Is "The Last Airbender" really THAT bad? - First Time Watching - bunnytails

[@spencernaugle]

"Fire bending comes from the breath. Breath becomes energy in the body, that energy extends beyond your limbs and becomes Fire."

[@spencernaugle]

People like to focus on the Elements opposites. But I like what they have in common. 1. Air bending and Fire bending both draw energy from Breathing. 2. Water and Earth both use constructs, for defense or attack. 3. Water and Air both use "Fluid Movement" to avoid enemy attacks. 4. Earth and Fire, Opposite of said "Fluid Movement", both use "Horse Stance" to stay rooted to the ground as a basic form.

[@novapixel16]

Yup. Iroh explained this in the first episode too.

[@owalover]

Watching the light in your eyes slowly die as you watched this was...sad. Preciate your reaction

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

😭

[@spencernaugle]

"I narrated the Whole Movie in a mono-tone, so we could skip over parts of an entire season of the show we couldn't fit into one movie."

[@stuffyouotterlistento1461]

"I feel nothing." Feeling nothing is the high point of the movie. There is only nothing and disappointment.

[@StillOnTrack]

"It tried to eat me!" "With it's ass?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣💀 That was 10,000x funnier than anything in this movie

[@omotaraibiloyetwentyninete6279]

after watching the recent trailer for the coming netflix adaptation, watching you try to get through this monstrosity is like drinking orange juice right after brushing your teeth

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

lol. I still gotta watch the recent trailer. Will do today.

[@IamnotJohnFord]

As the hippies said in Cave of Two Lovers, this movie suffered from destination sickness. They concentrated on the destination and not the going. They made fire benders require fire to bend. Fire comes from the breath and extends body. And, with dragon fire bending, fire is life. It comes from your life force. Never does it require external existence. I could beat one of these movie fire benders with a common garden hose by putting out their source of fire.

[@Seabasstard22]

I pictured more of a squirt gun

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Too true. Like I mentioned, it just felt like they were going through a check list of plot points. You said it very well.

[@spencernaugle]

7:42 "He was bending tiny stones at us". In this movie... ridiculous. In the Kyoshi novels... terrifying.

[@Richardwho-vv5bh]

In Legend of Korra: Bbig brain move.

[@Richardwho-vv5bh]

Oh yes, she was ice cold.

[@TheFireMonkey]

the bending seems off for two reasons - 1st, as you noticed, the bending seems to happen after the motions rather than with them, but also, in the animated series, they used actual martial arts which make sense with the different types of bending - in the movie, the guy playing Aang is a martial artist, but he does Taekwondo which is nothing like the art that Aang does in the series ... and the rest mostly just do random movements. There is no attempt to match the bending with the motions used in the animation at all. Mostly, sets and costumes they did ok with, but they didn't bother getting a lot of the other stuff right.

[@DarthRayj]

Exactly. The different elements are supposed to have different forms and styles, not just everyone randomly doing whatever they seem to think looks about right.

[@TheFireMonkey]

@@DarthRayj in fact, each bending style was done using a different real martial art chosen because it seemed to fit that bending. A person who knows the specific art can recognise it in the show because they went to the trouble to actually do the real moves.

[@darkforestcinema]

I went to the midnight release of this film in full Zuko cosplay, makeup and eye contacts. The trailer fooled me too well. I have never wanted to walk out of a film so much as I had felt watching this horrible film. I didn't stay for pictures after the film was was done. Everyone in the theater left the auditorium and building in silence. I have never heard such a quiet ending like that morning. Nothing I have watched up to today has ever come close to M. Night's grand fail of his proudly written, produced, and directed film. -Sage

[@GentleGiantJason]

We didn’t make it to the end 😢

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I felt more emotions reading this comment than I did watching the entire movie.

[@Richardwho-vv5bh]

@@bunnytailsREACTS for real. I love his movies, but this one is just.....bad.

[@MetaphoricalMountaineering]

Honestly, the midnight premiere I went to was the best. Almost everyone was yelling at the screen, enraged, and booing, throughout the entire thing. So glad I got to see it like that

[@maninthedark99]

I DID WALK OUT. I literally couldn't handle the destruction of something I loved so dear.

