Long ago, a director tried to adapt a popular cartoon. There were no survivors. Avatar as a franchise was forever haunted. Many chose to forget. But not me. I chose to suffer. Twitter: / hubpointless
I figured out what that was. Right before that there was this huge Rockwall that blocked a fire blast and then it panned over to them. I think it was trying to do that smoking gun thing. It’s just really really terribly shot
The kid who plays Ong, Noah Ringer, actually acted a lot like cartoon Aang in real life, pulling pranks on his costars behind the scenes and being a fun, light hearted kid. Shyamalan must have made him act all dour and emotionless on purpose.
That story with the kid who thought only girls are waterbenders is hilarious with the context that we find out only men in the northern tribe were allowed to become waterbender fighters
Funnily enough, waterbending is probably one of the single most versitile bending in the damn series. Wanna build a protective wall? Ice bending. Wanna control organic living being? Blood and Plant! Waterbender theoretically can sink fleets of ships if they are powerful enough.
The sad thing about the Netflix adaptation is, from what I heard, the original creators of Avatar were involved and wanted it to be set after the original cartoon's ending, in a different period of time, with different conflicts, when everyone was more mature. Netflix said, "no way, we're remaking the original series", then the creators said "k, bye".
Makes sense that they would want to create something new. It is just that our culture prizes live-action as the ultimate story-telling medium for some reason
@@micahmock3505it’s been drilled in our heads since youth that we’re supposed to grow out of it, especially since parental groups have put a stranglehold on the western animation industry so the studios couldn’t greenlight as wide of variety of projects as the eastern industry could so now any attempt to try is either shot down instantly or micromanaged (ie messed with beyond repair) by the higher ups in an attempt to make it “more marketable,” even [adult swim] is often picky about which projects to give the go ahead
Sorry but the way the Movie The Last Airbender say Aang is more cultural acurate then the original cartoon in the way they prononce Aang (i just précise i talk about the name of Aang and not about others points when i say cultural acurate then the original cartoon)
Zuko's slack jawed, gormless stare at 17:53 while his uncle lore dumps really kills me. Nothing but a potato spinning in a microwave in his little head.
My favorite character was always Toph, and I thought earth bending was the coolest with all the rough chopping and kicking. So seeing like 6 earth benders move a single rock I could probably throw with one hand was the most pathetic thing I've ever seen put to film.
Toph keeps getting off lucky with not appearing early enough to get butchered before the adaptation flops -- although I did hear the series was getting renewed. On the other hand, she didn't seem to mind the meathead who was hired to play her at Ember Island, although with this series' luck her character's gonna go in the opposite direction.
Supposedly his personality in real life was very similar to Aang as well, but you’d never know it from watching him do everything Shyamalan told him to.
I don’t watch avatar. I don’t know what I’m doing here. I’m just here to hear Cody ramble. It makes my day. I just pleasantly listen to him talk about something I have no knowledge of, and I just take his word for everything.
Sounds like a good friendship. That "movie critical friend" that really lets u know what movies to watch and not. Regardless if u were going to care or see it anyways
My family was invited to be part of a screen testing. The effects weren't finished, and I will tell you, seeing the unfinished effects was a lot more entertaining than the actual movie.
The finished effects are still pretty funny though. I had a belly laugh at the big fighting scene where a whole bunch of earthbenders waved their arms around like crazy, just to make a medium-sized rock float leisurely through the air, at a velocity where even an elderly person on a walker would have ample time to relocate away from the danger zone (the only danger to the elderly person in being hit by a rock moving at that speed would be the possibility of having his walker knocked over).
@@mikael.wilhelm I sorta remember, but there was no rock in the screen testing. And they never said "Pretend there's a rock being lifted and thrown". So out of context, it looks like a bunch of dudes doing a choreographed dance together, and the last guy's moves was so astonishing, it literally blew the fire guard off his feet, lmao
Just as clarity: Aang’s refusal to kill Ozai in the series was, in fact, perfectly in line with what Avatar Yangchen told him. Yangchen in her time in the original series put aside her Air Nomad principles for the role of the Avatar, because she knew Air Nomad culture would still carry on after her transgression, since the airbenders were still around back then. Aang in his time was the last airbender; if he sacrificed his principles to kill Ozai, the culture of the Air Nomads would die with his transgression. Figured that was worth bringing up to explain the end of Aang’s fight with Ozai. Edit (four days later): The Netflix series is going to absolutely make Aang kill Ozai. With how poorly he’s written in that show, they’d NEVER go that deep with Aang’s ideals as an Air Nomad. Or hell, with how everything wants to make villains sympathetic these days, Ozai might just straight up turn good through some asinine Care Bear means.
