The Last Airbender: A Case Study 

Diversity isn't inherently good or bad. In any case I'd say that diversity for the sake of diversity is actually quite damaging, it implies that a person can only enjoy a movie if his or her skin color match with the person on the screen and that's BS. That said, I agree with you when you say that The last airbender was a missed opportunity, of all things, this movie giving opportunities to non-caucasian actors wouldn't be forced at all and it would've actually benefit the movie (sorry, seeing white and hindu people with those clothes and in that setting took me out of the movie immediately).

@@attaggee Looks like Makoto Shinkai's Garden of words

"The majority of America is white" is not an argument that white people like white faces. Its an argument of merit. Do you assume all races have equal talent with acting? I'm hoping you'll say yes, unless you're somewhat racist. So given that, if we're looking for talent, we're going to be looking at people who are emotionally expressive at 2SD+/- the mean, yes, emotional expression is a skill like any other. And since all skills operate on bell curves, and the sum total of skill in regards to amount of population its in operates within a power law (A Pareto curve), it pretty much means only 1-5% of each population is going to be truly excellent at acting. (So we're dealing with somewhat small pools here). Due to the Demographics of the U.S. for every great black actor you find, you'll most likely find 7 great white actors. (63% of America is white, but 50% of Hispanic people ID as white, and are pretty much indistinguishable from white people, because they are majority Spanish, rather than having a more native American phenotype. I'm sure you remember the term "white hispanic"? Yeah, that's actually a majority of Latino people in the U.S.) Anyway, in addition, Hollywood draws from other English speaking countries as well, the two major ones being Britain and Australia, and they are both 90% white. But lets just make this simple and say our general population pool breaks down to 70% white, 5% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 10% black (Should be 13% black, but again, simplicity). So, again, you have 1 great black actor for every 7 great white ones. Unless you are SPECIFICALLY thinking of race, and forcing race to be a major factor, the majority of your cast will always be white thanks to the prolific amount of talent you have. And this larger talent pool has a multi-variable effect on outcome, which actually makes it disproportionately effective. (More people means higher likelihood of finding the correct physical features for the job, the correct temperament to work with other talent, the correct KIND of ability to express emotion, the ability to sync up a schedule ect.) So by having a larger pool, it has an outsized impact of checking all these boxes and being useful for the film. Which is why, again, unless you're specifically going for race (like with Black Panther) most of your actors and actresses should be white, not because you want to sell to white people, but just because the likelihood of finding talent is much, much easier. Not to mention, the fact is, diversity already has an outsized impact on American media--so I'm not sure why we get so sore at missed opportunities. Black Americans have a higher proportion of actors in speaking roles than their population proportion. Hispanics are under-represented, sure. But because their migration to the U.S. only began 40 years ago, most latinos in this country are second generation, second generation immigrants still face tons of economic issues--and Hollywood isn't exactly a stable career path (We didn't see an explosion of Italian actors until they matured 3-4 generations here. And even then, they tried casting godfather with mostly non-Italians. It takes a while.) So, its not an argument to prefer white faces. It's simply a statistical reality. Forcing diversity means discriminating against white people. In some cases, I find that's acceptable--like if you're going to make black panther, race is a NEEDED element. Because race is PART of the movie. But in most films where race does not matter, like Airbender, calling for diversity as if its a need is simply discrimination. Which is what people get sick of. (Especially due to the double-think on it. Because Troy can have a black achillies. Queens in France/Britain during the middle ages can be black. Nobles in provincial towns in late middle age France can be black. Asgardians can be black..ect, ect. It's pretty clear when race doesn't matter in typically "white" settings (mythological or historical), we are gung ho about casting "regardless of skin color". People are just sick of this working fine in one direction, but cause absolute outrage in the other.) But please don't take this the wrong way. I know it comes from a good place. Everyone wants to help everyone "feel equal"--and that makes it so people don't stop and think about the reality of how things are. So I know its coming from a good place. But the mantra that Hollywood or other places are racist and that's why you don't see more people of color, and we need to "fix that" is misguided benevolence.

Now I know why this popped up in my feed (RU-vid algorithm favors creators who comment. I fact, they can resurrect a video that was thought to be dead. I don't have much to say other than that, sorry).