[@AlexanderAshcroft]

Bunny tries her best to be as positive as possible, The Movie.

[@carlossanchez-us9dl]

Firebending is based in the Chinese concept of chi, which is an internal energy which allows a person to move and live, it's like the soul but in form of vital energy. Firebenders use this energy and somehow externalize it to make contact with other elements like nitrogen and oxygen to create the flame. Also, just like one of the main concepts in Kung fu is breathing in order to use this energy to cause damage, Firebenders use their breathing to create fire

[@dmonroe20]

It was definitely one of the movies of all time.

[@mysticfox1663]

Lmao not Azula's 2 seconds being the best part of the movie regarding tone and acting XD

[@pepsiman990]

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

[@fredrice8650]

The old dude who lures Aang into that impossible trap needs Iroh to teach him how to threaten someone with a knife, cuz that ain't it.

[@ofenomeno1381]

You mean oong not aang lol

[@turnerburner922]

24:40 You: “I feel nothing” Me: Exactly

[@WilmaWalma]

My friends dragged me with them to watch this in the cinema. They were huge fans of the original series and super hyped, but I had zero expectations because I hand't watched the original yet... I remember I wasn't loving this movie but I wasn't hating it either. I thought it was a bit boring but I really enjoyed the effects (It was in 3D), but I was confused why my friends were hating it so much... until I watched the original series myself, only then did I understand why my friends had been so upset. I really felt bad for them. I do believe the new Netflix live action series will be much better than this movie, I do think it's impossible it turns out as bad... but I don't dare to hope I'll love the live action series yet. I just hope I won't find it boring. I really enjoyed your reaction! I'm happy KZbin recommended it to me 💜

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I’m glad you enjoyed this despite the obvious issues with the material. 😁

[@maninthedark99]

My friend was the same way. He hadn't seen the show before the movie. He found it hilarious at my reaction, until he too watched the show and only THEN did he understand and sympathize with my rage.

[@BonusRoundTube]

Fire bending comes from the bender and the greatest source of fire, the SUN. As Zuko said to Katara "You rise with moon I rise with the Sun"

[@Nitedawg1]

The thumbnail should have been bunny yawning at 16:52

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Haha true

[@Atlantiquasa]

This movie makes me tearbend in pain....but i love that Katara actually said "a"vatar and not "uh"vatar by possible accident. Even that actress knew how it was supposed to be pronounced.

[@ccthomas]

Maybe there's more lore to be had somewhere, but the show kind of hints at why firebenders can create fire from nothing: Iroh says it comes from breathing, and that lightning comes from separating and channeling energy. So it seems like it's the ability to distill energy from other sources, manifesting as fire.

[@roryreviewer6598]

Not only that, but it’s a reflection of how each bender learned how to bend. The moon, the badger moles and the sky bison all manipulate the elements around them, so that’s how the benders learned to do it. But dragons make their own fire from within, so that’s how firebenders learned to do it.

[@no1guy825]

Firebending is really more like thermal or heat bending. I hesitate to call it Energybending, one because it's spoken for and two because energy is too broad. Firebenders do minor things like heat their air, heat water and ice without producing an actual spark or flame. That's why the breath and your own chi are so important...you will always be a source of heat until you die. And once you spark the air, and feel the sun, you can build it to incredible levels. Obviously there is something deeper at play with Firebending since it requires drive and motivation...that inner fire that does not refer to literal heat, but a Will within you, but every bending art has its underlying philosophy. Heating the air with varying intensities and levels of focus and direction creates all the pyrotechnics we've seen....blue fire, targeted combustion, jets, napalm, barrier walls, and Iroh's Big Bang Attack.

[@walfiend2]

I had a really weird experience with this movie. I had never seen the animated show, and watched this in the theater, to see what the deal was. Even with nothing to compare it to, it was objectively bad. The acting is very bad, and your description of "flat" and "disconnected" is one of the best ways to describe it!

[@MavenCree]

In this movie, Firebenders need existing fire to bend. That's why they're always walking around with lit torches. That was NOT in the show.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

It feels pretty ridiculous. Hope it doesn’t rain when they are trying to bend.

