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91749 No. 91749
>>91748

As mentioned above, I am feeling morbidly curious:

Is there anyone that honestly _prefers_ the movie to the series?
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>> No. 91750
I, um, really liked the costumes.
And Jackson Rathbone is still hotter than the flames of hell you bitches are going to burn in.

The rest of it sucked :(
>> No. 91751
Personally I thought that most of the movie was pretty dire (both in it's narrative and direction), but that being said there were one or two aspects of it that I rather liked, and I'd even go so far as to say that I actually preferred the non Koizilla conclusion (it just seemed more in keeping with the 'Ong's a pacifist' spirit of the story than the same scene from canon).
>> No. 91752
That poster only reminds me how drab and colorless the movie was. I'm told this is an effect of adding 3d.
>> No. 91755
>>91751

I gotta say, I disagree with the Koizilla bit. Aang pretty clearly wasn't in control, so what the Ocean Spirit did through Aang's power isn't something that should be held against his pacifism. Especially given that the very next episode, the start of season 2, establishes that Aang is actually quite fearful of the Avatar State and what it's power can make him do. Think Superman's "World of Cardboard" speech, actually, it's pretty close to that.

Besides, what was M. Night's alternative to Koizilla? (I'm also totally convinced that he dropped it for fear of CGI costs, rather than any narrative choice) Ong enters the Avatar State completely on his own free will, and with masterful control, scares away the Fire Nation Navy. Keep in mind, mastery of the Avatar State was something Aang acheived approximately 15 minutes (give or take depending if you view Energybending as opposed to putting out the fires as the mark of true mastery) into the last part of the finale.

This, literally, does not happen until there's about nine to ten minutes left in nearly 24 culminative hours worth of show. This is something that was a driving undercurrent in the story since season two, if not since the second episode when we're actually introduced to the idea...then M. Night went and added it almost as a footnote to what would be only the start of the second third of the story, effectively destroying an entire series-spanning character arc in a moment of blazing idiocy.

So, in short, the Ocean Spirit and any destruction it may have caused isn't something that can be attributed to Aang, and the alternative the movie presented was something that completely removed a facet of Aang's character in the story.

>>91752

Actually, the movie was already pretty drab and colorless. Adding 3D would made it worse while actually watching it had the 3D effects actually...existed. Seriously, the only 3D in the movie was during the credits, the rest was just making the movie look slightly out of focus.
>> No. 91756
>>91751
Then you didn't understand what was happening during that scene. That wasn't Aang. It was the ocean spirit possessing Aang and hijacking the Avatar state for vengeance.
>> No. 91757
>>91755
And the Fire Nation didn't lose a single ship. What's stopping them from coming back once Aang is in the Earth Kingdom?
Besides, the whole "as the Avatar, you're not supposed to hurt anyone" was bullshit.
>> No. 91759
>>91757

Yeah, especially since it's canon that the previous Airbender Avatar, Yang Chen, was so hardcore about her duty that there wasn't a single war until 200 years after her death out of fear/respect for her.

Yang Chen was the Avatar-verse Chuck Norris.

(Well, they had Firebenders and Fire Nation Marines as hostages/POWs, but that brings up the uncomfortable implication of what they might do if the Fire Nation tries something.)

That was another thing, who the fuck was I supposed to root for in this movie? The Water Tribe had people that straight up murdered an lone, unarmed, fireless, enemy commander in the streets rather than hold him hostage or even put him on trial (if they even knew he was a commander, and not just a brown guy in the wrong color of armor,) and Peltz froze Patel and left him to die. One side was full of idiots and warmongering murderers and the other side is full of idiots and slightly more passive murderers.
>> No. 91760
>>91755
Yeah, about the Avatara state thing. With Aang being able to enter the Avatar state by and will while still maintaining complete control... what would have been the point of the second two movies? He's already got what he needs to win, stories over.
>> No. 91761
I liked the approach that was taken in regards to Aang's tattoos right up until it got all Christian on us.
There is genuinely nothing to like about this movie and that makes me feel bad for Dev Patel. Hopefully this won't be the end of his career.
>> No. 91762
>>91761

Dev's career hasn't really managed to take off in the first place, much less be ruined by a bad movie. He was the one among the four main cast members to take the longest to get mentioned for another project after this one and it's pretty much just a movie based on Skins, so it's not a new role. The other three all have new stuff set up. I mean big movies (with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in the case of Ringer.)
>> No. 91763
I really liked the costume and set design in the movie.

