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.

>>81830
that was something I thought about, of how dubbing a film could in fact hide atrocious acting and leave it looking "better" than it was in reality... it was the only explanation I could find to some crappy movies or tv-shows being popular in some places. It would also explain opposite situations, with a good movie or tv show having a bad dub.

>>81899

Here in Italy, actors with huge theatre experience (some even acted in Fellini's films) were called to dub every character in the original Star Wars trilogy.
That's why we are still convinced those movies contain oscar worthy performances.
But I don't think a movie like TLA can be saved with that, acting doesn't count when you have scenes like the earthbenders in prison.

>>81903
Oh, I want to clarify I'm not saying that dubbing saved Star Wars, the movies were already awesome on their own.

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but it seems like the least emotionally biased report on the controversy I've found.

http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/06/29/is-the-last-airbender-racist/

>"Dev Patel is the actual hero of the series, and he's Indian, okay? The whole point of the movie is that there isn't any bad or good. The irony is that I'm playing on the exact prejudices that the people who are claiming I'm racist are doing. They immediately assume that everyone with dark skin is a villain. That was an incredibly racist assumption which, as it turns out, is completely incorrect."

This quote in particular is one that should be discussed among contentious fans.

>>81907

>They immediately assume that everyone with dark skin is a villain.

>cast imperial, genocidal Fire Nation as dark skinned people
>call everyone else racists

trollface.jpg

>>81908

Isn't that a totally loaded correlational assumption, though?

The Fire Nation is imperialistic, but is it because they are Indian or because of what really happens in the story? Does being Indian make someone more prone to enacting genocide, or does having a single influence like Sozin set that up?

>>81909

>not include any of those plot elements
>not include Roku
>replace with horrid CGI Gene Simmons dragon
>cast imperial, genocidal Fire Nation as dark skinned people
>call everyone else racists

trollface.jpg

>>81903
same thing here on Spain, any movie with the voice actor of Darth Vader becomes 'awesome' by default, even if it isn't really that good.

Right, according to Box Office Mojo (DO NOT go there, I brave shark-infested waters so you don't have to), coming fifth after TS3, Predators, Eclipse and surprise smash-hit Despicable Me, Airbender is estimated to have earned $17,150,000 over this weekend for a $100,227,000 total (it might go down with actuals, since as per standard practice its Sunday is guesstimated). It fell 57.5% from its opening weekend, but more importantly it fell over 75% from its opening 5-day, which is probably a better reflection of its overall trajectory (i.e., how badly it would have cratered if it opened on a normal weekend). From this point on, on current trends, it can't make much more than $130 million, if that.

It's opened in a few locations overseas (Russia, India, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Taiwan), and earnt around $10 million outside the US. No one knows where from, Box Office Mojo is being needlessly obtuse and vague about its sources.

Hey guys, I'm trying to find a particular post (it's related to the movie, but not in this thread). Someone was talking about the episodes and plotlines that the movie should have included and listed episodes in different groups according to their importance to the story. Can someone tell me where that post is? I can't find it now.

>>81915

Right here: https://plus4chan.org/boards/a/res/77755.html#81291

>>81915

It's my post from the previous movie thread, here: >>81291

There's like 1000+ posts in that thread, be prepared for a long load.

I do agree to some recommendations that a few episodes be scraped while only keeping one particular event, but I think to create something coherent for the purposes of a trilogy, we'd have to do a list for the entire run of the show...which is probably something M. Night should have done, but still.

>>81917
>>81918
Thanks, guys.

Big image. Absolutely worth the time it takes to load.

>>81929
That was awesome. I guess she didn't notice the creepy movie Zutarians who DID like that scene, though.

>>81933
Like the crazy "Proof people!" chick for example.

What does it say about me if I didn't totally hate it? :(

>>81949

Lowered standards.

"If you've never seen Avatar, it's very heavily influenced by Asian culture, by Asian music, by Asian art, and pretty much everything down to the naming of some of the characters look Asian... but there's nothing that really says "Hello, I'm Asian" except for a couple of characters that are extremely Asian stereotyped"

"...I just think it's a really stupid debate and everybody should shut up about it because they can't do anything about it."

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/podcasts/3rd/25321-the-last-airbender-got-bent/

>>81958

Internet blog personality Cat misses the point and makes a contradictory argument, news at 11.

Again, why do some people need to be explicitly told they're Asian before they'll accept it? Mike and Bryan have said they specifically modeled the characters after specific cultures, even specific people. Aaron Ehaz, creator of Toph as we know her, has said they specifically modeled the characters after specific cultures. What the hell do some people need? This person implies that for them to say "we are Asian" they all need to be characters " that are extremely Asian stereotyped."