[@CheeseNacho_]

i read somewhere that M Night did that change to make the elements "more fair", completely ignoring the fact that that very advantage was the reason why the fire nation was so superior to the others in the show

[@Izanagi-Okami]

“For some reason, he was having trouble with water bending” Animated show: Actual, literal prodigy that Katara was jealous of. Dude everything about this movie is just wrong. I can’t believe I forgot so many atrocities.

[@IncandescentFlame]

Firebending in the show is used as an extension of the body, and follows directly with each movement a bender makes (i.e., bending as visible Chi). This is why the show's fights feel so fluid. In the movie, bending is similar to Hand Seals in Naruto or drawing magic circles (i.e., motions instead of words to cast a spell). This makes fights feel very stagnant, as each person is effectively waiting for their turn to do a sequence of moves.

[@channel80news]

I absolutely love how you diagnosed the problems with the bending, you were exactly right. The reaction to Appa's face though, that was as hilarious to see the reaction as it was horrifying to see what they did to him. You're really right about this being a palate cleanser before Korra!

[@Richardwho-vv5bh]

The best thing about this movie is that the actress who play princess Yue, was part of the main cast in Legend of Korra, and she become in one episode in a fan favorite.

[@stuffyouotterlistento1461]

Yue and Iroh were really the only bright spots in the movie, acting-wise (even though I didn't care for Iroh's reinterpretation).

[@walterwhitejr.445]

Shyamalan said he made this movie because his daughter was a fan of the show, and they sat down to watch it together as a family. After the movie came out, my first question was, "Why do you hate your daughter so much?" Every ounce of joy the series had in it was bled out. Pronunciations of names were changed (even Sokka, who explicitly SAID in an episode, "Sokka! NOT SOAKA!") Apparently, Shyamalan thought he knew how names *should* be pronounced. The races of characters made no sense or had any coordination to them (from Gran Gran to Katara and Sokka to the rest of the Southern Water Tribe for a first example.) Instead of basing the Fire Nation on Japan, now they're based on India. The meticulous crafting of bending styles based on the philosophies of various specific martial arts styles was completely abandoned in favor of "move around a lot and try and look cool." (Epic fail.) Some shots were lifted wholesale from the animated series. Shyamalan has the gall to claim, "Written, Directed and Produced by M.Night Shyamalan", when at most he can claim "adapted badly and filmed poorly by someone combusting their own career." And giving Aang the Katara speech to inspire the earth benders to revolt? Why was it even necessary? They had dirt ALL AROUND THEM. Katara had it harder in the series because they were on a FLOATING METAL PRISON. And doing Appa dirty like that? OY. And NO, you did not "feel nothing." You felt FEAR. And now that fear has made you, as it has the rest of us, very wary of the Netflix adaptation. It's a hecuva headwind Shyamalan created to persist so strongly for so long after his film came out.

[@Shindai]

Ah, the Last airbender, where Sokka is played by Anakin Skywalker :P The reason the bending doesn't land is it's so slow, and something that bugs me is, in the animated show, you could see the bending was based on different martial arts. In the movie people are just moving. Aang doesn't need to do flips and such. Bagua is a pretty grounded martial art. All those flips is ironically more fire nation Northern Shaolin style. The mispronunciation of things like Sokka and Agni Kai is... irritating. This movie feels like bad fanfic written by someone who saw the show once as a kid but doesn't quite remember

[@genkiian]

As someone who never watched the series at the time seeing this film after all series fans had trashed it, I didn't see it as a bad movie but wasn't jumping up & down in anticipation for a sequel either 🙃

[@NewAeonWarlord]

I saw the movie without knowing the show first, too. I wasn't as upset about it naturally (since I didn't know what it was based on) but still thought it felt kind of off and not very good. I remember thinking stuff like why would anyone ever use this "bending" in a fight when just wieling a weapon is so much faster, simpler and more effective? not to mention some other stuff like the ultra-flat characters and all that.

[@joolzian2510]

The bending doesn’t correlate with the movements. In the show, every movement has an effect. In this movie they perform a full performative dance before anything happens. M Night misunderstood the assignment

[@BeeKee404]

I'm pretty confident the live action series will be a HUGE improvement from this thing of a movie. Keeping my expectations at a fair level but after watching the newest trailer, I'm pretty hopeful.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I hope you’re right.

