Delgo is better than this movie.

Shyalaman makes a shitty movie, film at eleven.

I like how Shyamalan takes us for 5 year old mentally handicapped children.
So Aang (Sorry, Ong as the pronunciation goes) goes "I NEED TO GO TO THE NORTHERN AIR TEMPLE," and immediately hops on Appa to fly to there. It then takes us to a temple on really high ground.
Shyamalan doesn't even try to put in dialogue "THIS IS THE NORTHERN AIR TEMPLE"
instead, he puts in large captions at the bottom of the screen: NORTHERN AIR TEMPLE. This continues throughout the movie, which feels the need to put these captions to let us know whenever Ong, Katara and Sohkka travel through the Earth Kingdom whether they are in NORTHERN EARTH KINGOM or NORTH EASTERN EARTH KINGDOM.

Now we have a thread that doesn't break my notebook every time I try to post in it, time for a box office update!

Coming off a $69.3 million 5-day holiday opener, The Last Airbender made $5,385,151 on its first weekday Tuesday. It's slightly behind Toy Story 3, both dropping 53% from an inflated holiday Monday.

It's not exactly setting the box office alight (that's what Twilight's doing, it made over $10 million yesterday), and summer weekdays tend to have cushioned drops in any case, but it's doing nowhere near as terrible as it should be. Its total is now $74.7 million.

Chances of a sequel are going to hinge on overseas box office, but don't hold your breath, Airbender's international release schedule is the most dragged-out arbitrary exercise in nonsense I've ever seen for a summer blockbuster: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/releaseinfo

Doesn't look like we'll get a clear picture until September at the earliest. Hilariously, it doesn't look like it's getting released in China at all.

>>81568
International market is going to eat that shite up.
Fantasy movies always do well. So do franchise films.
And when 90% of the market doesn't know what bad dialogue in english sounds like, I think we're seeing a sequel.

There's another bit, though. The majority, as much as 56%, of the money this movie made in it's opening were from 3D sales. The movie isn't as wildly popular as it sounds, it's just using a damn fine money-making scheme.

>>81570
Do foreign theaters have fewer 3D theaters than the US does, and if so does that mean that international numbers will be reduced?

>>81569
I think so too.
Question is, will Shyamalan be staying for the sequels? Does he have a contract for making the whole trilogy, or could they replace him and his "darker and richer" fail sequel?

Y'know what? Fuck racebending. The damage is done and shows no signs of being changed. What really needs fixing is the goddamn dancebending.

Problem?

  The same questions were asked.

>>81572

He was hired for the whole trilogy, with a combined budget and all sorts. A lot of costs in this film were downpayment for future instalments. But from the sound of things it does seem that making the next two films needs an explicit 'go' order from Paramount.

>>81570

3D's always a weird bastard to gauge. From past experience it tends to reward legs (Coraline, Avatar, HTTYD) and punish frontloaders (Jonas Brothers, Clash of the Titans, Shrek 4), so next weekend's drop is likely to be steep. Then again, 3D penetration in overseas markets is pretty well developed. Cinemas here in the UK have rapidly adopted digital projection.

It's 'cheating', and ain't anywhere near as popular as it seems, but money's money no matter how it's misbegotten.

There's nothing official about the sequel, just Shyamalan spouting nonsense.

>>81579

I must admit to being unsure what the official position is. Early word was that the entire trilogy was greenlit in one go, so Paramount will have to suffer a financial penalty to 'ungreenlight' them, but then we have Shyamalan waiting on tenterhooks for an official decision, which casts doubt on the 'trilogy contract' dealie.

You know, I'm going to have to fess up to this sooner or later...there is an impish little voice squeaking in the bowels of my mind that honestly hopes this awful, awful movie does do well to show Nick that the Avatar franchise has a reputable and lucrative market. I'm trying to shut the damn gremlin up, but it's getting difficult now that Airbender actually looks within a hair's breadth of pulling this off.

If there is to be a silver lining to all this, it's Nick greenlighting Legend of Korra to shore up Airbender's market share. Ironically, it might even improve the series' prospects if the movie's position continues to be this precarious and fragile, since it becomes Viacom's last great hope for associating the franchise with something decent. Compare to Transformers:Animated, independent in spirit to its summer blockbuster tie-in, where the movie's presence became so curbstompingly overwhelming that the cartoon was crushed under its imposing weight.

