"I'm a little tea pot! Short and Stout!" "Don't worry guys, I'll get em...Nyeh take that!~" was a moment that had me rolling so much when I was younger. I watched that clip way too many times.
- "Why was I seeing double" That was his brother, Rob Walker - Shamylan's design is based on Korra's first villain, Amon - I'd be all in Legend of Korra reactions - The Avatar you're thinking of is Avatar Kyoshi
Answering some duck curiosities! 3:20 - You saw double because that's Doug's brother, Rob! 17:39 - The budget for Last Airbender was (make sure you're sitting down for this one) $150,000,000... 17:45 - Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most well-known directors in anime and co-founder of Studio Ghibli (one of the top anime studios). 19:12 - The Happening was a "psychological thriller" from 2008, directed by Shyamalan, that was absolutely DEMOLISHED by audiences and critics for being bland and poorly acted. Basically a high-budget B-movie without the fun. 20:54 - Paul Giamatti is an actor. Heavy-set with a receding hairline. The kid in close-up looks like a young version of him with no facial hair. 21:54 - Dr. Claw is the villain of Inspector Gadget, who you never got to see outside of his right arm/hand. His actual appearance was never revealed in the original animated show. 22:23 - Biggus Dickus is a character in Monty Python's Life of Brian, played by the late Graham Chapman 39:40 - Doug is the Critic. 39:47 - They actually do have a few behind-the-scenes videos from some of their reviews. They're a fun watch.
miyazaki would never aloud his moive to be destoryed like this moive when one of his moives was edited down miyazaki bought a real sword and sent it to the company that was cutting the moive up with the word NO CUTS on the fucking blade
Hayao Miyazaki is a famous Japanese animation director whose work is beloved across the globe. He's best known for My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke, though he has a ton of other films under his belt as well. People compare the guy to Walt Disney for the magical worlds he's been able to design
Don't forget Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind, Porco Rosso, and Castle in the Sky. There's also his work in tv with Lupin the III, Sherlock Hound, and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
@@sebastianemond5313 All good films, the ones I picked just came closer to mainstream status in America, especially with Spirited Away getting an Oscar
Shamalan had a few good hits early in his career like The 6th Sense and Unbreakable, but he let fame go to his head and began making some, shall we say, *interesting* movies (not the good kind of interesting). Nowadays he's regarded largely as a meme.
17:45 Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and one of the greatest animation directors of all time. 21:53 The main villain of Inspector Gadget. Never actually seen, only heard. 31:43 Never had a hotpocket?! How are you even living? 36:39 Oh trust me. It absolutely isn't. There are times where it comes close...mostly in season 3...but overall, nah. 36:52 That's the nostalgia critic's real name.
8:45 - Yeah, I think it's a live action TV series. I wouldn't get my hopes up though. Apparently, the show's creators walked away from the project because they didn't like the direction it was being taken. Also, The Last Airbender is the movie that convinced me that M. Night Shamylon is a talentless hack that got lucky with a handful of movies and turned that into a career. Even the most sh*t director can get lucky once or twice, and I feel like it's not an exaggeration to say that's what happened with Shamylon.
@@haku8135 Oh, don't get me started on that one. Got into an argument with a nut who claims to be that military guy about halfway through talking about invasion strategy trying to argue abut humidity levels in the midst of mid to late summer not affecting a species so affected by water that a literal drop can hurt them at night with no clothes, running on grass and through still green, not brown corn fields where twisting off a cob leaks moisture like a turned on faucet, not to mention the dew... 'But he said in a meeting blah blah blah.' Yeah. Doesn't change nothing being stated in the movie with no amount of discussion will be changing common sense reality...
He's got a video on his top 11 best and top 11 worst episodes of avatar the last Airbender if you're interested. Also, there's a video of people coming out from watching the movie in theaters if you want
3:21 - *Kyle:* Why was i seeing double in there? *Me:* That's Nostalgia Critic's Brother, Rob Walker. and also while we on the subject Nostalgia Critic's real name is Doug Walker. 3:56 - Guy in beanie and light brown coat, is Chester A. Bum, character portrayed by Nostalgia Critic himself, he's the oldest and most recognizable character in NC videos. He evean has a catchphrase, and it's "Change! You got change?!" 8:51 - Movie Sokka is so bad, Even Show Sokka don't like him.
It's surreal seeing you be this familiar with...anything. 0_o But at least there's still plenty of "Who/what is [insert popular thing here]" to maintain balance in the World of Duck.
The creators of Avatar also did Voltron the Netflix show. I recommend watching that. Even has a character who is very similar to Sokka. The names were pronounced differently, but I believe they took the more Japanese way of pronouncing it. It didn't make sense since the show pronounced it differently and hypothetically could be wrong, but as it was established the movie should have just did what was familiar.
Hands down my favorite video on the Channel Awesome. Seeing people roast that movie never gets old, my favorite roast is the 2 and a half hours long essay made by Hello Future Me, his production is much better than the one in the actual movie XD
(In case you didn’t see last time) I’d like to see you react to his reviews of The Room and Foodfight. Also, if you plan on watching his top 11 worst Avatar episodes, watch top 11 best first because there is a little bit of story.
For me, I always saw this as a bad adaptation but I didn't start hating it until I came across a quote that Shyamalan had in an interview as to why people didn't like the movie. This isn't the exact quote but it's the basic idea of it "You can either make it for 8 year olds or you can throw in a ton of sex jokes and gore so that it's for adults. I chose to make it for 8 year olds" That line makes it clear this man did not understand the show because it was made for 8 year olds but adults still enjoyed it. The majority of the Avatar fanbase was adults. In fact people didn't think ATLA would catch on because it was so smart. This show proved that making something for children was not an excuse not to be good. What's bizarre is that plenty of creators were realizing that when the show was going on and were making smarter and ground breaking shows and movies for children. Shyamalan seemed to be weirdly behind the times and I have no idea why he was given as much control over the film as he was. In the same interview I came across it was revealed that the show creators were supposed to work on the movie with him, but had a falling out when he wouldn't listen to them. That's all you need to know about how he treated this project that he said he was such a big fan of
Honestly, as a kid, the serial format was enough to turn me off from it, because I wasn’t caught up on the story. Hoo boy, I wish I watched it from the start to begin with.