[@acereporter73]

Summer Bishil, the actress who played Azula for that one bit, is actually pretty great in the show *The Magicians.*

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

YES!! I looked her up after and recognized her from that show. She was absolutely one of my favorite characters in it.

[@Izanagi-Okami]

“ to get your airbending tattoos you have to meditate for a long time…” No, you just need to be spiritually sound and a cognitively capable airbender.

[@embran8486]

Within this serious movie i could vibe with Iroh, reminded me of Qui-Gon Jinn. Best actor of the bunch too. That and fire nation outfits/ ship and Blue Spirit look is only positive I give it.

[@redfieldwong717]

This is definitely a homage to the original series, but I do notice that both fire and water bending is rooted in emotions while air and earth bending is rooted on certain mentalities.

[@rwhite9994]

The problem with M. Night's movie is that he forget what was most important about the Last Airbender, hope. 100 yrs the nations have been at war, so many lives lost, so much despair. And when Aang comes back the first he wants to do is play... have fun. Even after he understands the world around him and how much it has changed, he still is a beacon of hope, fun, and love. Something all the tribes, (not just southern water tribes) have not had in generations. This movie was purposefully meant to be so over the top dark, lacking in humor, and a cliff note of the first chapter Water. Too much content to squeeze down into a short movie that is taken up by very long and silly cgi effects. Slowly learning the bending - because of the other nations - is so important and a loving message to bring people together. There was also that weird push for 3D to be added to ... stuff, that did not need 3D. Also everything was shot on a sound stage and you could see it constantly. The actors seemed fine, script was weak and did not cover the many loose ends by the end of the movie, or not even setting up a cliff hanger. I feel M. Night can easily make a great action adventure, and or fantasy, super hero movie, but he lost his way on this one. Glad you cover movie reactions BunnyT, but this movie is a waste of your precious time, when there are soo many better movies out there. But, it will allow you to appreciate good movie, by seeing bad ones. I would try a good French/American fantasy movie called, Dragon Hunters 2008, with Forest Whitaker. It has an interesting take on animated fantasy, kind cool.

[@spencernaugle]

In the show Katara grabbed Sokka's Club to break Aang out of the Ice. The club he loses when the sand benders throw out Appas saddle.

[@lyger1980]

The fire benders in the movie they use the fire pots to bend the fire but in the series they can bend without the fire pots

[@quintorro]

I believe the plan was to have Sozin's Comet give the firebenders the ability to produce fire on their own without a source of fire. Unless you are a powerful bender, like Iroh shows after the moon spirit fish is killed.

[@chrispedayo]

Nice reaction and love the Balamb Garden music at the end

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks 😊

[@zanzibarwhite-]

Worst example of ignoring source material ever. It proves he never watched the show, because everyone who did remembers Sokka's rap battle in "Tales of Ba Sing Se""It's pronounced with an aaka"

[@serenitymoon825]

Which is funny because he says he watched the series with his kids and loved it, but how can anyone believe that after watching this???

[@CheeseNacho_]

i was gonna say it's not a rap battle but a poetry battle, but to be fair it does feel more like a rap battle 😂

[@TerminatorJuice]

The director, writer, and producer M. Night Shyamalan decided to change how fire bending worked for this movie, because he's an egotistical Maniac who thought he could improve upon the amazing writing of the TV series!

[@nightwingman666]

You survived. I remember when I saw this abomination it took me months before I was back to eating solid foods.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Oh Lord lol

[@GentleGiantJason]

The pronunciations of the names are seem to be using Japanese/European style vowel sounds: ah ng, ee ro, etc

[@joolzian2510]

Ugh everytime I watch them “bend” all I can think is, a soldier could walk up and smack you before you actually DO anything

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Exactly!

[@jermainemartinez8282]

If you can control one element, which would it be? Earth, Air, Fire or Water? Netflix is doing something with last air bender, not sure if it's a remake of the movie or it's own live series.

[@285049]

The Netflix Live Action is a series. It's going to have 8 1-hour episodes for book 1.

