:41 Adum, you don’t understand how many people actually enjoy even the shitty M Night movies. I was told that people who inherently don’t like his movies is Redditcore.

[@benjaminrubin2178]

What does “Redditcore” even mean? Heck what does it mean when these same people use “Reddit” as an adjective? Never been able to get a straight answer, no matter where I look.

[@luigiwiiUU]

@@benjaminrubin2178 Redditcore in this case probably means a community on reddit whos harsh on movies, think r/criticaldrinker or some shit

[@Jormbis]

@@benjaminrubin2178hell if i know, man he didnt even elaborate lol

[@danielbarrero2815]

Trap is honestly so ridiculous but so much fun

[@noahmoody4568]

As a comedy it’s a 5 or 6, i was pissing myself laughing every time someone spoke, but as a thriller and a serious movie it’s like a 3

[@zeebooboo9663]

This episode was very crispy

[@goodtaste2185]

Trap is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen and the dialogue is so bizarre that I highly recommend it.

[@AimForMyHead81]

Yeah, it's The Happening levels of so bad it's good

[@davidyurch4446]

When Adam is in love with a bad movie that Alex clearly just hates, I imagine the tableau of Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss on the poster for What About Bob, but with Adam and Alex in the appropriate roles.

[@danieltrevinoc]

A truly blessed double feature, thank you Mr. Night

[@Firemandan86]

8:23 shoutout Law Abiding Citizen! What a film

[@____chris]

That thumbnail. All I hear is "you don't need live like this". Such an amazing performance

[@Wraiven22]

Alex’s southern accent is making me feel some type of way 😌

[@rafaelbrandao4059]

Adum said "goofy" so many times in this episode, and every time I'd go, "gawrsh!"

[@Goodhank840]

I swear if M Night had an editor or writing partner, he'd do much better. M Night is saying yes to some unique ideas but poorly executing them. Not sure if its a financial thing or what but he needs some kind of additional support.

[@S1nwar]

1:15:48 my god that annecdote about the bluray announcer sounds so hilarious

[@nms7872]

Are you the avatar ong?

[@iamnotthatguy7166]

the monks named me *ong*

[@mkhpsyco]

I tell my friends this all the time, but I really wish he got to finish his Airbender trilogy. It could have been amazing to have a definitive worst trilogy of all time.

[@ScottSullivanTV]

They didn't give him money. He self-financed this movie again.

[@gobogoo2329]

unfortunately netflix avatar is just boring bad instead of funny bad

[@sjoerddondersteen1337]

31:54 adum jumpscare

[@waywardlaser]

I agree with Adam, The Last Airbender isn't boring. It's the perfect bad example.

[@reeceloomis673]

Watched this on acid and adums icon turned into a bird with a large beak at some point

[@disgruntledcashier503]

M Night is such a fascinating director, because you listen to him talk about his craft in interviews, and he's so serious about what he does and is so genuine about his love of originality and creativity, but the movies are just... not good. He's a director that I wish more directors were like in every respect except quality.

[@sumtingwong8592]

The whole bit about giving Shamalan a billion dollars made me laugh so hard.

[@matttriano]

28:40 Raising a modern family is a massive distraction that seems to take most of the time and energy that it also takes to make films

[@ianmillerdevilsfan1223]

Trap immediately falls apart for me when his daughter enters the film as an “actor”, she is terrible and the third act is a mess from then on. Everything before that is good, ludicrous campy fun

[@phi-blue]

The reason the Fire Nation is brown is because there was already backlash to casting white leads, so they decided to change the casting of Zuko. Originally, Jesse McCartney was cast to play Zuko, but they changed to Dev Patel in response to the backlash. As another comment pointed out, they couldn't change Katara because Nelson Peltz demanded his daughter be cast as Katara, so her brother Sokka had to be white too, making Zuko the only viable choice for a recast. Funnily enough, Nelson Peltz has recently gone on record ranting about undeserving actors being cast in roles they didn't earn properly because of... DEI. It's okay when it's his nepo baby, but not when it's some hypothetical nonwhite kid.

