The Last Airbender is the Worst Film Ever Made - HERE'S WHY

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[@HelloFutureMe]

aS yOU kNoW, I have a patreon www.patreon.com/hellofutureme Stay sane, Tim

[@younggamer7218]

Ok

[@jinjay354]

Ok

[@fleon4115]

how can I stay sane when I have to think about that movie, Tim?!?

[@tahakiani]

How is your comment 11 hours ago it was just uploaded 2 minutes ago

[@derrickstorm6976]

If you make effort to wear clothes with the next psychologist appointment, I will support you 😂

[@Longshanks1690]

What are you talking about, Tim? There is no such film called "The Last Airbender." Did you forget to accept the Earth King's invitation to Lake Laogai again?

[@ender4344]

Oh...yes, yes...i am honoured to accept his invitation

[@andrewboldt9021]

Thank you King Edward "Longshanks" I, Hammer of the Scots, Lord of Wales and King of England, very cool.

[@michaelerlanger2797]

There is no movie in ba sing se

[@Adam89111]

what a name my dude, my god

[@mayoandbananasandwich6527]

What would you say if I said flower of Scotland?

[@Thraim.]

Me before the movie came out: "I hope they don't turn it into a brainless action movie." Me after the movie came out: "I wish this was at least a brainless action movie."

[@joevenespineli6389]

Yes. Good action and effects will do.

[@Zapporah85]

For real tho

[@regiman222]

Brainless action, or at least trying to make it funny. That's what I would have settled for.

[@dionemoolman]

I’d rather have had Michael Bay direct it. A movie with Zuko making houses explode for no reason and Katara summoning huge tidal waves to wash whole armies away ten minutes after learning how to would have at least been fun to watch.

[@aerialpunk]

Yep. I remember thinking I shouldn't expect it to be as good as the show, but if it's even half as good, it'd still be a decent movie. But it was like... 2% good. The settings and costumes were okay. So I'll give it like a quarter of a star out of 10 for that. I was amazed they could so thoroughly ruin such good source material.

[@witherwolf3316]

"But for some reason, Aang was having trouble with waterbending." That's not how I remember that happening Shyamalan. As I recall Aang didn't have any problems with waterbending at all. In fact, he was able to pick it up so quickly Katara needed to have an arc about how that made her feel weak.

[@bhavanijayant526]

I agree

[@julleebean]

I'm rewatching the series at the moment and I can confirm that's definitely what happened. I'm in the middle of this Katara arc right now.

[@ceinwenchandler4716]

@@julleebean "The Waterbending Scroll." Maybe Shymalon got it mixed up with "Bitter Work," because I DO remember Aang having trouble with earthbending.

[@julleebean]

@@ceinwenchandler4716 Agreed, I know he had a hard time with it because it's considered the opposite of airbending.

[@ganeshsohlang3083]

The element he was struggling with was earth bending as it is the opposite element of air

[@vizthex]

i thought Sokka was joking when he said he'd give up meat and sarcasm if he could just escape that hole, but damn.... he's a man of his word.

[@ApinofArc]

Another great piece of dialogue, that emphasizes how shit this movie is.

[@vizthex]

@@ApinofArc for real.

[@npcmcishark7379]

​@@Refried_BeansYou can like it now

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

You're thinking of Sokka. The guy in this movie is Soaka.

[@vizthex]

@@ShizuruNakatsu lmao, you're right.

[@blakea3323]

Is such a bad movie that it warrants a whole movie talking about how bad it is.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

You clearly don't watch MauLer's channel.

[@tomasfiorentini4126]

This is 2 and a half hour, this is Lord of the Rings long movie.

[@veriskemkroya4270]

@@schwarzerritter5724 imagine his potential 30 hour video series on this movie lel

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Veriskem Kroya MauLer isn't even the first long review guy, I watched Spoony when he was in his prime.

[@arg3824]

yes

[@ericakelly5064]

“As you know, I raided the great library. The library I raided, the place where I conducted a raid which was a library that was great. The great library.”

[@dr.diabeto662]

The library specifically reserved for greatness, the great library where we'll find the books for Kuzco, Kuzco's books

[@RaindropsBleeding]

I feel like if they'd said this in the film they could have gotten away with it on pure comedic genius

[@MiraBoo]

How Mojo Jojo. Love it.

[@Dragonmastur]

The Kronk reference 😂

[@Kristanite]

Oh. That library.

[@chana7276]

The one thing I like is how they made the Airbender tattoos more intricate. That would actually look very cool irl, unlike having solid blocks of blue tattoos on your head

[@ceinwenchandler4716]

I'd rather have the solid blue blocks. I've painted temporary Airbender tattoos on my forehead before, and the results of that looked better than the blue vines Aang has in the movie, at least in my opinion.

[@garrettcooper58]

@@ceinwenchandler4716I feel like all they needed to do was make the lines brighter, but that’s an issue with the entire show, not just the tattoos

[@_MaZTeR_]

Um, what?

[@perrilewis180]

Well Avatar is an animated show so having simplified blue lines make it easier to animate.

[@decrepitdebauchery]

@@perrilewis180they didnt say that it wasnt. they just said intricate lines translate better into live action than solid blue blocks do.

[@flameofmage1099]

I love during one of Katara's narrations she says "Aang told us" instead of Aang actually telling us

[@bbjygm]

And then in the next scene she asks for his name. After traveling to a new continent with him.

[@MarianFK]

​@@bbjygmthat's because this Appa does instant travel. They got there in minutes, no time to ask names 😂.

[@throneisbed7833]

My author's heart is so full of disappointment at especially that kind of thing, in a *film* no less, that it's making me tear-bend.

[@cruisindownthestreetinmy6490]

it’s like “show don’t tell” but then they doubled down on the “tell”. katara told us that aang told her.

[@Neokitty55]

He also told them after he woke up in the tent

[@GurrenPrime]

A breakdown of all the reasons why The Last Airbender is bad that’s longer than the actual movie? Sounds about right.

[@maayanlaufer821]

When you find out its only part one

[@shorewall]

It's bigger on the inside. :D

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

It always takes longer to explain why something wrong is wrong than for that something to conclude. Doesn't matter if it politics, economics, an innapropriate joke, philosophy, games, books, tv, and movies.

[@AegixDrakan]

I mean, yeah, he spends time not just tearing it down, but using it to actually *TEACH* how to make stories better.

[@deerhawk7788]

The longman's rule spreads

[@HelloIAmJo]

It’s also interesting how everyone says “Katara’s mother” because she holds on to it so much as if Sokka spontaneously generated

[@Duiker36]

It's an interesting bit of light sexism, IMO: Katara's strongest emotional anchor is her mother, but Sokka's is his father. For Sokka, their mother was replaced by his _younger_ sister. Their father was still alive, as far as they knew. It's a point of anguish for Katara, but for Sokka, it's merely a reality of war... which, frankly, is a tragedy and itself a reality of war. It's not surprising, then, that Sokka is unable to think of women as independently capable: his mother was never around to demonstrate otherwise and Katara is barely able to do anything until the show starts.

[@donkeykong3628]

Michael Chui what do you mean Katara wasn’t able to do anything? She was mainly tasked in taking care of the small village in the traditional way, which is why Sokka “replaced” his mother with her cause she took care of him in a somewhat motherly way.

[@o7o6o5o4o3]

@@donkeykong3628 She still did do only the things that women used to do in the water tribe, hence Sokka unable to accept that his girl sister could fight or do "manly" things.

[@spilledteaissadtea3037]

@@o7o6o5o4o3 and it can also be his way of wanting to protect her cause yeah he lost one mom and doesn’t want to lose her. He wants to do the thing he couldn’t have done in the past beg the protecter. Not excusing his actions but gives context to his misogyny (before suki beat it out of him)

[@o7o6o5o4o3]

@@spilledteaissadtea3037 Yeah that could be true as well.

[@THEDubbleHelixx]

Shyamalan treats the martial art bending moves as if they were magic spells to conjure the elements, rather than the elements becoming an extension of the bender through bending. That's why it all looks so disconnected. It's pretty clear he never understood the source material.

[@jordanrobinson9064]

That’s why Shyamalan needs to be cancelled!

[@lou9635]

​@@jordanrobinson9064Cancel to have failed adapting a show? That's stupid.

[@jordanrobinson9064]

@@lou9635 Says you!

[@undercookedtoast1479]

@@jordanrobinson9064the initial purpose if cancelling is to call out morally reprehensible behaviors. Like child abuse and rape accusation shit. Saying those things and making a bad adaptation of a tv show are equal in immortality is insanely overdramatic if not straight up idiotic.

