The Last Airbender movie

[GK Punk]

Have I mentioned just how much I hate this movie? Because I really hate this movie.

[Krutch]

Man, now I just GOTTA see it.

[VaughnMichael]

I'll be seeing this tommrow and letting you know what I think.
Shame to see everyone saying its so bad though.

[XERO]

Is it so bad that it would take MST3K to do it justice?

[GK Punk]

Originally Posted by VaughnMichael

I'll be seeing this tommrow and letting you know what I think.
Shame to see everyone saying its so bad though.

That's how I felt about it. It really looked like it was going to be cool going off of the trailers. I avoided seeing the cartoon so I wouldn't have any attachments to bias my judgment of the film. But the lack of any character depth (Or development) and the worst acting I've ever seen in a big budget movie just made it to be hard to sit through. Especially that me and 2 of my friends were being very positive about the movie. We thought there was no way it could be as bad as people were claiming it was.

[Vivi]

I haven't seen it but am thoroughly disappointed that the general consensus is that it is a turd burger. I adored the series. But...I will still watch it, even if only for the bending effects.

[Fledermaus]

Originally Posted by Brodie

Whoa, thats a little harsh...to the MMPR.. The Power Rangers movie was atleast ENJOYABLE.

Too true. I apologize. The Power Rangers movie was a golden globe compared to The Last Airbender. Though in that instance of comparison, I was talking about EFFECTS. For Power Rangers, it was at least totally appropriate given the nature of the story and source material. Not so with Airbender.

Originally Posted by Brodie

As far as money spent? 280 million. 130 of which went to marketing.

Ask yourself...how much legit marketing have you seen for this film? Now compare that to Twilight Eclipse...A film that spent far less than 130 million on marketing.

Oh yes, I am aware. But that still leaves $150 million. That is PLENTY of money. It shouldn't even take $20 million to have decent writing (from an experienced director) and at the very goddamned least, acceptable movie editing. Even for the sh*ttiest, most low budget piece of box office refuse, decent editing is a given. Considering the budget, I expected more at least in the way of choreography. And for the last time it does not cost ********s of money to simply synchronize a bodily movement with a bubble, or a pebble. The animation I saw in that film was amateur-level, and poorly applied at best. They had the money. Clearly, among many things, they were missing directors who knew what the f*ck they were doing. Oh yeah, and it might have helped if the main director wasn't such a disgrace.

EDIT: Yep, you can blame it on laughably poor choreography (which itself isn't terribly expensive) and lazy half-assed direction. ILM and Kerner Optical were doing the effects. There is no excuse for the crap we saw in Last Airbender.

[Canadian Turtle]

I don't really plan on seeing this movie, and I don't really know the cartoon, but I have a question regarding its not so goodness.

Being as the two companies behind this movie, which is also based on an existing franchise are the same doing our new fave movie in two years, how did they do?

I understand that the acting and characters were crap, but that might just be M. night being a ****** director. As anyone who might be a fan of the original content, how did they do in terms of serving it justice?? Did they stray from the content and if so how?

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by Canadian Turtle

Being as the two companies behind this movie, which is also based on an existing franchise are the same doing our new fave movie in two years, how did they do?

Are you trying to say that Last Airbender's sh*tiness might rub off on the next ninja turtle movie? That's quite a stretch.

[Katie]

http://forums.avatarspirit.net/index.php?topic=18501.0



......so you can answer your questions about hardcore fans and sticking to the story source material and whatnot.... ((damn if there isn't a forum for everything))

But I agree that just cause this movie is apparently very sh!tty it sdoesn't mean the next TMNT will be.


I liked the tv show.....I could tell from the trailers this was one that I wouldn't care to see

[VaughnMichael]

I really didn't think it was as bad as everyone is saying, I thought the movie was quite beautiful.
The acting was pretty bad and the pace was slow at times but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would after reading everything I did about this movie.
I'd have to give it a c+

[GK Punk]

I thought the movie was pretty, but it's biggest crime to me was character development. I went in not knowing the characters, left not knowing the characters, with few exceptions.