If they actually tried to redeem Ozai, I would've actually vomited from that. Zuko's entire character arc is my favorite part of the show, and to have it ruined by going "Aw, Ozai wasn't all that bad" when he berated, belittled, and burnt his fucking face before he was even old enough to be in high school? That would give me the Black Death.
Reedeeming Ozai could work since he is still alive by the end of the show you could have Zuko, now the fire lord, confront him jail etc. But it would require *really good writers* and (like Zuko's redemption) they would have to develop this plot line acroos multiple seasons. So Netflix ain't doing that and if they try to they will fuck it up. @@Mariodash23
@@justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588 I think they ought to make a new series years later than shows Korra as more of a mentor figure, if they’re not gonna do the next Avatar.
@@leonardchurch814 she did got paid for it unlike James Marsters who played Piccolo in the Dragon Ball Evolution movie who tried to redeem himself by voicing Zamasu in Dragon Ball Super for free
I think it's just supposed to be that the lower class "worker" (idk if there's an actual term for them) bots aren't allowed to transform and have that ability removed to opress them
"My name is Ong. And I'm the Avotar!" Will go down as one of the worst Introduction lines in the history of Hollywood. This was my first official introduction to Avatar: The Last Airbender, I was cursed from a young age.
Aang is always wrong in these live action things. The fact that he literally *never* smiles is crazy. He's an airbender. He should be super high energy, flying around, having fun most of the time. But these live action things always make him stoic and boring. His movements are slow and laborious. He never uses airbending to entertain himself like in the show. Just a complete and total lack of understanding for the most important character.
@@DD-zh4byit's definitely more kid-ish than most rose tinted glasses might remember it being, but overrated is a hot take very few would agree with you on lol
This why you don’t proclaim film directors to be the “New Speilberg” or “the Modern Day Hitchcock”, than assume they can adapt a bright and colorful kids show into a film faithful to the source material. “Okay…so two of the whitest Eskimos you’ve ever seen played by kids who can’t act find a bald kid with a weird tattoo who is also very white and can’t act and his magic flying beaver or something…”
@@Skaiser_Wilhelm7938 lmao its been over two decades since they said that and speilberg still hasnt retired like his career was so far from over when they said that, why were they talking about the "next" speilberg when the current spielberg was still actively directing films
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It's because nobody knows what to do with it since it's a story that's already finished. They made a sequel series with a new Avatar and all it did was just ruin the original in a Disney Star Wars-esque way, the live action reboot looks about on par with the Cowboy Bebop remake. The only thing that sounds even remotely interesting are the comics that continue the story of Aang and the Gaang after the series concluded. But even those aren't that good since they're not written by the same writers who made the original show, and they barely explore any of the interesting shit you'd think these characters would be up to after the war was over. It's obvious the lack of direction in this franchise comes from the fact none of the original creators are involved anymore, so it just loops around in circles and we keep getting the same shit over and over again since they're too scared to do anything original. Oh well, maybe all the astroturfing with Kyoshi might finally pay off and they can do something with her.
@@nelsonta00 I would put more blame on the executives, a lot of writers have love for this series. But this series took risks(risks in the eyes of an executive at least) and had an ending. So now any new adaptation is smoothed over
@@nagger8216 I think your premise is wrong. I enjoyed Korra, and fail to understand how it ruined the original. Korra has problems to be sure, but it wasn't bad, and the worldbuilding around what happens to your fantasy world after 100 years of social and technological process is something most settings fucking IGNORE because of fantasy medieval stasis. The problem is when people come on and think an 'adaptation' is sufficient and don't understand that different mediums have different strengths and weaknesses. Books, movies, TV shows, audio dramas, comics... all, perhaps shockingly, do different things well. You can't just lift and shift an animated story into live action. Something has to give to take advantage of what live action does well vs what animation does well. And sometimes, like with Avatar, you paint yourself into a corner because a lot of what makes it good is tied up in things that are easier to convey through animation but come off as awkward in live action. Executive meddling also plays a role--see the Star Wars stories and how they all tend to be just referential stories trying to guess at what fans want to see, falling into the 'average' and choking the franchise with a torrent of product that just exhausts viewers.
