@@zabeerfarid7687 I need M Night to come back and make his version of that fight with the Dai Li that ends with Azula using her lightning just because it would be hilarious how slow everything would be
Playing Cade Jaegers daughter in "Transformers: Age of Consent" and having that be not the worst movie you've been in really is an accomplishment though..
I don't think they're real Aussies if they don't know boomerangs come in various shapes. The important thing is that they have an aerofoil cross-section.
I wonder what he thought of the scenes where Zhao and Ozai talk to each other. He's talking to himself? He's having a Norman Osborn/Green Goblin moment?
The bit with Aang teaching the earthbender prisoners to use the earth all around them is my favourite example of the movie missing the point. In the show the earthbenders are imprisoned on a metal ship in the middle of the ocean specifically so they can't earthbend. The movie puts them in a conventional prison and then acts like none of them ever thought about earthbending until Aang arrived.
Yeh the same scene highlights limits from a technical standpoint point like, how their solution have air bending on screen is to have Aang swirl up dust, to the fire that doesn’t illuminate the space around it, to even the congo line of earthbenders getting gettin a tiny rock to float through the air and hit someone. Especially when anyone there could have picked up and thrown the rock to achieve the same effect! It’s the epitome of inept blockbuster filmmaking.
@@AKen_Films "could have picked up and thrown the rock to achieve the same effect!" Sounds like Mason and his half a brick is a better earth bender than the ones in the movie.
It could have been about resolve, them being ordered to use earthbending to just move coal and boulders here to there but not being free. Fearing a war etc but then it was just like “no guys don’t forget you’re super cool now let’s dance!”
Oh hey, all the earthbenders are in one spot and angry at the fire nation and there are no civilians around to get caught in the crossfire. Should we fight? Nah...
at around 6:25 the boys talk about how its difficult to know geography and the distance traveled and where they are and all that. This made me realize that it was really helpful of the show to literally show us a map of the world before each episode, and often times the characters would pull out a diegetic map and literally show their intended route, and i think that really helped the show succeed, even in a subtle way
Understanding geography in a fantasy setting is VERY important if you're hopping all over the place. I think that's also why Game of Thrones had the map opening.
@@mariealexandrinne6997 Reminds me of The Witcher on Netflix. At the end of Season 2, Geralt sends Ciri back to Kaer Morhen on horseback. Which she achieves in maybe... an afternoon? When half of whole season was about getting Ciri FROM THE SAME PLACE to Kaer Morhen. Ironic when realistic travelling times were such a big part of the books.
The Avatar trilogy is nonsensical. They go to space and hang out with tall blue monkeys in the first. Then in the second there's no returning characters or links of any kind as far as I can see - it's about this magical bald child who controls his wind very well or whatever, then for the third they go back to the blue monkey world and swim around for a bit. Absolutely baffling
In the original anime, it was far more fleshed out. The monkeys were developed as a civilization who were very agriculture-based and against war whatsoever, so their mythology restrained them from ever fighting against an enemy (which was the core moral dilemma for the conflict). As they were farmers and not warriors, this eventually lead Avatar to have the working title of 'Blue Harvest' which coincidentally was the working title for Star Wars: A New Hope.
Peter “Sorry I’m late” Mr. Aziz “You are always LATE, this is your last chance, now go deliver these pizzas 🍕” Peter “I’m sorry for being late…” Mr. Aziz “Goooooo!”
Fun fact: The Dragon Spirit was an original creation by M Night Shamalan for this movie. They were based on Ran and Shaw who first appeared in Season 3 Episode 13. Initially they considered to add both Red and Blue dragon as spirits. But red is difficult colour to film. So they picked Blue Dragon as spirit guide for Aang. This led to the working title being "Blue Harvest", which was also the working title of original Star Wars.
I get annoyed whenever a director claims they had a 4 hour + masterpiece that got ruined in the edit. That doesn't count for anything! You know how long theatrical films are! Plan accordingly from the beginning! This especially goes to Zach Snyder.
Very true, but I can see it the other way. "I wrote 7 hours of material. After cutting out the extraneous and things that didn't work, I got it down to 2.5 hours. Then we cut that down to 2 for the theater." Imagine if Stephen King had an editor with a spine for most of his novels. They'd be much shorter.
"There's a boomerang in this movie?" Has to be one of my favorite things that anyone has ever said about this lol. Also, finding out that Zhao was played by Mr. Aziz felt like an enormous betrayal that I can't fully describe.
16:46 Surprised James didn't bring up how in the animation, they have a real simple explanation for why they can't use their earthbending. BECAUSE THEY'RE ON A FUCKING BOAT! Why would you take a situation that the show already explained and REMOVE THE EXPLANATION!?
