I literally begged my parents to spend what little money they had to take me to see this movie, and it literally was so bad we left early and my parents got mugged in the back alley behind the theater, and he killed them in cold blood. Now I protect the streets at night, suffering in silence from the plague and pain caused by this man, I am batman now and this movie killed my parents
Your story is better than both this movie and Twilight. We should make a movie out of it. Hmm. I’m thinking of calling the movie, Night Bat, or Dark Man. How do those sound?
That's the twist. Originally the movie was going to end and then it pans out and you see this being projected on a screen in a theater, and then it continues to pan out and you see this theater is in the middle of the fire nation but also the future for some reason. They forced Shamalan to cut this scene because it tested even worse with it included and then they cut their losses and put it out. I'm joking of course but who knows...
@@Wunkydoo Are you suggesting that this movies was received poorly only because the fans of the series didn't think it was faithful to the source material? Because that is completely untrue. If this movie was actually written well, with good, fast paced fight scenes, and actors actually *expressing real emotions* , I honestly wouldn't care if it was a little different from the show. But the movie is _so_ consistently bad in every possible aspect, from useless exposition to terrible acting, even people who never watched the series dislike it.
@@yarn2350 It's really not that bad though. I feel like there's no way that this many people would hate this movie this much if it wasn't for them being afraid of getting attacked by the fanbase for accidentally saying that they liked something about it.
I did the same, except I was too young and dumb to realize how awful it was. I still regret not listening to that little voice in my head telling me something was wrong
My fondest memory of seeing this movie in theaters, was walking out with several other people, during the scene it took 6 earth benders to move one giant rock.
I feel so bad for the boy who played Aang, because if you see backstage footage, HE'S EXACTLY LIKE AANG. But the director clearly made him act different, and now he's basically got no career because of a bad start that wasn't his fault
The worst part of the earth-bender scenes in the movie is they are prisoners but they are literally surrounded by earth. In the animated show the earth-benders were prisoners in a metal ship in the middle of the ocean!
it's like the director didn't bother to see the damn show....everything in the movie since i was a die hard Avatar fan, I was wondering what was going on myself seeing how I remember each episode and was wondering where the hell they were and why were there so many budget cuts.
@@NotMichael349 The funniest thing is the fire-benders in this movie. In the animated show fire-benders would be able to conjure up their own fire or enhance flames nearby using chi, which made them pretty unique compared to the other elements that require nearby sources of their elements. The movie fire-benders never conjure fire, they just use whatever is on a nearby torch or campfire they made with a lighter. So a significantly nerfed fire nation vs earth benders that could just cover their fire sources with one floating rock :/
This movie is attributed to one of the worst moments of my life. My siblings and I got to go to the movies very rarely. My parents took us the weekend this movie came out and I convinced everyone that we absolutely HAD to watch it because we were all Avatar fans and I just knew it would be amazing… I remember us all sitting there about 10 minutes into the movie and I was having cold sweats and an out of body experience from the embarrassment and shame I felt for screwing us all over like that. I’m not even playing. It was traumatic and I still think about it to this day.
@@Halcon_Sierreno We did, unfortunately.. They were good sports about it at the time but it had me all messed up. I think it shook me worse because I just felt like a terrible older brother. It was as if I led my troops into a death trap. That movie ruined what would’ve otherwise been a wonderful night out lol.
I’m so glad this didn’t make it past the first movie, I can’t imagine how badly they would’ve butchered Toph, Azula, the Ba Sing Se arc, the Aang vs Ozai fight, and god help us, the Last Agni Kai
Toph would’ve been able to see, Azula would’ve been nice, and Ozai would’ve apologized for his misconduct and have Azula train him until his fire turned blue. Oh. No Agni Kai. The power of love and friendship would’ve rehabilitated Azula. Her Screaming from enlightenment would be the reason Katara and Zuko walk off. It’s too awkward
They probably would have made Toph a guy and M Night’s excuse would be that’s how she was originally intended in the show. That was basically his dumb excuse for calling Aang “Ung”.
This movie is a testament to M Night's ego. He took an incredible show, with complex characters, vivacious storytelling, and adoring fans and went "I can fix that to make it better."
Cash grab, m knight is actually a really good director when he wants to be. I think he knew how bad the movie was he just didn’t care and was blinded by money
It's crazy -- what next, a fourth Indiana Jones movie, lol? He should be spending his time reviewing season 19 of Firefly -- how does it keep getting better after all this time??
I remember being a young lad, it was nearly Christmas. An ad for this movie came on the tv and me and my brother having been big fans of the show got excited and told our mom we'd love to get that movie for Christmas, then our mom lit up and very giddily told us we could open one present before Christmas and brought us a wrapped up dvd with a big smile on her face. Me and my brother were super happy and watched the movie that night. We were so disappointed that it was only the first arc or whatever and let our mom know how disappointing it was. This made her kinda sad and i wish we just lied and told her it was the best movie ever :/
It's legitimately depressing that a self-parody propaganda play in the show itself is unironically a better adaptation than a multi million dollar blockbuster film
If only they allowed the original creators of the show to participate in the movie's creation based on *their* show. Maybe it wouldn't be such a dumpster fire created by someone who's never even watched the show.
I'll never forget seeing this in theaters and some guy shouts "SHE'S LITERALLY SWEEPING THE DIRT" when they showed a village, some lady's just outside brooming nature
there is no way the firebenders could have killed all the air-nomads while needing a fire source to bend their element. A strong gust of wind would've taken out all the torches and crippled their attack, so 10 skillful airbenders could've rendered an entire army useless w/o breaking their vow of pacifism
Sozins comet would give fire benders the ability to make their own fire instead of enhancing it wich is kinda stupid Im wondering how even ozai can fight when he can't make his own fire
The girl who played Kitara got the role because her dad was a producer. He basically said I'll fund this shit if you put my daughter in it. Also, did you say Dave Patel?
But like How was the fire nation so formidable when they need a fire source while you have earthbenders who have the literal earth beneath them, air benders, and water benders They wouldn’t be able to produce enough fire for the whole army to use??
M.Night literally thought they were too overpowered and then nerfed them, completely missing the point of the fire nation being how they are. Absolutely Pea Brained individual, he is
Not only did I adore the cartoon, but the movie was partially shot in my hometown. My brother worked as security for the set. So my disappointment in this film is extremely personal
I remember my mom took me to see this in theaters the day of release because she knew I liked the show. When it was over she asked me if I liked it. I had to lie and say yes because I thought she’d be mad at me for not liking it and wasting money. But after that I never spoke of the movie again and tried to block it out of my mind.
One of the worst offenses to me was changing the fire nation to an Indian culture as opposed to the obvious Japanese/Mongolian influence of the show. Usually I don't care about race swapping characters if it's a side character or the actor makes sense for the role like the new Batman movie, but race swapping an entire nation of people just because you'd prefer them to be Indian? Wtf was Shyamalan thinking? *edit**: I know the fire nation's aesthetic is based on multiple east Asian cultures. Didn't mean to imply Japanese and Mongolian are the only influences.
If I'm not mistaken, they made the change because the actor they casted for the Emperor was Indian and someone brought up the point "wait a minute, why's he Indian and the rest are Japanese?" And then they changed Everyone to be Indian for consistency
The fact that he removed the firebenders' ability to produce fire without a source undermines the ENTIRE CONFLICT of their world. The whole entire point of the firebenders being as powerful and dangerous as they were is that they are the _only_ benders who can produce and weaponize their element no matter what place or situation they are in (including underwater). How the fuck did the entire world get taken over by people whose element is in fact the _hardest_ to get hold of if you can't generate it yourself? Worldbuilding who????
I also wonder how they would have done the Fire Nation Invasion arc? The whole reason Aang and the army attacked the Fire Nation on the solar eclipse was because the fire benders couldn't use their powers because they used the power of the sun.
@@RileyB_226 They don't produce it, they just use the air surrounding them. Fire benders are special because they straight up generate the fire and lightning from their body's chi alone
Katara's actress is a known nepo-kid, and even with her "roles" after this she is still more known as being the daughter in law to David and Victoria Beckham. Just sucks she never got proper lessons to justify getting work as an actress.
Yeah, Nicola Peltz. I literally haven't seen her in anything big-budget and prominent ever since 2014's "Transformers Age Of Extinction" where she played Mark Wahlberg's daughter.
Even more evidence that animated shows, games and anime shows doesn’t need a live action adaptation. Very rarely will you find a live action adaptation like Sonic.
I was 8 when this movie came out, I loved the show and me and my brother were so excited to see it. This was when I liked every movie I saw and this was the first movie that I realized that movies can be bad.
@@valeriekatampoi216He should just upload the commentary audio only without the movie, with movie timestamp. That's what every other channel that does full movie commentary reactions do. You just watch along with your own totally legally obtained film copy
My "favourite" part in this "movie" was when they were at the air temple, DAYS away from the southern water tribe and Katara only then asked what Aang's name was??!
@@theultimatetempest1918 Well to be fair narrators already know the whole story beforehand. It's just them recapping it. So the her that's narratoring is from the future, not at that moment.
