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Fun fact: The girl who played Katara, her father was one of the producers. Sokka was casted ethically well, but the white producer had the condition that his daughter HAD to be casted as Katara. So they recasted Sokka to FIT as the girl’s brother. Oh yeah, and Bryce and Mike, the creators, wanted to make an ANIMATED MOVIE about the Avatar comic book “The Search,” which was about finding Zuko’s mother. Nickelodeon said no to the animated movie and insisted on live action. It was a doomed movie since it was greenlit. An absolute travesty.’
I never knew about the idea to originally make an animated movie! I haven't had a chance to read the comic book, but from what I've seen of it, it would've been really cool to see as a movie
You know usually when you watch things as a kid, you dont realize how bad it is until you eventually rewatch as an adult (like the Green Lantern movie). I thought this movie was crap even when I watched it as 9 or 10 year old🤦♂️😂
It's probably because we didn't much care about storylines, acting, etc. when we were a kid... For this movie, I used to wait only for the fight scene, the rest was so boring..
For anyone who’s worried about the Netflix adaptation of ATLA, just remember that it literally can’t be any worse than this. If this movie did anything, it serves as an example of what not to do.
The only good thing to come out of this movie is the actress who played Yue (Seychelle Gabriel) went on to play the voice of Asami Sato in The Legend of Korra.
Personally I did like the design of his blue arrows , even tho they weren’t blue in the movie until he goes in the avatar state . I wouldn’t mind if they did something in the Netflix show , but it wouldn’t really fit as their going for a vibe more accurate to the OG show while the movie was a bit more serious
Noah Ringer had previous martial arts training, that's why his moves look so natural. In fact, the reason why they picked Noah as Aang is because they saw footage of him fighting, nobody bothered to ask if he had acting training too.
I mean, his natural way of being when he wasn't "in-character" matched real Aang's character a lot more. Even the more experienced actors couldn't find a way to make it work.
@Purple Citrine I heard something tragic about that, apparently Jackson Rathbone wanted the role because he wanted to avoid typecasting by playing a different character from his usual serious and stone-faced ones, what better role for that than Sokka? So I'm laying the blame of this entirely on Shyamalan's directing
They said "Earth bending is the best in the show" minutes before the scene where like 10 earth benders make a bunch of moves and gestures to move one puny rock! Lol.
Producers sitting down to see the awesome smash hit their 150million dollars has produced; synchronized yelling and stomping while a tiny rock is moving across the screen. GO FX TEAM!!!
The problem with this movie is that Shyamalan didn't just want to make it, he wanted to "improve" it. He thought the show's story was great but the humor and silliness only appealed to children, so he assumed removing it and making the story serious and grounded would make adults like it more.
You could do a serious grounded avatar and still have it be good. This movie failed on every front of being an adaption and being an adaption that's reimagined..
They changed the mechanics of fire bending in this movie. In the movie, fire benders could only manipulate the fire and not produce it from within. Only Iroh and Zuko had the ability to produce fire from their Chi and as stated by Ozai, anyone during Sozins comet. The writers made fire benders weak af but they still managed to rule most of the Earth.
Honnestly i really believe every fan of the show should really watch this movie at least ONCE because it really makes you realize how good the show is lol
I loved how in the movie they fled the village, arrived at their next destination after flying there off screen and then she was like "oh shit I didn't ask your name"
Not gonna lie…Yue was the only one who was casted to look like her character and her acting was good, actually good…surrounded by dry acting. Also her death was probably the one thing I prefer in this film than the show. Also…I love Aang’s tattoo design.
Those Earthbenders tho, All that energy to move that one tiny rock, it would have been better to just throwing a rock by hand and it would have proven to be more effective than the actual earthbenders themselves!
That's one of the biggest misconceptions. The single guy before the group does that is the guy throwing the rock, the group of dancing guys are making the rock wall come up to block the fire blast
I feel like the worst thing from that scene wasn't the fact that the choreography and the earth bending is bad. It's the fact that they're surrounded by the land, you know, the element that they're good at? How did they never even once tried to rebel? IIRC, in the show, at least they were in a ship, surrounded by water.