@Mad Jack You would probably lose your shit when we get a black Superman and call it SJW-Propaganda/Agenda

Are you kidding that would have been awesome I am 1000% sure Toph would have been a 6'5" muscular man with a hair band, and would scream at his surroundings and use it as Eco location to get a good look at people. I will tell you someone this movie did get right. The comedic play of the story of the Avatar and his friends in the fire nation. I really do think that's what Shamalan was aiming for, he got the casting right, he got the bad acting right, he pretty much made a movie based off of that play lol.

@Henrik iirc, Azula appeared at the end of the film. no big lines at least!

Blazing Wind It’s true

@@belbercike2344 She had a really stupid look on her face tho.

Or Azula...or Suki...or Boomy...or Ty-Lee...or Mai...or the Freedom Fighters...or Sparky Sparky Boom Man!-

an entire film with just him and the cabbage man

@@hotelbellamuerte3669 I'd watch a spin-off series featuring cabbage man and THE BOULDER!

they totally would pull that shit up xD

tbh the play of them was more accurate then the actual show LMAO

I'm screaming

I was literally screamed this in the theater when I saw for the first time....

Jesse Bogdonoff exactly

Also, Zuko’s hair should not be that spiky.

Why does Zuko got no scar

Because it's all a lie. She's been brained washed

@Abigail Chaiyasate Sure, if mean for an actual video, link it because Id like to watch it lol

Appa is my new sleep paralysis demon.

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It's the quenchiest!

So what happened to my cabbages?

THATS RIGHT

What movie

It'll quench ya!

The earth king has invited you to lake laogai

There is evidence to support the war in ba sing se though........

@@oldladywhocantdrivewell7545 The earth king has extended an invitation to you to visit lake laogai. Joo Dee will guide you

oldladywhocantdrive well one beheading for each head of cabbage

I am honored to accept his invitation

But they would never think of doing that because Shyamalan doesn't understand basic logic.

It seems insane to me that everyone was completely on board with whatever shit was going on in this movie

I had a wtf moment when fire benders needed a source to fire bend since then they would be so weak af that people could just put the fire out and then “Oh shit i don’t got fire” and ded

Oong-ry*

I don't wanna defend him but that pronunciation is used in the German dub of the cartoon too. But idk why he used it for a English movie

And Soeka

@Liew Po huh?

I know right! Everytime I heard the kids say his name was Oong. I was like Its Aang!

There is no ATLA remake, and there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

Cow the earth king has invited you to lake laogai

Bryan Sullivan I am honored to accept his invitation

@@Danimorales zuko: someone said honor? Jk I love redemption arc boi

You had me in the first half not gonna lie.

Oong

crystal cat oung

I mean, it sounds more Chinese, less anglicized. But if you're gonna do that, why the hell would you give all the roles to white people?

And I'm pretty sure Katara said "soka" in the movie (like soda)

@@OriginalWarblade Furthermore, it's literally a fantasy world. Even if it takes inspiration from various different Asian cultures, the world of Avatar is not actually Asia. Inspiration does not imply emulation. Just as phonetics in Cantonese don't equate to phonetics in Korean or Thai, neither are any of the languages in Avatar required to perfectly emulate the phonetics of any specific Asian language. And if anyone wants to go down the path of "yeah, but the Aa of Aang doesn't exist in any Asian language!" well... that wouldn't be true. The "Aa" sound in "Aang" is called a near-open front unrounded vowel in the International Phonetic Alphabet, and it's prominent in a very specific Asian language - Sinhala, the primary language of Sri Lanka. Go look up some Sri Lankan Buddhist temples. Tell me what culture in Avatar the architecture it reminds you of.

@@Someone-qi3zz Yes but aang isnt a monk. He's a nomad. Not all airbenders are monks, and they are allowed to have families.

So Aang is really the last airbender. If he cant have a family it would be impossible for another airbender to be born. Gosh I hate this movie! They clearly didnt understand the basic elements of the show and made so many pointless changes! I'll just join the others and pretend this movie doesnt exist.

"Being the Avatar doesn't hurt your chances with the ladies."

Aang, with a wife, 3 children and 4 grandchildren: Am I a joke to you?

VIVID DEMAND Aang had a family, he married Katara and had 3 kids and 4 grandkids

Here we are free

Here we are sane

There is no live action movie in Ba Sing Sae

In ba sing se

"great zuko cosplay but your scar is on the wrong side" "THE SCAR IS NOT ON THE WRONG SIDE!"