[@jordanrobinson9064]

@@undercookedtoast1479 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@davidlilly1000]

You are 100% correct in not blaming Noah Ringer. I watched a behind the scenes video, where he was fun, funny, and full of life. Shyamalan took what could've been an amazing actor, into a lifeless husk.

[@andre_601]

So many times a good actor is being destroyed by an incompetent and/or entitled director... Just look at the actor of Luke Skywalker... He is amazing and full of personality (Quite a funny guy too), yet he was forced to play a character that doesn't make any sense because the director wanted a more "edgy" and "serious" tone... Like... He freaking cried at the scene of the jedi academy burning... It was actual tears because that scene literally displayed what was happening: Burning the entire franchise down.

[@baby_ging8142]

Not the first time Shyamalan has done that with a great actor. RIP

[@BryanCostner]

It's a shame. He can be a good Aang with the right direction. He was Aang behind the scene than he was in the movie. Why can't Shyamalan tell the kid to just be himself

[@filiptrajkovski2198]

From what i saw in the bts, if he was direcred well he couldve been a great aang

[@filiptrajkovski2198]

​@@andre_601Mark Hamil stated multiple times fhat he DID NOT LIKE what they did with his character

[@nathanfake9163]

Honestly, the idea of Zhao being this jackass that CONSTANTLY brings up that one cool thing he did a decade ago is hilarious. "Hey, did you know I raided the Great Library-" "YES ZHAO, YOU'VE TOLD ME THIS SEVEN TIMES! TODAY!" Shame it was played straight.

[@stellabelikiewicz1523]

I’m picturing Shyamalan showing up at the library and trying to offer the script for this movie as his addition to the collection, and Wan Shi Tong being like “Get the hell out.”

[@iclyn78]

@@stellabelikiewicz1523 someone needs to make something about that 😂 it's priceless

[@ainsleyharger3341]

He would do that XD

[@shadow_shine3578]

That would have made it a bit funnier.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

Yes, Karen, you went to Italy and it changed your life, WE GET IT!

[@vitormadisantanna8652]

Fun fact: this movie was actually directed by Ko, the Face Stealer. That's why none of the characters express any emotions...

[@pendragon0905]

Ah! That explains everything! 😊👍 Well... almost 😑

[@AmaroqStarwind]

Do not express any emotion, please.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

@Cenestpasmapersonnalité 🟡

[@Ash_was_here._.]

you made me laugh🟡

[@jackbeynon8980]

That makes so much sense.

[@TrollDragomir]

Did Shyamalan just change it up so that the fire nation soldiers, instead of taking earthbenders to a full metal sea platform where they can't bend earth... They went with A FREAKING STONE QUARRY?

[@matthewmuir8884]

Apparently, one of the main reasons for the change of prison was budgetary. They blew most of the set budget filming the Northern and Southern Water Tribe scenes on-location in Greenland and had almost nothing left afterwards. It's the same reason that the Fire Nation throne room is very obviously an elementary school gymnasium.

[@Isabella-lm8ke]

@@matthewmuir8884 wait so they were shooting in Greenland, which has a majority Inuit population and they STILL cast white people. Why????? Why??????? They were so close yet so far!

[@thelouster5815]

@@matthewmuir8884That makes the Fire Lord scenes even more laughable.

[@gloomygloomstalker3878]

To be fair this is also the same world where the firebenders-who have to have an already lit flame source-somehow took over the world despite how easy it would be to fight back

[@Ben-zr4ho]

​@@gloomygloomstalker3878 So what? Sure having to have a source is a disadvantage. So I guess Earth and mostly Air have the advantage there. Then again Id much rather be hit by Air or Water or even Earth than by Fire. So Fire has the advantage there imo. More importantly though look at the other half of the names. Water TRIBES, Air NOMADS... I mean those two are basically seemingly out right there. So its really between Earth and Fire. And army strength has a lot to do with simple numbers. Conquerers usually simply have the will. I mean how did Germany kick so much ass at the beginning of WW2 with seemingly everything and everyone against them? Theres an answer.

[@dasia2345]

This movie actually made me forget that Aang had a crush on Katara

[@mani-ei5kq]

yeah, and it's because this movie doesn't allow the characters to be actual characters with emotions unless the story demands it. until then, they're just exposition dumpers. Ong and white Katara will not have any romance because it's not crucial to the story yet

[@axelnilsson5124]

@@mani-ei5kqand they mentioned in the movie that the avatar isn’t allowed to have a family so they probably wouldn’t even be together at the end of the third movie that could have been if this movie was a success which of course also opens up 2 issues in the story for the story’s history and future

[@Jiub_SN]

@@mani-ei5kqwhite katara doesn't even look bad imo, she did her best acting wise as well

[@mani-ei5kq]

@@Jiub_SN one of the biggest lies in 2024 but ok

[@stahppls2293]

Iroh not being a chubby cheerful Uncle is a crime. They casted him as if he were Scar from the Lion King

[@samuellubell4557]

Tbh they could have kept Shaun Taub, but Jesus Christ have him tell jokes, muse about random shit. Do all the classic iroh stuff

[@jaywhisper8118]

@@samuellubell4557 I completely agree. He's not Iroh he's a random Uncle. He's unimportant. I don't recognize him at all.

[@johannagalesolano1089]

Yeah, he looked like he should have been casted as Firelord Ozai. He would have been more fitting for that role.

[@MogofWar]

What's ironic here is you can tell he really wanted to play as Iroh but was basically directed not to.

[@badmic8606]

I bet you my left leg that movie iron (bad iroh) doesn't even like tea

[@malcontent7]

You know a movie is bad, when the “what went wrong” video is forty-five minutes longer than the movie.

[@carlosroo5460]

Which is coincidentally the theoretical number of minutes that movie needed to be at least a so bad is good, but no, is just so bad is "Oh God, forgive us all. How we allow any of this to happen? We are not worthy!! Send a giant asteroid and end us all!!!" bad.

[@purpleghost106]

Turns out this movie is like a gish gallop, so many bad things strung together that to unpack what's really wrong you have to be selective AND it will still take longer to explain and correct than to spew the bad stuff ever did.

[@coobbyo]

Not only is it longer, but after only a day it has over 50k views. Shoot people are probably more willing to watch this video than they are the movie!

[@malcontent7]

I think this might have more likes than any other comment I’ve ever made, so thanks guys.

[@CruelestChris]

Remember it takes seconds to shit your pants and hours to clean it up.

[@Dunkelwald_]

The biggest crime was that they didn't gave our fire bois their lushous long locks. Like, Ozai looked amazing in the series and here he is just a normal dude, totally unthreatening.

[@twinzzlers]

Ozai was pretty ordinary in the show

[@ThePigeonsAreAConspiracyTheory]

@@twinzzlers he was built like a brick wall during the final showdown

[@wildfire9280]

@@ThePigeonsAreAConspiracyTheory You could say he was bricked- actually no don’t.

[@miller_niki1982]

Iron’s hair is too long and Ozai’s is too short….

[@711lila]

@@twinzzlersordinary????? wow

[@emeraldemperor2601]

Oh my god. There's a whole long-running subplot (in the show) about how Aang is actually REALLY GOOD at waterbending, which makes Katara jealous.

[@Trollestiatumblur]

This is why people who believe “cartoon is for kids” should never make a live action. They will never get it.

[@willkoestner4159]

Its like saying music is for kids because The Wiggles exist.

[@meff3258]

Amen

[@christianyaerger1751]

I think Shyamalan or corporate had similar feelings. Apparently, the creators of ATLA were completely shut out of the creative process of this film.

[@cjkalandek996]

For me, the term "cartoon" refers to a show that is *strictly* meant for kids; as in "no adult would find any personal enjoyment in". And there are some shows out there that fit that category, such as the _Ben 10_ reboot, _The Adventures of Fanboy & Chum-Chum,_ and some others that I can't think of right now. But then you have shows like _Avatar: The Last Airbender, Batman: The Animated Series, Young Justice,_ and _Voltron: Legendary Defender,_ where they were initially intended for a young audience but the quality of writing, the storytelling, and the characterization(s) just grabbed not only kids but also adults. I just refer to those types of shows as "animated TV shows". And even if you still like to refer those as "cartoons", that's fine; to each their own. But I hope you see the point I'm making here. And, of course, you have Anime, which EVERYONE knows can be for pretty much anyone. But, I agree that anyone who thinks just because something is animated being strictly for kids should not work in animation or make a film adaptation of said show.

[@willkoestner4159]

@@cjkalandek996 Where would you put Spongebob on that spectrum? Just curious

[@ottovonburger7594]

This dude made a movie about a bad movie. What a legend.

[@adastial2104]

Legendary

[@jadevanzanden1336]

A better movie about a theatrical release.