I love telling Avatar fans this movie is the best movie ever made and truly embodies the source material. Of course I've never seen the TV show nor movie.
id never realised how poorly the earthbenders got represented in the movie they fucking SLAP so hard, but here they have to perform a 50 step dance to summon the tiniest pebble of all time
I remember absolutely cracking up when you have a whole team of earthbenders do a synchronized dance to have this tiny rock _lightly float_ in one direction for another earthbender to chuck at a soldier. The earthbenders really got done dirty (literally and figuratively).
I saw it in 2010. I honestly wasn't hopeful. The interview shamalan did with Brian Koniezko and Mike DiMartino on the DVD box set, it was foreboding to me. He only cared about making "something cool with martial arts" when Avatar was SOOOO much more than that. Sure enough they disappointed the entire fandom in every conceivable way. I nearly threw my popcorn on the ground and walked out when they cut Katara's fight against Master Paku, and gave us explosive diarrhea instead of Yue's sacrifice and Aangs rage in the finale.
I saw this movie I'm pretty sure on opening weekend when it first came out when I was around 9 or so. I was really looking forward to it since both I and my mom loved the original series. We even saw my childhood neighbors in the same theater, and it was entirely packed. by the time the movie was almost done I vast majority of people just left the theater, including the said neighbors, when I asked them why with my 9 year old brain they were just like "its bad" and I agreed, it was nowhere near as good as I thought and hoped it would be and was probably the first time I was actually disappointed with a movie. But even so there was one thing that made me go, no, theirs a chance it could all be made well: the kaiju scene from the series. I was SO looking forward to that scene where you saw aang going around the nation destroying all the fire benders in the form of a giant fish kaiju monster and I was SO looking forward to seeing that in live action in cgi! this! I thought. THIS would redeem the movie in my 9-year-old or so mind at the time, I just had to wait till the end and get to see the big climactic ending! I'm pretty sure I even said to said neighbor at least you gotta wait for the Kaiju scene but they left with their kid anyway. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddddd they replaced it with a giant tsunami wave. fuck you for destroying my 9 year old dreams to see a giant kaiju fight on the big screen for the first time movie.
Dude, the kid they played Aang wasn't really an actor or anything. When I was a kid, there was a shitty company that was offering "taekwondo" classes I was enrolled in. I remember when this movie came out, the dude that played Aang was a student at one of them who auditioned for the roll. Naturally, the company that was "teaching" the classes really pushed for all of the students to go see it. They legit picked the guy because he could spin a wooden staff, not because of his acting. The classes sucked so bad too. I distinctly remember them basically promoting anyone to the next level belt who was willing to pay them to be promoted. Me and my sister made it up to blue belts with the black stripe over the course of only like a month before we stopped going because we weren't learning anything.
Sorry biggie chungus for the random reply but I keep trying to figure out what kind of fireplace Charlie has behind him. If anyone sees this thread and could let me know I would appreciate it.
@@jinx5432 its literally something they said on a making off the movie back then as i recall, they picked the kid "because of his martial art skills" nothing to do with acting. He should have been a stunt double then, also the reason why they raceswapped the water tribe was because a producer's daughter wanted a major role in it and she shure killed it haha.
6:44 "I ran away from home" *he says SMILING In the show, this is Aang's most painful memory and deepest regret that fundamentally shapes his character. But nah, let's have him say this line like he's telling Katara about something funny his dog did
as an Indian person, i still don't understand why they felt the need to make almost all the firebenders brown people lmao like, there were so many better movies out there where you could create your own brown characters and do it. why did you have to CHANGE a set of characters for the sake of "diversity and representation", and turn zuko into a brown kid played by dev patel, and not just that, he did not fit the role of a character like zuko AT ALL.
"Aagn" was also played by someone who deeply cared for the franchise. He was, however, very inexperienced as an actor. It really sucks that his first time on the big screen was this. His bad acting, was for the most part, due to the poor direction that couldn't care less about getting quality material out of him.
thats sad :” i feel like the bad acting coming from the kids reflects a bad production team and stuff. the reason why the kids sound so emotionless is bc the script was written horribly and they created an awkward environment for the kids
Yeah, apparently he was super into martial arts and the series and was extremely excited about landing the role. But after the movie released, apparently people bullied him super hard for it, even though it was obviously not his fault.
Yeah, I heard that he sent a video of him practicing martial arts to M. Night, or the production team and they said THATS HIM! he'll play the most important role. What do you mean he has no acting experience? DID YOU SEE HIM PUNCH AND KICK STUFF?!!?!
Imagine, instead of a live action adaptation, all that budget and time was put into a one-off side-story. Imagine the quality of animation. It makes my heart ache.
This is funny because they were on the edge between a season 5 movie with zukos mom plot animated and this. Nickelodeon shouldn’t have this much control over other peoples intellectual property/ work
@@sweetnerevar7030 You mean Season 4 or Book 4. The Last Airbender had only 3 seasons. It would've been better if they made a one off movie to tie things up.
My friend who had never watched the movie made some fair points about the actors: Katara needed to be recast and this old actress should’ve played someone like Suki instead The actors for sokka and Zuko should’ve been switched And the only one who gets even a remote pass is Iroh Oh and Zuko’s father definitely didn’t love him NOR wanted to find him lolol
My dad was excited to take us to see this as he knew it was my favourite show, I feel bad for how much I tore it apart afterwards. Coz it was honestly so amazing that he remembered but the movie was so bad. Also we saw it in 3D... most 3D thing they had in it was the text saying Southern Water Tribe.
Fun fact: the scene where Sokka goes to grab his missing boomerang was the actors idea. He thought it'd be something Sokka does, where he goes to use his weapon but forgets he doesn't have it.
@@IzzySarru he forgot it in one episode not sure which one exactly but they were sleeping and then they were ambushed by a team of firebenders. The main characters had to leave quickly on appa but sokka realized he didn't have his boomerang and they couldn't go back for it and it was this really sad moment with sokka tearing up and yelling for his boomerang.
I feel like a huge mistake they made with this movie that not many people talk about is how in the original show, all of the techniques were borrowed from actual martial arts. In this movie they're literally just waving their arms around like monkeys.
The single fact that the Ember Island Players episode from the show was a better summary of almost the ENTIRE story than this entire 70+ minute fucking movie which only went over SEASON ONE is insane.
The story was already written, already had a big fan base and name, had millions of dollars from a major studio behind, had a well known director (even if his movies suck) behind it. There is/was ZERO excuse for this movie to be the abomination it became. Horrible on every level, acting, screenplay, narrative, SCRIPT, special effects, the dark and ugly tint, pacing, direction, fight choreography, casting… worst movie ever, not even so bad it’s good, just dog shit
The actual show is so good. Every single main character has different unique personalities and relationships. The battle scenes are epic and even the once-every-ten-episodes gimmick characters are really good like the beloved cabbage guy. There was so much potential to make a killer movie and yet, what the hell is this?
I agree. They did every single character dirty, not just by completely changing each and every one of their designs, but also making everyone pathetic and useless. Katara was a badass water bender even if she wasn't that good in Book 1, she was still brave and never backed out from a fight. And Sokka too, even though he wasn't a powerful bender or anything, he was also this quirky, funny character who was still around for comic relief and had his moments where he too fought. The worst rewrite I found was by far the Fire Nation turning Indian and them being basically useless when it comes to fire bending. Like wow, they now need a fire source nearby to fire bend? They can't produce fire on their own? Jeez, just thinking about this movie and how they raped my favorite childhood show gives me PTSD.
And an under rated (imo) part of TLA is that it humanizes the 'enemy' that is the fire nation really fucking well and it does it in the simplest way by just showing the audience that a lot of them are just normal people. Makes for some good gags too. Only person the show doesn't really do well is ironically the big bad of the fire nation himself in the fire lord. Probably my only major gripe of the show outside of nitpicks is that Ozai didn't get enough characterization and when we finally do some him doing things, it's the final battle. That said, literally everything else the show does right makes up for it. Oh and the spirit bending shit at the end was a bit hamfisted but eh, not a make or break critique.
My biggest pet peeve was how they made the fire benders unable to conjure fire out of thin air. Like, yeah, that’s the whole reason they became so powerful and why they were such a threat. It was also the opposite to the peaceful Airbenders who could ALSO use air anywhere they went. This movie is so annoying
Another problem not able to conjure fire is that their movements are totally different from the animated show. It also limits their move set. They also look fight like water benders
Fun fact: the mispronunciations aren't mistakes. They were an intentional choice by Shyamalan. He believed the new pronunciations were more "authentic" to how they would be pronounced in Asia.
@@AoiBlu4 Well for one M.Knight is Asian (Indian), and on top of that, no, because it's actually accurate to the pronunciations in the languages of the cultures each Nation draws on. For example the Fire nation draws a lot on Imperial Japan, so Iroh, wouldn't be eye-roh it'd be ee-roh (which is actually a consistent pronunciation of "i" in multiple East Asian languages) really if anything is offensive for that it'd be the original show, considering it was made by two white dudes. The real problem is that they cast a lot of the main actors as white people
@@sighduck9789 Also what M Night got right that the show got wrong is that Aang is a Buddhist monk and violence is against their beliefs so he uses nonviolence to defeat his enemies, the wave scene being an example.