Top 5 Nostalgia Critic Episodes to react to (I'll post links in a reply comment in case they get hit by RUclips's spam filter): The Star Wars Holiday Special - Because come on man, you still haven't seen Star Wars yet? This is exactly where you should start Commercials - there's several of these, I'd start with the first one, however any of them are entertaining Stephen King's IT - The original one, also introduces the Stephen King drinking game Signs - Another disaster by M Night Shyamalan, has some of Nostalgia Critic's best rants Jurassic Park - It's good to see him riff on an actually really good movie for once
not really a funfact but: In the Movie version every bending style needed the element in a form "near" the bender like the firebender couldnt shoot fire, they need like a campfire near them to controll the fire thats why zuko carried the torch at the north pol , thats why even aang needed to make so much moves to "make" air and thats why even the earth bender couldnt bend the "earth" they here more like rock benders.
One of the worst changes this movie made (which says a lot, I know). It kind of kills the moment when all the firebenders run around with torches, meanwhile they all freak out when Iroh shoots fire from his hands. It really says something about an adaptation where something even your garden variety mook can do in the original is seen as something impossible. What would they have done if they did adapt the other books. How would Azula's lightning bending work like this? Would she need to always be in a thunderstorm to do her most iconic power? Because that's not lightning bending anymore, that's just the technique Iroh taught Zuko to reflect it. I shudder at how bad the final battle with the fire lord would've looked with this
For the question of whether or not Shyamalan is any good or not it’s really not so cut and dry he has his good moments and good films, but his bad moments often times outshine his good moments so if you see a Shyamalan film it’s kind of a coin flip on whether or not the films gonna be good or not
You should watch The Nostalgia Critic review of Moulin Rouge. 9:01 "We Blow" parodies a scene from The Wizard of Oz(1939). 14:05 A scene from Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights 40:53 They changed the name to avoid confusion with James Cameron's Avatar.
If they compiled the story into a movie sorta like the opposite of what they did with the dragonball super movies. Compile the fun adventures and leave out the filler. Use the same voice actors, animators, and make a FUN summary of the first season. That might have worked. Also might inspire people who didnt watch the cartoon to give it a shot.
nice to be back - after thursady-friday without electricity and till today without phones and internet thanks to heavy rain and water levels rising luckily nothing more happened for our family / our house compared to what could have happened mfg Olli
41:28 wait, what episode? The only episodes that reference Lu Ten for more than a line are Zuko Alone and Tales of Ba Sing Se. Never really got an extensive flashback of Iroh's siege
One thing that really hurts about Katara's actor in this movie is, I'm pretty sure she was one of the kids in Big Bad Beatleborgs... specifically the Red Beatleborg.
Different people according to IMDB. Plus Beetleborgs started in 1996, and Avatar came out in 2010. Those kids would be well into their 20s by that time.
2 things. 1 did you notice that for the firebenders to bend fire they actually had to have a physical fire near them to manipulate , they can’t conjure the fire on their own. 2. There was or is suppose to be a live action series but the original creator/s backed away because the Producers wanted it to be a new version of Game of Thrones and wanted there to be Sex, Cursing, Blood and Death, and the creators said that wasn’t Avatar
To answer your query on what else the Avatar creators hane done: The duo known as Brike went on to make Korra, which isn't as good as the original show. Especially if you're a lore nerd like me, because there are SO MANY RETCONS. However, the lead writer of the show, Aaron Ehasz, went on to create the Netflix series called The Dragon Prince, which is like the polar opposite of Korra. Where TLOK had amazing animation and questionable story, TDP had iffy animation but extremely excellent storytelling and intriguing lore for such a short TV show.
Korra is great, different animation studio so it looks a bit different. But the important thing is Nickelodeon fucked them over by only ordering one season at a time so each season was supposed to be a complete story (thankfully season 4 was ordered during production of season 3 so there's a bit more carry-over between those two)
I am still puzzled at how you can cast an entire village of Inuit-looking actors and then have two white kids play Sokka and Katara? It's not like these two were good at acting... Samuel L Jackson can play a white Marvel character cause hes a good actor for the role and they don't have his entire extended white family standing behind him in the Avengers!
It's like being an ice cream bender at Baskin Robbins and saying "How the hell am i... " *YOU'RE AN ICE CREAM BENDER!!!* USE YOUR FUCKING MIIIIIIND!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Day 24 of asking for Game Theory FNaF By the way, this lore gets... really weird as the games and books advanced, so.. just trust the theorists and your instinct of the knowledge you know
Know what's sad... Shamalan could have used their race being different in an actual twist... Since Their Grandma is from the Northern Tribe the reason they look different could be because they're not 100% Southern Water Tribe. But that would require him watching the entire first season. He doesn't have time for that.
Honestly, while I think NC's review of this is good, the BEST review of _The Last Airbender_ is by the RUclips channel *Hello Future Me.* He literally made a 2 and a half hour video called *_"The Last Airbender Is The Worst Film Ever Made. Here's Why."_* And he broke down in explicit detail why the film failed on practically every level of being a film as well as being an adaptation. I think the best thing he said on why it's a horrible adaptation is it felt less like a failure in intention but more a failure of method. Because it's like Shyamalan actually tried to make an honest attempt to adapt the show into a movie, but everything about the movie that related to the show was all surface-level; it's recognizable but without all the purpose that made these moments meaningful. And it's like Shyamalan thought we fans of the show would love the movie because we would recognize the moments he tried to implement into the plot. So, that's the thing about good adaptations. They have to do more than just follow the plot and bring life to the world of the source material. They also have to capture the meaning of the story; its thematic ideas. Which is why I HATE the _Percy Jackson_ movies. They not only *BARELY* followed the plot of the books, but they didn't even try to capture what made the books special to begin with. They only focused on the aspects of the books that were like _Harry Potter_ and NOTHING ELSE.