Interesting note: I took the movie and put it into a video editing program (a free one I downloaded off the internet, VirtualDub) and I messed around with the color saturation and with little effort I was able to make the movie look much, much better.
>> No. 91771
>>91763

I'm curious. Can you post a couple caps?
>> No. 91773
>>91763
I keep hearing the set design being lauded but honestly I never saw anything that was all that impressive.

As far as the costumes go...meh. Even cosplayers have pulled off more impressive feats.
>> No. 91774
>>91755

Well I did say it was my personal opinion. ;)

As for Aang not being in control of Koizilla, well that may or may not be true, but the point is that even if he wasn't directly responsible for the resulting carnage, I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't have blamed himself for it anyway (and, beyond his fear of once again losing control, I can't remember anything in the show that suggested he ever did).

Oh, and as for Aang being fearful of the Avatar State, well I'm pretty sure that that starts way back towards the very beginning of season one, when his reaction to seeing Gyatso's remains almost results in his new friends getting hurt.

I do agree that Ong's control of the Avatar State does pretty much screw up the plot for the proposed sequels (though I rather suspect that M Night had lost all interest in the project long before he actually started filming this first instalment), but then screwing up that part of Ong's story arc seems less of a problem than messing up a pretty important part of Aang's core personal philosophy, at least it does to me.
>> No. 91776
>Is there anyone that honestly _prefers_ the movie to the series?

My four year-old does, even though I own the series on DVD. I figure it's because the movie condenses Book 1 into a two hour disaster. More time for the vidya.
>> No. 91777
>>91774

Well, when he saw himself in that nightmare at the start of the next episode/season, it was fused to Koizilla. Perhaps the damage to the Fire Nation was light on actual casualties or perhaps Aang eventually came to the conclusion that it wasn't his fault, the series only gave us a glimpse.

Plus, I don't think he was in control of Koizilla, but I don't think he willingly fused, either. Aang is sensetive to spirits, and he went into the Avatar State before fusing, which was an involuntary loss of control at that point for him. Not only that, but the Ocean Spirit kept on trucking over to Zhao after leaving Aang on the wall. I think it only needed his Waterbending power to keep it's form as Koizilla, rather than Aang specifically being the one who made/was controlling Koizilla.
>> No. 91815
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91815
My family liked the movie over the series. They tell me my bias and criticism are invalid because I've never watched it. They have the cartoons are for kids act your age mindset.
>> No. 91818
>>91815
>They tell me my bias and criticism are invalid because I've never watched it.
If you haven't seen it, they're kind of right. Don't get me wrong: the movie is terrible. But your opinion on the quality of a piece of entertainment, even a terrible one, can't be said to count if you haven't seen it.

But honestly, that's not a good enough reason to watch it even so. Unless you watch it with the RiffTrax or something. That might stop it from being a waste of two hours.
>> No. 91824
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91824
>>91818
The nice thing about this situation is they won't watch the animated series before hoisting similar complaints. Also I get all my opinions from the internet because I don't dare think for myself.
>> No. 91825
>>91815
>>91824
>They tell me my bias and criticism are invalid because I've never watched it.
>they won't watch the animated series before hoisting similar complaints

lol hypocrisy
>> No. 91827
Uh... it has a nice soundtrack?
>> No. 91829
>>91824
That is rather sad. I would ask them to take a look at the series if they want you to sit through the move.
>> No. 91830
>>91827
It's true. I pirated the soundtrack and have it in my regular shuffle list.

...it's just not a very good ATLA soundtrack. Too generic for that, but not bad on its own.
>> No. 91831
>>91830
I must admit I've been a bit curious about that, does it take any cues from the series at all?
>> No. 91833
>>91831

Basically? No.