I remember seeing this in a theater with nobody but my friend group who loves the show. It was so bad, we went back and fprth between being upset at how bad it was, to laughing at how bad it was, and just not caring and screwing around in the front row (my friend and I got the big bucket of popcorn for the first time and he accidentally dumped his on the floor, good times). I still think that The Box might be worse, but it's definitely up there among the worst movies in relatively recent memory. The real question now is if the Netflix adaptation will be even worse.
CinemaSins pointed this out but the funniest moment in this movie was when 3 Earth benders execute a perfectly choreographed dance to slowly move a small rock.
this was the first movie that ever made me physically pissed off. i was 11, and the minute it ended, i proceeded to go on a full fledged rant to my parents. they barely watched avatar and even THEY were confused by how shitty it was.
I went on a date with my GF at the time and I too was really pissed and she just looked at me after the movie and said "so....that's what you like?" Even she ,who never watched the show, knew it wasn't accurate.
I have a shameful confession, i saw the movie before the show and thought it was fine, I was also like 10 and didn't know the show existed but after watching the show I wish I could just smack child me and show them good movies
@@youshallnotpass567 So as I understand it, a RUclipsr named PolarSaurusRex made a video on how annoying MrBeasts comment sections are and in doing so he read 10+ comments saying the same thing (the spam comment) and so then people in his comments started spamming Rex's channel with those comments and so now I guess they are taking over RUclips (?)
I remember i was in middle school when the movie came out, and me and a friend went to see it since we were both big avatar fans. Looking back, i think that's the first time that i just made fun of a movie the whole time for being garbage instead of just being a kid and loving everything i was watching. Yes, this movie was so bad it turned me into a cynical moviegoer at the age of 12. A monumental accomplishment.
Literally same. I knew from the moment Aang didn't say "Do you want to go penguin sledding with me" that it was going to be an insult to everything the show was.
I remember being so excited to see this as a kid I stayed up all night thinking about it went to see it fell asleep through the whole thing at the time I was mad at myself cuz my mom said that would happen but in a weird way looking back the universe protected my brain
The worst thing is that this was my start to the Avatar series. I watched this crap before the show and even then I thought it was the most boring thing I had ever seen as a kid. After watching the show though, I felt insulted that the movie was my introduction to Avatar. Dull, uninspired versions of these beloved characters going through lifeless areas was my beginning with the series. It was honsestly one of the worst mistakes I've ever made.
Oh god that is such an unfortunate introduction. I feel bad for you by proxy, Castform. It's such a slap in the mouth. I'm so thankful I saw it when the pilot showed up on the Nicktoons Shorts block with Adventure Time back in 03-04. That was such a grand introduction.
The fact that it took a collective total of 6 earthbenders to lift up and slowly levitate a rock the size of a toddler still makes me cackle to this day
This movie actually has to be a social experiment. In the show Toph (easily the strongest or second strongest earthbender) could literally hold up tons for minutes. Theres a part of the show where she has to stop a underground library from collapsing for at least 5 to 10 minutes. We're talking about what is probably upwards of 20 to 30 tons. The shows strongest water benders were capable of bending the blood inside the human body. The waterbenders in the movie can't manage to lift a glass of water. There is no way anyone involved watched the show for any amount of time. We're talking about going from some of the greatest animated television of all time to one of the worst movies ever made.
Actually, Macross: Do You Remember Love did that. They fit the entire Macross Super Dimensional Fortress season 1 into one movie, minus all the filler episodes.
I remember going to get my glasses made (when I was a kid) a little after this came out. The owner lightheartedly complained about how he bought the disc for TLAB movie but his son (who was a little younger than me and in the store as well) would rather watch an old VHS recording from his family of a festival in China. Reflecting on this today, I see that children would rather watch (admittedly lively) historical footage instead of this movie
3:32 i myself can see every drop of toilet water that hit Ang everytime he flushes the shit that flooded his ass with toilet water he takes a hunk of shit out
I was so hyped for this movie as a kid. I genuinely couldn't sleep the night before. Made my parents drive 30+ minutes to the cinema. They never let me pick a movie for movie night again after that.
Bro I drew Aangs arrows on my legs and arms in anticipation for the movie and I was so disappointed. Kid me wasnt able to draw the comparisons between the show and the movie (beyond the obv nerfed bending) but I just remember leaving with a bad taste in my mouth. Same feeling as I have towards it now- that this movie was a let down to the show and fans.
My favorite oversight is the scene where Aang sees what happened to his people at the air temple. He stands there with his mouth open, a little drool slips out of the actor's mouth and he sucks it back in before they change scene. Somehow this slipped by everyone in production and made it to the final cut. Its incredible how little effort was given by everyone involved.
Charlie couldn't understand the brilliance of making ATLA without any jokes or fighting... Smalien is a visionary! Reducing a fun 6 hour experience of Season one into 100 minutes of boring plot.
(10:27) M. Knnnnnigt Shamwow always gets credit for being the “TWIST” guy…but, his only truly surprising twist was in 6th Sense…and, I seem to be the only one who was actually got by the gotcha. Everyone I’ve heard discuss it, said they saw it coming. All of the rest of the “twists” just weren’t.
I love this scene with the rock. 4 or 5 people stomping and doing a choreography to move a pebble. I deadass started laughing my ass off in the cinema in this scene, and I wasn't the only one. You're wrong charlie, I clearly remember how horrible this movie is. My brother multiple times wanted to leave the cinema, but during it all kept hoping it would redeem itself, but it didn't.
Just reached that scene in the video above. I love how stupid this movie is. 5 people to move that small stone, meanwhile in the show Toph can literally create earthquakes and Buumi can basically build a fortress just by stomping once
And they're prisoner surrounded with their weapon, EARTH! Since when Fire nation is this dumb and incompetent? Also have you apologize to your brother?
I was 13 years old when this came out, I forced my parents to take me to go see it on opening week. I walked out with probably one of the biggest disappointments of my childhood up to that point.
Same here, was 13 years old and so full of hope it'd do my favorite childhood show justice. If only I knew my childhood would be ruined that day and leave me scarred since.
@@BAYBAY841 Meh you know? Growing up watching Avatar with my mom, we LOVED IT. But when Korra came out I don't think we watched anymore after its first season. I wasn't a huge fan
What I loved about the show was the animation style. It brought a western extravagance to Japanese frugality in animation and as a result some scenes framed from the perspective of a bender were highly immersible. Kataras fight with grandmaster pakku felt so fluid, where one move flowed into the next like water. In tophs fight with the arena earthbenders, you could feel the concussive weight of every blow and in both fights you felt a connection between the characters movements and the element they were bending. In the movie, they would just do stupid kicks, hand waves and punches while elements vaguely moved in the air. I'm not one of those dorks who thinks avatar is a masterpiece, but it's truly an exceptional series given the network it was on and compared to other animated shows from the time targeted at the same demographic. My parents loved it. They were as stoked to watch it as I was every weekend. When we moved to India I had to start torrenting episodes since the screeding rights hadn't been secured for nickelodeon India and they were still showing the first season. It's a show that had something for everyone and its really something actually enjoying a piece of media with your family across generations. It will for these reasons always hold a special place in my heart. Shamilian beware.
If you watch the behind the scenes you can see that the kid is actually a lot like Aang. He's a carefree joker, it was shamylans direction that sucked the soul out of his performance.
I love that scene where the Earthbenders, all lined up, all do like a four second set to combine their powers, to fling a 10 pound rock a little larger than my hand. In this world if I picked up that rock and hit someone else with it, it would kind of make me more powerful than an Earthbender.
It was the saddest thing ever seeing that piss poor earth bending. I swear I could throw rocks at them all and do more damage as a non bender For how long it takes to throw a small pebble
What's funny is they didn't even summon that rock, it was that one earthbender off to the side. The other guys were just dancing for the fun of it I guess
"As yOu KnOw, I CoNdUcTeD a RaId oN thE GrEaT LiBrarY..." 'As you know' is one of the laziest writing crutches that shows that the next piece of dialogue is only for the audience. It serves no purpose in delivering new information to the characters to advance the movie, because the characters already know the information. And it's still heavily abused by writers in film and television to this day. The Last Airbender movie hamfists the 'as you know' so poorly that I lost the little respect I had left for M. Night - even considering Split was a decent movie, it's still tainted for me due to the aforementioned.
"As you Know, I conducted a raid on the great library..." 'As you know' is onE of The lAzIesT wRiTiNg crUtcHes tHaT shOwS ThAt tHe NeXt PiEce of diAiOgE is onLY FOr thE AuDiEnCe. It sErvEs nO pUrpOse in DelIvEriNg nEw iNfoRmAtion to The cHarAcTers tO adVanCe thE MovIe, BeCauSe ThE ChArActErs aLreAdy knOw thE infoRmaTioN. AnD it'S sTilL hEaVily aBuseD by wRitErs iN FiLm AnD TelEviSioN tO ThiS DaY. THe Last Airbender moViE HaMfisTs tHe 'as you know' sO pOorLy tHaT I lOsT The liTtLe reSpecT I hAd LefT fOr M. Night Shyamalan - EveN coNsiDerIng Split WaS A dEcEnt MoVie, iT's sTilL tAinTeD For mE dUe tO ThE afOreMenTioNeD.
