no he should fund it but not be apart of it since he wrote this horrid piece of crapKorroth Dyahwanre said:
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what worries me is Nick has Dragon Ball i don't think i can take another Evolutions without dieing
This is a lot of optimism. I say the music is good and the special effects are good, but the script is meh and the acting is mostly terrible. The fight scenes are cool, but they spend so much time making hand movements to create a simple gust of wind or fling a rock. That really diminishes the impact of a lot of moments. If you were to spend so much time charging up chi or whatever, I expect you to demolish everyone in one shot.
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i'm disappointed about how you thought a white cast was an elephant in the room for P.O.P. but neatly skirted around the so obvious white cast for this movie. "Interesting", i was hoping for more entertainment value from that alone.
I saw this about 2 weeks ago. The movie has some of the best effects I have seen but they killed the movie by making to short, cutting out away to much, and all the funny stuff and joke from the series are gone too. This should have been a 3 hour movie or 2 3 hour movies for the first season alone.
Maybe it was all the negativity around this movie that lowered my expectations, but I actually enjoyed this movie. xD
It's not great (characters are way too serious and underdeveloped) but it's definitely not as crappy as most people say it is.
Maybe in the next movies there'll be more character development, since there's less stuff to explain.
It's not great (characters are way too serious and underdeveloped) but it's definitely not as crappy as most people say it is.
Maybe in the next movies there'll be more character development, since there's less stuff to explain.
I get why they'd shorten the story because the kids it was obviously made for don't have a great attention span, but I didn't enjoy this movie. The bending moves were way too elaborate compared to the results the brought (a handful of earth benders needing a five second dance just to throw one rock?), the acting was sub par and the characters were way too underdeveloped. Except maybe for Zuko, they got the gist on him.
I know if I would be able to judge this movie by its own merits I would have found it- no, wait, it would still be bad, just not as bad as I think it is now.
It's a shame, but I'm not obsessing over it. I do think they should leave it at this one movie, save the money for something more worthy, because I'm not quite sure they can take this anywhere better.
I'll be watching the animated series again soon, to get this film out of my head.
I know if I would be able to judge this movie by its own merits I would have found it- no, wait, it would still be bad, just not as bad as I think it is now.
It's a shame, but I'm not obsessing over it. I do think they should leave it at this one movie, save the money for something more worthy, because I'm not quite sure they can take this anywhere better.
I'll be watching the animated series again soon, to get this film out of my head.
The first two Harry Potter movies are the best in the series, or, at least, most faithful to the original plot, which, in my opinion, is what makes a movie of that calibre great.
bob gave it far FAR too much credit. That movie was an unadulterated steaming pile of dumpster shit
I WILL NOT WATCH THIS!
When i first heard of this movie i was EXTREMELY EXCITED! This is hands down one of the best cartoons to come out in the US in at least 20 years! I kinda gave up on western animation until i watched this little beauty! Then i noticed M. Night Shamalamadingdong as its director...
Then i was crossing my fingers SOO HARD hoping he wouldnt completely destroy this movie...
Because i know he is talented! He has more talent than i do as a director i will say that much for sure! But he always misdirects that talent and it usually ends up VERY BADLY!
So one of my friends went and saw this movie in theatres he is also a fan of this series he then latter tells me of its total FAIL!
Basically what you said in this review is the way he felt. He liked the action but there was almost NONE of it... The rest of the movie was the story. WHICH he and i would not have a problem with if it was told right!
Hell even the cartoon was mostly story building with a few epic action scenes thrown in to make it interesting for the kiddies... But at least that story was GOOD.
This movie took everything that you could possibly love about this series and destroyed it!
This was the final straw for me Shamalamadingdong!
I truly hate you now!
This was one of my favorite cartoon/animated series of the last decade...
And you shat all over it!
When i first heard of this movie i was EXTREMELY EXCITED! This is hands down one of the best cartoons to come out in the US in at least 20 years! I kinda gave up on western animation until i watched this little beauty! Then i noticed M. Night Shamalamadingdong as its director...