@@theduckgoesmoo marketing, the most expensive peace of it was a comercial spot during the Super Bowl XLIV in February 7 2010. Because special effects, good writing, and extra days of filming was definitively not what was spent on.
I haven't seen TLOK but some say its bad and has a bad ending and kora has no growth and terrible relationships. But others say its a good show but not as good ATLA.
I went to go see this with my mom and her girlfriend when it first came out, and we were both hyped. At the end, dead silence...except for my mom, yelling, "Whoo! Good movie!" or something like that. Looking back, she had to have been first-class trolling. There's just no other explanation. If you liked Avatar, I think you'd like Star Wars. The franchises have so many themes and plot beats in common that Avatar has been called 'Star Wars With Monks'. It's actually insane how much they have in common.
@@theduckgoesmoo Well, the settings are completely different, but a lot of the themes, plot frameworks, and philosophies behind the power systems (bending/the Force) are pretty similar between Avatar and the first two Star Wars Movie Trilogies.
I’m down for Legend of Korra (LoK) reactions. One thing to keep in mind, while there are four seasons, they…were not treated kindly to me knowledge. I believe the studio thought they would get one season, then they got another, and yeah. I still enjoy it though.
YES WATCH KORRA!!!! Please & thank you, bestest talking duck friend. So fun fact: I had never seen the entire series of Avatar before the movie came out, I had only seen episodes here & there. So when I saw the movie I didn't understand at the time that it was completely terrible. After that I watched the whole thing & finally understood. Also, the avatar you were thinking of who always chose violence was Kyoshi
3:23 That was Rob, Doug's brother M.Night is terrible. He destroys everything he touches. He's like that one guy from the Ghost Rider movie that has the power of decay
please react to his top 11 best and top 11 worst Avatar Episode videos. you clearly know a LOT about Avatar, Luke. those videos, you will love, especially since Dante Bosco, freaking ZUKO himself, is in one of the episodes. and no, that's not a spoiler, because his name is in the title of one of the episodes.
12:40 …Legend of Korra is a… mixed bag for me. It was only meant to have one season until it got really popular and they gave it three more seasons. Book 1 is alright, but my God, the love story plot line is just atrocious and I hate it. The first half of Book 2 is great, but the second half is embarrassingly bad, jumbling up their own lore that they established in ATLA, and a season finale that really does not fit in with the series overall. The third book is the strongest in my opinion, having a lot of great moments, but that doesn’t take away the fact that the villains have an idiotic philosophy that I just cringe at a lot of the time. The fourth book I cannot stand, mostly because I actually agree with the villain most of the time. The only reason they’re categorized as a villain is because other characters say so, as if the protagonists are always right and anyone who’s against them is automatically evil. That’s not even getting into the characters themselves (Korra in particular being an annoying, self-entitled brat who experiences little development over the four seasons), but I’ve rambled on long enough. As much as I kinda like some of LoK, I cannot recommend it unless you’re willing to turn your brain off for a long period of time.
Hamlet was the inspiration for The Lion King essentially brother the king murders him to become king by Ascension the ghost of the former King comes to his son and tells him what happens Hamilton gets a group of actors to perform a scene similar to the murder to make Uncle get nervous and just cement his guilt and confirm to Hamlet this was what happened he plans to kill his uncle accidentally kills a member of the Court his son challenges Hamlet to a duel Hamlet wins and kills them and kills his uncle but tragically dies as well it was also the inspiration for that movie the Norseman
4:12 Admittedly, this song number is kinda cute, but it does kinda bite Doug on the arse in his review of that crappy _Nutcracker_ movie where he criticised the film for putting lyrics to tunes that were meant to be instrumental.
It wasnt a licensing thing, it was Copyright. James Camerons movie "Avatar" came out the year before The Last Airbender and Cameron holds the copyright. Im not sure at all how it works but I assume that a copyright only holds in its own genre. In this case movies. Otherwise The Last Airbender would have it as the series came before the Cameron movie. There is probably also some sub-section of laws and exceptions dealing with titles that are actual words. If I make a movie named "Camping" I cant sue someone the magazine name "Camping", nor could they sue me. You cant monopolize an actual word. But you also cant name your movie something another movie is already called. Partly to avoid confusion and partly to prevent scam artists from pawning off subpar crap by riding the coat tails of a blockbuster. The fact that The Last Airbender is a series and Avatar is a movie is probably enough to delineate.
yeah he's more upset at this then the dragon ball evolution bullshit because during his V-blogs on the last air bender he slowly but effectively became a big fan. as for dbe I think he barely knew about the dragon ball franchise at all. btw the budget was $150 million. I am now very sad or fucking absolutely livid. also the critic made a top 11 worst avatar episodes and a top 11 best.
How dare you the episode that delved into story of his son is a treasure even if it was a short one in one episode of a bunch of mini ones leaves from the vine is sad and emotional song
I recommend one of his early reviews that had my gut getting busted repeatedly back in the day: his review of Batman and Robin (the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger as mr. freeze)
Kyle, you should absolutely watch Legend of Korra. Full disclosure I hated the show the first couple times I tried to watch it, but for some reason I kept watching and eventually I came to love it. I think it has a lot to do with my age at the time. When I watch Korra, I'm not empathizing with Team Avatar but I see myself in the secondary characters a lot. There is a RUclipsr named Lily Orchard and she has a really entertaining video critique called "The Legend of Korra is Garbage and Here's Why". So even if you end up hating the show, it will still be worth watching just so you can hear Lily tear it to shreds.
