"It's like having an Ice Cream Bender at Baskin Robins and then asking, 'How am I going to get out-' YOU'RE AN ICE CREAM BENDER! Use your fucking mind!"
K4RN4GE911 I wish I was a ice cream bender. That way I have all the ice cream in the world. Also thats what I assume every lazy person wants when their hungry.
Best part in the movie: 6 earthbenders do a ridiculously long dance, just to make a tiny rock float slowly at the enemy. Also, "We have to show them that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs."
General Zhao was killed in battle and my brother has become a traitor. My son's proven himself a failure, my dog bit some kid, netflix sent me the wrong movie.
My family went to a drive-in when i was in high school and it was a double feature airing this and twilight: new moon. A decade later and now I want a refund...
3:55 They need five guys to do a whole dance routine from STOMP in order to gently shove a torso-sized boulder very slowly through the air? No wonder these guys got conquered!
Spameggssausage He said he would watch it with his kids all the time. I still think he got caught up in his "great artistic vision" as usual and didn't take no for an answer like George Lucas did in the prequels.
he may have said he watched it but did he say he enjoyed it? when I was a kid my parents hated most of the cartoons I liked but they would watch them anyway and complain about them
Yeah, I mean Avatar has never had a live-action adaptation. I think someone suggested it, but were quietly locked in a padded room where they couldn't do any harm to the world.
Heh, in MY middle school theater class, literally nobody gave the slightest hint of a crap about the production so the whole cast just acted all grandiose and hammy. Think Jeremy Irons in the DnD movie.
Five guys perform a brief interpretive dance...and it allows them to lift a chunk of rock about the size of a newborn. Real impressive, guys. Reeeaaaaal impressive.
Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" might have been absolutely horrible, and quite possibly the worst movie ever made, but it wasn't an adaptation of a beloved cartoon like TLA. This is the absolute worse movie in my opinion, for that exact reason.
I think the difference is, this film wasn't a low budget madman's creation that could have never worked. This looks like a lot went into it (well $150 million did), and does have a standard film structure. It's not head-smakingly humorous, it's teeth grittingly frustrating.
Also the Room was pants-on-head insanity trying to pass itself off as not only something sane, but the single most sane thing you have ever seen I your life. If nothing else that keeps it from being as freaking *boring* as this cavalcade of failure.
I love Aasif Mandvi, he's brilliant on the Daily Show. But that's just it: he's a comedian, and definitely NOT the kind of guy to play a remorseless, hateful villain like Zhao.
At least he's the only actor who looks like he's enjoying himself. Shitty movie and all. But at least he has the decency to act like it's shitty, despite everyone else taking "We were forced under the water of the ocean" seriously.
Travis Vardy Dev Patel did well with Zuko at least. Had the part of an angsty, conflicted, and disgraced prince down pretty well. Outside of that, yeah.
fromolwyoming There is also Seychelle Gabriel as Yue. She definately looked the part. Besides, she later voiced Asami in 'Legend of Korra' so she has that going for her.
I like how early in the movie Katara said their mother was taken away when they were babies, but then she said that Kya had told her about waterbending scrolls. Because you obviously remember things from when you were an infant (although in the show she was 4, and Sokka was 5).
Sorry but it looks like a 2nd movie is going to become a reality :( www.movienewsguide.com/m-night-shyamalan-gears-sequel-avatar-last-airbender-amid-criticisms/88472
The question that should be asked about this film is how you manage to take one of the best TV shows ever made and turn it into one of the worst movies ever made. Did some brain parasite infect Shyamalan and just suck out all the intelligence that was once there. I mean the same thing seemed to have happened to Frank Miller.
They tried to compress 7 hours of TV into a 2 hour movie. So there's a lot of exposition. Plus they had to use kid actors for most of the roles. Don't base any live action performance with any emotional gravitas on 14 year olds. Also it's crazy difficult to get the kinetic action of a cartoon in a live ... anything.
snowden352 Actually the original creators wanted to help with making the movie. But both Shyamalan and the producers pushed them away, and THIS was the result. Not to mention that the kid who plays Aang- oh I'm sorry, I mean UNG. Was picked because of his martial arts... and nothing else... But in the behind the scenes, he looked like he had potential to be a good Aang though... So sad. The actions in the cartoon? Their based on real Chinese martial arts. One of which was freaking TAI CHI. And they get the moves by watching a REAL martial arts master. A man named Sifu Kisu- who many fans wished was hired to teach the actors. Even just the basics. Hell, fans can do it. Why not big budget films? The only thing real people couldn't do that's in the cartoon are the enormous jumps and flying. But that can be fixed with stunt people, strings and effects. Chinese movies do it all the time. Plus there IS a movie that proves that you can make a good TV series to movie adaptation, without the need of doing a lot of exposition. Rurounin Kenshin. And that movie... was made in Japan. Which makes fans of Dragon ball cry in frustration. Oh! And said movie was good enough to make it into a trilogy. So there. The last airbender could have been a good movie. But with more wrong choices that right, they pretty much cause their own down fall.
Antoninus Pius I'm guessing Shayamalan wanted to show his own version of Avatar. One of which was making the bending more "realistic" Plus, from what I've read on other comments this movie was his last chance to show people that he was a great director. Being that people started to not like his works.
"My mom told me about these....But she never told me she loved me." "princess.....loser" "That's okay....I'm unconscious!" "Hive fives? Guys? High fives? Screw YOU!" "We all....dropped our contacts"
It's been so long since I went to see this movie that I was starting to forget some of it's terribleness. Like how they apparently didn't find out his name until they went to the air temple...after at least a some odd hour long trip on Appa.
On the contrary, I loved the changes to the basic nature of bending. Imagine, say, 'Die Hard' with all the characters using their guns as clubs. Then, in a dramatic reveal, it's shown that Hans Gruber actually loaded his gun with bullets! And I especially liked how Shymalan took the earthbenders off the prison boat and put them on dry land instead. It's much better for them to be helpless before the shouty white girl shows up and states the obvious for them.
Things I've learned: 1) RiffTrax can make ANYTHING funny. 2) Ozai has problems making eye contact with anyone. 3) Yue really likes the word "believe." 4) Shyamalan should never be allowed to so much as say the word "airbender" ever again.
9:38 Why would he hold the bag that way to stick a knife in the fish? Hell, it doesn't even look like the knife got the fish! This movie's cinematography is fucking terrible.
He stabs it because striking it with fire was... too impressive. Of course, he didn't really need to strike it with fire, because Iroh (standing very deep in Zhao's personal space, because Shyalaman doesn't know what a good shot is) wasn't lifting a finger to stop him for some reason.
