have You seen the behind the scenes? He doesn't needed to act .... He was Aang, but it was like everytime He was in front of the camera Shayamalan would point a gun to him and and say "Do any expression and I fuccing shoot You"
@@gustavopereira4924 Holy crap really, Well it makes sense that the guy who is great in slum dog millionaire and life of pi is forgettable in this movie.
Shyamlan actually said in an interview that "this is the most ethnically diverse film ever made" and the interviewer could not keep his composure and just started laughing at him. One of the funniest things I've ever seen, bro. And he didn't even turn himself into a pickle.
@@caiomesquita268 I found an article in the Atlantic, but it appears to be written so the interview wouldnt have laughed as far as we know " The Charges Are Completely Unfounded, says director M. Night Shyamalan to Indie Movies Online: "You're coming at me, the one Asian filmmaker who has the right to cast anybody I want, and I'm casting this entire movie in this color blind way where everyone is represented. I even had one section of the Earth kingdom as African American, which obviously isn't in the show, but I wanted to represent them, too! And I fought like crazy to have the pronunciation of the names to go back to the Asian pronunciation. So you say 'Ahng' instead of 'Aaang' because it's correct. It's not 'I-rack,' it's 'ee-Rock.' I'm literally fighting for all this. And who's getting blamed? ME! This is incredible. And so it's infuriating, this stigmatization, that the first word about the most culturally-diverse movie of all time is this accusation. And here's the irony of it, this has nothing to do with the studio system. I had complete say in casting. So if you need to point the racist finger, point it at me, and if it doesn't stick, then be quiet."
they whitewashed the entire cast *except* the firebenders (the villains) who they, for whatever reason, made darker than they were in the series...im sure there is no connection there...
@@bleedingmasque.6193 There is also a very HUGE problem with colorism in India. Naturally darker skinned indians are considered "ugly", especially in the entertainment, beauty and fashion industry. No clue if it perseveres in indian communities outside India itself, but judging by this movie......I guess the rosy and pale actors being "heroes" and the "ugly" dark skinned actors being "villains" makes sense from a colorist's point of view -_-
Yea lmao. In the show, the water nation is based on the Inuits, the fire nation is based on the Japanese, the Earth benders are Chinese and the airbenders are Tibetan Monks.
@@DeadKraken but also judging by shamalon’s personality he could have just developed a severe case of monkey brain and been like “I wanna make the guys with cool fire powers look like me”
lil13yuh she is Inuit, native. She should at least be Marcus color. Why do you think they darken korra in the show. To showcase she is of darker skin tone
"Water" makes a few drops shift. "Earth" takes 5 guys to move a single 20 pound rock. "Fire" needs a preexisting source of fire to do anything. "Air" spends 5 minutes twirling a staff to knock out one freaking guy.
Seriously, I remember seeing the rock bit and I was thinking “how did they look at this and think it was cool?” That’s a rock one can just pick up and throw it, might as well have the five guys grab and throw five different rocks instead.
@@datanotfoundpleasetryagain3559 He is wrong. The show is the source material of this fantasy world, the way things are said there are correct. It doesn't matter how they are pronounced in real life because it isn't real life.
@@enotsnavdier6867 It's confusing, I know. The way it's pronounced in real life vs. how the original show pronounced it vs. M. Night Shyamalan course-correcting that to make it more accurate. The way I see it, Shyamalan is just being respective to the dialects of the cultures that inspired the ones in the Avatar: TLA universe. Call me wrong, but at least I'm not offended by the change unlike many others. Sidenote: Marcus' comment on the pronunciation of yin and yang saying "You have to know it's wrong?" I know Marcus can be a pretty intelligent guy at times, but he's clearly not using his brain here. Just the usual case of generalization in American language paired up with foreign languages.
@@datanotfoundpleasetryagain3559 "Shyamalan is just being respective to the dialects and cultures" Then why are the waterbenders, based on Inuits, all white? Why is and the Airbender, which were based on Shaolin monks, white? Why are the firebenders, based on Imperial Japan, indian? It wasn't respect, he just didn't care about the source material in any way. Also, he's right about yang, it takes a quick Google search to show that it's pronounced Yang not Yong. Don't call someone out if you won't even make sure ur right
@@chickensox8318 You sure about that? First video I looked up and it was pronounced Yahng, not yayng. Yayng is one of those homogenized pronunciations that English-speaking people made up. Also about that casting thing, I forgot about that. You got a good point there.
This movie should be shown in film school for everything not to do in a movie. It has every film making mistake minus putting the boom in a shot. It's amazingly incompetent!
Fun fact: the guy who edited this movie also edited Titanic (won the oscar for best editing) and Terminator 2 Judgment Day (nominated for best editing).
@@TheRedowl101 I don't know. From what I've head about Star Wars 4 you can certainly polish a turd with good editing. So I wonder what happened with this editor.
To go from editing two of the best movies ever made (both from James Cameron) to this is staggering. I want to give the editor the benefit of the doubt and assume he's following M. Night's orders on how he wants his scenes done.
Jacob Marks there’s a great video explaining how the editing saved the first Star Wars movie, while showing many scenes George Lucas wanted to include that made no sense or moved the plot forward
But if that were the case, the movie would have been entertaining. In fact, it would have probably looked like what happened in Aang's sleep-deprived hallucinations.
@@LinardsZ Worse? I'm convinced that this is their universe's version of the Ember Island episode, but they forgot to film the actual heroes reacting to it.
@@TheChosenOnesTime Do you also have a problem with Zuko, Iroh, ans Zhou, etc being cast as brown-skinned indians? Because they certainly didn't look like that in the show. Or are you, like everyone else, only complaing because it's being done with whites?
“You think my son is this person the soldiers are calling the blue spirit?” “...Yes” I’m convinced he just forgot his lines and they left it in this train wreck of a movie
I hate how zuko’s scar is BARELY noticeable, that scar is his burden, his lesson, his arc and his permanent mark that he needs honor then he comes to realize to capture Aang doesn’t regain his honor. Yet he has like a Lil scratch on his face haha
To be fair I had a narly ass scar when I was young on my face and now people don’t notice it until I point it out or after a long time of knowing me. Scars fade over time. However this a movie, not real life, and you are completely correct.
After watching Arcane go to great lengths to give realistic character designs... I just can't take a lot of media that tries to beautify characters seriously. Scars and injuries add so much to a character's presentation and memorability it seems insane to me that people try and cover them up in media.
It's honestly impressive how this movie took one of the most important episodes of the series, when they find the Earthbenders being taken by the Fire Nation and they're taken to a METAL ship in the middle of the ocean [which is designed to break their spirits since they're nowhere near their element] and just completely and utterly missed the meaning of it. This is the episode that truly shows you how spirit-breaking and demoralizing the Fire Nation can be and, in this movie, they're literally just under house arrest pretty much and no one cared to fight back because of reasons.
@@tomlinson1710 More a lack of adaption induced plot hole. They just only adapted basic story elements, sans most of the parts that added impact and entertainment value.
Hey, I don't know if you guys have already heard this by now, but the reason Shyamalan didn't have a cameo in this one was because he was meant to be in the next one, for the same reason that the fire nation was indian. What is this reason? Because he'd decided to cast himself as AVATAR ROKU.
So he did just make the fire nation Indian because he wanted the cool fire people to be the same race as him. I’ve heard all sorts of things and this one makes the most sense
The last two TMNT movies: "We were produced by Michael Bay." Fun Size: "I existed and no one noticed me." Wonder Park: "At least you guys had directors."
“It’s like a guy who’s trying to pickpocket you on the train and he’s already messed up twice and you’re on to him but you have to keep watching” I want dans brain lol
I was looking for this comment so I can give it a like, I just paused after he said it, because it was GOLD. All of these picture shows are GOLD. [Timestamp 12:17]
Man I remember going to the theatre to watch this movie with a friend He walked out 5-10 minutes in, I thought he went to the bathroom, he never came back... When the movie ended and I left the room, he was sitting on the floor by the door. He actually preferred to wait outside the screening room, doing nothing, rather than watch the movie. This is one of the worst movies ever made - I'm not even talking about being a horrible adaptation, it is straight up *_horrible_* on all levels.