[@kalad1n16]

He made a good movie about a bad movie, Legendary 100

[@farheenellahi2546]

English please

[@papafrank2894]

@@farheenellahi2546 ?

[@AutumnGirl17]

Wanna know something? I watched this movie when I was about 10ish. And I loved it. I thought the premise was super cool and I was really mad that there wasn't a second movie. When I was 11 a friend of mine introduced me to the TV show. And suddenly I had everything that I'd previously wanted, but a thousand times better and I was obsessed. We still owned the movie of course, but suddenly it wasn't so cool anymore. And it's only gotten worse as I grew up.

[@miyukinaara7306]

This is me. I was introduced to the world with this movie and then the show years later.

[@hatii3141]

I watched the series and then the movie but I was also young and I did love the movie. But as time went on all the flaws of the film become apparent.

[@pucamisc]

This is how I was with Eragon. I Loved the movie when I watched it in I think 5th grade. My brother showed me the books. And then the movie was less cool, but was still nostalgic.

[@charlieclausen5311]

I loved The Black Cauldron when I first saw it, but when I read The Chronicles of Prydain my memory of it became worse.

[@kaciekk]

Any time i think I'm bad at story writing, i remember this movie exists, and feel instantly more confident

[@Lord_necromancer]

What makes it even worse is that he didn't even HAVE to write basically anything. It was already written by somebody who was better and he went out of his way to ruin it through his own hubris lol my 10 year old writes better than this

[@distracting_games]

This is hardly the worst storytelling. DragonBall Evolution exists and is far more egregious than the Last Airbender.

[@melodramatic7904]

For some reason, it's really irritating me that the movie portrays Aang as struggling with water bending. Water bending came so naturally to Aang that it irritated Katara. This irritates me because it's another example of how he has no idea of Aang as a character.

[@phoebedarker]

Right? Aang having issues with being comfortable with earth and fire whereas understanding water made sense with his psyche yet the movie just threw the character in the garbage, as well as everything else.

[@Cheetahgirl_Studios]

Also, didn’t the series say that some elements share similarities to one another? I can’t remember the specifics of it, but I remember Iroh saying that he learned how to apply the flow of the Waterbening technique to Firebending. Really it made sense that Aang was able to get the hang of Waterbending so quickly. Air and Water are very free, flowing elements. They share a lot of similarities in that sense.

[@noni-lx1it]

@@Cheetahgirl_Studios Air is the opposite of earth, fire the opposite of water. But it's mostly a mental thing, as I understood it. That's why Korra mastered fire without a problem but was struggling with air.

[@marctaco2624]

@@noni-lx1it Simmilar to real-world martial arts with different sub-schools, each element represents an approach to combat and how they interact. Water represents fluidity and momentum, as you dodge your opponent and observe them before retaliating. Earth revolves around endurance and strength, as you tank through their attacks until they get tired. Fire is about aggression and efficiency, as you create your own openings and try to end a fight as quickly as possible. Air is about redirection and counterattacks, as you move around your target and let them hurt themselves against their surroundings. Air is related to water as they both revolve around dodging, but one is active while the other is passive, meanwhile earth is about simply shrugging off attacks. Fire is the sole outlier in that it is the only form that encourages chasing down an opponent.

[@Grim_Sister]

@@marctaco2624 not only that, but each bending style is based on a martial art: Tai Chi- Water Hung Gar- Earth Ba- Gua- Air Northern Shaolin- Fire. You can also see some aspects of Aikido when Suki explains how to use an opponent’s strength against them, and the same idea appears quite a few times when Aang fights against Zhao and Zuko

[@Phantom_Zone]

He made a film about a film describing how bad that film was.

[@corhydrae3238]

And his film is infinitely more entertaining to watch.

[@michaelreetz7026]

@@corhydrae3238 Infinity is too small a concept to describe the difference, it's almost insulting in fact.

[@margarettangiiti9813]

​@@michaelreetz7026 might as well call it the best flim in the multiverses.

[@mihael5722]

Every time I hear people say that of course they couldn’t do the bending, it would be to hard because it’s too fast, I die a little. There’s a convention I always go to and every year they have a martial arts team from the local university perform all the marital arts of avatar and they literally do the routines seen in the show at full speed and you can almost actually see the bending happen

[@elsa_g]

What convention is that? That sounds super cool!

[@tsuki3752]

baffles me. if you can’t do it then why do a live action of this???

[@sakethvenkatesh2492]

I mean, I could get their sentiment, since they would have to train a lot of people on the martial arts forms needed and whatnot, but the pace they go about doing it in the movie is INCREDIBLY slow. Like “You can’t feasibly make action with that” slow.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@sakethvenkatesh2492 They could've hired actual martial artists. Not sure about big speaking roles, but having people who know the moves would make for fast fights on a large scale.

[@sakethvenkatesh2492]

@@HappyBeezerStudios true true

[@KevinEontrainer381]

32:44 the problem is she is not waterbending.... she just dances on top of a rock, overlooking a naturally flowing body of water called "river"

[@theleonpasta7336]

Lmao, right? I can't believe they really thought having "Katara" move her hands around in front of a RIVER which NATURALLY FLOWS would work as "Waterbending", like c'mon even a little kid would probably notice she isn't bending shit. But ngl I kinda love the scene cuz it's hilarious how they didn't have the budget to just have an orb of water floating in front of her or something, hell they could have even just reversed the footage of the river flowing to make it seem like she was "redirecting the current" or idk actually doing something whatsoever, it'd still be lazy but atleast it'd be something instead of her just practicing sign language next to a flowing stream 😂😂😂

[@ArcaneEther]

Can we all just share a collective sigh of relief that Shamallamadingo didn't get the chance to royally fuck up Toph?

[@Celestia282]

I'm more scared by the thought of how badly he could have fucked up Azula. Toph is a relatively simple character, so her mess up would be similarly simple. She would likely either be boring, a goofball, or a jerk. Azula, on the other hand, is one of the deepest, subtlest, most complicated characters in the show. There are near infinite possibilities for fuckery with that.

[@mertarican5456]

@@Celestia282 we have seen zuko though.

[@mimi_j]

For this I am grateful 🙏🏽

[@cosmiceyness]

thank fucking god, at best we get the buff dude from the ember island play and at worst we get anything other than the og show

[@ThisCanBePronounced]

Don't give me nightmares....

[@Galimeer5]

Imagine dedicating two and a half hours to talk about a movie that doesn't exist

[@alba2162]

I think he forgot to take his pills

[@aprilk141]

What movie?

[@joetheinfant8891]

There is no live action Avatar in Ba Sing Se

[@nygeriunprence]

Lol fr

[@brandonporter8509]

Someone needs an invitation to lake laogai

[@jeffnak5598]

I can't honestly believe Shyamalan actually watched the show. It almost feels like he had someone watch the series and then tell him about it, then he created this abomination off of what he was told.

[@jeffnak5598]

Wait, I got it, Shyamalan made the movie off of the play towards the end or the series.😆😆😆

[@Angelo-uw9eo]

​@@jeffnak5598 i just had a stray thought like that 10 minutes ago

[@jordanrobinson9064]

Agreed; CANCEL M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN!

[@swarley39]

​@@jeffnak5598even that play was a much better version of the story with better acting, writing, and effects than the movie

[@BestFriendsWhoLiveTogether]

16:04 this is like if in Harry Potter, instead of showing us the scene of dumbledore leaving him on the doorstep, Petunia just says, “wake up, Harry Potter my nephew who I found on the doorstep and who’s mother I was jealous of and that led to me hating wizards!”

[@Night-Lord]

"I'll burn down the village." The village is made of snow, Zuko. It won't burn, it'll just melt.

[@SanguineThor]

"Aight bruh they're igloos we can build like 10 more by night time. DO IT"

[@greylithwolf]

That actually would've been a really hilarious back and forth. "I'll burn their village to the ground!" "The village is made of snow and ice, Lord Zuko. It'll melt." "Th-then I'll melt it to the ground! Whatever!"

[@Mattfromthepast]

@@greylithwolf But then wouldn't the water just refreeze and couldn't they just make new igloos with that water? I don't think he will achieve his goal.

[@erikkesler1739]

@@Mattfromthepast Which would show his shortsightedness in mindlessly focusing on his anger and therefore develope his character a bit

[@Mattfromthepast]

@@erikkesler1739 Exactly, it would have given us some much needed humor and developed the character. How these people make millions screenwriting in Hollywood when random people on the internet can do their job better.

[@THEDonnyB]

The fact you see Ozais face before book 3 is the most heinous sin.

