The Last Airbender has officially been named the Worst Movie of 2010

[dark-daventry]

KQ5 voice acting is hit and miss... some like the falsetto rat or "cedric" are 'annoying'.

Cassima in KQ5 is eh...

It reminds me of M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender".

Don't even get me STARTED on that train wreck... Wait... It's much, much worse than a train wreck.

[kindofdoon]

It was especially tragic because the anime series was phenomenal, and because M. Night's earlier work (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village, and Signs), in my opinion, includes some of the greatest films ever made.

Two things that weren't horrible about the movie, though: its visual effects and soundtrack by James Newton Howard (for example, Flow Like Water. The harmony at 1:10 is achingly beautiful).

[tessspoon]

Two things that weren't horrible about the movie, though: its visual effects and soundtrack by James Newton Howard (for example, Flow Like Water. The harmony at 1:10 is achingly beautiful).

Very nice. Too bad it reminds me of that debacle of a movie. >.<

[dark-daventry]

It was especially tragic because the anime series was phenomenal, and because M. Night's earlier work (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village, and Signs), in my opinion, includes some of the greatest films ever made.

Two things that weren't horrible about the movie, though: its visual effects and soundtrack by James Newton Howard (for example, Flow Like Water. The harmony at 1:10 is achingly beautiful).

The show to this day ranks among my favorite shows of ALL TIME. The effects in the movie were good, but not as good as other movies. Granted, I saw the movie once and severed all connections to it. I've been thinking of watching it again, but this time taking note of every little thing M. Night screwed up on. Which is just about everything... I hated the pronunciations of the names especially. Aang is not pronounced Ong. Iroh is not pronounced Eroh or however the heck they pronounced his name... Oh my, we're getting off-topic again...

[Baggins]

I never saw the show, but saw the movie during the long plane trip... Found it entertaining... But I guess I didn't have any expectations to be dashed...

[dark-daventry]

I never saw the show, but saw the movie during the long plane trip... Found it entertaining... But I guess I didn't have any expectations to be dashed...

If you had seen the show, you'd probably have tried to kill M. Night for butchering it. Seriously. He messed up BIG TIME!

[Baggins]

Most adaptations butcher the original sources they are based on... Unfortunately...

It just seems to be the bane of movie making...

[dark-daventry]

That's right folks! M. Night's horrible adaptation of Avatar has been named the worst movie of 2010. I completely agree with that vote. Gotta love the Razzies! Also, I'm going to merge the other posts talking about the Last Airbender in here. Makes everything nice and clean. So, discuss the horror that is this movie, and whether or not you actually agree that it was the worst movie of 2010.

EDIT: Splitting and Merging done. Commence discussion!

[kindofdoon]

I never saw the show, but saw the movie during the long plane trip... Found it entertaining... But I guess I didn't have any expectations to be dashed...

You may not have seen the original anime, but weren't you at least appalled by the horrible writing and amateur acting?

It felt like watching a bad high school play.

[tessspoon]

At least we're getting a mini-series, just read the wiki page on the Avatar:Legend of Korra and it looks like it might be good...

[Baggins]

I thought that was a product of it being a children's movie, actually. I didn't watch it with high expectations. I never expected it to be a work of art.

I just found it be entertaining way to pass my plane trip. Its not one of those kinds of movies I'd see again though.

[dark-daventry]

At least we're getting a mini-series, just read the wiki page on the Avatar:Legend of Korra and it looks like it might be good...

Of course Legend of Korra is going to be good; the creators of Avatar are doing it. The movie, however, did not have the involvement of the writers. Legend of Korra is going to be amazing, of that I have no doubt.

[Arkillian]

Before anyone says anymore- it's not the worst movie out there if it's ok for a plane trip. I know some I'd actively avoid in a plane trip. I haven't seen the actual movie, but I saw the trailer to it and thought it looked pretty. I assume that it all ends there. Its a shame. The last Airbender (anime) had an awesome budget and some beautiful animation. It's a shame when they can't properly convey that. That's what happened with the DBZ movie though. I blame that movie however on Americanisation. Anime movies should be written by Japanese people. There's just certain aspects about asian culture that doesn't come naturally to other cultures. It's the same the other way around too. See, movies that do it right, like Kill Bill employ people from the culture as advisers. Ulma Thurman was actually given tutorial on asian fighting styles by and actual asian for the movie, and Quentin Tarantino is a HUGE samurai film buff. That's why the mix of eastern and western works there (Although he did 'borrow' alot of influence directly from other asian movies....)

