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[ SECRET POST #2227 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2227 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Roswell]

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[Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney]

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03.

[Pokemon]

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[The Vampire Diaries]

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[Teen Wolf]

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06.

[Les Miserables: Shojo Cosette]

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[The Hobbit]

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[Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss, Dan Handler]

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[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)]

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[Power Rangers]

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[Star Wars: The Old Republic]

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[Big Bang Theory]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[Troy Baker]

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[Magi; Final Fantasy IX]

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[Skyrim]

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[Supernatural]

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[Penn & Teller]

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[Flight Facilities - With You]

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20.

[Neil Gaiman]

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...but it's exam time and I decided to watch The Last Airbender movie out of sheer curiosity. When all the shit with it was going down I didn't really get involved, though I agreed with the criticism.

Watching the movie for myself: I am sort of okay with Aang (if not with the pronunciation of his name...). Somehow I can kind of see him as Aang, in a way.
Sokka and Katara, though? Just... no. I can't buy it. They're just not them. Seriously, they should have cast not-white people. Also people who can act.
What bothers me the most about Zuko is that they had all that money for special effects, and they couldn't scar him properly? Sheesh. And okay, so they changed the race, but... did they have to do away with all the pretty hair?

No scratch that. The worst thing about this movie is WHAT IS THIS DIALOGUE, WHAT IS THIS PLOT, WHAT IS THIS ACTING, WHY IS THIS ABSOLUTE GARBAGE what did they do to a:tla T^T
Seriously, the horrible crappiness of it all is almost worse than all the racebending =/
Even the bending effects aren't great! They hardly bend during battle at all.

Movie!Zuko came off really offputting and pedo-y to me, personally. That seen with the little boy? Yikes.

omg, yes! It's like, I could *see* how they were going for touching or something, but it was just uncomfortable and weird.
Also stilted. And bad exposition.

There there, it'll be okay. The healing can begin now.

A:tlA is, hands-down, the worst adaptation I have ever seen. It's just so joyless and heartless, it has none of the spirit of the series.

"THERE IS EARTH RIGHT BENEATH YOUR FEET!" That sequence was so mind-meltingly stupid.

"Obviously, kid! That's why they put us on a platform in the middle of the ocea-- OH WAIT."

Also the ten guys doing an intricate dance move to float one pebble. LAWLS for days. So bad. (But the Rifftrax is glorious!)

The pebble-floating dance slayed me. I nearly died laughing.
All the bending seems really pathetic, actually. They wave their arms for hours until something actually deigns to happen, and you don't get the same feeling of the element flowing with them that there was in the series.

....yes. .....that.
That was probably one of the worse inspirational speech scenes I have ever seen.

But you're right - joyless really describes it perfectly! And the series is so full of heart, too. It's a shame. It could have been beautiful.

I think the only thing I'm sort of fond of is Iroh. He has dreads. And reminds me of Qui-Gon.

You think... my son is this person the soldiers are calling the Blue Spirit?

...yes.

it was the most sinister "yes" that I have ever heard. I have not yet heard a more overacted "yes" in all my years of watching film.

Also it killed me how they were hopping to conclusions. Teleporting to conclusions. There was literally zero evidence.

You mean like this?

http://rufftoon.deviantart.com/art/Last-Airbender-Spoilers-03-170628265

this is amazing. I now feel better about the whole movie XD

Whoop, I posted this (and the other ones) below. Should have looked more.

There was so much to hate about that movie. My husband and I are huge fans of the show (but never set foot near the batshit fandom) and that movie was such a disappointment.

One of the things that really bothered us that you didn't mention was the fact that firebenders couldn't produce fire (except Iroh). I thought I might just be overreacting but when I analyzed it, I realized that making that change undermined the Fire Nation's threat to the other nations. It makes everyone else look weak that they let the Fire Nation take over in the first place. Being able to produce the fire themselves, combined with a large military trained in offensive maneuvers, is why they were so formidable to first resist and then overthrow. /rant

Mentioning everything wrong with that movie would take longer than the movie itself XD

But yeah, I was really bothered by that as well. It's unclear how the Fire Nation even took over, if they can't produce fire. I also don't understand why they would even change that for the movie - what, did they run out of money for CGI? It doesn't contribute to the plot in any way at all.

M. Night Shamalamadingdong thought it'd be better if the elements were more "balanced"

This. Why does the Water Tribe even has FLAMING TORCHES that they don't put out when the Fire Nation's soldiers come? This plot hole is larger than a planet. A giant planet.

On the bright side, now you can start repressing that the movie ever existed. Most of the time that actually works for me.

But seriously, this is not just the worst adaption I've ever seen, it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Top five, at least.

My favorite is actually the seen where Katara asks Aang, what his name is.... at the Air Temple. After all of the South Pole arc and the time it presumably took them to fly to the Air Temple. And they want me to believe they actually did spent days together, without exchanging names....

It's just like the writer realized that the name of the main character wasn't mentioned at all and just put it in the scene he was writing at the moment, because he really didn't care. At all.

It really is a terrible movie. I mean, the plotting, the character development... there was nothing that was not clunky and poorly done. Nothing.

With Aang it's especially stupid because they could have done introductions at the beginning, but no. That might have been logical.

It's such a shame this had to happen to such an excellent series as ATLA, too.

And she'd already narrated using his name more then once.

You should really read AgonyBooth's write up about it. Makes me laugh every time.

Ruftoon worked on season 3, drew some of the comics in Nick Magazine, and delivers the best critiques on the movie I saw... while also offering solutions.

The real thing to take from this, (aside from practical advice) is that they should have let THE GIGANTIC WEALTH OF STORYBOARDERS THEY HAD FROM THE CARTOON HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THE MOVIE STORYBOARDS. OR MAYBE, I DUNNO, HAVE BEEN HIRED OUTRIGHT.

Edited 2013-02-07 04:34 (UTC)

Re: And finally fucking around a bit

blunderbuss - 2013-02-07 05:16 (UTC) - Expand

"Hey! lest take this really popular cartoon, and make a live action movie of it! only first lets remove every thing that made the show enjoyable, and that made sense with the plot."

That movie was so terrible in pretty much every way imaginable. I'm glad it tanked, but at the same time I'm legit sad we'll never get to see the complete train wrecks the sequels would have been.

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Art by Rufftoon, actual A:TLA cartoon storyboarder

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