12:45 The funniest scene in this whole movie was the dance troop bending one slow moving rock I can watch that over and over again. It's like the animators played a prank or something
The CGI in the movie isn't actually that bad. People equate RENDERING with COMPOSITION and ANIMATION and that's just not the case. The ANIMATION of something is how it MOVES. RENDERING is how it's MADE. The RENDER of the bending is quite nice. The COMPOSITION is trash. That's when it all comes together-lighting shadows etc. When the Firebenders attack the Earthbenders, there should be a light against the rock; fire is a light source. There's nothing there which causes audiences to go "Wait what? that's bad CGI." The wind effects aren't half bad, but the water, earth, and fire effects are...not great. Not to mention, the actual MOVEMENTS the actors all do for the bending is not at all like how real martial arts works. In the show, the animators studied real martial artists for the different bending styles. Airbending is Baguazhang aka Bagua or "circle walking”. Waterbending is Tai chi. Earthbending is Southern Praying Mantis style for Toph specifically since she does a lot of close range attacks, and overall it is Shaolin kung fu. And Firebending is Northern Shaolin style which like Firebending itself is VERY aggressive. There was a lot of time and dedication to this and it pays off extremely well. Creating fight scenes in any medium is hard enough, in animation it's a DAUNTING task because you need to make it look grounded. For all their faults with the writing, Bryke (Bryce and Michael) they did a really great job with the world building.
Reminds me of how Netflix made a live action remake of Winx Club... but instead of having the fun energy of the original show, they turned it into a Riverdale clone. I loved Winx Club as a kid and what they did with that live action remake was so bad lmao
The fan film called "Agni Kai" had much better fire bending, I highly recommend it. It's a small taste of what we'll get in the live-action series, with a smaller budget of course
Apparently this film is one of the main reasons M. Night Shamalan hasn't done many big budget films recently. But he did say recently he could do a comic book film like Marvel or DC film eventually but he hopes it ain't a repeat of his Last Airbender film. Hopefully the Netflix adaptation of Last Airbender they're doing is much better than this film
Man I was so high and excited for this movie in the theaters and when they called him UUNG that killed my high lol Edit: also am I the only one who thought the actor playing Iroh would have been better as Ozai? Lmfao
my reaction was " WTH is an uung?!!" I left that movie theater livid!! I told people as I walked out it was terrible! I had NO SHAME!! 😂😂 And I'm not that type of person but I was that day, and I was still in my teens!! bruh savagery had no chill!!
I stopped watching this movie about twenty-thirty minutes and never put it back on to finish it. I just ... Couldn't. Lmao. It was painful and I have NO idea why someone didn't step in to to either fix or shut down this disaster before it was released. Watching other people's reactions to first seeing this movie has been hilarious over the years though.
I see what Greg’s talking about at the beginning. As bad as it is as a film & an adaptation, it does admittedly feel kinda cool to see some of these things in live-action
It's unbelievable that M Night Shyamalan calls himself a huge fan of the show and got so so many things wrong. I highly recommend everyone to watch the Nostalgia Critics The last airbender review. It really highlights things wrong with this movie plus it's hilarious.
No offense to Noah Ringer (Aang's actor) but I find it odd how they chose a martial artist (and a rather good one at that) and taught him to act, rather than finding an actor they could teach martial arts to.
As much as I hate the movie, I love what it's done for me. I make it a mandatory rewatch every time I rewatch the series and it just makes me love the series more.
Ah yes, how convinient that our main trio is completely white while everyone else around them is asian/poc. Never understood why they decided to literally whitewash Katara and Sokka. Also, my god it's so annoying listening to them pronounce majority of the names wrong and on top of that make the bending look slow and awful. At least Appa is kinda cute?
I don't really like when they make white characters Asian or poc and vis versa. Apparently the girl in this is the daughter of the producer and the producer demanded his daughter to be in it. So they made her brother also white. So yes pretty bad casting no offense to the actors the producer should have known better.
@@stynershiner1854 I kinda get it, but it's a bit odd to change the names to honour the asian pronounciation and then whitewash Aang, an asian character. If they had done better casting and Shyamalan explained his reasoning, it would've been more understandable. But instead they made the trio white. Hopefully the new live action show does a better job overall, but I don't have my hopes up
@@stynershiner1854 only problem I have with that is what's the point in making the names more "authentically asian" if you then butcher the casting? but regardles of the name and casting, the show in inspired by a mix-match of asian cultures but it's not actually set in asia. so you don't even necessarily have to pronounce name or cast everyone in an authentic way, following the original format makes more sense than trying to twist everything a different way.
I bet you've never bitched about how culturally white figures like Heimdall & Valkyrie (from actual Norse mythology and not some cartoon) are played by blacks in the MCU. Gotta keep up the anti-white hate, though...
Fun fact about the girl that played Yue in this, the one you mentioned was one of the only good actors. She would go on to voice Asami in Legend of Korra.
The funniest/saddest part of this movie's existence is that the original series has a dedicated recap episode that covers the same material, plus the 2 other books, and still did a better job recapping in a few minutes than this did in over an hour.
"He was bending tiny stones at us from behind a tree." For a second, I thought they switched movies to Men in tights lol. Would've been a much better watch too:)))
I know this is out of topic but you guys should really react to "Everything, Everywhere, All at once" once it hits digital if u guys haven't seen it yet. It is srsly a good film and a lot of people are talking about it.