I remember James and Mason mentioning that they recorded this episode back in 2020. So I find it crazy that this video has finally released and it couldn’t have been at a more perfect time.
Currently rewatching the cartoon and... "My first girlfriend turned into the Moon." "That's rough, buddy." ...is so funny and well delivered. One of the funniest throwaway lines in any cartoon I've ever watched.
I knew it was fucked from when we saw firebenders needing a pre existing fire source in order to firebend... God I was so mad when I came out of that theatre lmao.
the kid who plays aang getting shoutouts to his behind the scenes footage warms my heart. he was perfect casting for a better movie, incredible comic energy but actually incredibly skilled as a martial artist when the time comes
This was probably mentioned in the full podcast, but I just wanted to mention that they even state the Fire Nation require a source to bend fire, at which you wonder how the fire nation even managed to conquer the world in any way, shape, or form
I'm surprised this is even getting a public release because they recorded it so long ago. I'm sure they said many offensive things in it that you couldn't say these days.
Another weird aspect of this movie is the pronunciation of the names. Aang is pronounced like "Ong" rather than "Ang" and Iroh is pronounced like "Ee-roh" rather than "Eye-roh". While that may be more linguistically accurate based on the respective Chinese and Japanese influences on the names, at the same time, who did Shyamalan think he was impressing? It won't endear you to the fans at all.
Don’t forget changing “Agni Kai” to be pronounced “keee” instead of “k-eye” and still including “duel” at the end when the very word is meant to mean duel. It’s like M. Night had to write for the parents in the audience instead of just showing the damn fight and what it meant.
I saw TLA in theaters and this was my introduction to the franchise. I remember letting the movie linger for a few weeks and at the time, the animated series was on Netflix, when I saw it in the queue, I said to myself "Self, how did this get adapted if it's that bad?" I ended up watching the entire series over the course of 4 days. It was my entire life for the better part of a week and I watch it in its entirety at least once a year ever since. I am not looking forward to the Netflix adaptation. Just watch the animated series.
One Piece was good because the creator was involved. Avatar's creators left the Netflix one due to creative differences (it's going to be bad) and Cowboy Bebop, and Death Note never had their creators on in the first place @@solvseus
@@LounySchwarzbierI expect it to be fine and people will say the same thing they do about the ZSJL "It's better than the previous live-action thing" which doesn't necessarily mean it's objectively good. Just better than something else that's bad.
I think its cause one of them had an actual opinion for once instead of just going “who cares, meta meta, give us a like, this podcast sucks, watch this movie, or don’t, we don’t care, leave a comment, we won’t read it” like they’ve been on for a hot second
Movies with Mikey turned me on to the fact that if you watch this in black and white muted with the Wu Tang Clan’s album it kinda slaps. Highly recommend
Which Wu-Tang album? You said "the" Wu-Tang album. In the...oh, my god. really?... 31 years since 36 Chambers was released, there's been alot more Wu-Tang than that. And if he does mean Enter the Wu-Tang then he's hardly a genius because ANYTHING slaps with that album on in place of the sound. Hollywood writers would be lucky to be half as smart about their own work.
15:06 I don’t know who should be more embarrassed. The 7 guys it took to slowly move a pebble across the screen, or the firebender who just stood there and watch it happen and hit him
When I thought the pandemic was ending, I put on my fancy mask and went to see a double feature of Snake Eyes and Black Widow, which had been out for awhile but was still in my theater, for my bday. They were so bad, I jokingly said the pandemic should keep going. If you think I regret my joke, you haven't seen Snake Eyes and Black Widow.
I have fond memories of this from college. I convinced my roommate to watch the animated TV show and he loved it. He comes to tell me there is a live action movie which I immediately responded, "No there is NOT! We do not speak of that." Then he, I, and 3 other friends got drunk and laughed at this dumpster fire for like 4 hours.
7:26 damn that woman's hairstyle in the foreground of this shot is giving off some serious "Zach Snyder's Man of Steel's Kryptonian Space Ship vibes." I had to double-take.
All I remember of going to see this movie as a child is when right at the start one character said earnestly to another "are you a bender?" and my mum burst out laughing in a silent theatre
Never watched a movie like this where I can see the seams of the film making, writing and director choices so clearly. like you can sense where the script was cut down too size, where director made very obvious choices too make the film fit 2 hours. edit: also I don't even remember the dragon spirit
This! This was the movie I realized as a kid "ohh...just because it's in the cinema, doesn't mean it's good...." 15 years later and I'm still mad about the scenes in the earthbender "prison"! In the show it was set on a metal oil rig out at sea,...and here it's a bloody ROCK PIT. FIGURE IT OUT EARTHBENDERS....also the fact that it then takes 5 guys to move one damn rock. Well done everyone, bless this movie.