I remember watching the movie in theaters with one of my friends while we were in High School. XD The only thing I had a problem with was how the names were pronounced differently from the show I grew up with.
they changed the name pronunciation to make it more like the languages of the cultures the nations are based on. for example I in japanese doesn't make an ai sound but just the i, so I-ro
You think this live action is bad... Here is a 1989 Dragonball Live Action Movie: ruclips.net/video/lLPoIc8hNws/видео.html The Scene this link starts with is Oolong... the pig... chasing some too young girl and proclaiming he will 'fatten her up and marry her' If you're wondering who is riding the elephant, it's Goku! React to the full movie for 100k subs! Other fun facts. Yamcha wears a white and gold elvis suit, Master Roshi is the most accurate in any movie, and Oolong helps fight with a Machine gun and grenades. There is still no Krillin though.
How did this movie even accomplish to get more money for the movie than how much it was used to make it? Even the psycho remake got lower box office than budget and at least that one is like the original since it’s shot for shot
Honestly some name pronunciations I can get behind. The only idea of Shyamalan I personally like though know to be bad commercially wise at that time. I mean the names we're used to are said in English way of doing. Like Iroh (iron). Iro is closer to Japanese. It's just because ATLA & Korra aren't anime and therefore Japanese originally we dislike it, because if it were the names were used to are like an English Dub. Aang pronunciation Shyamalan wanted to sound Asian. Ong or Ung is the proper Chinese way of saying it apparently. Problem is they say it differently across the movie. So he fails himself in it's goal. But Shyamalan thought if he went against Asian culture he thought they would spot it and flame him for it. He underestimated people so used to original names - correct or not, popular is what matters - makes you get hated by entire community deviating from it.
Did Shaymalan think that people in 2010 were so racist that they needed the villains to have dark skin and the heroes to be white even when they werent white in the show?
I can't stand someone saying Cameron's Avatar is a bad movie. It's not perfect. And history is plagiarism. But the movie was so good that after its premiere, a wave of sui,cides swept the world because people refused to live in this world with Cameron's wonderful vision in their heads. PEOPLE KIL,LED THEMSELVES BECAUSE THIS MOVIE WAS SO GOOD THAT THEY STARTED TO HA,TE THEIR LIFE.
"I'm a little tea pot! Short and Stout!" "Don't worry guys, I'll get em...Nyeh take that!~" was a moment that had me rolling so much when I was younger. I watched that clip way too many times.
Same
The fucking Droopy voice made me lose it.
- "Why was I seeing double" That was his brother, Rob Walker
- Shamylan's design is based on Korra's first villain, Amon
- I'd be all in Legend of Korra reactions
- The Avatar you're thinking of is Avatar Kyoshi
Ohhhhh
You watched Avatar as a kid...
YOU ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED SOMETHING FOR ONCE???
Answering some duck curiosities!
3:20 - You saw double because that's Doug's brother, Rob!
17:39 - The budget for Last Airbender was (make sure you're sitting down for this one) $150,000,000...
17:45 - Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most well-known directors in anime and co-founder of Studio Ghibli (one of the top anime studios).
19:12 - The Happening was a "psychological thriller" from 2008, directed by Shyamalan, that was absolutely DEMOLISHED by audiences and critics for being bland and poorly acted. Basically a high-budget B-movie without the fun.
20:54 - Paul Giamatti is an actor. Heavy-set with a receding hairline. The kid in close-up looks like a young version of him with no facial hair.
21:54 - Dr. Claw is the villain of Inspector Gadget, who you never got to see outside of his right arm/hand. His actual appearance was never revealed in the original animated show.
22:23 - Biggus Dickus is a character in Monty Python's Life of Brian, played by the late Graham Chapman
39:40 - Doug is the Critic.
39:47 - They actually do have a few behind-the-scenes videos from some of their reviews. They're a fun watch.
This is amazing
Diesel Weasel. I'm going to call you Wikipedia dropping facts after facts
miyazaki would never aloud his moive to be destoryed like this moive when one of his moives was edited down miyazaki bought a real sword and sent it to the company that was cutting the moive up with the word NO CUTS on the fucking blade
@@shelliblossom8953 Wow. Awesome.
@@theduckgoesmoo This movie had a budget of $150 million dollars.
Cutting out the Cabbage merchant and the freak out mouth frothing guy is the unspoken tragedy of this movie. Buried by a mountain of other tragedies.
Alredy commented but this scene (15:25) gets so much funnier when you realise that it would have been easier to just pick up and throw the damn rock 😂
Hayao Miyazaki is a famous Japanese animation director whose work is beloved across the globe. He's best known for My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke, though he has a ton of other films under his belt as well. People compare the guy to Walt Disney for the magical worlds he's been able to design
Don't forget Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind, Porco Rosso, and Castle in the Sky. There's also his work in tv with Lupin the III, Sherlock Hound, and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
@@sebastianemond5313 All good films, the ones I picked just came closer to mainstream status in America, especially with Spirited Away getting an Oscar
I’d be up for Korra reactions. Or Star Wars.
Also, Biggus Dickus is a reference to Monty Python’s The Life of Brian. Great movie.
Shamalan had a few good hits early in his career like The 6th Sense and Unbreakable, but he let fame go to his head and began making some, shall we say, *interesting* movies (not the good kind of interesting). Nowadays he's regarded largely as a meme.
Lately he seems to be getting back on track. But still, even his worst movies have some enjoyment behind it. :)
@@ianthurston5165 he does have quite a few titles that fit into the "So Bad They're Good" category
17:45 Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and one of the greatest animation directors of all time.
21:53 The main villain of Inspector Gadget. Never actually seen, only heard.
31:43 Never had a hotpocket?! How are you even living?
