Xplicity said: I went to see this when it first came out. All I can say is, if you are going to see this film, don't bother with getting 3-D tickets. It's really not worth the extra money at all. True. I saw it in 3D and it was a total waste of money (but the theatre I went to was only showing the 3D version - money grab much?). There were plenty of times where it didn't even look close to 3D but almost exactly how I'd expect it to look normally. It was poor at best. As for the film itself, I don't think it was SO terrible that it deserves an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I was able to enjoy it to some extent, although I was pretty sad about the choice in actors and the weird name pronounciations. Also, I think I was able to enjoy some parts only because I've watched the animated series so I filled in the missing gaps in the movie automatically. I can see those who haven't seen the animated series not completely understanding all the nuances in, well, everything that the movie glossed over for time that the series delved into and developed slowly over the entire first season (such as the relationship between Aang and Zuko, highlighted in the Blue Spirit episode/film scene). So yeah, by no means a great movie but I've seen much worse. |
Nottori said: 2. The names. Really? Souka? Ahng? Eeroh? It's not as though they're adapting a book, the names are clearly pronounced IN THE FREAKING SHOW. It's as if they wrote a name on a scrap paper and asked strangers on the street how they'd pronounce it and stuck with it. Souka? For real?? I remmember a scene in the first season when the guy who was going to marry Yue calls him Souka and he was the character who pronounced all the names wrong, like Admiral Cho. Nottori said: 3. The storyline in general. I could be a fan and complain that they cut out this and that (eg. Suki) .'( Of course they weren't going to put everything of the series but Suki is kinda important. I haven't seen the movie, but the cast... eww x( I mean, Water tribe people are eskimos and the actors are white, Fire Nation people are white and the actors are indian, wth And where's Zuko scar? And from the trailer the fights seemed.. kinda fake |
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| Wow this thread seemed to kill the movie for me...was it REALLY that BAD !? im in LOVE with the animated series..i cant get enough hmmm.. but somthing told me that the movie wouldnt be good..i mean toph isnt even in it !! |
| It's not? I was kinda expecting that the movie was not just a summary of the series, but it looks like it is, and a bad one |
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Darkprinny said: chinlamp said: I don't know, Dragonball Evolution was crap and had crap special effects, this at least has good special effects. I reviewed it ages ago lets just say the phrase "Wrost film ever" can be placed upon its name. Its not even so chessy its watchable(Fist of the north star, Street fighter the movie) its life ending bad Haven't seen either of those. :-/ Blood the last vampire was epicly good (Nice to see a vampire film where there not emo lovy dovey crap) and it has Deep Purple on the sound track City Hunter has Jackie Chan in it back before Hollywood spoiled his carrier with shitty films (It also has this bit that still makes tear of laughter rolling down my face) Nerd fact The guy that became Ken also played "Ken" in the Fist of the North star live action film (see cheesy, but good) 1st of all, those are anime, not cartoons. 2nd Blood the last Vampire is your personal opinion because it got abysmal reviews and made like no money in America like little over 5 mill, I don't even thing that was enough to cover cast and crew. I'm sure there are some people who think Dragon Ball: Evolution is epicly good too. 3rd. City Hunter never even made it out of China. |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
Jigero said: Anime are cartoons...1st of all, those are anime, not cartoons. JellyButter said: Wow this thread seemed to kill the movie for me...was it REALLY that BAD !? im in LOVE with the animated series..i cant get enough hmmm.. but somthing told me that the movie wouldnt be good..i mean toph isnt even in it !! Tsuyu_no_sekai said: You two, this movie is a summary of the first "book" of the series: Water. I don't think Toph was in the first book.It's not? I was kinda expecting that the movie was not just a summary of the series, but it looks like it is, and a bad one |
| I went to see it over the weekend and honestly, I didn't think it was horrible. Dragon Ball Evolution was 10x worst than this movie. The actors need to work on their acting but other than that it was still watchable. If anything I'd give it a 6.5/10. |
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zharnotczar said: Jigero said: Anime are cartoons...1st of all, those are anime, not cartoons. Yea no shit, I was using it in the sense American made animations, turned into live action movies NEVER DO WELL AT ALL. there hasn't been one. It's a hopeless source material. |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
| to tell the truth..i was hooked!!! i started watching whenit started when i was like 12 and was faith full to the end...so many eyars of waitng....worth it...but the movie just F*&%s it up baaas |