Split may have been competent in how it was made but I hate it for how it's yet another movie where the villain is mentally ill and they're evil because of their mental illness. It's eye-roll inducing.
@@charlieseen Is that strange to you? I can’t tell if your criticism is because you don’t believe that basis or if it’s because it’s overused in storytelling.
They heavily insulted irohs character. He was supposed to be the uplifting man with wisdom for anybody. Here he just lets Zuko do what he wants with no good lessons
@@Wunkydoo you know, I can understand your point. Since they expected to have multiple movies after this one, it would be reasonable to assume they meant to build on the character established in previous movies. But that’s the thing: this movie doesn’t give us Iroh’s character at all. There is nothing to build upon even if there were more movies. It would be like attempting to make a series of Justice League movies, and having a section of the sequels towards demonstrating Batman as the greatest detective, while him not demonstrating anything that earns that title in the previous movie(s).
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I literally begged my parents to spend what little money they had to take me to see this movie, and it literally was so bad we left early and my parents got mugged in the back alley behind the theater, and he killed them in cold blood. Now I protect the streets at night, suffering in silence from the plague and pain caused by this man, I am batman now and this movie killed my parents
Your story is better than both this movie and Twilight. We should make a movie out of it. Hmm. I’m thinking of calling the movie, Night Bat, or Dark Man. How do those sound?
@@howardbaxter2514 Black Man The Dark Knight
@@iLoveLoliAndILewdLoli The dark knight may be copyrighted
Dark Man the Black Knight
I'd rather watch a movie of this
Damn, I feel so bad.But I also think some nerd stole your life story and made it into a movie.I forgot the name, but it was a good movie.
That movie doesn’t exist. It was all a fever dream. There is no movie in Ba Sing Se
dont Read my name tho😑
unbotted "haha" to restore your hope
Movie was better than the show. So both must be fake
There is indeed no movie in Ba Sing Se.
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se 😶
It's literally that avatar episode where they all went to a fire nation theater and watched their adventure get poorly & incorrectly summed up
Exactly dude lol
It was like the writers of the show knew that in the future some dipstick was going to disgrace the lore.
Ember Island Players was better than this
That's the twist. Originally the movie was going to end and then it pans out and you see this being projected on a screen in a theater, and then it continues to pan out and you see this theater is in the middle of the fire nation but also the future for some reason. They forced Shamalan to cut this scene because it tested even worse with it included and then they cut their losses and put it out. I'm joking of course but who knows...
Roger Roger
Imagine making a movie so bad that literally everyone is still raging with the same incredulity a decade later.
Or people are just incapable of saying anything else about it because of fear of getting attacked by everyone.
@@Wunkydoo Are you suggesting that this movies was received poorly only because the fans of the series didn't think it was faithful to the source material?
Because that is completely untrue.
If this movie was actually written well, with good, fast paced fight scenes, and actors actually *expressing real emotions* , I honestly wouldn't care if it was a little different from the show. But the movie is _so_ consistently bad in every possible aspect, from useless exposition to terrible acting, even people who never watched the series dislike it.
@@yarn2350 It's really not that bad though. I feel like there's no way that this many people would hate this movie this much if it wasn't for them being afraid of getting attacked by the fanbase for accidentally saying that they liked something about it.
@@Wunkydoo Alright I'm curious now, what DID you like about the movie?
@@whyareyoueven_here Pretty much everything about it
When this movie was in theatres, I begged my parents to take me to go see it. To this day I'm still apologizing to them.
I did the same, except I was too young and dumb to realize how awful it was. I still regret not listening to that little voice in my head telling me something was wrong
I would’ve simply disowned
My fondest memory of seeing this movie in theaters, was walking out with several other people, during the scene it took 6 earth benders to move one giant rock.
@@UnclePhil1112 it wasn’t even that big of a rock tho
@@braidenj152 it was basically a pebble
The funniest joke in this movie is the fact that they thought they were going to make a sequel.
dont Read my name tho😑.
@@MbitaChizi nice try
🤣True😂
Who the fuck is Paige?
@YeaMan you a bot?
I feel so bad for the boy who played Aang, because if you see backstage footage, HE'S EXACTLY LIKE AANG. But the director clearly made him act different, and now he's basically got no career because of a bad start that wasn't his fault
Apparently he was only cast because he was good at martial arts and looked kinda like Aang when you shaved his head
director made him act like ong
@@dominicijavier1575God man this got me so hard lmfao
@@emperor_ivanme too😂
@@dominicijavier1575😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
5 earthbenders here: toss a pebble
5 earthbenders in the show: obliterate tanks in one shot.
The worst part of the earth-bender scenes in the movie is they are prisoners but they are literally surrounded by earth.
In the animated show the earth-benders were prisoners in a metal ship in the middle of the ocean!
it's like the director didn't bother to see the damn show....everything in the movie since i was a die hard Avatar fan, I was wondering what was going on myself seeing how I remember each episode and was wondering where the hell they were and why were there so many budget cuts.
which makes sense because they can't earth bend to get out, I mean they can literally massacre all the prison guards with their earth bending.
@@savageratentertainment i hope m night gets into depression
@@NotMichael349 The funniest thing is the fire-benders in this movie. In the animated show fire-benders would be able to conjure up their own fire or enhance flames nearby using chi, which made them pretty unique compared to the other elements that require nearby sources of their elements. The movie fire-benders never conjure fire, they just use whatever is on a nearby torch or campfire they made with a lighter. So a significantly nerfed fire nation vs earth benders that could just cover their fire sources with one floating rock :/
@@PeterSnores iroh is literally considered special for being able to make fire out of nothing in the movie ffs
Crazy how Charlie is so passionate about roasting a movie that doesn't exist.
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.
No avatar movie ever existed.
Anybody remember Dragon Ball Z's live action? Like Dragonball Evolution or something like that?
As you know!!, they never made a movie of the last air bender
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger Yeah. It was awful too.
This movie is attributed to one of the worst moments of my life. My siblings and I got to go to the movies very rarely. My parents took us the weekend this movie came out and I convinced everyone that we absolutely HAD to watch it because we were all Avatar fans and I just knew it would be amazing… I remember us all sitting there about 10 minutes into the movie and I was having cold sweats and an out of body experience from the embarrassment and shame I felt for screwing us all over like that. I’m not even playing. It was traumatic and I still think about it to this day.
Did you guys sit through the whole movie?
@@Halcon_Sierreno We did, unfortunately.. They were good sports about it at the time but it had me all messed up. I think it shook me worse because I just felt like a terrible older brother. It was as if I led my troops into a death trap. That movie ruined what would’ve otherwise been a wonderful night out lol.
oh my god
Lol
@@thematthewlukas1503man… :(
I’m so glad this didn’t make it past the first movie, I can’t imagine how badly they would’ve butchered Toph, Azula, the Ba Sing Se arc, the Aang vs Ozai fight, and god help us, the Last Agni Kai
Toph would’ve been able to see, Azula would’ve been nice, and Ozai would’ve apologized for his misconduct and have Azula train him until his fire turned blue.
Oh. No Agni Kai. The power of love and friendship would’ve rehabilitated Azula. Her Screaming from enlightenment would be the reason Katara and Zuko walk off. It’s too awkward
They probably would have made Toph a guy and M Night’s excuse would be that’s how she was originally intended in the show. That was basically his dumb excuse for calling Aang “Ung”.
Azula is actually in the end credits scene😂.
Imagine how boring the boiling rock would have been.
No fire because of the the steam
This movie is a testament to M Night's ego. He took an incredible show, with complex characters, vivacious storytelling, and adoring fans and went "I can fix that to make it better."
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and god dammit he did
Cash grab, m knight is actually a really good director when he wants to be. I think he knew how bad the movie was he just didn’t care and was blinded by money
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@@iamnotthatguy7166 have you seen the village? I'd rather watch this then that stupid shyamalan movie
Crazy how Charlie found something that doesn't exist and was able to review it so well.
There is no Airbender movie in Ba Sing Se...
My question is why didn't he do it on April 1
There are no bad Avatar films in Ba Sing Se
It's crazy -- what next, a fourth Indiana Jones movie, lol? He should be spending his time reviewing season 19 of Firefly -- how does it keep getting better after all this time??
Read my name.
My favourite scene is when Zuko said “It’s Zuking Time” and then Zuked all over the place truly a scene from a movie
Still treating the verb as a proper noun is what made me giggle
I remember being a young lad, it was nearly Christmas. An ad for this movie came on the tv and me and my brother having been big fans of the show got excited and told our mom we'd love to get that movie for Christmas, then our mom lit up and very giddily told us we could open one present before Christmas and brought us a wrapped up dvd with a big smile on her face. Me and my brother were super happy and watched the movie that night. We were so disappointed that it was only the first arc or whatever and let our mom know how disappointing it was. This made her kinda sad and i wish we just lied and told her it was the best movie ever :/
W mom
absolute bullshit
It's legitimately depressing that a self-parody propaganda play in the show itself is unironically a better adaptation than a multi million dollar blockbuster film
It would be better if they adapt like a plot different from the series. Like an Avatar Kiyoshi going Batman and forming the Nazgul.
