Ironic, I haven't seen it, but I was just watching a vid from Comicon where Rifftrax was doing a panel. The whole audience seemed to think The Last Airbender sucked so hard that they needed to spoof it lol.

American's say it sucks. Asia says it's awesome. You decide for yourself when you get to watch. In America it made $130 opening weekend and came in 2nd on the chart, just under Twilight when it came out. In Japan it made $350 on opening weekends. A spoof would be ok to see, but I wouldn't go see a spoof of it.

No.

No what?

The Last Airbender is probably one of the worst adaptations I have ever seen. The effects were okay, but good god, pretty much everything else. The bending especially sucked. It took a hundred years of moves for them to do anything, and when they finally did it was very underwhelming. All buildup and no payoff. The acting was stilted and dry, and there were lots of racial undertones, making all the good guys white despite their Inuit design in the show. As for the plot, there was hardly any emotion or character. Just two hours of explaining. No story, just explaining and backstory. Even the casual dialogue was just explaining. Not to mention a lot of the characters look nothing at all like they do in the show, especially the fire lord.

I thought the bending was the best part! And there was a good build up when the uncle was making fire instead of bending fire :D

And the end scene when Aang is bending the ocean water.... THat was amazing! And now the water nation and some of the fire nation want him to be thier Avatar! That's one hell of a build up from the next movies coming out :D

Yea but you didn't watch the series first, it's a big difference

Cultist :p

guilty XD

I'm not guilty O.o

I am, of being an avatar cultist lol

I hadn't seen any of the cartoon before seeing it at a (bargain) theater...and I was glad I didn't see it for full-price, because I was underwhelmed by it. It's as you said, there was a lot of exposition, and not much execution. Yeah, there was the big battle and water scene, but even with that I found myself not interested. The main reason I went to see it was because I was taking one of my raccoon friends to see it, since he didn't want to go to a theater by himself. But otherwise....meh.

The Avatar war ended in season 2 lol good avatar beat evil avatar

I was part of a national protest movement against this film. There were several dedicated organizations such as Racebending.com that intellectually and artistically criticize this adaptation. M. Night's directing and film techniques are rated as extremely subpar by film and animation industry professionals and critics. It received extraordinary negative criticism by fans of the original series and casual moviegoers alike. There are overt nuances in the camera work, storyboarding, and narrative that have so many plotholes, it's a wonder if M. Night even knew what he was doing. It's been lambasted by the most dedicated fans, and the Avatar cosplay community which I was very much an integral part of threw away any adoration they had for the adaptation.

The Last Airbender, will always remain one of the worst movies ever created, easily deserving it's critically abysmal RottenTomatoes rating. It was a bombshell of a movie led by a director with no excuse for such dismal work, and was an injustice to racially diverse peoples, fans, and the creators themselves. M. Night destroyed all chances of creating a successful Paramount trilogy based on the beloved television series that brought ethnically diverse characters with real-world historical counterparts to American homes.

But in the live action film.....
Jackson Rathbone as Sokka, a fifteen-year-old warrior from the Southern Water Tribe and Katara's older brother. He can be condescending, and has no waterbending abilities. He often takes up leadership roles by virtue of coming up with most of the workable plans and tactics.
...... Which Sokka would you rather see?

The Sokka portrayed in the series had a lengthy maturation and growth experience, that had audiences view him in different lights, experience tragedies and comedies, and ultimately saw him become a leader and strong-hearted role model with his own uniqueness.
The Sokka I remember in the movie, was a serious, wildly incompetent character.

Sokka in season is an enjoyable character, but how goofy of a character would he have been in a live action film if he was portrayed true to his personality of the cartoon. There are a lot of horrible movies that were made that far beyond beyond worse than The Last Airbender.

House Of The Dead
Conan The Barbarian (2010)
Dragonball



Are just an examples.

A good movie that came out that is an adaptation of the cartoon, but has literally nothing the same as the cartoon, Transformers. None of the characters in Transfprmers are the same. None of the live action characters exist in the cartoon. Megatron is nothing like the original Megatron. Optimus Prime does not look like Optimus Prime. But..... people like it anyway. It has nothing to do with the chartoon, not even how the arrived on Earth. But people like it anyway. Why are people so easy to decide to like a movie that has nothing to do with the cartoon and has more years in family history, than Avatar The Last Airbender yet Transformers is a success? How can The Last Airbender talk about the race issue when the Firenation are all Asians? I think the ideas, the plot, the way it was left to lead into a part 2, and the fights, effects, everything was superb.

I have to ask though, why did you participate in a movement to not have that movie made? I would be glad to even have a live action movie made, even if it is the only one made so far, just to see a live action version. Wouldn't you be happy that someone at least tried to make the movie of The Last Airbender?

Hunny are you on drugs? I thought that movie was terrible!

Completely sober ^^

Well thought out Zentrin! As much as I did dislike the movie, I can honestly say I really enjoyed the bending and the limiting of the benders. Ever notice in the cartoon Fire benders are completely limitless even at night their bending is strong. Unlike Water and Earth benders who are limited to having their element with their person at all times. We shall ignore Air benders for this because of the fact they are a peaceful people. (and I fully believe an air bender could you know force all the air out of someone causing them to asphyxiate, again peaceful monks. Kinda how blood bending makes you loose your free will) But in the movie all benders needed their element right there by their sides. And the only bender who could bend without their element was Uncle, just proving yet again what a true ultimate master of fire bending he truly is.

Also I agree with you I did like the more mature Sokka. Goofy Sokka works for the series in that theres time to allow his character develop and grow over multiple episodes. Unlike a movie where you have what 90-120 running mins. Also I'd say fans are upset with mature Sokka cuz its suppose to be Katara thats suppose to fulfill that parenting role. Shes the one thats the mother figure in the series and in the movie I feel shes kinda just a whining girl who happens to be a bender.

All this said I now just wanna go watch the movie again and marathon the cartoon. lol

WOOH!!! Avatar MARATHONG!!!! I mean MARATHON!!!!! WHOOO!!!!!

I appreciate your comment. I am not trying to force people to like the movie. It sounds like people are trying other people to not like the movie. And that does not make sense to me. I have seen some wretched horrible movie that are still very enjoyable. Even watch Mutant Assault Girls? Or Frankenstein Girl vs Vampire Girl?

Those are some raunchy movies but are still fantastic by the ideas that are in there.

If you have not seen 'Mutant Assault Girls' or 'Frankenstein Girl vs Vampire Girl' I hugely recommend getting it on blu ray, make some popcorn, buy some sodas and invite a lot of your friends. Because those are movies you will never forgot

I agree, it was a good movie, though the series was better.
But that's only because it took it's time and set the events up
in slowly. The movie felt extremely rushed, they tried to cram
all of book one into like 90 minutes.


Honestly, the whole series should have been produced the
way Star Wars was, spread the series out over a like 6
segments, 2 segments per book, and then the whole thing
would have been epic!