Show: Earth benders are trapped on a metal ship sailing on water because they can’t metal bend nor water bend. Movie: *LITERALLY ARE IMPRISONED IN A CAMP WITH THE EARTH AROUND THEM*
Avatar: the Last Airbender never had a movie. Idk how this channel was able to get enough money to fake a video like this, but for amateur work, it's ok. Needs work.
@@ezelfrancisco1349 That's cool because it works as a reference AND as a way to describe this film's effects. Because, you know, it was clearly made with 10 dollars. Had it been some major studio film by a famous director released worldwide, they would've sucked though...
The saddest thing about this movie is the fact that the actor for Ahng is actually a lot like Aang from the show. In the special features of the dvd you can see behind the scenes of the kid being goofy and fun like the show. It’s literally Shamalan’s fault that Aang is terrible in this movie.
"Avatar can't have a family" A huge part of Zuko's character arc and redemption had to do with him being the Great-Grandson of an Avatar And they thought they were going to make a trilogy
Unless proven otherwise, my headcanon is that the whole movie was that, but for this universe, and they forgot to record the parts with the actual heroes reacting to the stupidity.
“Ong’s” tattoos were the only thing I thought was even SLIGHTLY better than his animated counterpart, everything else was worse than the series in literally every way
@@warrioroflight6872 I think in the original show, that detail would have been too much. For this movie though, I definitely agree that was a neat change
I love that the bending is just a bunch of moves and then a thing happens instead of the elements flowing with their movements. Shyamalan doesn't know how bending is an extension of the body, not just something you do and hope it works.
It also makes fight scenes really fucking confusing because it's just a bunch of idiots dancing around while random shit happens with water, fire, and some rocks. You can't actually tell who's doing what in the fight most of the time and it looks so retarded it's hilarious
The fighting and bending was done, so terribly. They didn't make it even that fire was something firebenders could just make. Also having people use kungfu and crap.
@@slumberingreader3948 Actually Qin Shi Huang burned down only a part of the library and combine it all into a universal collection so the people don't have to waste time translating each.
@@Xeroxthebeautiful i think the movie it did explain it, but they guys started talking over it and faded out the audio so you couldn't hear. i rewatched that part but it zooms in on sokka's face so i can't tell :/
Jimmy Sampson Wait, so you gotta have straight hair for it to be immaculate and groomed? Cool, if it's exclusive to the character and from her pics it looks like it is but this is kinda suspect. Like what if they took some liberties and made it "perfect" but curly? Her hair isn't what I would consider wavy even. It's just kinda doing it's thing. I don't know what point straightening it would have. Throw a comb through it sure.
@@FoxyChariot She usually had it done up in an immaculate bun and in her character introduction this was a trait used to solidify her character as a merciless perfectionist along with lines like 'almost isn't good enough'. Considering how little her character is on screen they could have definitely done more with her wardrobe/hair to give a feel for the character.
The ONLY THING I liked as, someone who has done taekwondo, was Aang's form. His actor is was a 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo and it translates really well. It's all the positive I got to say.
Xaniss yeah I don’t think anyone’s going to believe a 23 year old is 12...and special effects and make up would cost them waaayyy too much money, it’s not like Noah Ringer is a big name either, I doubt they’d want to spend that much money just to have him play Aang.
To be fair, the pronunciation of "Yin and Yang" was correct. Something the showrunners did in TLA, and which Shyamalan went on record as saying he wanted to avoid, was Americanizing the pronunciations of words to make them more easily digestible for a Western audience. He was hoping to make it sound more authentic. Of course they then went and made the Inuit-inspired Water Tribe white and the traditionally-pale and pseudo-Japanese Fire Nation Indian, so I guess authenticity wasn't that fucking important.
I agree with everything but if ya are an uncool nerd like me and have listened to all the director talks over the episodes the fire nation is actually based on the three Kingdoms period of China
@@DeathKitta oh yeah most definitely, and the water tribe people shouldn't have been played by white actors, not sure why M.Night picked those guys since they barely act at all
Chronos it’s because of two things. 1) the architecture and 2) the style of governing. They all speak the same language but fire is based on Japan. Even I noticed this. Hell they actually look Japanese. (Which is really hard to do and is about the only one to actually make their appearance asain not just a white person in Asia). Also some dark skinned ppl do have blue eyes. So it’s possible that they used that for their appearance. Also they bend water. Being technical isn’t exactly a strong point with the show. But they are based on Inuit culture. Specifically those from Canada i believe. So it actually fits. The reason they all speak Chinese is because it was most likely easier for all four nations to speak the same language than making four different languages and deal with language barriers.
Should have started the movie with the Air Bender temples being attacked and the Airbending monks getting slaughtered, Aang gets locked in the iceball, BOOM, Screen goes to black. THEN the iconic animation opening, opening with credits, some quick animated flash scenes of the Tyranical Fire nation attacking and dominating all the other Kingdoms, now we are all caught up and can proceed with the current story. Any other exposition can be given by Aang, or other characters with regular coversational dialogue, perhaps one flashback. No title scrolling or out of place monologues needed.
Or, they could have just made a L.A. show instead of trying to condense 20 episodes into a couple of hours. Or just have made it a spin-off with an original story that just takes place in the verse. Or just not touch the series at all if they didn't want to put effort or research into it. Any of the above would work.
This was the first movie I saw all on my own in theaters, also at 10 years old. I felt so grown up getting to watch a movie without my mom, and so excited to see my favorite show brought to life. Leaving that theater was the first time I ever consciously thought, "That was a bad movie."
i didn’t see the movie until I was 20. a couple months ago while rewatching the show I figured I’d give it a shot and I haven’t been the same since. Think a piece of my soul died alongside shamalans ratings
**Aang** : Every person who lived as an Air Nomad was killed in an act of genocide by an imperial megalomaniac and the only reason I survived was because I abandoned my duties to the world and got trapped in a block of ice, and now I've woken up 100 years later to this strange new war-torn world where all my friends and everyone I ever loved is already dead, and I'm constantly on the run from the armed forces of a nation seeking to destroy me to complete their conquest of the planet **Tall Girl** : Someone asked me, "How's the weather up there" one time, I think I've got it worse
I remember really getting pissed when the film came out of the pronunciation of names for one specific reason: Before the film came out, the DVD set for the entire Book 2 of the show was released. And one of the extras was an interview with Shamalyan well before the movie was shot. And he gave this whole sob story thing about how he was so honored to get it, because he came home to his daughters watching it on tv or something, and he just fell in love with the brilliant series. And then proceeded to not even pronounce character's names right.
@@craigime What do you mean "technically not wrong" The right way to pronounce them is the way they were pronounced on the show he was adapting. The source material. He did not do that.
@@matthewmartin1852 no. i meant he pronounced them how the original languages and cultures would pronounce them. the cartoon just americanized the pronunciations. so his pronunciations in the movie were technically not wrong
@Yasin Syrkett i know what Soka means- and it's not stupid. I'm sure some people could say that "Sokka" sounds stupid too. also i didn't mean it's bad how the creators (there's only 2 of them, aaron was just a writer) pronounced the names- they're just not the way they're actually pronounced. the way the movie pronounced them are the correct way.
I don't understand how they could make a movie this bad when they had experienced directors, editors, choreographers & musicians. It sounds like a middle school play, where all the adults took the budget to go do cokē.
With M. Night Shyamalan directing it it's not all that surprising. From what I remember, he didn't even watch the show. He had no passion for the project, and this movie really shows that
I swear M Night is one of the oddest directors ever He made amazing films like The Sixth Sense and Split(unbreakable if you see it as amazing) Mediocre films like Glass and Unbreakable Then has garbage films like The Happening and this one
@@TheMaxORyan According to an interview with the co-creators in SFX magazine, Shyamalan came across Avatar: The Last Airbender when his daughter wanted to be Katara for Halloween. Intrigued, Shyamalan researched and watched the series with his family. "Once I saw the amazing world that Mike and Bryan created, I knew it would make a great feature film." -Source: Wikipedia
I said this before in this comment section, and I'll say it again: M. Night has a tendency of making his cast and crew of his movies unintentionally awkward, whether it's the performances or the quality of the film itself.