[@jermainemartinez8282]

@@285049 oh ok cool

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Maybe water? It looks really cool and also has healing properties. What about you, Jermaine?

[@jermainemartinez8282]

Niice ​@@bunnytailsREACTSI'm a have to say Fire, I've always been a fan of that element 🔥🔥

[@Saphthings]

The sad part is that the kid who played Aang is great. He looks the part, acts the part. He was a wasted actor that could’ve really been aang for a whole movie series.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Yeah, I wasn’t too bothered by him.

[@mistervo8185]

That's ONG to you, sir!

[@williamrosmer5629]

they changed the names because they were using the authentic pronunciation from the real world languages they would have been inspired by. at least thats what they said

[@loupgarou95]

Yeah, that's true. You do pronounce the character for Aang's name the way the move says it and not the way the show says it. And in the original Japanese the name is based on, it would be Soaka and not Sokka. I honestly think if the movie had been executed better the name thing wouldn't have been that big a deal. They could have really leaned into the authenticity argument. Instead we got the absurdity of them changing the names to better respect Asian cultures while white actors play the characters.

[@drusillathetinsmith]

I came into this movie blind, and enjoyed it. There had been questionable character choices (the compressed Blue Spirit arc, Angry Sokka trying to be funny in the beginning, the clumsy execution of martial forms...)Then I saw the animated original & I understood the anger. So much could have been retold differently (it's an adaptation after all), more effectively, more organically

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks for sharing your perspective! Interesting to hear about the experience of someone who had not yet seen the source material.

[@MrGBH]

We were told a story, in a medium where we should be shown a story

[@spencernaugle]

Here we go

[@tracyoliver6648]

3:10. You are beginning to believe...

[@FiveZeroes.]

I saw this in theaters at the midnight show opening night.. On a side note you may want to check your audio setup, whenever you speak your mic has had pretty rough feedback the last several videos.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I’ve been struggling with my set up ever since I got this expensive ass microphone.

[@285049]

@@bunnytailsREACTS Yeah, I did notice a bit of feedback when listening to you speak. I would try to either buy a pop filter of some type(it looks like you already have one attached to the microphone?) Or check to see if your microphone comes with any software that you can use to improve the quality of your sound (Most microphones I know usually come with its own software, though, there may be third party ones you can download.). I suspect that turning on something like "Background noise suppression" or a similar setting may help with your feedback issue. If you have any wireless devices near the microphone, you might want to keep them away from the microphone as they can also result in feedback noises.

[@taravati181]

You poor thing i cant believe you suffered through this

[@Seabasstard22]

IMMEDIATELY clicked to pause and scream in text “WHYYYYYYY - WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY!!!!!! NOOO NOW YOU CANT UNSEE IT!!!!”

[@hkpew]

It's funny to watch new reactors who've just finished the show watching this. They always start out with an attitude of "It can't really be all that bad!" and trying to see the best in it, and then get slowly (or sometimes rapidly) worn down until they admit that it is horrible. As some of the commenters, particularly those who saw the movie without seeing the show first, have pointed out, it isn't objectively one of the worst movies ever. I mean, you can't get around the fact that it's boring and the fight scenes are horrible, but I've certainly seen worse movies. It just seems like the worst ever when compared to the source material. But added to that are the totally arbitrary and unnecessary changes in name pronunciations, and the changes in lore that are pointless even when they aren't actively destructive to important plot elements in later parts of the original show. For fans of the show, those things seem like a deliberate slap in the face. That would have turned off a lot of show fans even if it had been a genuinely good movie otherwise.

[@TankInATree]

It is objectively a prime example of bad film making. If we ignore the tv-show and ignore that they had great material that they made worse in all instances (even though S1 is clearly the weakest of them), it has a lot of problems. No relationships in this movie is established in any meaningful way. The rules of bending doesn't even make sense within the movie... I mean, this is a world where the person with a bow and arrow would rule the world. It doesn't make sense that earth benders are trapped on the very thing that is supposed to give them power. They don't seem oppressed, only lazy and/or stupid, since even without bending, they could escape with a bucket of water. The world seems barren and lifeless and when there are people, it is so condensed that it looks like a small set. Characters and their acting is bad and uninteresting. Worst of all: BIG chunks of the story is just told to us. We are told how interesting the characters are, but never shown. We are told how the relationships develop, but never shown. We are told about the world, but almost do not see it. I mean, I am not a film maker and only have the very basic of knowledge... but even I know that this is film making 101: "Show, don't tell". Now there might be worse movies out there, but considering the budget and the director, it doesn't have the same excuse as many other bad movies and that makes it an even worse movie.