If these sorta-leaked MIDIs of the inital soundtrack were real, it kinda did at one point, but the actual soundtrack is a pretty generic triplet-filled (been forever since band, would the time signature be 4/6 or something like that?) adventure soundtrack where you get the feeing James Newton Howard was asked to kinda phone it in or use a composition he had laying around. It would be just as at home in Pirates of the Carribbean or some other, similar, movie.
>> No. 91834
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91834
I've asked this in previous threads on the regular /co/, and now I'm curious to hear +/a/ weigh in on the topic:

If there was to be a third movie made, and it included Ong, Soaka, and Katara disguising themselves as Fire Nation citizens, would that mean they'd have to paint themselves in brownfaces?
>> No. 91837
>>91834
That would be hilarious. If they used Apu accents I believe I would die laughing.
>> No. 91838
>>91834

Also, would Summer Bashil and whoever wuld have played Mai and Ty Lee have had to pull their eyes back and wear white makeup?
>> No. 91846
Could someone remake this in the future. It might take a while, but it would really great if a person who stuck to the story and actually knew what he was doing made the entire trilogy.
>> No. 91847
>>91846
I doubt any studio would want to invest in it. Maybe they'll give it another try in 30 years or so.
>> No. 91848
>>91846
Here's hoping.

>>91847
I doubt it would take that long. Then again, you might be on to something. Seems Hollywood is remaking/doing sequels to movies that first came out 10-20 years ago or so.
>> No. 91849
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91849
She just has that face you want to ruin, so innocent.
>> No. 91855
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91855
>Colbert saying Osama's watching Last Airbender in 3D in hell
>> No. 91857
>>91849
This would be creepy if it weren't true.
>> No. 91859
>>91849
>>91857
No, that would still be creepy.
... and it isn't true.
>> No. 91861
>>91859
>>91857

Kaiji disagrees.
>> No. 91864
>>91863
Oh man, oh man, this guy!
He delights me.
>> No. 91865
Maybe instead of following the story as it was laid out in the show, whoever gets the reigns will focus more on Aang and friends having magical karate adventures with that 70's kung fu spin to everything.

Avatar Aang and the School of the Dragon
Avatar Aang and the Shadow of Omashu
Avatar Aang vs Mecha Aang
Super Avatar Battle: All Avatars vs Koh the Face Stealer
>> No. 91867
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91867
>>91863

>Аватар!QLmkNEynEY
>> No. 91876
http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_Airbender_2
What a shitfest.
Even before that, the movie whoring ruined the Avatar wikia for me.
>> No. 91878
>>91876
Hopefully The Last Airbender stays The LAST Airbender. :)
>> No. 91883
>>91876
The series was still getting a movie and everyone was excited. Don't be an asshole.
>> No. 91887
>>91883
How is he being an asshole by hoping the wikia people wouldn't be fawning over that shitfest of a movie and changing the theme of the whole place to match it?
>> No. 91902
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91902
>>91876
>Toph actress thread
>All site users
>mfw
>> No. 91912
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91912
>>91876

>some douchebag with a Johnny Bravo Avatar is still using the same disproven, fucked up arguments to excuse the blatant whitewashing

It's like I've been warped back to last summer!
>> No. 91913
>>91912

Haha, that's Hasdi. I've argued with him on the Wall Street Journal's page for the Korra casting.

He's hard-core pro-casting, pro-movie, and pro-M. Night, far as I can tell, and worst of all, he's a mod at the Wiki.
>> No. 91914
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91914
>>91913
>hard-core pro-casting, pro-movie, and pro-M. Night
>mod at the Wiki.

Well, that explains things.
>> No. 92045
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92045
>:D
>> No. 92046
>>92045
That made my-
*puts on shades*
Night.
YEEEEAAAAAAAAHHyoutube thumb
>> No. 92052
>>92045
>>92046
+1 internet
>> No. 92054
>>92045

With my powerful deductive abilities, I can now state that you've been visiting "Mark watches Avatar" Daniel.