Rafael Armando Hernández I did that too, the changes to the Firebender’s powers is what sets me off. Even with no knowledge of the show it looks horrible and non-threatening, but when you know how it looks in the show, it’s that much worse.
So, ironically, pronouncing "Yang" as "Young" would actually be accurate to the Chinese pronunciation of the word, though I doubt the movie did it with that particular fact in mind.
Being a fan of the show will do that to you; the only reason I can judge this film on its own merits is because I watched it *long* before I even saw a frame of the original series.
“Are you an air bender boy?” Katara said: “I TAKE OFFENSE TO THAT FOR NO APPARENT REASON SO IM GONNA PUSH YOU TO AT LEAST MAKE THE MOVIE SEEM SLIGHTLY MORE INTERESTING”
I’m surprised the Guard doesn’t even know that he’s the Avatar considering he’s an air bender, the only one left that the Guards own people Committed Genocide on.
This movie feels like an elementary school play, but just an insanely high budget one. The stiff acting, the lack of facial expressions, the awkward pauses while people wait for their turns to say their lines, it feels so much like a school production, except the guy in charge of it is a famous director with a massive Hollywood budget. It's equal parts sad and hilarious.
I started dying when I saw 6 earth benders needed to move a pebble that moves 5 mph. The guy: Huh, I could dodge this rock but I want to see what happens
Zuko in ATLA: *Jumps into freezing water, almost drowns twice, melts ice while **_under_** freezing water and while running out of breath, climbs onto land, has a full on fight with moon-amped Katara, gets frozen in a massive chunk of ice, and completely explodes said chunk of ice to escape it* Zuko in The Last Airbender: Takes, like, half a minute to thaw 5 inch thick ice.
Honestly some stories just need to be told through animation. Like Aang's glider would be hard to adapt because the way it's used just doesn't make much sense in the real world, but in animation it totally fits. I think Avatar is an animated world and is best kept that way.
Also the animation shows the energy and emotion of the characters when bending the bending in this film looks like a bunch of drunks thinking they’re bending
Incredibly true.Even the appa didn't translate well to screen.The physics on the cartoon are also questionable in real life.Instead of Netflix making another one they should have made a kyoshi one
Which is why most adaptations of any cartoon or anime never work. You're completely sold on something crazy looking being in a cartoon but if that happened in real life it would look ridiculous or just be physically impossible.
yes and that's why I am terrified of what Netflix will produce. I wished they would've just made some other story from the Avatar universe. As already said in this thread, Kyoshi would've suited well, since she is a very serious character and can have a more serious and grounded story that translates better in live action without or with little of the goofy humor ATLA has.
It’s probably why most animated adaptations of video games tend to do much better than the live action ones. Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Pokémon, Castlevania, the list goes on
Apparently the scene with Zhao and Ozai in the throne room was shot inside a school gymnasium because they spent the majority of the production budget on the northern and southern water tribes. You can tell by the obvious basketball lines on the shiny wooden floor.
@@trueblade3636 the Little mermaid is based off of a folk tale so she can be whatever color the film makers want but in Avatar pretty much all water benders are black I mean it's fine to change the race but if you're basing it off of the show then they should stay true to their original character
Alexis Eronmwon - they don't even have the flimsy-as-fuck excuse of "we're putting in white celebs to try and boost ticket sales", it's completely, unequivocally whitewashing.
ShermTank7272 yup. And the actors ARENT GOOD!!! I wish people would be casted based on talent and not their race, but these people are just so bland it’s hard to watch.
@@sheridynart7334 And what about the complet fuck up of making the Firenation Indian just cous Schamalamadingdong is Indian and he liked them the most?
@@trueblade3636 Poor argument, the Little Mermaid has no cultural analogue because she is literally a fish person created by Hans Christian Anderson. The races and people in the Avatar universe are direct reflections of real world cultures, Asian and Indigenous, and this film honoured none of that. Try and think critically about your sloppy false equivalencies.
**THE BOULDER** is conflicted on why everyone hates this shamalyan man... *watches movie* **THE BOULDER** is over his conflicted feelings, and is now ready to bury this man in a ROCKALANCHE!
It's true though there's only 3 movies that shall not be discussed around me Super Mario Bros movie yes it's real Dragonball Evolution and Last Airbender those movies I wish I could forget about but once you see them there permanently engrained on your mind
Isaac lol funny enough he had a more outstanding role in The Amazing Spider-Man, he’s the guy with the gang Peter fights after uncle Ben dies. The fight that throws Peter into the gym where he sees the luchadore poster. Characters name was Nicky
Sean Rushing Sounds like your friend has a particular talent for landing very cool notable roles in veeeeeery bad movies lol. I’d love to see him featured in something good, I’m sure he’d kill it (also I edited this to make it clear that your friend is cool, I’m not mocking him. It’s not his fault the movies are bad lol)
If the firebenders needed fire and couldn’t produce their own why didn’t the water nation just put out the fires in their city to make it harder for the fire nation?? Why is every torch and brazier and etc. still lit
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Aang’s life isn’t that hard, he doesn’t even wear size 13 Nike’s.
Men's size 13 Nike's
Beat that Aang
please never mention that pile of slop ever again
Prince Luci omg im crying 😹😹😹
madman it’s not that bad
"why is your hair white young lady, you look very odd"
We've done it, we found a worse romantic line than sand
OMG you just can't ask ppl why their hair is white
Could you give us some privacy, for like one second
I don’t like sand..It’s coarse and rough, and irritating..and it gets everywhere.
Its weird how the actor has Anakin vibes with that line
I mean, at least the sand thing makes some kind of sense
I think Koh was on the set of this movie threatening to steal the actors’ faces if they showed any emotion.
That’s the best theory I’ve ever heard and now I’m accepting it as fact.
This is really good and it will make others feel good when they get it.
F*ck, this actually makes sense...
They cut Koh out of the film, so he hung around the set ready to steal anyone’s face. They couldn’t get rid of him so they just had to work with it.
So glad I hopped onto the bandwagon and get it
It's so strange that Aang's actor was hired because of his martial arts skill, and not his acting, but they still used a stunt-man and CGI?
That just makes it worse
have You seen the behind the scenes? He doesn't needed to act .... He was Aang, but it was like everytime He was in front of the camera Shayamalan would point a gun to him and and say "Do any expression and I fuccing shoot You"
@@gustavopereira4924 Holy crap really, Well it makes sense that the guy who is great in slum dog millionaire and life of pi is forgettable in this movie.
@@themarsman5155 dev patel isn’t in life of Pi
@@defenderofminorities3056 Okay he's not but are they related because they look identical
I love how quick Marcus goes from "Im judging this as a film" to "PRONOUNCE ONE NAME RIGHT"
He's been broken
everybody thinks they can take it as it is until they get to ahvatar ahng
Ironic considering the film's pronunciations are more authentic than the show's.
@@JayAreAitch Doesn't change that the show pronounces the names one way for the entire Canon, and this movie fails at that.
@@JayAreAitch They also sound dumber than the show's
Damn. This movie’s so bad, it’s still being roasted ten years later.
May the roast never end..
i still remember watching it in theater. first movie i ever thought sucked
It's a modern roast classic
I can't believe the movie is almost 10 years old, holy shit....!
Noam Moshkovich I feel you man. I’ve seen a lot of movies I didn’t think were good but this was the first I thought truly sucked
I'm surprised you didn't put in the scene where like five earthbenders spend 10 seconds doing strong bending moves to move one small rock.
Yeah, I was waiting for that
I was waiting for that. Slightly disappointed
i laughed my brains out when i’ve seen this scene 😂
It was so funny
Everyone has seen that scene, even them so adding it would have been a let down since they've already seen
Shyamlan actually said in an interview that "this is the most ethnically diverse film ever made" and the interviewer could not keep his composure and just started laughing at him.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen, bro. And he didn't even turn himself into a pickle.
I need a link to this
same
Same. I need to see this.
