The Last Airbender Pitch Meeting

Step inside the pitch meeting that led to Avatar: The Last Airbender Live-Action!
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For a brief moment in the early 2000’s, people were referring to M Night Shyamalan as “The Next Spielberg.” With popular hits like The Sixth Sense and Signs, it seemed like the director was going to churn out classic after classic. But then came The Village… Lady in the Water… The Happening… Opinions started to change. Then came “The Last Airbender” in 2010, which not only solidified the new, negative public opinion of Shyamalan, but also enraged fans of the animated series around the world.
The Last Airbender definitely raises a lot of questions. Like why rush through twenty episodes in ninety minutes? Why is there so much narration and exposition? Why are everybody’s names being pronounced weird? Why doesn’t anyone have any personality? Why does bending look so weird? What was up with that Earth Tribe scene? Who thought this was a good idea?!
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the pitch meeting that led to The Last Airbender! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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[@ecliptorcalrissian5014]

Finally! This movie was MADE for Pitch meetings. (And is of no use whatsoever to anyone else.)

[@bytisoli]

aCTuaLly, PiTCh mEeTInGS aRE mAdE bEfORe tHE mOvIe

[@patrickdyer7087]

Ohhh movies made for Pitch Meetings are TIGHT!

[@dexter5653]

Only way it'd be funnier is if he called it an anime instead of animated at the beginning lol

[@boingo2000]

Actually, my response to seeing the film was “that was truly terrible. What about any of this do people think have merit?” which led to me watching the cartoon. So in that sense, the movie was of some use.

[@spongebobsquarepants2981]

Ummmm what about cinemasins

[@easy.kbreezy2221]

This movie is like a drunk person trying to explain the first season, mispronouncing the names, forgetting very important things, etc...

[@ramahan21]

Drunk History comes to mind

[@peterroe3389]

So Sookuu, Cheara and Andy go to the Northern Tribe,,,,,, I'm just hear to like comments to improve this video's engagement score.

[@sean_mccadden]

Would love a drunk history episode of Avatar the last Airbender 😂

[@lethallizard_4493]

This makes so much more sense

[@donovanwick9278]

@@sean_mccadden those hand movements wouldn't be slow like taichi lol

[@JTReviewsPlus]

“I’m just changing things I don’t know why.” The only sentence you need to describe The Last Airbender.

[@bobbyfeet2240]

Honestly, I'd have gone with "I don't know why this movie should be." The series is damn near perfect -- I don't say that lightly -- there's not really much you can do in a movie to top it even if you do everything well. So why make the movie at all? (I mean, sure, want to do a spin-off, tell a different story from that universe, or something like that? Great! But "the same, but compressed and live-action", while now a Disney staple (at least the latter part of it) doesn't really justify making a movie.

[@calvinrosehart7042]

I choose to believe that this movie is the perfect live action replication of the play in the series, has some tangentially connected lines but otherwise has vastly different characters, is incorrect in areas, and uses wonky special effects to show bending stuff happening in lame theater style.

[@ScionStorm1]

I love how Shyamalan's excuse for how short and truncated the plot was is: "I'm just comfortable with that runtime length."

[@randomusername429]

@@bobbyfeet2240 I agree that no one should have tried to make a live-action version of the show in the first place. That's something I bring up a lot when discussing this movie, making it live-action and trying to sum it all up in a movie (no matter the length) were the first problems. Even someone who really knows what they are doing in terms of making a fantasy epic probably could not make this incredibly movie well. The visuals, the story, and the characters are all very rooted in the fact that the show is a cartoon. Everything is built around that, and becomes larger than life and more humorous. Maybe that's why the movie was trying to be more serious than the TV show? Either way, the seriousness of the movie did feel very strange. It goes hand-in-hand with the cartoon thing. The characters are meant to be far more comedic, even when the story is serious. The TV show puts seriousness and comedy together. So when they only tried to be serious in the film, everything that was so precariously balanced on how it was done in the TV show fell apart.

[@randomusername429]

@@ScionStorm1 Apparently Nickelodeon Studios wanted to make it even shorter though. They told him that 90 minutes was too long.

[@dude99844]

Honestly that scene where 5 guys are all in synchronised dance giving their heart and soul just to move a tiny rock is one of the funniest i have ever scene in movie history

[@richardoffiong9932]

Facts!!😂😂😂..I laughed so hard at that

[@SnowshoeProductions]

I have to wonder if they thought they were going to look amazing once the edits were in. I mean, talk about dissapointing.

[@tonethekid971]

The way you phrased that scene 🤣🤣🤣

[@vic137]

obiwan and darth vader poking each other with light sticks was 100 times more exciting than this scene

[@ronaldonwoke2004]

5 earthbending guys: *does a whole Haka Dance to lift one rock Toph: 😐

[@wesleyoldham4222]

"Long ago, the three seasons of Avatar lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when Shymalan attacked."

