>>70418
The bending looks pretty cool.
>>74239 That's about all that looks cool.
I think I figured out the twist. Soaka and Katara are adopted. They're Air Nomads, but in the movies, bending is all about the location, so Katara became a waterbender instead of air.
This shit again? Goddammit.
Umm, where the fuck is his scar?
Also wallpaper if anyone wants.
>>74243 you don't see the faint mark by his eye?
>>74243 THIS Also, WHY THE FUCK IS IROH FUCKING SKINNY!?!? RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGEEEEEE
>>74243 Maybe at this point in the movie he doesn't have it yet?
>>74241
>>74246 You call that a scar? Looks more like he was bitchslapped by Azula.
>>74243 Skinniness and unimpressive scar aside, I ... I am actually looking forward to these two. Just these two. I really, really think they will be pretty good. The rest of it? Somewhere between apathy and revulsion.
"Who farted on my pillow?!"
>>74252 I'm >>74243 and I agree with you. Patel is a brilliant actor and I loved Slumdog Millionaire. But, they could've at least tried a little harder with his makeup.
>>74254 Yeah its weird that they made aangs Tat really darn awesome, but half-assed the scar.
>>74255 I don't know, I wish the tattoo was all connected like it was on the show, instead of just being in pieces.
>>74256 Well,what I really like about it is that they took the tatto and brought it into the real world with out loosing anything, kinda like how they gave Peter organic web powers in the spider man films. With zukos scar it seems they went waaaaay to realistic.
Lincoln: You’ve seen the blueprints. Michael: Better than that. I’ve got 'em on me.
>>74257 Only problem is that when he grows bigger, his tatts are gonna morph like a muthafucka.
>>74258 The twist is that the tattoo has the secret to spirit bendding on it.
>>74260 He just can't read it because he can;t see it. Brilliant!
>>74254 Oh hell, yeah. Even just for plot purposes. It should not be hard to notice, except in high-quality, well-lit pictures, that Zuko is scarred. He's supposed to have about a quarter of his face utterly fucked up.
So, I just saw the preview for this thing. It looked pretty cool. I was a little disappointed by skinny, evil looking Iroh, but Aang's tatoo looked pretty cool, the siege on the northern tribe looked swell and the bending looked awesome. But I saw Zuko a few times- and I thought, "well sure, he looks just as angry and evil as he did in the first season, but there's something off." then i saw that closeup of creepy Iroh and Zuko, the one posted above. I can let a lot of things slide in movie adaptations- but downplaying a MASSIVE SCAR that was a MASSIVE PLOT POINT just goes too far.
>>74258 Holy crap, do you think *that's* why the Air Nomads go with a simple blue arrow? They can just touch that shit up, no problem, no need to go all nuts with recreating or covering up the screwed up parts? Also, am I the only one going kinda "wat" at Peltz's line "I knew you were real"? He's the *AVATAR,* of course he's goddamn real, there's an island just north of you that was *made* by the Avatar..
>>74258 It says...... Don't trust the skull?
>>74238 .... not bad. Iroh and Sparkla sound pretty cool, and from the little bit of the latter's voice we hear it sounds like he may have some of animated Sokka in him. Aang I'm still waiting on some lines to judge. But Peltz's Katara ... call me crazy, but I'm rather looking forward to her. Seems she'll be Katara without the "grrl power" angle that they had to give her due to being the main girl in a cartoon and she's left with the "religious fanatic"/"tearbending" parts of her character. I doubt we'll see any of the final "MY MOTHER IS DEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAD" part unless/until we meet Jet in movie 2 and her revenge subplot with Zuko and the SR even makes it into the movie. Speaking of Zuko, tiny baby scar notwithstanding, he looks damn cool. At least he seems to have the angstry teenager part down.
>>74267 You're crazy. Brace for damzeltara in distress...Maybe not in this film, but I will put money on done by film 3.