Yeah I think this is bullshit
@@caiomesquita268 I found an article in the Atlantic, but it appears to be written so the interview wouldnt have laughed as far as we know " The Charges Are Completely Unfounded, says director M. Night Shyamalan to Indie Movies Online: "You're coming at me, the one Asian filmmaker who has the right to cast anybody I want, and I'm casting this entire movie in this color blind way where everyone is represented. I even had one section of the Earth kingdom as African American, which obviously isn't in the show, but I wanted to represent them, too! And I fought like crazy to have the pronunciation of the names to go back to the Asian pronunciation. So you say 'Ahng' instead of 'Aaang' because it's correct. It's not 'I-rack,' it's 'ee-Rock.' I'm literally fighting for all this. And who's getting blamed? ME! This is incredible. And so it's infuriating, this stigmatization, that the first word about the most culturally-diverse movie of all time is this accusation. And here's the irony of it, this has nothing to do with the studio system. I had complete say in casting. So if you need to point the racist finger, point it at me, and if it doesn't stick, then be quiet."
When he said "ArE yOu tHE AH-VaTAr AH-nG?" something inside me died.
That was your everything. I’m surprised you kept your fingers long enough to type this comment!
Elijah Cook yeah it’s the feeling when your lose a little bit of your soul
You're a wizard, Hairy!
@@alexanderarrington2393 It took me 3 years to get calm
Yin and Yung
Even the scenes don't wanna be in this movie
I LOVE THIS COMMENT!!
This tickled my fancy.
This is the perfect way to describe this mess
This needs to be one of the top comments.😂
Thank you, I really needed a laugh after this depressing movie.
This movie doesn't exist. You just drank some cactus juice.
Rango reference?
@@tricklewickle no avatar lol
There is no Last Airbender Movie in Ba Sing Se
it's the quenchiest!
@@tricklewickle wa have you never watched avatar before?
"open concept concentration camp" is the funniest shit ever
8:25
Open conceptration camp
Palestine in a nutshell
Very true.
@@Anverse-14 well not quite
Why does Sokka look like he’s 30, while Katara looks like she’s like, 10?
Aang looks like hes 7
It’s so annoying as in the show they are only a year apart from each other.
Morfy ? Aang looks about 5
Jackson Rathbone was 24 while Nicola Peltz was 15.
@Rob Mike Huck "Avatar State! Yip Yip!"
"I hate the snow. It's cold and wet, and it gets everywhere."
-Sokka
Avatar, Episode 2:
Attack of the White People.
That’s amazing lol
1000th like
Rumor has it that anakin skywalker wrote the script for this movie
I'm your 1100 like
@@Dantethedemonkiller And I am, in turn, your first like.
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se
Here we are safe.
Here we are free.
Ba Sing Se
The Blue-ray Box set is here
Here to set you free
The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai
clever reference
@@void735 www.reddit.com/r/LakeLaogai/
That was fucking hilarious
they whitewashed the entire cast *except* the firebenders (the villains) who they, for whatever reason, made darker than they were in the series...im sure there is no connection there...
And its especially weird considering the director is dark Skin so really weird choice
The fire nation in the movie is mostly Indian. The director is Indian. This feels too much like cronyism for my liking.
@@bleedingmasque.6193 There is also a very HUGE problem with colorism in India. Naturally darker skinned indians are considered "ugly", especially in the entertainment, beauty and fashion industry.
No clue if it perseveres in indian communities outside India itself, but judging by this movie......I guess the rosy and pale actors being "heroes" and the "ugly" dark skinned actors being "villains" makes sense from a colorist's point of view -_-
Yea lmao. In the show, the water nation is based on the Inuits, the fire nation is based on the Japanese, the Earth benders are Chinese and the airbenders are Tibetan Monks.
@@DeadKraken but also judging by shamalon’s personality he could have just developed a severe case of monkey brain and been like “I wanna make the guys with cool fire powers look like me”
YOU DIDNT SHOW THE PART WHERE 20 EARTHBENDERS DID ALL THESE MOTIONS AND MOVED A PEBBLE
Tiny Iroh for the last time, the one guy bended it, not the 69 earthbenders, but it was still super weak
@@RaySizim what were the other guys doing then
Yeah for real
cheprii - backround dancers
@@cheprii-1441 NothIng, which arguably makes it so much more funny and worse
'Is she white?'
'Yeah.'
'Thats not good.'
Well yeah, he meant that because Katara is clearly Asian in the cartoon
@@goldfilms995 I realised.
lil13yuh she is Inuit, native. She should at least be Marcus color. Why do you think they darken korra in the show. To showcase she is of darker skin tone
@@HOOLIGANSSSSss "marcus colour" is now legally the only colour, sorry i dont make the rules
sardonik 😂😂😂 I cant
"Water" makes a few drops shift.
"Earth" takes 5 guys to move a single 20 pound rock.
"Fire" needs a preexisting source of fire to do anything.
"Air" spends 5 minutes twirling a staff to knock out one freaking guy.
Seriously, I remember seeing the rock bit and I was thinking “how did they look at this and think it was cool?” That’s a rock one can just pick up and throw it, might as well have the five guys grab and throw five different rocks instead.
exactly
Yeah the animated version was muuuuuuuuuuuch beter
Guns make a freaken die
Ok but the fire one is how it normally is. Everything else was wack af
Gotta love how M.Night's explanation was literally, "I'm not pronouncing it wrong. Everyone else was saying it wrong and I fixed it."
He’s not wrong, though…
@@datanotfoundpleasetryagain3559 He is wrong. The show is the source material of this fantasy world, the way things are said there are correct. It doesn't matter how they are pronounced in real life because it isn't real life.
@@enotsnavdier6867 It's confusing, I know. The way it's pronounced in real life vs. how the original show pronounced it vs. M. Night Shyamalan course-correcting that to make it more accurate. The way I see it, Shyamalan is just being respective to the dialects of the cultures that inspired the ones in the Avatar: TLA universe. Call me wrong, but at least I'm not offended by the change unlike many others.
Sidenote: Marcus' comment on the pronunciation of yin and yang saying "You have to know it's wrong?" I know Marcus can be a pretty intelligent guy at times, but he's clearly not using his brain here. Just the usual case of generalization in American language paired up with foreign languages.
@@datanotfoundpleasetryagain3559 "Shyamalan is just being respective to the dialects and cultures"
Then why are the waterbenders, based on Inuits, all white? Why is and the Airbender, which were based on Shaolin monks, white? Why are the firebenders, based on Imperial Japan, indian?
It wasn't respect, he just didn't care about the source material in any way. Also, he's right about yang, it takes a quick Google search to show that it's pronounced Yang not Yong.
Don't call someone out if you won't even make sure ur right
@@chickensox8318 You sure about that? First video I looked up and it was pronounced Yahng, not yayng. Yayng is one of those homogenized pronunciations that English-speaking people made up.
Also about that casting thing, I forgot about that. You got a good point there.
This movie should be shown in film school for everything not to do in a movie. It has every film making mistake minus putting the boom in a shot. It's amazingly incompetent!
@Bennett Onsager
Right?!
I honestly find this movie kind of fascinating for this reason.
They probably did and they were like “just cgi it out, it’s fine, we all make mistakes☺️”
For both fans of the show and those who have never seen it, this film sucks to the point you wonder how it got past the editing stage.
El Luech It feels like they were doing the Ember Island play but then tried to edit it to be serious
The editing alone kills me inside
"Why is your hair white?"
Oh my god Sokka you can't just ask people why their hair is white
I mean you can it just won’t get you very far
Yue: "How about you? Why are *YOU* white?"
Toon Mage Channel Sokka breaking down: ThAtS a VeRy VuLnErAbLe SuBjEcT!
@@charliehubbell7513 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
But also, he made the choice to not blink even once after he asks that. I mean, that had to be on purpose. No one blinks not at all by accident.
Fun fact: the guy who edited this movie also edited Titanic (won the oscar for best editing) and Terminator 2 Judgment Day (nominated for best editing).
Can't polish a turd I guess
@@TheRedowl101 I don't know. From what I've head about Star Wars 4 you can certainly polish a turd with good editing. So I wonder what happened with this editor.
To be fair, he had to cut 2 hours of M. Night jerking himself off out of the film.