CapellaStar said: It could have been a good film had it had good direction, good actors, good script, and hadn't strayed from the source material. Wowy kazowy if all bad movies where good, they would be good movies! It is that simple, but they never do it right anyways. |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
zharnotczar said: You two, this movie is a summary of the first "book" of the series: Water. I don't think Toph was in the first book. Oh, I didn't know. I thought they putted the whole series in the movie. The movie hasn't been out in the theaters here yet. |
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JellyButter said: Wow this thread seemed to kill the movie for me...was it REALLY that BAD !? im in LOVE with the animated series..i cant get enough hmmm.. but somthing told me that the movie wouldnt be good..i mean toph isnt even in it !! Tsuyu_no_sekai said: You two, this movie is a summary of the first "book" of the series: Water. I don't think Toph was in the first book.It's not? I was kinda expecting that the movie was not just a summary of the series, but it looks like it is, and a bad one Yea , i just kinda figured that. Toph is in the 2nd book. "Earth" |
JellyButter said: Yea , i just kinda figured that. Toph is in the 2nd book. "Earth" I'm well aware, so they're gonna do a movie for each season. (If they were, they're not anymore since the movie seems to be awful) |
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| I don't think that's going to be that hard. Considering that the movie got out in almost every country and that you have tons of A:TLA fans. And even those who read the reviews are still going to watch the movie. |
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| This movie was absolutely horrible for a number of reasons, but a few that stood out to me: 1. The choppy and boring dialogue. Honestly, the worst written script I've ever heard. Not to mention a huge over-reliance on the narration. The only reason the movie gives as to why Sokka and Yue are ~in love is because the narrator (Katara) says so. You're not shown any scenes at all of it. Very deep, movie Souka and Yue. :| 2. Cramming 20 episodes into a movie was the dumbest idea ever. It was like every 5 minutes was the equivalent of summing up one episode. The scene where Katara and Sokka break Aang out of the ice? Like 2 minutes and suddenly he's their best friend. With no development at all. Zuko takes Aang away for no explainable reason in the movie, and the spirits and fish at the end made no sense whatsoever, or they would not have to a none viewer of the show. 3. The movie looked so cheaply made. Everyone praises the beginning for being faithful, but it looked like it was filmed from a highschool play. The red background was like a cheap shower curtain from the looks of it; you could see it flop around in the background! Even the effects were bad. How can anyone take seriously the scene where about 10 Earthbenders do a break dance before sending a ROCK flying at the Fire Nation? Not a boulder, but a ROCK. It was completely laughable and pathetic. 4. I dunno what M. Night was thinking when he filmed certain scenes. It was so embarrassing to see Katara and Sokka's actors, clearly white, when the rest of their clan was Inuit- and Asian-looking. ALL of the extras were Asian. So stupid and cringe-worthy. M. Night is delusional if he thinks anyone would be pleased with this, especially the fans. |
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CDRW said: It looks like James Cameron is our last chance for a good animated adaptation. he would make beast battle angel alita. downside is the success would make hollywood adapt more and more animu by other directors |
| That's it. I was gonna watch Avatar the Last Airbender but now I think I'll skip to Toy Story 3 and Shrek the Fourth. Thanks a lot, M.Night for ruining one of my most favourite series from my tender ages of 12-14. |
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bwahahachick said: Oh man, I saw it on premiere night with friends and we were laughing so hard at that scene. There were just so many of them for that tiny rock; it was the funniest thing ever.How can anyone take seriously the scene where about 10 Earthbenders do a break dance before sending a ROCK flying at the Fire Nation? Not a boulder, but a ROCK. It was completely laughable and pathetic. |
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adamantine said: bwahahachick said: Oh man, I saw it on premiere night with friends and we were laughing so hard at that scene. There were just so many of them for that tiny rock; it was the funniest thing ever.How can anyone take seriously the scene where about 10 Earthbenders do a break dance before sending a ROCK flying at the Fire Nation? Not a boulder, but a ROCK. It was completely laughable and pathetic. lol ikr? So funny to see the rock just cruising on by. I saw it with my friend as well and that was just one of the many parts where we completely lost it with laughter. The others were the dramatic zoom in on Iroh's EYE when Zhao killed the moon spirit and Pakku's hilariously weird battle cry. |
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| they should have made a samurai jack movie instead |
Its better to have burned out than to have never really shined... |