[@CsDanex21]

Now I really need them to cover the show. both the animated version and the netflix live action that would make for a really good episode.

[@Mike_Roberty]

More likely British "aang" pronunciation theory: "ayng" is actually a more anglicized way of reading that name as it's spelled, and it was simply the British refusal to pronounce any foreign word properly kicking in, accidentally being correct in this case.

[@johnwise9811]

Day 82 of asking for an episode on the Evil Dead trilogy

[@DJGamingSmash]

It's pretty shitty what Phoenix did because I wanted to see that movie, lol.

[@-k-b-]

Next episode, they'll be talking about two iconic monsters!

[@giorgiopayne2875]

1:20:00 - not to mention that he LOVES the first twilight film

[@sjoerddondersteen1337]

"It's got a sticky quality to it." -M. Night Shamalamadingdong YMS: After Earth (30 Jan 2014) Time flies mane, nostalgia (for simpler times).

[@Horror-Man]

I'm surprised you guys haven't covered the Eastrail 177 trilogy yet. Seems like a no brainer for this podcast.

[@Dolavin]

Cringe title

[@solanumtuberosa]

Trap, the last airbender sounds like holding a fart and releasing.

[@meggerz5687]

Did anyone else get bojack horseman vibes when Adam was talking about how airbender?

[@LifeOfTheAngels]

everytime I see that earth bending clip, I think about kms

[@kclink1579]

The movie does make sense if M. Night has never seen Avatar and basically just told, too much sense.

[@melissatracanelli3840]

I live in a small town in BC and our slogan is City Of Champions 😂😂😂 it's barely a city but that's what we go with.

[@kingjoriy]

I went in watching Trap and gave it too much credit and thought at the beginning they already knew it was him and was giving him fake codes/fake backstage access/fake orders from the walkie talkie to Trap him, because if how insincere the guards and employees were, but then I realized their acting just sucked so fucking bad and I bamboozled myself

[@1300hannah]

It’s amazing how shyamalan seems to have actually learned to be less ambitious to become more successful since his string of failures back then. Or maybe he hasn’t and will prove me wrong once he gets successful enough again lol

[@JojosCrazyChannel]

If I searched, This whole wide world, I'd never never never, find me a girl, Who'd love me, The way that you do. huh, 'Cause You're Shama Lama, huh Rama rama rama ding dong baby huh You put the ooh mou mou oh oh oh oh back into my smile, child ~ 🎵

[@EpicGammingCrew]

We’d never get it until his kids fully grow up cause he’s a family man, but m night directing a Saw movie could be an unironic 10 lol. I weirdly think those specific restrictions could pull the best back out of him

[@exoskeletons]

Crispy is the new Charlie

[@Tacom4ster]

This movie is such a great punching bag that never get's old thrashing, sometimes I surprise M Night's daughter didnt emancipate herself, like if my parents ruined my favorite cartoon as a kid, I would consider leaving the family

[@VideoPortraits-n8v]

John actually didn't even direct Swingers, he just wrote and starred in it. I wonder if Adam has seen The Sopranos episode with John Favreau. The image he used to have is completely different from how I've always seen him.

[@MichaelMichael-us6wq]

Yeah, it’s M. Night Shama-lama-ding-dong day

[@thoughtstealin]

YES Adum is an Irn Bru drinker. SCOTLAND FOREVER!!!!

[@iamnotthatguy7166]

the monks named me *ong*

[@meglong2324]

Is it weird that I prefer the m night last Airbender over the Netflix adaptation. I hate them both but atleast m nights version had real sets

[@luigiwiiUU]

fair enough, although some episodes of the netflix series are unironically decent like the Blue Spirit adaptation

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

whats the connection between law abiding citizen and trap?

