Imagine air benders, earth benders and water benders being surrounded by air, earth and water being beaten by fire benders that could only bend when fire is around 😂
Ian ousley is actually native his tribe just isn’t federally recognized by the US government. He didn’t lie 😭 people should really do their research on things before spreading this huge rumors
That tribe aside, Ian was 16 years old when he auditioned and he thought he was auditioning for some completely unrelated movie, his character had a codename and all like claiming he had some sort of malicious intent is wrong.
When I was a young lad about 12-13 when this first came out, I was in summer camp when we went to go see it and i literally walked out the theater before the Southern Air Temple scene XD Avatar was my s**t back then and I could not fathom the disrespect so thanks for this review XD The only things honestly they were on to imo compared to the Netflix LA: - Aangs tattoos -the martial arts is actually super accurate, although they made it look goofy by having them do 10 stances/movements before doing anything. and that "anything" was just water bubbles and rock pebbles -in comparison to the Netflix LA, I liked that they chose to keep Aang thinking that it was just a few days and he went back not knowing his people had been decimated. Other than that I personally feel the director had a personal vendetta against ATLA. It's almost as if he didn't bother watching the show and just read the wiki or something. He should've been sued by the original creators for this monstrosity.
Everything was so bad but Yues actor was kinda really cute… also I can’t believe I don’t remember any of this like it didn’t jog any memories even tho I fully watched this
3:12 you can NOT blame the actor for not being fun and carefree! There is a video of the actor doing a behind the scenes tour of the set and his day and he is charismatic, happy, smiling and excited. The DIRECTOR who will not be named CHOSE to make the characters Ong, Soak-a and Katara angsty and troubled. The actors have no choice which take is kept and placed in the movie. Only the performance they give. Many child actors fail because directors do not know how. The podcast “Braving the Elements” interviews Andrea Romano the OG voice director for ATLA animated series and she says it might take 20 takes to get it right and many times that was achieved by saying, ~ok I got the take I want as a director, now do one more just for fun. How do you, the actor, want to try it?~
From what I heard they had casted sokka ethnically correctly but the girl that plays katara was then casted bc she was a daughter of one of the highup people (can't remember which) working on the movie so they had to recast sokka so they would look alike.
I just saw this thumbnail, and my heart sank. Why, for the love of all that is good and pure and righteous in the world, would you put yourself through this kind of suffering? Are you trying to "end your game"? I'm here if you need to talk, step back from that edge my friend.
17:28 Being mad at them changing the names of a beloved franchise is valid… If only the OG creators had pronounced the names correctly in the first place no one would have noticed. But trying to fix it in a live action production with no foothold was stupid. A few simple lines to acknowledge the original mistake like… “It may be pronounced Ong in the water tribe but in the air temples we pronounce it as Aang and I would appreciate if you use my preferred Proper name since I have used it for the last 12 years of my life…or the last 112 if you want to be more accurate. He he😅” All the rest are quite jarring, to fans but for Chinese people whose written language is clearly visible in the series…they deserve some acknowledgement of their language being used (appropriated?) for the animated series.
This movie can be salvageable by doing some re-edits just to bring it a little closer to the source material. We also now today have more capabilities of artificial intelligence for audio/video that we did not have a decade ago. So that, for example, we today can stereotypically 'Asianize' some of the whitewashing (which was one of the first criticisms it had at the time) that happened in this movie by using some Deepfake, including Asianizing the Indian actors, although technically Indians are also Asian, but not Asian per se in the Airbender source material. We can also re-edit or redo any special effects, CGI, storylines, pacing & dialogue as best as we can. Yes, we can change the dialogue using AI to simulate the voice timbres & create new sentences. An example of a redux/recut, was that the theatrical release of Dune 1984 was re-edited in 2012 via the Spicediver alternate cut to bring it a little closer to the book. Anyway, I have seen the trailers of the new live-action Netflix Avatar adaptation & I can see that a lot of the cinematography, color-matching, costuming & landscapes looks very similar to the 2010 adaptation, so a lot of that was already good & established a decade ago. Even the 2010 Appa modeling was pretty good, as was noted in the reaction above. I would not be surprised if the Netflix version were indeed influenced & inspired by some of those things from 2010 that I mentioned because those things from 2010 were already the first direct interpretation & translation of the comics & cartoon animation styles of the source material into real life. The 2010 movie established the cinematographic precedent. As much as we want live-action adaptations to be accurate, these show adaptations will never be accurate, that is their inherent nature, whether the source material is a book of text, a book of graphics or a cartoon animation. Some notable adaptations that most liked include Gone With The Wind, Watchmen (some did not like the ending), LOTR, 300 & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Again though, recutting & modding Airbender 2010 will not get it perfect, but just like Spicediver Dune, it can get it a little more closer. Finally, let's also remember that despite the whitewashing in the 2010 movie & the Anglicized/westernized pronunciation of 'Aang' rhyming with 'bang' & not 'bong' is because of the irony that the original Airbender source material was written by "white" people.