The reason Zuko demands to see all of the elderly Water tribe members is because the last Avatar, known to be an Airbender, was presumed dead 100 years ago. The next Avatar in the cycle would have been born a Waterbender shortly after and would now be about 100 years old if still alive.
Look I usually like it when the editors (Ben, Lawrence, Collings, etc.) use Aunty Donna clips, but they’ve gone TOO FAR by including one where Broden still had hair. It’s unnatural!
"Directed, produced and written by M. Night Shymamalamalan" Do not believe any excuses he makes about "interference." He put his whole ass name all over this.
As someone who grew up on Artemis Fowl, I appreciate the the cut to the god fucking awful Disney+ movie when they said “this happens quite a lot” 23:54 lol
Nothing makes me laugh more than the 6 Earthbenders doing their earth bendin thing just for a small rock to slowly come into view and another bender push it forward
He's in a new movie where he plays a farmer who's wronged and turns into an assassin. They're using a John Wick-style filter to make everything look dark and gritty. They were then going to call it "Blue-Tinted Farmer", but that's too close to Blue Harvest, which was the original name of Star Wars.
Pour one out for Ben and Laurence who had to sift through this movie for what I assume is countless times to get the appropriate imagery instead of just looping the trailer for 26 minutes. Your sacrifices will never be able to be repaid.
This film is immortalized in my mind because seeing it in theaters is the first memory I have of being critical of a movie. I was 11 and to that point, every movie was a 10/10 because I was a child and I was watching something. Not this one though, it was so bad it awoke my critical thinking.
There are actually several non-benders that can keep up and even defeat benders, the Kyoshi warriors, Suki, Ty Lee and even Sokka I think, eventually, then in Legend of Korra, The Equalists are a group trained to fight and block bender powers..
One thing that the movie changes that i never hear people talk about that infuriates me is that, in the show, fire benders are the only benders that dont need to have their element near them to bend it. Because the original writers understood that fire is not nearly as omnipresent as water, earth, and air so it would be very limiting and stupid that they always need to be right next to a camp fire. But in the movie they do always need to be near a fire and its considered world changing at the end that zuko can create fire when thats just how it works in the show for everyone.
I think it was pretty funny that because the bending was so slow that they asked why they aren't paired up with some guy who can just run over and punch the other guy, when this is literally a thing in the Wheel of Time TV series. In the books the Aes Sedai (the magic users of the universe essentially) always have a companion called a Warder. The Warder uses conventional weapons and acts as a bodyguard, someone to watch their back etc. In the TV adaptation though, they made "weaving" (spellcasting) so slow and involved that there's literally a scene in the first season where a character is standing in the middle of an attack and doing big swirly movements for what feels like minutes while her warder runs back and forth frantically knocking down the individual attackers that are trying to run in and stab her while she's in the middle of the dance routine that will EVENTUALLY get the spell off. In the books it's all down mentally and spells are near instantaneous, but on the show it requires elaborate choreographed dance moves.
@solvseus I forgot to mention, the Aes Sedai are divided into color coded disciplines named Ajahs. The Aes Sedai in question is named Moiraine Damodred and she belongs to the Blue Ajah, which is why when they were filming that scene they called it the Blue Harvest scene, which is of course also the shooting name of the original Star Wars.
I remember my dad took my brothers and I to this movie and he fucking loved it. He thought it was amazing and the action was awesome. While my brothers and I asked to leave the theatre multiple times because of how awful it was. He still brings up how much he loves this movie out of sheer spite toward my brothers and I. Basically, what I'm saying is, this movie ruined my relationship with my father.
I legit would love for Nick Mason to go watch the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series and then for them to talk about this movie again. Also love that James was new to AtLA and yet still recognizes how absolutely amazing it is. Sometimes I worry that it's just nostalgia making me think it's great, but anytime someone new watches it they understand!
An entire squad of earthbenders doing an extended choreographed routine to slowly move a single rock across the screen will never not be hilarious.
They didn't even do any of that, it was legit just one dude they panned over to
Those guys were just his hype men
@@videobob92 The main yelley Goku power up guy looked like he was about to get a hernia.
That’s hilarious considering groups like the dai li
Even funnier is the Fire Nation Guard who stood still and patiently waited for the small stone to slowly move and hit him.
@@zabeerfarid7687 I need M Night to come back and make his version of that fight with the Dai Li that ends with Azula using her lightning just because it would be hilarious how slow everything would be
Playing Cade Jaegers daughter in "Transformers: Age of Consent" and having that be not the worst movie you've been in really is an accomplishment though..
Her being in Marvel's 'Inhumans' and being wiped out in Episode 1 was a miracle.
@@COSun25 Damn, her agents f*cking hate her!! 🤣🤣🤣
Nice Pointlesshub reference.