[@PashaGamingYT]

I would say the worst part would be Uncle Iroh having a huge ego rather than being humble

[@warlocket5326]

@@PashaGamingYT The worst part is that they made this movie at all lol

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

made even worse by the fact that he was actually mnight shammalan

[@agentk5991]

I Disagree, calling Aang "Oong" will forever be the worst sin of all!

[@internettraveler8666]

They did the same thing in the inspector gadget movies

[@michaeldelaney1058]

I figured out why they cut the part where Aang asks Zuko, dressed as the Blue Spirit, if they could have been friends and Zuko shoots fire at him. It's because in this movie firebenders can't shoot fire! If that scene were to have been recreated, there would have needed to be an already burning fire somewhere for Zuko to bend, which would interrupt the notion of them resting in a peaceful forest. Therefore, Zuko would have been forced to listen, maybe even respond somehow, which would have been beyond the capability of this movie to demonstrate. Therefore, they cut all dialogue and had Aang run off.

[@danim.r2276]

1:32:10 there’s a fire going there tho? (Unless that’s a different scene ofc) Couldn’t just they have the moment like… Aang asks, Zuko looks into the other boy’s eyes and kind of considers it but then his gaze flickers towards the fire and reaches out for it, cutting to Aang realising what he’s doing and running away in the treetops?… I still don’t see why the scene is missing if they wanted to add it later on(?) Like, the calm of resting in the forest could’ve worked too even with a small fire going on, it was nighttime when they escaped so… idk

[@ryceborzym1402]

He actually raided the great library, you know. Lot of people didn’t even think it existed.

[@YodaOnABender]

Get on with it

[@megwritesall]

This movie wishes it were acted by the Ember Island players.

[@mariatourino9545]

If it wasn't for the fact that the episode came out two years before the movie I would actually think they made it to roast the movie in some capacity

[@eloujtimereaver4504]

@@mariatourino9545 How long was the film in production? If it was more than two years, it really might have been.

[@cosmicriptid]

Honestly I would have rather watched that

[@dogman9291]

At least the ember island players showed some semblance of emotion in their preformances.

[@AraujoDaisuki]

At least they got the characters race right...

[@FunZies.]

I will never, *_ever_* get tired of people trashing this film. Two and a half hours is just what it needs... and desrves.

[@JPTLN]

It's longer than the actual movie!

[@aytuser9737]

@@JPTLN and better

[@Tethloach1]

they should have made the film a comedy than everyone can laugh.

[@baboin1851]

Zuko's scar doesn't even look good

[@kylas1902]

I have watched this movie 10x over. 90% is from youtube videos trashing it. It never gets old.

[@Chunamunch]

For me, the only good thing to come out of this movie was a bonding moment with my mom. As a kid, I had a hard time understanding that when my parents would watch a movie they wouldn't know what would happen next, so I'd always ask what was happening and try to get them to explain to me what was going on. This was the first movie I knew what was going to happen, and I still spent the movie explaining to her that what was happening wasn't right and didn't feel like the show. Even now she feels slight disappointment for taking me because of me having a hard time enjoying it even though before I was excited for it. She never saw Avatar: the Last Airbender and took me because she knew I wanted to see it. What helped us bond after though was sitting in the Target parking lot near the theater (she wasn't ready to go home, and not too long after I found out it was because she didn't want to be around my biological dad and just wanted a bit more time away. They would divorce a few months later). While in that parking lot we roasted the movie and talked about how bad it was. Over the years my mom and I have grown apart slightly due to differences and how I've become more my own person, yet I still love to look back at this moment where we bonded about something I enjoyed.

[@meaburro4207]

I don't know anything about you or your situation, so forgive me for intruding, but I need to say this. We tend to feel like we will always have chances to spend time with our loved ones and tell them how we feel. We don't realize it's not true until it's too late. If you have things to say to your mom, things you want to do with her, don't wait for "the right moment" or stuff like that. Just do it. You'll regret it if you don't. Sorry for the preachiness. Like I said, I don't know you, so I speak from ignorance.

[@Chunamunch]

@meaburro4207 I mean, I get to see my mom every day, so I guess growing apart physically isn't what I meant and, at this point, plan to physically be close enough to drive in an emergency. On an emotional level, it's changed in so many ways I don't think it'll go back. I mean, she divorced my abusive bio dad, I went on student exchange and have moved around and back so much that I have grown. She's remarried. Overall, our lives have changed that we won't have the same bond we always used to. I won't be able to look up to my mom as the woman I used to because I've seen her as she is, and who she is is not who I expected, or even wished for in a mom (I have vivid memories of my mom refusing to hug me because her mom wouldn't want to hug her) and so I feel typical advice isn't applicable here. I'm finding my ways to connect with her, just that it will almost always have to be meeting her on her level, and when she has moments of awareness for me and I feel seen, it's nice.

[@jamieurbain7422]

I remember when, as both a fan of ATLA and a fan of Shyamalan I was actually excited about this movie. My main reason was because because I totally thought that Shyamalan (after watching Lady in the Water) had a deep understanding of irony and at least a decent amount of dry humor. I was looking forward to seeing how he would take the heart of ATLA - which I would argue is the pacing and humor of the show and translating that to film in his own unique way. I never, ever, thought someone would take ALTA and strip it from its humor. 😱 I watched this in theater, glued to my seat in horror. Bad acting I could forgive, and even useless explanations I could ignore, but if you strip Sokka of his puns, Zuko of his awkward overcompensation, Katara of her hope, or Aang of his innate childlike joy… you’ve already lost the point. ATLA not just a story, it’s a character driven tapestry.

[@jaredsalvador9379]

Here’s a theory: This isn’t a live action adaptation of The Last Airbender. This is a live action adaptation of the play by the Ember Island Players re-enacting the story of the Gaang. Now excuse me while I go on the run from the FBI.

[@thatonedude1103]

You may be right

[@pendragon0905]

Remember, if you or any of your IMF team are caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Mr. Salavador.

[@apollyon1]

I thinyou might be ontasoming therethen.

[@lisaamah4372]

Nah the play still had funny sokka and things actually made sense like the fire benders could bend normally

[@notaninstrument7707]

The Ember Island Players played up emotion to the millionth degree This adaptation turned it all the way down

[@ifipaidmybartabtheu.swould9208]

"Why the last airbender is the worst film ever" (Noticing the video is longer than the actual movie) Me:Hey pass that bottle over here, were all gonna need some internal disinfecting

[@carlosroo5460]

You know you mess up, when a video about why you mess up is longer than your mess up... And I think I mess up this comment.

[@brandonlyon730]

I’m guessing he has never seen Dragon ball evolution.

[@AramatiPaz]

@@carlosroo5460 What remembers me the video "Cats is worse than you think"

[@suezuccati304]

It takes more time to debunk bullshit than it is to claim it

[@Eloraurora]

One thing that struck me was how they keep making choices that make the world feel smaller. Zhao reporting back to Ozai every five seconds, even when he has nothing to say that would actually make him look good, really limits the perceived scale of the world. Show Zhao has a transcript of his "I caught the Avatar," speech written up, but when Aang escapes _he doesn't send it._ Because stopping in the middle of a mission to report a failure would tank his career, and he knows it. Movie Zhao spouts impolitic insults in front of the rank and file, and stops doing his job intermittently to scuttle back to the capital and say, "Fire Lord Ozai, I fucked up," _in person_ for no discernable reason. And the spirit world! Shyamalan changed the opening text to emphasize the importance of the spirit world, and yet all we see of it is a path, a few trees, and a little cave. And they threw a stupid distortion effect on the footage to disguise the fact that their "spirit world" has less surface area than a school playground. This "world" contains exactly one spirit, and he never goes outside. It's just sad.

[@BadNessie]

Adapting a story always requires a certain degree of translation, not just copying. That translation then requires truly understanding the language, aka what the story is really about.

[@rachelblenkin437]

That is probably the best way I've ever seen that described!

[@moogamooga2100]

@BadNessie mmm… very well said.

[@davidtran9455]

copying would’ve been better than this nonsense

[@user-qj9en1kp1m]

Well said. Also, clearly none of those things happened here.

[@svrvphimprod]

Honestly I feel like the show was "darker" than the movie. The show depicted complex political corruption and shit. The movie attempted to be edgy and failed at it.

[@kira-dk2mx]

Oh yeah, the show was definitely darker without being overt about it.

[@MissCaraMint]

@@kira-dk2mx People actually die. People who we have gotten to know well. And don’t get me started on Tales of Ba Sing Se. I cry every time.

[@kira-dk2mx]

@@MissCaraMint I know. I'm pretty sure there are comps of people watching Iroh's tale for the first time and crying at the end.

[@catlover2223]

So, the movie was the edgy teenager and the show was the mature adult.