>>81952
Yeah I could agree with that. I went in with the lowest expectations ever, so... huh.

I mean don't get me wrong, there were things that were absolutely terrible, but I feel like with some HEAVY SWEEPING CHANGES to about... ohhh, everything? Then we might have a decent sequel.

Fuck the 3D though, not worth it at all

Found a post on imdb that I thought made a good point about the "continuous shot" earthbending scene:

>Long cuts can be a great idea if you're competent and you know what you're doing. Case in point:

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXIGP6_fNZk

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPyoJgV_YY

>The problem is, this is equivalent of an amateur chef who decides to cut up blowfish and shout, "Look at me and how skilled I am, for cutting up this extremely difficult fish!", while completely ignoring the fact that he completely poisoned the entire restaurant.

>In order for a long cut to be impressive, it needs to be at least as good as what you would expect to see from an elementary school live production. And this scene just isn't. Katara yells "don't be afraid!", and then just akwardly stands there while waiting for the camera to pan to someone else, because the director forgot to give her any other instructions or character actions.

>And even if the scene did work, it still wouldn't be impressive. It was only 1:20, which isn't very long. And as soon as the long cut ends, we immediately cut to later in the fight, when Ong is wearing a completely different costume and knocking down some guards. WTF? When did that happen? Why did he change uniforms? How much time passed? We don't know.

Adding some of my own thoughts, I think the continuous shot would have been much more impressive if the scene had been a more linear one, with the characters fighting through obstacles to get from A to B (like in the youtube videos above). In the earthbending scene there isn't an overarching flow to it and there isn't a sense of anything happening off camera when there should be (and having a more linear approach means this would be OK, since if the hero is constantly moving he can leave behind his defeated foes and head toward new ones).

Also when Ong does his Airbendering (Ahrbending?) against the soldier Katara shoved, notice that Katara's hair doesn't act at all like wind's moving near her. That's perhaps another problem with the bending: for all the work that was done in making things like Waterbending look like actual water, there's no real interaction with the real world. It very strongly strikes me as telekinesis with elements CGI'd on afterward.

>>81963

No one's arguing that the characters are based on highly specific cultural and character influences, but there's nothing in that reality that makes them racially Asian OR that bars an adaptation from making it so.

The insistence of the contrary is the ridiculous and contentious feature that keeps this debate going.

>>81974
What keeps the debate going is the fact that people continuously try to make excuses for Hollywood when they pull a stunt such as this when they have done it so many times before. People also tried to make the "Races are ambiguous" argument with the Earthsea adaption. I didn't hold any water then it doesn't now.

>>81974

Erm... nothing in the culturally Asian-marked world that prevents the adaptation from casting Asian roles?

>>81975

No one's making excuses for Hollywood. No one stands to benefit anything by supporting racism in such a wide-spread medium with such a heavy liberal bias, not even racists.

It makes sense for the Water Tribes to be populated by Caucasians given the other general races are represented elsewhere.

>>81977
More like they felt Caucasian heroes would be more marketable.

>>81977

>It makes sense for the Water Tribes to be populated by Caucasians given the other general races are represented elsewhere.
Also seeing as how the Water tribes are based on Inuit cultures, it actually doesn't make any sense for them to be White but you keep on making those excuses.

>>81974

You seem to be missing Sharkman's point. Those that argue the Avatar World's culture is Asian but not necessarily the people concede that a character is Asian only when said character (a. says "Hello, I'm Asian," or (b. is a stereotype. Seeing as the characters never have any reason to do the former one has to wonder: do these people see all Asians simply as stereotypes? After all it's only when a character is in alignment with such preconceptions that they're willing to accept the possibility that the character is Asian even if the only real world models for such characters like June, Joo Dee or Jeong Jeong who have no marked racial differences from all the rest of the world's inhabitants were Asian.

At least this shitty movie did some good
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dvd/163450/ref=pd_ts_zgc_d_163450_mot1?pf_rd_p=482496951&pf_rd_s=right-4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=163450&pf_rd_m=ATVPD
KIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=18V7B64CM6FK61Q3FXFQ

>>82032

That's pretty cool.

>>82032
See, told ya!

>>82032
Yeah, I noticed that all of the DVDs were sold out at Best Buy when I went to other day, as well.

And yet we dont have them in sweden... The DVDs that is.

Hi, I saw the movie yesterday, and I still regretted it, even though it was free.