[@magicmulder]

Shy Mulan… Shaman… Shoo My Lamb… Shamalamadingdong… The guy who did Sixth Sense has come a long way, but not in a good way.

[@ssa6227]

🤣

[@caelincoolz5814]

Long ago the Avatar fanbase lived as together in harmony. But absolutely nothing changed when this movie attacked. Then came LoK.

[@darthwolfius7746]

Because of Shamalandodop movie there was no season IV of the Avatar

[@kittysakuraba1656]

😂😂

[@Uninspired.Spectator]

"And the name pronunciations are the same as they are in the show?" "There's absolutely no way to verify that"

[@Raz.C]

@@hendrikscheepers4144 Yeah, he said "pro-noun-ciations" instead of "pro-nun-ciations." But I rather think that's a forgivable whoopsie, considering the way that the base word [pronounce] is pronounced.

[@keananrice9173]

😂😂😂😂

[@sorra300-]

I am honored to accept his invitation

[@joebomb1019]

@@Raz.C I think that was on purpose as a joke

[@RagnarLoudpak]

“Oh that’s too bad”

[@kajnake5905]

"People love cheese and shredded cheese" "?" "If people love something theyll still love it if you tear it to little pieces" I love that analogy

[@webslinger516]

I wish I could retweet this

[@desmondbrown2813]

Priceless.

[@Bingo_the_Pug]

jesus christ.

[@jaredloveless]

Lol

[@torelifts]

There’s time stamps for a reason

[@amon6560]

The fact that they made fire benders, one of the only benders that can create their element, need to have a source of fire to firebend is infuriating

[@Ruiluth]

Is there anything at all about this movie that isn't infuriating though?

[@river-yuki]

Nope, not a single bloody thing.

[@hamatoyoshi7498]

That's what I'm saying

[@hamatoyoshi7498]

@@Ruiluth no

[@thewizard3075]

@@Ruiluth I liked the tattoos. They looked kinda cool but yeah, that's like the only thing.

[@CaptWarChief]

The shredded cheese joke is honestly one of the best lines George has come up with to this day

[@jeromevaleska2014]

Almost matches up to the running, “This is a Star Wars” joke that Ryan came up with. They are such an amazing team.

[@duck5843]

@@jeromevaleska2014 Which pitch meeting is that in?

[@jeromevaleska2014]

@@duck5843 Top Gun: Maverick

[@WolverineIncognito]

His name is Ryan

[@notimportant2508]

*It's my absolute favourite joke from his, and he has some zingers and bangers and killers, but this one just hits different, it in fact slaps. Edit: the only rival I can think of is "the odds are astronomical, but that's okay, cause we're in space."

[@sainathsannake891]

The pitch meeting is thousand times better than the movie .

[@legendsofmichael4315]

What? You didn't like the pitch meeting?

[@tonyacosta4574]

More like trillion times bettet

[@z-beeblebrox]

Don't you mean these thousand pitch meetings are one times better than the movie?

[@yesidohaveaverysmallpenisb5458]

Buddy, there are a lot of things that are 1,000 times better than that movie

[@aaaa-eb6pi]

Yes I do have a very small penis but, ....……………………………....…………………………… That is a genius username. I hate it.

[@thexenosaiyan]

Imagine making a movie so bad that they somehow got the name of the main character wrong

[@Twiggymaster666]

I gave it until they pronounce Aang wrong

[@kanyerahming]

@@Twiggymaster666 And Sokka they called Sooka or Suka or whatever

[@Twiggymaster666]

Kanye Rahming everybody in the movie was pronounced wrong if it was a book I can kind of understand it but it was a TV show there is no excuse

[@zacgranne1754]

the reason the director did that is that aang is white and so he does not see Tibetan which is where the name aang comes from and for somereason they should change the pronunciation

[@kanyerahming]

@@Twiggymaster666 I agree, man

[@4plus20isHappy]

“Trying to cram more than 400 minutes of a 20 episode TV season into a hour and a half movie is TIGHT.”

[@MovieFan1912]

Sounds extremely clunky.

[@Anna-pf2gz]

Quite literally hahaha

[@desrocchi]

It's been more than 10 years, but it still hurts like it was yesterday.

[@JessaGrace091887]

No one is ever going to move on about a movie that didn't exist in Ba Sing Se.

[@nivsaieg6051]

I thought the internet agreed that this movie never existed

[@GrAffittoy]

It doesn't.

[@apathysatragedy3114]

What movie?

[@luke2max]

What are we talking about?

[@LiaManila]

The Earth king has invited you to Lake Laogai.

[@therelentlessturkey8869]

They made a movie?

[@JKtheSlacker]

This is historic: The first Pitch Meeting done about a movie that doesn't exist. Good work Ryan!

[@logancamp9098]

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se

[@MrJan228]

Actually, he already did one for Artemis Fowl. I guess there were some fan trailers for it back in the day, but as far as i know, noone has made a movie yet

[@azuroslazuli6948]

The sarcasm is strong with this one. XD

[@covellin_]

Waiting for Eragon...

