I kept expecting the Fire Lord to turn out to be Jon Stewart. Anyway, it was substantially worse than the Phantom Menace. Only a small child would not notice how bad it was. Yet, I liked it. I am so ashamed. :smack:
“By reading the secret scrolls I plundered from the hidden library, I have discovered the identity of the mortal forms of the moon and ocean spirits. Back to you, Jon.”
I’ve noticed that it appears to be impossible to re-read that sentence without it being in his voice.
And that would be quite wrong. Go see it and judge for yourself.
No thanks. There are too many other critically-praised and audience-approved movies in theaters and on my shelves that I haven’t seen. Life is short. I would never waste my movie-going time on something that has been widely reported to suck. (A sad 8% at Rotten Tomatoes and a 20 score at MetaCritic.)
I’ll let them make their money back from the lemmings who line up every weekend to see whatever has been the most heavily hyped piece of junk on television the week before.
I think the tide is starting to turn a bit. Several of my Facebook friends have made “it’s not that bad!” posts, the NYT ran an article saying it did pretty well financially, and is expected to continue doing so, and one rather intelligent person I know (a film school grad, no less) called it “great.”
Judge for yourself. Gigli is actually a pretty good movie. And no, I’m not joking.
I’m going to assume they just have bad taste, for now. The people saying it was bad have presented reasons why it was bad. Just saying “I disagree” doesn’t hold the same weight.
As for doing well financially, I see this as a bad thing. If Shyamalan has made another crappy movie, the best thing that could happen is for his career to die a brutal death, not live on so he can ruin more movies.
Ok, this cracks me up. You call other people lemmings for seeing a movie they’re interested in, yet even if the previews intrigue you, you won’t go to something that those same critics panned?
Here’s your lemming sign.
Blahdy blahdy blah blah. My kids enjoyed it. I enjoyed it with them. Its a kids movie. If you want to talk about a bad kids movie, lets talk Tooth Fairy.
i just got home from seeing it… you want someone to list problems, i got the time tonight.
warning… spoilers ahead
the first shot of the movie, we get the "four “masters” shot like on the tv show, but none of them have ANY fludity of motion. they jerk around through their poses like marionettes. This happens alot through the entire movie so get used to it.
shakycam shot to show us sokka and katara, or so-ka, they prononuce almost every main characters name differently then in the show.
Grandma KNOWS aang (rhymes with gong) is the avatar. you two need to go follow him now okbye
theres no real exposition anywhere in the movie. if your not already familiar with these characters, tough tits for you. for example. So-ka and Kitara just show up out of nowhere flying Appa, never having seen even move. They just automatically know how to control a flying bison.
when they enter the first earth kingdom village the camera loses focus, you can actually see the auto-focus readjust during the establishing shot of the village.
ong is having difficulties learning waterbending
the firenation is capturing ALL benders in the earth kingdom village, throws ong and so-ka and kitara into their prison in a dam dirt filled valley, with the EARTHBENDING prisoners outnumbering the guards 5-1. ong gives a rousing speech and we get the funniest shot of the movie. after watching an earthbender swing a big wall of rock out of the ground we see 6 earthbenderd take stances, jump around like epileptics in a fit, and throw 1 rock the size of an average persons head at a fire nation soldier.
uncle Eero tries to get prinz Suko to stay in a small village and give up his search and meet girls, where we finally get his backstory of the agni KEY fight, as told by some random kid Suko asks, as if EVERYBODY knows, (in the series Iroh had to tell Zukos crew the story, because they didn’t know in the same episode we get all of Aangs as well)
princess Yue’s father is dead? lolwut
Momo is seen for the second time, after showing up once at an air temple near the beginning and never being mentioned or seen again until now, the call him by name like hes their pet, though they never interacted with him at all.
Admiral zao is kiled onscreen, in a horrible and unnecassry manner. drowned in a big bubble of water, by 4 waterbenders, all while a huge melee fight is going on that leaves no bodies.
After the big fight at the northern water tribe everyone boys to the avatar like hes a god. water tribe AND fire nation troops, including So-ka and Kitara.
even the kids that were at the showing i was were disappointed.
Conducting market research before making a purchase is non lemming-like behavior.
I think you mean Siddhartha.
Whoa indeed.
My friend, a fan of the series, dragged me to it, and I have never seen the series. Honestly, it wasn’t as bad as the worst reviews make it out to be. I’ve definitely seen worse movies. The main problem is editing. It looks like they tried to cram an entire season of the TV series into a couple hours, and so we get tiny glimpses of tons of exposition and plot development, with none of it being fleshed out. There were a bunch of scenes that were just 30 seconds long that advanced one bit of plot that maybe took an entire episode to tell in the series, but they felt that it had to be in the movie somewhere so they jammed it in and then quickly cut to the next scene.
My friend was telling me afterward that the series is a lot more lighthearted than the movie was, and that the Avatar guy is actually a happy-go-lucky mischievous kid, and the main older brother guy and the fire uncle guy are comic relief characters. If they took a more lighthearted approach than the movie would’ve improved significantly, as I think it took itself much too seriously.
Terrible movie. Ranks right up there with Battlefield Earth as worst adaptation from another medium. The only good thing about the entire movie was that the bending did look pretty cool. Although I don’t recall it taking 45 seconds of arm waving to do anything in the series…that’s going to make for some slow ass fights. 'Hold on while I perform this 5 minute Kata before I can make a breeze to blow you down". Acting was terrible, plot, pacing and writing were awful, the storyline was a convoluted mess, name changes of the main characters for absolutly no reason at all. Just an bucketfull of suck all around. The series had a nice concise opening that gave enough back story to understand the basic idea of the ‘universe’, why on God’s earth would you change that? Just a terrible movie.