If it's any consolation, I haven't seen the faintest hint of advertising for TLA in Korea. I saw the movie in a military base theater, but outside of that, it looks like mainstream Korean theaters are pimping Salt, The Expendables, Toy Story 3, and that magical Nick Cage movie a lot harder than Avatar. Koreans eat up American movies like nobody's business, so if they won't even touch Avatar, that can only be a good thing.

It could still be a little early to tell, though. Scheduling's weird over here, so there's a chance they'll get Avatar in like, September or something, but at least by then, it'll be too late to really count for anything.

>>81974
So tell me, what is the evidence that the characters are or could be white people?

From IMDB:

Apparently, the FX budget cost a lot more because the CGI people had trouble adapting to Shyamalan's camera work

>>NIGHT: Because it can’t be some guy in a cubicle making a shot which I didn’t mean, which costs an extra 40 grand, and 30 of those means I don’t get the greenlight. So I have to do what I mean, and then I have to work with the CGI company, ILM, to hear their bids on that and then go, “Well, why is that so expensive?” And they’ll say, “Because you did this 180 over a plant,” or whatever it is, and I’ll say, “All right, what if the shot ended here?,” and they say, “Well, that would be mean this.” And we did that kind of process till I got it honed down to the appropriate figure. Because the spread of what something can cost can be tens and tens of millions of dollars very easily without you blinking. And so, it’s just something I’ve come to accept as part of the process when you make a gigantic fantasy movie like this. Now, it is worrisome because people get really tied to [the previsualization], and it’s very hard to get exactly what I meant in previz, whereas in storyboards I feel more comfortable. I’m like, “No, move the character a little bit here,” and then they go — it’s the insinuation that I feel it’s correct. Whereas sometimes I see some of the previz and it’s not what I meant — although our particular previz company had a particular guy named Dan Gregoire who’s really a genius. I literally got the right guy and the right company and the right time, and [he] really made it incredibly beautiful. I may put [the previz] on the DVD, it’s so beautiful.

>For all we know, the 6 dancing Earth benders were supposed to create a CGI Dirt Godzilla.

>Except that they couldn't track it properly with the bad camera work, so they reached a compromised and said, "Well, how about just a rock?"

>>82082
So the right hand had no idea what the left was doing. Is this also Shamalamadingdong's work (or rather, lack of it), or is someone else actually to blame?

>>81969
Indeed the bending looks terrible. I never got why some people said "the effects are good" or "the bending looks good" from the trailers, I don't know where they got that impression from, because movie!bending has always looked like crap.

>>81977
>>It makes sense for the Water Tribes to be populated by Caucasians given the other general races are represented elsewhere.

So you tell us, when did they started bleaching their skin and wearing sunscreen? Because people from SWT and NWT didn't look so pale in the cartoon.

>>82092
Speaking of the bending, why the hell didn't they use Sifu Kisu? Surely Mike and Bryan would have suggested him..

>>82096
This is him
http://forum.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1023851#post1023851

Also read this.
http://forum.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1025176#post1025176

Hey Fanboys,
Me name is M. Night, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, talentless, no-lifes who spend every second of their day looking at stupid cartoon fart jokes. You are everything bad in the movie industry. Honestly, have any of you directed a 150 million dollars movie? I mean, I guess it's fun playing on prejudices because of your own insecurities, but you all take it to a whole new level, okay?
This is even worse than racebending guys on imdb boards. Period.
Don't be completely incorrect. Just hit me with your worst critic. That's the point. I'm pretty much perfect. I am the most succesful Indian American filmmaker in Hollywood, and I filmed The Sixth Sense. What do you write, direct or make cameos in, other than "internet imageboards"? I also got Samuel L. Jackson for a movie, and have a Bengalee hot wife (She just watched my Airbender; Shit was SO cash). You are all fanboys who should direct movies yourselves. Thanks for buying tickets.
Photo related: It's me and my trademark twist ending

http://forum.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=831950&postcount=143

>well i'm black as night. and i know how these hollywood people think. they gonna make ang white, think about it they got the two biggest stars in china in one movie and they still put an unknown caucasian in the movie. they're afraid they've been afraid and they alays gonna be afraid. they only want to make money and the kids who watch this movie are not gonna gripe if ang is white.

Post made 1/5/2008, several months before the casting announcement.

Prophetic, except for that last part.

NIGHT: I did. I prevized the most CGI-heavy area of the movie, primarily to get a proper bid. But to do that was like an art form. I did that as an art form, and I went — my neurotic issues — that became like a final product. I spent forever making this little twenty-something-minute previz that you could release as a little short. Really, there’s no purpose whatsoever other than to get, as I said, the bid right [laughs].