[@mysteryman1036]

Logan Camp here we are safe. Here we are free (from M. Night somethingsomething)

[@moridin3336]

Pretty weird for Ryan to do a Pitch Meeting for a movie that never got made

[@estebanslavidastic4382]

what movie?

[@isaiaholaru5013]

@@estebanslavidastic4382 What Pitch meeting about what movie?

[@estebanslavidastic4382]

@@isaiaholaru5013 I dunno i don’t think this movie was ever made

[@dreday99]

There is no movie in ba sing se

[@DJSpaceyr]

@@dreday99 are you bumi

[@crowhaveninc.2103]

I love how Ryan just made up an entire movie and hired actors to do short scenes, just so that he could do a pitch meeting about a supposed Avatar movie

[@iBlewupthemoon98]

Ryan George, the Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.

[@PhantomVirus]

I’m gonna need you to get allll the way off my back about the war in Ba Sing Se

[@ObstagoonGuy]

I am honoured to accept his invitation.

[@redsandman8671]

PhantomVirus But there is no war in Ba Sing Se. Here, we are safe. Here, we are free.

[@apisbaini2790]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se...

[@rashaaddavis7356]

I accept your invitation

[@ninjawo1fxgolden797]

This movie doesn’t exist, we all have just been on cactus juice, “ it’s the quenchiest”

[@troymiller5739]

The producers were on cactus juice.

[@slickm7]

The earth king has invited you to lake Laogai

[@Lexithepoptart]

It’ll quench ya

[@troymiller5739]

Why is Toph on fire?

[@michaelbarnes7351]

Lol cactus juice.

[@wesleycounts6757]

The shredded cheese analogy had me dying 😂

[@therose1277]

I saw the movie first, and thought it was boring. My kids made me watch the cartoon, and I absolutely LOVED it. This pitch meeting hits the nail right on the head!

[@ultimateslinger9857]

I really wish I watched the cartoon first.

[@biggingeryeti]

This is weird, doing a pitch meeting for a movie that doesn't exist. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS PEOPLE.

[@jimluebke3869]

Sometimes I wish they'd made a sequel to The Matrix. Maybe even a trilogy. Then I think, nah, they kinda did the big reveal in the first one and probably couldn't top that even if they tried really, really, really, really, really, really hard.

[@eliasfrp]

@@jimluebke3869 Well, buckle up for part four.

[@georgetiddy7825]

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se

[@rahulr1305]

But aCtually...it would be really weird to pitch a movie that already exists...unless it was a comedy thing. So since this movie doesn't exist, it probably isn't a comedy thing. So I guess, Screen writer guy is actually pitching this terrible movie.

[@ninjagato3377]

@@georgetiddy7825 There is no movie in Ba Sing Se. There is no war in Ba Sing Se. We have tea here in Ba Sing Se.

[@JeremyWS]

We do not talk of this movie, this movie does not exist.

[@tannercellich1077]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

[@typicalarmadillo3238]

There s no movie anywhere

[@SantiHRod]

There are no plans for a sequel.

[@segastars9802]

This is forbidden. I can feel my banished memories coming back to me!

[@Divineheart7]

What movie? I see no movie.

[@shinkamui]

i love the fact that when they restore the moon, people start fighting normally with their fists against the firebenders

[@lcsperuzzioliveira]

15 years later and they still followed the rule of "tell, dont show" in the netflix series

[@sergio9929]

I remember the showrunner saying that he hasn't seen the film. I found it: "There was a period of time where I thought I should watch it, but then I thought, I don't really want those images in my head as I start to go forward with our version of this project. So I avoided it purposefully"

[@Rocksteady72a]

"Water *kingdom"* Oh god, you're making me realize how much this movie got wrong all over again.

[@adhamsalah4530]

Fire nation air nomads water tribe earth kingdom

[@anemonenaur8468]

Like in the danish version they call the fire nation ild landet that mean fire kingdom

[@meto9285]

the title crawl says "the four nations: water, earth, fire and air nomads" wtf??? is it the water nation, earth nation, fire nation, and air nomads nation? or is it water nation, earth nation, fire nation, and air nomads? then why's there 4 nations? wtf man

[@Rocksteady72a]

The Tusken Clanker ikr, imagine making a clear statement of ignorance of source material within the _first few seconds_ of a movie.

[@martinzhang5676]

They say four nations in the show too. There are four nations, it's just only the Fire Nation is the only one to have Nation in its official name. It's like how every country is a state but only some states like the United States of America or the State of Israel has the word as part of its full name.

[@sclark615]

It's like the worse the movies are the better the pitch meeting.

[@phoenix4256]

Your logic is undeniable.

[@soumaya8844]

The better " The Honest Trailer " also

[@alejoqc9540]

So, we are witnessing the best Pitch Meeting ever.

[@mystery_exe8871]

What do you mean it's *like* ????

