So looks like The Last Airbender is sh!t :angryface:

[Ephemeral]

When does it come out?

I never let reviews influence rather I see or like a movie.

 

[Jayden]

It smelt like a turd months ago.

 

[Ephemeral]

I was very upset when they fired the original Asian cast and replaced them with a predominately white cast.

The entire world was based on Asian traditions, languages, and way of life. The characters in the show were clearly Asian, so that was strike 1 to begin with.

 

[hotb0d]

I knew it would be bad the moment I saw the trailers. Especially the trailer where prince zuko faced off against katara, the live action movements are just too slow and corny in comparison to the anime series.

 

[Ephemeral]

^^Damn, the least they could do is disguise the terrible plot with flashy 3D. If they can't even distract viewers from their lack of writing and directing talent, then all hope is lost.

 

[hawkia]

I'll wait for the book.....or not

 

[gsdx]

I was very upset when they fired the original Asian cast and replaced them with a predominately white cast.

But the resemblance is uncanny!

 

[slyfer]

But the resemblance is uncanny!

This would be relevant if Zuko didn't actually end up becoming a hero. Good try though.

 

[slyfer]

I knew it would be bad the moment I saw the trailers. Especially the trailer where prince zuko faced off against katara, the live action movements are just too slow and corny in comparison to the anime series.

If you go back and look at alot of the fight scenes, there's a decent amount of slow-mo moments in there. I can think of a couple right off the top of my head. So why wouldn't they do the same in the movie? My only real upset is that they're probably not going to do the Master Pakku vs Katara fight which was hands down the best fight in the Book of Water...

 

[DigitalFudge]

I cannot WAIT to see this effing movie


You guys just dont understand

I cannot explain to you my desire to see this

I will foam at the mouth during every scene.

 

[Mike68]

Aw man. Still want to see it though..

 

[hotb0d]

If you go back and look at alot of the fight scenes, there's a decent amount of slow-mo moments in there. I can think of a couple right off the top of my head. So why wouldn't they do the same in the movie? My only real upset is that they're probably not going to do the Master Pakku vs Katara fight which was hands down the best fight in the Book of Water...

I can understand the slow-mo in the anime series. If they are to translate that to the live action movie...it should be something like the matrix....fast fighting scene, THEN slow-mo. But instead the movie, it's just SLOOOOOWWWW.

 

[gsdx]

This would be relevant if Zuko didn't actually end up becoming a hero. Good try though.

To be perfectly frank, I'd never even heard of this story/programme until the movie was being made. I don't watch animé.

 

[Wtrain]

To be perfectly frank, I'd never even heard of this story/programme until the movie was being made. I don't watch animé.

It's not really anime

I for one love the cartoon... but I'm not expecting much from this movie.....

 

[hotb0d]

^^^it's definitely not a cartoon. The term 'anime' is a better fit to describe Avatar.

 

[gsdx]

It's not really anime

^^^it's definitely not a cartoon. The term 'anime' is a better fit to describe Avatar.

I have no idea, really. Someone mentioned animé above and I thought that's what the movie was based on.

 

[gsdx]

Your post did help illustrate the very weird casting though.

Sort of like Jake portraying the Prince of Persia or Kevin Costner trying to portray Robin Hood?

 

[Ephemeral]

oh god... especially Jake

He's not that good of an actor to begin with. He sucked on The Day After Tomorrow (okay, that entire movie was horrid, but still) and Brokeback Mountain was flatout boring.

 

[wenchine-mahtapasikan]

This would be relevant if Zuko didn't actually end up becoming a hero. Good try though.

It would be good if it was just a try. It may have been a success.
I think it's enough, for certain ignorant and/or susceptible audiences, that he even requires redemption. This reinforces a colonizer/manifest destiny (save the savages from themselves) dialectic/rationale/mentality that motivates even modern travesties such as Iraq. I wish we lived in a world where fictional characters and the idiots who cast their real-life doubles didn't have so much power, but they do and they clearly abused it. Having minorities in villain/dark angel roles in the media may even be documented for its prejudicing effects.
Although Asia is lucky to have been spared the proverbial Rooseveltian "Big Stick" (phallic much? lol, there's a whole lot of bullshit about analyzing the sexual undertones, some homosexual, of the colonizer dynamic), there's still room for the US to fuck up (*cough* China *cough* North Korea *cough*). While I believe there's legitimacy in the concerns for the way things are run in countries like those, we Americans have a misguided tendency to hurt when we help. We think we have all the answers, and we don't (especially not me, I can't even pass history). People who have suffered under these regimes probably have the best idea of what should be done about the regime they've only know for ummm... ALL THEIR LIVES. Bringing it back to topic, Zuko in the cartoon (not gonna watch the movie) can be an exemplar of this. He shows very valuable internal knowledge of the Fire Nation and suggest the better solution to defeating his own Father. Aang was stupid, risking the fucking world for his fucking conscious. Disney morals aren't flame retardants, just retarded.
Aang though, was a lot like the US is, and will be if we keep feeding ourselves this manifest mentality crap. He ignores a perfectly reasonable solution from the person who has the most investment in the enemy, and risks everything just to maintain his hippie pacifist values. Yay!!! You fucking spared the motherfucking firelord!! W00T!!! Now... can you explain the people he charbroiled in your honor? Of course it didn't turn out like that, but it could've. Zuko was right, with his overly sexy voice actor. God his voice and looks are too fucking sexy to be wrong. I digress... from my digression.
God, I have no problem with ignorance. I'm very ignorant myself. It's willful ignorance and the presentation of your societally supported ignorance as the higher knowledge that irks me. I think the way women are treated in many (not all) Arab communities is atrocious, but I am in no way qualified to be the authority voice to tell them to repent. And that condescension! What is it with people here? Jeez. Yet another reason I hate my generation. I hate how we praise people for their wit and "keeping it real". That shit ain't nothing more than an unnecessarily rude power trip, phallic ego stroking behind the curtain of internet anonymity!
Good try though. You made me waste my time on this shit nobody will read instead of preparing for lab.
Somebody let me know how that Eurocentric train wreck turns out. Hope there are survivors.
FEEL MEH!

 

[wenchine-mahtapasikan]

*Correction. Asia was not fully spared the big stick of the West, I meant that they got more of a love tap with it than something like the prolonged beating of Africa and the Americas. "French Indochina" and "Ceylon" for starters have gotten this "love tap". Don't get me started on how much Asia was burned by the not so "Cold" War. I suck at history, as well as life, but most people know enough to know that's bullshit.
Man, what the fuck am I doing here? I'm still mad at Avatar for not having a Fourth (air) Book to be heard of. It's not like there weren't open ends in the finale.
1. Reconstruction
2. Leftover hostility between nations
3. Natural disasters/Other random threats that the nations unite face
4. ZUKO'S MOTHER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!!!!??!!!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! (Big hole)
5. More of Zuko's crazy ass sister!
6. Bender hybrid babies?!? (Water Bender mother + Earth Bender father = Mud/Quicksand/Tar bending baby. Lol Tar bending baby)
GAAAAAAH. C'mon writers!! Earn your money. There's still room.
Flameeo!