Thank you for including the picture of Kramer. I almost pissed my pants laughing. Also, I’m going to stand and die on this hill, Dev Patel, and the actor for Iroh, killed their parts, and deserve all the respect in the world for doing what they did with the shit hand they were given.
I remember when I was little, when we went to see James Cameron's Avatar, I was so confused about where Aang was and why it had nothing to do with the Last Airbender
For me it was the opposite: back then there a JC's Avatar and I was too little to go to the cinema by myself and didn't want to ask my parents to bring me there (cuz I thought they wouldn't be interested nor like it). When i saw that "Avatar" was on TV on Nick I was really excited, but when it ended up being something completley different i went "what it this shit" and didn't watch it. EDIT: I've just realised the reason "The Last Airbender" movie is called like that was most likely specifically to avoid confusion with JC's Avatar.
@@The_AGL_Group Gotta love how the creators wanted the robots to be male and female but had no idea how to tell them apart, since they all wear masks, so they just said "Eh, fuck it, make the blue one's girls".
@@tristanbeer1257 It would have been interesting if they maybe made the Green or Brown Bionicle women too, then maybe Gali would have been thought more than just the girl one
My brother was obsessed with this show. And as we were walking out of the theatre, he was crying for how bad it was. And I tore up a poster in the lobby and nobody cared.
20:36 They're going to release a transformers movie called "Transformers One", which literally has that as a plot point. I'm sorry Cody, your prophecy came true. :(
My hope is for Transformers One. They can't transform in the first act, and then they gain the ability by the second act. Although I could be wrong, Paramount has a habit of lying to their audiences in the trailers.
Y’all remember the second to last episode where they watched a puppet show and tophs actor was like “I DO NOT SEE LIKE YOU DO, I SEE THRU SONIC SCREAMS *screech noisee*”
I remember my family went to see this movie in theaters for my dad’s birthday since he loved watching the show together with us. Immediately after it finished, we went home and watched the “ Ember Island Player” episode because we now knew how Team Avatar felt watching that play.
"The Ember Island Players" feels more like a fun parody to me. I got a good laugh out of it. This movie on the other it is a complete butchering of the show. May this movie rotten in peace.
Aang trying to inspire the Earth benders to rise up *IN A PRISON LITERALLY MADE OUT OF EARTH* was the funniest thing I had ever seen up to that point. It was only surpassed by a dozen earth benders doing their stupid dance routine only to throw a rock the size of a pillow at them _WHEN, AGAIN, THEY ARE LITERALLY SURROUNDED EVERYWHERE BY EARTH,_ unlike the original episode where they were trapped on a metal ship so this couldn’t happen because the Fire Nation in the original series weren’t completely brain dead. In a movie of impressively bad scenes for a variety of reasons, that one stands out as the most impressively bad of them all for how much it just doesn’t work. 😂
Also it was Katara who actually inspired them why would they change one of the greatest moments for her character and give it to Aang?? Like why did they butchered Katara so hard 😭😭 They failed everyone but Katara got the worst of it. Aang really close second
I think about that scene soo much. The original episode they literally couldn’t earth bend because there was no earth they could move on that metal prison, not because they were merely oppressed like in the movie lmao.
and surprisingly enough that's not the stupidest thing, remember they vastly outnumber the firebenders who NEED fire in order to do shit, fire that is only in tiny pots far away from each other...what seriously WHAT stopped them from just kicking those things and just beat them up? they didn't even need to use their powers
@@WolfvineGaming That's because someone in the chain of command for this movie had his cognitive functions compromised by consuming too much Marxist dogma. When he saw the metal prison scene in the animated series he didn't connect the dots to realize the earth benders couldn't bend their way to freedom for lack of earth. He only saw white people oppressing non-white people. And the only thing that can liberate non-white people (who Marxist dogma declares have no agency and cannot speak for themselves) is if a Marxist stands up and speaks on their behalf. He thus projected himself into the scene as the "liberator of the oppressed masses". That's also the reason he took the scene from Katara and gave it to Aang. Because the person projecting himself into the scene was himself male, so he couldn't self insert if a female was doing the liberating. To sum up, he saw the earthbenders as unable to free themselves, not for lack of earth, but for lack of the privilege of agency that only white people possess. And he had to gender swap Katara's scene so he could insert himself as a man better. In this way he showed himself to be both racist and sexist and a narcissist, or in simpler terms, utterly woke. Well done!