It just occurred to me that there's gonna be at least one scene where serious Aang is not so serious: flying on Appa again for the first time. How could you not smile while riding on Appa?
>>74270 >How could you not smile while riding on Appa? By being a bad actor.
This is such. bullshit.
>>74257 Bad example. Organic webs over self invented mechanical web shooters meant we lost a practical application of Peter's scientific ability. Then they pulled the "runs out of webbing" card ANYWAY for the second movie.
>>74273 To be fair, Peter lost his powers for pretty much the same reasons in at least one of the earlier comics. As for James Cameron's the Last Airbender, I will give it this: the voices sound pretty spot-on.
>>74267 FYI, Katara wasn't grrrl power by default. The fire nation fucked up her family, her mother sacrificed herself so she could live, leaving her the last waterbender in the south and robbing her of her childhood. She discovers Aang and subsequently follows the carrot of getting a waterbending master across the globe only to be told 'lol no ur a gurl'. Rightfully, she gets fucking pissed after all that and asks Pakku outside. I'm afraid the movie will remove/change all of that and reduce her to a mere love interest. Bleh.
>>74276 >James Cameron's the Last Airbender
Somehow Katara's even more annoying when she's white.
>>74277 Oh yeah, definitely. I forgot to mention there that I still hope they keep the Katara vs Pakku duel somewhere, even if I can't picture room for it anywhere. I was talking about Katara's bits of characterization on the network's part, not anything to do with the story.
Hey, by the way, on Reddit, there's a guy who says he was a Fire Nation soldier in the development of the film, and he's doing an AMA ("ask me anything"). So you should pop in and ask some questions, maybe something interesting will come up! http://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/b0n2k/i_worked_in_the_upcoming_movie_the_last_airbender/
I want so badly to hate this. But I watched that trailer and my brain went "FUCK YEAH." I am so sorry, fandom.
You know what would be a Cue Cullen moment for me? If they made a trailer using the narration from the show's intro. It summed up the concept perfectly, and they've even got some of the right shots for it.
I like it.
I won't lie, I thought the ending narration ("He will need you, and we will all need him") was a pretty bitchin' line when applied to the series. Also I'm happy to see the glider was kept. Mostly I'll be pissed if Mai isn't Asian. (...and hot.)
>>74250 This. >>74258 It still looks like a (Celtic) cross to me. >>74282 Trailers always lie... trailers always lie. Frankly, it just made me depressed.
>>74289 You're about two years late on protecting us from trolls from other sites.
>>74281 > However, in the scenes I was in, I was usually trying to kill Aang, which kinda diminished his perkiness.
>>74289 That was me, and fuck you. This place isn't a seekrit club, and hasn't been for some time. And I really don't like this tribe mentality you're pushing of "pro-casters" and "anti-casters." If you don't want anyone who disagrees with you to show up on this site, then double fuck you.
>>74267 So, Katara goes from being a bitch, girl power lover to a poor, defenseless simple love interest? I was about to say that the latter was worse, but honestly, I'm not even sure anymore.
>>74294 Whoa, there. It sounds like you're saying that Katara isn't awesome. That's a paddlin'
>>74295 Yeah, I guess you could take that from my post. I like Katara, it's just that sometimes she gets on my nerves, specially when she goes GRRRL PWRRR. And let's be honest, both of the attitudes I just described suck hard.
What pisses me off even more than everybody being the wrong color is Iroh not being jolly and Zuko not having a reason to be angsty about his massive, disfiguring scar.
>>74297 I would’ve preferred they cast an actor who looks more like Iroh, like Artie Lange.
>Zuko not having a reason to be angsty He got attacked by his father and booted from his land because he was trying to save people. The scar's size isn't the important thing.
>>74301 OMG! OoC! Aang is smiling!
Where are you getting movie Katara being defenseless and void of personality?
>>74301 If they redid the show using those designs, but kept the voice actors, I'd be 100% okay with it.
