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Mad-Sniper β The Gaang Weighs In
Published: 2010-07-03 08:47:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 29106; Favourites: 542; Downloads: 336
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No, Toph, you were not, you lucky devil! If only all the main characters hadn't been introduced till the second season.These are just nitpicky things really, the real issue with the Airbender movie is that it's so bad IT PUNCHES YOU IN THE SOUL.
I wonder if Shamwow has ever had a conversation with another human being before. You wouldn't know from the way the dialog reads. I wish he had. Maybe that human could have told him not to make this movie. T_T Alas, the ENTIRE film is talking, talking, talking, explaining every last thing, thus deftly avoiding the need to SHOW US ANYTHING!!
BLARGSNHLDSHVD!!!!!!*brain splodey*
*slight spoilery bit here*
Other characters fortunate enough to not be in the movie: Jet, Suki, Avatar Roku, the Ocean Spirit, Koh... well, all of the characters really, cuz, I don't know who those people were in the movie, but it wasn't them...
*end spoilery bit*
Also, was it just me, or did everybody in the movie sound like they were on the verge of sobbing every time they spoke?
Well, I'm certainly sobbing!!!
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Until the supposed next movie.
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I'd be really surprised if that happened. Nobody wants to see it happen. :/
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What movie? What movie are you talking about? There is no such thing as an Avatar: the last airbender movie. It doesn't exist. But why have they not made a movie yet?Β Β
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Lol, yes, let us reject their reality and substitute our own. 
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I watched this movie recently, and I was struck by the very last shot of the film, in which all the water folks(and fire guys for some reason) all started bowing to Ong(misspelling deliberate). This is supposed to be his crowning moment the whole movie is leading up to, where he accepts the role of the Avatar and becomes the savior the world needs. But look at his face! He doesn't look like a hero, he looks like a scared kid who got shoved in front of a big crowd and just wishes they'd go away! Just summarizes everything wrong with this version of the character with that one image. Shameful.
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I'm just bothered by the very idea that the stupid bow was supposed to be a defining moment at all. Β The worldbuilding in ATLA is so much broader than the movie would have you believe. :/
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How about Teoh? If he were in the move, he'd probably be inspirationally disadvantaged or something.
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Lol! Good point.
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Closest thing I ever watched was the Nostalgia Critic's review of the movie. It was about as funny as Sokka (from the cartoons) and I enjoyed how it poked fun at Shyamalan. His mockery of that stupid "earthbending" scene was frickin' hilarious! The only possible thing about it that might have had merit is that the kid they got to play Aang does, admittedly, look like him, but this is destroyed by his shitting acting.
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OMG I didn't know he made a review! Β *goes to find
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OMG, LOL "Am I going colorblind?" It took me a while, but now I get it!
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Really, a lot of characters probably feel the same as Toph for being spared of the film's treatment: Suki (When people draw Team Avatar, she's always forgotten), Jeong Jeong, Jet, King Bumi, June, Avatars Roku and Kyoshi, Koh, Teo and his dad... and the people from Books 2 and 3 are also lucky by default.
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How could Toph even tell? Maybe she just wasn't talking throughout the film. Either way, it's better treatment than the other characters.
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TV Tropes featured this under their YMMV section for The Last Airbender movie! (linked beneath "Fan Dumb." Don't worry, they're not counting you as part of it)
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haha OUCH. Β Are you sure? Β Well I wouldn't blame them, I went off the handle several times over ATLA. *shame*
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Oh no, they weren't actually talking about you being in it. Β They were talking about people refusing watch the movie because she wasn't in it, and mentioned below that now people are celebrating the fact she wasn't in it, linking to this picture. Β But they were calling the people refusing to watch the movie because of that the fan dumb, not you.
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Oh good haha! XD Β Thanks, was concerned for a second!
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Other characters fortunate enough to not be in the movie: Jet, Suki, Avatar Roku, the Ocean Spirit, Koh... well, all of the characters really, cuz, I don't know who those people were in the movie, but it wasn't them...
The cabbage guy, King Bumi, the rest of the Kyoshi warriors, Foamy, master Pakku, Avatar Kyoshi, Jeong Jeong, The mechanist, Teo, all the other avatars, um...