To go from editing two of the best movies ever made (both from James Cameron) to this is staggering. I want to give the editor the benefit of the doubt and assume he's following M. Night's orders on how he wants his scenes done.
Jacob Marks there’s a great video explaining how the editing saved the first Star Wars movie, while showing many scenes George Lucas wanted to include that made no sense or moved the plot forward
Some randome dude: Are you an airbender boy
**One year later**
Katara: leave him alone
This whole movie was just Sokka recalling book 1's events whilst tripping on cactus juice.
"Its the quenchiest"
But if that were the case, the movie would have been entertaining. In fact, it would have probably looked like what happened in Aang's sleep-deprived hallucinations.
@@superfightingrobotmkx7776 It was a bad trip. Like one of those dreams where nothing is quite right.
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Its worse version of Ember Island Players.
@@LinardsZ Worse? I'm convinced that this is their universe's version of the Ember Island episode, but they forgot to film the actual heroes reacting to it.
“Is she white? Is that a white girl? That’s not good.”
Oh Marcus. No one ever told you about this movie, huh?
Bro that doesn’t even look like Zuko😂😂😂
Wdym?
@@hlogilehlogonolo5438 dragon ball evolution casted goku as a white high school teenager. These live action Hollywood movies white wash like crazy 😂🤣
If only that was the entire problem with movie...
Its not even scraching the surface
@@TheChosenOnesTime Do you also have a problem with Zuko, Iroh, ans Zhou, etc being cast as brown-skinned indians? Because they certainly didn't look like that in the show. Or are you, like everyone else, only complaing because it's being done with whites?
“You think my son is this person the soldiers are calling the blue spirit?” “...Yes” I’m convinced he just forgot his lines and they left it in this train wreck of a movie
This actually made me laugh out loud and choke on my toothpaste
It was so freaking awkward the break and the cut had perfect comedic timing
I'm imagining a teleprompter
Like Marcus said, this entire movie feels like it was made in one shot.
I actually think Zhao just went to roll a cigarette and then came back later
“Frieza plans to destroy Vegeta”
“My son, the planet, or me?”
“......yes”
"Is she white?....Is that what I'm seeing, this is a white girl?"
"Yeah"
"........that's not good"
im dead already omg
"When I was born, I was not awake"
I don't know what it is about that line that invokes a deep sense of rage within me
When was it said ? I think I missed it...
Kiril Postnikov When Yue was explaining why her hair was white to Sokka
"When I was born, I was not awake"
When I was walking, my legs were moving
When I was having a heart attack it affected my health
When I was talking, my lips were moving
*the last airbender is the worst thing we've seen so far*
Everyone who has seen it: well he ain't lying
Dragon Ball Evolution: -Hold my beer-
Dragon Ball Evolution: -Hold my beer-
Dragon Ball Evolution: -Hold my beer
Death note: allow me to introduce myself
@@shyboss15x35 lmao
*No one reacts to anything*
M Night Shyamalan: "It's fine, we'll just CGI facial expressions onto their characters later."
Accountant after filming is done: "You get one. One person gets a fake face."
My George Lucas senses are tingling
That feels like what they did to Cats...
Your friend is fucking hilarious, his pickpocketer analogy makes me come back to the video every now and then just to hear him say it
"No more family only four of those toys" hurts me every time, i laugh too hard
“Are these choices? Maybe they’re curses” lingers in my brain
open concept concentration camp
His bit about Airbender on Ice constantly make me laugh my ass off.
"This guy's forehead gets more screentime than his entire self"
I’m so happy M. Night never got a chance to harm my girl Toph in a sequel
Tooowph
IKR, Imagine, they probably would’ve made her not blind-
Black Rose, *Yes*-
We all happy there is no sequel
they would have called her top.
I hate how zuko’s scar is BARELY noticeable, that scar is his burden, his lesson, his arc and his permanent mark that he needs honor then he comes to realize to capture Aang doesn’t regain his honor. Yet he has like a Lil scratch on his face haha
To be fair I had a narly ass scar when I was young on my face and now people don’t notice it until I point it out or after a long time of knowing me. Scars fade over time.
However this a movie, not real life, and you are completely correct.
@@ALY-xc7fl Also additionally, I don’t think a scar that big is just gone in 3 years
to be fair.... the scar is the least wrong thing with this movie..... this movie has way bigger problems than the scar
It should’ve looked more “burnt”
After watching Arcane go to great lengths to give realistic character designs... I just can't take a lot of media that tries to beautify characters seriously. Scars and injuries add so much to a character's presentation and memorability it seems insane to me that people try and cover them up in media.
It's honestly impressive how this movie took one of the most important episodes of the series, when they find the Earthbenders being taken by the Fire Nation and they're taken to a METAL ship in the middle of the ocean [which is designed to break their spirits since they're nowhere near their element] and just completely and utterly missed the meaning of it.
This is the episode that truly shows you how spirit-breaking and demoralizing the Fire Nation can be and, in this movie, they're literally just under house arrest pretty much and no one cared to fight back because of reasons.
@@tomlinson1710 More a lack of adaption induced plot hole. They just only adapted basic story elements, sans most of the parts that added impact and entertainment value.
I really like your writing & I'd love to hear more of your critique on this.
I kinda understand for maybe budget and time reasons but they didn't even try to justify it
Hey, I don't know if you guys have already heard this by now, but the reason Shyamalan didn't have a cameo in this one was because he was meant to be in the next one, for the same reason that the fire nation was indian. What is this reason? Because he'd decided to cast himself as AVATAR ROKU.
THE FUCK??
So he did just make the fire nation Indian because he wanted the cool fire people to be the same race as him. I’ve heard all sorts of things and this one makes the most sense
At least Zuko wanting the elderly made sense. He thought the Avatar was 100 so he wanted the old people
That's why he wanted them? I never understood that from watching the movie
@@dipdop9734 At least they didn't make a live action Gravity Falls.
@@dipdop9734 all he knows is the avatar is a century old...say what you want, but that makes sense
cm4n63 it makes sense but it did take me a minute to figure out why since I don’t think it was explained that well.
@@cm4n63 It makes sense. But I didn't know that Zuko knew that when watching the movie
Avatar: “I was adapted into a movie by M Night Shyamalan.”
Every other Nickelodeon movie: “That’s rough buddy.”
The last two TMNT movies: "We were produced by Michael Bay."
Fun Size: "I existed and no one noticed me."
Wonder Park: "At least you guys had directors."
Perfect comment
@@bryceontheloops That's because both shows have their movies done by the same crew and they put all their love and care in them.
Didn't do Hey Arnold any favors though... at least, not on the big screen.
Bruh 😂😂😂😂
“It’s like a guy who’s trying to pickpocket you on the train and he’s already messed up twice and you’re on to him but you have to keep watching”
I want dans brain lol
Watch out. We've got a zombie here
I was looking for this comment so I can give it a like, I just paused after he said it, because it was GOLD. All of these picture shows are GOLD. [Timestamp 12:17]
Man I remember going to the theatre to watch this movie with a friend
He walked out 5-10 minutes in, I thought he went to the bathroom, he never came back...
When the movie ended and I left the room, he was sitting on the floor by the door. He actually preferred to wait outside the screening room, doing nothing, rather than watch the movie.
This is one of the worst movies ever made - I'm not even talking about being a horrible adaptation, it is straight up *_horrible_* on all levels.
I would be the same person if I were your friend.
Burn this garbage.
Burn. Burn.
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lasog accuracy 100
KING CRIMSON!
Mood, I couldn't stand the scenes
very cleaver
i liked your comment on 3 different account
Dude same
Everyone- This movie sucks
Them- That old lady's kinda hot tho
Lol
The reason Ozai was menacing in the show was because he was voiced by Mark Hamil and secondary they didn't show his face for quite a while
Patricio Escamilla Mues well... he was voiced by my man Luke Skywalker after all
He also looked intimidating and fully capable of everything we've heard about and more.
and he looked intimidating
Woah, really??? I had no idea, that’s awesome!!!
We hate-watched this movie in High School, and everybody was seething that this was how the Fire Lord was introduced.
"You think............. My son.......................is the person the soladiers are calling the Blue spirit?"