Yeah, well … at least she wasn’t fetishized for underage relationships in Airbender.
I think she’s the daughter of a producer
7:13 "theres a boomerang in this movie?"
Imagine being so bad at movies that you make a boomerang and australians don't recognize it.
and that comes from Australians no less!
💀💀💀💀💀💀
I don't think they're real Aussies if they don't know boomerangs come in various shapes. The important thing is that they have an aerofoil cross-section.
@@dw300 lol gatekeeping Australian-ness
@@krystina662 Maybe read the whole comment before replying to it.
I think it's funny that Mason clearly did not know that General Zhao and Firelord Ozai are different characters
To be fair this movie does melt your brain after first exposure
To be fair the movie doesn’t either
I wonder what he thought of the scenes where Zhao and Ozai talk to each other. He's talking to himself? He's having a Norman Osborn/Green Goblin moment?
@@brentparker7359 He probably thought he was talking to his reflection in the mirror.
Australians are kinda racist
The bit with Aang teaching the earthbender prisoners to use the earth all around them is my favourite example of the movie missing the point. In the show the earthbenders are imprisoned on a metal ship in the middle of the ocean specifically so they can't earthbend. The movie puts them in a conventional prison and then acts like none of them ever thought about earthbending until Aang arrived.
Yeh the same scene highlights limits from a technical standpoint point like, how their solution have air bending on screen is to have Aang swirl up dust, to the fire that doesn’t illuminate the space around it, to even the congo line of earthbenders getting gettin a tiny rock to float through the air and hit someone. Especially when anyone there could have picked up and thrown the rock to achieve the same effect!
It’s the epitome of inept blockbuster filmmaking.
@@AKen_Films "could have picked up and thrown the rock to achieve the same effect!" Sounds like Mason and his half a brick is a better earth bender than the ones in the movie.
Probably did it to save money
It could have been about resolve, them being ordered to use earthbending to just move coal and boulders here to there but not being free. Fearing a war etc but then it was just like “no guys don’t forget you’re super cool now let’s dance!”
Oh hey, all the earthbenders are in one spot and angry at the fire nation and there are no civilians around to get caught in the crossfire. Should we fight?
Nah...
at around 6:25 the boys talk about how its difficult to know geography and the distance traveled and where they are and all that. This made me realize that it was really helpful of the show to literally show us a map of the world before each episode, and often times the characters would pull out a diegetic map and literally show their intended route, and i think that really helped the show succeed, even in a subtle way
Understanding geography in a fantasy setting is VERY important if you're hopping all over the place. I think that's also why Game of Thrones had the map opening.
@@mariealexandrinne6997 Reminds me of The Witcher on Netflix. At the end of Season 2, Geralt sends Ciri back to Kaer Morhen on horseback. Which she achieves in maybe... an afternoon? When half of whole season was about getting Ciri FROM THE SAME PLACE to Kaer Morhen. Ironic when realistic travelling times were such a big part of the books.
"If the moon is closer you get more power from the fish."
I have no notes.
Grandma Exposition and A Dragon That Gives Vague Advice, two of the most robust archetypes of fantasy literature
"A series of scenes washed over me and at the end I'm not changed at all. So good for you, Hollywood, you've done it again."
incredible quote.
The Avatar trilogy is nonsensical. They go to space and hang out with tall blue monkeys in the first. Then in the second there's no returning characters or links of any kind as far as I can see - it's about this magical bald child who controls his wind very well or whatever, then for the third they go back to the blue monkey world and swim around for a bit. Absolutely baffling
In the original anime, it was far more fleshed out. The monkeys were developed as a civilization who were very agriculture-based and against war whatsoever, so their mythology restrained them from ever fighting against an enemy (which was the core moral dilemma for the conflict). As they were farmers and not warriors, this eventually lead Avatar to have the working title of 'Blue Harvest' which coincidentally was the working title for Star Wars: A New Hope.
As much sense as the Titans franchise. Some superhero kids and young adults, mythological figures and even a football team
Man i laughed way harder than i care to admit 😂
@@reubenfong1961this was such a witty joke I love u for this
Nah man you're confusing this with the original film by George Lucas called Blue Harvest: The last Jedi Bender
I never noticed that Mr Aziz was the main villain and I will never unsee that now
Peter “Sorry I’m late”
Mr. Aziz “You are always LATE, this is your last chance, now go deliver these pizzas 🍕”
Peter “I’m sorry for being late…”
Mr. Aziz “Goooooo!”
I want to "unsee" the entire movie.
Ive been rewatching the Riami trilogy and was watching S-M2 last night. Somehow James and Mason knew the perfect reference to make. 😂 🍕
He was also a Daily Show correspondent. I don't think he'd ever really done anything remotely dramatic as an actor
@@StudioInkblot His goofy segments on the Daily Show are all I see whenever he's on screen lol, he was great at those tho
20:07 Can't even remember the best line of the series, "My first girlfriend turned into the moon..."