[@Mannyjbad]

I think the fact that most reviewers ive seen dont realize that the fire bending is different in this movie shows that this movie is really bad at even a fundamental level of explaining of how the bending works. If I never watched the animated series I guarantee that this movie would've still been atrocious in my eyes. From the acting, monologuing, pacing, bad martial arts/bending, and casting. Hell even Appa is terrifying. Going back and answering the first question, the bending requires nearby fire in the movie where as in the show they did not.

[@ChceTok3ny]

I'm Oong the Oovatar

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Hahaha

[@sonydiaz3311]

When are you watching the next rocky??

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I already have 🙂

[@sonydiaz3311]

I loved your reaction so much to the first and second rocky movie, can't wait for the rest of them, all the way down to the creed movies ❤

[@GentleGiantJason]

Both my 6 year old son and I both agreed this was so boring that we walked out after 40 minutes or so.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Yikes

[@michaelparks6120]

Not only have I never seen this, I've also never heard of this flick....must be a doozy!!

[@Seabasstard22]

Not in Ba Sing Se for sure!!

[@matthewmartin2558]

Check out the second trailer that just dropped

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I’m gonna today

[@davidhansen9792]

i didnt like how they didnt know aangs name until thy got to the air temple you would think they would have asked it when they was flying or when he woke up

[@garricksmalley1733]

It is “fun” watching someone try to explain this movie to their understanding of the source material. Then giving up.

[@tikitravels]

all I recall about this movie is UK media roasting it into hilarity about often the word "Bender" is repeated like "I knew you/he was a Bender" which is apparently spicy to say across the pond

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

lol now I’m curious

[@JNDReacts]

16:40 To be fair, their relationship was barely built up in the cartoon. Sokka thought Yue was pretty, Yue thought Sokka was funny, and like half of their conversations were about how they couldn’t be together.

[@kaijingarou6526]

You can check out the new show trailer if you need to feel better after this

[@davidbrown3212]

martial artists actually worked with the animators on the show to get the movements and feel right that's the level of detail that was given to the show and one of many reasons the the show was done well

[@neospock5034]

Well Lieutenant Bunnytails, both Kirk and Spock commend you for enduring this. Fortunately Korra (and the upcoming ATLA live-action Netflix series) shall soon relegate this experience to the pit of lost memories ;)

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

2 episodes into Korra so far and really enjoying it!

[@DarthRayj]

I saw this movie before I saw the show, and you are correct, it was very hard to follow. I did later see the show, and this movie is even worse through that lens, but it's just a bad movie either way. The aesthetic was excellent, and some of the casting was alright, but only about half of the actors felt like they were even actual characters, the inconsistent pronunciations are jarring, the frequent voice-overs contribute to the pacing issues, and overall it just really should not have tried to fit an entire animated season into one movie.

[@Richardwho-vv5bh]

Cant wait for legend of korra, such a great show.

[@PelafinaLievre]

The only good thing to come from this is the character Yue’s actress voices in Korra

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Ohh interesting

[@justAman548]

ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US Seriously though, my condolences

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

😂

[@justitia257]

Very nice

[@BobbyTheLion]

I'm suffering all over again but with You it ok.

[@harley2704]

I prefer to keep it positive. I really love James Newton Howard’s score for this film and the cinematography is excellent.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Yep, I also enjoyed the music

[@hasicazulatv2078]

Im gonna TRY to get through this with you. I dont have much hope though, i couldnt even get through the movie by itself, only got about 10 minutes in and had to stop. I couldnt deal with the names being changed and how bad the acting is in most of the scenes. The ONLY good thing they did was the casting for princess yue as ive seen clips of her previously.

