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

[Mike McC]

Originally Posted by Azisien

Troll or brain damage perhaps?

Terrible troll. Completely transparent. Probably made of cellophane. (Though, he at least can get stinking drunk much faster!)

I mean, just HOW high do you even have to BE just to DO something like that........

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

I'm not trolling.

(I'm sorry Prem. Excepting the stupid "The bad guys are BROWN everyone else is WHITE" Racist Tag on it all, the movie was really entertaining.)

Yes, because Prem was the only one bothered by it, or has really even been particularly vocal about it at all. Though I bet being the one singled out and apologized to about any concerns regarding race relations is something that bothers the ever-loving shit out of him--as it would anyone--and maybe it would be great if folks quit doing it.

[Azisien]

In full seriousness, I'm not even hating on it because it's related (Is it?) to Avatar: The Last Airbender. Any hype I had for the movie were dashed like two days before I even saw it. My expectations were as low as they can possibly be for a movie. It was still the worst movie I've ever seen in my life, ever.

I want to dissect Nikose's brain.

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by Azisien

In full seriousness, I'm not even hating on it because it's related (Is it?) to Avatar: The Last Airbender. Any hype I had for the movie were dashed like two days before I even saw it.

Racebending aside, My hype about the connection to Avatar went out the window when I heard electric guitar in the trailer.

[Nikose Tyris]

Yes and when I show that my apology was in a poorly placed sentence and not about the racism it's the perfect time to bring up the thing I already clarified. You're still my favourite POS. <3


http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zuko10.jpg <- Anime

http://i44.tinypic.com/33aqbdj.png < - Movie


That stood out to me as pretty starkly different. Yes they are all themes of asian but with the constant "West" references, I made an assumption, and apparently that's singled me out to get picked apart in a thread where apparently I'm the only person who can look at a movie, see and agree "Yeah those are some awful issues" and still enjoy a movie? Good to know, I'll refrain from saying I like anything anymore that disagrees with the crowd.


Edit: Apparently I just have terrible taste. Carry on, then?

Edit2: God damn it why am I always gettin' called a racist/implied that I said something racist. I need to seperate my sentences with tags and quotes to be sure there's no issues with this anymore, damnit.

[POS Industries]

Well, Nik, what did you think was actually good about it?

I ask because I really really want to know what you saw that apparently no one else on Earth did, regardless of familiarity with the original work or not.

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Edit: Apparently I just have terrible taste. Carry on, then?

That's really what this is, I watch stuff All television ever everyday that's kinda really racist, and judge it on it's own merits. Pretty much every review goes "bad acting, rushed story, too much talky, not enough movie"

[Nikose Tyris]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Well, Nik, what did you think was actually good about it?

I thought the actors they picked for the lead roles were fantastic, excluding the Fire Lord.

Prince Zuko played his role amazingly well- the scar was severely underplayed and wasn't nearly as large/noticable as it probably could have been, but the character played out the emotions I expected from him and that alone was fantastic.

Iroh came across with this fantastically strong personality, really an Obi-wan or protective Uncle feel to him and since that's just what he was, it was perfect. I enjoyed everything about him, especially towards the end of the movie.

Aang was too old and not nearly as playful as I was expecting, but despite the terrible casting here, he did fantastic with being convincing in his role- and Shaymalayakamehameha did some great scene cuts at the end that made most of the group I was with actually tear up a little bit. [expecting insults with this line quoted.] Aang wasn't perfect but the actor salvaged the role very well.

Katara, I know nothing about from the source material at all- but what we got was a responsible younger sister who advanced in her water bending talent and showed a few good training/bending shots alongside Aang and those were really neat to see. The Actress was mediocre and she felt like she was played down in the script.

Katara's brother I can't even remember his name but he was such a mook in the film, excepting 1 time, with the boomerang toss, that I have nothing good to say about him.

The shot of Zuko's sister was really fuckin' impressive. She was in the film for maybe two scenes, probably not more then 5 minutes of screen time total at all- and she managed to leave a serious intimidation factor that goes beyond "Oh, she's a little girl, that means she can probably kill everyone in the room." (I have since had it confirmed that, yes, she probably can.)

As for the plot, it was a hacked together conglomeration of Book 1 or whatever, and despite taking out a lot of filler and a lot of great story tokens ((Like changing Zuko's fight with Katara from something long and epic into "whoops looked like I knocked your ass out, my bad!" which I got to watch on MariusTwilight's computer when I got home, and holy shit guys that was so much better then what we got in the movie)) But overall the story does it's job of telling what's going on and where we can expect Book 2 and Book 3 to go. M Night is already on record saying he wants to do / is already doing those, right? Because just dropping the issue at book 1 and not finishing everything would be horrible at this point.


Actually, the last half hour of the movie was severely changed from the Manga/Anime and while I didn't know until afterwards, I think a few of the changes were good, the rest were most definitely bad.


Overall, the movie was definitely a 7 in my books. Good enough to take a date to, bad enough that you won't regret making out the whole movie.


I think I got all the spoiler tags in the right places, if not, I'm sorry!



Edit: Also, the movie was probably really pretty, but since I have a lazy eye and had to watch it in 3D, I didn't get to make out most of that. All I got to see was blurry people and blurry effects, so I was disappointed with that.

or for anyone that didn't understand that, Lazy eyes mean 3D glasses are worthless.

[Lithp]

Do you notice that, in your explanation, the vast majority of things you "liked" about the movie, you basically say, "That was terrible, but it could have been worse"? 'Cause that's a bad sign.

[Nikose Tyris]

Honestly, no. I didn't just say what I liked, I pointed out things I didn't like as well. Overall, a movie is made for me by how well an Actor plays a character and how well the script was written for said character. Visuals are just an aside. Most of the major players in the movie were fantastically done, and despite M Night having the script touch his hands I think he did a good job overall.

Also I seriously think his daughter helped him heavily with this- he claimed in the little news blurb I read that he only did the movie cause his daughter was watching the show and made him watch it. The script does show a lot of "This was stupid I wanted this to happen!" fanfiction towards the end.