Escape to the Movies: The Last Airbender
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Dragonball Z meets Inuyasha, what the hell are you talking about? Only the drawing style and some animation techniques are 'anime' everything else is homegrown apple pie.deth2munkies said:
Thank you Bob for being more forgiving then most of the people on this site and much more forgiving then you usually are.
well what do you know both suprisingly and unso, I was right and wrong respectively about Bob's review. He saw the flaws that everyone else saw and critiqued accordingly but to my pleasent suprise he in the end came away recommending it. And Not suprisingly it faired far better that Eclipse
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Oh, and it's pretty much the 'War of the Worlds' ending...so, basically a classic Sci-Fi reference, not some "oh bad storytelling" problem.
Alright, this is something I just can't stand about how people look at M Night's films: THE ENTIRE MOVIE IS NOT THIS 5 SECOND ENDING BIT! The core of the movie, a tense thriller of a family clinging to bits of information during an invasion beyond their league worked.meganmeave said:
Oh, and it's pretty much the 'War of the Worlds' ending...so, basically a classic Sci-Fi reference, not some "oh bad storytelling" problem.
Yea no kidding... I was going to go see it anyways, even though everyone said it was terrible, but now this at least gives me a glimmer of hope that it will at least keep me 'entertained' till the next one comes out (which better blow the original away...)canadamus_prime said:
THANK YOU BOB!MovieBob said:
your the only critic who sees this for what it is, A movie crushed by its own ambition.
A lot of assholes are saying that M. Night must not care about the movie, thats why he skipped over a lot.
But I think that he cared too much for the original source material and thats why he tried to compress an entire season.
In my opinion he should have taken the premise and the characters and made his own telling of it. I would have worked out a lot better.
Being a fan of the series, I died a little inside when watching this movie. Had he just stuck with the character personalities as they were (sakka never does anything funny, aang is emo), kept the names the same, and had more conversational dialog then explanation (which all the dialog could fit on two pages of paper) the movie could have been great, he did an amazing job with the filming of it, just a terrible job with the script and characters. (and the water tribes is the darkest skin color of the nations, why the hell were they white? eskimos arnt white).
Wow MovieBob was really posotive towards it. All the other critics I've seen have absolutley ripped it to shreds.
there is a difference between an entire nation being of one race, and of one culture.Blue-State said:
Culture is not 100% linked to a race, the movie didn't need to have xenophobed inuits as the southern water tribe except 3 people, the northern water tribe didn't need to all be whites, the fire nation didn't need to be all indians, and the earth tribe didn't didn't need to be all be asians, he could have easily mixed em whites, blacks, asians...ect and got a much better racial ambiguity that the animated show entailed.
Just because based upon cultures were there in the animated show does not mean every one was of one or another race in it.
Good thing he got it all wrong, not only did he make idiotic changes to the source material he had scenes that made no sense.IanBrazen said:
oh and what happened with 2 and a half hours? why was the movie a paltry 1 hour and 43 minutes? he could have added so much more with that extra 40 minutes or so.
He obviously didn't care otherwise the actors would have been better, the acting better, the martial arts better, and the bending actually frequent instead of being few and far between.
If this was youtube, I'd put a large thumbs up next to LordVyreth's post. Seriously, read it. Moviebob has zero credibility as a movie reviewer with me, but I do enjoy his rants. This review boiled down into: "ANGRY AT ECLIPSE. SEE ANYTHING ELSE." Part of me feels that he'd give Catwoman a mediocre review if it had come out in place of Avatar, just because it's something other than Twilight.
Dammit.... I really hoped the best from this movie and really had faith is M. Knight. Ugh, anyway, still going to watch this movie. Looks like the best one in the cinemas right now. Thanks for the review and forewarning me for not expecting awesome everything from this movie. The animated series was definitely worth watching.
I liked The village as much as 6th sense and Unbreakable and more than signs.
I thought Lady sucked (the only thing worth watching is Story) and haven't watched the Happening for how much i've heard it sucks
The young man from slumdog millionare!?
I thought Lady sucked (the only thing worth watching is Story) and haven't watched the Happening for how much i've heard it sucks
The young man from slumdog millionare!?
I'm sorry but that makes little sense in the way of a defense. The characterization, acting and plot structure in this film was terrible, but you say that it is alright because it is possible save character development and good plot structure for the sequel?misterprickly said:
No. A film has to stand on its own merits, and cannot be given credit for the next movie in the series that could possibly be better. The fantasy-hungry public didn't stand for it in Eragon or The Golden Compass. They do not have stand for it now.