"....................................................yes"
yES.
Yesss
Show: Earth benders are trapped on a metal ship sailing on water because they can’t metal bend nor water bend.
Movie: *LITERALLY ARE IMPRISONED IN A CAMP WITH THE EARTH AROUND THEM*
Open concept concentration camps
it's open concept bro chill out
Eva 01 did shinji get in the robot
Charles Lewis Yes, he got in the robot and now he’s crying to get out
What's next? Trapping fire benders into a volcano? Water benders next to a river?
This movie is like trying to grasp a tale through your grandmother's dementia.
hahah
Thats.. kinda accurate for me
@@pharaohbubbles1547 I'm sorry.
Avatar: the Last Airbender never had a movie. Idk how this channel was able to get enough money to fake a video like this, but for amateur work, it's ok. Needs work.
But the effects were decent
oof
totally never had a movie, totally
@@ezelfrancisco1349
That's cool because it works as a reference AND as a way to describe this film's effects.
Because, you know, it was clearly made with 10 dollars. Had it been some major studio film by a famous director released worldwide, they would've sucked though...
There is no movie in ba sing se
The saddest thing about this movie is the fact that the actor for Ahng is actually a lot like Aang from the show. In the special features of the dvd you can see behind the scenes of the kid being goofy and fun like the show. It’s literally Shamalan’s fault that Aang is terrible in this movie.
No he doesn't
"Avatar can't have a family"
A huge part of Zuko's character arc and redemption had to do with him being the Great-Grandson of an Avatar
And they thought they were going to make a trilogy
wait a second, wasn't zuko's ancestor just the avatar's friend?
forest witch ddaeng one of his Great grandfathers was Fire Lord Sozin (Roku’s friend), but his mother’s grandfather was Avatar Roku himself
spoiler alert!
..and later in aang's life, he marries katara and has a son. so what was that line supposed to mean?
Thamks for the spoiler:(
Darkrar Gaming Why are you here if you haven’t seen the show?
this movie feels like m night watched avatar after getting his wisdom teeth out and tried to recreate it based only on memory
10/10 comment 😂
Don't be ridiculous, why would he have watched the whole show?
I'm convinced that he only watched one episode. "Namely, The Ember Island Players".
That's honestly way too accurate
@@warrioroflight6872 That has been my headcanon of where in their universe this is happening in, and will continue to be until proven otherwise.
Why does this movie remind me so much of the joke play that the gang goes to see in season 3 of the show
I won't have you insulting the play like that
Unless proven otherwise, my headcanon is that the whole movie was that, but for this universe, and they forgot to record the parts with the actual heroes reacting to the stupidity.
Your Genius clearly knows no bounds
You are now our master
TheEnderSmirk the main cast left during this showing of the play
“Ong’s” tattoos were the only thing I thought was even SLIGHTLY better than his animated counterpart, everything else was worse than the series in literally every way
I see your point, but I find that I like the original better. Maybe it's that all the small details are just a bit too much?
@@warrioroflight6872 I think in the original show, that detail would have been too much. For this movie though, I definitely agree that was a neat change
This movie ruined acting careers before they even started
Its sad. Bc the kid Playing aang isn't doing that bad of a job. Just bad directing
@@userloser4553 tbh he was a white kid playing an Asian character so he was gonna get hated on anyways
Its a shame because they probably thought an M. Night Shyamalan blockbuster would boost their career, not end it
I mean, the girl white washing Katara got into one of the Transformers movies. But every role that she plays just gets fucked over
I know the actress who played Yue went on to play Asami in Legend of Korra so there’s some redemption there.
I love that the bending is just a bunch of moves and then a thing happens instead of the elements flowing with their movements. Shyamalan doesn't know how bending is an extension of the body, not just something you do and hope it works.
It also makes fight scenes really fucking confusing because it's just a bunch of idiots dancing around while random shit happens with water, fire, and some rocks. You can't actually tell who's doing what in the fight most of the time and it looks so retarded it's hilarious
The only time the bending sincs well is the opening sequence, and even then the air ending looks like wasps.
bending in the show was beautiful
shyamalan must've thought bend techniques are like jutsus
The fighting and bending was done, so terribly. They didn't make it even that fire was something firebenders could just make. Also having people use kungfu and crap.
Zhao: I have found the ancient library.
Fire Lord: * Uninterested *
Zhao: I have found scrolls in this library!
Fire Lord: * Suddenly very impressed *
Clearly, all the Fire Nation libraries are empty
Kevin Prehm They burned all the books
welcome to the dynasty of Qin!
@@kevinprehm Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete.
@@slumberingreader3948 Actually Qin Shi Huang burned down only a part of the library and combine it all into a universal collection so the people don't have to waste time translating each.
The one good thing I can say about this movie is that Yue's actress actually looks really good.
The only decent casting decision
She ended up voicing a character in Legend of Korra iirc
@@Megapig9001 yeah she voices assami.
literally the only redeemable character in the movie
I thought Dev Patel made a good Zuko what with the horrendous script and direction courtesy of Shyamalan.
“Open. Concept. Concentration. Camp.”
I can’t even.
"Why is your hair white, young lady. You look very odd."
"I don't know, why are you white?"
I don't like white hair, it's coarse, rough and irritating.
@@ivanlagrossemoule especially when I accidently put on the barbed wire wig. So annoying.
ivanlagrossemoule and it gets everywhere
Channel Awesome?
And they are smiling flirtily at each other, while she describes a complication with her birth.
The actress of Princess Yue would later voice Asami Sato in the Legend of Korra.
It was literally yues voice actress herself
@@sbatou87 Redeemed with Asami? Yeah that makes sense.
She voiced "Love interest the character"
Alibey Bal this is the most accurate description of Asami ever
I thought I recognised her voice. That’s so cool to know
@@sbatou87Start to finish mate. Read 1 comic too.
9:19 oh my god you can see katara's actress looking to the side at the director like "what the fuck do i do"
“When I was born, I wasn’t awake. My parents couldn’t get me to make A sound” so you were stillborn
Yeah she was until but they brought her to the moon spirit who gives her life unfortunately this movie decided that explaining that wasn't necessary
@@Xeroxthebeautiful what they were saying that she says she was born then described details that say she wasnt born-she was still born....
@@Xeroxthebeautiful i think the movie it did explain it, but they guys started talking over it and faded out the audio so you couldn't hear. i rewatched that part but it zooms in on sokka's face so i can't tell :/
They even messed up azula's "having perfect hair" thing... didn't even bother to straighten it?
Jimmy Sampson Wait, so you gotta have straight hair for it to be immaculate and groomed? Cool, if it's exclusive to the character and from her pics it looks like it is but this is kinda suspect. Like what if they took some liberties and made it "perfect" but curly? Her hair isn't what I would consider wavy even. It's just kinda doing it's thing. I don't know what point straightening it would have. Throw a comb through it sure.
@@FoxyChariot She usually had it done up in an immaculate bun and in her character introduction this was a trait used to solidify her character as a merciless perfectionist along with lines like 'almost isn't good enough'. Considering how little her character is on screen they could have definitely done more with her wardrobe/hair to give a feel for the character.
AZULA WAS IN THE MOVIE?
SapphireShield That's understandable and makes her characterization look heinous in context.
Forreal
The ONLY THING I liked as, someone who has done taekwondo, was Aang's form. His actor is was a 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo and it translates really well. It's all the positive I got to say.
Apparently he was gonna be cast for Aang in the Netflix adaption too, but they are actually training ALL the actors for that
Xaniss isn’t he way too old now to play Aang tho...
@@Slesaint17 makeup, special effects... but yeah you right
Too bad he wasn't a 3rd degree black belt in acting.
Xaniss yeah I don’t think anyone’s going to believe a 23 year old is 12...and special effects and make up would cost them waaayyy too much money, it’s not like Noah Ringer is a big name either, I doubt they’d want to spend that much money just to have him play Aang.