>>74302 Every time he sees his reflection, every time people are shocked the first time they see him and look away, every time he touches his face, he is reminded. His father may as well have written "Weak Faggot" across his forehead.
So... NOT ASIAN... 'A' Katara has ANEEEEMIAAAAA-
>>74307 You act like you can't feel a scar or phantom pains. Also people tend to make things bigger than they are in their head. So no the scar doesn't need to be bigger for the character's story.
>>74289 Dude, people come making arguments *for* the cast or against the protest, me and about six other people argue and debate right back. Trolls come by, we report or ignore them. We're not some lone bastion of sanity from the evil of avatar-spirit.net >>74302 >>74310 Maybe, but it's more just a "oh, I wonder how he got that?" type of scar than a "holy crap, did you see that guy's fucking face?!" There's a different psychological response to a disfiguring scar that keeps you from fully opening your eye compared to one that you can cover by resting your head in one hand, or that you can't see if it's kinda dark. According to rumors, softening up Zuko's scar and making it so that he had friends in the Fire Nation platoon that was going to be sent as a diversion/bait was a conscious decision to lighten his backstory.
>>74313 I don't think I like the idea he has personal reasons to speak up against his father. I liked it more when he had nothing to gain for speaking up against a group what was about to die because he was a good person.
>>74304 Yeah, all I said what that Katara was going to be more fervent about her almost-religious belief that "the Avatar would return". I mean she could still be badass, but remember that this is a Season 1 movie, and Season 1 Katara was at Sakura Haruno levels of usefulness until the last 3 episodes. Even then she only gets 2 good fight scenes, her challenge to Master Pakku and her duel with Zuko.
>>74315 Exactly. Now he's just being a whiny little bastard who was looking out for his buddies instead of a benevolent ruler type.
>>74313 Maybe the intention is to make him more of an actual villain? Than essentially, mostly being the antagonist for having grown up in a different environment than the heroes? And more of a ... stereotypical 'redemption story'. If this is the case, that really blows.
>>74315 >>74321 Have we had any actual confirmation that this is actually in the movie and that that dude wasn't just pulling it completely out of his ass?
>>74326 Seems like a strange thing to make up. If he was just fishing for drama, wouldn't he have invented something jucier instead of a tiny detail about one character's backstory? Shipbaiting and racewank make for better entertainment if you're in it for the lulz.
>>74302 Size does matter!
I'm still not paying to watch this. >_<
Anyone have/have a link to the "I have destroyed the moon" .gif? I lost track of it when the sticky changed.
>>74334 the first link in this thread links back to the old thread.
COME TO JAMAICA
>>74343 Ay mon! We 'avta melt Ozai's iceh heart wit a cool island song!
>>74343 ...I would watch the shit out of this.
part 2
>>74345 You're not the only one. I... I sort of want this <:| The one silver lining in this casting is that we can call Zutarians pedos, now that Katara looks actual-14.
>>74343>>74346 I LOVE IT :D
>>74343 >>74346 AWESOME. >>74347 *checked the DA, realized they were serious* ................
>>74347 Age is no limit for fantasy sexytime, my friend.
>>74347 ....Okay seriously guys. Stop it. This is creepy. This is many levels of creepy.
>>74363 She did like, five of these (I didn't check the artist's gender, but I'm making a safe assumption.) Plus there's a few similar things already floating out there. I mean, seriously? It's like all they needed was a decent screencap to get started.
According to IMDB, Rohan Shah is "Young Prince Zuko." Apparently he studies hapkido and wrote a bit about it for a school project: http://members.torontohapkido.com/2008/03/hapkido-reflection.html
>>74365 >> It's like all they needed was a decent screencap to get started. Considering the nature of Katara's and Zuko's relationship in the series, what have Zutards ever had that could be called substance?
>>74375 Jeez, what is he, a year or two younger? Why would they even need to hire a slightly younger actor?
Jon. Jon! I killed the Moon!