I love that in every single adaptation of Avatar, the only thing they consistently get right is The Blue Spirit. Everything that makes that episode great is working under the hood, so all they need to do is choreograph it.
Tbh, even before we got blood bending, controlling all the water around you and freezing it is insane. You can freeze all the water in a person or pull the moisture from their body and make them a raisin.
I remember a Bad End thread on /co/ where Aang used Airbending to force so much air into Katara that her lungs exploded. Any element can be hardcore OP if you're creative enough. I think there was a bit where Sandbending was used to flay someone, I can't remember.
@@hyperion3145 Don't forget it's the only element with magic healing powers. Imagine a world where everyone is DPS but one group is allowed to have healers too.
You know you screwed when there’s literally an episode of the show that’s a play parodying the story of team Avatar and the events of the story and it ended up being a more accurate adaptation then your movie.
Fun fact: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was supposed to be a lot longer. There was supposed to be: An explanation for how the Chancellor was kidnapped and why Grievous had a cough. Many moments were Padme ruined Sideous' efforts and was attempting to instill distrust towards Padme into Anakin with little to no success. The political corruption and downfall of the Republic into the Empire was more gradual and not as sudden as in the actual movie. There were a lot of other things but those two were always the most interesting. Supposedly, George after seemingly coming up with an amazing movie script with help this time significantly gutted the movie after being discouraged by reception and fearing the drama would make the movie hated. In ironic retrospective, it is one of the things that Star Wars fans loved about the pre-Galactic Empire period in Star Wars. Also, Hayden as an actor, as well as Anakin the character indirectly, has kinda received a lot of love and appreciation that Keanu Reeves has had over the years. At least, in a similar manner. In summary, a happy outcome for the Star Wars prequels. This movie? Kinda in a chronostasis in terms of reception. Although, I personally feel indifference towards it now.
@@reazon3955C'mon nothing. RoTS is nothing but flaws. It's terrible. Nobody has any reason to do anything, the acting is bad, the effects and camerawork are bad.
@@Hellraiser2106Nah, they’re right. RotS deserves no props, it’s effects aren’t good enough at all. The characters barely feel like part of the world, especially in the Yoda Vs Palpatine fight
@@reazon3955It isn’t. It’s no where on par to Empire Strikes Back, let alone the first Star Wars Movie and Return of the Jedi. The fact it acted like Order 66 was sad, when 90% of the Jedi get little to no time to actually get to know is laughable. Not to mention how stilted Anakin and Obi Wan still sounded by this point.
Weirdly enough, Avatar was the only TV show that my father, my brother and me watched together from start to finish. My brother was already a teenager (too cool for a kids' show) and my father hates fantasy, but that show is a master piece.
At first, I liked the idea of fore benders needing to bring their own fire, but then I thought about the other benders and how they work. Sure, the other benders can't make their own element out of nothing, but that doesn't really matter, because those elements are everywhere. Air? If you don't have air, you're suffocating to death anyway. Water? It's a limit at first, until you realize water can be drawn from everything from plants to your own sweat. Earth? Look at the lengths they have to go to in the original show to keep earth benders from bending. They put them on a metal ship in the middle of a pool of boiling water. Even when Toph was trapped in a metal cage, she realized metal was made of earth and bent it. By making fire benders have to make and transport their own fire, you make them so much weaker than the others, and they're supposed to be the main threat. Not to mention, water benders were already OP as heck. Not only is water more destructive than people think, but they can freeze it to trap people, they can turn it into steam and blind their enemies. They can heal wounds, because why not? And they can even control the water in your blood. Yeah, they need a full moon for that, but that happens way more often than a pass from Sozin's Comet.