"At certain points, this movie does feel like it is procedurally generated"
That left me in splits too
Loving that name and pfp
"open concept concentration camp" might be the funniest inappropriate thing i have ever heard
Would the Black Ash at the end of the movie be a result of said "open concept" concentration camp
To be fair, the pronunciation of "Yin and Yang" was correct. Something the showrunners did in TLA, and which Shyamalan went on record as saying he wanted to avoid, was Americanizing the pronunciations of words to make them more easily digestible for a Western audience. He was hoping to make it sound more authentic.
Of course they then went and made the Inuit-inspired Water Tribe white and the traditionally-pale and pseudo-Japanese Fire Nation Indian, so I guess authenticity wasn't that fucking important.
I agree with everything but if ya are an uncool nerd like me and have listened to all the director talks over the episodes the fire nation is actually based on the three Kingdoms period of China
was looking for an explanation in the comment section - many thanks
@@NaskaRudd Still their skin is supposed to be lighter than in the movie.
@@DeathKitta oh yeah most definitely, and the water tribe people shouldn't have been played by white actors, not sure why M.Night picked those guys since they barely act at all
Chronos it’s because of two things. 1) the architecture and 2) the style of governing. They all speak the same language but fire is based on Japan. Even I noticed this. Hell they actually look Japanese. (Which is really hard to do and is about the only one to actually make their appearance asain not just a white person in Asia). Also some dark skinned ppl do have blue eyes. So it’s possible that they used that for their appearance. Also they bend water. Being technical isn’t exactly a strong point with the show. But they are based on Inuit culture. Specifically those from Canada i believe. So it actually fits. The reason they all speak Chinese is because it was most likely easier for all four nations to speak the same language than making four different languages and deal with language barriers.
Should have started the movie with the Air Bender temples being attacked and the Airbending monks getting slaughtered, Aang gets locked in the iceball, BOOM, Screen goes to black. THEN the iconic animation opening, opening with credits, some quick animated flash scenes of the Tyranical Fire nation attacking and dominating all the other Kingdoms, now we are all caught up and can proceed with the current story. Any other exposition can be given by Aang, or other characters with regular coversational dialogue, perhaps one flashback. No title scrolling or out of place monologues needed.
That opening would have been so fucking good. I hope Netflix has similar ideas in mind.
@The Four Horsemen noted
Or, they could have just made a L.A. show instead of trying to condense 20 episodes into a couple of hours.
Or just have made it a spin-off with an original story that just takes place in the verse.
Or just not touch the series at all if they didn't want to put effort or research into it.
Any of the above would work.
You need to write all avatar movies
@@milesmorales6305 I wish. I could have helped save so many hollyweird remake flops.
*"Are you the ahvahtahr, Awhng?"*
Just... let me die.
I saw this in theater as a 10 year old, and I walked out more disappointed than I have ever felt in my life
@Yasin Syrkett she was there
This movie was my first experience with Avatar.
@@frozenlizard3370 i am so sorry you had to see that
Same
This was the first movie I saw all on my own in theaters, also at 10 years old. I felt so grown up getting to watch a movie without my mom, and so excited to see my favorite show brought to life. Leaving that theater was the first time I ever consciously thought, "That was a bad movie."
“The Last Airbender is the Worst Thing We’ve Seen So Far”
Cats: Here’s a little lesson in trickery.
Cats is funny and baffling, avatar tla (movie) is so fucking boring
BSJ IN YO HOUSE seen both and avatar angered me way more
BSJ IN YO HOUSE this is going down in history...
Cats is an unintentional mess.
Last Airbender is an intentional disaster.
Jeremiah Valeska if you wanna be bad movie number one...
Why does Aang look like Miranda Cosgrove
Yes he does
Because it is
Miraangda Cosgrove
i didn’t see the movie until I was 20. a couple months ago while rewatching the show I figured I’d give it a shot and I haven’t been the same since. Think a piece of my soul died alongside shamalans ratings
It's not Aang, it's *'Uung'*
"Did you guys watch the show??" Actually, Shamalama ding-dong DIDN'T EVEN WATCH THE ORIGINAL.
Your interpretation of M(oron) Night’s name sent me
Really? I kinda remember an interview where he explains how much he loves the show
He watched the show with his kids and was the one to pitch the movie. He very much watched the series but still decided to change everything
"The Last Airbender is the Worst Thing We've Seen So Far"
hmm yes
*the floor here is made of floor*
Ah yes, enslaved low bar.
I see buzz lightyear with a long neck in my head
Ah like the Internet Historian, you've contracted RAIDS.
Tom Phelps it kind of is
Yeah but this nigga was hella selling out. Disgusting
@@Original-Phantom the man's gotta get cash bruhh. Bet if you got offered a few thousand bucks you'd do a 30 second advertisement as well.
Hey,free money!
@@Imsleepeebruh if I got offered a thousand bucks I would do a fifteen minute ad
Zuko is actually a *gilf hunter* and thats why he wanted the elderly
Mega Alex
Oml
Zuck Oh
Zuko is chadder than kakyoin
He is so powerfull that he can deflect emerald splash
And thundercross split attack
No, that part kinda makes sense. Since the Avatar was supposed to be 100 years old he thought that Aang would be an old man
the biggest glowup from this movie is seychelle gabriel going from playing princess yue to voicing asami sato in legend of korra
**Aang** : Every person who lived as an Air Nomad was killed in an act of genocide by an imperial megalomaniac and the only reason I survived was because I abandoned my duties to the world and got trapped in a block of ice, and now I've woken up 100 years later to this strange new war-torn world where all my friends and everyone I ever loved is already dead, and I'm constantly on the run from the armed forces of a nation seeking to destroy me to complete their conquest of the planet
**Tall Girl** : Someone asked me, "How's the weather up there" one time, I think I've got it worse
Hey
Bumi lived... so thats a plus I guess?
Well Aang doesn’t have to deal with size 13 Nikes
I remember really getting pissed when the film came out of the pronunciation of names for one specific reason:
Before the film came out, the DVD set for the entire Book 2 of the show was released. And one of the extras was an interview with Shamalyan well before the movie was shot.
And he gave this whole sob story thing about how he was so honored to get it, because he came home to his daughters watching it on tv or something, and he just fell in love with the brilliant series.
And then proceeded to not even pronounce character's names right.
He said he wanted to pronounce them how they're actually pronounced...so he's technically not wrong
@@craigime What do you mean "technically not wrong"
The right way to pronounce them is the way they were pronounced on the show he was adapting. The source material. He did not do that.
@@matthewmartin1852 no. i meant he pronounced them how the original languages and cultures would pronounce them. the cartoon just americanized the pronunciations. so his pronunciations in the movie were technically not wrong
@Yasin Syrkett i know what Soka means- and it's not stupid. I'm sure some people could say that "Sokka" sounds stupid too. also i didn't mean it's bad how the creators (there's only 2 of them, aaron was just a writer) pronounced the names- they're just not the way they're actually pronounced. the way the movie pronounced them are the correct way.
@@craigime not sure why he cared so much about the proper pronunciation when he casted white people in the roles anyways...
I don't understand how they could make a movie this bad when they had experienced directors, editors, choreographers & musicians. It sounds like a middle school play, where all the adults took the budget to go do cokē.
With M. Night Shyamalan directing it it's not all that surprising. From what I remember, he didn't even watch the show. He had no passion for the project, and this movie really shows that
I swear M Night is one of the oddest directors ever
He made amazing films like The Sixth Sense and Split(unbreakable if you see it as amazing)
Mediocre films like Glass and Unbreakable
Then has garbage films like The Happening and this one
@@TheMaxORyan According to an interview with the co-creators in SFX magazine, Shyamalan came across Avatar: The Last Airbender when his daughter wanted to be Katara for Halloween. Intrigued, Shyamalan researched and watched the series with his family. "Once I saw the amazing world that Mike and Bryan created, I knew it would make a great feature film." -Source: Wikipedia
I said this before in this comment section, and I'll say it again: M. Night has a tendency of making his cast and crew of his movies unintentionally awkward, whether it's the performances or the quality of the film itself.
o0Avalon0o well the director makes psychological thrillers
you cradling the cat like a baby at 19:56 is my highlight of the video tbh. (also your laugh is really contagious)
Why does socka look like Anakin's long lost brother
It's the same guy that plays Jasper in Twilight
Rozzy V. omg that’s why he looked so familiar! yikes 😬 😂
I appreciate that you spelled his name based on how the movie says it
He looks like if Anakin and Geralt had a kid
I don't like snow
Marcus: “I wanna aproach this movie as a person who watches film”
Also Marcus: “pronounce ONE thing correctly!”