I love how badly they fucked up the earthbender prison sequence, by moving the setting off of the metal ship (which was the entire point), and then having Katara remind the earthbenders that they're surrounded by earth.
I don’t know if you two ever found out, but there is a book you can find at Barnes & Noble called The Search. It answers the question that Zuko asked “where is my mother?” The book is ssoooo good because it’s like a giant comic and all the characters are drawn and speak just like they did in the show. They also have a book on how Republic City came to be.
I'm only ten minutes in and I can confirm the RUclips Closed Captioning Makes this a lot more fun. Agni Kai turned into I'd be Gay and This is a Warship turned into This is Abortion.
I'm pretty sure m night shyamalan even said he watched the whole series with his kids and they were the ones that introduced it to him or something I seen once and Buddy clearly wasn't paying attention enough ☠️
I just recently watched The Sixth Sense, which is undoubtedly Shyamalan's best work; it nails every element that makes a great movie in the right ways and to see his later works like The Last Airbender is not only baffling but also kinda heartbreaking as well. 💔
I remember walking out of the theater having enjoyed the movie well enough. That was prior to having watched the series. I can no longer watch this movie. That said I can’t really blame M. Night for the result. It seems clear the studio wanted to condense each season into a single movie. I fail to see how any director could have completed that task without a disjointed and emotionally anemic result. The beauty of the show is the time spent building those character relationships to achieve emotional payoff.
You guys are funny as hell leaving that part of the review in where you messed with the AC 🤣 Greg even directs Olivia where to start again, but it never cut 😂😂😂 Made me feel like I was really watching one of the Patreon watch along episodes 👍
I’ll try to say one positive to freshen things up, the mask for the blue spirit looks cool. The king hair is a neat addition. That’s about all I can think of
I remember seeing this in cinema when it came out. There were like 5 other people than me and my cousin there. I'll never get that waste of a time back lmao
Thanks for doing this reaction video guys. You just kicked my long-dormant Last Airbender PTSD back into high gear. Lol It's like a trip down memory pain. 🤣
So I have this movie on dvd. I perfectly understand why ppl ABSOLUTELY HATE this movie. But I kinda like it. I think it’s bc of the nostalgia cuz I used to watch this ALL THE TIME as a kid. I’d rate it like a 6.5/10.
You know.. If I have no knowledge of the source material (or maybe the source material doesn't exist) and categorized it as some obscure lower-end movie I stumble upon then maybe I would give it that (then again, I would give Pirates of the Caribbean 5/4? -honestly they blend in for me- a 6-ish up too and I don't think PoC is as bad -or maybe I'm just biased). But alas, tis only a wish.
@@sebastianpaz1138 I DO know how bad the movie is. It rushes literally everything and they miss pronounce most of the names. That’s not even all the problems with this movie. But because of the nostalgia I’d still watch this movie if I was bored or something.
Well you can redeem yourself from this movie by doing a reaction to Everything Everywhere All At Once! It is now out on digital and I'm absolutely waiting in anticipation to watch you react to this cinematic masterpiece! 👀
Did you notice that the fire benders can not generate their own fire, they have to have a physical source of flame near them to be able to firebend, this would make them the worst of all the elements because at least water is usually quite common everywhere, then earth and air is always around. If you want to see a funny video watch Nostalgia Critic rip this movie a new element.
I finally realized what this is.... Somebody didn't have the time to watch the whole show and asked if their was a condensed version, they were then shown The Ember Island Players version and the movie was based off of that.
Set pieces and effects were decent, the execuation and directing was terrible. This movie proved to me that a live action Avatar COULD indeed work, as the movments were nice and the environment was great, but it was just awfully scripted and paced. Also, the fight scenes made little sense in some parts. The choreography in the cartoon is based on real life, so it could work very well in live action, however this movie missed the mark by a mile.
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Avatar aint bad like u imagine
You guys should check out the last Airbender pitch meeting
You should react to Face/Off, that's a funny movie 👍
i like this. Bring the girls back like how it was around 30k ryan.
How about some cheese rewind those years back and enjoy cheesy retro movies and horrors, starting with The Blob.
As someone somewhere else pointed out, the best thing about this movie is that they didn't have a chance to ruin Toph.
Or avatar Kiyoshi and Roku
And suki
And bumi
And Mai and Ty Lee
And the boulder
Fun fact: The girl who played Katara, her father was one of the producers. Sokka was casted ethically well, but the white producer had the condition that his daughter HAD to be casted as Katara. So they recasted Sokka to FIT as the girl’s brother. Oh yeah, and Bryce and Mike, the creators, wanted to make an ANIMATED MOVIE about the Avatar comic book “The Search,” which was about finding Zuko’s mother. Nickelodeon said no to the animated movie and insisted on live action. It was a doomed movie since it was greenlit. An absolute travesty.’