@@lucasportasiono they didnt. They would just change the temperature in the air to create fire. Tho they did like to have braizers on their ships alot. Maybe cuz they get cold easily who knows.
I have a theory for why Noah Ringer's energy playing the character, which is evident in the behind the scenes footage, isn't present in the film at All, and it's because Shymanlan did the exact opposite of what Kubrick did with George C Scott on the set of Dr. Strangelove. More specifically it's well known that George C. Scott didn't quite understand the satirical tone that Kubrick was going for with his film and ended up making a deal that for each of his scenes he will do only one take where he would act as over the top as Kubrick wanted and the rest he would play it straight serious, but then Kubrick used only those former takes.
You showing that bumblebee toy just brought back my PTSD from when I got it when I was like 6 years old for Easter. And then I dropped it out of the window when we were coming back from church and didn't tell my parents. Because I thought they would yell at me.
My first experience with the Avatar franchise was this movie. It aired on TV and my older brother was a huge fan and was doing homework in the kitchen. I remember being confused and asking him questions and his response to EVERY question was "Just watch the show" Eventually, I did, and I'm grateful for this movie because it brought me closer to my brother and introduced me to an amazing show.
@@warlordofbritannia They made a book series detailing Kyoshi's life, it is way crazier and more violent than the show. Kyoshi basically has to fight her way through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Fun Story: When this movie Premiered, I use to think it was actually Part of the Avatar Canon & it was a story about Another Airnomad who became the Avatar, becaude he barely Resembled to Ang & his name was pronounced different
I remember seeing this movie with a friend, who paid for my ticket. When we walked out after the movie, the first thing I said was “I am so sorry you had to see that. I’ll pay you back for the ticket.”
JFC. I slept on Avatar when I was young. It's truly the first great American "anime". Deep, cerebral, powerful, adult themed, moving, and action packed. So GOOD.
When I was a kid I had my parents come with me to watch it because “it’s live action and I love the cartoon”. To this day there are parts of the movie I see for the first time in these videos. Why? Because I passed out halfway through. Absolute masterpiece
That’s funny, I refused to see the movie as a kid because I thought the idea of stuffing a whole season into less than two hours was inherently bad. Only saw it later in my teens, when its reputation had been made.
@@umairashraf5167 Yes, but this had more to do with sending me on the path of being a constant Devil’s Advocate…or an a-hole, depending on your perspective 😂
As long as they don't make her a generic female villain who ends up switching and blaming it on manipulation(e.g Mulan, wonder woman, star wars marvel black widow) Let female villains be bad ass too, or am I just crazy, it's weird right?
@@ashtonndlovu9470well, that was the initial plan for Azula if they got a 4th season. I would’ve liked to see it because Ozai was such a piece of shit that both of his kids turning on him would be cathartic, and one of the showrunners said they were trying to make Canadian Azula, which is just the funniest thing.
„Producing fire should be this special skillset only a few firebenders had“ If only the original show would have included an extremely rare, intimidating and dangerous skill only a few very powerful firebenders including Iro could use… you know, like something that puts out protagonists at an disadvantage until one of them learns to defend against in in a moment of personal growth…
I don't even understand how M Night could confuse the Air Nomads valuing life above all to saying the Avatar should never hurt anybody. So what is he going to do in this martial arts trilogy of yours? Neither Aang nor the nomads were pacifists per se, they stayed out of conflict and detached themselves from worldy possessions so they didn't feel the need to have a formal military. But when it was time to get down, they got down, I don't think anyone needs reminding on how many firebenders were found with Gyatso. The whole conflict at the end of the show was whether Aang had to abandon the teachings of the culture that only lived through him in order to have the power to win. In the end he had to fight as the last airbender and not the Avatar, as there would be no balance without drawing wisdom from the four cultures, if he killed he would be destroying it, and it was only poetic for the first culture to be eradicated being the one with the ability to bring peace. He's not just a being of ppwer, he's not just the Avatar of the spirits and the elements, but also the world's cultures, their philosophies give him strength. The belief every life had value wouldn't be a conviction if he could abandon it whenever it was convenient. Now how would M Night possibly show this conflict if he changed it to the Avatar never hurting people by default? What would be the moral dilemma if no other Avatar was subtley dropping hints he should kill Ozai? Would he just be "yeah but I want to kill him" while all his past lives are like "no you don't kill people" and then he doesn't kill Ozai after 3 movies of not even hurting people? What a shock, the Ong who doesn't even fight people anymore didn't murder someone.