[@ferdinandvongonzalez641]

That’s... Yes.

[@spuriouslathos2518]

The shredded cheese analogy was absolutely killer. Spot on.

[@natee7683]

"Tell, don't show!" "I think you have that backwards!" "No no, it's like they say, 1000 pictures are worth a single word!" "Disagree to agree I guess" This pitch meeting had me ROFLing ! Good job boys! ("boys")

[@Nameless82284]

The Last Airbender movie in a nutshell

[@IceStationZebraAssociates]

Hoes before bros.

[@syafranmuflih7139]

You forgot that after screenwriter said disagree to agree the producer guy immediately agree with him to disagree

[@pyraswolf4263]

Actually the L stands for-

[@lloydmckay3241]

I thought he said agree to agree.

[@thatguy1651]

Avatar the Last Air Bender fans: There’s no way anyone can mess up this perfectly good series. M. Night Shamalan: Actually it’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

What a twist.

[@dumbguyontheinternet5049]

Oh really?

[@InsertCreativeusername_]

Wow wow wow wow

[@TheEric355]

J.J Abram: Am I a joke to you?

[@funnysonicman]

That Guy Yeah yeah yeah!

[@dahlia5039]

There’s no movie in Ba Sing Se. The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.

[@EvanSol919]

I am honored to accept his invitation.

[@rerocherry]

I am honored to accept his invitation

[@hepthegreat4005]

I am honored to accept his invitation.

[@freedomchaser9664]

I am honoured to accept his invitation

[@aandb86]

I am honored to accept his invitation.

[@4plus20isHappy]

Even Michael Bay had the decency to wait 20 years before ruining Transformers.

[@NateSean]

And he didn't even do that bad of a job with Transformers. Also the fact that movie has spawned a ton of sequels counts as a major win over Airbender.

[@Werkvuur]

The first Transformers movie is like a hundred times better than The Last Airbender. Not even comparable.

[@sarwatarannya8786]

I didn't even hate the first transformers that much, except all the cringe

[@4plus20isHappy]

The first one (2007) was the good one by default. It sucked slightly less than the later 4.

[@dubiousinformation1756]

@@4plus20isHappy Honestly though, the original cartoon was just made to sell toys in the first place. Plot was secondary to the explosions even back then, so it's not like Micheal Bay could really ruin the story that much. Heck, if anything it caused transformers to sell even more toys, so it did what it was made to do.

[@mc-maitrixgaming4330]

“Shouldn’t we make the audience feel something” Me- u did make feel something, it’s called unrivalled burning hatred

[@primmoore6232]

I heard a lot of fans felt nausea, too.

[@McCammalot]

@@primmoore6232 I refused to watch it long enough (years!!!) that by the time I watched it I mainly felt sleepy.

[@moogamooga2100]

While rocking back and forth on the ground: “THERE IS NO FILM IN BA SING SE. HERE WE ARE SAFE. HERE WE ARE FREE.”

[@tjfrye11]

The earth king has invited you to lake laogai

[@sobennison7344]

The Earth king has invited you to Lake Laogai

[@FrustratedMillennial]

The earth King has invited you to lake laogai

[@markuhler2664]

the earth king has invited you to Lake Laogai

[@joshlegacy1101]

_I will accept his invitation._

[@hydrokineticpowerhouse]

“Long ago the Avatar franchise lived in harmony, but everything changed when M. Night Shyamalan attacked.”

[@watchingandmakingwithwolfg7195]

Yep sounds right to me..

[@B-RaDD]

I don't understand what happened that people thought it was going to be good speaking on the directors or actors it literally anyone

[@miccrhaafetl5101]

M. Night shamealan

[@hydrokineticpowerhouse]

Brandon because a large part of the fan base was children who didn’t know anything about the actors or director. The older fans might have known better but were still hopeful

[@Will_Wel]

Every single time he takes movies with fantastic potential and gives us total letdowns.

[@RickTroutner]

The timing between the first cluster of "wow"s and the last "wow" is akin to a great art and a precise science

[@gorrow1990]

Anyone else here in anticipation for Ryan doing a Pitch Meeting for the live action series on Netflix?

[@BuggieTheBugster]

"there's literally no way for me to verify that!" had me in stitches

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

Well it’s harder to verify that than getting character designs wrong, like in Dragon Ball Evolution, and that’s harder to verify than the spelling of a name, which the Steins Gate dub got wrong.

[@skygazer6082]

Yeah, it isn’t like there is a show or something. This movies is not based on avatar the last airbender. It doesn’t even exist

[@gogokowai]

To be fair, the movie uses the correct pronunciation of "Aang" and the cartoon was the one that got it wrong... ...Even so, they got it wrong on purpose because it just sounds like a more natural name to us Americans. Plus it's a name so the "correct" pronunciation is whatever the one naming decides on. A parent could name their child "Jah-coob" instead of the normal Jacob and that would be the correct pronunciation for that person. So I still think the movie either got it wrong, or changed his name depending on how you look at it.