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The ocean spirit was there, it just served no purpose because Shamylan decided the story would be better if Aang mastered the Avatar State two movies early, thereby gaining his most powerful ability and making any danger the Fire Lord poses entirely trivial.
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GOD THATS A LONG LIST
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You know at first I was upset that so many characters werent in it but now I'm just happy that not all the characters I know and love werent destroyed.
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I recently got Netflix and a friend of mine an I are planning on watching it thataway so we can catalog everything that's wrong with it.
After that I'll be writing a fic in which the main characters watch it. Sokka's reaction proves to be amusing, as always.
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Haha! Nice! Β Send me a link! Β And thanks for taking the hit for the fandom and watching it again, yuck...
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Avatar has joined Eragon in the realm of things that could have made amazing movie trilogies (at least) and were ruined with the first film because the studios gave the projects to inept morons to produce and direct.
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Dont make a second one I do NOT want 2 see my favorite character killed by poor acting (Toph) A duh!
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"Not that I could see the film or anything, because, you know, I'm blind..."
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You know, Dev Patel (Zuko) is Indian (South Asian), and Noah Ringer (Aang) is Native American (descended from prehistoric Asians who crossed a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska millenniums ago), so...
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Yes, so all non-white people are the same now?
The Fire Nation is based off of China with hints of Thailand. Air Nomads are based off of Tibet.
Therefore, Chinese or Thai actors for Fire Nation people, Tibetan actors for Air Nomads, non?
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that wave didn't even attack the ships, it just rose, and they all ran away 
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The characters are so f**ked up in the movie every one looks wrong and acts weird
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... not for long Toph... I heard they're making a second one... then they'll screw up your character there...
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NO.... NOOOO! That can't be happening, they can't screw up Toph... they... they JUST CAN'T!
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dont worry, it will most likely they will screw up Uph (how they will most likely pronounce the name)
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omgosh are you for real? it really is the end of the world. o_o; *WHOinTHEIRrightMINDwouldFUNDit???!!LOL*
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Just THINKING about that trainwreck of a film literally brings tears to my eyes T.T
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I agree, that movie was a travesty. The DVD I watched it on was scratched though, so I missed some of it, but it wasn't really that much of a loss apparently.
The characters just weren't themselves at all from what I could tell.
I also didn't get why Katara kept saying 'ong' when the animated series clearly pronounced it 'ang'.
As for the colorblind part, I'm afraid I don't get it.
I was also looking forward to at least the really cool part with the water spirit, but instead they chose giant tidal wave. Which I don't really get. Not to mention they went and killed off the admiral.
Either way I agree with you on many of these same points.
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I know ong sound like the thing people say when they take a s**t
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Yes! The Koi-zilla! That was such a bad move. I was really looking forward to seeing it in glorious CG! For the names, I guess Shymalan said that he changed the pronunciations so that they sounded "more asian" which is ridiculous, since he didn't get asian actors. That's what the colorblind comment is about, Katara and Sokka should be inuit, like the rest of the tribe. Also, I'm really mad about Zuko's scar. I wanted it to look WORSE, not be barely visible. I don't mind that Zhao died, but I did mind how it happened. No cool fight between him and Zuko at all? And he's killed by random waterbenders?? NO.
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If I remember correctly, Zhao died in the series, they just couldn't show it because the network didn't want them to show the death of a character on-screen (which may have contributed to the WTFery of energybending in S3), so they just implied it.
As for the 'more asian' names....Um....how about a no? Like, if you're going to do that....do it RIGHT. The Asian pronounciation of the Avatar's name is actually closer to 'ong', as in, 'rhymes with song', than to 'ang'(as seen in cartoon) and 'ahng'(as seen in movie). Like, his name is song but without the s. No sounding like the Egyptian ankh.
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I have seen only a little bit of it, and it would have been quite a good movie, if they made this parody on purpose ><;;
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I didn't make it five minutes into that film before I had to turn it off. You have the steely nerves of a true warrior.
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Haha! Well, I was in the theater with my family, soo no way to leave.XD Else I might have!
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And apparently, Zuko would have been played by Jesse McCartney.
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