| I expected Last Airbender to be sooo bad based on horrible reviews, but it was very watchable! I really liked the fast pace and how no line of dialogue was wasted. That's actually what annoyed me when I tried to watch the show back in the day. Way too much filler, very slow-paced, and finally I couldn't take how episodic it was. I know there's a long-term plot in there somewhere so GET ON WITH IT!! *ahem* Back to the movie. WTF was up with the fighting? Were they all doing Tai Chi?? Some of it looked bizarrely turn-based, especially in the Earth prisoner camp. Was a little embarrassing to watch. But some of the fighting wasn't bad later on, such as when Aang got rescued from the Air temple. Special effects looked nice, particularly the water. I guess you didn't have much time to care about the characters, but I still managed to get emotionally involved here and there. Overall I disliked it a lot less than I expected to. |
CapellaStar said: Thank god it will be sticking to the original media.icekatana8825 said: StonerWithABoner said: they should have made a samurai jack movie instead yea samurai jack was an awesome animated series...too bad it ended prematurely ;_; They are making a Samurai Jack movie. It's being co-produced by J.J. Arbams but it won't be a live action film. Thankfully they will be keeping it in 2D animation. http://screenrant.com/jj-abrams-producing-samurai-jack-movie-robf-35322/ |
| The movie start with four elements introduction. Normally, there are four elements, fire, water, wind and earth. But according to asian philosophy, regularly is five elements. To chinese/taoism and martial arts teachings, there are five elements and that includes, five, earth, metal, wood, water. With the classical four western elements, we can assume easily that the element water, is the strongest one. Fire cannot do anything against water, wind either cannot do much to the water. Earth can do no harm, the water just prevail and adapts, no matter how many times it gets hit by rock etc. (Imagine you hitting the water, it does nothing, just return to it's shape) Water is adaptable and without shape, if you put it in tea-cup it'll become a tea-cup, if you put it in can it'll become can. Only element wood can "win", nourish and control the water. The boat, the boat floats, it is made out of wood, thus water cannot win or prevail. |
| The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things. I do not recall, Jesus ever saying "build churches, temples, and kill those who doesn't follow christianity..." nor he said "christianity is religion". News for VN immigrants in EU: vietinfo.eu |
spupapi said: The movie start with four elements introduction. Normally, there are four elements, fire, water, wind and earth. But according to asian philosophy, regularly is five elements. To chinese/taoism and martial arts teachings, there are five elements and that includes, five, earth, metal, wood, water. With the classical four western elements, we can assume easily that the element water, is the strongest one. Fire cannot do anything against water, wind either cannot do much to the water. Earth can do no harm, the water just prevail and adapts, no matter how many times it gets hit by rock etc. (Imagine you hitting the water, it does nothing, just return to it's shape) Water is adaptable and without shape, if you put it in tea-cup it'll become a tea-cup, if you put it in can it'll become can. Only element wood can "win", nourish and control the water. The boat, the boat floats, it is made out of wood, thus water cannot win or prevail. that because it's not based on the Chinese classical elements, the elements in Avatar are based on the Indian Tattva Elements Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Spirit. Hell Avatar is a Hindu term, Avatars were the projections of Vishnu on the mortal plain. I like how when ever people hear "asian" they automatically assume " Chinese or Japanese" |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
shintai88 said: Jigero said: spupapi said: The movie start with four elements introduction. Normally, there are four elements, fire, water, wind and earth. But according to asian philosophy, regularly is five elements. To chinese/taoism and martial arts teachings, there are five elements and that includes, five, earth, metal, wood, water. With the classical four western elements, we can assume easily that the element water, is the strongest one. Fire cannot do anything against water, wind either cannot do much to the water. Earth can do no harm, the water just prevail and adapts, no matter how many times it gets hit by rock etc. (Imagine you hitting the water, it does nothing, just return to it's shape) Water is adaptable and without shape, if you put it in tea-cup it'll become a tea-cup, if you put it in can it'll become can. Only element wood can "win", nourish and control the water. The boat, the boat floats, it is made out of wood, thus water cannot win or prevail. that because it's not based on the Chinese classical elements, the elements in Avatar are based on the Indian Tattva Elements Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Spirit. Hell Avatar is a Hindu term, Avatars were the projections of Vishnu on the mortal plain. I like how when ever people hear "asian" they automatically assume " Chinese or Japanese" China uses the 5 elements of Life and the 4 Elements of Destruction. Huh? No they don't they use Fung Shui. Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire, Water. They are all reciprocal, no one is stronger then the other, and all are able to over come another. and they can create one another. |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