Am I correct?
>> No. 92278
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92278
I love Booter-Freak and I want to have her little Booter babies.
>> No. 92781
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92781
While slightly tipsy I drew a really boring comic inspired by one of Yue's lines in this atrocious film.

It is a source of endless jokes with my bro and I. Our fancanon is that poor Princess Yue is very sheltered and extremely bored and so she watches the ocean like my college roommate watched soap operas.
>> No. 92785
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92785
>>92781

>it's waving at me

luls
>> No. 92786
>>91912
Is the mod on the Wiki and the one on Deviantart who founded a club dedicated to hyping up this shitty movie( and still defending it and it's shitty casting) one in the same?
>> No. 92787
>>92786

No, Hasdi has his own account. The founder of the Last Airbender Fans is "Orlandobloomfn" AKA Light Eco Sage. She's an all around nitwit, and her fanfic "Duty Versus Love" includes a laundry list of items and events that irk me or otherwise send me into a fit of rage in fanfic. Almost anything that can irk me, short of Zutara or a high school AU, is included in that one.
>> No. 93012
I really hope there will never be a sequel.
>> No. 93014
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93014
>find this on DA
>gag gag GAG gag gag

Not that this is the first time I've seen TLA icons or support on DA, but the very notion of someone fangirling like that over this movie set me off.

>>93012
I think it's safe to say that everyone here feels that way too.
>> No. 93175
>>92787
Ugh, don't remind me. I used to like some of her older fic, but "Duty" just rubs me the wrong way, in every possible manner. Cliche "Azula breaks out, is super evil" bullshit, some generic NPC somehow mastering Spiritbending, and furthermore actually being able to defile the Avatar with it, bullshit breeding subplot for even more drama. Bleh.

Plus, not a big fan of how she writes the cast, though that's somewhat of my own bias as well, as I'd like to think that the Fire Nation as a whole deserves more screen time.
>> No. 93191
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93191
>Type "Legend of Korra" poster into Google after seeing the ones in the Korra thread
>Very first hit is lastairbenderfilm.com
>My face
>> No. 93221
Is it wrong that I liked Ong's tattoos and how the firebenders needed fire to bend? Not that I didn't think it was stupid, but I thought it would make bending easier if they did something like that. Like if they did both, bending the fire that was already there, and producing their own it would be cool.
>> No. 93223
>>93221
> I liked Ong's tattoos
I liked the approach that was taken with the tattoos with them being made up of small symbols rather than a solid band of colour. But they completely lost me with the Christian imagery and nonsensical inclusion of Qaballic symbols.
>the firebenders needed fire to bend
This is completely fucking stupid. Why? Because any of the other benders can easily snuff out an external source of flame. If fire benders were entirely dependent on carrying small flames with them everywhere there's no way they logically could have become such a powerful nation. But as was demonstrated on the show, fire benders capable of pyro-genesis were the masters of fucking shit up with massive fire blasts that the other benders had a hard time contending with.
This movie is and always will be a giant piece of shit. Nothing can redeem it and I'm mad because the new show has that fucking name attached to it. Hopefully the movie will just be forgotten altogether.
>> No. 93251
>>93223
>Because any of the other benders can easily snuff out an external source of flame.
That would be true if it were the show, where the combatants seem to actually think and move and stuff. But nobody seemed to realize it in the movie, so clearly fire that's being bent is cursed or something.
>> No. 93252
>>93251
>so clearly fire that's being bent is cursed or something.