[@CharlieZuko]

But there is, he could’ve just watched the source mate….. ohhhhh ok!

[@AhsimNreiziev]

@@gogokowai Once the show pronounced it as "Ehng", that *became* the correct pronunciation for the (1)12-year-old Airbending Avatar who spent a 100 years in a self-created iceberg. It *doesn't matter* how Indian people would pronounce that word, for an *adaptation* the *only* correct pronunciation is the pronunciation from the original source material.

[@wills.876]

Ironically seeing this movie is what got me into Avatar. I started watching the first few minutes of the film, but never finished it. Then I heard it was based on an animated series, and one day I was like, “Meh, why not watch it? I got nothing better to do.” And I loved it. And I heard that the movie was really bad. So thank the Lord for sparing me 😊

[@catsinq5726]

The exposition about Producer Guy and Screenwriter Guy really helped me understand this Pitch Meeting.

[@MaxxadTV]

I want a T shirt that says on the front "This T shirt must have been super hard to get" and on the back says "Actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience"

[@jotheunissen9274]

That shirt is tight Actually no I want a comfortable looser shirt

[@thealchemist51]

Oh really?

[@22BulletProofKid22]

yeah yeah yeah

[@Galladiator42]

That works!

[@_02kaye]

Wow wow wow Wow

[@willbowden6897]

This train wreck of a movie was basically designed for a Pitch Meeting

[@nahor88]

Random, but does anyone else find themselves in the boat where they've seen a bad movie, but can't rage about it with friends and acquaintances cuz they heard it was bad and refused to see it? I'm looking at you Rise of Skywalker... still can't convince my best friend to see it just so we can talk about how bad it is.

[@ellie7589]

@@nahor88 Show them this pitch meeting. They don't need to see the movie. :D Also I have a friend who knew The Last Airbender was going to be terrible, so she and a friend just drank a bottle of wine together before they started watching it, and then another bottle while watching....just to survive it...

[@shaymayo6]

yeah yeah yeah

[@peterroe3389]

I actually thought I had seen the pitch meeting because the movie basically is a pitch meeting. He didn't add anything to the mockery that the movie didn't already do. He just said what happened most of the time. It is like meeting a kid called Smelly McAsshair and trying to make fun of his name.

[@donovanwick9278]

@@nahor88 I had a friend on FB say they've never seen the original and liked this movie.. I still consider dbz way worse tho

[@DeFaulty101]

On behalf of the entire A:TLAB community, we thank you for this piece of comedic justice.

[@pearla1744]

"Tell, don't show." "A thousand pictures are worth a single word." Preach bestie

[@yourmum69_420]

disagree to agree

[@funnysonicman]

“So, you have a movie for me?” “Well, that’s a pretty strong word to use but yes sir, I do.

[@talesmigliorini5541]

I feel bad for the actors. They probably thought they would be the next Harry Potter cast or something

[@Orchal86]

And it is not like they done anything wrong, I think they performed good, just everything else was wrong with this movie..like the script xD

[@riversgoingnowhere1659]

It’s like this with the Peter Johnson movies. I feel like everyone blames them for the monstrosity that is the movies but they were just hired for it.

[@petramaier9153]

Why would they think that? Almost every life action anime remake is trash. If they watched the anime at all, they would have known that while filming as well. They wanted the money (not blaming them, I would act in trash movies as well if the pay was decent)

[@jaob8855]

@@petramaier9153 is atla an anime?

[@jaob8855]

@@Orchal86 the actors are bad but i think its because of the trash script

[@Stav-lb8]

Please make a pitch meeting for the Netflix adaptation!

[@0Ghostie0]

I had very low expectations for that movie and it still crushed my soul.

[@zuko4765]

I don’t even like myself in this movie

[@CrownRock1]

Well, you didn't like yourself for 3/4 of the show either.

[@ItsTheGuy77]

Oh yeah? That's rough buddy.

[@suchivithanage95]

@@CrownRock1 BUAHAHAHAH THE ONE VALID COMMENT

[@jlupus8804]

Japanese Zuko > Indian Zuko

[@suchivithanage95]

@@jlupus8804 say it louder for the producers in the back!!!

[@rexythet.rexfromjpreadabou186]

“It’s like they say, a thousand pictures are worth a single word” Actually, in the animation biz, he’s kinda correct.

[@commandercaptain4664]

Too much truth. Dial it back.

[@kxxlzr]

actually in a 1000 frames (at 24fps) you can get 41.66666666666667 secs of words

[@troymiller5739]

Haha

[@HelloHamburger]

Kyler Yeah but it will be slow like old people doing taichi. It will take that time to say the word.

[@HelloHamburger]

Kyler Also, I think they mean that because a lot of animated movie titles have about 1 word(s) in them.

[@dannymthembu6764]

I can't stress how much I laughed at the voice over narration

[@bulldogboy2529]

Who's here after the Netflix Avatar show?

