The last airbender
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Did anyone beside me get the Anakin/Padme vibe during Sokka's "love" scenes?
Anyway best part for me was when the film slipped off the projector and started to burn, other best part was seeing the movie by myself with no one else in the theater. I riff tracked the shit out of it.
All in all it sucked.
Anyway best part for me was when the film slipped off the projector and started to burn, other best part was seeing the movie by myself with no one else in the theater. I riff tracked the shit out of it.
All in all it sucked.
I found it funny that it appeared on reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66003420100701 which is my main website for news at work.
Movie sucking fucks.
I was kind of skeptical about the Indian actors but they were actually good, Zuko and his Uncle were good.
But the rest of the actors... Sucked, it seemed the budget was spent on special effects than on writing and actual talent. Because it's full of BAD.
I would have cast Jet Li as the Fire Lord, but I guess they couldn't find enough Asian actors? (As ridiculous as this may sound).
The beginning is obviously rushed, I know its a huge series but really... Don't rush it, just rewrite it, it doesn't have to be the same, it just has to be GOOD.
Some of the writers here on TFF can come up with better shit than this, I'm dead serious.
The blind earthbender isn't in the movie, I initially thought it was that one Asian kid but it wasn't...
Disappointed.
Excuse me, I'll be rewatching the Avatar series from Book 1.
I was kind of skeptical about the Indian actors but they were actually good, Zuko and his Uncle were good.
But the rest of the actors... Sucked, it seemed the budget was spent on special effects than on writing and actual talent. Because it's full of BAD.
I would have cast Jet Li as the Fire Lord, but I guess they couldn't find enough Asian actors? (As ridiculous as this may sound).
The beginning is obviously rushed, I know its a huge series but really... Don't rush it, just rewrite it, it doesn't have to be the same, it just has to be GOOD.
Some of the writers here on TFF can come up with better shit than this, I'm dead serious.
The blind earthbender isn't in the movie, I initially thought it was that one Asian kid but it wasn't...
Disappointed.
Excuse me, I'll be rewatching the Avatar series from Book 1.
What I don't get about these movie fiascos is this - okay, you're going to have to compress things, so I can accept that you skip facts handed out and scenes played out in the original source material. But actually change them for no goddamned reason? Fuck that. There's no justification for that.
Think Prince of Persia - they made it pretty obvious that they were making it with the Sands of Time as source material, but then wham! Changed characters, the Prince has a name (if you've played the SoT trilogy you'll notice how big a part of the flavor it is that he's always referred to as "Prince"), the plot's gone to the wayside. I can understand the condensation. Of course the plot's going to have to be shortened. But shortening the canon doesn't mean butchering it with wildly unnecessary changes that were made (I can only assume) to appeal to an audience the Hollywood execs seem to think is composed entirely of retards (hint: it's not).
Think Prince of Persia - they made it pretty obvious that they were making it with the Sands of Time as source material, but then wham! Changed characters, the Prince has a name (if you've played the SoT trilogy you'll notice how big a part of the flavor it is that he's always referred to as "Prince"), the plot's gone to the wayside. I can understand the condensation. Of course the plot's going to have to be shortened. But shortening the canon doesn't mean butchering it with wildly unnecessary changes that were made (I can only assume) to appeal to an audience the Hollywood execs seem to think is composed entirely of retards (hint: it's not).
Ray: I agree completely. Besides which if your going to shorten a 400 minute season into 100 minute movie, for the love of god chose which scenes are unnecessary. When your butchering things left and Right I don't wan tot watch the most pointless filler scenes when scenes of awesomeness are skipped over for time constraints. I've not watched this movie of course but whenever they do things like this It gets really annoying that some of the best scenes are skipped over for horribly bland ones.
Exactly.
I mean, they didn't put in Avatar Form?
WTF? The only reason I can see for them doing that, is they were trying to cut costs by limiting special effects like that.
It is the only reason I can see for cutting out one of the things fans would have gone crazy over.
Avatar Roku and Kyoshi. I can somewhat understand cutting the Kyoshi part, she's not really that much involved. But Roku was a kick ass person. But no, let's replace him with a fucking dragon. This has no rhyme or reason for occurring either.
Avatar can't have kids. WHAT THE FUCK? This is fucking pointless.
Nerfing FUCKING IROH!
IROH WAS THE MOST BADASS CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE DAMN SERIES! YOU DO NOT NERF FUCKING IROH!
I mean, they didn't put in Avatar Form?
WTF? The only reason I can see for them doing that, is they were trying to cut costs by limiting special effects like that.
It is the only reason I can see for cutting out one of the things fans would have gone crazy over.
Avatar Roku and Kyoshi. I can somewhat understand cutting the Kyoshi part, she's not really that much involved. But Roku was a kick ass person. But no, let's replace him with a fucking dragon. This has no rhyme or reason for occurring either.