And the best reply to it: "That's rough, buddy" 😊
Fun fact: The Dragon Spirit was an original creation by M Night Shamalan for this movie. They were based on Ran and Shaw who first appeared in Season 3 Episode 13. Initially they considered to add both Red and Blue dragon as spirits. But red is difficult colour to film. So they picked Blue Dragon as spirit guide for Aang. This led to the working title being "Blue Harvest", which was also the working title of original Star Wars.
I hate you for this, but I appreciate the effort
🫠
😂😂😂😂
Damn it, you got me
You got me m8
I love that Mason came up with Tai Li's chi blocking via his half a brick jutsu.
Ju Bricksu
I get annoyed whenever a director claims they had a 4 hour + masterpiece that got ruined in the edit. That doesn't count for anything! You know how long theatrical films are! Plan accordingly from the beginning! This especially goes to Zach Snyder.
And they can also break it up into smaller films
Very true, but I can see it the other way. "I wrote 7 hours of material. After cutting out the extraneous and things that didn't work, I got it down to 2.5 hours. Then we cut that down to 2 for the theater."
Imagine if Stephen King had an editor with a spine for most of his novels. They'd be much shorter.
*Hack Snyder
And then call the first installment "Don't count on it, Batman"
@@null6634 but people like Snyder know that they can't make a 7 hour film so shouldn't make that much material
"There's a boomerang in this movie?" Has to be one of my favorite things that anyone has ever said about this lol. Also, finding out that Zhao was played by Mr. Aziz felt like an enormous betrayal that I can't fully describe.
They recorded this in 1999
I listened the audio version and it genuinely felt like they were 20 years younger
1999p is almost twice as good as 1080p.
Yes, you can tell James' spirit has not yet been broken by the exhaustion of parenthood
Do you mean the caravan of garbage or the movie
Bothe
30 years in the making.
My daughter just graduated high school, I still remember the magical day she was born, the same day James & Maso recorded this
16:46 Surprised James didn't bring up how in the animation, they have a real simple explanation for why they can't use their earthbending.
BECAUSE THEY'RE ON A FUCKING BOAT!
Why would you take a situation that the show already explained and REMOVE THE EXPLANATION!?
They were actually on platform made of metal.
@@ExtremeMadnessX Eh potato potato.
"I think these people are being hysterical. Just feel nothing; like I did."
Maso going full hustle culture on that one.
5:32
"I'm gonna say some nice things"
*says one nice thing and then rags on the movie some more*
“You know I’m in possession of half a brick…” 😂😂🤣😭😭
I remember James and Mason mentioning that they recorded this episode back in 2020. So I find it crazy that this video has finally released and it couldn’t have been at a more perfect time.
God bless James' old laptop's hard drive for turning on one last time to allow us to enjoy this masterpiece of a video.
ZORRO?! WE'RE FINALLY FUCKIN' GETTIN' GOD DAMN ZORRO!
HELL YEAH BROTHER
I enjoyed the hell out of Zorro when I was a kid lol.
That movie traumatised me as a kid with the head in a jar and drinking from it. I can't wait
There’s a new zorro on Amazon currently
I love this, it’s the last bit of that extra manic energy you guys had in Covid when you were going insane
Currently rewatching the cartoon and...
"My first girlfriend turned into the Moon."
"That's rough, buddy."
...is so funny and well delivered. One of the funniest throwaway lines in any cartoon I've ever watched.
James was still operating at 45% back when this was recorded
When you are a fan of the cartoon and witness the five earthbenders bending a measly little rock. You know you are in for a bad time.
I knew it was fucked from when we saw firebenders needing a pre existing fire source in order to firebend... God I was so mad when I came out of that theatre lmao.
Aang: how do I defeat the fire nation?!
Dragon spirit: scissors
(Fade to black)
no, that would be how you'd defeat the paper nation
the kid who plays aang getting shoutouts to his behind the scenes footage warms my heart. he was perfect casting for a better movie, incredible comic energy but actually incredibly skilled as a martial artist when the time comes
This was probably mentioned in the full podcast, but I just wanted to mention that they even state the Fire Nation require a source to bend fire, at which you wonder how the fire nation even managed to conquer the world in any way, shape, or form
I'm surprised this is even getting a public release because they recorded it so long ago. I'm sure they said many offensive things in it that you couldn't say these days.
Couldn't get away with it these days. Now they would call it "The Last Equality-bender"
They couldn't make this video today!!
'Cause they already made it, three years ago
It's bloody PC gone mad i tells ya!