It’s actually kind of ridiculous. When we’re first shown Zuko’s scar, the music has a big dramatic sting, and the music and camera angles continue to keep making it look like the scar is some big dramatic thing that truly makes Zuko look almost inhuman as he threatens the main characters. And like it really singles him out from the rest of his people when he’s surrounded by the Fire Nation, alone, separate. And the whole time it’s practically invisible! Nothing like the show where it’s dark red and obvious. You can’t even tell it’s there if the screen resolution is bad! If they wanted to make it look like a huge deal, they should have actually made it look like something, it doesn’t take much money or effort for that. Maybe they wanted him to look handsome or something, but then they shouldn’t have even acted like it was so hideous and scary at all. It’s just awkward watching the poor actor glowering dramatically like a lonesome monster when he really isn’t ugly at all. I have to admit, I didn’t even see it the first time they showed it. I was confused for a second by the music sting.

They should have taken a page from how the hound was handled, that’s how you portray a hideous lifechanging scar

That's EASY, scar is on the left eye

@@nkbujvytcygvujno6006 Funnily enough, even with Zuko's scar, I still think he's handsome. The scar doesn't make him look hideous in my opinion. It makes him look cool and mysterious. Dark and brooding.

yeah exactly, I completely agree with you. You took the words right out of my house. Honestly, the scar is important because it's who he is and it kinda guides him? Like eventually he realises that he lost his way, but he finds it. The scar shows that his father was a brutal man and he only cared for power.

Everyone defined Zuko by his scar, it was the only thing they saw. It was almost like it completely defined him for years because of his honour, but he overcame that and chose his own destiny.

Jelly Bean barely putting effort into the scar makes me wanna cry

And another insulting thing is, making a face-destroying scar with makeup is fucking _easy._ Zuko's scar is even pretty much perfect for safe application. The most intense ridging is away from his socket, with a smoother center--meaning, liquid latex or a prosthetic can be applied around the area you typically don't want glue/latex in. Cream paint or other makeup can then fill the hole left from latex/prosthetics--made all the more easy by the fact it's a deeper color. (Makeup sits and pigments differently on skin vs latex; it's usually an obnoxious process to perfectly color-match between the two.) Honestly, the _most_ you would need to do is either Vaseline the _shit_ out of the actor's eyebrow and sideburns or ask them to shave them to ensure a totally comfortable and safe application and removal. There is literally no excuse to allow _such_ a shitty scar to replace Zuko's defining feature.

They made exactly this mistake with the Mortal Engines movie.

I agree with this one. The character of Aang was a child by heart, and he was dealing with the enormous responsibility given to him. The actor who played Aang in the live action movie seemed more melancholy. You don't really feel the child.

it's not his fault, a director is meant to give direction to his cast. he should've told him otherwise

IN NETFLIX'S LIVE ACTION MOVIE, SO HELP ME, IF THEY DON'T GT AANGS FUNNINESS AND AMAZINGNESS(is that even a word XD) I WILL STRANGLE THEM

@@coldtea7 You're right. they're making a series XD sorry, my bad

The movie is just much more serious than the show. Sokka doesnt have all the enthusiasm with his quips and jokes it all feels stiff and we barely see Aang's child at heart personality.

literally!! there was no excuse for the whitewashing :')

@@RunOnBarbaro whitewashing AND the Fire Nation being south asian instead of y'know, japanese? Or at LEAST Chinese

Jesseinator1000 Gaming and More yeah it was messed up 😂😂😂 the fire nation is SO clearly based on Japanese architecture and clothes etc it’s tragic how badly they fucked the film tbh

RunOnBarbaro the fire nation is not based on Japan. It is based mostly on China and has more Thai influences than Japanese

@@NoName-ls6jn no. Its based on imperialistic japan. Which multiple times historically invaded and conquered parts of china and korea. (Almost always with virtualy no major resistence put up by the chinese/koreans till years into the war) The earth kingdom is china. The superior technology of the fire nation in part shows this. And the water tribes are inuit and air bender are Tibetan monks. The style of architecture and clothing also matches japanese style.

I am honoured to accept his invitation

I am honoured to accept his invitation

lmaoo

I am honored to accept his invitation

I am honored to accept his invitation!

No, it's the script writer

@@lifestarmoonlight7460 all of the people who made this movie

@@lifestarmoonlight7460 didnt shamalamadingdong wrote this?