No, its because the movie was badly written. Don't delude yourself here. Just like how it was completely illogical to imprison Earth Benders in a mountain valley. This movie was "How NOT to Write Movies 101".
This movie is a bad movie.
>> No. 93253
>>93252
I know. I wasn't suggesting the "curse" theory seriously.
>> No. 93734
How are the tattoos christian? Is it something about the shape that they make or the design or something?
>> No. 93735
>>93734
It was in the shape of a cross. I'm not saying Christians have a copyright on two lines joined at a 90 degree axis, but when people see a cross they think of Jesus Christ.
>> No. 93741
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93741
>>93734
>>93735

that and Aang's tats in the show had nothing of the sort
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>> No. 94547
If the movie sucked. Why discuss it?
>> No. 95646
>>94547
Because why not?
>> No. 96841
Down In Front uploaded their commentary for the movie today. Can't wait to listen to it later on. Gotta love the tagline too:

>As Shepard Book says, sort of... there is a "special hell," reserved for child molesters, people who talk in the theatre, and folks who blow opportunities like this.

http://www.downinfront.net/index.php?id=145
>> No. 96843
>actually liking the change of fire benders not being able to create their own fire

Nope.
>> No. 96844
>>96841

>giant wave better than koizilla.

Come on...
>> No. 96845
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96845
>>91749
No.
>> No. 96847
>>91759

Finally managed to see parts of the movie.

Fucking Terrrible.

It had some nice effects and imagery, but everything was just so goddamn subpar to the show.

Clothing? Drab and uninspired.

Portrayal of the characters? Fucking abysmal (what the fuck was M Night trying to do with Aang's character arc?).

Pacing? Non exstant.

Coreography? A FUCKING CRIME!!

Seriously, the bending used in the movie is so fucking stiff and stupid looking. It has no fucking flow and it's all over the place.

AND THAT FUCKING NARRATION!!!

You know, I'd dare say that the same cast, under another director, might have even made a nice Avatar adaptation (you know, if you could put the whole racebending issue aside for a moment).

>and Peltz froze Patel and left him to die.

I'll be honest, that was kinda badass. OOC for Season 1 Katara, but badass nonetheless.

Specially sweet after the way Shyamalan completely fucked up her fight against Zuko at the oasis.
>> No. 96878
I feel like this needs to be reposted.
Avatar The Last Airbender - Af…youtube thumb
>> No. 96881
>>96878
Are you fucking kidding me?
>> No. 96884
>>96878
>>96881
Spot the crewman that wanders into the shot!

It's at 1:15.
>> No. 96894
Gonna say this right now
>Aang gets made white
>THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
>Heimdall gets made black
>THIS IS PERFECTLY FINE

I personally feel that there was no problem changing the ethnicity of the characters in Avatar.
>> No. 96895
>>96894
Or race rather. But you get the point.
>> No. 96896
>>96894
>Main, Title Character that the franchise is based around. Played by a newcomer with absolutely no acting experience or, as it turns out, ability of any kind.
>Minor Character that's in all of two scenes and serves almost no purpose beyond being a meat gate. Played by an accomplished award winning actor.

If you don't see the difference between those two cases then I don't know what to tell you except that the Heimdalls are made black because the Aangs are made white. Studios don't want to bet on a movie that stars minorities so they cast white people. But they don't want to appear racist, so they cast minorities as the best friend or sidekick characters. One action is a result of the other.
>> No. 96897
>>96894
I understand why you feel it's hypocritical but maybe this will help:

Casting a black actor for a character that is traditionally assumed to be white is accepted because it is depicting a person of color in a positive role.

Casting white actors as characters who are expected to be of Asian or Inuit ethnicity is not accepted because it implies several negative things. 1) The movie will not make as much money if the protagonists are not white. Assumes the target audience cannot empathize as well with non-white characters 2) There are no suitable non-white actors to play the protagonists.

Essentially it's the difference between promoting a race that is typically stereotyped, ignored or oppressed, and diminishing the importance of depicting main characters who are ethnically diverse.
>> No. 96900
Personally, I think the race (or skin color, if truly ambiguous) of the characters should remain the same unless there's a really compelling reason to change it. It shouldn't be that hard. But unfortunately, racism and racial preference is still alive and well. If nothing else, I'm at least glad we got the Racebending group due to this stupid movie. Maybe things will start to change.
>> No. 96905
>>96897
Equality doesn't just apply to non-white people
>> No. 96906
>>96905
Equality has no place in the movie business. Neither does M Night Shyamalan.
>> No. 96908
>>96905
Poor, oppressed, underrepresented white people.
>> No. 96910
Maybe we could try to educate more than react in a hostile or condescending fashion?
>> No. 96913
>>96908
Im not saying that white people are underepresented, what im saying is that you cant call something equality when its biased towards one group of people.
>> No. 96914
>>96910
>Educate
Lesson 1 in adapting an original work: make sure your version is logically self-consistent.
There is no way in the thousand Chinese hells this movie's cast would've made a god damn lick of sense beyond book 1 when, at various times, some or all of the characters are supposed to be in disguise and indistinguishable from the prevailing racial appearance of the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation.
>> No. 96918
>>96913

