He was wrong. Almost every character has their name pronounced slightly differently: Aang is Oong, Sokka is Soh-ka, Iroh is Ear-oh, etc. Even the word Avatar is pronounced Ah-vatar!
The problem with that is, no one cared! No one watched the cartoon and thought to themselves, "Hey, I love this show, but it would be so much better if the names were slightly more authentic. What makes General Zhao a fantastic villain in the cartoon's first season is how deranged he becomes. He starts out as a respected general, but soon his power-mad ambitions consume him and he insanely kills the moon spirit.
It clearly isn't a smart idea, but Zhao has so thoroughly lost his marbles that the move makes sense for him. The movie changes that entirely. Instead of making Zhao a crazy Fire Nation general who goes a little rogue, the movie has him still following the Fire Lord's instructions every step of the way. There's a scene of Zhao explaining his plan to the Fire Lord, who gives him the order to kill the moon spirit.
It might seem like a tiny detail, but it's one that fundamentally changes Zhao's character. As if the whole "firebenders need a fire source to bend fire" isn't insulting enough, the movie makes a point of showing how cool it is that Uncle Iroh can bend fire on his own.
It's apparently supposed to be a jaw-dropping moment that displays his awesome power, but anyone who watched the show knows it's really no big deal. Cartoon fans grew up on the fact that firebenders could shoot fire out of their hands no problem, so on the big screen, this supposed "wow" moment is devoid of any "wow. A demonstration about how he became the Dragon of the West would have been much more satisfying. In the cartoon, the Fire Lord is a mysterious presence.
He's like the Emperor in Star Wars. His shadowy figure doesn't have a big impact early on, but his menacing presence is felt throughout the first season. In the live-action version, he's briefly played by Cliff Curtis. He's a great actor, but unfortunately the role makes him about as intimidating as Mickey Mouse.
The Fire Lord is supposed to be the biggest bad in the whole series, but revealing him as just "some dude" with a quick early appearance, the film denies him any mystery, effectively cutting the character off at the knees.
One of the earliest relationships explored in the cartoon is the one between Aang and his mentor, Monk Gyatso, with flashbacks showing how close the two had been. From learning what it's like to be an air nomad to launching pies at fellow monks, the bond the two shared was powerful. So Aang finding his mentor's skeletal remains emotionally registers for the viewer.
In the movie, Monk Gyatso is mostly regulated to smiling in the background; Aang merely talks about how important Gyatso was to him. By not showing the extent of their relationship, Aang's discovery lacks any emotion. Just another empty moment in an empty movie. Even at almost two hours long, the movie doesn't have time to truly breathe or develop. That's what happens when you cram an entire season of television into one movie.
Condensing major storylines shortchanges all of them. In a nutshell, The Last Airbender which removed Avatar from its title to distinguish itself from James Cameron's Avatar proved to be as stark and definitive a drop in quality from a previously established property as a big-screen adaptation has ever embodied. A live-action reboot of Avatar is in the works at Netflix , with the direct involvement of series creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino.
The idea of Avatar getting another shot at a proper live-action adaptation is surely welcome news to the countless lovers of the series across the globe who were left deeply dismayed by the film. However, it is still worth looking back on The Last Airbender to examine just how much the movie missed the mark and how the Netflix reboot can avoid its failings - and those failings are many. In the lead-up to its debut, The Last Airbender already had a cloud of controversy hovering over it due to its casting.
The world of Avatar had been intended from the outset to be an encapsulation of Asia, with the Four Nations representing different cultures from across the Asian continent.
However, the casting of the major characters of the movie hardly reflected this, with Aang , Katara, Sokka, and most of the Northern Water Tribe being played by white actors, with mostly Indian actors cast as the Fire Nation. The backlash to The Last Airbender 's casting would loom over the movie well before and well after it hit theaters. Even a decade later, the movie remains one of, if not the most notorious example of big-screen whitewashing , and is still regularly referenced as an example of racial miscasting to this day.
However, for as big of a negative reaction as the casting of The Last Airbender received, even this was only just the beginning of its many problems. The premise of Avatar: The Last Airbender was both unique and groundbreaking in establishing the concept of " bending ", the ability to manipulate the elements of Earth, Fire, Water, or Air.
The show took this concept even further be correlating each element to a different discipline of martial arts, and later expanded into other subsets of bending, such as metalbending and even bloodbending.
The Avatar is the only person in the world capable of mastering all of the elements, being continually reincarnated into a different tribe of the Four Nations while also being able to summon the power of the previous incarnations of the Avatar by entering the " Avatar state ". To say all of this was badly represented in The Last Airbender barely scratches the surface of how horribly the movie dropped ball on element bending. Where the show massively raised the bar for animated action scenes, the movie's bending consisted of poorly orchestrated dances with the characters going through an entire set of movements just to get started bending their designated element.
Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! So what was wrong with the film itself? For starters, it is absolutely deadpan. That movie would be a legitimate modern masterpiece of schlock if only anybody involved with it had been in on the joke. The film settles a little after the first hour, but whole subplots based around Sokka falling in love with a princess are still glossed over in narration while still playing a huge part in the finale. Although the director had a very clear vision for the style of the film, it was Industrial Light and Magic who had to bring his storyboard book to life.
This also required Shyamalan to direct up to 60 takes of some shots to ensure full coverage in scenes with moving elements and a moving camera. If a chorus line of villagers from the Earth kingdom perform an elaborate version of the haka, it only summons one piffling boulder to slowly hover towards their adversaries. The net result is that the film has hugely impressive visual effects that have no weight in the story whatsoever.
The same goes for the superb cinematography by the late great Andrew Lesnie, who brings a real thrill to seeing certain visuals from the series realized in live-action, but as mentioned, had his work converted into 3D after the fact. This movie is absolutely atrocious, just so bad that it actually induces laughter at its sheer awfulness. The dialogue is something my five-year old cousin would probably be disappointed with, the plot is the most trite, unoriginal stuff ever with elements from LoTR, and star wars among many, many others, and the acting, dear god what acting?
Aang is a bright and exuberant little kid in the show who radiates energy. Here he's a wooden board. This movie is an emotional black hole of failure and is bland in every way, from its shockingly bad visuals to again, the characters.
I might rate it an eight, but please reasonable parents, don't take your kids to see it, don't hurt their eyes and if they are fans of the series don't crush their hopes and dreams under the sheer weight of misery this movie conveys. Its that bad. Bye, I'm off to cry now and rant on less censored forums. Teen, 13 years old Written by Laikastudioslover August 31, Teen, 13 years old Written by MovieGuy23 June 12, Night Shyamalan?
After making The Sixth Sense, an excellent thriller , Unbreakable, a middle of the line suspense device , and Signs a good thriller , his career just took a downward spiral with the excuse of a film The Village then The Lady in the Water and The Happening which I did not see, but heard were horrible.
Finally, he makes this, his first and hopefully his last non-suspense film. The actors are flat and laughable, the dialouge is mundane, and the direction is non-existant. Horrible is sugarcoating it. Note to parents: The film contains stylized action and a moody kiss appropriate for most kids. This title contains: Positive Messages. Teen, 14 years old Written by DarkMidnight December 1, Horrible in Comparrison I was saddened.
No offence M. The acting was horrible and it sounded like they were reading streight off of the script without stop. Noah Ringer showed a tad of potental I admit, his acting was good in some places, but the results still were a downer, the boy hardly smiled and his air bending looked like he was pretending to be an octopus.
Katara was always so emotional, and she seemed more like a little girl than the 'motherly' figure. And for Zuko, they must realize he growl in EVERY sentence he said in the cartoon, in the movie he sounded like he yelled everything. Although they need a chubbier actor, excuse me saying so, but Iroh was short and fat, not tall and skinny.
None of the characters looked themselves, Aang sort of did, but not really, it looked like they obviously shaved his head. Katara and Sokka were Innuit, not pure as snow white, they could have hired African American's even for that role. Especially Zuko in the show, he looked more Asian than most of them. They made Haru a little boy, and at the end, the girl that plays Azula is in her twenties, when Azula was only 14 years old, like Katara.
If they could find someone around Katara's age to play the role, they can find a young girl that looks like Azula 'I' even look like Azula! The affects were decent, but they were moving far too slow, they could have just rolled out of the way! The thing with the Fire benders needing a 'source of fire' is silly, if that was true, I don't think they would have gone as far as they did in the war.
The people that were 'bending' looked more like they were just moving their arms all over, it hardly matched. You just couldn't relate to any of the characters, you could hardly grow on them. The set just seemed Little fun. Ozai didn't look scary, the characters look nothing like they should have, the names were said wrong, Appa looked like he was from "Where the Wild things Are" while Momo his name was never said looked like he came out of a video game.
If they mess up Azula and Toph, I'm dropping it completely. Teen, 14 years old Written by Totally August 14, Parents Listen Up!!! Parents: If you want to see this film, Please don't waste you time and money to see a film that is based on the tv series. Its boring and slow. Please don't see it. Teen, 14 years old Written by pen July 3, I almost ran out of the movie theater!
This movie was horrible!!! My friend and I love The Last Airbender series but this movie was not worth the time or money to see. They changed the names, more than half of the plot line, and in general the entire story! If you want to see this movie just watch the series instead because this movie butchered the entire show!
I hated it! Teen, 13 years old Written by Disney- October 13, This movie is so traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaash!!!!!!
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