@@ihaveapjoobsession except for the person who acted ong(aang).That was his first experience and imagine how much hate he got

@@lifestarmoonlight7460 and shyamalan

I agree. I liked Aang's really intricate arrow patterns. It was a neat touch that made it look more deliberate and earned than the plain stripes.

@@Primucron that's not costume that's makeup but yeah the entire art department was firing on all cylinders and I'd say that the effects teams did well given what they had to work with.

@@LanK111er Are they not the same main department at that time? I mean, that isn't something like covering a blemish, that's an iconic trait of the character. I don't know when makeup ends and costume begins.

@@Primucron They are all under the umbrella of the "art department" so it's possible that it was handled by many facets including costume and makeup but I would generally assume that a fake tattoo would be handled by the makeup department more than the costume. They may have even used SFX artists or a specialized team to do it given the size of the production.

@@Primucron They aced the arrow. I didn't think it was possible to make it look cool on a real human head. If they made it look like it does on the show, it would have been ridiculous. Aang's tattoos are the best thing in this entire movie.

just like my meat

Same

I hate this director sooo much he has no idea wtf he's doing

same here!!!

*beat* *beat* *beat*

This is too funny

Pink eye

Isn’t it penguin sledding ?

@@SpectralRains yeah it is, my b

andyr roopram thank you sir

9:24-10:38: ABSOLUTELY! There are clear Differences but many dont even realize this for real. It's sad how many Prejudices i see about this. And yeah, it's true though that there ARE 'americanized' versions of things as well as 'Asianized' versions - and it makes me sad to see those things.

Isn't that like low-key confirmed, that episode would have aired after the movie

Alejandra Rosales that must be it

Alejandra Rosales LOL! Yes, makes sense!

Since that episode did air after the movie, I'd bet it was written in out of revenge. Like "this is what we think about that movie." It'd be perfect, honestly.

@@justanawkwardnerd Clever way of reminding people of what had happened the passed seasons whilst throwing some heavy shade at the abomination M. Night Shyamalan made. --in my opinion, that man should never get the rights to make any movie adaptations ever again. He can fuck up his own stuff, don't need him to ruin the good stuff someone else could've turned into a masterpiece. Let's hope Netflix won't follow his footsteps, and instead actually make something brilliant with the new live action Avatar series.

That is just unforgivable

@@spectralquill1810 Where is the honor in this Uncle?!

The point of the play was that it was bad. But it was bad in all the right ways to push characters forwards

if you think about it it was basically the shows like flashback episode yk? I heard on a podcast they had issues with the budget as far as making and airing such a long final episode. They decided to do something creative to recap the season and show while actually progressing characters. In turn the JM Animation was able to actually do a really good job with the episode and how great it looked, hence you have Sokkas line "at least the special effects were pretty good"

@@HvacHeathen huh, I thought that last line was a shot at the Movie

Ember Island Players was at least TEN TIMES better than the movie.

Laverne Blaszczyk cool

Not to mention the fact the FIREBENDERS NEEDED FIRE AROUND TO FIREBEND?!?!?!?! 😤😤😤😤😤

I’m a tiny girl, and I could’ve hauled that rock the same distance they pushed it in half the time. Why would anyone bend if they could do more damage by just dropping the rock on someone’s foot?

Meanwhile in the cartoon: Toph earthbending the whole fucking palace stairs

@@Raven_Black_252 and Katara literally bloodbending

well said indeed.. That scene was terribly disturbing to watch.

J Lupus I’m genuinely curious as to 1) what they planned to do for the invasion? They all have torches? 2) to point one, why are the “over powered”? If the did the invasion that way, all you would need to do is put out their torches? 3) to THAT point, the show did a great job of showing the potential of the other elements. Toph (and in the future, all earth benders) can LITERALLY metal bend, and katara makes water out of sweat + blood blending + plant bending. And air is literally everywhere. Gah, this movie hurts my head!

m night was an idiot. He didn't respect nor understand the Avatar universe... Sadly very few directors adapting cartoon or game universes to film do...