[@JaspreetSingh-tk4mh]

This pitch meeting is more interesting than the actual movie

[@TW2Vlog]

More accurate to the series, too.

[@trevorlambert4226]

More often than not this is the case.

[@PersonManManManMan]

Yup

[@sachinrao4766]

what movie?

[@JaspreetSingh-tk4mh]

@@sachinrao4766 sorry but I don't speak wrong

[@samanthah4907]

This isn't the Last Airbender movie, this is Avatar: The Ember Island Play 🤣

[@draconshot928]

okay i'm gonna pretend you didn't just say that. We don't disrespect the ember island actors like this

[@gracemeiners6875]

Nah... at least the Ember Island Players had personality

[@jashmez2564]

The ember island play is better than the live action movie

[@leahdawson6196]

The play was better. XD

[@docrofreborn7497]

Side to side, the ember island players look like friggin’ S-List actors.

[@judastheman]

I remember seeing TLA in theaters on my birthday when I was homeless so I actually like this movie because it gave me an escape from the situation I was in. I've watched the show and can see how badly the movie butchered the source material but still, I got to see a movie on my birthday when I was all by my self.

[@judastheman]

@@annokitsune.worldbridger it's called taking your mind off things. Trying to lift your spirits. So, yes. I went to see a movie while I was depressed and homeless.

[@superbiaant]

Glad to hear this movie didn’t kill your remaining hope. Can’t say the same.

[@thoughtsofaleo2916]

Hope you're in a better situation now, my dude. That's how I feel about Mamma Mia - it's definitely not a good movie, but it was there for me in a really rough time, so I very much have a soft spot for it.

[@TheRingNeckParrot]

This has more creative writing then the actual movie

[@lacolem1]

There's literally no way for me to verify that this movie exists

[@traderofgoods6500]

Yeah, I mean, I have never watched it so therefore it doesn't exist _What you cannot see isn't actually real_ after all.

[@adam-dn3hi]

@@traderofgoods6500 you saw parts of the movie in the video so it does exist also by thet logic you should not exist

[@jasonringhofer7961]

@@adam-dn3hi shhhhhhhh

[@ReconRangr]

Its on Netflix

[@michaelkorare3536]

That's because it doesn't exist So don't look for it EVER

[@wickedshadesproductions5254]

“Tell, don’t show. It’s like they say, ‘A thousand pictures worth a single word’ well disagree to agree then.” -Ryan George

[@sinnergaming3990]

We need the pitch meeting on the Netflix series as well..🔥

[@b00m3rs4]

That voice over part had me rolling.. and Screen Writer Guy getting all those phrases backwards.. and the cheese+shredded cheese analogy.. so damn funny..

[@andybrinegar8861]

Can confirm: Not being exiled IS tight.

[@zoltanszaszi2264]

Exiled? That's rough, buddy.

[@grayfox6930]

@@zoltanszaszi2264 XD

[@chip5892]

“You know how people love live-action remakes?” “No, I don’t seem to recall that being a thing.” “Well we’re gonna do that.” “Wow wow wow. Wow.”

[@memorra]

wow wow wow ... wow

[@sagebauland4276]

To date the only live action remakes I like are jungle book and maleficent

[@Arcessitor]

@@sagebauland4276 Same.

[@loganwithlightsabers3051]

“That’s the name of the movie!” underrated bit from these videos lol

[@justinh4576]

It’s been ten years and I still hate hate HATE how the firebenders can’t ignite their own fire. Had to rely on torches and sh*t😑

[@GrayWoIf]

It takes 6 earth benders to move 1 rock everyone got nerfed for no reason

[@captaincanvas39captain85]

That’s because there firebenders not fire emitters.

[@InitialPC]

@@captaincanvas39captain85 in the show they can make their own fire

[@itsathi6055]

Charles Andrews don’t try to find logic in this. There really isn’t any

[@IottiPH]

That was actually the only good thing about the movie. That would make some scenes much more epic, like Iroh breathing fire in season 2. (and it makes more sense tbh)

[@AustinFarrell1012]

Fun fact this isn’t a sketch this is literally just a recording of the actual meeting

[@jcam320]

I am convinced this is exactly how it went 100%

[@Missjunebugfreak]

It's impressive how they managed to find the footage of how the meeting really went down.

[@daemonace5910]

You convinced me

[@THEJPIndustry]

This joke got very old very quickly

[@nancyxiang7184]

The comment at the beginning about how the benders need to move their arms slowly to bend is why probably why the Fire Nation is so effective. Fire bending just requires you to quickly punch, kick, and occasionally breakdance. You don’t really have to do tai chi just to launch a small projectile.

[@NoizyInSeattle]

"People don't mind if you take something they love, and, you know, tear it to pieces."

[@wolfgang2477]

You ever see a Pitch Meeting Title and think: “He’s going to tear this to shreds”

[@kinggordoproductions6203]

I mean, people love cheese and shredded cheese, so....