36:39 Oh trust me. It absolutely isn't. There are times where it comes close...mostly in season 3...but overall, nah.
36:52 That's the nostalgia critic's real name.
“Don’t you mean Todoroki?” Did you actually think he was comparing Appa to a human. “What’s Miyazaki?” Oh, that explains it.
8:45 - Yeah, I think it's a live action TV series. I wouldn't get my hopes up though. Apparently, the show's creators walked away from the project because they didn't like the direction it was being taken. Also, The Last Airbender is the movie that convinced me that M. Night Shamylon is a talentless hack that got lucky with a handful of movies and turned that into a career. Even the most sh*t director can get lucky once or twice, and I feel like it's not an exaggeration to say that's what happened with Shamylon.
Most of us had that figured out with Signs. SUCH a shit movie, but people go to ABSURD lengths to fucking defend it.
The good news is that they're supposed to start production on an animated film sometime this year.
For the live action series it looks like it's going to be moden day with aang in school
Db evolution flashbacks
@@haku8135
Oh, don't get me started on that one.
Got into an argument with a nut who claims to be that military guy about halfway through talking about invasion strategy trying to argue abut humidity levels in the midst of mid to late summer not affecting a species so affected by water that a literal drop can hurt them at night with no clothes, running on grass and through still green, not brown corn fields where twisting off a cob leaks moisture like a turned on faucet, not to mention the dew...
'But he said in a meeting blah blah blah.' Yeah. Doesn't change nothing being stated in the movie with no amount of discussion will be changing common sense reality...
*Shyamalan
He's got a video on his top 11 best and top 11 worst episodes of avatar the last Airbender if you're interested.
Also, there's a video of people coming out from watching the movie in theaters if you want
One of those videos contains a very fun surprise.
Oh god I need to watch that
I was aware of Nostalgia Critic previously, but the daily Avatar episode reviews made me a fan
React to Nostalgia Critics top 11 Worst and Best (in that order) Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes.
I second that, it's hilarious.
Oh boy...
Nostalgia Critic had Dante Bosco the voice of Zuko on a few of his reviews
Entire movie: Insults the source material and MURDERS story telling. To quote Sokka, "But the effects were decent."
Seeing the nostalgia critic is actually nostalgic now.
3:21 - *Kyle:* Why was i seeing double in there?
*Me:* That's Nostalgia Critic's Brother, Rob Walker. and also while we on the subject Nostalgia Critic's real name is Doug Walker.
3:56 - Guy in beanie and light brown coat, is Chester A. Bum, character portrayed by Nostalgia Critic himself, he's the oldest and most recognizable character in NC videos. He evean has a catchphrase, and it's "Change! You got change?!"
8:51 - Movie Sokka is so bad, Even Show Sokka don't like him.
Kyle dont ask for the budget because you will scream in pure rage.
"I've never had a hot pocket before" omg! Please eat food!
It's surreal seeing you be this familiar with...anything. 0_o
But at least there's still plenty of "Who/what is [insert popular thing here]" to maintain balance in the World of Duck.
Lol happy I didn't disappoint
The creators of Avatar also did Voltron the Netflix show. I recommend watching that. Even has a character who is very similar to Sokka. The names were pronounced differently, but I believe they took the more Japanese way of pronouncing it. It didn't make sense since the show pronounced it differently and hypothetically could be wrong, but as it was established the movie should have just did what was familiar.
Hands down my favorite video on the Channel Awesome. Seeing people roast that movie never gets old, my favorite roast is the 2 and a half hours long essay made by Hello Future Me, his production is much better than the one in the actual movie XD
(In case you didn’t see last time) I’d like to see you react to his reviews of The Room and Foodfight. Also, if you plan on watching his top 11 worst Avatar episodes, watch top 11 best first because there is a little bit of story.
For me, I always saw this as a bad adaptation but I didn't start hating it until I came across a quote that Shyamalan had in an interview as to why people didn't like the movie. This isn't the exact quote but it's the basic idea of it
"You can either make it for 8 year olds or you can throw in a ton of sex jokes and gore so that it's for adults. I chose to make it for 8 year olds"
That line makes it clear this man did not understand the show because it was made for 8 year olds but adults still enjoyed it. The majority of the Avatar fanbase was adults. In fact people didn't think ATLA would catch on because it was so smart. This show proved that making something for children was not an excuse not to be good. What's bizarre is that plenty of creators were realizing that when the show was going on and were making smarter and ground breaking shows and movies for children. Shyamalan seemed to be weirdly behind the times and I have no idea why he was given as much control over the film as he was.
In the same interview I came across it was revealed that the show creators were supposed to work on the movie with him, but had a falling out when he wouldn't listen to them. That's all you need to know about how he treated this project that he said he was such a big fan of
Honestly, as a kid, the serial format was enough to turn me off from it, because I wasn’t caught up on the story. Hoo boy, I wish I watched it from the start to begin with.
To answer your question near the end, the name change was to avoid confusion with James Cameron's movie Avatar
Top 5 Nostalgia Critic Episodes to react to (I'll post links in a reply comment in case they get hit by RUclips's spam filter):
The Star Wars Holiday Special - Because come on man, you still haven't seen Star Wars yet? This is exactly where you should start
Commercials - there's several of these, I'd start with the first one, however any of them are entertaining
Stephen King's IT - The original one, also introduces the Stephen King drinking game
Signs - Another disaster by M Night Shyamalan, has some of Nostalgia Critic's best rants
Jurassic Park - It's good to see him riff on an actually really good movie for once
Star Wars: ruclips.net/video/oS6PwQcCIXo/видео.html
Commercials: ruclips.net/video/z5m2s_PY65g/видео.html&ab_channel=ChannelAwesome
Stephen King's IT: ruclips.net/video/dj0j3IBO63E/видео.html
Signs: ruclips.net/video/8IofQg1QIBE/видео.html
Jurassic Park: ruclips.net/video/IcnbZ8PSNfc/видео.html
AtLA was my childhood too. The villian is based off the first villan from Korra who had the ability to take bending away.
