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The Last Airbender Review; Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Topic Started: Jul 27 2010, 10:12 PM (268 Views)
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Oh…my…god…

This thing was fucking awful.

The following will be a review/rant of the movie that came out recently “The Last Airbender” I will do my very best to recall all the details of this piece of crap (and that’s putting it lightly) so that I might express, in my opinion, everything that is wrong with this movie. Let’s start from the very beginning.

The first thing that bugs me about this movie is the title, “The Last Airbender.” You’d think that such a successful series, that had three seasons, would have a movie with the same title. Now, this doesn’t annoy me as much as other elements of this movie because I figure that the movie “Avatar” has some copyright issues involved and that’s why they couldn’t use the word “avatar” in the title. Even so, I think they should’ve fought more to have the proper title.

The next thing that bugged me about this movie was the speech at the beginning. I don’t remember exactly how the speech went, but I do remember a few things that they did wrong. First of all, on a whole, it was not the same speech that was given by Katara at the beginning of every episode of Avatar. Granted that the speech changed slightly after the first time she delivered it, it stayed the same afterwards, even to the end of the series. The second part of this speech that bugs me is the part about the Spirit World. In the speech, the actress who plays Katara tells how the Spirits kept balance in the world. Bullshit. The majority of the people in the world of Avatar didn’t even believe in the spirit world let alone have them constantly meddling in mortal affairs to keep balance.

Another thing that bugged me about this speech was the part about the Fire Nation. Katara says in the movie that they were tired of doing it the Spirit’s way and wanted to take matters into their own hands. In the series, it’s explained through flashbacks that Firelord Sozin wanted to expand his empire and “share this prosperity with the world.” Unfortunately, I can’t remember anything else about the speech, but I’ll edit this if I can find the strength to sit though this garbage again.

As the movie opens up, if I’m remembering correctly, we see the bending disciplines demonstrated, similar to the opening to the series. The problem is that they not only did not do the same moves, it was overly elaborate, but more on that later. The first thing we actually get to see is some water being bended in a great and icy location. We of course assume that it’s Katara. This brings me to the next problem with this movie: they fucked up the bending. I liked the animation for the water, but what was with it leaking? Katara had a ball of water and it was leaking! What the hell?!? Never once in the series did that happen, not even the first time we see Katara bend!

Next, the Airbending. It sure as hell didn’t look like it did in the series, and I’m not talking about it not being as visible as it was in the series. The moves that the actor playing Aang did when he did his Airbending didn’t look like the martial art Airbending was based off of (Baguazhang also known as “Circle Walking”). The fact that Airbending in the movie looked like nothing more than them bending the dust also bugged me, but on that I can give them slack. After all, it’s hard to do that in a live action movie.

Now the Earthbending. They messed this up too in how it looked. When they bended, it again looked like they were bending dust rather than actual rock as in the show. I don’t have much else to say on this particular bending discipline as it got little representation in the movie. One quick thing that bugged me about this bending style was a good way into the movie when they did some stupid dance thing along with some martial arts looking moves, and then the actual bending occurred. Sorry about this Sui, but this is one of the few things that made it difficult not to flat out call it “gay” as opposed to stupid.

And last but not least the Firebending. This is by far the worst abomination of the fierce, ruthless display that is Firebending. I don’t remember where it is in the movie when we first see it, but the first problem is highly apparent: they can only control fire that is already there, they cannot create it. What...The...Fuck?!? The esteemed Uncle/General Iroh said it in the first god-damned episode, “*sigh* No, power in Firebending comes from the breath, not the muscles. The breath becomes energy in the body, the energy extends past your limbs and becomes fire!...” Ya see that? Uncle Iroh, one of two people in the entire world of Avatar who knows more about Firebending than anyone else explain in the first episode exactly how Firebending works! What makes things worse is that they said that they can create fire, but only with the help of Sozin’s Comet. Bullshit.

Anyway, let’s get into some aspects of the story itself that they royally fucked up. The first of these is in the opening. The first real image we get of the characters (as mentioned before) is of Katara water bending. I actually thought this part was wrong, but when I saw Katara in the series dropping some water that she was bending on Soka’s head, I admitted my mistake. However, there is a problem in this scene. The reason they’re out in the middle of nowhere is to hunt. Bullshit, there was never any indication of them hunting in the series (save for Soka) and even if they did, they were in a canoe at the beginning of the series. Then the iceberg housing Aang came out of nowhere (again, thought that happened differently in the actual series but was mistaken).

This has taken quite a while to write up, so I’m gonna go ahead and post what I have and finish later. Feel free to post responses and whatnot, but keep in mind that this is incomplete.
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