[@juano.9280]

just like the chesse

[@Charmer4856]

I feel absolutely nothing 🤣🤣

[@IKnowThisSoundsGayBut]

@@juano.9280 Cheese it tight!

[@deondrepolk4502]

The actual Avatar the last air bender pitch meeting: "So you have an avatar last air bender movie for me?" "Nope" (The end)

[@captainamerica7800]

No. "A what?" It doesnt exist at all.

[@alejandronasarrecampo9674]

No sir, I don't*

[@dhst690]

Actually that's a chapter of HISHE

[@kayisfish]

Lol I honestly would have laughed so hard at that

[@TheCrazyfighter19]

The lord Ryan George acknowledged its existence so now we have to as well

[@WarmBreadBearBuddy]

4:33 The voiceover I’m dead 😂😂😂

[@OneLoveToShare]

Thank you for making this Ryan!!! It literally was everything everyone was yelling at the screen 🤣🤣

[@scifitoilet]

the shredded cheese argument is absolutely genius.

[@hehelloworld123]

Imagine auditioning to play Azula, arguably the most powerful bender in the series, only to get literally 2 seconds in the film

[@floydlooney6837]

I wonder what that paid

[@tahraethestoryteller6079]

Let’s be honest, we all know it’s for the best

[@lank5582]

Is there any question that Aang is the most powerful bender in the series?

[@buggart]

@@lank5582 You mean Ung?

[@tick785]

​@@buggart arng

[@another-niko-pfp-holder]

one thing that always infuriated me about the beginning scene is how katara waterbends with her gloves on when in the show she had to take them off. it's a small detail but it really does show how little they cared.

[@Ringsfan1]

The voice over narration had me DYING! Ryan is a genius, I couldn’t breathe!

[@captainbatman7613]

These two have better chemistry than the characters in the movie

[@skygazer6082]

You need to have characters to have chemistry

[@Bill_Cipher618]

@@skygazer6082 and you need a movie to have characters

[@azizi6023]

@@Bill_Cipher618 and you need a brain to create a movie

[@dalexgaming5302]

​@@Bill_Cipher618and there was no movie in ba sing se

[@joelyt1682]

Writer guy: "So remember when Aang was fun and brave in the show" Producer guy: "Yeah I love that character" Writer guy: "So he is just gonna be sad and afraid in this movie" Producer guy: "But why though?" Writer guy: "Because." Producer guy: "That works."

[@starkiller1289]

Fair enough

[@Shadow-Shell]

@Samaghik Samurai No, it doesn't

[@axeyouaquestion33]

Well ok then

[@elvancor]

@@Shadow-Shell he just finished the quote. "why?" "because!" "that works!"

[@Shadow-Shell]

@@elvancor Ya I know that

[@tommytsunami4910]

The one thing I remember about this movie was the earth benders doing a haka and getting 1 pebble. That was 10 years ago and that was the first thing my friends and I talked about leaving the theater. Thanks for the memories ryan

[@liefnielson5739]

4:04 You can see his head start to move down at the end of the line “I think you’ve got that backwards.” The only time I’ve ever seen this in a video of Ryan’s

[@joekeppel5723]

Ruining one of the best animated shows of all time is TIGHT!

[@jotheunissen9274]

No it isn't

[@InsertCreativeusername_]

@@jotheunissen9274 actually it's super easy barely a inconvenience.

[@footballworld1651]

*one of the best shows of all time

[@hubris7103]

No it’s super easy berly an in convinynec

[@TheT151]

YES THIS MOVIE SUCKED

[@boredintrovert6193]

I was talking to my sister about watching the show, and she said she was fine because she saw the movie *Quietly grabs a knife*

[@Aeronor2001]

I mean, if my only exposure was that movie and then someone suggested I watch a whole series of it I'd be like no thank you.

[@PheydraSunstar]

This was my first exposure to the Last Airbender. I told my 8 year old (at the time) son I loved the idea but was disappointed at the overall movie. I was super excited when he told me it was a Nickelodeon show, and good ‘ol M Night for some reason took their amazing story and destroyed it in his execution of the movie. The cartoon is so good I’m not embarrassed to say I watched it as a middle aged mommy-lady ☺️

[@Aeronor2001]

​@@PheydraSunstar If you need more, Legend of Korra, the sequel series, is solid.

[@mauryagouni9836]

Aeronor2001 its... ok at best

[@blueclaws9894]

@@PheydraSunstar I, over 30, also loved the show. It's very well written and voiced, the story is imaginative and original, and you love the characters because they have so much depth! Uncle Iro is the absolute best, imho. He plays such an important role as the moral rock for a lot of characters. He's so strong, but has such a gentle heart. Just the best!

[@EmptyBlade]

It's kind of brilliant that at 4:34 he shows you why it's important to obey "Show, don't tell", instead of just telling you it's important. And he does it BY spending a minute telling you stuff instead of showing it to you.