Dang, so taking bending away isn't something any shmuck (even in authority) can do?
(I haven't seen _The Legend of Korra_ yet, don't @ me)
I would vote yes to a reaction of korra, i love that series
not really a funfact but: In the Movie version every bending style needed the element in a form "near" the bender like the firebender couldnt shoot fire, they need like a campfire near them to controll the fire thats why zuko carried the torch at the north pol , thats why even aang needed to make so much moves to "make" air and thats why even the earth bender couldnt bend the "earth" they here more like rock benders.
One of the worst changes this movie made (which says a lot, I know). It kind of kills the moment when all the firebenders run around with torches, meanwhile they all freak out when Iroh shoots fire from his hands. It really says something about an adaptation where something even your garden variety mook can do in the original is seen as something impossible. What would they have done if they did adapt the other books. How would Azula's lightning bending work like this? Would she need to always be in a thunderstorm to do her most iconic power? Because that's not lightning bending anymore, that's just the technique Iroh taught Zuko to reflect it. I shudder at how bad the final battle with the fire lord would've looked with this
For the question of whether or not Shyamalan is any good or not it’s really not so cut and dry he has his good moments and good films, but his bad moments often times outshine his good moments so if you see a Shyamalan film it’s kind of a coin flip on whether or not the films gonna be good or not
Hayden Christensen is Anakin Skywalker. Don't worry about it until you watch Star Wars... or Jumper. Jumper is good.
If you've seen The Lion King, you know about Hamlet. It's essentially the same plot.
You should watch The Nostalgia Critic review of Moulin Rouge.
9:01 "We Blow" parodies a scene from The Wizard of Oz(1939).
14:05 A scene from Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights
40:53 They changed the name to avoid confusion with James Cameron's Avatar.
If they compiled the story into a movie sorta like the opposite of what they did with the dragonball super movies.
Compile the fun adventures and leave out the filler. Use the same voice actors, animators, and make a FUN summary of the first season.
That might have worked. Also might inspire people who didnt watch the cartoon to give it a shot.
nice to be back - after thursady-friday without electricity and till today without phones and internet thanks to heavy rain and water levels rising
luckily nothing more happened for our family / our house compared to what could have happened
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Olli
Glad to hear everyone's okay and happy to have you back
@@theduckgoesmoo thx
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Olli
41:28 wait, what episode? The only episodes that reference Lu Ten for more than a line are Zuko Alone and Tales of Ba Sing Se. Never really got an extensive flashback of Iroh's siege
One thing that really hurts about Katara's actor in this movie is, I'm pretty sure she was one of the kids in Big Bad Beatleborgs... specifically the Red Beatleborg.
Different people according to IMDB. Plus Beetleborgs started in 1996, and Avatar came out in 2010. Those kids would be well into their 20s by that time.
@@PissedGrunty They look very similar for some reason.
2 things. 1 did you notice that for the firebenders to bend fire they actually had to have a physical fire near them to manipulate , they can’t conjure the fire on their own.
2. There was or is suppose to be a live action series but the original creator/s backed away because the Producers wanted it to be a new version of Game of Thrones and wanted there to be Sex, Cursing, Blood and Death, and the creators said that wasn’t Avatar
Oh yeah I noticed that in the theater and that sounds disgusting and not avatar at all
To answer your query on what else the Avatar creators hane done:
The duo known as Brike went on to make Korra, which isn't as good as the original show. Especially if you're a lore nerd like me, because there are SO MANY RETCONS.
However, the lead writer of the show, Aaron Ehasz, went on to create the Netflix series called The Dragon Prince, which is like the polar opposite of Korra. Where TLOK had amazing animation and questionable story, TDP had iffy animation but extremely excellent storytelling and intriguing lore for such a short TV show.
Korra is great, different animation studio so it looks a bit different. But the important thing is Nickelodeon fucked them over by only ordering one season at a time so each season was supposed to be a complete story (thankfully season 4 was ordered during production of season 3 so there's a bit more carry-over between those two)
Oh why would they change it from the first series?
5:48 M. Night Shyamalan is a one hit wonder. He's the MC Hammer of film.
I am still puzzled at how you can cast an entire village of Inuit-looking actors and then have two white kids play Sokka and Katara?
It's not like these two were good at acting... Samuel L Jackson can play a white Marvel character cause hes a good actor for the role and they don't have his entire extended white family standing behind him in the Avengers!
- Is Shamalan good or bad?
- yes
Lol
It's like being an ice cream bender at Baskin Robbins and saying "How the hell am i... "
*YOU'RE AN ICE CREAM BENDER!!!*
USE YOUR FUCKING MIIIIIIND!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
9:01-9:07 - He was referencing the march of the Winkies from The Wizard of Oz.
Day 24 of asking for Game Theory FNaF
By the way, this lore gets... really weird as the games and books advanced, so.. just trust the theorists and your instinct of the knowledge you know
James Cameron copy righted the name "The Avatar" with the 2009 movie. That is why it is called "The last airbender" and "Legend of Korra"
7:07 I mean... That makes sense, though, considering Aang has two 'a's, and a double vowel usually indicates a long vowel sound (e.g. "Afrikaans").
41:06 because some bright spark decided to make a movie and call it Avatar so with that brilliant move they were forced to change the title I think
Know what's sad...
Shamalan could have used their race being different in an actual twist... Since Their Grandma is from the Northern Tribe the reason they look different could be because they're not 100% Southern Water Tribe. But that would require him watching the entire first season. He doesn't have time for that.