Avatar can't have kids. WHAT THE FUCK? This is fucking pointless.
Nerfing FUCKING IROH!
IROH WAS THE MOST BADASS CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE DAMN SERIES! YOU DO NOT NERF FUCKING IROH!
Allow me to give you a breakdown of the film. Now let me be specific from the get go the film is true to the cartoon and for that I was happy - the scenery, the costumes, the bending and the actors all looked good.... and that's the problem that's ALL they did, look good.
The actors except for a few moments here and there were all very stale and boring, to be perfectly honest I couldn't cheer for them in the film cause the movie made no real effort to endear them to us.
Camera angles! Dear gods those were some of the WORST camera shots around, Waaaaaaay to close on Aang's face a lot of times.
The bending! "looked good" does not mean "was awesome", big thing I noticed about them was they only used the slow motion effects only a handful of times the rest of the time? Ya those bending attacks were just SLOW. I realise most people are only paying attention to the attack themselves but look at the enemies/allies around them, they are MOVING THE SAME SPEED AS NORMAL. Every child worth their salt who's ever played a fantasy game could tell you the best way to stop a caster is a well placed knife. Their bending took WAY too much time compaired to the cartoon. The attacks also didn't look that powerful either. Oh and lets not forget the some-odd eight earthbenders who were all doing the same moves and then NOTHING HAPPENED!! What were they just a distraction or something?
A good archer in that world would be able to pretty much kill just about every bender cause they take THAT fucking long to cast.
PLOTHOLES! Confining EARTH BENDERS in a quarry... I'll let you think about that.
...THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?! Didn't even make any mention of the fire nation guys TRYING to hold the other villagers hostage which THAT at least would have made sense about. Oh and lets not forget they pretty much rushed in and compacted three episodes into that one earth village bit. Should have used the Hai-Bie story instead.
Oh and last but not least the 16 sec DROWNING of General Zhao.... wat? :wacko:
Overall the story was just told WRONG. It didn't spend any time working on characters and the entire thing was just event after event after event and nothing much about the characters IN those events. Also the lines that were spoken were just BAD. Why Zuko was disgraced and couldn't go home - that could have been saved for the second movie and tied in with Azula to flesh out her and Zuko more.
One last thing, and this is in the first couple mintes of the film even. Soka, an eskimo wanna-bee, see's something under the ice and in a display of intelligence impulsively decides it would be a GREAT idea to BREAK THE ICE beneath their feet... :headbanger:
The actors except for a few moments here and there were all very stale and boring, to be perfectly honest I couldn't cheer for them in the film cause the movie made no real effort to endear them to us.
Camera angles! Dear gods those were some of the WORST camera shots around, Waaaaaaay to close on Aang's face a lot of times.
The bending! "looked good" does not mean "was awesome", big thing I noticed about them was they only used the slow motion effects only a handful of times the rest of the time? Ya those bending attacks were just SLOW. I realise most people are only paying attention to the attack themselves but look at the enemies/allies around them, they are MOVING THE SAME SPEED AS NORMAL. Every child worth their salt who's ever played a fantasy game could tell you the best way to stop a caster is a well placed knife. Their bending took WAY too much time compaired to the cartoon. The attacks also didn't look that powerful either. Oh and lets not forget the some-odd eight earthbenders who were all doing the same moves and then NOTHING HAPPENED!! What were they just a distraction or something?
A good archer in that world would be able to pretty much kill just about every bender cause they take THAT fucking long to cast.
PLOTHOLES! Confining EARTH BENDERS in a quarry... I'll let you think about that.
...THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?! Didn't even make any mention of the fire nation guys TRYING to hold the other villagers hostage which THAT at least would have made sense about. Oh and lets not forget they pretty much rushed in and compacted three episodes into that one earth village bit. Should have used the Hai-Bie story instead.
Oh and last but not least the 16 sec DROWNING of General Zhao.... wat? :wacko:
Overall the story was just told WRONG. It didn't spend any time working on characters and the entire thing was just event after event after event and nothing much about the characters IN those events. Also the lines that were spoken were just BAD. Why Zuko was disgraced and couldn't go home - that could have been saved for the second movie and tied in with Azula to flesh out her and Zuko more.
One last thing, and this is in the first couple mintes of the film even. Soka, an eskimo wanna-bee, see's something under the ice and in a display of intelligence impulsively decides it would be a GREAT idea to BREAK THE ICE beneath their feet... :headbanger:
That's the problem with making Benders into caster where they do a bunch of moves and then stuff happens.
Instead of, you know, the bending complementing the move and happening at the exact same time. They're not supposed to be casters. They're freaking kung fu masters with extended elemental powers. (Some of them anyways.)
Instead of, you know, the bending complementing the move and happening at the exact same time. They're not supposed to be casters. They're freaking kung fu masters with extended elemental powers. (Some of them anyways.)