There’s nothing fun about that fact!
I never knew about the idea to originally make an animated movie! I haven't had a chance to read the comic book, but from what I've seen of it, it would've been really cool to see as a movie
This is not fun to read
Fun fact: Jaiden Smith is a son of Will Smith and Maya Hawke is Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman’s daughter
Bro I love The Search! Would’ve been sick to that comic run animated
You know, I'm a little surprised they didn't say anything about how it took like 10 earth benders to move 1 rock.
That’s actually very true haha. I was more like “ah that effect doesn’t look too bad”
I felt they were doing a dance routine the entire time Just to move one rock LOL
@@Jas-ii3fp lol 😆 😂 🤣
I mean the earth Benders were standing on earth the whole time lol 😅
To me that's the most pitiful part of the whole movie
You know usually when you watch things as a kid, you dont realize how bad it is until you eventually rewatch as an adult (like the Green Lantern movie). I thought this movie was crap even when I watched it as 9 or 10 year old🤦♂️😂
Yes I remember as a little kid anything with any action was amazing to me but this was the first time I left a movie and thought “wow that sucked”
It's probably because we didn't much care about storylines, acting, etc. when we were a kid... For this movie, I used to wait only for the fight scene, the rest was so boring..
My 8 year old daughter watched this and she spent most of the movie yelling at the screen for how terrible it is. Her rage was something to behold 🤣
I kept falling asleep trying to watch this movie. My mom compared it to her and Mary Poppins
Greg slowly sinking into his chair of pure boredom throughout the movie was the MOST entertaining thing😂
For anyone who’s worried about the Netflix adaptation of ATLA, just remember that it literally can’t be any worse than this. If this movie did anything, it serves as an example of what not to do.
Oh it can Always be worse
It’s Netflix, and more importantly it’s well-known in 2022. This movie could go even further south than ATLA the movie.
"it literally can't be any worse than this."
NETFLIX: Is that a challenge?
The creators of avatar left the Netflix show because of creative differences… so I think that says a lot
The original writers literally left… and it’s been delayed year after year. It’s going to be terrible again 100%
The only good thing to come out of this movie is the actress who played Yue (Seychelle Gabriel) went on to play the voice of Asami Sato in The Legend of Korra.
Personally I did like the design of his blue arrows , even tho they weren’t blue in the movie until he goes in the avatar state . I wouldn’t mind if they did something in the Netflix show , but it wouldn’t really fit as their going for a vibe more accurate to the OG show while the movie was a bit more serious
@@jacobtarter2237they had a lil homage to it in the trailer!
But this implies Korra was good. Which it's not.
@@Tigerlilygurl1 eh, to each their own.
@@cptbabyface9804 Fair.
Noah Ringer had previous martial arts training, that's why his moves look so natural. In fact, the reason why they picked Noah as Aang is because they saw footage of him fighting, nobody bothered to ask if he had acting training too.
Wasn't the footage they saw just Noah in his basement showing off those martial arts skills while cosplaying as Aang?
I mean, his natural way of being when he wasn't "in-character" matched real Aang's character a lot more. Even the more experienced actors couldn't find a way to make it work.
Also behind the scene he was being goofy and like aang but on set they changed it up so bad
@Purple Citrine I heard something tragic about that, apparently Jackson Rathbone wanted the role because he wanted to avoid typecasting by playing a different character from his usual serious and stone-faced ones, what better role for that than Sokka? So I'm laying the blame of this entirely on Shyamalan's directing
I mean, even an amazing actor can't make this script work. As evidenced by all the amazing actors who get the most stilted lines.
This movie is a crime against humanity!!!
I’d watch this 10000 times over then watch Dragon Ball evolution
At least criminals have standards unlike this movie lmao
My name is oNg
@@accjust.j I went to the theater as a kid I was 13 years old so happy to see this live action…soon as I heard ong…I said yea this ain’t for me💀
@@rjds3204 lmaooo
I loved how almost every reactors had the same thought when Aang is meditating and Katara interrupt him "CaN yOu HeaR Me?"
"He's MEDITATING!!!"
I'll never forget Sohka the veggies and straight talk fellow, thin E- roh, Ong the Auvatar, and nightmare fuel Appa
And Zuko Patel
Since "Avatar" is an Indian concept. The pronunciation of the word is, to be fair, more like "Uh-vuh-taar" in Hindu mythology.
@@stynershiner1854 so what you're saying is they got it wrong both ways. Good to know 👍
They said "Earth bending is the best in the show" minutes before the scene where like 10 earth benders make a bunch of moves and gestures to move one puny rock! Lol.