Jigero said: shintai88 said: Jigero said: spupapi said: The movie start with four elements introduction. Normally, there are four elements, fire, water, wind and earth. But according to asian philosophy, regularly is five elements. To chinese/taoism and martial arts teachings, there are five elements and that includes, five, earth, metal, wood, water. With the classical four western elements, we can assume easily that the element water, is the strongest one. Fire cannot do anything against water, wind either cannot do much to the water. Earth can do no harm, the water just prevail and adapts, no matter how many times it gets hit by rock etc. (Imagine you hitting the water, it does nothing, just return to it's shape) Water is adaptable and without shape, if you put it in tea-cup it'll become a tea-cup, if you put it in can it'll become can. Only element wood can "win", nourish and control the water. The boat, the boat floats, it is made out of wood, thus water cannot win or prevail. that because it's not based on the Chinese classical elements, the elements in Avatar are based on the Indian Tattva Elements Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Spirit. Hell Avatar is a Hindu term, Avatars were the projections of Vishnu on the mortal plain. Well, I thought Avatar was little bit based on martial arts, so I assumed that they would use the five elements of taoism, because as you said "They are all reciprocal, no one is stronger then the other, and all are able to over come another. and they can create one another." shintai88 said: Yes, but let me fix you little bit. It is not elements but trigrams. But then those eight trigrams are related to feng shui, hexagrams and the five elements of taoism. The Baqua Formation symbolises a combination of 8 elements. Well the Avatar movie is targeted to younger audiences, and if the movie started to talk about Bagua then most of them wouldn't understand what it is about. |
spupapiJul 12, 2010 9:12 AM
| The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things. I do not recall, Jesus ever saying "build churches, temples, and kill those who doesn't follow christianity..." nor he said "christianity is religion". News for VN immigrants in EU: vietinfo.eu |
spupapi said: Jigero said: shintai88 said: Jigero said: spupapi said: The movie start with four elements introduction. Normally, there are four elements, fire, water, wind and earth. But according to asian philosophy, regularly is five elements. To chinese/taoism and martial arts teachings, there are five elements and that includes, five, earth, metal, wood, water. With the classical four western elements, we can assume easily that the element water, is the strongest one. Fire cannot do anything against water, wind either cannot do much to the water. Earth can do no harm, the water just prevail and adapts, no matter how many times it gets hit by rock etc. (Imagine you hitting the water, it does nothing, just return to it's shape) Water is adaptable and without shape, if you put it in tea-cup it'll become a tea-cup, if you put it in can it'll become can. Only element wood can "win", nourish and control the water. The boat, the boat floats, it is made out of wood, thus water cannot win or prevail. that because it's not based on the Chinese classical elements, the elements in Avatar are based on the Indian Tattva Elements Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Spirit. Hell Avatar is a Hindu term, Avatars were the projections of Vishnu on the mortal plain. Well, I thought Avatar was little bit based on martial arts, so I assumed that they would use the five elements of taoism, because as you said "They are all reciprocal, no one is stronger then the other, and all are able to over come another. and they can create one another." shintai88 said: Yes, but let me fix you little bit. It is not elements but trigrams. But then those eight trigrams are related to feng shui, hexagrams and the five elements of taoism. The Baqua Formation symbolises a combination of 8 elements. Well the Avatar movie is targeted to younger audiences, and if the movie started to talk about Bagua then most of them wouldn't understand what it is about. Well u do know China can trace the origins of it's Martial Arts back to India right? All Element Philosophies are pretty similar, The Tattva elements of Air, Fire, Water and Earth are the elements of the mortal plain while Spirit is the Realm of Vishnu. |
JigeroJul 12, 2010 9:28 AM
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
| I'm not planning to waste my time with that crap, thank you very much xD |