😂

They treated Fire Benders like Roy from FMA ''Its raining? Well fuck that then'' xD

@spooky... Your number two point was the biggest plot hole in the movie... That new way of fire bending literally made fire benders the weakest because they have to have a lot fire going to be useful making defeating them one of the easiest feat... Their bending literally relies on matches which didn't exist then so they'll first have to struggle with lighting their bending source with a very taxing spark rocks that are totally almost useless in snowy tundras and high altitude like water tribes and the air monasteries... The playing field was already levelled with earth benders having almost infinite amount of bending sources around them and most especially air benders and water benders can use just a flask of water in versatile and powerful ways (katara in season was pretty powerful with just one flask and war prepared with four)... So the fire benders were just unnecessary nerfed since they don't have a natural source (like the sun and breathing in the animated series) and have to first create their own sources with spark rocks... Shows how MNS doesn't understand avatar and animes in general and even action films as a whole and he didn't pay attention to the animated series at all)...

Well, special effects were quite good. For a fire nation theatre.

Sofia A its what made firebending so special, it was the energie within one self

Like... the reason Fire could be considered superior is because they didn't need a source.. How would they conquer anything if they needed to set up fires beforehand to be able to use fire...

Yep. If Shyamalan truly wanted to go with firebenders not producing their own fire route, then they should have made the Fire Nation armours have a built in mechanism that allowed the user to ignite a spark that could be bent into fire, just to show how much technical ingenuity the Fire Nation had. Not saying that it would have been a good idea to change what wasn't broken from the show, but at least it would have been an improvement over what ended up on the big screen.

Yeah it just made no sense. It makes the firebenders the only ones who have to actively create their own element in order to use it. Outside of extreme circumstances the water benders don't have to make their own water. While extreme circumstances are the only times that fire occurs naturally. It puts the firebenders at a huge disadvantage and would naturally direct their culture to rely less on their bending or become less likely to start a war. And seriously did he think that this was a sporting event? This isn't a story about fair play.

This is what I've always said. It doesn't level the playing field at all, it just puts the Fire Nation at a serious disadvantage against the other elements. Air, Water and Earth are everywhere. You have to go to crazy lengths to separate the other benders from their elements, and even then they can find new creative ways to bend (see: metalbending and bloodbending). The only thing that puts Firebenders on an equal level with the others is the fact that they can use their own energy to produce fire. Take that away and you're basically forcing them to fight with their hands tied. On top of that, the movie isn't even consistent about the rules, because near the end Iroh is shown to produce his own fire, which freaks everyone out. It's supposed to be a sign that he's super powerful, but it also goes against the entire point of changing the rules in the first place. *facepalm*

Sarara R 😂😂

Sarara R same

Yeah

I remember people walking out because of that. This one woman said "I Didn't pay to watch the last ARE Bender."

I watched it at my house and I was confused when they said his name like that

As an Indian it's great to see indian representation but this, it wasn't needed and very much pissed me off. There is a time and place for representation. It felt forced an unnatural. To me the decision to make the fore nation indian felt biased. Shyamalan made Indians, his own race the cool fire benders ( they sucked in the move but whatevs ). Don't get me wrong I'm a little biased myself when it comes to things but I know when it comes to wokrs like movies, writing or character creation that I have to include little to no bias. Shyamalan obviously didn't get that

Sure is a lot of brownwashing in this movie.

@@Thetarget1 is brownwashing even a thing? browns are literally invisible in movie industry; if we don't count indians and pakistanis as brown

The villains are the only non white people

The Fire Nation people in the series are either Chinese or Japanese

This movie is anti canon

What movie?

Wanna hear a joke? An intimidating Firelord Ozai

@@nasifc3785 😂😂😂

Frog Bloop It looks like you’re talking to yourself they probably removed their comments. If this was another show and they black washed and white washed more people would care about the white washing than the black washing, but since it’s the A:TLA fandom they actually cared. And of course they did it’s important to each nation’s culture.

It's funny that the first time I ever heard the term "whitewashing" it was about this movie

I auditioned for the part of Katara when I was in middle school (around 12/13 years old) and got to the last 5 girls they were choosing from (they were online auditions where we sent in videos of us reading scripts). The casting call was white girls with dark hair and blue eyes. At the time, I didn't understand the importance of casting appropriate actors to play rolls, I was just excited to be part of a project about my favorite series. But now as an adult, I am so happy that I wasn't cast and I'm disappointed about what they did. (also, for more selfish reasons, I'm happy I wasn't part of such a shit show lol!)

13:26 Nicola Peltz her father is a billionaire that's why she is Katara.

Immigrant Mentality Stiopic that’s so heartbreaking to hear. She seriously cannot act but because of her connections & billionaire status, she got hired. Such bullshit.