Admittedly, this is almost certainly wishful thinking...

>>81578
And isn't that the saddest fucking thing? If this movie doesn't fail financially as badly as it did critically, the studios will order 2 more out of sheer greed.
The casting perpetuated Hollywood's racist preferences, the story was badly adapted, the actors were terrible and on a whole it did nothing but piss off the fanbase. Yet we could end up with two more of these steaming piles of shit because SOMEBODY has to make some fucking money. Never mind integrity or dignity or anything like that.
Also, sadly its looking more and more like Racebending.com's boycott didn't work. They did a commendable job at getting everything organised and getting mainstream media outlets to acknowledge the issue. But they couldn't reach Mr. Average McShitforbrains Moviegoer with his "Let's watch shit blowup derp!" mentality. People are stupid in large numbers and sometimes there's just nothing to be done for it.

There's a lot of redundant dialogue, isn't there? From Yue's "believing in our beliefs" to Katara's narration more or less saying "A hundred years ago everything was good until a hundred years ago when it stopped"

>>81592
Yeah, or "is there a spiritual place?" "there is a very spiritual place" -- I fail to understand just how these things would not have been caught if there had been any editing at all.

Oh, and enjoy this gif from othellia on capslock_atla.

>>81593
That's not editing you're thinking of, that's just having a good ear for words. Which Shyamalan doesn't. The editing of this movie was one of the few things I liked about it, at least in terms of how long shots lasted and how they were framed. This is why I'm convinced Shyamalan is a great technical director but a lousy screenwriter.

>>81592
Not to mention at one point Katara's narration went something like, "and then Ong took us to the northern air temple." And her first line of dialogue in the actual scene is, "What's your name?"

I also find it fucking absurd that they decided to follow this kid from the home they've known all their lives without knowing his name! The gang had no natural motivation beyond blindly following some semblance of the Avatar cartoon's plot; they didn't even decide they were going to the north pole until after the earth kingdom prison scene, if I remember right. It reminded me a bit of a D&D game where the player characters have no in-story connection to each other but inexplicably decide to hang out.

>>81597
Too many jump cuts.
Too much slow motion.

The former is great for suspense but not this genre of story. The latter isn't good for anything, and only novice action directors use it because they think it's "cool."

>>81599
Why even bother having slow motion if there's not something going on that you want the audience to get a good look at anyway?

>>81597

Another good one from the thread.

>>81565

Yeah, that was one of the many little annoyances, along with name pronunciation (there was a 30 year old guy behind me and my brother who groaned the first three or so times they said "Ong", then he just gave up).

But yeah, Shayamalan screwed this one royal. Dialogue, acting, pacing, story, camera angles, editing, casting...The movie felt like it was lurching from plot point to plot point, and only felt remotely smooth and natural after they got to the Northern Water Tribe.

A thought that occurred to me.

>>81603
>>81593
>>81575

Mari has birthed dancebending into a meme.

>>81571
Foreign =/= 3rd World
Besides, I've lived in 3rd World countries.
Most movie theatres are international chains. If the company has enough money to build a theatre (one with 13 large theats inside them) it's got money to install 3D projectors.

>>81637
...just sayin'.

>>81603
My day has been made.

>Yo dis flick was the bomb!?!?! I espeshullyliked dat charakter dat did dem karatee kicks and his head be all glowing n stuff i wuz like “WUTT” when his head glowed for da first time n dem eyes,dem eyez . he did da crazy eyes dat wuz my favorite part i jumped outta ma chair and yelled “YO” and threw sum popcorn at da screen cuz it blew my mind how ill it wuz. yo dis m nite shumulank haz a big career ahed of him dis gotz to be da illest director debew ov all time,OF ALL TIME! I hope dey make a part 2 and put in more karatee kikks nawmean!?

Posted on capslock, made me lol and wish I had Avatar fan friends in real life.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Heartless_Demon/?action=view&current=BestoftheLastAirbender.mp4

So....uhm....any pictures of Azula in the film yet?