Honestly, while I think NC's review of this is good, the BEST review of _The Last Airbender_ is by the RUclips channel *Hello Future Me.*
He literally made a 2 and a half hour video called *_"The Last Airbender Is The Worst Film Ever Made. Here's Why."_* And he broke down in explicit detail why the film failed on practically every level of being a film as well as being an adaptation.
I think the best thing he said on why it's a horrible adaptation is it felt less like a failure in intention but more a failure of method. Because it's like Shyamalan actually tried to make an honest attempt to adapt the show into a movie, but everything about the movie that related to the show was all surface-level; it's recognizable but without all the purpose that made these moments meaningful. And it's like Shyamalan thought we fans of the show would love the movie because we would recognize the moments he tried to implement into the plot.
So, that's the thing about good adaptations. They have to do more than just follow the plot and bring life to the world of the source material. They also have to capture the meaning of the story; its thematic ideas.
Which is why I HATE the _Percy Jackson_ movies. They not only *BARELY* followed the plot of the books, but they didn't even try to capture what made the books special to begin with. They only focused on the aspects of the books that were like _Harry Potter_ and NOTHING ELSE.
I noticed you wondering if the creators of Avatar made anything else, and they actually did! It's called The Dragon Prince and it's on Netflix.
I have never heard of it before!
According to where I looked the budget was around $150 million dollars
Where did it go?
@@theduckgoesmoo marketing, the most expensive peace of it was a comercial spot during the Super Bowl XLIV in February 7 2010.
Because special effects, good writing, and extra days of filming was definitively not what was spent on.
I am sorry to say, yes they making another avatar movie. The sorry part they will put them in school and completely change the characters reportedly.
I haven't seen TLOK but some say its bad and has a bad ending and kora has no growth and terrible relationships. But others say its a good show but not as good ATLA.
I went to go see this with my mom and her girlfriend when it first came out, and we were both hyped. At the end, dead silence...except for my mom, yelling, "Whoo! Good movie!" or something like that. Looking back, she had to have been first-class trolling. There's just no other explanation.
If you liked Avatar, I think you'd like Star Wars. The franchises have so many themes and plot beats in common that Avatar has been called 'Star Wars With Monks'. It's actually insane how much they have in common.
I literally had no idea they had anything in common
@@theduckgoesmoo Well, the settings are completely different, but a lot of the themes, plot frameworks, and philosophies behind the power systems (bending/the Force) are pretty similar between Avatar and the first two Star Wars Movie Trilogies.
39:36 Doug is the Nostalgia Critic and Rob Walker is Doug Walker's brother.
My favorite anime movies are Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro! It's from Studio Ghibli. I think Nostalgia Critic reviewed both of them.
I’m down for Legend of Korra (LoK) reactions. One thing to keep in mind, while there are four seasons, they…were not treated kindly to me knowledge. I believe the studio thought they would get one season, then they got another, and yeah. I still enjoy it though.
Something he has actually seen. Holy crap
Great reaction, I'm a big fan of the nostalgia critic so it's great seeing you react to his videos.
Platypus bunny is so iconic! U need to watch the Les miserable review if you haven’t already
YES WATCH KORRA!!!! Please & thank you, bestest talking duck friend.
So fun fact: I had never seen the entire series of Avatar before the movie came out, I had only seen episodes here & there. So when I saw the movie I didn't understand at the time that it was completely terrible. After that I watched the whole thing & finally understood.
Also, the avatar you were thinking of who always chose violence was Kyoshi
3:20 that's actually his brother
3:23 That was Rob, Doug's brother
M.Night is terrible. He destroys everything he touches. He's like that one guy from the Ghost Rider movie that has the power of decay
17:04 Actually, that's only three of them doing it. The other two were only handling transportation.
You could put the oblivion music over 98% of this movie
The what
@@theduckgoesmoo *sigh*
please react to his top 11 best and top 11 worst Avatar Episode videos. you clearly know a LOT about Avatar, Luke. those videos, you will love, especially since Dante Bosco, freaking ZUKO himself, is in one of the episodes. and no, that's not a spoiler, because his name is in the title of one of the episodes.
It's a shame they didn't make the sequal.
Shamalan had plans of Azula using her good nature and lovable personality to fool the Earth King
36:52 Doug Walker is the Nostalgia Critic’s real name
12:40
…Legend of Korra is a… mixed bag for me. It was only meant to have one season until it got really popular and they gave it three more seasons.
Book 1 is alright, but my God, the love story plot line is just atrocious and I hate it.
The first half of Book 2 is great, but the second half is embarrassingly bad, jumbling up their own lore that they established in ATLA, and a season finale that really does not fit in with the series overall.
The third book is the strongest in my opinion, having a lot of great moments, but that doesn’t take away the fact that the villains have an idiotic philosophy that I just cringe at a lot of the time.
The fourth book I cannot stand, mostly because I actually agree with the villain most of the time. The only reason they’re categorized as a villain is because other characters say so, as if the protagonists are always right and anyone who’s against them is automatically evil.
That’s not even getting into the characters themselves (Korra in particular being an annoying, self-entitled brat who experiences little development over the four seasons), but I’ve rambled on long enough.
As much as I kinda like some of LoK, I cannot recommend it unless you’re willing to turn your brain off for a long period of time.
Hamlet was the inspiration for The Lion King essentially brother the king murders him to become king by Ascension the ghost of the former King comes to his son and tells him what happens Hamilton gets a group of actors to perform a scene similar to the murder to make Uncle get nervous and just cement his guilt and confirm to Hamlet this was what happened he plans to kill his uncle accidentally kills a member of the Court his son challenges Hamlet to a duel Hamlet wins and kills them and kills his uncle but tragically dies as well it was also the inspiration for that movie the Norseman
4:12 Admittedly, this song number is kinda cute, but it does kinda bite Doug on the arse in his review of that crappy _Nutcracker_ movie where he criticised the film for putting lyrics to tunes that were meant to be instrumental.