Producers sitting down to see the awesome smash hit their 150million dollars has produced; synchronized yelling and stomping while a tiny rock is moving across the screen. GO FX TEAM!!!
“I’ve loved spending these weeks with you So-ka. WEEKS?!?!” I literally did a spit take here 💀💀💀
I really like how we can literally see the life leaving your body as the film progresses.
The problem with this movie is that Shyamalan didn't just want to make it, he wanted to "improve" it.
He thought the show's story was great but the humor and silliness only appealed to children, so he assumed removing it and making the story serious and grounded would make adults like it more.
In the end, he made it bland and boring. Good work, Shyamalan.
And for some reason he thought removing virtually all character development would be an improvement as well.
You could do a serious grounded avatar and still have it be good. This movie failed on every front of being an adaption and being an adaption that's reimagined..
First Dragon Ball Evolution, now The Last Airbender?! I’m glad to see that they’re finally reacting to Best Picture winners!
By the Razzies no less😆
They changed the mechanics of fire bending in this movie.
In the movie, fire benders could only manipulate the fire and not produce it from within. Only Iroh and Zuko had the ability to produce fire from their Chi and as stated by Ozai, anyone during Sozins comet.
The writers made fire benders weak af but they still managed to rule most of the Earth.
Honnestly i really believe every fan of the show should really watch this movie at least ONCE because it really makes you realize how good the show is lol
I loved how in the movie they fled the village, arrived at their next destination after flying there off screen and then she was like "oh shit I didn't ask your name"
Not gonna lie…Yue was the only one who was casted to look like her character and her acting was good, actually good…surrounded by dry acting. Also her death was probably the one thing I prefer in this film than the show. Also…I love Aang’s tattoo design.
I like how the actress for Yue was like “I can’t let that movie be my imprint on the franchise” so she came back to be an excellent Asami
Ong was ok. Lmfao 😂😂😂
@biibiib buubuub the actress for yue isnt white, but she's still not the right race lol
I mean, you can't blame the actors when they're reciting this script. Even the actors who are amazing in their other movies are so stilted here.
Those Earthbenders tho, All that energy to move that one tiny rock, it would have been better to just throwing a rock by hand and it would have proven to be more effective than the actual earthbenders themselves!
That's one of the biggest misconceptions. The single guy before the group does that is the guy throwing the rock, the group of dancing guys are making the rock wall come up to block the fire blast
@@BlarghMeow regardless, they did a bad job of making that clear. a rotten cherry on top of an already shtty cake.
I feel like the worst thing from that scene wasn't the fact that the choreography and the earth bending is bad. It's the fact that they're surrounded by the land, you know, the element that they're good at? How did they never even once tried to rebel? IIRC, in the show, at least they were in a ship, surrounded by water.
12:45 The funniest scene in this whole movie was the dance troop bending one slow moving rock
I can watch that over and over again. It's like the animators played a prank or something
It’s funny, there’s more budget on this movie than there was on IRON MAN, IRON MAN.
The CGI in the movie isn't actually that bad. People equate RENDERING with COMPOSITION and ANIMATION and that's just not the case. The ANIMATION of something is how it MOVES. RENDERING is how it's MADE. The RENDER of the bending is quite nice. The COMPOSITION is trash. That's when it all comes together-lighting shadows etc. When the Firebenders attack the Earthbenders, there should be a light against the rock; fire is a light source. There's nothing there which causes audiences to go "Wait what? that's bad CGI." The wind effects aren't half bad, but the water, earth, and fire effects are...not great.
Not to mention, the actual MOVEMENTS the actors all do for the bending is not at all like how real martial arts works. In the show, the animators studied real martial artists for the different bending styles. Airbending is Baguazhang aka Bagua or "circle walking”. Waterbending is Tai chi. Earthbending is Southern Praying Mantis style for Toph specifically since she does a lot of close range attacks, and overall it is Shaolin kung fu. And Firebending is Northern Shaolin style which like Firebending itself is VERY aggressive. There was a lot of time and dedication to this and it pays off extremely well. Creating fight scenes in any medium is hard enough, in animation it's a DAUNTING task because you need to make it look grounded. For all their faults with the writing, Bryke (Bryce and Michael) they did a really great job with the world building.
edit-I mean Bryan and Michael not bryce and michael autocorrect sucks but i'm not losing my heart lol
@@carlmccartney1025 not when you study the art form of animation it isn't
Still a trash movie lol 😅
The movie isn't as bad as everybody says - it's much worse.
This film was the embodiment of everything to NOT do in a live action adaptation of an animated film or show. Another good example…death note
Dragon ball evolution
@@Godzilla-tu2cd another good example!