@@alfianfahmi5430 ... Yes & now the Netflix version is also getting some complaints & criticism. You can't really fully satisfy the source material fans. The same thing has happened with Dune, Marvel & DC fans with all their live-action adaptations & reboots. Is the Netflix Airbender remake better than the Shyamalan version? Sure it is, overall. But Shyamalan's version was the very first step into live-action, even if it may have been a "mis-step". No one had really made a live version of Airbender yet, as it was only 5 years between the debut of both of them (2005 & 2010). Every iteration of a franchise learns from the good & bad of the previous iteration, hopefully. I am old enough to remember the very first full-fledge live-action story adaptation of Spider-Man in 1977, starring Nicholas Hammond (& also Shinji Tôdô in Japanese Spiderman a year later). That too was considered sort of bad, but at least someone made a full-fledge script & live-action first & because of that butterfly effect, we now have the Maguire, Garfield & Holland versions. Airbender (& Spiderman) will continue to make newer, maybe better, live-action iterations decades & centuries from now if people are still hungry for them by then.
What's insane to me is that this trash movie actually made a profit ($319.7M) that was over twice the budget ($150M); which apparently means that it was a box office success. It kinda just shows me the IP being popular is kinda the only thing that matters when making a movie. Like tell me you didn't watch the og series without telling me you didn't watch the og series.
20:49 I’ll say this , idk y but I’ve always kinda liked that transition into Aang bending and going into the avatar state . And this whole scene imo was good too (the only scene ) like I wouldn’t prefer it over Coizilla , but it’s a nice different option . Visually tho the cgi and sets actually do look pretty good . The production team did they thing , just writing , directing acting failed them so fucking hard
I’m also ok with them pushing back the deadline , which I want Netflix to do . The actors will grow , u don’t want aang looking 17 but actually being 11-12
9:58 if you listen too the dragon closely he says avatar correctly but none of the human actors do. That is hilarious to notice. This movie is painful to watch both as a fan and as a movie in general. And Most of it is M. Night’s fault. He did the writing, directing, and few other stuff. He did like 3 or so things instead of hiring professionals to help him and you can see with this movie he cannot write. How he didn’t lose his career after this travesty is a miracle
no he did not bend the earth, in this movie it just showed that the elements are having this weird interactions with him, showing he's the avatar (so the earth was slightly moving, aang was not really doing it consciously). also the blue mask have the wig (you can see it attached when aang removes the mask). also appa is ugly in this movie
@jimmyliuwho but I would have liked to see ur reaction to him, honestly my reaction was this, ohhh noo noo no they've done it, they got the guy from Fear The Walking Dead to play Fire Lord Ozai, who thought that's a good ideA!
I also genuinely couldn’t care less about the race of the actors in this movie. At the end of the day it’s a fictional movie where people shoot flames out of their hands and there are giant furry animals the size of two elephants that can FLY.
tbf as shite the m. night avatar movie, they did something better than Netflix avatar. 1. aang's air bending looks better 2. aang's scene in the southern air temple is better. 3. bending has casting time, like they have to do certain movement to cast a bending just like the cartoons. 4. aang is bending water. 5. katara is not a master. 6. you can see their breath when they're in a cold environment
I remember seeing this movie and saying wtf was that ? Thank god for the Netflix , live action , this movie is one star out of ten , Netflix live action 7 out of ten , even though that show had a few issues, it at least had some heart to it
zhao was the beset part of this boring movie for me.. i also liked the flashback of gyatso/aang i just thought aang giving him that necklace was a cute idea.
That movie was SO bad I have never finished watching it because it was torture to watch such bad acting!😂 I tried a second time to watch but still couldn't get to the end of it, hehe 😅
So far early reviews on the Netflix adaption seems to be positive but I think it’s hilarious people especially on TikTok now wants to defend this garbage film like it’s still one of the worst films ever and maybe even worst live action adaption ever
I wonder what you think about doing more of a dissection as opposed to a reaction. Because you have a lot of good points, but I think they could be represented better in more of a video essay format, going through the plot in the introduction and then the problems you have with certain scenes and aspects of the movie. I'm more of a video essay guy, so I might be biased, but I'd watch one of those absolutely.
