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Last edited by Xs on Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:56 pm; edited 3 times in total (Reason for editing : 2 topic edits!)
did u guys watch the cartoon version? i remember it was shown in singapore abt 1 year plus ago. my son was a fan. i showed him this trailer, he was slightly disappointed, i think in the cartoon, the avatar was more cheeky and cheerful... in this movie trailer, all of them looks so serious... hehe but will definitely bring him to watch once it is out. already promised him.
@li: hells yeah man ... and yups I agree the cartoon character was a whole lot more comical then the movie char seems to be ... but I have some hope they'll keep that characteristic in the movie ... in either case ... the movie looks rather interesting :P
Double corrected the title ... seems like they are only making it "The Last Airbender" I'm betting to avoid any confusion with Avatar that came earlier ... OH ANDDDDDDDDDDD
Good job Xs , your making it even harder to wait for this game >.<
rofl this topic aint about no game... its about a movie!
don´t you know that Nickelodeon anime called avatar?
and the trailers xs posted is the real-film to it, same as the dragonball anime and Dragonball Evolution real-film.. yeah that explains it exactly its same as dragonball
you mean americans, not germans. Germans don't cut everything out that's violent or too "adult". See the german version of Dragonball and compare it to the american one. Who cut more?
hahaha based on the trailers I think I can safely say the movie is following the Season 1 of the anime and doing a darn good job of it ... Still haven't been able to find a good torrent copy of it though so I have my fingers crossed until I can actually watch the darn thing :P
(psst let us know if you find a decent TS or dvdrip torrent which ain't a fake)
you mean americans, not germans. Germans don't cut everything out that's violent or too "adult". See the german version of Dragonball and compare it to the american one. Who cut more?
when i say germans, i kinda mean it... they are showing One Piece Naruto for example and both are unwatchable because RTLII/Tele5 mutilated them so much
I watched whole one piece episode 1 to like 350 on german tv.. then a friend told me hey there are the original japanese animes with german / english subtitels on the internet!!! so i watched it all over again. 1. japanese voices are a trillion times better... they just fit perfectly each character ( unlike german where some 25years woman speaks ruffy´s ( ruffy = a ~17years old boy) and he sounds like a 6years girl )
2.muuuuch more " violence" its mostly in the end of some fight between chars where they use their " fatality " (yeah mortal combat version :) ) to finish someone off which is mostly a bit bloody and sometimes cruel...
EEEK!!!! It seems like despite the great trailers the movie has tanked according to IMDB ratings AND Time magazine (website)
IMDB is now rating this movie at 4.75 (it was at about 7~8 few days ago)
Time wrote:
Asian Americans, I hear your agitation. For the past few weeks, you and your allies in ethnic correctness have clogged the blogosphere with complaints about the casting in M. Night Shyamalan's live-action movie version of the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Yes, the main villain roles among the rapacious Fire People are played by men of Indian descent (as is Shyamalan). Yes, Aang, the show's Chinese hero, is played by a Caucasian boy named Noah Ringer; and two other pasty white kids, Nicola Peltz and Jackson Rathbone, were chosen to impersonate Aang's main pals, Katara and Sokka. Actually, the actors who voice the Asian roles in the TV series are Caucasian too — but never mind that, because, yes again, it's a shame the film's producers couldn't find suitable Chinese youngsters among the 500 million or so on earth.
You can relax, bloggers. The dearth of racially appropriate casting in the U.S. simply means that fewer Asians were humiliated by appearing in what is surely the worst botch of a fantasy epic since Ralph Bakshi's animated desecration of The Lord of the Rings back in 1978. The actors who didn't get to be in The Last Airbender are like the passengers who arrived too late to catch the final flight of the Hindenburg.
Oh, the humanity! Where is it in this movie? The lack of vitality and even surface plausibility numbs the senses. Actors wander through sets, speak their lines and battle computer-generated beasts without ever convincing the viewer that they are the characters they're playing, let alone that these characters are worth investing an evening in. Shyamalan and his team have devised a fantasy environment that's both bland and murky; it's not a world that rewards the search for visual grandeur or eccentricity. The dialogue he wrote has the stilted sagacity of a fortune-cookie dictum; after each line is delivered, you may be tempted to shout out, "In bed!" The movie's lavish scale is matched by its amateur-hour naiveté — as if a Wall Street plutocrat had spent millions on a monumental pageant for his 10-year-old daughter's birthday party, then staged it himself on his country estate and invited his neighbors and their kids to play the leads. (Shyamalan shot most of this $150 million movie near his suburban Philadelphia home; it's the most expensive film ever made in the Philly area.)
Like its source TV show, dreamed up by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, Airbender posits a world divided into four nations by its elements: Earth, Air, Water and Fire. The planet manages a certain harmony because each group has strengths — "bending" capabilities — that counter those of the others. (Is there another planet where the ruling tribes are Rock, Paper and Scissors?) But lately the Fire People have made war on the others, whose only hope is in the prophecy of a savior: an avatar who has mastered all four elements. That would be Aang, a child with a sacred blue arrow tattooed on his bald scalp. One problem, though: ages ago, back in Messiah school, he played hooky during the earth-, wind- and fire-bending classes. He must learn these skills quickly, before Prince Zuko the Fireboy (Dev Patel of Slumdog Millionaire) and his devious adviser, Commander Zhao (Aasif Mandvi, senior Asian correspondent on The Daily Show), dare I say, Rule the World. Insert evil laugh here.
