M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender"

[King of the Sandbox]

You have it wrong. The more you like Avatar (the real Avatar), the less you'll like M Fail Shyamafail's butchering of it.

What does James Cameron have to do with all this?

Ah, I see you've found your "Please kick me in the balls as hard as you can, I DARE YOU" sign.

 

[GloatingSwine]

You have it wrong. The more you like Avatar (the real Avatar), the less you'll like M Fail Shyamafail's butchering of it.

What does James Cameron have to do with all this?

If I was talking about Pocohontas I would have said Pocohontas

 

[SonicWaffle]

You have it wrong. The more you like Avatar (the real Avatar), the less you'll like M Fail Shyamafail's butchering of it.

What does James Cameron have to do with all this?

If I was talking about Pocohontas I would have said Pocohontas

You mean Fern Gully, surely?

Ah, I see you've found your "Please kick me in the balls as hard as you can, I DARE YOU" sign.

Found it? I never lost it! Now, let's see; all religion is stupid, gun control is a terrible idea, Hitler was right, abortion is brilliant and should be mandatory, all brown people are terrorists, and the Jews planned 9/11.

Did I miss any?

 

[Rakkana]

I think he did very well with what he was given.

1. It's impossible to make something that compares with the TV series.
2. He had to fit an whole series into and hour and a half!

From the end result we got an average movie. It defiantly wasn't bad.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

So it's like the Eragon movie? Except it sounds even worse...

 

[The Procrastinated End]

That guys movies are losing quality each movie he makes. He needs to start making good movies again.

I'm pretty sure the Happening and Lady in the Water were worse then this one.

 

[GloatingSwine]

You mean Fern Gully, surely?

No. Not enough Tim Curry.

I think he did very well with what he was given.

1. It's impossible to make something that compares with the TV series.
2. He had to fit an whole series into and hour and a half!

From the end result we got an average movie. It defiantly wasn't bad.

Except it was. It was 90% expository dialogue, and when something did happen the kung fu choreography was slow and dull, which the series wasn't.

Also, the logic of the movies doesn't work. They imprison earthbenders on, well, earth, and the firebenders need existing fire to do anything, meaning that dousing their braziers basically completely stuffs them.

Also, quite frankly, the whole point of the episode Imprisoned is to establish that Earthbenders can't bend metal (so it's impressive when Toph can), and to introduce Haru. With neither of those things present, that episode was inappropriate for inclusion in the film, and they might as well have just done The Great Divide (widely considered the only pure filler episode of the show), they should have done the solstice episodes, it establishes the threat of Sozin's Comet, and by having Aang captured there they could move on to the Blue Spirit.

 

[Rakkana]

I think he did very well with what he was given.

1. It's impossible to make something that compares with the TV series.
2. He had to fit an whole series into and hour and a half!

From the end result we got an average movie. It defiantly wasn't bad.

Except it was. It was 90% expository dialogue, and when something did happen the kung fu choreography was slow and dull, which the series wasn't.

Also, the logic of the movies doesn't work. They imprison earthbenders on, well, earth, and the firebenders need existing fire to do anything, meaning that dousing their braziers basically completely stuffs them.

Also, quite frankly, the whole point of the episode Imprisoned is to establish that Earthbenders can't bend metal (so it's impressive when Toph can), and to introduce Haru. With neither of those things present, that episode was inappropriate for inclusion in the film, and they might as well have just done The Great Divide (widely considered the only pure filler episode of the show), they should have done the solstice episodes, it establishes the threat of Sozin's Comet, and by having Aang captured there they could move on to the Blue Spirit.[/quote]As I said. They couldn't fit all that into the time limit and did as good as I expected. And it was defiantly watchable. Not good but watchable.

 

[Ciran]

That guys movies are losing quality each movie he makes. He needs to start making good movies again.

Actually, he just needs to stop making movies. It's what I like to call the George Lucas effect (though I'm sure there's a similar theory that came out long before my name that says the same thing, but this is what my friends and I use) which is, he made a few good movies, and then he needed to just stop.

 

[Meggiepants]

The more I read reviews of this movie, the more I feel compelled to watch it. I don't know if it's the Mystery Science Theatre experience talking, but seeing for myself just how bad it could possibly be is almost turning into an obssession for me.

On topic: I can't vouch for the accuracy of the review considering I haven't seen the source material, but it is well structured and seems to cover everything important. Oh well, pointless post is pointless.

I will be excited if they Rifftrax it. In fact, that will get me to watch it if nothing else will.

OT: The OP isn't the only one who think Airbender would be better if it were longer. I've seen that opinion a few places now. The movie suffers from having too much to cover in too short a time. I don't know if any director could have encompassed a whole Anime series into one movie. M. Night would have been better served if he had tried to keep it simple, making people come to a sequel to discover more of the story.