But what it did, I think, was hone my timing on when I wanted the effect to happen based on movement and things like that. But it was “take”-specific for the animator, so the character would be doing part of a form and I’d say, “I’m not feeling the chi right yet, and when he releases the chi, that’s when I want the event to happen.” You know, that kind of thing. And it would be different for each actor and each take because I would believe it [only] at a certain moment. Part of it was just like pumping an air gun and the pressing the trigger was the moment the chi came out. And so I was like, “No, no, no, he’s still pumping and then there — there’s where he throws the element.”] And we would look for it with each actor and each moment. Most of the background was all martial arts experts, so it was much easier. But with the actors I would spend a lot of time in the warehouse with them, getting them to understand what each move was if they weren’t martial artists, and what was meant behind each one.

http://30ninjas.com/blog/exclusive-last-airbender-interview-how-filmbe nder-m-night-shyamalan-mastered-cgi-and-indulged-his-secret-passion-fo r-martial-arts

>>82239>>82239
I like how someone on IMDB described it:
>Apparently, MNS never understood that bending was a natural extension of the body. He assumed that it was supposed to be the equivalent of the money shot in porn, and that all of the actors had to keep "pumping" it until they were ready to "release."

>>82239>>82251

Damnation! Is THAT the fucking story behind the five minute pre-bending dances? So M. Night is almost entirely responsible for the incredibly idiotic timing behind anything bending. Can't say I'm surprised, but DAMN.

>>82239

>You know, that kind of thing. And it would be different for each actor and each take because I would believe it [only] at a certain moment. Part of it was just like pumping an air gun and the pressing the trigger was the moment the chi came out. And so I was like, “No, no, no, he’s still pumping and then there — there’s where he throws the element.

  This guy sums up this entire debacle very nicely (explaining his reservations with the movie adaptation without actually reviewing the movie) while the end fight scene from Bato of The Water Tribe plays behind him

>>82257
Would love to hear his take on the finished product.

>>82204
What a horrible nightmare!

>>82262
Are a thousand screaming, ranting fans not enough?

Made this for /co/.

>>82279
It's beautiful. Thank you.

>>82239
The man is completely off his rocker. I'm wondering if we actually saw the same cartoon, or if he was watching a badly-animated Chinese bootleg.

>>82279

That was you? I was just about to come post that here.

>>82257 i like the way he ends the video "RANT OVER!!"

Right. I just got back from Inception (movie of the fucking year) and there was a trailer for Shyamalan's next thriller.

I think we can call it on his career. People seemed into it and then the second his name came up the entire 1000 seater IMAX theater started booing. (Then someone predicted it'd be the funniest comedy ever and we all applauded his joke.)

I seriously can't think of ANY director that gets booed as soon as his name comes up on a trailer.

>>82327
>and there was a trailer for Shyamalan's next thriller.
Ho-ho-holy shite.

...Really? Isn't it a little early to make publicity of a movie that's barely being made?

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/15/vlog-7-15-10-rampage-the-last-airbender/

>>82328

I don't think he's directing 'Devil'. He's producing a film made by someone else based on his own short story. As far as I know, he's been moonlighting on it for the past year while he finished up Airbender.

>>82329
Honestly, I'm more interested in hearing what Spoony's brother has to say about the movie.

How many people here now think that M. Night has seen maybe 5 episodes of the actual show?

>>82339
Isn't that being a little generous?

http://semiprofessional.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/worst-employer-of-the%20-year/

O HAI KATARA

>And, as per usual, the real villainess of the story is their daughter, little miss sunshine sparklepants who has had countless nannies and maids fired. She wants to be an actress. I have a thought-how ’bout you ACT like an adult and stop shitting all over everyone?

>>82345
And then there's this:
>They have cameras all over the place and refused to let staff eat or save any food that’s destined for the garbage.

and

>The family butler was dismissed on Easter Sunday after Mrs. Peltz detected a less than chipper attitude after the butler had cleaned a toilet seat for the fourth time “for luck” per her instructions.

Sounds like the whole fucking family is insane. What a bunch of assholes. Meanwhile, ShamWow is kissing up and saying he can't do the movie without Nicola, because he wants her rich parents' money, naturally. I guess this all but confirms our suspicions. Once again, there goes the "best actors for the job" lie we've been fed.

>>81560
I'll not make racism accusations, but why are the Fire Nation portrayed by Indians? In the cartoon they have pale skin. Why do Indians play them? Isn't that kind of like having a white or black person play Jet Li and speak Chinese?