>>81650

This one was just posted on /co/.

>>81651

There's one other one, a .gif, of the scenes she shows up at in the end where she says something, then does some weird lip-flap thing that's supposed to be a crazed smile.

Zhao is such a dick in this movie. I kind of like it.

>>81650

In an alternative universe, director N. Might Shyalaman filmed a flawless adaptation of The Last Airbender that managed to capture the spirit and style of the animated show.

>>81667

Many didn't think he would ever work again after the debacle that was "The Sixth Sense" but studio executives hired him again. Displaying the keen insight and forethought that made them one of the most beloved and respected profession in the industry.

>>81603
>>81667
>>81674
A+, would LOL again.

>>81674
Surprisingly, Lady in the Water was still shit.

>>81687
>Unsurprisingly, Lady in the Water was still shit.

FTFY

>>81687

Bullshit. Lady in the water was a masterpiece of comedy. Lampshading and mocking the self-importance of many Hollywood writers and directors. Sure it was a different direction than his more serious work. But it was still a great film.

I mean come on. He was even willing to make fun o himself. The scene where he cast himself as the self important writer who gets disemboweled by his own creation thanks to his overwhelming ego? That was pure genius.

Hey! It's that time again!

Airbender made $4,340,399 yesterday, compared to $5,385,151 on Tuesday. It fell the hardest of all the major releases today (19.5%, compared to 17% for Eclipse and 11.5% for Toy Story 3). Pixar's latest is building a substantive lead over its family competition.

Going by current trends, Airbender's takings should drop below $4 million tomorrow, and with so much competition next weekend coupled with shallow summer drops, we could be looking at a $15 million second weekend, leaving it just shy of $100 million in total US revenue by the end of Sunday. Current total is $79,040,879.

Bad news for Airbender, excellent news for us.

>>81701

Does it justify the cancellation of any existing trilogy contracts, though? Given DVD, video game, and network syndication profits aren't even close to being tapped yet?

>>81703

All of that still has to make more than 130 million to justify it. If the movie falls short 50 mil from it's budget all of that has to make 180 million to break even, and breaking even is almost as useless for future installments.

Actually the movie needs to double its budget (which was around 280 millions), 50% of the ticket price goes to the theater .

>>81703
Nah. Exit clauses on film contracts are ususally played on when the movie just doesn't make money period.

>>81704

One thing to bear in mind, the studio doesn't get back the entirety of a movie's box office. In the US, studios get a 55% cut of cinema revenue. Overseas, it's a bit more varied (Europe is close to American rates while in Asia it's as low as 12%), but on average is around 45%. Since US and international box office for major movies have historically been near-identical to each other, in effect the two balance each other out. In practice, this means that studios gauge profit and cost almost entirely on raw domestic box office, since it's generally assumed that overseas box office will at least match it (a fairly safe assumption to make, especially for fantasy films). Bone-crushingly expensive blockbusters like Spiderman and Pirates of the Caribbean would be completely unprofitable if they depended completely on US box office.

However, ward off any thoughts of counting the marketing budget against the movie. Pic related, much of it is self-perpetuating schmaltz that largely pays for itself. Any cost overruns are paid off by DVD sales, since it all goes in the same pot. Marketing budgets aren't counted into blockbuster costs for that reason, since while box office revenue goes directly towards a cohesive product playing in the multiplex, the consumer pap that surrounds it flails off in all directions.

>Check Twitter
>Nathan Fillion Avatar, the Last Air Bender was the best dance movie all year.

>>81721
Hahahaha, oh man he's the best. :3

>>81721
Oh man:
http://yfrog.com/menvvj

>Water bending on my off time.
>posted by @NathanFillion from Twitter for iPhone 12 mins 11 secs ago

>>81722
(If I put it in parenthesis, it doesn't count as a derail.)

(I would just like to point out that the character in Maritova's post is from a show called Wakfu. I you have not watched Wakfu, stop reading, stop posting, and go fucking watch Wakfu. That is all).

Now to stay on topic. Man, The movie sure sucked. Sucked hard. Yesiree

>>81724
(No words. But I think it's a rather well-known show. Especially in these circles. Just sayin'.)