[@kira-dk2mx]

@@catlover2223 That's actually a good way to put it.

[@chocolateblocks]

If we got a second movie for earth, Toph would be a full grown man using sonic-waves through his mouth to detect where everything is

[@keerthanavasan0331]

LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY

[@catsareawesome256]

Yea it would just come out of nowhere like no refrence or anything just incredibly low iq

[@20_foot_burmese_pyth0n]

Don't insult the Ember island play by comparing it to **vague hand gestures** this

[@martaleszkiewicz5115]

She would be the Toph from the theatre play

[@joshs5743]

Lmao Toph screaming like a bat omg its gotta be played by Dwane Johnson lmaooo

[@donweiss2326]

1:05:30 Despite Film Zuko making two very audible effort yells for bending, Film Katara apparently forgets about peripheral vision and how to actually do more than slowly follow one thing moving toward her

[@DMZZ_DZDM]

A character is only as intelligent as their author

[@andre_601]

Cut her some slack man... Her 2 braincells were already running overdrive here....

[@Cellardoor_]

It's not just Shyamalan to blame, but also his producers and the production companies that let him do this. Let's not forget that with any given show or movie, there's a lot of people above the director of that are also in charge.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Whatever you earn from this video will just pay for your therapy...

[@TheFanoren]

Of all places, i didn't expect to see you guys here!

[@KingsandGenerals]

@@TheFanoren why? Storytelling is what we are about :-)

[@farhatk6054]

@@KingsandGenerals bruhhh, I just subscribed to your channel 2 days ago and I'm benge watching your videos right now

[@longclaw22-72]

SENPAI!!!!!

[@christianvennemann9008]

@@KingsandGenerals Y'all need to do some videos on ATLA battles!

[@nathanthaxton7492]

Has anyone ever considered that the reason why the actor's faces are so boring and stale is because the camera man is Koh the Face Stealer?

[@nathanlee9124]

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[@thedarkoverlordofall]

Damn, that’s impressive of them! Didn’t get startled or anything, I’m proud of them

[@sfkeepay]

Ha! Brilliant! Wish I’d thought of that...

[@Mari-ll5dt]

oh no

[@Slender_Man_186]

*DEEPEST LORE*

[@gailasprey7787]

Just Aang staring at Katara waterbending from behind a rock like he literally can’t go over and ask her “Hey mind helping me out?”

[@Drn10n]

32:10 sure, let's try to make a darker movie version of a show that had the main cast deal with GENECIDE AND PARENT DEATH. Hell, by the end, the show had us contemplating the morality of a death sentence to heinous criminals. Don't confuse tone and theme Shyamalan

[@gennybaratta2460]

Not to mention a good part of Zuko’s story arc is about recovering from an abusive childhood

[@icantthinkofanaccountname3690]

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se Hear we are safe Here we are free

[@TheN.E.R.D.S]

Here we are cabbage

[@Uh_0h_zilla]

@@TheN.E.R.D.S lmaoo

[@tijn0770]

Someone screaming in the distance: “MY CABBAGES!”

[@alba2162]

The earth king has invited you to lake laogai

[@minaminastheanimationfan7909]

@@alba2162 I am honored to accept his invitation

[@crystallxix1493]

"There's no live action adaptation in Ba Sing Se. This is a safe space." -The therapist probably

[@samarendra109]

Here we are safe. Here we are free.

[@Red-dg3fe]

@@samarendra109 Σ(꒪ȏ꒪)(꒪⌓꒪)(￣Д￣；；

[@deviousxen]

EMDR is basically this hahahAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA *feels fear*

[@EvanSol919]

There's no movie within the walls...

[@Flome810]

@@EvanSol919 here we are safe. Here we are free

[@Fullmetalnyuu1]

I forgot how much Katara's exposition dump sounds like a nature documentary

[@Loxalair]

Still watching (at 50 minutes, talking about Ozai's intro) but oh man this is hitting it spot on. I remember leaving the theatre with my brother, 16 years old, our first time going to the movies without our parents (who weren't interested and went to a restaurant instead). We were quiet. I don't think we'd ever seen a bad movie before, or at least one that was bad both when you were thinking about it and when you turned off your brain hoping for mindless entertainment. We usually talked about things we liked after going to the movies, but there really wasn't much to say. "Well there was..." followed by trailing off Specifically the bit with Ozai, which is why I'm writing this comment now instead of waiting for the end of the video, I didn't even realize in his intro that that was Ozai. I zoned out or something, missed his name, and thought Zhao was just. Talking to some random higher up general. Or a court official, since his clothes were fancier

[@michaelajungheim302]

"Where is Zuko's scar?" *leans in to get a closer look* "I still don't see it."

[@BwooHuraca]

Use my atomic microscope. That might help.

[@namkedi]

(Robs the best lab in the world) WHERE IS YOUR MICROSCOPE THAT CAN SEE ZUKOS SCAR them : AAAAAH WE DONT HAVE IT THE FILM IS JUST SO TERRIBLE HE HAS NO SCAR?.?

[@catlover2223]

It's the area that looks like acne. :P

[@namkedi]

(Burns 13 year old as a severe punishment) ( child gets acne) HOW

[@matthewmuir8884]

Are you sure you're not just looking at the wrong side?

[@dramallamarama5300]

Zuko’s ‘scar’ in this is just pathetic, his eye is supposed to be practically shut from the severe scar tissue and it stretches around his face to his now deformed ear, but what we see here is a barely visible birthmark with a thick luscious eyebrow and wide open uninjured eye.

[@GODLOVERBAM]

Yup. I had to keep pausing to see if he even had a scar in most of his scenes

[@renatocorvaro6924]

See, that's because in the show, the scar stops that side of his face from having muscle movement and showing emotion. In the movie, you don't need to worry about that because none of the characters show emotion.

[@puli_dreadhead]

Honestly if he walked around with his face bandaged that would be half assed but not completely ignored.

[@MissCaraMint]

@@puli_dreadhead Yeah they could have changed it to being something that just happened so that it creates a sense of urgency. Also less chance of screwing up makeup.

[@Squidxx-fg7ih]

Dudes da literally blasted his face point blank with a blow torch fist but hes just got a little cut guys lol. I hated how they botched zuko so sad

[@geoffreysummerhayes4793]

My wife loved the film and thought Aang was "cute." I, on the other hand, felt my soul being sucked out of my body watching this thing. On the plus side, every time she wants to watch it, I say, "Fine. But then we'll watch the entire series again."

[@OrangeHand]

Why are you still married to her???

[@geoffreysummerhayes4793]

@@OrangeHand She loves Babylon 5.

[@mr.spytom]

@@geoffreysummerhayes4793best reason to marry someone

[@NINJAfries07]

The most developed story thread wasn’t Xiao’s rivalry with Zuko, it was Xiao’s trip to the library that, as you know, many say doesn’t exist.

[@Speederzzz]

Zhao, sounds similar but it's a bit different

[@NINJAfries07]

@@Speederzzz I’ll be honest, I have no idea why I spelled his name that way. I know the proper spelling. Guess I was tired lol

[@Speederzzz]

@@NINJAfries07 no worries haha, im currently ill so I fully get it

[@NINJAfries07]

@@Speederzzz Hope you feel better soon.

[@elijahdoesstuff4600]

This movie is a masterclass in how to insult your audience.

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

Tell, don't show.

[@petrsevcik5044]

And also insult everyone else in the process

[@Amethyst454]

Right! When I watched AtLA as a teen, I felt like the writers were not talking down to me.

[@TheNoybusiness]

Much like Season 8 of Game of Thrones. No joke, I would literally use that as an example of what not to do if I were teaching a writing class.

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

Apparently, Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson took that class.

[@timjohnson3518]

Book two when they go to the great library. The owl spirit says to them: "As you know General Zou came here and raided my great library and took the secrets to kill the moon, in his raid. And as you know he almost succeeded in killing the moon. All because he raided my great library

[@ratatoskr5561]

"the library most didn't even believe existed, the one you are currently standing in"

[@danielverhagen8865]

"...Which most thought didn't exist, of course"

[@buggart]

This library? The library we are currently standing on? The library that General Zhou went to and raided because of a prophecy about a moon spirit and how it's connected to water bending? That Library?

[@IlBiggo]

@@buggart That one. As you know, most didn't even believe it to exist.

[@hark1007]

But what about Zhaos Raid on the Great Library?

[@caoilfhionndunbar]

28:58 in a better movie I could see this working as a way of showing that Sokka is reckless, but very avoidant of bending, turning to caution the second anything "magical" shows up, and that Kitara is cautious but enthused towards bending and related things, she wants to learn bending more then anything so things related to it override her caution.