>>82347
Because Shamalamadingdong popped a boner for Dev Patel after Jessie McCartney quit. Also, he apparently thinks Zuko is the hero of the story instead of Aang Ong. And you really should check out the following site:

www.racebending.com

>>82345
Daddy, I want to star in a movie.

I've begun taking those reports of her family with just a bit of a grain of salt, but still, there's no denying that she's incredibly rich.

Actually, rumor from the grape vine is that Peltz thought M. Night was a total asshole perfectionist, who'd blow up at her if she was just a bit off mark with a shot or a scene, and they'd redo things.

Then again, that's something I heard from a protester who heard it from a friend who's apparently friends with Nicola Peltz. Grains of salt shall be needed, but if you go by the book about how he made Lady in the Water, he got pissed at Paul Giamatti for wanting to stutter on a different syllable on one of his lines (not re-write,mind you, just change the inflection,) got pissed at an actress for not eating some of his birthday cake (she was a vegan, didn't eat things with animal fat in them. M. Night responded by later refusing a vegetarian meal, saying he didn't eat things without animal fat in them.) And, if I remember right, even didn't hire an actress because he didn't like how she was eating a bag of Fritos.

I have no idea what sort of person Nicola Peltz and her family are outside of these outrageous stories, there's always a chance it's bullcrap.

...But according to a book specifically dedicated to the story of how M. Night is amazing and how he made the amazing Lady in the Water, he's a tremendous prick.

>>82348

>implying Zuko isn't the hero of the story

That's... a surprising number of 10's.

Some webcomic guy is going apeshit over all the negative reviews of the new Avatar movie.

Check out his post at dummcomics.com

>>82414
http://dummcomics.com/news/2010/07/in-defense-of-the-last-airbender/
CTRL+V
also bawww warning!

>>82411

People on Rotten Tomatoes have created accounts specifically to leave 100% ratings with no reviews or words, I'm guessing it's M. Night fans or fans of the movie doing this en masse.

>>82415

And he sounds exactly like and M. Night fan/Pro-caster, who knew?

>>82414
You're totally that guy, aren't you?
More pageviews, I suppose.

>>82420
no, not really

>>82421
Eh. It just smelled like it.
It sounded like you were advertising or sumshite.

>>82423
if it were ricky he would just call us lowly groupthinking chantards

>>82424
Just sayin'... Maybe even he doesn't believe it.
As I said, anything for pageviews.

>>82415

If he didn't phrase it so antagonistically, he might actually change some minds.

But oh well.

>>82415
I left a comment there.

>>82431

>What I object to in that regard is not that the village is poor but that the Fire Nation are holding EARTHBENDERS, who BEND EARTH, in a prison made of…EARTH. What? Why would they do that? Why wouldn’t the Earthbenders just escape whenever they want?

If they acted out, the Firebenders occupying their villages would execute their families. They said it twice in the movie...

>>82433

execute them immediately. why keep them alive in the first place?
glorious leader wants these towns to belong to him.
we would get great credit for exterminating the threat posed by these people

idk perhaps that would be too efficient or perhaps
the rating of the show came into play over that(yeah we all know the answer there)

>>82433
Then why do they rebel? Aang made their families die?

>>82433

And that changed at one point? The Earthbenders in Imprisoned were in despair because they were defenseless, but after Katara rouses them into action with the help of Aang and Sokka, they go back to retake their captured villages, no longer under direct threat with their return.

Here? Ong tells them they're surrounded by millions of tons of something only they can use as a weapon against the severely less formidible Movie Firebenders, they fight back, then Ong and his mostly ineffective traveling companions/bodyguards (I hesitate to call people with that little chemistry or even camaraderie friends) leave. Aside from this little attack, nothing has changed at all. Did he give them the confidence to trump such an easily defeated and small force? We don't get the same sense of hopelessness that the earthbenders stuck on a metal off shore plant had, these dudes had every means to fight back, and if they were gonna get slaughtered by fighting back, why does Ringer's presence change anything?

>>82433
You're more or less right. Here's the line:

>"The Fire Nation sent soldiers. We fought them and defeated them. Then they sent their machines, huge machines made of metal. There was nothing we could do. Those who could not bend were allowed to live in peace, if we were imprisoned."

However, a lot of people didn't note this. When I brought it up to one reviewer, she mentioned that it was only after I had mentioned it that she caught the "if" in that dialogue, without which the listener won't get the nature of the threat.

