YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH!
The last airbender movie
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YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH!
dullbuoy
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got dragged to it early this morning. my friend was taking his son to go see it and the earliest showing (he had to go to work later so it needed to be the earliest showing) was the 3D version which i told him would be waste of money. but anyway, it was a waste of money. this was the first 3D movie i've seen and when all the previews have more 3D in it than the actual feature
....i didn't pay for my ticket and i still felt ripped off.
when it was originally announced that Night was gonna be directing it, i thought great at least he's not in charge of writing it....well i just checked and he also wrote this screen adaptation. so not only is it badly directed it's also badly scripted, written and acted.
....i didn't pay for my ticket and i still felt ripped off.when it was originally announced that Night was gonna be directing it, i thought great at least he's not in charge of writing it....well i just checked and he also wrote this screen adaptation. so not only is it badly directed it's also badly scripted, written and acted.
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this was the first 3D movie i've seen and when all the previews have more 3D in it than the actual feature
This is from the A.V. Club review:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-last-airbender,42682/
They gave it an "F", BTW.
I will admit tho i thot the previews made the movie look pretty decent tho. Go to show while it not so much of a bad idea to adapt anime/cartoons or video games into movies. The hole problem is its a good idea to do so they just all turn out shitty because no one really tried to make these movies right. People should stop making live action adaptations of video games or anime/cartoons because they always turn out shitty because directors don't try hard enough. Sure there may be a few that aren't so bad but still could be better if they tried harder.
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Good to know then... although the animated series was INCREDIBLE, I really loved it because of the whole martial arts movements the four elements represent, indeed very interesting.
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Haha, I said the same exact thing about The House of the Dead when my friend and I snuck in to watch it when it came out.
Never seen a Twilight movie, but I think Kristin Stewert is pretty hot. Terrible actress though.
I'm calling it now: this "woman" will be a butch dyke within five years.
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I just got back from seeing this, someone severely overexaggerated about this movie. It is exactly what it's advertised as, a live action sum up of the Water Book. It wasn't a great movie, but it also wasn't terrible.
The acting could have used improvement. The characters were over-serious and the movie didn't get into who the characters were supposed to be. As far as accuracy, the movie itself was dead on to the story (except the Kyoshi warriors were left out.. which is bad because Suki becomes a MAJOR role by the time the fire book rolls around). Sokka's character was just... wrong.
The effects were great, and appa's rendering was very well done. The characters look near dead on to how they should. Aside from a couple quirks, it was ok.
The acting could have used improvement. The characters were over-serious and the movie didn't get into who the characters were supposed to be. As far as accuracy, the movie itself was dead on to the story (except the Kyoshi warriors were left out.. which is bad because Suki becomes a MAJOR role by the time the fire book rolls around). Sokka's character was just... wrong.
The effects were great, and appa's rendering was very well done. The characters look near dead on to how they should. Aside from a couple quirks, it was ok.
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SetaSouji??
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So because their skin isn't the right shade, it's wrong? For real people counter-parts of cartoon characters, they look quite good. Furthermore, they also compensated the whole skin tambre by making all the respective tribes the same races. If you're saying the movie sucked because of the actors skin colors, then your a racist fucktard.
Lemme guess, you're going to be pissed off when he does the Earth Book and Toph is going to be an asian chick instead of white?
dullbuoy
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the southern water tribe has 3 white people, the ones with actual speaking parts.
the movie sucked even if it was black and white and played by muppets, fucktard.
aside from bad script, bad pacing, bad editing, lousy acting, mispronounced character names, barely tacked on 3D, bad directing, lack of anything endearing, lack of fun and epicness......yeah it was good adaptation
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Yeah, that casting is okay. Let's suck the life out of every character, too.
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aside from bad script, bad pacing, bad editing, lousy acting, mispronounced character names, barely tacked on 3D, bad directing, lack of anything endearing, lack of fun and epicness......yeah it was good adaptation
Okay, so if you think it was really that bad, then why don't you go and do better?
OMG THERE WAS A BLACK MONK TOO so fucking what? Quit being a racist asshat.
That's not even a good comeback
That I agree with, Sokka is supposed to be a happy go lucky retard who tries to be serious and well.. isn't; whereas M. Night wrote his part to be overserious. The movie was meant to be a serious recap of the waterbook, in which it WAS. If you don't like it that's fine, but you don't have to be a racist douche about it.