[@stantwitterbrainrotcore]

ahh yes. soak-ka,uncle eeroh, and OOng. The holy trinity

[@MittensZora]

Oong, the ovatar

[@gallendugall8913]

It wasn't even the worst movie in the theaters at that time. As a non fan who had never seen the show it was overly simplistic, the actors really were trying, but they didn't have much to work with. The fans I went with said it was ten hours of story stripped down to an hour and ten minutes. Are you really going to say Marmaduke was a better movie?

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Marma-what?

[@gallendugall8913]

@@bunnytailsREACTS Marmaduke is a newspaper comic strip that ran in papers from the 60s through the 90s. It was awful and unfunny big clumsy dog tropes. Someone got the film rights and made a bad CGI + Live Action movie which came out at the same time as The Last Airbender.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

@@gallendugall8913 oh dear.. sounds awful lol

[@serenav8029]

to be honest this movie is by NO means PERFECT in any way i found it to be okay but it was just okay i dont hate it like most do but they could have done better i know. i am looking forward to the Netflix series.

[@smeeegss7697]

here early!! i am not ready to see this movie again lol

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I don’t blame ya 😁

[@TheFireMonkey]

in the series, they specifically state that fire is different - in this movie I guess they didn't like that so they made it more like the other elements. Firebenders create the fire - but not in the movie. There was no respect given to anything in the movie. I mean, how hard is it to get the names right? If you can't even bother that - well .... but that's my opinion. To me it felt like "Oh look - this has a big following so I don't have to do any work at all - just grab bits of plot someone else create and make random changes so I can call it mine." The new series was made by people who are actual fans who loved the show. Shyamalan only watched a part of the series because his daughter liked it but he never even bothered to watch the first half of the series before doing the movie - so, this movie was done by someone who didn't care of respect the original material, the netflix series is done by people who loved the original - I think the series will be good and I hope it will be great.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I had a thought this morning that I haven’t been fully able to cogitate, but fire is different from all the other elements, isn’t it? Water, earth, and air are all a combination multiple elements from the periodic table. Fire.. you normally need some sort of outside force to create it, right? It doesn’t just naturally exist like oxygen, or water, or clay. Fire needs a catalyst? So it would make sense to me if fire bending is different from the others and that it would need to be created using energy or heat or something like that.

[@TheFireMonkey]

@bunnytailsREACTS I would say that fire is more an energy and the others are substances, so fire comes from within and the others ate about controlling about external substance.

[@l.piloto7964]

M. Knight Shamalan is great at horror and drama, not so much with humor. My sister calls him Shamalamadingdong. She was 8 when she did that then it just stuck as ding dongs tend to do. Bunny, they decided to base the bending on actual Chinese martial arts, Air and water using soft Wu Shu like Taichi Chuan. The earth & fire on hard systems of Wu Chu like Hung Gar. There is a lot of mysticism in Chinese arts that require you to collect energy from the environment or your very cells in order to use it in attack or defense hence a lot of movement to build up air for a blast.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I see, interesting. I think it just feels off to someone who expects it to look a certain way having seen the animated show

[@l.piloto7964]

​@@bunnytailsREACTSI agree, when going from animated to live action the source material should be followed to keep the fans of the work engaged. This is why the original Christopher Reeves Superman was so successful, fans have seen the character fly since 1938 and they tried to " make you believe a man could fly".

[@SkavenDan-TotalWar]

bunnytails the sadist lets suffer together!

[@onikaconstantine8861]

This movie is infamous back in 2010.

[@PenneySounds]