If only they allowed the original creators of the show to participate in the movie's creation based on *their* show. Maybe it wouldn't be such a dumpster fire created by someone who's never even watched the show.
They should've made a short film of the ember island players live action. That would've been awesome.
man i miss their acting watching the movie
My HONOUR!!!!
I'll never forget seeing this in theaters and some guy shouts "SHE'S LITERALLY SWEEPING THE DIRT" when they showed a village, some lady's just outside brooming nature
brooming nature
The virgin broom lady vs the chad cabbage vendor
The seizure I just had reading this🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I also had that same thought.
She's an NPC From a Fallout Game.
there is no way the firebenders could have killed all the air-nomads while needing a fire source to bend their element. A strong gust of wind would've taken out all the torches and crippled their attack, so 10 skillful airbenders could've rendered an entire army useless w/o breaking their vow of pacifism
I swear with bending that slow, a medieval army could take over the Avatar world in less than a month
Sozins comet would give fire benders the ability to make their own fire instead of enhancing it wich is kinda stupid Im wondering how even ozai can fight when he can't make his own fire
The girl who played Kitara got the role because her dad was a producer. He basically said I'll fund this shit if you put my daughter in it.
Also, did you say Dave Patel?
Yeah.Dave Patel.The guy that journalist make an article of.Who wouldn't leave their fiance for Dave Patel
I too,would leave my fiance for Dev Patel🤣🤣
"The breath becomes energy in the body, the energy extends past the limbs and becomes fire" -Iroh episode 1. These writers didn't even watch episode 1
Holy shit, how did they skip so much?
Almost like they're trying to have as little Fire Bending as possible to save money on vfx
But like
How was the fire nation so formidable when they need a fire source while you have earthbenders who have the literal earth beneath them, air benders, and water benders
They wouldn’t be able to produce enough fire for the whole army to use??
M.Night literally thought they were too overpowered and then nerfed them, completely missing the point of the fire nation being how they are.
Absolutely Pea Brained individual, he is
I remember watching this movie when I was around 6 and even then I criticized it so much my mom was just like “okay why don’t u go somewhere else” 💀
Not only did I adore the cartoon, but the movie was partially shot in my hometown. My brother worked as security for the set. So my disappointment in this film is extremely personal
I'm so sorry for ur loss
God bless you soldier
NOOO that sucks
May god help you heal those scars
Im so sorry for you
I remember my mom took me to see this in theaters the day of release because she knew I liked the show. When it was over she asked me if I liked it.
I had to lie and say yes because I thought she’d be mad at me for not liking it and wasting money. But after that I never spoke of the movie again and tried to block it out of my mind.
When I was younger, I begged my parents to take me to see this movie. Nowadays, I am begging them to return my phone calls.
One of the worst offenses to me was changing the fire nation to an Indian culture as opposed to the obvious Japanese/Mongolian influence of the show. Usually I don't care about race swapping characters if it's a side character or the actor makes sense for the role like the new Batman movie, but race swapping an entire nation of people just because you'd prefer them to be Indian? Wtf was Shyamalan thinking?
*edit**: I know the fire nation's aesthetic is based on multiple east Asian cultures. Didn't mean to imply Japanese and Mongolian are the only influences.
It reeks of self insert fan fiction vibes.
If I'm not mistaken, they made the change because the actor they casted for the Emperor was Indian and someone brought up the point "wait a minute, why's he Indian and the rest are Japanese?" And then they changed Everyone to be Indian for consistency
Curry is hot and spicy, therefore fire benders should be Indians.
@@chopmopjeter18 Wow. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything less lmao
@@RikuHarada6996 🤣🤣🤣
The fact that he removed the firebenders' ability to produce fire without a source undermines the ENTIRE CONFLICT of their world. The whole entire point of the firebenders being as powerful and dangerous as they were is that they are the _only_ benders who can produce and weaponize their element no matter what place or situation they are in (including underwater). How the fuck did the entire world get taken over by people whose element is in fact the _hardest_ to get hold of if you can't generate it yourself? Worldbuilding who????
I also wonder how they would have done the Fire Nation Invasion arc? The whole reason Aang and the army attacked the Fire Nation on the solar eclipse was because the fire benders couldn't use their powers because they used the power of the sun.
I thought Airbenders could produce air the from scratch just like fire benders
@@RileyB_226 They don't produce it, they just use the air surrounding them. Fire benders are special because they straight up generate the fire and lightning from their body's chi alone
@@RileyB_226 no, pretty sure it's the air currents around them is what they manipulate
Waterbending is op because you can bend blood
Katara's actress is a known nepo-kid, and even with her "roles" after this she is still more known as being the daughter in law to David and Victoria Beckham. Just sucks she never got proper lessons to justify getting work as an actress.
Yeah, Nicola Peltz. I literally haven't seen her in anything big-budget and prominent ever since 2014's "Transformers Age Of Extinction" where she played Mark Wahlberg's daughter.
_There is no movie in the Avatar Fandom_
The same thing goes with the Evolution movie in the Dragon Ball Fandom too. lol
There's a remake coming out thus year and it looked pretty decent. But that's just me.
what’s funny is that in the show Yue’s fiancé called Sokka, “Soaka” as a means to make fun of him and the movie just uses it unironically
that's rough buddy
Friggen film features "On" and "Soh-Cah-Toa"
@@finylin avatar educating children on trigonometry
Also 'Ahng' for Aang, 'Yueh' for Yue. I'm probably forgetting some.
Just further proves that nobody who worked on this movie watched the show start to finish.
Even more evidence that animated shows, games and anime shows doesn’t need a live action adaptation. Very rarely will you find a live action adaptation like Sonic.
Leech gonna leech
hi
Get some help
Just stop
@UC8c_bml7rR4-0fRBlxiznmQ you don’t understand irony then
I was 8 when this movie came out, I loved the show and me and my brother were so excited to see it. This was when I liked every movie I saw and this was the first movie that I realized that movies can be bad.
Is there a full cut of charlie and the guys watching avatar?
I feel like they would get striked for that
Sadly not, he said he's refraining from doing that
@@valeriekatampoi216He should just upload the commentary audio only without the movie, with movie timestamp. That's what every other channel that does full movie commentary reactions do. You just watch along with your own totally legally obtained film copy
My "favourite" part in this "movie" was when they were at the air temple, DAYS away from the southern water tribe and Katara only then asked what Aang's name was??!
Also, Katara has already mentioned him by name in her narration on the way to the air temple before asking his name.
Hey it’s me Katatra from the last airfucker and I am dumb as fuck
I think you mean ung
You mean OVATAR ONG
@@theultimatetempest1918 Well to be fair narrators already know the whole story beforehand. It's just them recapping it. So the her that's narratoring is from the future, not at that moment.
When you know that Aang's actor, the MAIN character, was selected because of his martial art skills and not for his acting skills, it explains a lot
Exactly and he isn't even good, every kid can spin a fucking bo staff, we were avatars before the power rangers phase ended.
@@baddonkey75 okay now you are just being fucking mean if you wanna take the piss then do it at the movie not the actors
funny enough, he acts more like Aang in the BTS than in the movie (from what I've seen anyway)
@@baddonkey75 no he's actually really good
Damn. They wasted that kid's potential in that movie
Earth Bender: screaming and dancing intensely*
The Rock: It's ok, guys, take your time*
5:49 - just a timestamp for my favorite part
I love telling Avatar fans this movie is the best movie ever made and truly embodies the source material. Of course I've never seen the TV show nor movie.
dont Read my name tho😑.
You, are a true agent of chaos. I hate it, but can't help but respect it.
@@MbitaChizi Don't worry, I won't
@@ray_the_bay3763 Me neither, wonder who they are
@@MbitaChizi wasn't planning on it
id never realised how poorly the earthbenders got represented in the movie
they fucking SLAP so hard, but here they have to perform a 50 step dance to summon the tiniest pebble of all time
cry about it
@@adolfhitler7394 are you seriously defending this piece of shit movie?
It's cause there weren't any black earth benders to get sturdy up on a bitch
@@baddonkey75 bro.... what?
I remember absolutely cracking up when you have a whole team of earthbenders do a synchronized dance to have this tiny rock _lightly float_ in one direction for another earthbender to chuck at a soldier.
The earthbenders really got done dirty (literally and figuratively).
I saw it in 2010. I honestly wasn't hopeful. The interview shamalan did with Brian Koniezko and Mike DiMartino on the DVD box set, it was foreboding to me. He only cared about making "something cool with martial arts" when Avatar was SOOOO much more than that.
Sure enough they disappointed the entire fandom in every conceivable way. I nearly threw my popcorn on the ground and walked out when they cut Katara's fight against Master Paku, and gave us explosive diarrhea instead of Yue's sacrifice and Aangs rage in the finale.