Ah yes, the good ol days. When you could say whatever you wanted, and there would be no repercussions. When was that again? Never?
Oh.
07:30 "The AAAvatar is being rescued from the AAAice. He's been in a big block AAAice for a hundred YeAAArs" 😂😂😂
Absolutely killed me 😂😂😂
Another weird aspect of this movie is the pronunciation of the names. Aang is pronounced like "Ong" rather than "Ang" and Iroh is pronounced like "Ee-roh" rather than "Eye-roh". While that may be more linguistically accurate based on the respective Chinese and Japanese influences on the names, at the same time, who did Shyamalan think he was impressing? It won't endear you to the fans at all.
Don’t forget changing “Agni Kai” to be pronounced “keee” instead of “k-eye” and still including “duel” at the end when the very word is meant to mean duel. It’s like M. Night had to write for the parents in the audience instead of just showing the damn fight and what it meant.
Life ain't 'bout impressing mofuggers.
I saw TLA in theaters and this was my introduction to the franchise. I remember letting the movie linger for a few weeks and at the time, the animated series was on Netflix, when I saw it in the queue, I said to myself "Self, how did this get adapted if it's that bad?" I ended up watching the entire series over the course of 4 days. It was my entire life for the better part of a week and I watch it in its entirety at least once a year ever since. I am not looking forward to the Netflix adaptation. Just watch the animated series.
The Netflix one will be bad. There's no way it isn't.
@@LounySchwarzbier One Piece thou...
Oh, but also Cowboy Bebop. And Death Note. **shudders, then screams hysterically for no reason**
One Piece was good because the creator was involved. Avatar's creators left the Netflix one due to creative differences (it's going to be bad) and Cowboy Bebop, and Death Note never had their creators on in the first place @@solvseus
@@LounySchwarzbierI expect it to be fine and people will say the same thing they do about the ZSJL "It's better than the previous live-action thing" which doesn't necessarily mean it's objectively good. Just better than something else that's bad.
@@JoshuaSkaarthat’s what happened
I feel like I’ve both known this video for years and also am experiencing it for the first time…
Am I the RUclips Avatar?
You're the AAAAvator
AH think you’ll like this little life
You must be Madam Web then.
I'm sorry, that was mean and I apologize.
This FEELS like an older video
It’s like a fine whiskey
I think its cause one of them had an actual opinion for once instead of just going “who cares, meta meta, give us a like, this podcast sucks, watch this movie, or don’t, we don’t care, leave a comment, we won’t read it” like they’ve been on for a hot second
It’s just that the edit is different. Maybe Ben and Lawrence are out for bit or they are trying a new style of editing.
Dude, you need to stop feeling the videos
@@carlosguzman10041000 no, they literally recorded this years ago
Movies with Mikey turned me on to the fact that if you watch this in black and white muted with the Wu Tang Clan’s album it kinda slaps. Highly recommend
Agreed,Highly (literally and metaphorically)recommend!
Which Wu-Tang album? You said "the" Wu-Tang album. In the...oh, my god. really?... 31 years since 36 Chambers was released, there's been alot more Wu-Tang than that. And if he does mean Enter the Wu-Tang then he's hardly a genius because ANYTHING slaps with that album on in place of the sound. Hollywood writers would be lucky to be half as smart about their own work.
@@jonnoble5624Agreed. Enter the Wu Tang is more cinematic than half the shit Hollywood spunks out.
Half-a-brick Mason returns!!
They recorded this so long ago I'm unsure if this would be the first time he made that joke or not.
A half-a-brick wielding guy side kick has to exist in some Brandon Sanderson novel
@@expnoob1988 This is probably after the Harry Potter bit, Mason says "As you know, I have half a brick" so he's at least made the joke before
He knew it would endure even then. What a man. What a half a brick
15:06
I don’t know who should be more embarrassed. The 7 guys it took to slowly move a pebble across the screen, or the firebender who just stood there and watch it happen and hit him
I’m a once again on my knees, begging for the fifth element caravan of garbage!
If they make a series of James and Mason watching ATLA front to back i'd watch it.
thought this video would go the way of the snake eyes review, but i’m glad it didn’t and that it was topical and trendy
You don't need to worry about Snake Eyes, I have it on good authority it's coming very soon
@@mrsundaymoviesdamn I need to buy another copy then, just in case all the current tapes I have are too dusty!
You should definitely do that
@@mrsundaymoviesYessss can't wait for Snake Eyes, I've rewatched it every day in preparation for the video. That and Red Notice
When I thought the pandemic was ending, I put on my fancy mask and went to see a double feature of Snake Eyes and Black Widow, which had been out for awhile but was still in my theater, for my bday. They were so bad, I jokingly said the pandemic should keep going. If you think I regret my joke, you haven't seen Snake Eyes and Black Widow.