The movie is somewhat disappointing, but it's far from being as bad as people make it out to be. As a fan of both the series and Wuxia media, I enjoyed the movie. They changed the pronunciations because they wanted them to sound more culturally authentic and less Americanised than in the cartoon. Unfortunately some names like Zhao (趙) and Yue (月) are still pronounced the Americanised way. But for Aang, they actually say it the way the Chinese character used to write his name in the show is pronounced (昂). This movie had a lot of behind-the-scenes problems. Early test screenings got a positive reception, but the studio stepped in and insisted that the movie be converted to 3D in post-production, which ate up a lot of budget that should have gone to effects, and forced the runtime to be shortened, so entire scenes were replaced with linking narration. Supposedly they also insisted the tone be kept more serious and dark. This movie is another example of how much harm executive meddling can do to a film. Still not as bad as what happened to Fant4stic, though. The movie wanted to emphasise the difference between the Fire Nation's misguided Firebending and Iroh's true Firebending learned from the dragons, by having Iroh be the only one able to conjure fire and not just manipulate it. It's a change from the series, but there's a reason for it. The thing that worries me about the upcoming live action series is that they're putting a lot of work into saying "We are not the movie", and doing the opposite of everything the movie did. The problem is, while they're doing the opposite of the things the movie did wrong, I think they will also do the opposite of the things the movie did right.

[@nicholasstockbridge5702]

Curious onyour thoughts of what the movie did right. Music wasnt so bad, the music in the new trailer excellent Set design was pretty good, the new trailer sets are amazing The movie made the tattoo a cool ornate thing, the new series combined the two

[@PenneySounds]

@@nicholasstockbridge5702 Well the main thing I'm noticing with the live action series is they're working so hard to look EXACTLY like the cartoon that they all look like they're wearing cheap halloween costumes. What's the point of adapting a cartoon to live action if you're going to just make it look like a cartoon? Adaptations aren't supposed to be exactly the same. The movie wasn't afraid to be a movie.

[@hamsamahamadali5291]

when is the legend of korra reaction?

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Next week.

[@Coolguy365es]

The reason why the fire nation conquer the world in the cartoon is because their fire came from their own enemy, here they need something which doesn’t make sense! Waterbender and earthbender can easily put out the fires 😂

[@doorofnight87]

Great reaction! This movie REALLY seems to just be a huge mess compared to the brilliant show.

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

Thanks. Yeah it is 😭

[@berildebbarma4768]

He's saying it's my wind dance 😂😂😂.

[@joelramnarine]

Well you know who directed this movie

[@killapollo4853]

Imagine the people who watched this first, before watching the series.

[@DavidB-2268]

This is what happens when M. Night Shyamalan's kids really like a show, so their father decides to ruin it.

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

As long as you've already watched the animated source material FIRST, then go ahead and watch what you'd like and make up your mind. Enjoy what you enjoy, imo it's a shitty adaptation of the great Avatar, but as a film I guess it's ok to people who are not familiar

[@bunnytailsREACTS]

I dunno. I was trying to also view it from the angle of a newcomer and.. I still think it falls totally flat. I wonder what those people would think about it.

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

@@bunnytailsREACTS : It DOES fall flat, absolutely. We have to let you make up your own mind of course, but now that you've made it...I'm so glad you agree on the disappointment! Haha

[@Valecan]

@@paulpolpiboon9535 I am one of those people that saw the movie first. As a movie lover, I can tell you I recognized this was not a good movie. The music and costuming was great and the cgi was not bad for the time, but the script, plot and pacing were just so bad. I had a friend tell me the original source material was worth checking out, so I did and the tv show is one of my favorite animated shows of all time. I watched this movie again years later as a watch-along with a reactor and OMG did I truly realize what a polished piece of garbage this truly is. I think I had blocked most of it from memory. Adaptions that are this bad make me want to check out the original source material more because it can only get better when you are rock bottom.

[@quintorro]

I definitely think everyone should watch the movie AFTER watching the original series. It will just make you appreciate the original that much more. Also, imprisoning the earthbenders in a CANYON is so dumb especially since the movie firebenders have been handicapped by needing a source to bend...

[@MittensZora]

Agreed, there's so much earth around them they could use to bend

[@acereporter73]

Yeah, this movie was like made by folks who at best watched the show while doing laundry...

[@dudeman47731]

The bending looks weaker here to make events like the comet or the full moon greatly empower their bending. Fire benders needed a source of fire to control just like water benders. Eroh (because he isn't iroh) is known as the dragon of the west who was given the ability to create fire from nothing. Earth bending was harder to do because they were oppressed to the point of not bending for years.

[@CheeseNacho_]

in the show, Sokka was the comic relief because he was funny, here, they... tried... to make him the comic relief by making him the butt of every "joke"