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(Avatar) The Last Airbender


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PostPosted: Jul 07 2010 10:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Okay I saw this with my little brother a few days ago. And actually watching the series when I was younger I was pretty disgusted by this
It's 8% on rotten tomatoes and hatred by most major movie critics speaks for itself but I still feel like bitching.

They pulled plots out of nowhere, changed good plots that set a lot of things for the story around and just made them pointless. An example would be is when Aang is captured by the fire nation. That occurs in a forest and he is taken to a fire nation military base. In the movie however, he is taken in a temple that was shown early on in the series and then held at the same temple. If that isn't bad enough another example would be them adding the little scene at the end where the comet that an old Fire Lord used to kill the airbenders was said to be due in three years, while in the series, it takes Aang a full year from when he gets out of the iceberg, to when he defeats the Fire Lord

They also jumped between major plot points in the series at a rate that was both quick, and didn't allow for any actual plot for the movie to develop. They basically (well rather they did) took the first oppertunity to just directly say "We're going to get people to teach you this stuff then your gonna kick this guys ass"

and at the end they said that the comet was due in three years while the series only took a year for Aang to get out of the iceberg and defeat The Firelord.

So combined with horrible dialogue, shitty actors and casting, and a gross destruction of the the series story. I think that The Last Airbender should go like the Eragon movie did.
Die with the first movie and not have any sequels made.
That is, unless they hand the job to a more talented director who fires the entire cast and then treats it as though the first movie didn't exist and makes up for it with an exceptional second movie.



 
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PostPosted: Jul 07 2010 11:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Thanks alot, Roger ebert.


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PostPosted: Jul 31 2010 03:17 am Reply with quote Back to top

Good god that movie sucked. And M.night obviously decided that his race the indian race should be more important in a movie where they didn't exist. The fire nation is inexplicably indian for no fucking reason and because they are indian they now get almost all of the attention. They focus way too much on the bending, which was supposed to blend with the movements, not zoom in on the poorly made fire.

THE FIRE BENDERS CAN'T MAKE THE FUCKING FIRE! WHAT THE FUCK! THEY CAN ONLY MAKE IT WHEN THE COMET COMES! WHAT THE FUCK! AANG IS NOW ONG! WHAT THE FUCK! ROKU ISN'T EVEN IN IT! WHAT THE FUCK! THE BLUE SPIRIT MASK HAS FUCKING TONS OF HAIR! WHAT THE FUCK! THE AMAZING ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK TO THE SHOW WAS NOT REORCHESTRATED AND INSTEAD REPLACES WITH SOME DULL FUCKING GENERIC SHIT! WHAT... THE... FUCK.

I hate this movie. I am going to write a new screenplay and post it online, it will gain support and that movie will be made!!! THESE ARE FACTS!


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PostPosted: Jul 31 2010 05:36 am Reply with quote Back to top

Spanish Meatloaf wrote:
The fire nation is inexplicably indian for no fucking reason other than the fact M. Night Shamwow is and because they are indian they now get almost all of the attention.

Fixed. Also, yeah I regard these live action debacles about as much as most Iron Chef Fans admit the existence of Iron Chef USA with Chairman Shatner.


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PostPosted: Sep 04 2010 05:40 am Reply with quote Back to top

I saw this yesterday. Great effects, shitty acting, plot holes so big they could eat up the whole planet... M. Night Shyamalan shouldn't consider himself to be an artisté filmmaker. Instead, he should come out of the closet and admit he's gay for Uwe Boll.

The "romance" subplot only lasts three scenes and it's even worse than the new Star Wars. I don't know how he achieved that. Go see it only if there isn't anything else worth seeing at the cinema... Or just stay home and rent the series on DVD.


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