I have fond memories of this from college. I convinced my roommate to watch the animated TV show and he loved it. He comes to tell me there is a live action movie which I immediately responded, "No there is NOT! We do not speak of that." Then he, I, and 3 other friends got drunk and laughed at this dumpster fire for like 4 hours.
Still can't get over the choreography of the bending having more steps. How do you mess up kung-fu with element control?
I appreciate that this still has #marvel #spiderman #mcu tags.
Is this a SPUMMM movie?
With how bad it is, it very well could be
It's got the vibe of a spumm. In that it's fucking terrible.
It’s a terrible hack job that doesn’t contain Spider-Man, so I think it counts
7:26 damn that woman's hairstyle in the foreground of this shot is giving off some serious "Zach Snyder's Man of Steel's Kryptonian Space Ship vibes." I had to double-take.
maso's return of his famous character "man with half a brick" was masterful, talk about a callback haha
what was the first instance?
@@demon-goatharry potter episode from 2020
@@TimInertiatic thanks
All I remember of going to see this movie as a child is when right at the start one character said earnestly to another "are you a bender?" and my mum burst out laughing in a silent theatre
This was probably my most anticipated CoG and my god is it satisfying seeing you both rip it apart
MAASON THE BRICK BENDER!!
Never watched a movie like this where I can see the seams of the film making, writing and director choices so clearly. like you can sense where the script was cut down too size, where director made very obvious choices too make the film fit 2 hours.
edit: also I don't even remember the dragon spirit
You tease Artemis Fowl and think we won't notice
We noticed
Watch that movie so we don't have to. ♥️
This! This was the movie I realized as a kid "ohh...just because it's in the cinema, doesn't mean it's good...." 15 years later and I'm still mad about the scenes in the earthbender "prison"! In the show it was set on a metal oil rig out at sea,...and here it's a bloody ROCK PIT. FIGURE IT OUT EARTHBENDERS....also the fact that it then takes 5 guys to move one damn rock. Well done everyone, bless this movie.
Aang: Why is everything so bad?
Roku: Hm, Battles and shit.....
😂😂
Please do a series of you guys watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'd love to hear Maso's review, I think he'd really dig Toph. Ha dig, get it?
The amount of Doctor Who clips (The Lodger, Tooth and Claw) in this make my heart happy.
It's nice to have a surprise return of one of the most iconic character of the podcast, half a brick!
Um, he has a name. It's Rodney. RODNEY!!!
“There’s a boomerang”???? 😂😂😂
Woah this feels brand new and fresh, love this topical content!!!
The reason Zuko demands to see all of the elderly Water tribe members is because the last Avatar, known to be an Airbender, was presumed dead 100 years ago. The next Avatar in the cycle would have been born a Waterbender shortly after and would now be about 100 years old if still alive.
Sure, but we know that because the story was told better in the animation.
Zorro! Zorro! Zorro! At last! I feel like a grimy prisoner who is finally being let out of the mines.
You get 20 minutes to watch the funny Australian man pretending to be two people comment on Zorro, then it’s back in the hole with you.
what's with youtube communities and forcing people to live in pits. Gotta be some whacky underworld lore I'm behind on.@@largeproblem
@@largeproblemBack on the giant 1920's Egyptian hamster wheel you mean
@@MrHendrix17 i can’t believe i forgot, maybe it’s my turn on it next
You undercook Chicken? Straight to jail! You overcook Fish? Straight to jail! You work on the live action movie The Last Airbender? Straight to jail!!
Look I usually like it when the editors (Ben, Lawrence, Collings, etc.) use Aunty Donna clips, but they’ve gone TOO FAR by including one where Broden still had hair. It’s unnatural!
Like looking at pictures of James without gray hair, it snaps my suspension of disbelief, lol.
"Directed, produced and written by M. Night Shymamalamalan"
Do not believe any excuses he makes about "interference." He put his whole ass name all over this.
As someone who grew up on Artemis Fowl, I appreciate the the cut to the god fucking awful Disney+ movie when they said “this happens quite a lot” 23:54 lol
Are you the Aavaataar, Jaames & Maaso?
The Avotar Ong
Arvartar with Jarmes and Marso
@@TimInertiatic That you Omeega from Star Wars Beed Beech?
SW originally being called: Blur Hahvis...
I can't believe you didn't highlight Yue's haircut.
5:55 I don't think I've seen video of real-life Mason in any CoG before. Still images sure, but moving images?
what is that video? cant find it for the life of me
Was 17:52 done to remove an old Green Trivia joke? 😂
Nothing makes me laugh more than the 6 Earthbenders doing their earth bendin thing just for a small rock to slowly come into view and another bender push it forward
I like earth benders lol but you're r😢
I never clocked that it was Dev Patel in this. Doesn't make the movie any better, but it's a fun bit of trivia at least. You've done it again, boys!