Then i was crossing my fingers SOO HARD hoping he wouldnt completely destroy this movie...
Because i know he is talented! He has more talent than i do as a director i will say that much for sure! But he always misdirects that talent and it usually ends up VERY BADLY!
So one of my friends went and saw this movie in theatres he is also a fan of this series he then latter tells me of its total FAIL!
Basically what you said in this review is the way he felt. He liked the action but there was almost NONE of it... The rest of the movie was the story. WHICH he and i would not have a problem with if it was told right!
Hell even the cartoon was mostly story building with a few epic action scenes thrown in to make it interesting for the kiddies... But at least that story was GOOD.
This movie took everything that you could possibly love about this series and destroyed it!
This was the final straw for me Shamalamadingdong!
I truly hate you now!
This was one of my favorite cartoon/animated series of the last decade...
And you shat all over it!
I loved the visuals, but yeah, the characters felt very bland as opposed to the ones from the original series, and the casting seemed strange (why is the Fire Nation just Indians?)
Bob, I want to say thank you. I just watched this and then went to look at what some of my favorite online personalities had to say about it. You are the only one who seemed to give it any level of disconnect and honest appraisal, as you are want to do. Most dwelled on the negative aspects of 3D and used the word shit many times. Not to say we shouldn't disagree, that'd be awfully boring. Ive disagreed with several of your views both here and at the overthinker. But that is why we don't have but one source. I agree that it is not one of the better films we have seen recently. But it feels entirely like the first act of a larger production. I would like to see Night take a crack at the next chapter, but I doubt it will happen. The only spot here where I disagree is that I only liked Unbreakable and 6th Sense.
People desperately need to understand that film, books, tv and games are entirely different media. Adaptations will never be perfect translations. Being unwaiveringly faithful to the source material typically ends with things not feeling right. And people would understand this if they had a broader experience base in all things, mostly books. I have seen countless great books I have loved transformed into movies. After a while you grow accustomed to what will come of the transformation. The best ones make some of the most radical changes. Hell, Fight Club ends completely differently. I've most recently been torn by the changes made translating the movie Outsourced into a weekly sitcom. First time I have made that transition and it is going ok.
People desperately need to understand that film, books, tv and games are entirely different media. Adaptations will never be perfect translations. Being unwaiveringly faithful to the source material typically ends with things not feeling right. And people would understand this if they had a broader experience base in all things, mostly books. I have seen countless great books I have loved transformed into movies. After a while you grow accustomed to what will come of the transformation. The best ones make some of the most radical changes. Hell, Fight Club ends completely differently. I've most recently been torn by the changes made translating the movie Outsourced into a weekly sitcom. First time I have made that transition and it is going ok.
I didn't see even half of the great Bob was talking about. A lot of the fight scenes were lame and the plot was equivalent to taking sandpaper and rubbing it directly on my brain.
This most have been the worst movie I had ever seen. I thought it would be good when I enterd the cinema, but after the movie, I just sat and almost cryed! Mr M. Night Shyamalan has destroyed one of the greatest animated series ever made. The movie had no sense of humor what so ever! Sokka was smart (all the time, he is not smart all the time in the series), Katara was cold as ice, and so was Aang. And uncle Iroh, that wasen't him. That was some skinny old man in black beard trying to be him. His love for tea was only shown once....ONLY ONCE! And prince Zuko? That wasen't him. And Zukos father, The Fire Lord? Bah, just some random guy in a palace. If they haven't told me his name I never would have thought that was him.
And the action then....don't even get me started. I'm gonna stay short on this. IT WAS BAAAAAAD!!!
You know what, I can go on all night and tell you why this movie sucked so much but I am gonna stop here and give this movie 0/10. See ya next time.
And the action then....don't even get me started. I'm gonna stay short on this. IT WAS BAAAAAAD!!!
You know what, I can go on all night and tell you why this movie sucked so much but I am gonna stop here and give this movie 0/10. See ya next time.