The violent earthbending avatar was named Kyoshi
You totally should react to legend of Korra. It's an amazing sequel to avatar
holy shit, had to like and comment for that user name. ^^ what did you think of the movie?
@@danidanfm4005 I sadly have not watched it yet
17:35 - 17:40 🤦♂️😒... *$150 Million.* That was the budget. And while it did gross 319.7 Million worldwide, it only grossed 131 Million domestic.
Watch Biggus Dickus scenes from the Life of Brian to get the joke you won’t regret it as they are hilarious
14:07 robin hood man in tights - great movie to be seen^^
(should have run a cinema sin counter along with these reviews...)
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Olli
"Is M. Night Shyamalan good or bad?"
Yes
It wasnt a licensing thing, it was Copyright.
James Camerons movie "Avatar" came out the year before The Last Airbender and Cameron holds the copyright.
Im not sure at all how it works but I assume that a copyright only holds in its own genre.
In this case movies.
Otherwise The Last Airbender would have it as the series came before the Cameron movie.
There is probably also some sub-section of laws and exceptions dealing with titles that are actual words.
If I make a movie named "Camping" I cant sue someone the magazine name "Camping", nor could they sue me.
You cant monopolize an actual word.
But you also cant name your movie something another movie is already called.
Partly to avoid confusion and partly to prevent scam artists from pawning off subpar crap by riding the coat tails of a blockbuster.
The fact that The Last Airbender is a series and Avatar is a movie is probably enough to delineate.
yeah he's more upset at this then the dragon ball evolution bullshit because during his V-blogs on the last air bender he slowly but effectively became a big fan. as for dbe I think he barely knew about the dragon ball franchise at all.
btw the budget was $150 million. I am now very sad or fucking absolutely livid.
also the critic made a top 11 worst avatar episodes and a top 11 best.
2:20
The narrator said "save the franchise" not "save the movie."
How dare you the episode that delved into story of his son is a treasure even if it was a short one in one episode of a bunch of mini ones leaves from the vine is sad and emotional song
No I said I loved it i just feel like that might be an episode some people might not like
@@theduckgoesmoo ok then, how dare they
ONG the peen hair! I forgot the peen hair!
I recommend one of his early reviews that had my gut getting busted repeatedly back in the day: his review of Batman and Robin (the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger as mr. freeze)
Kyle, you should absolutely watch Legend of Korra. Full disclosure I hated the show the first couple times I tried to watch it, but for some reason I kept watching and eventually I came to love it. I think it has a lot to do with my age at the time. When I watch Korra, I'm not empathizing with Team Avatar but I see myself in the secondary characters a lot. There is a RUclipsr named Lily Orchard and she has a really entertaining video critique called "The Legend of Korra is Garbage and Here's Why". So even if you end up hating the show, it will still be worth watching just so you can hear Lily tear it to shreds.
I remember watching the movie in theaters with one of my friends while we were in High School. XD
The only thing I had a problem with was how the names were pronounced differently from the show I grew up with.
M Night said he made this movie because his daughter was a big fan of the show. I gotta wonder, what does his daughter think?
You HAVE to watch Korra
It's amazing just as ATLA if not better
The only season that was not as good as season 2, the other 4 are tremendous!
It’s definitely not better than AtLA but it is pretty decent
@@axelnilsson5124 I respect that opinion
they changed the name pronunciation to make it more like the languages of the cultures the nations are based on. for example I in japanese doesn't make an ai sound but just the i, so I-ro
You think this live action is bad...
Here is a 1989 Dragonball Live Action Movie: ruclips.net/video/lLPoIc8hNws/видео.html
The Scene this link starts with is Oolong... the pig... chasing some too young girl and proclaiming he will 'fatten her up and marry her' If you're wondering who is riding the elephant, it's Goku! React to the full movie for 100k subs!
Other fun facts. Yamcha wears a white and gold elvis suit, Master Roshi is the most accurate in any movie, and Oolong helps fight with a Machine gun and grenades. There is still no Krillin though.
THE ARROW TATTOO WAS COOL ;-;
CinemaSins actually had to break their run at this movie into two videos.
You know, bad movie aside, Zuko and Iroh's actors are probably the best ones in the movie.
The Budget was 150 Million and the Box Office made nearly double that
How did this movie even accomplish to get more money for the movie than how much it was used to make it? Even the psycho remake got lower box office than budget and at least that one is like the original since it’s shot for shot
@@axelnilsson5124 Too many people being suckered into thinking the movie would be good...Just tells you the state of the nation right there
@@NashTheBlade the Hollywood nation that attacked?
Honestly some name pronunciations I can get behind. The only idea of Shyamalan I personally like though know to be bad commercially wise at that time. I mean the names we're used to are said in English way of doing. Like Iroh (iron). Iro is closer to Japanese. It's just because ATLA & Korra aren't anime and therefore Japanese originally we dislike it, because if it were the names were used to are like an English Dub.
Aang pronunciation Shyamalan wanted to sound Asian. Ong or Ung is the proper Chinese way of saying it apparently. Problem is they say it differently across the movie. So he fails himself in it's goal. But Shyamalan thought if he went against Asian culture he thought they would spot it and flame him for it. He underestimated people so used to original names - correct or not, popular is what matters - makes you get hated by entire community deviating from it.
Did Shaymalan think that people in 2010 were so racist that they needed the villains to have dark skin and the heroes to be white even when they werent white in the show?
I can't stand someone saying Cameron's Avatar is a bad movie. It's not perfect. And history is plagiarism. But the movie was so good that after its premiere, a wave of sui,cides swept the world because people refused to live in this world with Cameron's wonderful vision in their heads.
PEOPLE KIL,LED THEMSELVES BECAUSE THIS MOVIE WAS SO GOOD THAT THEY STARTED TO HA,TE THEIR LIFE.