[@Danka42]

"He's sad, for several seconds." That just about sums it up.

[@Firedemon72]

"so, you have a movie for me?" "no, sir, i don't"

[@nathanslay6342]

Firedemon72 pitch meeting ends!

[@jonathanortiz6212]

“FIN”

[@silverstarlightproductions1292]

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

[@Tonto151]

This sounds like it would be a terrible movie. So glad they never actually made it.

[@unlucky6712]

sorry bud...

[@raunakshrestha7695]

That is some r/wooosh material you have there.

[@michellea221]

@@unlucky6712 it was a joke man😑

[@RedOli84]

@@raunakshrestha7695 reddit moment

[@kgara7riaexe778]

sorry, bruh. already ruined our lives. (YES I WATCHED IT! not that it didn't destroy my childhood.

[@Mysticleo42]

I just now realized that behind the Producer Guy is the Fire Nation logo 🤣🤣🤣

[@LivingGuy484]

I'd love to see Ryan revisit this one!

[@sukisupremacy]

Long ago, the three seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender attacked. Only Aaron Ehasz, head writer for all three seasons, could save the Netflix live action remake, but when the fandom needed him most, he began working on ‘The Dragon Prince’. Two years passed, and fans discovered the new series, a live action remake from Netflix, and although their filmmaking skills are great, they still have a lot to learn before they are ready to save the fandom. But I believe the Netflix’s live action remake can save the world.

[@sukisupremacy]

( or completely destroy it )

[@screwyoutube7178]

@@sukisupremacy Yeah I'll give it a shot but the series was complete and perfect with Sozin's Comet , Star Wars is a perfect example of what happens if we just keep milking it.

[@j.nicolosi6647]

@@screwyoutube7178 exactly. The prequels were bad enough but then the CG Clone Wars showed up ugh

[@screwyoutube7178]

@@j.nicolosi6647 oh no you did NOT just say that. I was referring to the sequels, clone wars is good, especially at the end

[@screwyoutube7178]

@@thepringler5600 well if that's the case I'll let him go. When I wrote the comment I was thinking of the sequel trilogy.

[@collinmeans8864]

“People don’t mind if you take something they love and, you know, tear it to pieces.” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣💀💀💀💀

[@watchingandmakingwithwolfg7195]

Actually yes the people do mind! I mean the people I mean me too!

[@spikehofmann]

The analogy used to explain this is masterful: "People love cheese AND shredded cheese"

[@revan0890]

Rian Johnson's philosophy.

[@r3stl3ss]

"So, you have a movie for me?" "Unfortunately, sir, I do."

[@rafaelkuhn5154]

The voice-over bit is priceless! xD

[@moonglum1015]

"people like cheese and shredded cheese", perfect justification for this movie. So funny!

[@jroggs85]

I don't really get it because I don't like cheese. I'm more of a fan of guitar riffs and incriminating documents.

[@berengustav7714]

How they handled Percy Jackson.

[@masamune2984]

“Wearing leather is literally tight!” Dodged a bullet with that allergy.

[@govindraghavan9493]

"Leather is Tight" "Yeah That is Part of the Problem"

[@southpark645]

I see what you did with the bullet analogy lol

[@danfaucett]

"People don't mind when you take something they love, and you know, tear it to pieces."

[@MaximumWarp2099]

“People don’t mind if you take something they love and, y’know, tear it to pieces.” Laughed so hard I cried. A lot...

[@afzalrasendriya1294]

"so how the movie end?" "aang did a backflip and snapped the bad guys neck and save the day."

[@freddymeng]

**aung*

[@k.idesigns7092]

Freddy Meng ahnnng

[@Nargon46]

Omg I love that video

[@lyricrue7069]

Freddy Meng Freddy Meng No, they were right his name is spelled Aang.

[@meto9285]

you mean ong

[@FindTheFun]

"a thousand pictures is worth a word" is the greatest summation of modern Hollywood I've ever heard.

[@MN-xo1cj]

This movie had thousands of pictures when you think about, and they are only worth one word: “pass”

[@gregt301]

I have LITERALLY watched at least 100,000 Pitch Meetings, and this is one of the funniest. Definitely in the top 10,000.

[@AniMageNeBy]

Yes, after the Tomorrow War.

[@Peoe500]

Ironic how some movies are bad because they cram a long story into a short film, and some movies are bad because they make up filler to turn a short story into a 2-part movie or a franchise.

[@Kayley199514]

"So you have a movie adaptation for me?" "Nope" Article: "Millenials Believe There Is No Last Airbender Movie"

[@the_shadow_clasher]

There is no avatar movie in ba sing sei

[@NoName-it4uu]

The ember island version was a lot better than that non fan made documentary

[@4n4rch1st7]

TheShadowClasher the earth king has invited you to lake laogai

[@noahreilly973]

We choose not to believe. To spare the feeling of knowing how bad this movie is