| *I just went today & WELL ! THIS MOVIE SUCKED !!!! Im a HUGE Avatar fan, & this movie...was epic FAILUREE ! 1. They continued to call Aang , Ong ! ← i was correcting that the whole movie ! && Sokka - Soakka 2. They skipped about the WHOLE book ! It went from beginning STRAIGHT to END . 3. The earth benders did 1003475 stunt moves just to move ah fucking pebble. 4. Bending water was made into a whole dance. They were OVER-bending -- The only thing that kept this movie alive was SOME of the effects...which most of them were in slow motion. Appa & Momo were the best part of the movie. ← Which throughout the whole move , neither of they're names were said. Seriously, M.Knight WTF were you thinking , you should have watched the series before trying to make it into a movie. I went to see the movie because my dumbass thought that it COULDNT be THAT bad. It was fucking horrible ! The characters had NO life... oh yea ! try sqeezing a WHOLE book into about 1 HOUR ! Eveything was out of place. Zuko BARELY had a scar & his hair was cut short he also had a nose that looked like it was stretched out & slapped back on his face.. Iroh was YOUNG, tall & hella skinny. & Sokka was wayy too serious & it had NO comedy.. Aang's avatar state....WTF was that !? BULLSHIT. I never thought that a movie could be THAT bad.. during the movie i was ready to walk out & walk into Karate Kid, & i was cursing the whole time at the UNKNOWN & WTH scenes. I admit the Nothern Water Temple was gorgeous but besides that ...blahh. It was 2 hours, but felt like 45 mins to me. At the end my cousin was like "Its not that bad, about a 7-10". Im like WTF HAVE YOU SEEN THE ANIMATED SERIES. Of course he didnt. It would be a slap it the face if he did. Im SO sorry i messed up the animated series by watching that. Now im about to watch the REAL Avatar & have sweet dreams. (: Generously i give this movie a 3-4/10 ←GENEROUSS ! |
glittervomJul 15, 2010 6:12 PM
| I saw it last night: The acting is very subjectable, with Sokka, Zuko, Iroh's, and Katara's being the staples of good. Zuko's lack of traditional defining scar is a very large dissapointment, Patel does his character justice however with his good acting for his character. Noah Ringer makes a very bad Aang his personality is brittled to death by how shoddy he performs it. Really the only good thing that came out me seeing it was some nice special effects: A.K.A. the epitome of a Micheal Bay film. |
Forgive me, I am reposting this because of too much editing, fixing grammar errors/flaws of the post before (I still do not doubt that there are still some grammatical errors in my post). It also seems that coding in the MAL system has few errors too by the way. Yeah, but Chinese philosophy and martial arts has advanced and evolved into different matter compared to India. Only the early martial arts was little bit influenced by India, but you cannot say wing chun, taichi, hung gar, hkd, originated from India. And Shaolins says that martial arts all around the world is originated from Shaolin temple. Shaolins are maybe not the first ones, who practiced martial arts nor they were the first one to use it. But their martial arts is most famous and influenced the world the most. When you learn karate, you can notice tens, maybe hundreds of techniques that are used in shaolin too. Indian and Chinese philosophy are similar to each other, like the most of major religion and philosophies. Most of them speak of peace, virtuous, morals. Ideals of christianity, hindu, buddhism, Taoism, are all similar. The great achievement of their, is to become good and moral person. Or maybe, it'd be more accurate to say "all of them have something in common". Someone might say "of course lol, what kind of religion are there that prefer evil?" There are. Anyway to what I wanted say, all of them may sound very different, but the concept is pretty much same. Major religions want to make the world better. Better in way to be peaceful, respecting and loving. Some uses the name of god, spirits, supernatural beings to speak of good and morals and some not (Confucianism uses the name of people, to speak about morals and virtuosity and same goes for Taoism). God of christianity is really close to what Tao is. You don't think so? Because christians describes their god confusingly and very differently. When you read Bible, christians describe God as him. People sometimes are confused, who is god? Does he has shape? Can I see him? Why won't god help me? He is cruel, he is loving and so on. The Bible also gives us incomprehensible reason, why we should never know the gods real name: "because god doesn't want to, because god said so, because he will punish you if you do so". Tao Te Ching (sacred book of Taoism) gives quite reasonable answer to why we should not know real name of Tao. As my signature says "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things." Lao Tzu say, that there's no the end without beginning, and no beginning without the end. And Tao is never-ending, eternal, thus it has no beggining nor the end. They also say, god loves you, but you have to help yourself. Tao Te Ching does not say that the Tao loves you nor it hates you. But it speaks of harmony of the world and Yin Yang. Meaning, in order to achieve anything, you have to help yourself, no greater power nor supernatural power will ever help you to achieve anything. God is nowhere, yet everywhere; Tao is nowhere, yet everywhere. ^ Christian God and Tao are more similar to each other than we might think. People of different cultures just describe those two differently. |
spupapiJul 15, 2010 8:00 PM
| The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things. I do not recall, Jesus ever saying "build churches, temples, and kill those who doesn't follow christianity..." nor he said "christianity is religion". News for VN immigrants in EU: vietinfo.eu |
| its doing horrible in the box office like 4th place |
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