[@---ut6fk]

I just NEED to know how Shyamalan's daughter feels about the movie.

[@CJCroen1393]

One of the worst sins of this movie is turning Sokka into a humorless prick.

[@tannerbarnes7392]

Yeah, they did Sokka seriously dirty

[@teller2488]

Turned into Humorless Zuko

[@aishxnel]

I’m never happy - Zuko in season 3 I’m never happy - Almost Suhka

[@user-vz5wu8ty3z]

No, it's his darker clone, Souka

[@kannonball5789]

@@user-vz5wu8ty3z そうか

[@Radiogumdrop]

The scene where they say, "Boo Hoo, Aang can't waterbend and got sad" is so funny cause he looks at Katara longingly like, "why can't I waterbend like her?" but while she's bending literally NOTHING happens. She's just standing there doing fancy things with her hands. No waterbending happens at all. It's so bad.

[@ilmatarkarvajalka3404]

yes, that scene is just... my guess, ran out of money?

[@Tigresafire]

When I first saw this scene I was genuinely confused as to what him looking at her was suppose to mean. Not only can the audience not see his facial expression while he was looking at her, and the facial expressions that we did get were shitty, but she isn't doing anything either. When I first saw this scene I was like "Is he looking at her because he likes her?" it wasn't until I re-watched the series and I saw this happen. Only. It was Katara jealous of Aang because he was able to do more than her even though she was suppose to be his "teacher." It's all wrong from a film standpoint and an adaptation standpoint.

[@Radiogumdrop]

@@Tigresafire I hated that he couldn’t bend either! Aang is a prodigy and why he was able to be a master air bender at only 12 years old. He caught on to water bending easily and when he struggles with earth bending for like a day, he gets upset and frustrated. I like that arc in his character. It reminds me of myself when I was that age and younger. When things didn’t catch on easily for me, which they often did, I shut down and wouldn’t try and felt bad about myself.

[@eugenideddis]

@@Tigresafire The thing is I can see how it was supposed to work. Since they didn't have time to do every character arc, it makes sense to restructure things around one character per movie, with the first one needing to be about Aang as he's the title character, and so they needed to restructure plot points for Katara into working for Aangs plot. Now, no matter what this would provide a weaker story, but it could have been good enough if... well if the movie was good.

[@Phantom_Zone]

So are we gonna ignore the fact that in the actual show Aang managed to waterbend much easier then Katara. And the fact that she was jealous that Aang could do something in mere seconds while Katara had to practice it for days.

[@Splonton]

This movie did actually do something right. It made me go watch the show again

[@lunasquib]

The ONLY thing I truly like is that Yue’s hair turns brown again It’s a nice reminder of her being naturally brown haired

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

The fact they fundamentally changed fire bending in the movie so drastically still drives me nuts today. Fire benders never needed a source of element to fight which made them feel stronger and scarier.

[@LindyLime]

So true, and how easy would it be for a waterbender to defeat them? Just douse their source. Of course that would be all waterbending would be good for in this movie...

[@theendersmirk5851]

Not just that, but it made Aang and the Fire Nation fundamentally opposed. They were using the two gaseous elements, the two derived from the very air around them, the hardest to deprive them of. The Fire benders could drive the other benders from their element if given a chance, but not Aang. This made him their greatest threat, even on their home turf, simply because he fought them evenly. Here, both Aang has the advantage, and no one's bending is strong enough to actually be worth a single soldier, so it doesn't matter.

[@tryingtomakeapropperuserna3625]

Now they’re just like the other benders

[@jharris3110]

What's funny is that in a prequel comic I found Iroh mentioned the Sun Warriors and how they did bending (without mentioning the dragons) and said something about firebenders being disconnected from their original source or something at some point? This was a while back so I don't remember, all I know is Ozai mentioned something about it at the end of the movie but I was barely paying attention at that point.

[@LoreleiCatherine]

I wasn't even a superfan of the show and I KNEW THAT, even I was mad af at the treatment of the source material lol

[@bitterzombie]

They "grounded" sokka's character by making him genuinely unfunny

[@matthewmuir8884]

It's so dumb; how does he think Sokka being a wisecracker is not realistic or "grounded"?

[@keadonboze968]

That’s soaka Not sokka

[@dogman9291]

@@matthewmuir8884 Exactly. Especially for a teenage character. Many teenagers have Sokka's exact attitude. These are real people. That's as grounded as you can get.

[@SS-rf1ri]

I agree, but not as much as I agree with my stomach! I'm starving!

[@arriibacon531]

@@keadonboze968 facts

[@theadventurecatalog8205]

Oh my go# I just realized this is a master piece. They were doing the play that was shown in avatar not doing a live action of the cartoon. It makes so much sense!

[@merphynapier42]

IT'S TIME!

[@DanielGreeneReviews]

ITS HAPPENING!

[@joshuam772]

Tim, Merphy AND Daniel... The holy trinity is complete🎉

[@isacami25]

i knew i'd find her in the comments. happy to see you here Merphy :)

[@CipherDorito]

Yayyy

[@billyalarie929]

@@joshuam772 WE DID IT EVERYONE

[@taegi3990]

i‘ll never forget the moment i witnessed a horde of adult men flailing their arms for a good minute just to have a pebble levitate across the screen at the speed of an electric wheelchair

[@isdrakon9802]

Is this a broken electric wheelchair

[@jeswicas]

I think my electric wheelchair is faster tbh

[@Chadius]

Just pick up and throw the rock, it would be faster and you could throw 6 at a time.

[@NaomiALJ]

Some of those mobility scooters can MOVE, its awesome Anyway yeah its super bad haha

[@bookoo995]

HOW DARE YOU! It wasn't a pebble. It was a very small rock. SMH. All these shymalan haters tryna spread fake news. /s

[@Amy-yq4lk]

“I like games, too.” Most people like games. That’s not the deep connection you think it is, Aang.

[@gustavodeoliveira5254]

Jesus liked bread, and so do I. Surely it means that I'm the new messiah

[@fairycat23]

@@gustavodeoliveira5254 Judas had a close circle of friends, and so do I. Surely it means that I'm the one who's supposed to betray you, the new messiah.

[@Red-dg3fe]

@@fairycat23 Lol

[@kindredspirit9703]

"I'm a bit of a Gamer myself, actually" -Live Action Aang

[@breezy3392]

Kyoshi and Aang were nothing alike!!! They had completely different upbringings and ideologies

[@dramaking4761]

"There is no Avatar: the Last Airbender movie in Ba Sing Se."

[@alba2162]

the earth king has invited you to lake laogai

[@slevinchannel7589]

"As you know" is in Reality a totally fine way of speech though. "As you know, our company has not managed to fuse with that other Company, so we need to find a way to grow through other means. Lets hear ideas!"

[@An_Entire_Lime]

@@thepringler5600 as you know, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[@NickDe3]

But there may be an animated one coming from Mike and Bryan soon. ;)

[@Walamonga1313]

Lmao

[@travisstoll3582]

I was a teacher when this series had completed. I bought all the DVDs and showed them to my students during lunch. By the fourth episode ALL my students chose to eat with me and watch this series. It transformed my class. We discussed empathy, character development, character purpose, internal and external conflicts, etc. These discussions changed my students as well. They were kind and reflective. Also, this was the year every student passed every mandatory assessment. My principal asked me my secret but didn't believe my answer. To him it was just a cartoon.

[@spritemon98]

I would absolutely love you as a teacher

[@weltraumkotze]

I would like to know what kind of teacher, how old were your students at the time?

[@Chadius]

Because CarToOnS aRe fOr KIDZ!!! But it was an incredible bonding experience. Also, cartoons are just an artstyle. The lessons and stories can be told in any medium, as the cartoon vs the movie shows.

[@travisstoll3582]

@@weltraumkotze I taught third grade, all subjects. My students had me all day, which is why I was surprised they would eat lunch with me too.

[@krzysztofprzybylski2750]

@@Chadius I was 27 when I finished the series for the first time. I was skeptical at first. It looked like a kids show and in anime style which is not my thing. Well... I was wrong. Very wrong. And 27 isn't too old for that show. Hell, I showed it to my mom (57) and she recognized its value.

[@marinary1326]

"He has learned that sometimes directors tilt their cameras, but he has not yet learned why"

[@elvellarambles9151]

That quote is gonna be evergreen as long as bad-movie-criticism exists, huh?

[@Excalibur-Sonic]

And Aang wasn't bad with Waterbending it was Earthbending.

[@michaelellis772]

True there were episodes about both. Can't was better than Katara at Waterbending which made her mad and Aang struggled with earthbending which caused Toph to beat him up.