One word in the TV show's title — Avatar — reminds you, by its absence, what The Last Airbender is missing. Shyamalan has none of James Cameron's gift for building a cohesive, compelling fantasy from scratch. Cameron's Avatar has a density of imagination, suggesting that the filmmakers thought out every aspect of Pandora, within the audience's field of vision and beyond it. Airbender settles for a limited vision and stodgy attitude. The promise of fabulous martial-arts scenes goes unrealized; there's no great kung-fu fighting here. It happens that Ringer is the junior tae kwon do champion of Texas, but the movie uses his athleticism mainly to strike balletic poses, as if he wants to be not the Karate Kid but Billy Elliot.
Ringer, despite eerily resembling a pint-size version of TIME book critic and fantasy author Lev Grossman, is utterly bereft of charisma. He's the inert center of a dead movie. But then good actors often give subpar performances in Shyamalan films (Sigourney Weaver in The Village, Paul Giamatti in Lady in the Water, Zooey Deschanel in The Happening), making me suspect the fault is with the director. Maybe he needed stars like Bruce Willis (in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable) and Mel Gibson (in Signs) to link their gravitas to his solemnity.
That was always Shyamalan's distinction: in a terminally frivolous era, he's just about the last serious guy making Hollywood-style movies. "For me," he told TIME's Desa Philadelphia in 2004, "the challenge is taking a B-movie subject like ghosts or aliens or monsters in the woods and treating it with absolute respect and sincerity." In The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he wedded that sincerity to a classically austere camera style that helped those early fables of bereavement weave canny spells over the mass audience. But whatever knack he had, he has misplaced, as the level of his movies' achievement has declined from spot-on to near miss to incompetent and clueless.
In his first film adaptation — his most expensive project by far — Shyamalan has hit paper-scissors-rock bottom, and the promise of a sequel at this movie's end feels more like a threat. Please, Hollywood, if there's to be another Airbender movie, hand the job to some efficient hack, and not to a once mesmerizing artist who's lost his way.
Zhao is Zukos adviser??? OMG! What has he done to the great story of the cartoon???
Later Edit: now don't tell me that Zuko isn't a banished Prince in the movie...
Another much later Edit: Zuko is still banished and Zhao is not his adviser (read it on wiki) but like in the cartoon they don't like each other. Also on wiki i saw the review of a guy which made me laugh and also be more dissapointed of the movie even before watching it...
Quote:
Charlie Jane Anders in the review by io9 criticized "the personality-free hero, the nonsensical plot twists, the CG clutter, the bland romance, the new-age pablum...", sarcastically concluding that "Shyamalan's true achievement in this film is that he takes a thrilling cult TV series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and he systematically leaches all the personality and soul out of it — in order to create something generic enough to serve as a universal spoof of every epic, ever." Anders summarized the experience of watching the film by stating that, "Actually, my exact words when I walked out of this film were, 'Wow, this makes Dragonball Evolution look like a masterpiece.'"
OMG!!! I just watched the first 20-30 minutes of the movie and i was stunned. I can't believe that there really is someone on this world we cal earth who can destroy a story like the man who did this movie did... I tried to watch it, really i did but i simply can't do it anymore. The actors are horrible (unbelievable - literally), their acting is also horrible. The texts they are supposed to say are more horrible than the two things i mentioned before. The whole story is a mix of events that are really unbelievably stupidly put together and also a new-comer to the story would say it's incredibly awful. From 1 to 10 i would give it a -7 (that should be taken as 7 under 0). Zuko is horribly played by the slumdog. Iroh is slim and not resembling in any manner to the cartoon version. But i have to mention one thing. I can't say that the whole movie is horrible. I really can't, because i couldn't bare to watch the whole movie. Also the effects are substandard. firebenders were supposed in the cartoon to bend fire from their fists, mouth and feet (last two from the more advanced benders) but these benders i saw bended the fire from a nearby fireplace. The fire also looked awful and harmless. Sorry for the repeated word "horrible" but i simply can't find another word to describe it better. When i think a bit more i think i can find more words to describe it but i try to control myself here. From my point of view i would recommend anyone o watch it.
it was late and I wrote much :) of course in misspelled... I meant I wouldn't recommend it. @WolfCry I watched it at home. It was a crapy cam version but none of my bashing was due to bad cam quality. btw Zuko and Iroh don't even have pony tails but when Zuko looks at a picture that was made when he was younger (the picture was a family picture from the cartoon if I saw that right...) he had a pony tail. Zuko SHOULD have a pony tail in the movie too! In the cartoon it was a big deal when he cut it to symbolize the cut between him and his family. Also his scar can be barely seen. I love the cartoon Avatar - The legeng of Aang and i had really big hopes for the movie version and you can't imagine how dissapointed i am now... This should be a trilogy (every movie a chapter from the cartoon) but i really hope that if there is gonna be ever a trilogy, they redo this first movie (like the first CG Hulk movie was crap so they redone it a few years later).
I went to see it in 3d because I thought I would see some awesome effects but it was crap... the same thing as 2d only that I had to wear those annoying glasses the whole movie... and again I expected more from this movie
The Last Airbender