@@Rubix9595RG thank you.
they always screw up the adaptations. tbh they should have ACTUAL FANS write the films
Reminds me of how Netflix made a live action remake of Winx Club... but instead of having the fun energy of the original show, they turned it into a Riverdale clone. I loved Winx Club as a kid and what they did with that live action remake was so bad lmao
Why would you imprison Earth Benders in an area where they are surrounded by Earth? It makes no sense! It's just frustrating!
Yue was the best part of this movie, and I think was actually the voice actor of Asami in Korra
I’ve always appreciated Korra, but this made me appreciate it even more
@user-ri1pe4cr8x You have not watched every tv show in the world to know Korra is “garbage”
This movie came from the Dark Timeline, where Mobius made 2 Billion dollars and won Best Picture by MORBING.
And the Oscar goes too.....u guessed it, it's morbin time
I would much prefer a Mobius movie than Morbius.
@@rockerdude725973 same
I love this comment I once heard. “The Ember Island Players were more faithful to the source material” also they were more entertaining to watch.
The fan film called "Agni Kai" had much better fire bending, I highly recommend it. It's a small taste of what we'll get in the live-action series, with a smaller budget of course
Him: That must be Katara
Her: HaWhite girl
My same reaction😂
Apparently this film is one of the main reasons M. Night Shamalan hasn't done many big budget films recently. But he did say recently he could do a comic book film like Marvel or DC film eventually but he hopes it ain't a repeat of his Last Airbender film. Hopefully the Netflix adaptation of Last Airbender they're doing is much better than this film
Oh god, please don’t let him make a superhero movie.
@@chaotic7cam he already has made superhero movies. pretty good ones in fact
@@atrikillershark Unbreakable and Split. The last one was garbage
@@tylongkicks8821 glass did leave a lot to be desired. it did achieve what it needed to though just wished the execution was better.
The best thing about this movie is James Newton Howard’s underrated score. It’s a shame this movie did it no justice.
The dragon is supposed to be Roku. M. Night Shyamalan felt a dragon spirit would be more appealing to the audience than just an old man.
Man I was so high and excited for this movie in the theaters and when they called him UUNG that killed my high lol
Edit: also am I the only one who thought the actor playing Iroh would have been better as Ozai? Lmfao
Man!!!! And So-Ka!!! Like for real man!
@@Robj007 I remember looking at my 3 friends and asking if he just called himself UUNG and they said yep. My high was killed and I was so pissed
my reaction was " WTH is an uung?!!" I left that movie theater livid!! I told people as I walked out it was terrible! I had NO SHAME!! 😂😂 And I'm not that type of person but I was that day, and I was still in my teens!! bruh savagery had no chill!!
I stopped watching this movie about twenty-thirty minutes and never put it back on to finish it. I just ... Couldn't. Lmao. It was painful and I have NO idea why someone didn't step in to to either fix or shut down this disaster before it was released. Watching other people's reactions to first seeing this movie has been hilarious over the years though.
“My name is uNg” “I am the Avatr” “Zuka”
Jesus they even got the pronunciations wrong
You can see the pure PAIN in his eyes INCREASE as the movie goes on 🤣🤣
*"I'm a little worried..."*
Prophetic words.
I see what Greg’s talking about at the beginning. As bad as it is as a film & an adaptation, it does admittedly feel kinda cool to see some of these things in live-action
The play was awful, but the effects were decent.
I’m glad they didn’t get a chance to ruin Toph and Azula.
The Netflix series really took a look at the movie and said "the exposition is great, we'll keep that"
The only thing I like about this move is the look of aangs tattoos and the sound track when aang is creating the wave
Saying that the actor for Yue is the best of them is hilarious just bc she ends up voicing Asami in Legend of Korra
It's unbelievable that M Night Shyamalan calls himself a huge fan of the show and got so so many things wrong. I highly recommend everyone to watch the Nostalgia Critics The last airbender review. It really highlights things wrong with this movie plus it's hilarious.
HelloFutureMe also did a really good one, not as quite as funny tho
He probably just watch it with “how can I bank this” in mind.
No offense to Noah Ringer (Aang's actor) but I find it odd how they chose a martial artist (and a rather good one at that) and taught him to act, rather than finding an actor they could teach martial arts to.
As much as I hate the movie, I love what it's done for me. I make it a mandatory rewatch every time I rewatch the series and it just makes me love the series more.
Nice. I watched it first with my brother when he was very young. Then we binged the series. It took a bad movie to make me love this show more lol.
“My name is oong, and I’m the ovatar”
Me: "No ur not"
I ran aAwayy bhut Naw I'm vak
Ah yes, how convinient that our main trio is completely white while everyone else around them is asian/poc. Never understood why they decided to literally whitewash Katara and Sokka. Also, my god it's so annoying listening to them pronounce majority of the names wrong and on top of that make the bending look slow and awful. At least Appa is kinda cute?