Avatar is the apotheosis of writing in an animated series. The Last Airbender took all of that, tore it to shit, burned it and then did a crude drawing of it with the ashes, declaring it to be stunning art and a wonderful adaptation

Yup. Just seeing Ozai was so weird. It was like: “so he’s just here? That’s him? Oh. Okay” No build up, no real tension or threat. It was just so lame

Yup. Ozai was always depicted with an air of terror and power behind him. Always lurking in the shadows, and always pulling the strings, even if indirectly. Meanwhile, this movie is just like "O HAI GAIZ! HOW R U? MY NAMEZ OZAI!"

So true, he was built up and then made simple. It jarred us, in the perfect way. We were not fighting a faceless monster, we are facing a person.

Holy shit I forgot the fire lord Ozai was Cliff Curtis. I loved him in Fear the walking dead he's a great Maori actor despite the fact that he probably got cast because he looks ambiguous enough to look Indian. This isn't the first time an ambiguous Maori actor has been cast in a fucking random ass role I recall Taika Waititi (the director of Thor Ragnarok) got cast in green lantern as like a nerdy friend of Ryan Reynolds because he looked potentially Mexican or Hispanic to Americans? I wouldn't know we don't have hispanic people in NZ the closest we got is Filipinos. Of course Ryan Reynolds will continue to be cast in every movie ever because hes generically white even though hes already gotten a bit too old for young roles like Deadpool. The same for Scarlet johassen who vaguely had asianish styling for Ghost in the Shell but very bluntly was white. In saying this I don't entirely agree with the viewpoint that anime characters look asian they just don't objectively asians despise their own monolid eyes so there's no chance they'd illustrate modern characters as accurate representations of real world people only a rare bunch would. I am so sick of seeing white people in everything though.

They made Goku white, so anything white is possible.

@@themiragereigns explain

@@themiragereigns That movie fucking sucked too.

@@courts1436 White washing. Ghost in the Shell, Dragon Ball, Avatar and nobody bats an eye. Cast a black Ariel in Little Mermaid and everyone loses their mind.

@@themiragereigns for Avatar, the movie, the Fandom did get really mad about it a lot of people got mad about it, to the point where people act like the movie doesn't exist

you missed ''guitaraa''

And Uncle Eeroh

Boomerung?

Agni key

Sohka, the veggies and straight talk fellow

Nepotism

gram gram too

@@Vanlifecrisis "gram gram" she's not an SI unit

Because the other people aren't in front of the camera much. You can't have *those* people in front of the camera too much >:(

Its Saka Not Souka

Poor Dev Patel 😔 He deserved so much better 🤦🏻‍♀️

You know what's weird? He feels more like Aang to me. Especially with how... ill-suited he felt to playing "evil". Like he'd be much more natural if he were a carefree hero type.

I think he actually auditioned for Sokka but was given the role of Zuko instead

I agree. And I think the actor who played Sokka would make a great Zuko! They should have been switched.

The funny thing is he audition for Sokka but got Zuko almost the complete opposite 🤔

Really?! What character?!

@@AngelRodriguez-ml9nh Shoto todoroki

Really interesting point! Aang has no hair, like air, it's not visible. And Zuko's sustained long hair, then cut, then regrown is like fire that can be snuffed/put out or can grow (whereas the others' hair lengths, apart from Aang's, seem to stay the same) - his season 4 hair kinda looks like a black fire symbol.

yo why is this makes so much sense XD

Also Zuko's hairstyle changes throughout the series. Azula and Ozai always have perfect haircut, on the other side in flashback some of Zuko's hairs out of place, and when he becomes new firelord he gets his ponytail back but his hairstyles is still , different from his family.

The best/worst part of is was that it was meant to be a large boulder, but they ran out of funds so they couldn't CGI anything bigger (or that's the claim, at least).

Phillip Marsh couldn't cgi a bigger rock? All they had to do was make the rock bigger! Its a digital effect! There's no smoke or wires.

I'm just telling you what I head (from a couple different sources, actually). I don't know the technicalities behind it and if I'm wrong I'm wrong. But until someone shows me where they got information elsewhere, I'm going to continue to stand by what I said.

That then quickly gets send flying by one guy...How does that make sense?..Also why does everyone just stand still?! "Okay his turn to fight!..Now him..okay now..yeah my turn oka ahh!" It is a movie not a fucking RPG!

