Avatar - Hell yeah

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Oh, no, there is a heavily multiracial cast with one white kid, whatever shall we do?

Come on. People had WAY more reason to bitch about the Dragonball movie because they had no good reason to do the casting that way. Aang from the cartoon could EASILY pass for white to start with if everyone didn't simply assume he was Asian because of his outfit.

The kid they chose is in no way wrong for the role. In fact this has to be the LEAST white a Hollywood movie has ever been, or damn close. Yet people find reason to bitch because there's ONE white person in the entire cast? Fucking George Lopez had more than that!

Ahem, I just linked to the IMDB Page, the joke therein being the "Ultimate Troll on the Fanbase" was the movie itself.
As for the rest of your "argument" wel... I just don't know where to start.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Premonitions

Ahem, I just linked to the IMDB Page, the joke therein being the "Ultimate Troll on the Fanbase" was the movie itself.

My assumption was that I was supposed to be looking at the cast list, but fair enough.

Don't see the movie.

Seriously, if people really want to protest the egregious attempt to capitalize on a popular franchise by dumping millions of dollars into making a homage to it, they shouldn't pay to watch it.

On the other hand, maybe it'll be totally great and people will come crawling back. If it's shit, word will get around pretty fast and it'll fail based on its own merits. If it's okay, people will probably see it because people don't expect much else these days.

Really, though, with how wide a fanbase Avatar has in the first place, if fans just refuse to see it, the production won't even break even.



Edit: I'm going to ignore your edit, because it'll likely be some big to-do if I don't, and I really don't want to have to deal with that when we're talking about arbitrary fiction.

[TIME BOMB]

its amazing how many people are quick to hate a movie that no ones seen yet. By the way, anyone see the new trailer that premiered on the superbowl yesterday? I think its looking pretty aight.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by TIME BOMB

its amazing how many people are quick to hate a movie that no ones seen yet.

It's amazing how quick people are to give the benefit of the doubt or even like a movie no one's seen yet.

[Warrioroflightfromanother]

I saw night after premiere night and didn´t know anything about Avatar before watching the movie except it had some new technology.

Got to say I didn't like this. Sure it was very beatifully done but still story was way too predictable and the world wasn't so unique either. All those blue guys are just basically elves from different fantasy books. That "hairbonding" was only nice detail.

It had good actors and it was nicely done, still I would say Shadow of the Colossus easily has much more unique scenery and many other games. This movie is definately not worth the hype.

[Tev]

Wrong Avatar thread friend. This is about kids with elemental powers, not blue monkey people reenacting Fern Gully.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by NonCon

It's amazing how quick people are to give the benefit of the doubt or even like a movie no one's seen yet.

Glass half empty much? As a self-respecting reviewer, you should know you can't review something before it's out without your bias essentially negating your viewpoint.

Frankly, I don't care about the movie one way or the other, since I don't pay for cable and therefore haven't seen the series. On the other hand, I'm feeling surly and have to say I can't in good conscience form a full opinion of a movie based on a single trailer that doesn't really give much away or come off as a collection of the best scenes.

[Archbio]

As a self-respecting reviewer, you should know you can't review something before it's out without your bias essentially negating your viewpoint.

People can have negative expectations for a variety of reasons, and express them. I'm not sure what "viewpoint negation" is supposed to even mean, but I'm sure it doesn't change that basic fact.

[Tev]

Well I'm just now getting around to watching the show and am about half way through season two. It's not a bad story at all and unfortunately I'm beginning to see the movie previews with a whole new wave of apprehension.

As many people have pointed out, it's going to be hell to properly pace a movie to the show. Even if they go the route of making one movie for each of the three seasons I really think some of the more important themes are going to be lost in translation.

It kinda sucks now having an emotional vested interest in this movie. Before I could just laugh it off and not worry about how seeing the movie would ruin my feelings for the show. Now....now I feel a slight tinge of pain when I see the trailer.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Glass half empty much? As a self-respecting reviewer, you should know you can't review something before it's out without your bias essentially negating your viewpoint.

There is no way for them to squeeze everything from the series into even three movies. A lot is going to get cut out and the pacing, something I loved in the series, will be ruined. There is no way for it not to be.

The series could be dark at times, but often had a much more lighthearted tone. Everything I've seen suggests that the movie is taking itself deadly serious, which, for a movie based on Avatar, is really stupid.

Every M. Night movie I've seen has been worse than the one that came before it, in my opinion. Even if you disagree and think that he's a good director, that does not change how I feel about his movies. I do not expect this pattern to change simply because it's based on something I like.

What little I've seen of live-action movies based on anime gives me the impression that they tend towards mediocre at best. The source material doesn't seem able to function in a different medium very well. I have no reason to think this will be different.

I think all these add up to pretty good reasons to assume the movie will be no good.