Then frame it as an issue of inequality instead. Using a biased system against itself. Equality assumes the casting call didn't stress "Caucasian" before "or any other ethnicity," as if non-Caucasian is some sort of "other." "Yeah, we're asking for Caucasians...or anything else, I guess." Equality assumes the movie didn't reserve every last speaking protagonist role for White actors (Suki played by Jessica Andres, half-filipino and half-white, would have broken the mold, but she was cut from the movie. Gabrielle, who played Yue, is a lot of different ethnicities, but she just put herself as "white" on her MySpace anyway and she does absolutely nothing but kill herself in the movie so franky, she doesn't count.)

At the same time, the issue of ethnicity and accuracy to the source material isn't as large an issue with Thor: The Asgardians were basically Space Techno-Wizards, not actual Norse Gods, and Marvel never cared about authenticity to the original legends (Thor has red hair, for example.) Idris Elba can now join the list of actors who were able to play originally Caucasian characters...yes, he gets to join Will Smith and maybe two or three others. The Last Airbender gets to join the list of movies that outright replace Asians and North American Native (just those two, never mind any other minority) which goes back as far as the start of Cinema itself.

This isn't an issue of "X can only play X in movies." This is an ongoing issue of "X-" (meaning Asians and Inuits in TLA's case) "-can't play X, but Y-" (White actors) "-can play X, and has always been able to play X." In any case, "reverse racism" isn't an issue in Hollywood right now, the opposite is.

>>96910

Remember when I said that we dealt with a troll going on and on about how anime is better, female characters are annoying hags who never get what they deserve, and that Avatar needed violence? How we dealt with that guy for long enough that we knee-jerk react? Take that, now make it go all the way back to December of 2008, where we first heard of what happened. Imagine that we're not shooting down a troll, but arguing amongst ourselves and with others. Constantly having to tell people why this was wrong and why simple equivalencies like Idris Elba or Will Smith don't equate or nullify what happened here. Imagine that went on for a full year and a half until the movie was released. Now you know why we're shooting down a guy who says it wasn't a big deal.
>> No. 96920
>>96894
First of all claiming there was no problem with casting Heimdall as Black is false. There was a very large shit storm about it on /co/.
Furthermore before the whole Miles Morales thing, there was a shit storm when some black comedian( Donald Glover or something , i think his name was) merely suggested ( more like made a comment in jest) about pursuing the role of Peter Parker for the next Spider Man movie and all hell broke loose with weekly threads about them not wanting a Black Man in the Spider suit. ( Also go into any Ultimate Spider Man thread)

Not to mention Hollywood has a long history of Whitewashing everything from fictional to historical characters and no one seemed to have a problem with it. It's been mentioned often that the old TV series "Kung Fu " was originally conceived by and was to star Bruce Lee in the lead role, but Hollywood felt that audiences couldn't handle a Chinese lead in the role of a Chinese character and so you have David Carradine playing "Kwai Chang Caine".

Before The Last Airbender even came about they did the same shit with their awful adaption of Earthsea for SyFy. Fans and even the original author got in their shit about it, and a lot of the same lame ass defenses i hear about the Avatar casting were there as well.

God forbid there is a series or movie without Caucasian's cast as the lead in a major action fantasy based on a popular kids show.

That shit aside it was just a bad movie on it's own merits, horrible non acting, horrible dialogue and exposition! Exposition EVERYWHERE!