I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT SHORT AND STOUT

"UNG" IFKR I WAS LIKE DUDEEEER WTF

And Sowca, like wtf!!?

right? the pronunciation was right there they didn't need to guess like book to movie.

My guess is that they tried to use the actual Indian/Sanskrit pronunciation. Avatar is pronounced like how it is in the movie, not the show. There is a word in Hindi or Sanskrit "Aang" and it's pronounced like how it is in the movie. I could be wrong about the Aang part but the way "Avatar" is pronounced in the movie is actually how the word is supposed to be pronounced, since the meaning of that word is the same as the Sanskrit/Hindi word.

Not defending the POS movie...jus talkin about the pronunciations

Zhao didn't respect spirits, so idk why they would put that in the script. He more likely would have said "some old library" or something

Haha he said the no one: word it made the comment so much funnier

“I want to spend my vacation at the LIBRARY!”

@@zarrowthehorse Go fuck yourself.

MY TRIP TO THE GREAT LIBRARY HAS BROUGHT ME SOME VALUABLE INFORMATION LORD OZAI

PEBBLE DANCE- okay that's what i'm calling it now lmao

"Pebble dance" 😂

Pebble Dance sounds cute though but also tragic XD

Well, I'm referring to that scene as the "Pebble Dance" from now on

Thought it was called pebble bending, but I like this better. 😂

“Just like monk Giatzo taught me” (I know I probably butchered the spelling) * pan to monk Giatzo’s skeleton surrounded by the skeletons of fire benders *

TSG KiLLem Twice hell, I'm sure any of us could make an edit like that lmao

After seeing his edits I had this same thought. fr tho

@@Lucid_Waking Buuuuuuut, his edit is still better, thats the point xD

Honestly, I personally didn't really like the coal thing on the boat BUT AT LEAST IT MADE SENSE

It was also a gross adaption of one of Katara's lines??

Also "you guys are amazing and strong!"

@@whalesharko4465 why

@@yourlocalarchaeologist1897 it felt like a little bit of a cop out compared to the whole show, like I didn't think it was set up as well as others Don't get me wrong, put that episode in another show and it would be one of its best but here it's just mediocre not bad but still ok

this comment didnt age well :(

@@heyitschika oof, now I have the sads... #ImStillHopeful

When the world needed them most, they left the project.

True

And despite the joke-y approach at that episode, it was a infinitely better to watch than that non-existing movie!

Yep it was better

the actors couldn't see the cgi edit, they were doing as instructed to the best of their ability the editors and cgi animators were the ones responsible for making it looks as such in accordance to the director's demands; im sure the majority of the actors didn't see it until the final product was released

I"M A LITTLE TEA POT SHORT AND STOUT!

Andrew Rivera Don’t worry guys I got it. Take that!

I thought the same shit. 😁 All those guys, all that intense movement, and the rock doesn't even move at a threatening speed.

Joseph Tucker Pun intended?

I remember laughing so hard. I'd be embarrassed if I was an earthbender.

i did the same thing, same reaction, same time. After the film ended we were outside until almost sunrise laughing at how bad it was. I was a senior in high school when it came out and we got to customize our parking spot so I lovingly named my spot after the night we lost our shit to how bad TLA was. Woodbender.

That scene was SO bad. It still pisses me off!

Every time I see that scene I cry from laughing

I died with laughter when i saw that scene. All that movement and 6 earthbenders just for a single small rock to fly across.

Myths & Monsters Exactly!

It's means they didn't give two shits about that movie

+Jesse Tribble With such skill at correcting blunders with limited raw material, I would go and watch a remake that you wrote, directed and edited!

That part of this video really pissed me off. It shows how little effort on their end was that some youtuber was able to use solely the resources the final version of the movie gave us was able to make the scenes significantly better.

Danny Devito

Nooo! Close your web browser immediately!

You should humbly accept his invitation...

Oh goodie, Di Lee brainwashing!

There is no live action movie in Ba Sing Se!

I am happy to receive his invitation.

They even turned a fish white.🤦🏾‍♀️

The best part: The water tribe and the esrth kingdom people and the swamp people are the only tan race in A: TLA. Why are all fire nation people indian? And why are Sokka and Katara pale white?

