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Oh yeah, and NEVER see 3D movies unless they were FILMED in 3D to begin with!

or studios should start going by the old stand-by: REGULAR-FUCKING-2D-MOVIES-THAT-ARE-ACTUALLY-GOOD! D:<

like Knight and Day :D

"Oh yeah, and NEVER see 3D movies unless they were FILMED in 3D to begin with!"

As you said, Touche!

Computer-converting 2D movies to 3D is as dumb and disrespectful as computer-colouring black-and-white films.

That painful? Now I have to think of something else to do tomorrow night :(

It's still worth the watch. The art style is great, but the acting is horrendous. Of course it is- Nickelodeon casted it. lol

If I see a movie, it has to have more than art style, because I'm going to be sitting for 2 hours of it. There's a reason I fall asleep during ballet: I don't care how well produced it is, nothing interesting happens, and they just look pretty and do the same stuff for hours. At the same time, opera is great, because they tell a story even if they barely do any acting.

Basically, if I want to see pretty effects I'll go look at whatever game trailer square-enix put out recently :)

I saw it last night at a 12:01am showing. Shyamalan was really over a barrel with this one. If he did something different, people would complain that he violated the story. So he took the other approach and remained very faithful to the story. The unfortunate result was that they touched on the necessary major plot points for Book One but, in so doing, they didn't have time for everything that makes the characters personable. I didn't really have any empathy for the characters in the movie because the movie didn't give you a chance to get to know them. That's not so much Shyamalan's fault as it was the very aggressive timetable the movie had to keep. They tried to squeeze 20x 20-ish minute episodes into a movie a little under 2 hours long. All those things that the characters are doing when they're NOT checking off major plot points are what make them so likeable.

The acting was a bit dry at times but I didn't consider it horrible by any stretch. I think they did the best they could... for example, the ridiculous faces Sokka makes in the animated series could never be made in real life and that's half his character.

The action sequences and the bending were very well choreographed.

I guess the best way to describe this movie is that it's a Cliff's Notes version of the first book of the animated series. It's the super-abridged get-you-caught-up-to-speed summarized version which only really works if you already have a great feel for the characters.

Having said all that, I think that if you took the same cast and gave them 61 20-minute episodes to tell the same story verbatim, they'd probably do a pretty good job at a live action Avatar and I would definitely watch it. If they manage to somehow make a movie on Book Two or Book Three, I'll go see those, as well because, as a fan, I'd rather see them made than not. I don't think they've done anything to bring new blood into the fold, however.


Your Zuko costume is pretty good, but your scar is on the wrong side.

Just to say, Shyamalan might have done better to do something from after the series, such as the whole ominous Zuko "where's my mother" thing, or to simply have done another story that wasn't covered in the 3 seasons at all. Imagine a Naruto movie that tried to squeeze in all the major plot points from episode 1 up to Shippuuden. Do they do that? No. They simply go with the characters with the understanding that their fan-base already knows each of the characters' history and aspirations. That would have been a better direction for Shyamalan to have taken.

Well, I think this is yet another story that was made for kids, but also happens to have a significant set of older followers. The movie is probably awesome, if you're 10 years old! But to those who are old enough to appreciate quality film making, its not often kids movies meet those requirements.

Quite awesome when they do, though! I love kids movies.

Well, I think this is yet another story that was made for kids, but also happens to have a significant set of older followers. The movie is probably awesome, if you're 10 years old! But to those who are old enough to appreciate quality film making, its not often kids movies meet those requirements.

Quite awesome when they do, though! I love kids movies.

Well, that's three thumbs down I've read about now. Looks like I definitely won't be seeing this film. I'd been holding out hope that it wouldn't suck.

Saw the midnight showing, left fifteen minutes in, got bored waiting in an empty movie theater and watched from the sidelines at the halfway point. I've got really low standards with movies but still, The Last Airbender was AWFUL. I felt bad for the handful of actors in there who might actually be good.

i saw the movie, i was not disappointed, though i expected it to be a rotten tomato. look at it on the side of a parent who wants to take a child to a movie that has a somewhat intelligent plot and has a good moral.

the moral of the movie hit home with me. "stand up and do what is needed, take responsibility for your actions and regardless of your wishes, sometimes life throws a path in front of you and you must take it. turning away only brings trouble and eventually you will have to go along that path you worked so hard to avoid."

it is a movie for kids and i know there are little things here and there in the movie that don't flow with the animated series, but if i was a parent, this would be a ideal movie to take my kids.

I'm not disagreeing with you, it's just that there are different ways to look at it. i don't like m' night, but honestly in my opinion, this is one of the best movies he's ever had a hand in that didn't piss me off or make me want my 2 hours back.

decent movie with a good moral. looks like it was mainly intended for younger generation. (the animated series was too)