I don't really like when they make white characters Asian or poc and vis versa. Apparently the girl in this is the daughter of the producer and the producer demanded his daughter to be in it. So they made her brother also white. So yes pretty bad casting no offense to the actors the producer should have known better.
The names are pronounced right if you consider that the story takes place in Asia. The names in the show were Americanized.
@@stynershiner1854 I kinda get it, but it's a bit odd to change the names to honour the asian pronounciation and then whitewash Aang, an asian character. If they had done better casting and Shyamalan explained his reasoning, it would've been more understandable. But instead they made the trio white. Hopefully the new live action show does a better job overall, but I don't have my hopes up
@@stynershiner1854 only problem I have with that is what's the point in making the names more "authentically asian" if you then butcher the casting? but regardles of the name and casting, the show in inspired by a mix-match of asian cultures but it's not actually set in asia. so you don't even necessarily have to pronounce name or cast everyone in an authentic way, following the original format makes more sense than trying to twist everything a different way.
I bet you've never bitched about how culturally white figures like Heimdall & Valkyrie (from actual Norse mythology and not some cartoon) are played by blacks in the MCU. Gotta keep up the anti-white hate, though...
Fun fact about the girl that played Yue in this, the one you mentioned was one of the only good actors. She would go on to voice Asami in Legend of Korra.
"what is happening?"
Perfect way to drum up this movie
Who’s watching this after watching the new Netflix series?? I am! Netflix did a great job compared to this movie!
The funniest/saddest part of this movie's existence is that the original series has a dedicated recap episode that covers the same material, plus the 2 other books, and still did a better job recapping in a few minutes than this did in over an hour.
"He was bending tiny stones at us from behind a tree." For a second, I thought they switched movies to Men in tights lol. Would've been a much better watch too:)))
I remember taking my brother to see this movie in theaters because we watched/loved the series and wishing to turn back time! 😢
I know this is out of topic but you guys should really react to "Everything, Everywhere, All at once" once it hits digital if u guys haven't seen it yet. It is srsly a good film and a lot of people are talking about it.
just imagine being so exited about this when it came out and than going to the theaters and being royally pissed off.
Fun fact: The actress that played Yue does the voice of Asami in LOK!
That woman seems to be cursed.
@@Serryy how? Asami ended up being a much better character that Yue ever was
@@blueberrydenim4807 Because LoK and the whole love triangle story was so messed up.
@@Serryy I’ve seen the love triangle angle done much worse & they move on from that relatively quick in the series anyway
@@blueberrydenim4807 If I remember correctly they give Korra amnesia and revive the triangle in the worst possible way in season 2.
Hahahaha "Where the f#&* is my big tadpole?!"
The actual crime is that I watched this awful movie before the series because somebody told me it would be a good introduction
Olivia confiding in the cat is the kind of therapy required after seeing this movie 😂😂
i just notice that sokka is the guy with multiple personality disorder from criminal minds.
Jackson Rathbone, as Jasper Hale from Twilight.
I love how badly they fucked up the earthbender prison sequence, by moving the setting off of the metal ship (which was the entire point), and then having Katara remind the earthbenders that they're surrounded by earth.
I like how katara didn’t know aangs name after calling him aang 😂😂😂
The one positive thing I can say about this movie is that the set design and overall look of this whole film looks great...that's it
I don’t know if you two ever found out, but there is a book you can find at Barnes & Noble called The Search. It answers the question that Zuko asked “where is my mother?”
The book is ssoooo good because it’s like a giant comic and all the characters are drawn and speak just like they did in the show. They also have a book on how Republic City came to be.
One of my favourites. An All time classic. It's amazing unlike what some people think
I'm talking about the show I didn't watch this shit
This is the face of a good man ⚖️
They had us in the first half not gonna lie
"earth bending is the coolest here" right before 6 people dancing around only for one to throw a tiny pebble at the fire nation guys.
I'm only ten minutes in and I can confirm the RUclips Closed Captioning Makes this a lot more fun. Agni Kai turned into I'd be Gay and This is a Warship turned into This is Abortion.
I don’t care what everybody says, that last scene with giant ass tsunami and “Flow like water” ost is fucking amazing
This makes me feel a lot better about the live-action Netflix show, simply looking at the announced cast makes me feel better about it
Be prepared to be disappointed, the show runners of ATLA have left.
@@beautifulbliss5883 True, but it makes me feel good that Bryke WERE heavily involved and selected the show runners
Aang- "but im the avatar! And im back now!"
Everyone else- silence... just such loud silence.