In fact, I think that apart from myself (who got this on the first theater viewing) and you, no one has mentioned this that I've seen. This doesn't necessarily mean that everyone else are moviewatching idiots who can't grasp the concept -- it seems apparent that they didn't do a good enough job making sure the audience would get this.

>>82437

a) He's not just some kid who reminds them "lol ur sittan on dert." He's the Avatar. They see his tattoos. They hear him speak. He shows them his power. They gave up resisting because only the Avatar could lead them to a meaningful victory, and now he's standing right in front of them telling them to fight back. I think we can agree that the scene itself could have been done much better (personally, Aang's speech there was some of the worst writing I've ever heard), but our distaste doesn't change the fact that the themes are very, very present.

b) Aang and co don't "just leave," they run a fukken William Tecumseh Sherman on the Earth Kingdom and whooped the occupying Fire Nation soldiers out of the villages and made them think twice about doing anything hasty. The whole world knows the Avatar can defeat the Fire Lord and end the war, including the Fire Nation. Again, this could have been revealed with much more power (a montage? Really?), but the themes are still there.

>>82435

This is a really great point. The Earthbenders were imprisoned in the show because they could be used to build tanks and boats and shit for the Fire Nation. Why are they imprisoned in the movie? They just sit there. And even if the Earthbenders were threatened, why would the FN risk putting them in a prison made of earth (with only one fire source)? The whole thing is just damn stupid on all accounts.

>>82431
well, there's really no reason to debate with ricky since he's having an internet meltdown

>>82415

I tried reading his comic. It's pretty boring.

>>82447
I didn't really respond to Ricky. I responded to one of the earlier comments.

>>82345

Are we sure that's the same Peltz? There's more than one family in the world with that name, after all.

>>82463

The amount of brothers Nicola's talked about having matches up with this one legal document I once found on the internet, and lists "Nicola" as the youngest daughter of the family. I'm pretty sure it's the same one.

>>82463

Only one Peltz family headed by Nelson Peltz, and that's the one Nicola comes from.

>>82446
>>hey just sit there. And even if the Earthbenders were threatened, why would the FN risk putting them in a prison made of earth (with only one fire source)? The whole thing is just damn stupid on all accounts.

THIS. Shyamalan didn't even try to make the world work coherently.

Digging up employment histories of one of the cast members?

Really?

>>82476
It's not "digging" if it's out there in the open. And why not? Paramount and co wanted us to believe that they chose the "best actors" for the job. Then M. Night started saying how he wouldn't dream of doing the movie without Nicola. If she got the role simply because she's a rich brat, not because she auditioned or had any talent, then fans have a right to know.

>>82466

That's the same Nelson Peltz who who shares Viacom 40/60 with Sumner Redstone, by the way.

>>82485

Viacom has only 2 shareholders now?

>>82489

Not literally, but you know what I mean.

>>82482

Pretty much this. I didn't do any digging, it's on a website out in the open that somebody linked me to. Shit, I think it was found by some dude on IMDB for crying out loud.

Also, Peltz has stock in Viacom? I figured his fortune came from being the CEO of the Wendy's/Arby's group.

>>82494

Yeah that's how he got rich, but like most wealthy people he diversified; now he's pretty much the number two owner of Viacom after Redstone.

>>82497

Redstone is the chairman. Peltz doesn't even hold 1% of the stock. Where are your sources?

>>82499

Really? I was certain that was the case, I don't know why I got so adamant about it.

Off topic, but how creepy is this?

YOU'RE MINE NOW KID. YOU AND YOUR CAREER.

>>81649
oh man that was pretty hilarious.
might we need... a fandub+fanedit of last avatar?

>>82503
I know it's supposed to be innocent, I know. But it looks like he's either strangling him, or trying to force him to smile. Since he apparently can't do it on his own, at least in the movie.

>>82507
I support this.

>>82210

>>82539
http://instantrimshot.com/

  I haven't seen it, I won't see it, and I hope it sweeps the razzies. Vid unrelated, but this song starts going through my head whenever MNS:TLA comes up.

Went through the first 15 pages on IMDB trying to find a positive review.

When I couldn't find one, I just sorted it by "Loved it!" reviews.

Dear God.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/usercomments?filter=love

Real life story to share here. I was doing errands with another family member when we decided to take a detour. I spotted a kid with his family, maybe junior high age, with his hair shaved like an Airbender arrow. So just for the heck of it, I went up to him and said "Nice arrow. But I wouldn't go see the movie if I were you, it's terrible. Not worth it." And then he replied "I've seen it twice." All I could really do at this point was chuckle a little to myself in disbelief and said "I feel sorry for you." There wasn't much interaction after that except his dad mentioned to me something like "He loved it, but yeah, it really wasn't anything like the cartoon."