>>81649
"FOIYAHBENDASH"

>>81723

Clearly I must finish Firefly.

(Also, I can't seem to get a handle on what Wakfu is about, or what it even *is*--keep hearing stuff about an MMPORG. Could someone just lay it out for me?)

  >>81727
(This French company has a couple MMOs called Dofus and Wakfu, and the TV show Wakfu is set in that fantasy world. It's your typical "party of adventurers going out into the world" kind of premise, but after the first few episodes the plot really starts to take off. It's got stunning animation that uses Flash without using it as a crutch like so many other cartoons do, fun characters... all the girls have DEM HIPS... you really should check it out.)
(Complete list of subbed episodes here: https://plus4chan.org/boards/coc/res/28336.html#29351 )

>>81728
(If only my hard-drive wasn't stuffed to the brim.)

>>81728

Episode 6.

Well, I watched the camrip. I don't know where to start. So ask me anything.

Screengrab of penis hair to show you the kind of attention to detail we're dealing with.

The Last Airbender (and the show) get there very own article on cracked.

http://www.cracked.com/funny-5806-the-last-airbender-movie/

>>81746
So what did you think was the best part? That's right, the best. :P

Going to be out of touch for most of the weekend, but I just uncovered a titchy piece of breaking news. Airbender's just opened in Russia and managed to garner $1,875,000 on its opening Thursday, more than double "Despicable Me" and three times more than "Predators", both of which opened yesterday in Russia as well.

As far as I can make out, that's 'not bad' for Russia. It's a huge emerging market (in ten years growing from $6 million total revenue to nearly $1 billion) with notoriously shitty taste in movies. To whit, All Time Grosses in US dollars:

1. $112.945.268 - Avatar
2. $50.981.099 - Shrek Forever After
3. $50.009.796 - Irony of Fate 2 (Ирония судьбы. Продолжение)
4. $44.572.301 - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
5. $42.105.597 - Alice in Wonderland
6. $40.665.152 - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
7. $36.608.694 - 2012
8. $34.527.887 - Admiral (Адмиралъ)
9. $31.965.087 - Day Watch (Дневной дозор)
10. $30.850.884 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Lets all point and laugh at them. Any Russians browsing, I deeply apologise, but I'm going to have to point and laugh at you too.

This is vaguely on topic, but if you guys feel it isn't, I can delete it.

So, I roleplay. (Yes, I know, it's the epitome of nerdiness.) I've been keeping an eye out for people RPing Avatar, and specifically I've been watching for people RPing the movie, mostly so I can laugh. Today, I stumbled onto someone playing an original character on IJ, a Fire Lord from some next-gen game. And who did they use for their icons? Pic related.

Now I can't get the mental image out of my head of Shyamalan casting himself as Fire Lord Sozin, if the third movie ever gets made.

>>81748

>Many parts of the show's story were blended together for the film. And that's understandable. Movies are a short-form medium: Some condensing of the plot and some missing characters are to be expected. If done skillfully, an adaptation can still capture the essence of the show for the movie-going audience, while maintaining the spirit of the original work for fans of the series. It is not done skillfully in The Last Airbender. It's done more like premature ejaculation sex, where one party (movie-goers) is left confused and ashamed, while the other party (fans of the show) are left enraged and disappointed.


lol

>>81746
For fuck's sake it's even flesh-toned.

>>81750
Okay, gonna have to settle for "least terrible" part. I liked the scenes with the flashbacks of the Air Nomads. Against all odds, I think they actually did a good job capturing the look and feel of the culture. And Gyatso's scenes with Ong were somehow pretty adorable.

  My god.

>>81767
That's indeed bad. I mean, so bad not even its soundtrack can save it!

It's time for you to stop doing this and whatever else you were doing or had intention to do!

>>81721
One of us! One of us!

>>81767
Now, when I say I enjoyed the editing, this is what I mean. Sure, the bending was ridiculous and the dialogue was horrendous, but the way that fight scene was cut as one long take with no slow mo, I enjoyed.

Shit, I just realized what this movie reminded me of.

A really bad high school play, complete with horrible acting and timing. And over the top effects that come off as cheap looking.