I saw this movie I'm pretty sure on opening weekend when it first came out when I was around 9 or so. I was really looking forward to it since both I and my mom loved the original series. We even saw my childhood neighbors in the same theater, and it was entirely packed. by the time the movie was almost done I vast majority of people just left the theater, including the said neighbors, when I asked them why with my 9 year old brain they were just like "its bad"
and I agreed, it was nowhere near as good as I thought and hoped it would be and was probably the first time I was actually disappointed with a movie. But even so there was one thing that made me go, no, theirs a chance it could all be made well:
the kaiju scene from the series.
I was SO looking forward to that scene where you saw aang going around the nation destroying all the fire benders in the form of a giant fish kaiju monster and I was SO looking forward to seeing that in live action in cgi!
this! I thought. THIS would redeem the movie in my 9-year-old or so mind at the time, I just had to wait till the end and get to see the big climactic ending! I'm pretty sure I even said to said neighbor at least you gotta wait for the Kaiju scene but they left with their kid anyway.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddddd they replaced it with a giant tsunami wave.
fuck you for destroying my 9 year old dreams to see a giant kaiju fight on the big screen for the first time movie.
Dude, the kid they played Aang wasn't really an actor or anything. When I was a kid, there was a shitty company that was offering "taekwondo" classes I was enrolled in. I remember when this movie came out, the dude that played Aang was a student at one of them who auditioned for the roll. Naturally, the company that was "teaching" the classes really pushed for all of the students to go see it. They legit picked the guy because he could spin a wooden staff, not because of his acting.
The classes sucked so bad too. I distinctly remember them basically promoting anyone to the next level belt who was willing to pay them to be promoted. Me and my sister made it up to blue belts with the black stripe over the course of only like a month before we stopped going because we weren't learning anything.
Sorry biggie chungus for the random reply but I keep trying to figure out what kind of fireplace Charlie has behind him. If anyone sees this thread and could let me know I would appreciate it.
This could be a whole ass lie, something told by a story telling robot, and I'd still fucking believe this with how terrible the "actor" was
That’s lame. Live action movies should be made illegal, honestly.
me when i lie
@@jinx5432 its literally something they said on a making off the movie back then as i recall, they picked the kid "because of his martial art skills" nothing to do with acting. He should have been a stunt double then, also the reason why they raceswapped the water tribe was because a producer's daughter wanted a major role in it and she shure killed it haha.
6:44 "I ran away from home" *he says SMILING
In the show, this is Aang's most painful memory and deepest regret that fundamentally shapes his character.
But nah, let's have him say this line like he's telling Katara about something funny his dog did
I read this, then went back to see for myself. Now I am overcome with an inexplicable anger.
"I was just upset😄🤪"
No.
My entire people is killed by the fire nation 🤣😆😃🤑🤪😜🤩🥵🤠🥴🤡😂😍😊😇🥰
"It wasn't very smart. 😃"
@@atmosstreams the episode when he comeback to the air nomaids. Is not easy to watch.
Both Frozen and Frozen 2 had $150m budget each, and they made every single snow dropping look unique... No other words needed...
as an Indian person, i still don't understand why they felt the need to make almost all the firebenders brown people lmao like, there were so many better movies out there where you could create your own brown characters and do it.
why did you have to CHANGE a set of characters for the sake of "diversity and representation", and turn zuko into a brown kid played by dev patel, and not just that, he did not fit the role of a character like zuko AT ALL.
"Aagn" was also played by someone who deeply cared for the franchise. He was, however, very inexperienced as an actor. It really sucks that his first time on the big screen was this. His bad acting, was for the most part, due to the poor direction that couldn't care less about getting quality material out of him.
that's brutal, poor kid
thats sad :” i feel like the bad acting coming from the kids reflects a bad production team and stuff. the reason why the kids sound so emotionless is bc the script was written horribly and they created an awkward environment for the kids
Shouldve hired an actual actor. And for the actual and harder martial arts hire a person who knows how to.
Yeah, apparently he was super into martial arts and the series and was extremely excited about landing the role. But after the movie released, apparently people bullied him super hard for it, even though it was obviously not his fault.
Yeah, I heard that he sent a video of him practicing martial arts to M. Night, or the production team and they said THATS HIM! he'll play the most important role. What do you mean he has no acting experience? DID YOU SEE HIM PUNCH AND KICK STUFF?!!?!
Imagine, instead of a live action adaptation, all that budget and time was put into a one-off side-story. Imagine the quality of animation. It makes my heart ache.
This is funny because they were on the edge between a season 5 movie with zukos mom plot animated and this.
Nickelodeon shouldn’t have this much control over other peoples intellectual property/ work
@@sweetnerevar7030 what I never knew that! That’s so sad that instead of an animated continuation about Zukos mom we got this train wreak of a movie
@@sweetnerevar7030
You mean Season 4 or Book 4. The Last Airbender had only 3 seasons.
It would've been better if they made a one off movie to tie things up.
@@sweetnerevar7030 oof at least we got that story resolved in the comics
You know what’s even more scary than the fact this movie had a large sized budget? The fact that it has a larger budget than the first Iron Man movie.
My friend who had never watched the movie made some fair points about the actors:
Katara needed to be recast and this old actress should’ve played someone like Suki instead
The actors for sokka and Zuko should’ve been switched
And the only one who gets even a remote pass is Iroh
Oh and Zuko’s father definitely didn’t love him NOR wanted to find him lolol
My dad was excited to take us to see this as he knew it was my favourite show, I feel bad for how much I tore it apart afterwards. Coz it was honestly so amazing that he remembered but the movie was so bad.
Also we saw it in 3D... most 3D thing they had in it was the text saying Southern Water Tribe.
Fun fact: the scene where Sokka goes to grab his missing boomerang was the actors idea. He thought it'd be something Sokka does, where he goes to use his weapon but forgets he doesn't have it.
That is honestly such a Sokka thing to do lmao
Didn't he actually do that once in the show and then get all sad it wasn't there?
@@IzzySarru he forgot it in one episode not sure which one exactly but they were sleeping and then they were ambushed by a team of firebenders. The main characters had to leave quickly on appa but sokka realized he didn't have his boomerang and they couldn't go back for it and it was this really sad moment with sokka tearing up and yelling for his boomerang.
That's... Actually pretty in character for Soaka
@@TubularBellsRequiem6531 Avatar Day?
I feel like a huge mistake they made with this movie that not many people talk about is how in the original show, all of the techniques were borrowed from actual martial arts. In this movie they're literally just waving their arms around like monkeys.
the problem is not only that, they are all white… not asian and this show is talking about asian culture
@TransCube yes
@TransCube it does change alot
@@jabanutter8533 no it really changed absolutely nothing if the movie was written well it would have been fine
They literally needed to hire people with experience working on wuxia movies
The single fact that the Ember Island Players episode from the show was a better summary of almost the ENTIRE story than this entire 70+ minute fucking movie which only went over SEASON ONE is insane.
The story was already written, already had a big fan base and name, had millions of dollars from a major studio behind, had a well known director (even if his movies suck) behind it. There is/was ZERO excuse for this movie to be the abomination it became. Horrible on every level, acting, screenplay, narrative, SCRIPT, special effects, the dark and ugly tint, pacing, direction, fight choreography, casting… worst movie ever, not even so bad it’s good, just dog shit
The actual show is so good. Every single main character has different unique personalities and relationships. The battle scenes are epic and even the once-every-ten-episodes gimmick characters are really good like the beloved cabbage guy. There was so much potential to make a killer movie and yet, what the hell is this?
It’s so great, and every character is so unique and motivated that they can all feel like main characters, is the best
It was a literal slap and a middle finger to the fanbase and the creators.
I agree. They did every single character dirty, not just by completely changing each and every one of their designs, but also making everyone pathetic and useless. Katara was a badass water bender even if she wasn't that good in Book 1, she was still brave and never backed out from a fight. And Sokka too, even though he wasn't a powerful bender or anything, he was also this quirky, funny character who was still around for comic relief and had his moments where he too fought.
The worst rewrite I found was by far the Fire Nation turning Indian and them being basically useless when it comes to fire bending. Like wow, they now need a fire source nearby to fire bend? They can't produce fire on their own? Jeez, just thinking about this movie and how they raped my favorite childhood show gives me PTSD.
And an under rated (imo) part of TLA is that it humanizes the 'enemy' that is the fire nation really fucking well and it does it in the simplest way by just showing the audience that a lot of them are just normal people. Makes for some good gags too.
Only person the show doesn't really do well is ironically the big bad of the fire nation himself in the fire lord. Probably my only major gripe of the show outside of nitpicks is that Ozai didn't get enough characterization and when we finally do some him doing things, it's the final battle.
That said, literally everything else the show does right makes up for it.
Oh and the spirit bending shit at the end was a bit hamfisted but eh, not a make or break critique.
This is M Night Shitforbrains taking the money and running.
My biggest pet peeve was how they made the fire benders unable to conjure fire out of thin air. Like, yeah, that’s the whole reason they became so powerful and why they were such a threat. It was also the opposite to the peaceful Airbenders who could ALSO use air anywhere they went. This movie is so annoying
Another problem not able to conjure fire is that their movements are totally different from the animated show. It also limits their move set. They also look fight like water benders
yeah said above. Before yours, maybe read at least the few top comments before repeating.
they are firebenders, not flammable benders
There were so many things going on in that movie that made me uncontrollably angry as a child and i still feel that rage as a 23 year old man.