When I was a kid, I was the only one that said firebending was my favourite element. The other kids insisted that this made me the the sole bad guy, and had me do a 1v10 against the other kids whenever we played pretend bending. I got a lot of bruises and became socially ostracised just for that lmao :(
it's the most powerful element if we're being honest... well it's the most powerful IF you have access to all the abilities of the element like bloodbending. 2nd to air i think, because you know... flight.
In high school, my main core class teacher was obsessed with this show. His car, his lil old Honda civic or whatever it was, was painted to be appa with the horns and every thing else. We watcher episodes of the show and learned a lesson from each, we would talk about like what we learned from the episode and then later this same class we went in a camping trip and killed and ate chickens and had a sweat lodge and it was awesome. And that was my first introduction to the show. I only watched it fully maybe three? years after I graduated. Love you teach. I appreciate your lessons now, and see who you were trying to portray.
It’s incredible that he decided to include the Earthbender prison when they couldn’t do it right, but didn’t include The Storm, arguably the most important episode of the entire series and easily one of the best
I will do the one thing no one has ever done and give this movie *one* credit. There’s a line early on in the movie where Sokka and Katara’s grandmother is speaking about the Avatar and makes the comment that the Fire Nation hates him so much because they want to sever the connection to the spirit world that he represents. Now, like everything in the movie, it’s given no depth or substance whatsoever… but there is actually an interesting idea there. I could see the original series delving more into the idea that the Industrial Revolution in the Fire Nation made them feel more disconnected from the spirits than ever before and they don’t just hate the Avatar because he’s powerful enough to stop them but because as the link between the two worlds, they hate what he represents and wish to create a purely physical world in which steel and fires of industry rule. This would also tie into the larger messages and themes of the story about balance and not allowing technology to overshadow everything else. It would have actually fit so well into the original series that I’m surprised it’s an angle they didn’t come up with on their own. So despite doing everything else wrong movie, I’ll give you that one thing you did that made me think, good on you. (Also Iroh’s actor, he was the only one actually trying to emote lol.)
Funnily enough in my D&D setting, there's an elemental empire ruled by basically firebenders, who are trying to achieve that exact goal of cutting off the spirit world
@@rodrigobogado8756 There’s a couple of angles you could take, that either in their arrogance they’ve forgotten where their bending comes from - which is the most plausible- or that they’re aware but are prepared to give it up because they believe they’ve surpassed the need for it through technology.
I have never seen this show and I never heard about it when I was a kid. I never really was interested in anime and I still do not watch it but my god this video was cracking me up. The people standing around dancing and then they throw a tiny rock for some other guy to nudge it gently at another guy had be dying. Also the idea of people that can control the ground being trapped in a dirt pit instead of in the middle of the ocean (which I thought was clever and interesting) had be laughing hysterically. Great content as always
toph was my absolute favourite character in the entire show. she was blind, but you literally couldnt tell unless she told you, girl was a fucking menace.
I really appreciate Cody existing as a popular youtuber as he falls right into the same age bracket I do, too young to be a true millennial but too old to be part of the zoomer generation. That awkward time period between the internet totally taking over and its birth into mainstream consumerism in the mid to late 90s. IDK one of the few content creators I feel could slot right into my friend group. Also Pike and Shot is the best historical period ever and I adore Reikland in Total War for that very reason
Generational orphans, old enough to remember a world before portable internet and using physical media but too young to say they really “lived” in that world
So true! Although _technically_ I belong to a gen Z, I'm not really a zoomer as I wasn't born in USA and first half of my childhood there was close to none Internet around me. My first experience with the Internet occured when I was only 7-8 yo. I'm glad there's someone else who can feel this gap in generations!
he also makeThe Sixth Sense on top of that, idk what happened maybe doppelganger are exist and the true M.night now trapped in mirror world and the imposter are trying to ruined his career or something lol after earth,The happening, lady in the water, glass, the visit,old ,knock at the cabin, and the last air bender are soooo bad
I remember the Azula reveal in theaters getting so much laughter from the audience everybody was sitting there day one and broke down at the idea of getting a sequel
This movie has to be a rite of passage for anyone in the RU-vid film community. Every notable early RU-vidr had to talk about this movie and think of new ways to describe how much it sucks.