I'm pretty sure m night shyamalan even said he watched the whole series with his kids and they were the ones that introduced it to him or something I seen once and Buddy clearly wasn't paying attention enough ☠️
Fun Fact: the Firelords' Throne room scene was shot inside of a high school gym
I just recently watched The Sixth Sense, which is undoubtedly Shyamalan's best work; it nails every element that makes a great movie in the right ways and to see his later works like The Last Airbender is not only baffling but also kinda heartbreaking as well. 💔
I’m so glad Greg is getting his 1 mil subscriber milestone soon. Was a sub since Ryan right and this was a long journey!
I remember walking out of the theater having enjoyed the movie well enough. That was prior to having watched the series. I can no longer watch this movie. That said I can’t really blame M. Night for the result. It seems clear the studio wanted to condense each season into a single movie. I fail to see how any director could have completed that task without a disjointed and emotionally anemic result. The beauty of the show is the time spent building those character relationships to achieve emotional payoff.
I couldn't watch after I saw that inuit people were white and they called Sokka sooka
Today, I became a Patreon member, my first ever Patreon subscription! Yayyy! 🥰
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I remember trying to watch this during lockdown and i think i got 17 minutes in or so and i just couldn’t anymore
“Ong”s actor was actually not an actor he was chosen because he knew martial art
You guys should definitely react to the last Airbender pitch meeting. It's a must watch
You guys are funny as hell leaving that part of the review in where you messed with the AC 🤣 Greg even directs Olivia where to start again, but it never cut 😂😂😂
Made me feel like I was really watching one of the Patreon watch along episodes 👍
Best part of this movie was the music during the end credits.
I’ll try to say one positive to freshen things up, the mask for the blue spirit looks cool. The king hair is a neat addition. That’s about all I can think of
I remember seeing this in cinema when it came out. There were like 5 other people than me and my cousin there. I'll never get that waste of a time back lmao
My only explanation for this is M.Night didn't do a movie of the series. He did an adaptation of the Ember Island players' version.
Fun fact the actress who played Yue (arguably the best character in this movie) is Asami’s voice actor.
Gotta watch the pitch meeting for this😂😂
Saw this high I couldn’t stop laughing 😂 they destroyed this movie bad
It's like when Eragon was movie adapted. You can't expect multiple books to be shoved into a couple hours
@@zacharyjackson1829 Right I agree worse movie ever lol
Thanks for doing this reaction video guys. You just kicked my long-dormant Last Airbender PTSD back into high gear. Lol It's like a trip down memory pain. 🤣
So I have this movie on dvd. I perfectly understand why ppl ABSOLUTELY HATE this movie. But I kinda like it. I think it’s bc of the nostalgia cuz I used to watch this ALL THE TIME as a kid. I’d rate it like a 6.5/10.
Lmaooo you don’t see how bad it is this movie doesn’t deserve a rate Lmaooo
You know.. If I have no knowledge of the source material (or maybe the source material doesn't exist) and categorized it as some obscure lower-end movie I stumble upon then maybe I would give it that (then again, I would give Pirates of the Caribbean 5/4? -honestly they blend in for me- a 6-ish up too and I don't think PoC is as bad -or maybe I'm just biased). But alas, tis only a wish.
@@sebastianpaz1138 I DO know how bad the movie is. It rushes literally everything and they miss pronounce most of the names. That’s not even all the problems with this movie. But because of the nostalgia I’d still watch this movie if I was bored or something.
@@fwluhhty ok just making sure lol I still wouldn’t give it a rate
@@sebastianpaz1138 oh ok cool
Greg was over it when he saw the spirit dragon 😆🤣
Well you can redeem yourself from this movie by doing a reaction to Everything Everywhere All At Once! It is now out on digital and I'm absolutely waiting in anticipation to watch you react to this cinematic masterpiece! 👀
Surprised you didn't notice that the Earth Bender prison was changed from a metal ship to an ocean to just a random cliffside made of EARTH lol
Did you notice that the fire benders can not generate their own fire, they have to have a physical source of flame near them to be able to firebend, this would make them the worst of all the elements because at least water is usually quite common everywhere, then earth and air is always around.
If you want to see a funny video watch Nostalgia Critic rip this movie a new element.
I finally realized what this is.... Somebody didn't have the time to watch the whole show and asked if their was a condensed version, they were then shown The Ember Island Players version and the movie was based off of that.
Set pieces and effects were decent, the execuation and directing was terrible. This movie proved to me that a live action Avatar COULD indeed work, as the movments were nice and the environment was great, but it was just awfully scripted and paced. Also, the fight scenes made little sense in some parts. The choreography in the cartoon is based on real life, so it could work very well in live action, however this movie missed the mark by a mile.