I hope they released the extended cut where Ong said " Its morbin time" . Really changed the whole movie.
Fun fact: the mispronunciations aren't mistakes. They were an intentional choice by Shyamalan. He believed the new pronunciations were more "authentic" to how they would be pronounced in Asia.
And then all the actors are white. nice
@@AoiBlu4 More than a bit.
@@AoiBlu4 Well for one M.Knight is Asian (Indian), and on top of that, no, because it's actually accurate to the pronunciations in the languages of the cultures each Nation draws on.
For example the Fire nation draws a lot on Imperial Japan, so Iroh, wouldn't be eye-roh it'd be ee-roh (which is actually a consistent pronunciation of "i" in multiple East Asian languages)
really if anything is offensive for that it'd be the original show, considering it was made by two white dudes.
The real problem is that they cast a lot of the main actors as white people
@@sighduck9789 Hm... alright. Thank you for explaining.
@@sighduck9789 Also what M Night got right that the show got wrong is that Aang is a Buddhist monk and violence is against their beliefs so he uses nonviolence to defeat his enemies, the wave scene being an example.
I love how this franchise has made one of the greatest pieces of media in history and one of the worst pieces of media ever made.
fr
Perfectly balanced as all things should be
Kinda like Star Wars
@@rigby6038 bot
Yeah
I'd love to hear a Moist dub of this movie. I'd pay to watch that.
I remember seeing this in a theater with nobody but my friend group who loves the show. It was so bad, we went back and fprth between being upset at how bad it was, to laughing at how bad it was, and just not caring and screwing around in the front row (my friend and I got the big bucket of popcorn for the first time and he accidentally dumped his on the floor, good times). I still think that The Box might be worse, but it's definitely up there among the worst movies in relatively recent memory. The real question now is if the Netflix adaptation will be even worse.
If only Charlie had a cameo in this movie. It would’ve become a true masterpiece
Man these bots are more “g a y” than the LGBT Community themselves
any movie, reguardless of anything else would be a masterpiece if he was in it
That wouldn't save it.
@@zeebooboo9663 you underestimate the powers of homeless Jesus
🤨Yeah
The worst part of this movie is that we'll probably never get an accurate and good live-action movie now because it's "already been made".
Reboot in 20 years?
Don't you know? Netflix is already working on a live adaptation series. And I'm not even joking.
@@battlekingad8291 fr??
"Already been made" has never EVER stopped Hollywood
@@foamx9201 Yes, and It's on Netflix!
GOD FUCKING SAVE US!
The Last Airbender movie is pure example of why animated shows remade to live action movies is a stupid idea.
But Willem Dafoe as Ryuk tho
CinemaSins pointed this out but the funniest moment in this movie was when 3 Earth benders execute a perfectly choreographed dance to slowly move a small rock.
this was the first movie that ever made me physically pissed off. i was 11, and the minute it ended, i proceeded to go on a full fledged rant to my parents. they barely watched avatar and even THEY were confused by how shitty it was.
Read my name😎
Same!
I was 16 and it actually made me fall asleep. I have never watched a movie that actually made me fall asleep.
I went on a date with my GF at the time and I too was really pissed and she just looked at me after the movie and said "so....that's what you like?" Even she ,who never watched the show, knew it wasn't accurate.
I have a shameful confession, i saw the movie before the show and thought it was fine, I was also like 10 and didn't know the show existed but after watching the show I wish I could just smack child me and show them good movies
The worst crime, giving zuko a full head of hair.
These sets are absolutely incredible! It's insane how far GradeSam has come!
@@TheseSetsAreAbsolutelyEpic I'm guessing this is a PolarSaurusRex joke or something
The worst crime is giving him a full head of hair *in Book One* .
@@mikrowelle968 is this a joke? It just seems like annoying spam
@@youshallnotpass567 So as I understand it, a RUclipsr named PolarSaurusRex made a video on how annoying MrBeasts comment sections are and in doing so he read 10+ comments saying the same thing (the spam comment) and so then people in his comments started spamming Rex's channel with those comments and so now I guess they are taking over RUclips (?)
This move is basically the definition of don’t smoke or do drugs while your pregnant. If so, this is the baby that develops.
The earth bender scene comes up: *starts tearing up* please no… *in corner* there is no movie in Ba Sing Sei…. Ther is no shamalan
I remember i was in middle school when the movie came out, and me and a friend went to see it since we were both big avatar fans. Looking back, i think that's the first time that i just made fun of a movie the whole time for being garbage instead of just being a kid and loving everything i was watching. Yes, this movie was so bad it turned me into a cynical moviegoer at the age of 12. A monumental accomplishment.
same, the first time i went out of the cinema and thought i had truly wasted my time and rather made my homework.
@@hulmhochberg8129 You know a movie is bad when it makes you wish you were doing your homework instead of watching it
Literally same. I knew from the moment Aang didn't say "Do you want to go penguin sledding with me" that it was going to be an insult to everything the show was.
god i wish i remembered what movie turned me into a cynic, my brain has repressed the memory most likely
These sets are absolutely incredible! It's insane how far Moohab has come!
every time I forget that this god awful movie exists, the universe just has to remind me 🙄
@@particely What movie?
I thought the movie was good. I would have watched a sequel
@@kingrue3710 delete this now
@@kingrue3710 you d a r e say that ?
@@kingrue3710 trololol
09:30
Water Chief: “HOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
[180 degree camera pan around the last butter bender]
I remember being so excited to see this as a kid I stayed up all night thinking about it went to see it fell asleep through the whole thing at the time I was mad at myself cuz my mom said that would happen but in a weird way looking back the universe protected my brain
The rock CGI in this movie had even less effort put into it than The Rock's CGI in The Mummy Returns.
😂😂😂😂😂
They literally could have had a guy throw a paper mache rock from off screen and it would have looked better
The worst thing is that this was my start to the Avatar series. I watched this crap before the show and even then I thought it was the most boring thing I had ever seen as a kid. After watching the show though, I felt insulted that the movie was my introduction to Avatar. Dull, uninspired versions of these beloved characters going through lifeless areas was my beginning with the series. It was honsestly one of the worst mistakes I've ever made.
dont Read my name tho😑.
@Savetion what the fuck
think on the bright side, it may have made your viewing of the show way better because you only knew dogshit
@Savetion Ayo.....
Oh god that is such an unfortunate introduction. I feel bad for you by proxy, Castform. It's such a slap in the mouth. I'm so thankful I saw it when the pilot showed up on the Nicktoons Shorts block with Adventure Time back in 03-04. That was such a grand introduction.
*”Breaking News: local Jesus Impersonator rants about bad cartoon movie about other religious figure”*
“Everything is wrong!” Pretty much sums up this movie lol
The fact that it took a collective total of 6 earthbenders to lift up and slowly levitate a rock the size of a toddler still makes me cackle to this day
Meanwhile in the show, it takes 3 average earthbenders to launch a tank into the air.
And it takes a small group of them to beat up a battleship
@@igorkopacynski8906 You can simplify that further, you can depend on only 1 earthbender to not only lift a rock, but also throw it at someone.
@@imperialtrooper927 I'm not even an earthbender and I can throw a rock, this movie is actually a joke in disguise
This movie actually has to be a social experiment. In the show Toph (easily the strongest or second strongest earthbender) could literally hold up tons for minutes. Theres a part of the show where she has to stop a underground library from collapsing for at least 5 to 10 minutes. We're talking about what is probably upwards of 20 to 30 tons. The shows strongest water benders were capable of bending the blood inside the human body. The waterbenders in the movie can't manage to lift a glass of water. There is no way anyone involved watched the show for any amount of time. We're talking about going from some of the greatest animated television of all time to one of the worst movies ever made.
Let's take a first season of a show, with hours of plot and character development, and cram it into 90 mins. Genius on an unparalleled scale.
I hear Netflix is making live action series
Yes and let’s hire a director who doesn’t give two fucks about the source material and disregards everything the actual creators have to say
Actually, Macross: Do You Remember Love did that. They fit the entire Macross Super Dimensional Fortress season 1 into one movie, minus all the filler episodes.
Nearly 8.5 hours compressed into 1.5. Sad
@@scented_meat I'm already trembling at the idea
I remember going to get my glasses made (when I was a kid) a little after this came out. The owner lightheartedly complained about how he bought the disc for TLAB movie but his son (who was a little younger than me and in the store as well) would rather watch an old VHS recording from his family of a festival in China.
Reflecting on this today, I see that children would rather watch (admittedly lively) historical footage instead of this movie
3:32 i myself can see every drop of toilet water that hit Ang everytime he flushes the shit that flooded his ass with toilet water he takes a hunk of shit out
I was so hyped for this movie as a kid. I genuinely couldn't sleep the night before. Made my parents drive 30+ minutes to the cinema.
They never let me pick a movie for movie night again after that.
I can’t say I’d blame them.