So apparently the inspiration for Aang's new tattoo design were "sak yant" or "yantra" tattoos, which come from areas in southeast Asia (makes sense considering the southeast Asian look of the Air Temples the trailer shows). Sheds light on a few things I was wondering about, like that odd "square grid" pattern on Aang's tattoos.
Also, those thin vertical lines I was mentioning earlier? Those are also present in these Thai/Cambodian/Burmese/Khmer tattoos.
>>74489 That is actually pretty cool.
I like how there is so much dick sucking for this movie now, when previously, so many of you didn't even want to give it a chance because NOT ENOUGH ASIANS.
>>74506 Ah, our beloved TMC, I was wondering when you'd show up again. If it makes you feel better, I'm still against this movie 100%
>>74506 >previously Actually...
>>74506 Yeah, no. I'm still not seeing it.
>>74506 >Implying I ever considered to watch this abomination.
>>74506 My problem always was, and still is, with the casting itself. The movie could turn out fantastic. That doesn't change my stance that I still think it's been terribly miscast.
If anything, while many people get excited for new stuff for the movie, the more info that gets out, the easier it is to convince people to boycott it, or at least not see it for one reason or another. If it's not the casting failures, it's hiring on the guy's behind Indiana Jones and the Bourne movies to do the Kung Fu, or the ultra srs interpretation, or even just Shyamalan's name. When protesters go to conventions to spread the word, they'll sometimes hardly even need to lift a finger. Also, one rumor and one observation. Apparently, everybody except Mike and Bryan was specifically forbidden from working on the movie before a single camera was taken out of the box, not just the VA's. Sifu Kisu apparently asked if he could provide his services and was denied. Observation: It seems that Seychelle Gabriel, actress for Yue, is listed as "Caucasian, Latin/Hispanic, Sicilian, French" on IMDB, but only puts "Caucasian/White" on her myspace. I guess she identifies as white, kinda like Cameron Diaz (Father was Cuban-American, mother was of mixed English, German and Cherokee heritage.) In all honesty, that could mean exactly nothing. I just wonder if it's something worth noting, since Paramount has made an issue of her ethnicity as a defense from criticism before.
>>74506 What thread have you been reading? Cause that certainly doesn't describe this one.
Hey guys, That post (http://members.torontohapkido.com/2008/03/hapkido-reflection.html) by "Rohan Shah" is not the same Rohan Shah. I am one of Rohan's sister's friends, who rooms with her in college. He is a really nice guy! He studied tae kwon doe though. (Sorry if i misspelled it). When he was shooting, he was only 13, so he looked much younger than Dev. Just clarifying...
>>74587 I said it in the YouTube comments, and I'll say it here, no, they aren't really all that close. The movie trailer's banking on a lot of it's focus on something I've seen called "recognition glee." http://seeking-avalon.blogspot.com/2010/02/recognition-codes-box-office-draw.html In some ways, it's hoping people just keep that sort of Pavlov's dog type reaction of "Oh, look! Appa! That one scene in the first episode! Hell yeah!" enough to pay for the movie and stay seated long enough that they can't demand their money back from the theatre.
>>74605 You realize you can get your money back, even if you sit through the entire movie, right?
>>74607 No idea, the only time I ever wanted to get my money back from a movie was when I was watching The Spirit, and instead of getting my money back, I just went into the theatre showing Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler.
Hey guys. Posting my opinions on the trailer real quick because I only have a few minutes. 1. White Katara is weird. 2. Sokka is way too serious. 3. I don't really like what they did with Aang's tattoo. 4. Zuko and Iroh are the only things in this movie I want to see. 5. And maybe Appa. 6. And Momo if he's even in it. 7. I agree that this is most likely going to be "Ember Island Players: The Movie" but I'm still not convinced either way about seeing it or not seeing it. Frankly if the trailer for a movie doesn't make me instantly want to watch it, I usually don't until it's on HBO or something. That's all for now.