Mmmyep.

I just got back from Inception and I've just witnessed something I have never witnessed before.

Before the movie was a trailer for "Devil" a new M. Night film. It actually looked somewhat interesting, but as soon as his name come on screen, there was a collective moan of disgust from the entire audience. Which was of course followed by a bought of laughter as a reaction to the collective groan.

If that isn't the definition of box office poison, I don't know what it.

>>82553
see
>>82327

>>82555

Awesome!

i actually decided to view few of the scenes from the movie on youtube
i was expecting them to be just generic and bland
but HOLY SHIT this movie really is a trainwreck, no wonder the ratings are phenomenally low

  I never noticed until someone said it in the Youtube comments, but the dialogue is off in this scene even more than what's immediately obvious. Zhao enters the room and salutes as if he just got there, and Ozai's first line sounds as if they're in the middle of a conversation.

What, did Zhao have to leave in the middle of their meeting to use the restroom, and when he comes back they continue their talk?

>>82582
...yes!

Epic Trollface courtesy of IMDB.

>>82642
it made me go wtf when I read it.

  >During a Mexico City press conference for The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan ripped a reporter a new one after she asked whether he deliberately chose to make a commercial movie because "the audience has lost its faith in your work." The director, sitting next to Airbender star Jackson Rathbone, was NOT pleased, and didn't attempt to hide it. Luckily, it was all captured on video.

>Shyamalan's response?

>"I think if I thought like you I'd kill myself," he said. "Everything you said is the opposite of my instinct as an artist. The way you just thought, I literally would kill myself."

>And there's more where that came from.

He mad.

Maybe this whole thing, all of Avatar is an elaborate social experiment. A cartoon was made with the full intent of being brilliant, endearing and memorable. Then a movie was constructed that was deliberately a bastardization of it. Viacom orchestrated the whole thing to gauge our responses. Somewhere there may be an Avatar fan with electrodes drilled into her skull.

>>82645
>France's favorite movie is the village.

1. I thought Spain was where he was popular.

2. If that's true, France deserves every bad stereotype that we can throw at them.

3. He mad.

>>82649

He's popular worldwide and their reception of his works vary, which is I think what he's trying to say. It's ok that he mad when he's being accused of selling out to his face.

>>82649
He thinks he's popular in Spain, but you've seen how he thinks his Airbender is great.

He's been pretty much a one-liner joke in Spain since comedy shows spoofed The Sixth Sense endlessly back in the day.

I'd link some YT vids of Spanish Shyamalan parodies, but I don't know if anyone would be interested in this stuff in a foreign language...

Probably slowpoking here, but could anyone please provide a link to the full cam rip from which these clips are coming from? I was really excited to see the movie for myself before it opened, but now there's no way in hell I'm paying for it, lol.

>>82652
I made a thread here: >>81402
Let me know if all the links are down (most of them likely are). Alternatively, register an account on a site like http://warez-bb.org/ and just search for "airbender."

>>82653
Yeah, seems like most are dead, but I tried http://xlfile.com/p8zk85qawnub
and luckily it worked, so thanks man

  [chanting]

AAAASSSSSSSSSHHHHOOOOOOOLLLLLEEEEE

AAAASSSSSSSSSHHHHOOOOOOOLLLLLEEEEE

AAAASSSSSSSSSHHHHOOOOOOOLLLLLEEEEE

[/chanting]

>>82669

Yeah, that's totally what the crowd was cheering.

  I wish I had RL friends to mock this movie with.

  "Yeeaah, they didn't like it."

>>82669
>Infinity ringtone.
Haven't they gotten over it? It was huge when I was there.

Still, Rathbone? Come on. Unbreakable is clearly superior to most of his catalogue. If anything, the discussion with his sister should've been between that and The Sixth Sense.

>>82691
The Sixth Sense is one of the most overrated movies ever made. People talked that shit up like it was the next Exorcist or some shit and it wasn't even scary. Unbreakable and Signs( until the ending that is.) was the only movies he made that i enjoyed.

  >>82693

>>82693
I watched it with no hype and no talk of it beforehand. Yet I still thought it was a brilliant film. In construction, development and idea.

...And I don't think it was supposed to be scary. I think of it more as a suspence drama with slightly disturbing imagery.
Though it was marketed as such, Unbreakable was just as much a comic book film and character drama as it was a thriller.

Doesn't make it bad.

...Signs is meh, though.

>>82701
Doesn't make it bad, it was however mediocre.