[@isaiahgloriosus7238]

And that trans person at gamestop was none other than chris-chan

[@py16667]

Not the same without Ralph😢

[@AimForMyHead81]

As a long-time listener, I have to agree. It feels soulless without Ralph. His absence has clearly been detrimental as well, considering the fact that the new episodes don't get nearly as many views anymore and they've lost at least 3000 subs since he left.

[@charleselindberg]

I'm outraged. I loved Trap, and I came here TO LISTEN TO FORTY MINUTES OF ADUM TRASHING ON THE FILM. I feel cheated.

[@JohnnyBurnes]

666th like. 😈 Devilish just like an elevator.

[@kait.5437]

What’s worse live action Avatar or live action Dragon Ball?

[@luigiwiiUU]

dragon ball

[@javierl4320]

Cwispy

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

M. Night is India Indian? I always thought he was of native American descent. Like Nightwolf from MK3 lol.

[@Tracequaza]

no alien romulus :(

[@JeffManes123]

SODA

[@VideoPortraits-n8v]

I thought the twist of "Trap" was going to be that the daughter was really the killer, and the dad was just protecting her. Unfortunately the film remained very dull and didn't do that.

[@matttriano]

That was not communicated in any advertising. It was clearly meant to be him. But ok.

[@Dayman420]

@@matttrianoWell yes, that would be why this person thought it was going to be a twist.

[@All4Tanuki]

Is watching M Night Shyamalan movies gay?

[@RextheDragon881]

Kinda prefer the show without Ralph.

[@sydberetta4649]

It's tough, because it's been almost the same amount of time without him as with him at this point, but I do occasionally miss him breaking things up, but I really want some more guests in the future also.

[@RextheDragon881]

@@sydberetta4649 yea. He definitely had his moments and I enjoyed the shows with all 3. Just a personal preference and it might change, I agree more guests would be great

[@killadrill]

Nah he and Alex brought balance to Adam complaining about everything

[@shiggydiggy6847]

Me too. His takes were so pedestrian it was just frustrating. I do wish they had more guests because each one brings a bit more different dynamic.

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

@@shiggydiggy6847 pedestrian? Ralph was really into mob movies.

[@Morhpocelionate]

Adam watch the original Last Airbender show dawg.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

m night shrinkage

[@Sigma.cheese]

Adam got his conspiracy theory goofed up by saying the studio’s conversations were to make the main cast “not white.” I think what he meant was to make them white while the director was indian. Since the cast was infamously the wrong color compared to the source material.

[@user-nz2bb4gp2d]

Trap was actually great

[@Jahu-qs2us]

8:40 I hate when movie reviewers pretend they forgot an actors name to seem cool.

[@lewisaspden3217]

Adam being a pretentious asshol* who’d have thought it?

[@luigiwiiUU]

bro, idk anybody who knows who Josh Harnett is LOL

[@Blaineleesutton]

oh there's IHE been looking for his quality videos he bragged about until cool cat went after him and made his channel grow from 100k subs to 2 million. In 2012 IHE would brag in every video if he had fame he would make quality videos. All ive seen IHE do in the past 13 years is make 1 video every 6 months when there is a new destiny dlc. IHE fell from grace and quality.

[@luiginastro8831]

bro is just yapping

[@deetvleet]

the reason why he uploads so infrequently is because he spends that time working on the video to make it as good as he can...

[@BSBSDerivative]

Oh grow up

[@nihilismistheonlyway4680]

Am i the only one getting tired of adams political rants?

[@benjaminterlinked7182]

Man this podcast is so lame. I like IHE and YMS but man their podcast is soooo lame geeez

[@positronicbeats7496]

Really ballsy to come out as pepsi bois around here 👊🏼🥶

[@positronicbeats7496]

Shyamalan fans are crazy. Adum would never let his racism interfere with his critique of a movie! He has morals and can separate one thing from the other