Shyalaman claimed to be such a huge fan of the series and claimed to understand the themes represented in the show as well as the characters and their personalities and motivations

Yet the movie itself seems to have been made by someone who only saw maybe one or two episodes of the series, and doesn't give a flying fuck about the source material. Looking at all the care that BryKE seem to pour into the world and characters, TLA seems straight up disrespectful to the source material. Well researched themes and philosophies, written languages, culture that went into creating Avatar's world were stripped out almost completely. The real martial arts that inspired the bending forms were replaced by what looks like rubbish dancing.( They really couldn't get Sifu Kisu? Or at least Yuen Woo Ping? for fight choreography? ) They fucked up the very mechanics of bending themselves as well making them the least effective thing ever. They took what was a unique IP and turned it into a boring, souless, generic fantasy.
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>>96920

Well, okay, yeah. There was a shitfit about it. Let me amend it by saying that I don't think there should have been as large an issue, especially over a minor character and in the face of everything Hollywood does.

Oh man, though...Kisu was a great critic of that movie. Especially how flippant he was over it all. When talking about his involvement I believe he said they picked up a reference DVD he made for them, gave him his money and after a quick "cha-ching" in his mind's ear, he walked out. He figures they didn't even use it. I love how Shyamalan claimed to be staying true to the martial arts of the series, then openly admitted to using Krav Maga as a reference for the Ong vs. Zuko fight in the Northern Water Tribe. He also reversed the ideas of their fighting styles. Mike and Bryan once said that an unwritten exchange was Zuko realizing he needs to box Aang in during a season 1 fight (I forget which one) to stop him moving around and get close. M. Night said that he took the idea of Krav Maga and Ong getting too close to Patel to get hit.
>> No. 96927
>>96924
>Oh man, though...Kisu was a great critic of that movie. Especially how flippant he was over it all. When talking about his involvement I believe he said they picked up a reference DVD he made for them, gave him his money and after a quick "cha-ching" in his mind's ear, he walked out. He figures they didn't even use it.

He figured right. I imagine them waiting just until he closes the door behind him, then Shyalaman and his people on the set snickering as he snaps the DVD in half and tosses it in the trash. "Who is he to tell me how martial arts and bending works, i made The Sixth Sense, motherfucker!"
>> No. 97275
>>91749

Anyone linked to this here before?

http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/The_Last_Airbender_2010.aspx
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>>96924
>Mike and Bryan once said that an unwritten exchange was Zuko realizing he needs to box Aang in during a season 1 fight (I forget which one) to stop him moving around and get close. M. Night said that he took the idea of Krav Maga and Ong getting too close to Patel to get hit.
Okay, I haven't seen the movie, for obvious reasons.
However, I could see that working. Just not the way Krav Maga would do that. Aangs a smaller dude and Zukos going to wreck him the fuck up.

However, assuming Zuko went into his fight in his usual style (powerful high kicks, traditional punches in long stances) it might be a good idea for Aang to move in close. Air bending is based on Ba Gua Kung Fu. Moving in close, circle stepping around him and staying in low stances like the picture, could be a good strategy for Aang, and it could have worked thematically if it incorporated water bending, especially the grappling aspects of Tai Chi.

Actually, that could have been good forshadowing for later in the series if he realized water bending isn't just for pushing around water, but can be used for locks and throws. Would have built up to the "elemental divisions are illusions"
>> No. 97283
IMHO, M. Night just FAILED. It was so bad that even people who were against the casting realized that that Asian actors not being casted for the main "good guy" roles was a blessing in disguise. I still feel awful for Dev Patel and can't help but sympathize with the fans who feel sorry for kid who played Aang. He seems like a sweet kid.
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>>97283
He has a head shaped like a potato. His cheeks stick out so much I feel like they're gonna burst from the screen and poke me in the eye.

Seriously, am I the only one who see this? He looks absolutely ridiculous. The awkward closeups sure as hell didn't help.
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>>97285
I don't even think the casting was intentionally racist.

I just think everyone was high as fuck. M. Night probably snorted a ton of coke when he was going through auditions.
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