>>82702
Doesn't make it mediocre, either.
It just makes it... not what you expected.

I mean, I went in unbiased. I don't envy you.

>>82702
If you cannot pronounce the name of a cartoon character correctly, you have no business representing said cartoon character.

>>82703
What "Bias" are you talking about? I didn't even know who Shayalaman was when i first saw it. It was just a mediocre run of the mill movie.

>>82710

You realize you stand almost completely alone in that sentiment?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sixth_sense/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sixthsense.htm

>>82711
Am i supposed to give a shit or something?

Guys, aren't we supposed to be talking about how much TLA sucks here rather than how much ShamWow's other movies do or do not suck?

You know, despite how much Shyamalan sucks, I don't entirely blame him. I mean, he had to go through about 10 hours of footage, and condense it into a one and a half hour movie. Sure, there were parts that could have been cut or shuffled into other sections of the story, but that's still a lot to cover.

Perhaps this series would have been better explained split into six or seven parts instead of three.
One goes up to the Winter Solstice.
Two to the Siege of the North.
Three ends with Aang defeating the drill with his earth powers he's learned this movie.
Four ends with Ba Sing Se falling.
Five ends with the Day of Black Sun invasion failure.
Six ends with the ominous shot of Sozin's Comet heading to earth.
And Seven is the Sozin's Comet Four-Parter.

Of course, this might be hard to fit with the actors, as it would require a tough filming schedule to make it in any reasonable time.

Maybe Avatar just was sort of fucked from the start trying to make a live-action movie.

>>82725

But isn't that just the pacing of the show, then? What would be the point? He might have been okay with a longer movie, the precedent is there with the Harry Potter films and the Narnia movies as well, kids see these things (which could also work as something being said about the concept I pitched a while back.)

>>82725
>>You know, despite how much Shyamalan sucks, I don't entirely blame him
>>Maybe Avatar just was sort of fucked from the start trying to make a live-action movie.

Nobody had considered a live action adaptation UNTIL Shyamalan came around saying he wanted to do it. Fans wanted animated specials. Shyamalan wanted a live action blockbuster. Nobody asked him to do it, he offered himself to write and direct it.

And indeed you're right and it's an obviously bad idea to try to compress an entire season in 100 minutes.
I blame Shyamalan. He decided to do the opposite of what made LotR or Harry Potter succesful adaptations.

>>82725
>>You know, despite how much Shyamalan sucks, I don't entirely blame him
>>Maybe Avatar just was sort of fucked from the start trying to make a live-action movie.

While i was one of the people who said there was no need for a live action Avatar, i just don't buy that at all. Another more competent director could have done a much better job adapting the source material, Lord Of the Rings had lots of material to adapt.

Some characters even had to be cut out entirely, yet it still stuck with the original spirit of the books. Despite Shayalaman for the most part sticking to the source material, it just didn't feel like i was watching Avatar. Characters didn't really act like themselves. Aang was super serious and brooding, Katara was useless, Sokka had no real personality to speak of. The very foundation the show was built on ( namely the Bending itself) was screwed up and made to look pretty useless in a fight. Due to every character doing 5 minutes of wasted movement before any bending actually took place. Beyond it being a bad adaption it was just a plain bad movie, the dialogue was horrible unnatural and almost as bad as the dialogue in the prequels. Almost. The acting was Jake Lloyd episode 1 tier.

  OK
I want some total honesty from the people that went to see the movie. No fanboyism, no bullshit.

Was the bending better or worse than in this cheaply made McDonalds commercial?

>>82799 I saw it and by and large other than one scene near the end it was all worse

>>82799

Well, for one, it looks like actual Ba Gua, the art chosen because of it's philosophical connection to the idea of Airbending. Two, the bending seems to actually move with the practitioner, in the movie, there was a lot of movement, a lot of "pumping up" like Shyamalan put it, before anything moved.

From this interview:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/07/21/legend-of-korra-the-creators-of-avatar-the-last-airbender-on-the-new-spinoff/

>What did you guys think of the live-action version of “The Last Airbender”?

>Konietzko: We’re just really focused on this new show right now, and kind of taking this off in its own direction and not concerning ourselves with that right now.

>So you didn’t follow the casting controversy about the movie version of “The Last Airbender”?

>Konietzko: We didn’t head up that film. We’re just happy to be back generating the original content in this mythology, which is what we do.

>Would you like to bring a cartoon version of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to the big screen?

>Konietzko: We would love to. I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the “Avatar” world. We would be really excited.

I suppose they answered that as well as they could. :)