>>81767

Now that I saw this again, that stomping party was probably the one who raised the wall that protected the dude and notHaru and that lone guy on the left was the one who bended the rock.

Doesn't make it any less wat, but still.

>>81776
Then it was poorly shot/choreographed and still sucks.

>>81777

>Doesn't make it any less wat, but still.

>>81767
Remember when people said "The Bending looks cool!".
Yeah, so do I.
At this point I'm convinced that MNS has seen maybe 5 episodes of the show. He doesn't understand how bending works, he doesn't get that-that- OH GOD FFUCK HE JUST FAILED AT THE WHOLE FUCKING THING BLREALAELLEAAEEARRAGGNNNGNN!!!

>>81785

>Remember when people said "The Bending looks cool!".
>Yeah, so do I.
Yeah... :(
It helped that the trailers only showed the bending itself, never the flailing beforehand.

>>81767
People are actually defending that scene and the whole movie in the comments. What.The.Fuck.

>>81767
FFF

Why is the bending so laggy?

>>81767
Oh wow, the acting's even worse then I thought.

>>81789
I'm having serious trouble understanding this. Where was this video linked, mnightfans.com?

Just for the hell of it, I went and looked up some other movie's that Airbender shares an 8% rating with.


Postal
Directed by: Uwe Boll

Kangaroo Jack

Norbit Fucking Norbit!


And here's some terrible movies that, despite being terrible, still scored higher than Airbender. I do this as a public service for those of you who might still be thinking about seeing this movie. Everything beyond this point has been judged by professionals as being superior to "The Last Airbender".

This is you're final warning.


The Love Guru 15%

White Chicks 15%

Scary Movie 2 14%

The Wicker Man 13% (yes, the one with Nicolas Cage dressed in a bear suite punching a women... and it wasn't supposed to be funny.)

Dragonball Evolution 13% (Seriously! Fucking Seriously! You couldn't make a better movie that Dragonball Motherfuck Evolution!!!)

Delgo 12% (OH, for fucks sake THIS MOVIE IS USED AS A FUCKING PUNCHLINE!)

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo 10% (Oh, suck a dick!)

and...

The Happening 19%
Night succeeded in making a movie 11% shittier than his own previous worst movie ever!

>>81798
Don't forget:

Batman & Robin 12%

Good news
http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/first-box-office-despicable-me-could-be-good-for-55m-60m-weekend/

>>81798
Also, terribly bad adaptations such as The Flintones, George of the Jugnle and their sequels, are 'better' in comparative terms according to RT.

>>81810
George of the Jungle wasn't too bad. Flintstones... well, at least it had John Goodman, right?

>>81801
>On its 9th day in release, Paramount's The Last Airbender made $5.3 million today for an expected $17M from 3,233 dates and a possible cume of $100.7M.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUCK IT'S STILL TOOOOO MUUUUUUUUUCCCCCHHHHH-

-splode

>>81819
yeah, George of the Jungle was funny. The Flintstones, meh...
But George of the Jungle 2 and Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas were awful.
Though they're still better than TLA in RT.

>>81753
Alright. Laugh all you want. Keep in mind, though, that we DUB movies, too.
And we re-work the dialogue to better fit the situations in the russian language.
So in a way, we're watching a better movie than you. In dialogue's part, at least.
About a good time to learn russian, don't you think?

>>81830

Thanks for the kind suggestion (learning new languages is an excellent idea in general), but I'd rather learn Russian for more productive reasons than to watch a 'superior' version of 2012.

>>81767

Ok, the only good thing I noticed was the defensive earthbending, everything else was crap.

>>81833
Eh. Two burds with one stone.
You can check it off your list.

>>81754

>those eyes

Shyamalan confirmed for reptilian!

Not to sound like a total idiot (I actually am one, I just don't like sounding like it), but how do I get the cam rip to work. I have the two files with an .avi.001 and .avi.002 extension on them. Do I have to merge them somehow?

>>81849
As I mentioned in >>81402, you'll need HJ-Split to join the files into one .avi file. But you might want to try playing each one individually in a media player, since they should work and just be half of the movie each.

>>81637
All Third World countries are “foreign,” technically.

>>81883
But not the other way around.