Ocean To be fair, their eyes are blue in the show

Whiterun Guard still they are clearly not white the blue eyes are a nod to them being water tribe

Whiterun Guard to be fair my ass. Funny how the entire tribe are Asian/Inuit but only if they’re the background characters. That in it self shows they knew katana and sokka weren’t meant to be white but specifically chose them to be

At least until LOK came out four years later

True

Kabuzzo Akawara that’s exactly what it was, lol

Ember Island Players were true to character tho - Sokka funny, Katara tearbending drama-queen, Toph epic and Aang - a flying bald lady. Movie is pure pain.. "But the effects were decent"

Lol i do love how weakly they portrayed Ozai

The Last Jedi

dragonball evolution

Gordon Ramsay style.

Try death note

The hell are you talking about no white coded characters... What about my swamp benders???

Cloud King ya what about the Floridians in the swamp

Querps they don’t belong to the main character group or the four nations. You are right to rebuttal that sentence, but his overall point still stands

@Nob the Knave technically their ancestors crossed alaska when there was a land bridge from asia

@Nob the Knave okay fair enough

That guy was just _not_ good with names. How many ways did he mispronounce Zhao?

Don't forget Soaka

They got me at ovatar it was at that point I was like "Oh no...this is going to be bad isn't it."

It's absolutely absurd too, because all they'd have to do is watch ANY episode of the show, to have heard what his name was.

@@TheJadeFist MNS said it was more accurate to what the real pronunciation would be. I don't buy his excuse.

@@teabearchurchill5600 Maybe there is a more meta explanation at work here. Maybe he set out to make a bad movie on purpose, and wanted to grate on the ears of every single fan of the series by having the main character's name pronounced wrong.

Now that you've mentioned this, I wonder what the budget difference is for the 2 films' cgi dept.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2r71I8lvTIA.html Someone seems to have read this and/or agreed with you

The worst part is Order of the Phoenix came out in ‘07. Last Airbender came out in 2010 nearly 3 years later. Isn’t technology supposed to get better with time?!

What's the series called? I haven't heard of it yet

@@TheNewRU-vidHandlesAreDumb netflix is making a live action series of avatar

Saaaaaammmeeee

"rock the dwayne johnson"

You meant the pebble

literally, how’d they even decide to cast him as zuko? He’s a perfect sokka

He really wanted to inflict suffering on us :(

@@mertarican5456 maalesef :(

What made the producers think he'd be a good Zuko when they missed the opportunity to have a great Sokka.

you should get the races right

Blurryink OMG

I highly doubt that

@@PlagueJ Don't doubt it: Blurryink will not take "no" as an answer!!

@Collin Williams yeah but i heard somewhere, I forget where, but the movie actually prevented the creators from making a season 4 of ATLA.

Collin Williams writing the script and casting and shooting the movie takes a long time. The director prob told the writers that he was gonna make a live action back before he actually started working on it. Because it came out in 2010 it was shot in 2009 maybe a year the show ended (depends what month, before July or after July) but writing the screen play takes quite some time, in addition to this, the movie was 1 hour and 43 minutes. M. Night Shyamalan had already created a couple of movies before this I believe, but because this was a series with 20 episodes, it's difficult finding out what you want to keep and take out. Trying to fit 20 episodes worth into 1 hour 43 minutes (idk how long the credits are) would be really difficult. But the fact that M. Night Shyamalan decided to change things up to make it more ”realistic” is just annoying. Now I know that really was unnecessary in this comment but I'm trying to get say that making a movie takes a long time and it's obvious he had started working on it before 2008 ( in 2007 they announce that M. Night Shyamalan was gonna make the film) when the series ended. So yes, it would be very possible that this claim could possibly be true

So rude

@@AbzuLifeweaver there was no lie

Katheryn Lol.

@@AbzuLifeweaver he isn’t joking the main cast looks stupid

LMFAO bruh Ember Island Players is UNIRONICALLY better than this movie

it was more like "soka" if you ask me

Toph would have been T-oh-ph, like Tofu.

Let’s not forget the ahhvatar

You forgot Eeroh. He's the uncle of Zuko, the one who lost to his father in an Agni Key dual.

Ikr? Dev Patel is a brilliant actor, after seeing him in Slumdog Millionaire, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and others, I think he can be good as a serious actor as well. It's just he was a poor choice for Zuko. He could have pulled it off, but maybe it was also bad direction, considering nearly everything in this movie is a train wreck.

*We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close.*

What if they cast him in the Netflix series? XD

Its Saka not Souka

@@Tree that would be awesome

HAHAHAHAHA

I would pin this if I could bahahaha

LMaO

And that's another one on the list😅