Good parents
Based parents
You raised well
Bro I drew Aangs arrows on my legs and arms in anticipation for the movie and I was so disappointed. Kid me wasnt able to draw the comparisons between the show and the movie (beyond the obv nerfed bending) but I just remember leaving with a bad taste in my mouth. Same feeling as I have towards it now- that this movie was a let down to the show and fans.
My favorite oversight is the scene where Aang sees what happened to his people at the air temple. He stands there with his mouth open, a little drool slips out of the actor's mouth and he sucks it back in before they change scene. Somehow this slipped by everyone in production and made it to the final cut. Its incredible how little effort was given by everyone involved.
Wait when this happen 💀
Lmaooooo that poor actor 😂 Please don't make me look up the movie that does not exist for this scene and tell me where it happened exactly lol
fuck the way you described it was way too funny. i dont even want to confirm that for myself cause i'll die of second hand embarrassment
I didnt notice that. Sounds like air benders were canibals
Omg I saw that now - it’s around the 19 minute mark in the movie lmaoo
Charlie couldn't understand the brilliance of making ATLA without any jokes or fighting...
Smalien is a visionary! Reducing a fun 6 hour experience of Season one into 100 minutes of boring plot.
(10:27) M. Knnnnnigt Shamwow always gets credit for being the “TWIST” guy…but, his only truly surprising twist was in 6th Sense…and, I seem to be the only one who was actually got by the gotcha. Everyone I’ve heard discuss it, said they saw it coming. All of the rest of the “twists” just weren’t.
Despite being the worst movies ever made can't help to feel bad for the actors and production crew too
Well, Dev Patel stared in really good movies now. Hotel Mumbai, Chappie and my personal favorite, The Green Knight.
@@hihowrya370 Dev Patel was the only one taking the movie seriously
His acting was good
the script was trash
screams in eragon
At least they were all well paid! 💰
its definitely not their fault, they're just paid to do whats instructed
The only good thing about this 'movie' is to quote IHE, "at the very least it makes me want to see the original show to see how much better it was"
These sets are absolutely incredible! It's insane how far TheTestoyer has come!
9:51 how are we not talking about Charlies unintentionally perfect futurama Nixon "arrrrrooooooooo" sound xD
My school trying to talk about something important in an assembly:
Me: 9:28
I love this scene with the rock.
4 or 5 people stomping and doing a choreography to move a pebble.
I deadass started laughing my ass off in the cinema in this scene, and I wasn't the only one.
You're wrong charlie, I clearly remember how horrible this movie is.
My brother multiple times wanted to leave the cinema, but during it all kept hoping it would redeem itself, but it didn't.
Just reached that scene in the video above.
I love how stupid this movie is.
5 people to move that small stone, meanwhile in the show Toph can literally create earthquakes and Buumi can basically build a fortress just by stomping once
And they're prisoner surrounded with their weapon, EARTH! Since when Fire nation is this dumb and incompetent?
Also have you apologize to your brother?
9:30 The first time I saw it I laughed my ass off. To this day whenever I see it I still laugh my ass off. It's just so unexpected 🤣👍
I was 13 years old when this came out, I forced my parents to take me to go see it on opening week. I walked out with probably one of the biggest disappointments of my childhood up to that point.
@@DG-nk7jo Please watch Avatar the Last Airbender. Korra was alright but Avatar is a masterpiece and I watched it as an adult
I think it’s sad as hell that even as children, we knew how absolute hot garbage it was.
Same here, was 13 years old and so full of hope it'd do my favorite childhood show justice. If only I knew my childhood would be ruined that day and leave me scarred since.
I begged my parents to let me go see this film on my own when it first came out because I was obsessed with Avatar, was a huge let down
@@BAYBAY841 Meh you know? Growing up watching Avatar with my mom, we LOVED IT. But when Korra came out I don't think we watched anymore after its first season. I wasn't a huge fan
What I loved about the show was the animation style. It brought a western extravagance to Japanese frugality in animation and as a result some scenes framed from the perspective of a bender were highly immersible. Kataras fight with grandmaster pakku felt so fluid, where one move flowed into the next like water. In tophs fight with the arena earthbenders, you could feel the concussive weight of every blow and in both fights you felt a connection between the characters movements and the element they were bending. In the movie, they would just do stupid kicks, hand waves and punches while elements vaguely moved in the air.
I'm not one of those dorks who thinks avatar is a masterpiece, but it's truly an exceptional series given the network it was on and compared to other animated shows from the time targeted at the same demographic. My parents loved it. They were as stoked to watch it as I was every weekend. When we moved to India I had to start torrenting episodes since the screeding rights hadn't been secured for nickelodeon India and they were still showing the first season. It's a show that had something for everyone and its really something actually enjoying a piece of media with your family across generations. It will for these reasons always hold a special place in my heart. Shamilian beware.
There is no easter bunny. There is no tooth fairy. And there is no avatar the last airbender movie
Apparently the actor for Aang wasn’t even picked for his acting ability. He just sent a recording of himself bald doing martial arts.
Really?! That’s funny, but I would expect this movie to be that desperate.
Shocking (sarcastically typed)
sad, considering how bad the martial arts in this movie is. Doesn't look to me as if they even hired proper martial artists to choreograph the fights.
If you watch the behind the scenes you can see that the kid is actually a lot like Aang. He's a carefree joker, it was shamylans direction that sucked the soul out of his performance.
@@mynameisreza1 Shamalam sucking the life out of actors? What? nooooo
I love that scene where the Earthbenders, all lined up, all do like a four second set to combine their powers, to fling a 10 pound rock a little larger than my hand. In this world if I picked up that rock and hit someone else with it, it would kind of make me more powerful than an Earthbender.
*You mean 6 earthbenders😆
@@guitarsparta he never stated the no of earthbenders so idk what the asterisk is for
It was the saddest thing ever seeing that piss poor earth bending. I swear I could throw rocks at them all and do more damage as a non bender For how long it takes to throw a small pebble
What's funny is they didn't even summon that rock, it was that one earthbender off to the side. The other guys were just dancing for the fun of it I guess
@@derek9511 my guess was that the 6 earth benders were supposed to do some crazy shit but the vfx team ran out of budget to do so
Shamalamadingdong needs to flip burgers for the rest of his shamafull life.
History is coming full circle with this video being put in the algorithm again
"As yOu KnOw, I CoNdUcTeD a RaId oN thE GrEaT LiBrarY..."
'As you know' is one of the laziest writing crutches that shows that the next piece of dialogue is only for the audience. It serves no purpose in delivering new information to the characters to advance the movie, because the characters already know the information.
And it's still heavily abused by writers in film and television to this day.
The Last Airbender movie hamfists the 'as you know' so poorly that I lost the little respect I had left for M. Night - even considering Split was a decent movie, it's still tainted for me due to the aforementioned.
"As you Know, I conducted a raid on the great library..."
'As you know' is onE of The lAzIesT wRiTiNg crUtcHes tHaT shOwS ThAt tHe NeXt PiEce of diAiOgE is onLY FOr thE AuDiEnCe. It sErvEs nO pUrpOse in DelIvEriNg nEw iNfoRmAtion to The cHarAcTers tO adVanCe thE MovIe, BeCauSe ThE ChArActErs aLreAdy knOw thE infoRmaTioN.
AnD it'S sTilL hEaVily aBuseD by wRitErs iN FiLm AnD TelEviSioN tO ThiS DaY.
THe Last Airbender moViE HaMfisTs tHe 'as you know' sO pOorLy tHaT I lOsT The liTtLe reSpecT I hAd LefT fOr M. Night Shyamalan - EveN coNsiDerIng Split WaS A dEcEnt MoVie, iT's sTilL tAinTeD For mE dUe tO ThE afOreMenTioNeD.
It was a ghostwriter who wrote this, not M Night Shyamalan
Split may have been competent in how it was made but I hate it for how it's yet another movie where the villain is mentally ill and they're evil because of their mental illness. It's eye-roll inducing.
@@charlieseen Is that strange to you? I can’t tell if your criticism is because you don’t believe that basis or if it’s because it’s overused in storytelling.
split was ass from the beginning, the media needs to stop villainizing people with mental illness
They heavily insulted irohs character. He was supposed to be the uplifting man with wisdom for anybody. Here he just lets Zuko do what he wants with no good lessons
It's almost like there were going to be two more movies that would give him the chance to...
@@Wunkydoo holy shit are you actually defending this motherfucking movie????
@@lukeatmey3757 Holy shit are you actually claiming that you hate this motherfucking movie because you were told to?!?!?!?!?
@@Wunkydoo you know, I can understand your point. Since they expected to have multiple movies after this one, it would be reasonable to assume they meant to build on the character established in previous movies.
But that’s the thing: this movie doesn’t give us Iroh’s character at all. There is nothing to build upon even if there were more movies. It would be like attempting to make a series of Justice League movies, and having a section of the sequels towards demonstrating Batman as the greatest detective, while him not demonstrating anything that earns that title in the previous movie(s).
@Beo Iroh isn't really in this movie that much, so it hasn't necessarily set him up in a way that was impossible to expand on in the other two movies.
6:00 why is this on the thumbnail of every unofficial stream highlight
Lol thats so true
That scene with the earthbenders made me howl with laughter