Kipcha said: Well, really, it's like trying to find a real person to match an anime character. It isn't possible because there is no one who looks like an anime character.
I don't buy that at all really. Just because it's anime or anime based doesn't mean they couldn't have found ANY actors that looked like these characters. Especially since each nation and its people are based around real groups of people, they could have started from their instead of switching everything around and sticking all of those who could look like the characters in the background. I've read several fan-castings which had several actors that looked the part much more than the current movies cast.
Kipcha said: Well, yeah, again, it's a movie, not a series. They didn't have time to show.
Even if it's a movie, I think the number one rule most directors should know is that you should show instead of tell. No one wants to watch a movie where they are being told what is happening because its not believable. I hardly see how they are going to make a sequel when there was no visible relationship built up between the characters and we where just told about everything. I felt nothing about Yue nor did I feel bad for Sokka because I didn't see anything to make me believe they really cared for each other or that I should care for her. Knowing this, they should have broken this season into at least two films.
Kipcha said: Umm, because M Night was trying to pronounce the names correctly. Technically that was the correct pronunciation.
This doesn't make sense at all considering nothing else about the film was accurate. M.Night eliminated 99% of the Asian culture and influence in the show, replaced all of the Chinese characters with gibberish, and watered down all of the specific martial art uses to arm waving. Why bother changing the names to their more correct pronunciations, which only served to annoy the movie goers, when nothing else about the film is accurate.
Kipcha said: There is a possible reason for that. I mean, they aren't from the Southern Water Tribe. Gran Gran came from the NORTHERN water tribe (and I can't remember what they looked like, I saw it right after it was released) so they wouldn't look like the Southerns.
That doesn't make sense either since while Gran Gran is from the North, Katara and Sokka are mostly South because Gran Gran married someone from the Southern Water tribe and so did her daughter. So they should look like the rest of their tribe if we are going that route. Honestly, they should have kept it the way it was in the series where both tribes looked the same. The only thing that should have been different between the two was their customs, how they both dealt with the war, and that the North was much more well off than the South. Sokka and Katara are supposed to look inuit like the rest of their tribe, same with Gran Gran.
Kipcha said: Well, the guy who played Zuko was decent... But yeah, blame the director here. We KNOW he can do better with child actors, look at The Sixth Sense. I don't blame the actors.
While the fault does go to the director, they just didn't hire the best actors. Dev Patel can act, and we know that if we've seen him in anything and in this film, while his acting wasn't at it's best it wasn't horrible. The rest not so much....I would exempt Aasif Mandvi also but I couldn't take any of his lines seriously and maybe that's because I'm so used to watching him on the Daily Show :/ Every line almost felt like he was delivering a joke and I was going to see Jon Stewart cameo in the next scene.
But even the best actors couldn't have made up for how bad the script was. It sounded like I was being read dialogue from a badly written fanfiction where the obvious needed to be stated to me in every. single. line.
IMO this film was as bad as it could have been. The acting, the camera work, pretty much everything. Even the effects, while nice looked tacted on with all of the arm waving and turn based fighting. |