Thursday, August 5, 2010

One of the worst

I was really looking forward to 'The Last Airbender', but after watching it just a few minutes ago, it was very very disappointing!

The movie started off with the usual 'Water, Fire, Earth and Air' bending, and the narration about how the world used to live in harmony before the Fire Nation attacked, and that was when it all went downhill. The CGIs were horrible! Story line turned into a disaster! The characters were given to the wrong casts, and sooo many more to complain about!

I'll give you a list on why this movie is horrible and why you should not waste your life watching this, do not make the same mistake I did. =)

1. At the starting of the anime, you can see a Waterbender forming a water ball and shooting it like a cannon, a Firebender doing a flip ending with an explosion, a piece of earth shot up from the ground and sent flying by an Earthender, and finally, an Airbender gathering air followed by a gust of wind. None of these were on screen. Instead, you can see weird-ass silhouettes doing kung-fu or taichi moves, followed by slow moving 'element' effects.

2. Most of the characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender anime are Asians. This was not in the movie. They casted Indians to be Zuko and the whole lot of Firebenders. Iroh, Zuko's uncle is a thin, tall Indian guy with cornrows. A THIN IROH, WITH CORNROWS?! The only obvious Asians were Earthbenders, and they were helpless, which does not even make sense.

3. In the anime, when a group of Earthbenders were caught by the Firebenders in the episode 'Imprisoned', they kept the prisoners in a metal ship, far away from any earth, in case they wanted to 'bend' their way out. However, in the movie, the Firebenders kept the prisoners on land, and they never figured out that they could earthbend their way out from there.
M.Night Shyamalan is insulting Asians indirectly: They are Earthbenders, who manipulate the earth, and they were kept prisoners on land, unlike in the anime, when they were completely helpless in the beginning...and the Earthbenders never figured out that they could earthbend their way out of the prison. STOOOPID!

If you have watched the anime and are looking forward to the movie, sorry to crush your expectation, it sucks!

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