He's in a new movie where he plays a farmer who's wronged and turns into an assassin. They're using a John Wick-style filter to make everything look dark and gritty. They were then going to call it "Blue-Tinted Farmer", but that's too close to Blue Harvest, which was the original name of Star Wars.
Pour one out for Ben and Laurence who had to sift through this movie for what I assume is countless times to get the appropriate imagery instead of just looping the trailer for 26 minutes. Your sacrifices will never be able to be repaid.
I only now just realized Margo from The Magicians was Azula. That is actually incredible casting
She's fucking incredible as Margo, low key glad this didn't get a sequel to drag her down 😅
This film is immortalized in my mind because seeing it in theaters is the first memory I have of being critical of a movie. I was 11 and to that point, every movie was a 10/10 because I was a child and I was watching something. Not this one though, it was so bad it awoke my critical thinking.
I'm glad this wasn't lost, I enjoyed Maso's dedication to "Arhvatar" immensely.
But no Avatriviar???
There are actually several non-benders that can keep up and even defeat benders, the Kyoshi warriors, Suki, Ty Lee and even Sokka I think, eventually, then in Legend of Korra, The Equalists are a group trained to fight and block bender powers..
oh my, the fabled return of HALF A BRICK
As a Brit, the use of the word 'bender' in this video is still childishly funny to me
Ahh, it’s good to see the return of this iconic duo.
I’m of course referring to Maso and half a brick.
One thing that the movie changes that i never hear people talk about that infuriates me is that, in the show, fire benders are the only benders that dont need to have their element near them to bend it. Because the original writers understood that fire is not nearly as omnipresent as water, earth, and air so it would be very limiting and stupid that they always need to be right next to a camp fire.
But in the movie they do always need to be near a fire and its considered world changing at the end that zuko can create fire when thats just how it works in the show for everyone.
I think it was pretty funny that because the bending was so slow that they asked why they aren't paired up with some guy who can just run over and punch the other guy, when this is literally a thing in the Wheel of Time TV series.
In the books the Aes Sedai (the magic users of the universe essentially) always have a companion called a Warder. The Warder uses conventional weapons and acts as a bodyguard, someone to watch their back etc. In the TV adaptation though, they made "weaving" (spellcasting) so slow and involved that there's literally a scene in the first season where a character is standing in the middle of an attack and doing big swirly movements for what feels like minutes while her warder runs back and forth frantically knocking down the individual attackers that are trying to run in and stab her while she's in the middle of the dance routine that will EVENTUALLY get the spell off. In the books it's all down mentally and spells are near instantaneous, but on the show it requires elaborate choreographed dance moves.
I was kinda hoping this was going to be a Blue Harvest joke
@solvseus I forgot to mention, the Aes Sedai are divided into color coded disciplines named Ajahs. The Aes Sedai in question is named Moiraine Damodred and she belongs to the Blue Ajah, which is why when they were filming that scene they called it the Blue Harvest scene, which is of course also the shooting name of the original Star Wars.
I remember my dad took my brothers and I to this movie and he fucking loved it. He thought it was amazing and the action was awesome. While my brothers and I asked to leave the theatre multiple times because of how awful it was. He still brings up how much he loves this movie out of sheer spite toward my brothers and I. Basically, what I'm saying is, this movie ruined my relationship with my father.
I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate Matt and Ben’s love for Succession with all the insert clips throughout
Mason’s commitment to using the movie pronunciations is bold but also boils my blood
anyone know what that interview is at 5:55? Just wondering
Like the Aaaahvatar, this is the episode that was prophesied in days of old.
I legit would love for Nick Mason to go watch the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series and then for them to talk about this movie again.
Also love that James was new to AtLA and yet still recognizes how absolutely amazing it is. Sometimes I worry that it's just nostalgia making me think it's great, but anytime someone new watches it they understand!
My kids uncle on their moms side built the sets for this movie! Only good part about the whole film. 😂
We've been waiting literally years for this video and it was worth every single second.
Shyamalan went full Tommy Wiseau with this one
19:03 I was waiting for James to mention this. They made Sokka look like Rob Van Dam lmao
To me it seemed like a work in progress, like it never got finished. So they should have just called it Blue Harvest to begin with.
Hearing James pure anger, disbelief, and disappointment while Maso is just pure confused is peak entertainment
I saw "Green Screen Land" coming a mile away, and still laughed for three minutes.
“He looks good in burgundy” is a classic take. Thanks for making me laugh this morning. I truly appreciate it.
Love the hastags in the description. Marvel's Avatar: the last Spiderman.
Mason trying to suss out vaguely explained fish-moon mechanics is my new favorite segment.