[Canadian Turtle]

Originally Posted by Stryker

Are you trying to say that Last Airbender's sh*tiness might rub off on the next ninja turtle movie? That's quite a stretch.

I am not exactly saying that no, I'm just saying these are the same people who will be making the next Turtle movie. (NOT M Night, I mean Paramount and Nick) Just keep in mind that Paramount has a lot more pull than you can possibly imagine, so if their execs want to change everything about Turtles, they can do what ever they want... Just saying... But we cross our fingers and hope for the best Turtle movie ever!

[sdp]

I love Avatar and was excited for this movie, the teaser seemed great. I was not happy that the cast being different races (no brown Katara?!) but I liked Avatar enough to give it a chance. I saw reviews but didn't care and wanted to give it a chance since I thought it could still be good. Watched it, hated it. It's been 8 years and I felt like watching it again:

Cast: I'm so annoyed when they change the race of characters for no reason but they're horrible actors even with them being the wrong race. None of the characters are any good, none of them, seriously.

Rushed: I know it's adapting a whole season in only one movie but I still feel like it could've been done much better, they set ups of important characters are so rushed and the random drops of important information in just some random dialog as if it weren't that important to give you more context just doesn't work at all. It doesn't feel like an adventure of getting to a goal, they just go from set piece to set piece every other scene and you're not sure of what's happening.

Boring: The music is boring, not enough comedy, the uniforms are all dull which doesn't help, the dialog is stiff and bad. I don't care for any of the characters, they never form a relationship, if I didn't know their history from the show I literally would care less about them, I can't imagine what people who didn't watch the show even think of the characters, they skip character defining/building moments so you don't understand how they got from point A to point B.

Dark: The movie is too dark, it needed more color, more light hearted moments. I like dark movies and Avatar being darker is fine even in a kids movie but it doesn't work here, it makes it boring: see above.

Some details are good: I liked Aangs tattoo for example, some of the visuals are great, specifically some moments did capture the essence of key moments of the show but so few and far and they don't emote the same feelings they did.

Man this feels like those 80s and 90s movies where they don't understand the source material and just make a movie. How did M Night Shyamalan... get it so bad? He seemed to be a fan of the show on the DVDs and understood it well. I know he has talked about returning for a sequel like 2 years ago but that's not going to happen. I think enough time has passed that people would be ok with a reboot that keeps it more faithful to the source material. Kids who grew up with the show are getting in the stage where this is nostalgic.

updated the review of Avatar The Last Airbender live action movie on MIscrave

[TurtleTitan97]

I like dissing on bad movies as much as the next guy, but did you really need to resurrect an 8-year old thread, though?

[Splinter the boss]

Originally Posted by TurtleTitan97

I like dissing on bad movies as much as the next guy, but did you really need to resurrect an 8-year old thread, though?

I know right! I even thought that maybe there was another movie or something.

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by Splinter the boss

I know right! I even thought that maybe there was another movie or something.

this was my first thought This movie was so bad it killed the franchise (In movie terms, hindered the rest of the franchise)

People think that Platinum Dunes TMNT are bad or killing TMNT remember it could be worse, ATLA worse haha

[plastroncafe]

I don't know man, that movie was so terrible I think we do need a reminder 8 years out of the gate.

[turtle1237]

Originally Posted by Redeemer

this was my first thought This movie was so bad it killed the franchise (In movie terms, hindered the rest of the franchise)

People think that Platinum Dunes TMNT are bad or killing TMNT remember it could be worse, ATLA worse haha

Well the Platinum Dunes TMNT were a bit better. They at least got a sequel. The ATLA was so bad, that not only did they leave the movie on a cliff hanger, but the sequel got cancel shortly after the movie release. Perhaps had ATLA been Platinum Dunes TMNT bad, they could of at least got a sequel lol.

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by turtle1237

Well the Platinum Dunes TMNT were a bit better. They at least got a sequel. The ATLA was so bad, that not only did they leave the movie on a cliff hanger, but the sequel got cancel shortly after the movie release. Perhaps had ATLA been Platinum Dunes TMNT bad, they could of at least got a sequel lol.

Yeah that what I meant. If I remember ATLA was suppose to be a trilogy and got cancelled bc of how bad it was.