The Last Airbender

[violntshags]

M. Night sucks ass. nuff said

[Rev. Powell]

I hope someone will go see this and report back on whether it's entertainingly bad or just bad-bad.  I suspect the latter but you never know.

[InformationGeek]

I hope someone will go see this and report back on whether it's entertainingly bad or just bad-bad.  I suspect the latter but you never know.

I'll try to go check it out, but no grantee that I will be able to.  It is a bit of money to see a movie at the theaters and people who give me a ride to the theater normally see the movie I'm seeing.  If this is bad, I don't want to torture them with the movie.

[Fausto]

Saw it yesterday. My brother, uncle and others arew dxie-hard fans of the original series, though I just havent started watching, for one reason or another (I did catch a few episodes here and there, so I had some idea of what was going on). The acting  from the three leads - Sokka, Aang, and Kitara - is atrocious. Granted, they look and sound like the characters (other than being inexplicably caucasian, that is), but that's about it. Dev Patel playing Prince Zuko was the only half-decent actor in the entire thing. Even for someone who never saw the original series, the movie felt like a speedy recap, with (i'm told) various parts cut out, and others needlessly and inexplicably changed. For example SPOILER ALERT: the film goes out of its way to pronounce the two male leads names as 'So-Ka' and "Ung,' a spirit that Aang (or rather Ung) talks to presents itself as a dragon,  despite it not appearing that way on the show, and - worst of all, I'm told - At the end, Aang does not loose control in the avatar state, like he's supposed to, which changes the course of the story dramatically. END OF SPOILER. The special effects were  good, and overall the story was okay, and I wasn't completely offended by it. The die-hard fans I saw it with, though, were pretty peeved.

Now that  I've seen the film,  I intend to watch the original series, the story the way it was intended to be told.

[Jim H]

Still haven't seen it, but I have seen the original series, which is quite good (and probably the best Nick toon since Invader Zim).  Most of the changes I hear discussed seem pointless, and it also appears Shyamalan deliberately removed all the non-serious elements and didn't really even try to go for humor, which was a fairly constant element in the original series.

[akiratubo]

I went to see it with two friends.  We walked out about 10 minutes into it.  No joke.  There was not one second that didn't have something wrong with it.

The three main actors are unbearably bad.

The first thing you see is Katara making a water ball.  Gallons and gallons of water pour off it while she's moving it around but it never gets smaller.  She splashes Sokka with it but he doesn't get wet.

Sokka hits the ice with his boomerang thing, which causes a huge earthquake (icequake?).  He tells Katara to run stay away from the cracks, then they run directly along the path of the biggest crack in the ice.

A big sphere comes up through the ice.  Katara takes the boomerang thing and barely taps the sphere, which causes it to EXPLODE and give off a HUGE BEAM OF LIGHT that pushes her back about 50 feet without hurting her in the slightest way.

A Fire Nation ship just happens to be a short distance away.  One of them sees the beam of light and says, "Hey, look!" without moving his mouth.

Katara and Sokkah climb into the remains of the sphere and find Aang and his sky buffalo.  The buffalo wakes up and accidentally knocks down Sokka with its tail.  He says, "It's trying to eat me," (with its ass?) without moving his mouth.

The next scene is the Water Tribe village.  You hear the sky buffalo roaring and stomping its way toward the village.  People run outside and point.  Then the very next scene is Aang talking to Katara inside an igloo.  Yes, that's right.  You heard the buffalo approaching but they didn't show it.

The Fire Nation ship shows up.  Katara and Sokka run out to see what going on.  Zuko introduces himself in the most melodramatic manner possible.  Honestly, the actor looks embarrassed at having to act like that and deliver his lines that way.

Katara, apropos of nothing, says, "Sokka don't!" and grabs his shoulder.  He's just standing there doing nothing.  In the very next shot, he's suddenly got his hand on his boomerang thing.

It was around that time that my friends and I decided to leave.  The Last Airbender might be enjoybably bad if you got to see it for free but certainly not after paying $7.00 for a ticket.

I advise waiting for the discount theater or the DVD.

[lester1/2jr]

what does it say that its made so much money ? what do you think

[Flick James]

what does it say that its made so much money ? what do you think

1.  A thorough marketing blitz
2.  The public fascination with special effects
3.  The American fascination with Asian s**t

[Criswell]

I just got back from it and wow it was the worst movie I've seen all year. I liked the series but this is almost a parody of it. There was no development for anyone in the movie, and if I never saw the series I would be confused. The effects were pretty good but not worth it. I recomend never seeing it even if you like the show :)

.5/5

[Flick James]

Okay, here's something I always ask, but I'll ask it again. So, everyone knows it's terrible. So, why are you going to see it?

[akiratubo]

Okay, here's something I always ask, but I'll ask it again. So, everyone knows it's terrible. So, why are you going to see it?

I didn't want to go anywhere near it.  I didn't even like the show.  My friends begged me to go see it with them and offered to pay for my ticket, so ...

[Cthulhu]

I haven't seen it but...did anyone notice the penis hair?

If you don't know what I'm talking about watch this video.
Relax, it's SFW. It's just The Cinemasnob talking.
http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/07/03/the-last-airbender-review.aspx

[Criswell]

I saw it because there was nothing better to do and i knew it would suck.

[InformationGeek]

Okay, here's something I always ask, but I'll ask it again. So, everyone knows it's terrible. So, why are you going to see it?

To answer that question, if it is being directed at anyone, because of bile fascination.  It may suck, but I want to see how much it sucks.  I may see it in the theaters or wait until it is on DVD so I can rent it.  Something this bad, just asks to be watch!  Like Manos: The Hands of Fate, Halloween 4, or Transformers 2.

[Criswell]

Isn't that the reason we all watch bad movies?