Fuck you M. Night Shamwow, the Last Airbender totally sucked!

Azisien · 06-28-2010, 06:12 PM

SPOILERS: If you haven't seen Avatar: The Last Airbender, I can't imagine myself not dropping a spoiler or two. If you plan on seeing either the TV show or the movie at some point uh...Sorry, I'll do my best.

Hay guys so I'm actually surprised given the solid Avatar: The Last Airbender following that there wasn't a peep of this up until I decided to put finger to keypad. Let's see what are the major points to hit here, a few days off from the movie release.....

1. Avatar: The Last Airbender is Fucking Awesome

I'm probably a Class-5 Avatard, which means I'm willing to have real life arguments with people to defend its honour. I don't know if its my favourite show EVER, but it's easily top 3. It's certainly the most well rounded and light hearted. The TV show was short, relatively low on filler, and an ideal balance of action, comedy, drama, and the journey of teenagers that can shoot elements out of their hands.

When I heard a live-action movie was in the works, my Class-5 Avatard self kicked into immediately caution and pessimism. Wait, WHA-

2. The Guy That Made Signs and Shit Is Making This?

What a twurst!! The only redeeming factor about this guy is that he has two daughters that loved the TV show. We have people on the inside in case the movie is atrocious and we need to partake in a little bit of assassination.

There are some worrying things about a live-action movie. One thing I'm not worried about is technology. I thought, and the trailers don't lie, that we were at a point where we could make bending elements look sexy, and it's true. The worrying part about a live-action movie is the inevitable changes that will be made. Part of the changes need to be in the interest of time, and that I can understand. The other will probably be changes to please wider audiences. As if Avatar needs changing, seriously. There are flaws of course, and some crappy episodes, and characters that leave things to be desired, but the core of the show is essentially flawless, and simply a good watch. How could someone take the entire first season of the show, condense it into a little over one and a half hours, still cover everything, and still make it the Avatar: The Last Airbender we all know and hate/enh/like/love/avatard?

The sad truth is, it is more or less impossible, at least for someone under the whip of Hollywood. Someone willing to bend (snicker) to the overminds that control the big giant water-down generic-ifying machine that gets poured onto any big screen release.

3. Screw following the show as a guideline for cast ethnicities, this is AMERICA, so it shall be...THE SHINY GOOD WHITE GUYS VS. THE BIG BAD MEAN BROWN GUYS!

This is a big talking point, because, well, racism and Yellowface and such. Even though Avatar's status as an actual anime is probably false, it's basically an anime, and the entire mythology of the whole show is taken straight out of Asian themes. The god damn characters are Asian, or Inuit, or at best Caucasian in the Earth Kingdom.

The casting for the show is just all over the place, really.

Perhaps we should snowball this into a 100 page yelling match on racism in Hollywood! I'll put 10 down on Prems, he's got 2:1 odds against Nique and Funka.

4. I found something! Some evidence! The movie trailers!

There's plenty of trailers running around here. My speculation:

1. Movie is going to be too super serious, losing a lot of the light heartedness and comedy of the TV show.

2. Iroh's actor FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

3. Fights will probably be awesome

4. I'm taking fireworks into the theater to celebrate it if its good, heckle it if its bad, and blow up fireworks either way because I have my tickets preordered for July 1st already.

Movie Trailer 1
Movie Trailer 3
Japanese Intl Trailer

There's another trailer floating out there with some shots of Appa and Momo, but I haven't found them.

06-28-2010, 06:12 PM	#1
Azisien wat Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,177	Fuck you M. Night Shamwow, the Last Airbender totally sucked! SPOILERS: If you haven't seen Avatar: The Last Airbender, I can't imagine myself not dropping a spoiler or two. If you plan on seeing either the TV show or the movie at some point uh...Sorry, I'll do my best. Hay guys so I'm actually surprised given the solid Avatar: The Last Airbender following that there wasn't a peep of this up until I decided to put finger to keypad. Let's see what are the major points to hit here, a few days off from the movie release..... 1. Avatar: The Last Airbender is Fucking Awesome I'm probably a Class-5 Avatard, which means I'm willing to have real life arguments with people to defend its honour. I don't know if its my favourite show EVER, but it's easily top 3. It's certainly the most well rounded and light hearted. The TV show was short, relatively low on filler, and an ideal balance of action, comedy, drama, and the journey of teenagers that can shoot elements out of their hands. When I heard a live-action movie was in the works, my Class-5 Avatard self kicked into immediately caution and pessimism. Wait, WHA- 2. The Guy That Made Signs and Shit Is Making This? What a twurst!! The only redeeming factor about this guy is that he has two daughters that loved the TV show. We have people on the inside in case the movie is atrocious and we need to partake in a little bit of assassination. There are some worrying things about a live-action movie. One thing I'm not worried about is technology. I thought, and the trailers don't lie, that we were at a point where we could make bending elements look sexy, and it's true. The worrying part about a live-action movie is the inevitable changes that will be made. Part of the changes need to be in the interest of time, and that I can understand. The other will probably be changes to please wider audiences. As if Avatar needs changing, seriously. There are flaws of course, and some crappy episodes, and characters that leave things to be desired, but the core of the show is essentially flawless, and simply a good watch. How could someone take the entire first season of the show, condense it into a little over one and a half hours, still cover everything, and still make it the Avatar: The Last Airbender we all know and hate/enh/like/love/avatard? The sad truth is, it is more or less impossible, at least for someone under the whip of Hollywood. Someone willing to bend (snicker) to the overminds that control the big giant water-down generic-ifying machine that gets poured onto any big screen release. 3. Screw following the show as a guideline for cast ethnicities, this is AMERICA, so it shall be...THE SHINY GOOD WHITE GUYS VS. THE BIG BAD MEAN BROWN GUYS! This is a big talking point, because, well, racism and Yellowface and such. Even though Avatar's status as an actual anime is probably false, it's basically an anime, and the entire mythology of the whole show is taken straight out of Asian themes. The god damn characters are Asian, or Inuit, or at best Caucasian in the Earth Kingdom. The casting for the show is just all over the place, really. Perhaps we should snowball this into a 100 page yelling match on racism in Hollywood! I'll put 10 down on Prems, he's got 2:1 odds against Nique and Funka. 4. I found something! Some evidence! The movie trailers! There's plenty of trailers running around here. My speculation: 1. Movie is going to be too super serious, losing a lot of the light heartedness and comedy of the TV show. 2. Iroh's actor FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 3. Fights will probably be awesome 4. I'm taking fireworks into the theater to celebrate it if its good, heckle it if its bad, and blow up fireworks either way because I have my tickets preordered for July 1st already. Movie Trailer 1 Movie Trailer 3 Japanese Intl Trailer There's another trailer floating out there with some shots of Appa and Momo, but I haven't found them.