I actually think Asif (Zhao) did a decent job of making some of the exposition-dumps-disguised-as-lines he was given seem vaguely in character; where it felt like he was either talking just to hear his own voice, or that he was reiterating common knowledge just to be an ass to Zuko. That moment where he gets up in front of a crowded mess-hall to propose a toast, and then is all "As you all know, Prince Zuko was banished by his father . . .", was genuinely pretty funny.
The writers were willing and able to work around his limitations as an actor, especially early on. His role for the first few movies was to stand there and look awed at things
@@ninjalectualx you're right and therefore shout out to cinematography as well, knowing their child lead is new so keeping THE WORLD as the real main character.
The reason the Earth Kingdom held out so long against the Fire Nation was because of their tenacity. Arguably, they and fire were the strongest of the two elements in terms of sheer power. Even the Water Tribes, who theoretically should be the best equipped to keep the Fire Nation at bay, still was unable to stand against them. The southern tribe lost all their benders in raids, and the north only held out because of the moon and Aang. Without either, they were on the verge of losing the battle. Also, take into account that ultimate leaders of the Earth Kingdom were completely unaware of the war going on. And they were still able to hold out. Smaller settlements fell, yes, but it took Bumi doing nothing for Omashu to be seiged, and the Kyoshi warriors held their own as well. It took Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee, three VERY competent, highly trained, and highly talented people, to take out both the Kyoshi Warriors AND the city of Ba Sing Se. Meanwhile, in the movie, it takes 5 men to make a rock the size of a soccer ball hover, and it takes another to make it hit someone. What an absolute insult to the Earth Kingdom and its people.
Quite Ironic that the Fire Nation is also the worlds foremost Naval Power as well. The Northern Water Tribe, who you think would have a fleet, are still rafting around their borders. We hear of an Earth Navy, but don't really see any Earth Kindgom ships outside of some passenger boats.
@@timmyman9677 For Water benders lacking on the naval front is kinda same situation if someone would invent a car in the world where people could get around just by running in high speeds or teleporting. The the root of invention is the limitation. If one cannot do something by themselves they must find another way to roll around it.
YES! Finally someone representing for the Earthbenders I mean it literally lets you manipulate the terrain to your advantage and build walls to maintain strong defences and a barrage of rocks and boulders to overwhelm your enemies, as long as you have a good source of earth which is not hard to find in the earth kingdom you have a defenders dream.
34:43 Speaking of adapting Avatar universe and making it into a darker story. Honestly I think a series that takes place in the 100 years between Aang's abrupt disappearance and his reemergence would be cool. Show the state of the world and the war at its height, the genocide of the air nomads (do it tastefully ofc) hell maybe have a young Iroh. I'd never trust current/today's production studios to take up the task and do it properly, but it's a neat concept to think about nonetheless.
The funny thing about the movie is that it makes the Netflix live-action series look like a masterpiece in comparison. Mostly just because the character's ethnicities are correct and the script sounds like real dialogue between two humans. Mostly.
I'll admit I enjoyed the Netflix adaptation. Is it perfect? No but nothing is and that's okay. Is it as good as the cartoon? No and I went in expecting that. For what the Netflix adaptation does it does significantly better than this terrible piece of poop movie.
I will give credit to Shamalalanan, at least he actually did try and ensure that the different nations shared an ethnicity (even if it was the wrong one), these days we get small isolated tribes that have every ethnicity despite being specifically not in contact with other lands for generations.
Isn't Kojima the Kojima of films? He's admitted to being a massive westaboo and his style is very unique, but it's no secret that he's never gotten humbled. I say this as someone who loves the Metal Gear games.
Putting that aside, in all honesty Kojima's not really the only of his type. Same Lake, Yoko Taro and Suda 51 have a similar approach. They just implement it in different extremes (Yoko Taro I find the most successful when it comes to pulling off emotional bits. Sam Lake meanwhile is great at meta and horror).
@leithaziz2716 wait, what makes any of those people the same type as Kojima (or each other)? Genuinely asking, im not seeing the connection except maybe "being eccentric"
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