[@blueroom789]

'The Waterbending Scroll's inciting incident is literally that aang is way better than katara at waterbending and she gets mad about it

[@EvanSol919]

Ong can't be a natural waterbender because he needs ANGST!

[@thebolas000]

@@EvanSol919 Aangst

[@juicebox9465]

Artemis Fowl: I am the worst movie adaptation! Dragonball Evolution: No, I am! The Last Airbender: *Amateurs* Dragonball Evolution: What was that punk? The Last Airbender: (Turns around) *Amateurs*

[@thomaseasley2938]

Me: calm down ladies, your both ugly

[@margaretmetcalfe5380]

Help KZbin how do you love a comment

[@kenshix7902]

Nah Evolution is worse. At least with The Last Airbender, we can tell what they are trying to adapt

[@joshuaswart8211]

Honestly, I think DBE is even worse. At least The Last Airbender resembles its source material.

[@TheHero136]

Percy Jackson: LOOK AT OUR MISERY! Dragon Ball Evolution: Just back away slowly. The Last Airbender: Don't maintain eye contact.

[@OverlySarcasticProductions]

And when the world needed him most… *he returned* -R

[@carlosroo5460]

Amen!

[@sylviaturner9063]

Couldn't have said it better myself

[@Shmicah1235]

I left a like on this comment, but then I took it back.... for reasons...

[@novarysart6715]

Overly Sarcastic u here too? Bless you

[@LordWyatt]

Ten years ago...Shamalan attacked...

[@nathanbestvater2413]

General Zhao is that one friend who took a gap year in Europe and tries to fit it into every conversation.

[@williamsledge3151]

As you know I went to Europe...

[@pastlife960]

aS yOu KnOw...

[@SaKura-il8op]

The funny thing is the Europeans make jokes about all those exchange students who went to Australia XD

[@Marcusjnmc]

@@slevinchannel7589 reported 3 times for spam '.'

[@Marcusjnmc]

@@slevinchannel7589 I guarantee you you've been reported for it more than just from me, it's inevitable if you're visibly posting spam.

[@nathand.9969]

Avatar cartoon: Earth benders struggle to bend house sized rocks. Last Airbender Movie: Benders struggle bend a house-cat sized rock.

[@adastial2104]

Toph laughs as she destroys the planet in her old age

[@ninjiinc.8883]

laughs in bumi throwing houses from far away, then lifting a metal statue from below, then three earthbenders knocking down an apartment

[@asrieldreemurr1988]

@@Dangangela6565 legend of Korra think

[@koreancowboy42]

And the fire benders too forever just to do a simple flame to do an attack just as much. Water benders did way too many unnecessary movements to have water attack and defend. While the animated avatar movies and such makes the fire benders be blasting fire balls from punches XD

[@drewrichardson2439]

I will never forgive the fire benders not being able to fire bend. "Oh look, here's a nation that took over the entire world....I guess by dragging some giant torches with them and hoping that no one just puts them out."

[@LordDaret]

Maybe the torches contained the severed hands of fire benders. ¯ \_(ツ)_/ ¯

[@android19willpwn]

hope the Earth kingdom never hears about rain

[@zephyrerazortail5478]

That's one of my biggest gripes of the movie. How was Shyamalan thinking of doing Sozin's Comet? It was terrying and effective BECAUSE they don't need external fire.

[@rachelroyce4619]

When Zuko and Katara fight and she's completely surrounded by water and zuko has a little but of fire around him, I literally screamed at her to just put the fire out with her limitless water and make Zuko useless. AHHHHHHHHHHH actually infuriating

[@kira-dk2mx]

@@zephyrerazortail5478 All the comet would have done was make every firebender as strong as the average firebender in the show. Sweet baby Jesus.

[@maximillianx1395]

This movie was the reason why Azula had a mental breakdown

[@noattendance9801]

The lore

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@noattendance9801 All this nonsense and all the mistakes of this Movie repeated itself with the heinous all-bad moie 'Mulan 2020'. It really shows that the World overall learns nothing! I almost thought Quality went extinct after having seen barely any good movie for years - but then 'Wolfwalker' came out! What an OUTSTANDING Movie! Its not an Adaptation, and heck, its not even 'original' (others told similar stories even), but its still absolutely Amazing. I recommend it to everyone here who is starved for Quality - and i just assume you are.

[@hydrasaurandre]

You know what I really hate about the scene where Aang practices his waterbending with Katara? In the tv show, it was the exact opposite! It clicked for Aang almost immediately, while the WHOLE POINT of the episode was Katara struggling with Waterbending! Shyamalan completely reversed it!

[@jiashuhan9011]

In fact sang was soooo god with water bending katana was jealous...

[@wariolandgoldpiramid]

I dont think it was a bad idea on its own. With water being the element of change, and Aang having difficulty accepting his whole tribe being dead, it would make sense Aang struggling with waterbending. But if only the movie was good, and used the idea well...

[@hydrasaurandre]

@@wariolandgoldpiramid Except it completely deviates from the TV show and ignores the very plot of an entire episode, that being Aang's quick adaption to Waterbending and Katara's struggles with the basics.

[@ussinussinongawd516]

@@hydrasaurandre there's nothing wrong with deviation really

[@joevenespineli6389]

@@ussinussinongawd516 If. It's. Done. Well.

[@Emily-tv1iz]

"It's difficult for the actors to replicate the physical movements for bending" people say about a magic system that revolves around real-world martial arts styles practiced and mastered by millions of people around the globe

[@MinatheRaichu]

Also, when Avatar was aired on Nicktoons, there were commercial bumpers where they explicitly stated which forms of martial arts were the references for each style of bending. On top of having the directors there with their martial arts master to ask for their world bible. He just never took their advice.

[@artemisfowldragon]

I literally use half-remembered bending moves when I dance sometimes just because I feel like it

[@someotherworldlybeing3167]

@@artemisfowldragon do the zuko spin

[@iluvchess14736]

Tbf some of the bending is sped up. IRL waterbending, for example, is so slow that grannies love it

[@kira-dk2mx]

Instead they settle with needlessly slow movements that are just waving their hands and feet around like they're trying to fight off a swarm of bees. That's just a shoddy excuse that really doesn't play out when you have Chinese movies with less budget than this doing something better.

[@Profile__1]

You know a movie makes a MASSIVE NEGATIVE IMPACT when people are still making analysis videos on it years later. Never forget.

[@nexusshark]

People still make analysis videos about good movies too.

[@unitedtunic7708]

This movie was a crime to humanity

[@Profile__1]

@@nexusshark While that is true, I highly doubt Avatar: TLA fits into that description.

[@nexusshark]

@@Profile__1 The point is that it doesn't really matter if it's good or bad. People will analyse it for a long time anyway.

[@Profile__1]

@@nexusshark Well I'd say what really matters is that it's THAT bad that people keep coming back. If it's just bad, it'll be forgotten

[@Zarastro54]

Dunking on the Last Airbender may be like beating a dead horse, but every time you hit this dead horse, a new colorful explosion of noxious gas is released. It’s just always so entertaining.

[@deanholderde5959]

This reasonable and hilarious.

[@A_Person7307]

Agreed

[@li9hts0ut56]

the piñata that keeps on giving

[@TheRegart]

I'm honestly just picturing confetti bursting out the horse each time you beat it

[@Sucart12]

So, beating a dead unicorn?

[@AhavaMath]

Nobody: Zhao: As YoU KnOw, I CoNdUcTeD A RaId On a GrEaT LiBrArY....

[@klaus3964]

WhIcH mAnY pEoPlE dIdNt EvEn BeLiEvE tO eXiSt

[@Gking10]

Would you get on with it already?

[@Drak77TV]

I like to think Zhao goes around fire lord's palace or his ship randomly starting convos with this line at least once a day, like; "oh no, look here goes Zhao again, can't wait to hear about that bloody library for the ten thousand time"

[@azaram8133]

That moment when you conduct a raid on a great library

[@lonebattledroid4474]

Get on with it

[@talonsandwings17]

“He was the teacher responsible for me. He’s kind of like my father.” Okay, RIGHT OFF THE BAT this looks like almost the same dialogue from the show but is SO inferior and fumbled when it comes to execution and subtext. “This is Monk Gyatso. The most powerful airbender in the world. He taught me everything I know.” Seems like it’s getting across basically the same information. But no. Aang’s inherent respect for Gyatso is IMPLIED through his (correctly, but almost childishly) calling Gyatso the absolute greatest airbender alive. His line delivery on “he taught me everything I know” and bow following it show just how thankful Aang is for the tutelage he was given; he pays respect to it even when Gyatso isn’t literally there. He also uses present tense when referring to Gyatso’s abilities, showing that even his subconscious mindset still assumes that the airbenders haven’t really been killed. He hasn’t faced or accepted yet that they’re gone and part of his past now. Not to mention the fact that everything Aang says to his friends paints a picture of this great, respected air bending master, a characterization that the following flashback then deliberately SUBVERTS and deepens by showing Gyatso waxing on “ancient cake-baking techniques” and enlisting Aang to chuck the cakes at other masters’ heads. All of a sudden we have a deeper understanding of where someone like Aang came from: an incredibly talented kid who still has this deep-seeded priority and veneration of whimsy and fun. We learn all of that by connecting dots between what we are shown and what an eleven-year-old kid tells us, what he CHOOSES to say and how he says it, naturally, through his lens, not just reading off of a screenwriter’s plot notes. And the scenes actually flow together in a deliberate manner to gradually evolve the audience’s perception of the story and its characters. Leaps and bounds apart from the film. Just, the closer you look the crazier the gulf gets. I am losing my mind as I write this.