Rafael Armando Hernández I did that too, the changes to the Firebender’s powers is what sets me off. Even with no knowledge of the show it looks horrible and non-threatening, but when you know how it looks in the show, it’s that much worse.
It’s kind of hard to when you’ve watched the show to
So, ironically, pronouncing "Yang" as "Young" would actually be accurate to the Chinese pronunciation of the word, though I doubt the movie did it with that particular fact in mind.
Being a fan of the show will do that to you; the only reason I can judge this film on its own merits is because I watched it *long* before I even saw a frame of the original series.
“Are you an air bender boy?”
Katara said: “I TAKE OFFENSE TO THAT FOR NO APPARENT REASON SO IM GONNA PUSH YOU TO AT LEAST MAKE THE MOVIE SEEM SLIGHTLY MORE INTERESTING”
I’m surprised the Guard doesn’t even know that he’s the Avatar considering he’s an air bender, the only one left that the Guards own people Committed Genocide on.
masterzombie161 plus does he not notice the tattoos
“Ya ever been to a Turkish bath, Aang?”
This movie feels like an elementary school play, but just an insanely high budget one. The stiff acting, the lack of facial expressions, the awkward pauses while people wait for their turns to say their lines, it feels so much like a school production, except the guy in charge of it is a famous director with a massive Hollywood budget. It's equal parts sad and hilarious.
I started dying when I saw 6 earth benders needed to move a pebble that moves 5 mph.
The guy: Huh, I could dodge this rock but I want to see what happens
actually it was Just one Guy, the others were just fight dancing to... scare the fire guy? i dunno the purpose
Like a knife-fight in a movie theater - it ain’t why ya purchased the ticket but you might as well see how it plays out.
it’s the equivalent of somebody’s three moms help their 32 year old son cut a single pieace of a strawberry, but ten times worse
"I can take it"
-Random Fire Nation soldier before being killed by small rock.
Zuko in ATLA: *Jumps into freezing water, almost drowns twice, melts ice while **_under_** freezing water and while running out of breath, climbs onto land, has a full on fight with moon-amped Katara, gets frozen in a massive chunk of ice, and completely explodes said chunk of ice to escape it*
Zuko in The Last Airbender: Takes, like, half a minute to thaw 5 inch thick ice.
Honestly some stories just need to be told through animation. Like Aang's glider would be hard to adapt because the way it's used just doesn't make much sense in the real world, but in animation it totally fits. I think Avatar is an animated world and is best kept that way.
Also the animation shows the energy and emotion of the characters when bending the bending in this film looks like a bunch of drunks thinking they’re bending
Incredibly true.Even the appa didn't translate well to screen.The physics on the cartoon are also questionable in real life.Instead of Netflix making another one they should have made a kyoshi one
Which is why most adaptations of any cartoon or anime never work. You're completely sold on something crazy looking being in a cartoon but if that happened in real life it would look ridiculous or just be physically impossible.
yes and that's why I am terrified of what Netflix will produce. I wished they would've just made some other story from the Avatar universe. As already said in this thread, Kyoshi would've suited well, since she is a very serious character and can have a more serious and grounded story that translates better in live action without or with little of the goofy humor ATLA has.
It’s probably why most animated adaptations of video games tend to do much better than the live action ones.
Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Pokémon, Castlevania, the list goes on
Apparently the scene with Zhao and Ozai in the throne room was shot inside a school gymnasium because they spent the majority of the production budget on the northern and southern water tribes. You can tell by the obvious basketball lines on the shiny wooden floor.
“Is she white? That’s not good”
So, he doesn't like the Black-washing of The Little Mermaid Ariel
@@trueblade3636 the Little mermaid is based off of a folk tale so she can be whatever color the film makers want but in Avatar pretty much all water benders are black
I mean it's fine to change the race but if you're basing it off of the show then they should stay true to their original character
@@ramiere1412 you are such a hypocrit bro
@@trueblade3636 how? A folk tale doesn't mention race but in the Avatar the characters are clearly shown as black
@@ramiere1412 lol they inuit not black
Marcus: “white people man”
Friend: *laughs nervously*
Wasn't it the friend who said that though?
Dan
"Is she white?"
"Yeah"
"Ohh that's not good"
I burst out laughing just with that commentary
AlphaIkaros lol
Alexis Eronmwon - they don't even have the flimsy-as-fuck excuse of "we're putting in white celebs to try and boost ticket sales", it's completely, unequivocally whitewashing.
ShermTank7272 yup. And the actors ARENT GOOD!!! I wish people would be casted based on talent and not their race, but these people are just so bland it’s hard to watch.
@@sheridynart7334 And what about the complet fuck up of making the Firenation Indian just cous Schamalamadingdong is Indian and he liked them the most?
just a Swedish building this movie was just a train reck.
9:29 Thursday night showing of Airbender on ice might be the most brutal dig at a movie I’ve ever heard 😂
OG show: literally everyone is Asian or indigenous
Movie: umm, how about no?
1/10 not enough Scarlet Johansson.
So, he doesnt like the Black-washing of The Little Mermaid Ariel
@@trueblade3636 not the same thing whatsoever but nice try, dipshit.
@@trueblade3636 Poor argument, the Little Mermaid has no cultural analogue because she is literally a fish person created by Hans Christian Anderson. The races and people in the Avatar universe are direct reflections of real world cultures, Asian and Indigenous, and this film honoured none of that. Try and think critically about your sloppy false equivalencies.
@@trueblade3636 Why do you keep commenting that? No one cares about that movie. it'll make it's billion and noone will think about it again
**THE BOULDER** is conflicted on why everyone hates this shamalyan man...
*watches movie*
**THE BOULDER** is over his conflicted feelings, and is now ready to bury this man in a ROCKALANCHE!
under rated
Wow, I love this comment so much, Thank you for making it haha. Damn that was great
That episode fucking rocks (pun intended)
@@DrDolan2000 I’M A GOOBY GOOBER, ROCK!
Oh wrong Nickelodeon production.
BONESAW IS RED-DEE
The original show is like the best thing ever.....and this movie shits on it
So unbelievably goddamn hard
The first time I saw this movie, I didn’t even watch the show and I still thought the movie was dogshit
It's true though there's only 3 movies that shall not be discussed around me Super Mario Bros movie yes it's real Dragonball Evolution and Last Airbender those movies I wish I could forget about but once you see them there permanently engrained on your mind
I hate air benders
@@marisastoletheprecioussara118 its like the lamest and weakest bending
"My son is the one they call the blue spirit?"
"yes."
I’m actually friends with one of the nameless white waterbenders. We don’t talk about the movie, but he’s a chill guy
Props to you for seeing him as a human and a friend despite him being an absolute mega-celeb.
Isaac lol funny enough he had a more outstanding role in The Amazing Spider-Man, he’s the guy with the gang Peter fights after uncle Ben dies. The fight that throws Peter into the gym where he sees the luchadore poster. Characters name was Nicky
Fuckin deeeeecent
Sean Rushing Sounds like your friend has a particular talent for landing very cool notable roles in veeeeeery bad movies lol. I’d love to see him featured in something good, I’m sure he’d kill it (also I edited this to make it clear that your friend is cool, I’m not mocking him. It’s not his fault the movies are bad lol)
camera angle? i think you mean camera “ongle”
THIS is the underrated comment right here.
@@theinimitablejora522 IKR! Hilarious
I-
“You think my son......is this...man......the soldiers call... the Blue Spirit....”
“YES!!!!!!”
14:02
(Neck snaps from sudden jump cut)
"...........yeus"
*Instant whiplash*
But how would they know he's the Blue Spirit, if Aang was the only one who...
You know what, never mind.
If the firebenders needed fire and couldn’t produce their own why didn’t the water nation just put out the fires in their city to make it harder for the fire nation?? Why is every torch and brazier and etc. still lit