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it's because i'm racist, therefore i fail to see how this movie really captures the essence of the characters look and personality this movie would be much more awesome if i wasn't prejudiced against the actor's race.
awesome asshat comeback.
the characters not matching the physical looks can be overlooked if the the actors captured the characters personalities. it has nothing to do with race. it's just laughable how you can even think that the characters are "dead on". more like "dead" or dead on arrival, lackluster dead, yes, but dead on as in accurate, fuck no.
so put your race card back in your pocket and stfu.
this movie would be much more awesome if i wasn't prejudiced against the actor's race.awesome asshat comeback.
the characters not matching the physical looks can be overlooked if the the actors captured the characters personalities. it has nothing to do with race. it's just laughable how you can even think that the characters are "dead on". more like "dead" or dead on arrival, lackluster dead, yes, but dead on as in accurate, fuck no.
so put your race card back in your pocket and stfu.
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I didn't ask for the tooth!!!
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Case in point, but your entitled to your opinion. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go do something slightly more entertaining than argue with you.
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Yeah, that casting is okay. Let's suck the life out of every character, too.
Wow, I wonder if the same people who say they're ok with the race changes even with evidence that the main cast we people of color where the same ones going postal when Marvel thought about hiring a black guy to play Spider-Man for the reboot
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Seriously Skot, dont even bother.
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Woah woah woah, time out, both of you.
Just to put things in perspective,
You guys are trading insults over an M. Night Shyamalan movie.
OK... an M. Night Shyamalan movie.
Based on a cartoon.
A cartoon.
-10 Internet points for the both of you.
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dullbuoy
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all i responded to was his post saying how "dead on" the characters looked to the cartoon (which is not even all that debatable). only to be followed by him calling me a racist in a couple of posts. so if you didn't like the movie, it's clearly because you're a racist.
but anyway, seeing as he didn't bother reading what was in the link that had the pictures of how not dead on the characters looked, that site actually talks about how the casting director sent out letters to auditioners specifically asking for Caucasians for the 4 leading characters as the first criteria, and the rest of the cast members as any other ethnicities outside of Caucasian. and the creator of the Avatar series having to release a statement saying he had nothing to do with the casting.
this movie might even be more hilarious had they just kept Jesse McCartney in one of the leading roles, he dropped out and was replaced by the Slumdog Millionaire guy.
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M. Night needs to give it up.
His films have been steadily declining since 2002...
Look at it this way:
Sixth sense....86%
Unbreakable....66%
Signs....74%
The village....43%
Lady in the water....25%
The happening....18%
And now this which is currently at 8%...WOW...how in the name of fuck can this be THAT much worse than the Happening (which was the worst film I've ever seen, yes, worse than Battlefield Earth). It was so bad...it wasn't even good-bad...it was plain absurd with a terrible plot and cardboard acting.
One a side and semi related note...who in the fuck keeps hiring Zooey Deschanel? She has got to be one of the worst, coldest, dullest most obviously "acting" people I have ever seen. She is flat out horrible...
His films have been steadily declining since 2002...
Look at it this way:
Sixth sense....86%
Unbreakable....66%
Signs....74%
The village....43%
Lady in the water....25%
The happening....18%
And now this which is currently at 8%...WOW...how in the name of fuck can this be THAT much worse than the Happening (which was the worst film I've ever seen, yes, worse than Battlefield Earth). It was so bad...it wasn't even good-bad...it was plain absurd with a terrible plot and cardboard acting.
One a side and semi related note...who in the fuck keeps hiring Zooey Deschanel? She has got to be one of the worst, coldest, dullest most obviously "acting" people I have ever seen. She is flat out horrible...
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Wow. Lots of hate for this movie. I went to see it knowing it had a low rating, but saw it anyway because I'm a fan of the series. And I have to admit the non-asian actors bothered me. The acting was stiff, and the 3D FX were limited to characters standing in the foreground, one mountain range stick up, some of the titles, and the best one was a ship coming toward you. The preview 3D was pretty good though.
I'd say if you're a fan of the series, it's worth watching, otherwise just netflix it later.
One positive I do have to say about it is that it followed the episodes of Book 1 pretty closely, they didn't just make shit up.
I'd say if you're a fan of the series, it's worth watching, otherwise just netflix it later.
One positive I do have to say about it is that it followed the episodes of Book 1 pretty closely, they didn't just make shit up.
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lol. I first read that as "on a side and semi retarded note..."