[@sambvibin8279]

Wow broo that’s deep

[@chinuaalibatya7345]

Very well written analysis

[@mario98730]

Beautiful analysis

[@paddywall8531]

This is a rly amazing analysis.

[@bugrilyus]

In the first one his like talking about his psp functions to his firends from suburb

[@Lunar_DeBrie]

"Aang was having trouble waterbending." 1. I can SEE that, thank you. 2. In the series, Aang picks water up very well because it's his elemental compliment. So why did they have him incompotent with it here??

[@prakharmathur9453]

Probably to add some hurdles, in the series we see him struggle with fire and earth, both of which weren't covered here

[@MTech07]

Because reasons …(none clearly) - film. I have cero remarks for the series that is one of the best ever written.

[@scholargrove]

That's the thing, that entire episode was about how quickly he learned waterbending and how it made Katara feel self-conscious about how she had to train for most of her life to learn what little she did, by herself. If they're going to cut out the pirates, and the cabbage merchant, AND the necklace, AND the conflict, then why not have Aang start learning when they reach the Northern Water Tribe?

[@Grim_Sister]

3. This clearly causes a bit of a rift between him and Katara, who had to work very hard on her bending for years. Aang picked up water bending in what seemed (to me, at least) as a few days.

[@GeeklingNo1]

He literally had a conflict with katara bc he was doing moves she'd worked months on in a few minutes.

[@firelordmomo6865]

“ung was practicing, but for some reason he was having trouble with water bending” *in the show it’s literally the one he finds the easiest (besides air bending) and he can bend water almost instantly when he tries for the first time*

[@LamanKnight]

Listening to that scene made me angry. Even aside from changing story elements, it was also a wasted opportunity for a character arc. In the show, before Katara received training from Pakku, Aang was actually better than her at waterbending, and it was surprising how that made Katara angry and hurt. That was a brilliant character moment; I think that scene was one of the first times we saw proof that Katara felt special because of her bending abilities. Before that, being a waterbender was just a "background fact" of who she was, and not something she emphasized a lot. And yet, when Aang easily did waterbending better than the best she knew how to do, it made her feel threatened, which revealed something about how she perceived herself. That scene made it all the more satisfying when Katara later proved to be exceptionally gifted as a waterbender, once she had a chance to learn and practice. It makes her personal arc similar to Zuko's; they both had to work hard to develop their abilities, as opposed to Aang or Azula, who were apparent prodigies who just naturally got it. But no, clearly it's better if Aang is the one struggling with waterbending's flowing movements, and the peaceful, spiritual concentration that we already have proof he's very good at. *Sigh.* This movie.

[@Ellimist000]

@@LamanKnight and even sadder, they could have made the way it is work, but the film just doesn't commit to anything. It's worse than fan fiction

[@michaelkenner3289]

Personal headcannon, we're seeing the story from Katara's point of view as the narrator. She's still salty about Aang mastering water faster than her so lies about him struggling to make herself feel better.

[@firelordmomo6865]

@@michaelkenner3289 LMAO

[@o7o6o5o4o3]

@@michaelkenner3289 I accept this theory as the truth.

[@guyperson754]

“It’s adorable how they thought they’d make three of these.” -CinemaSins

[@willyolio9590]

wow, cinermasins was right about something?

[@liriodendronlasianthus]

@@willyolio9590 the only time Cinema Sins was right

[@JTM_MACHINE]

Yeah that video was made way back in like 2012 when Cinemasins was still good.

[@lukemonahan7076]

Hahahahahaha Sequel

[@user-vz5wu8ty3z]

@@liriodendronlasianthus 80% of cinemasins is just injokes

[@DonniedrakoE]

Bro I think what pissed me off most was the fire-bending. The entire fear behind the firebenders was the fact that they could literally go off at a moments notice and turn their entire surroundings into a raging inferno, symbolizing the revenge and hatred of these people. Needing fire already present removes the threat.

[@Cheetahgirl_Studios]

So if the second movie went ahead Azula never would’ve been intimidating like she was in the show. She would be a complete joke lol.

[@MrSquigglies]

Also it removes the philosophy behind fire bending

[@gabrieldossantos1116]

Exactly! That's the threat that the firebender impose through the whole series. You can lock a earthbender in a wooden cell (like they did with Toph) and he will be useless, same with waterbender. I mean, imagine Azula having to walk around with a torch just to be able to bend. All the threat and menacing that the character had is gone, she is just a stupid girl with a torch now. That movie screwed up in a number of ways I'm not even able to count lmao

[@coolwizard22]

@@Cheetahgirl_Studios I would have liked to know how they would have explained Lightning-Bending for Fire Benders.

[@chinuaalibatya7345]

I like how they tried to work around this by making it so that it was Sozins Comet that gave them the ability to bend without the need of something. I guess M. Night figured when the comet arrived in 3 years he'd be able to do fire bending the "normal" way

[@COCO-tm3gp]

Plot twist: The entire film was just the Ember Island Players.

[@Jaguarstudios8379]

Yeah, probably

[@maidenreligion12]

Don't you dare disgrace the Ember Island Players. Even they would shudder at being in this mess.

[@Ishasgirl]

the Ember Island Players did a better job.

[@tumbke]

The Ember Island Players at least knew how to portray the characters. Their CG looks better too!

[@EvanSol919]

The Ember Island Players had better acting and better effects.

[@kt00na]

Every time Katara comes on screen I find myself going "Who the Hell is this confused white girl" before I remember she's supposed to be Katara.

[@forestgrump4723]

Yea it feels like her main character trait was "worried". Which is just.... Katara DOES SOMETHING when she's worried. She doesn't just worry and stew. And she earnestly believes all this pain has to be for something better. This Katara just.... doesn't. She just walks around pointing out all their problems while doing nothing to help solve them.

[@stellabelikiewicz1523]

This reminds me of when I was at the height of my Hamilton obsession, and whenever I looked at U.S. currency I’d be like, “Who the hell is this random old white dude?!”

[@kalad1n16]

alternative title for this movie: *The Last Airbender who is the Avatar Who Can Indeed Control All Four Elements, Which Consist of Water, Earth, Fire, Air, and Exposition*

[@gibbcharron3469]

*Ah*vatar

[@tylerbehrens7660]

You forgot the as you know

[@pablomagno4679]

who must defeat Admiral Zhao, who, as you know, conducted a raid in the Great Library wich most said didn't even exist

[@Satherian]

@@tylerbehrens7660 "As You Know, the Last Airbender is the Avatar Who Can Indeed Control All Four Elements, Which Consist of Water, Earth, Fire, Air, and Exposition"

[@DragonMaster66]

thats.... five elements

[@XtoDoubt25]

Alternate title: "The World's Worst Movie Causing a Man's Descent into Madness and Alcoholism"

[@carlosroo5460]

Or a better one: "How NOT to write, direct and/or produce an adaptation". Seriously, I feel like I'm a more competent writer than Shyamalan and all I write is comments in videos and mangas, and memes which only-- And this is a rough approximation without math --- %17 of then are funny and being generous with myself. Uff... Thanks, Tim, for the ego boost and the catarsis.

[@weltraumkotze]

A man from New Zealand repeatedly watched the last aribender. Here is what happened to his brain and kidneys

[@yurichtube1162]

He brother, how you doing?

[@raret4]

The reason Koh the Face Stealer isn't in the movie version of the world is because he wouldn't be able to steal a single face if nobody in the world reacts.

[@EvanSol919]

Actually Koh was the cameraman. That's why the actors couldn't express any emotion and why the camera was so close to their faces.

[@bbd121]

@@EvanSol919 Oh, God. That makes so much sense.

[@snakearekat2634]

@@EvanSol919 lol