India has some similarities to Asian culture though so I can't imagine it'd be too bad.

[noonchild]

Anyone into Rifftrax?  The old Mystery Science Theater 3000 guys still making fun of movies and they've riffed this one.  I've never watched the whole riff though as the movie is god awful, so much that even these guys can't make it watchable.

http://rifftrax.com

[dark-daventry]

Anyone into Rifftrax?  The old Mystery Science Theater 3000 guys still making fun of movies and they've riffed this one.  I've never watched the whole riff though as the movie is god awful, so much that even these guys can't make it watchable.

http://rifftrax.com

I'm going to have to give that a watch sometime soon I think...

[Arkillian]

You know- I always assumed that atleast Aang would be Asian. He's totally from a Buddist temple.

[dark-daventry]

You know- I always assumed that atleast Aang would be Asian. He's totally from a Buddist temple.

Good point. The thing about anime style is that you can never truly tell what nationality someone actually is. Also, I just saw Zuko's voice actor in a movie today... When I heard his voice, I was like HOLY CRUD IT'S ZUKO! He said some sort of line (I can't remember what it was exactly) but I followed it up with "Until I find the Avatar". I think it was something like he's never returning home or something. The movie is But I'm a Cheerleader. If you're against Pro-Gay Films, or gays in generals, don't see it. Because the entire movie promotes being gay. That's not important though; just the fact that I saw Zuko's voice actor in a live-action movie nearly made me crap my pants. I was seriously like "WTF?! IT'S ZUKO! IN LIVE ACTION!"

[Arkillian]

Who?
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Dante Basco?
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Or Dev Patel?

Yeah- apparently Avatar the last airbender has alot of innuendo in it there. There's alot of Fire x Air shounen-ai (boy love- the adult version is called seinen-ai) art out there. Asian cultures seem alot more relaxed about homosexuality. Bushido infact promotes it. I'm not certain of the technicalities of it, but it feels more open in their society. You see alot of shounen-ai in even men orientated anime / manga. American laws remove the more obvious acts, but they can't delete all of it. I like how Japanese are more relaxed about that kind of thing Western cartoons are very 'Don't touch me' which feels so unnatural. It's no wonder coming out in Western society is such a scary thing

[dark-daventry]

Who?
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Dante Basco?
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Or Dev Patel?

Yeah- apparently Avatar the last airbender has alot of innuendo in it there. There's alot of Fire x Air shounen-ai (boy love- the adult version is called seinen-ai) art out there. Asian cultures seem alot more relaxed about homosexuality. Bushido infact promotes it. I'm not certain of the technicalities of it, but it feels more open in their society. You see alot of shounen-ai in even men orientated anime / manga. American laws remove the more obvious acts, but they can't delete all of it. I like how Japanese are more relaxed about that kind of thing Western cartoons are very 'Don't touch me' which feels so unnatural. It's no wonder coming out in Western society is such a scary thing

The first one, Dante Basco. And he's cute too... 

Speaking of Japanese culture being more relaxed about this sort of thing, I loved the manga of Cardcaptor Sakura. There's tons of stuff in there that would never make it to american television. It's a wonder they still sold it in american book stores for the ages they did. I mean, there's clearly some pretty creepy stuff going on in it. Tomoyo likes Sakura, Sakura likes pretty much everyone until she figures out why she's attracted to everyone (there's a legitimate reason too that actually ties into the plot nicely), Li (I'm not even going to bother spelling his Japanese name. I prefer the japanese name, but I can't spell it for the life of me) likes Sakura and Yukito (Yukito is a guy, btw, and again, there's a reason why he's attracted to Yukito). Yukito likes Toya, and Toya secretly likes Yukito but is too afraid to tell him for half the manga. Oh, and there's some pretty obvious teacher dating a fourth grade student stuff goin on. Oh, and Sakura's father was Sakura's mom's teacher... And Tomoyo's mom was best friends with her, so she hates Sakura's dad, but loves sakura (in a motherly sort of way). Yes, I realize this is a tangent, but the point is that there's a lot of stuff in Japanese culture that Americans would find weird or not age appropriate for their kids. I prefer to take Japan's stance on just about everything; they don't seem to care very much.

[Arkillian]

Start talking Sailor Moon then. They actually rewrote alot of Sailor Moon cause two of the characters were lesbians, and to make it better, they made one of the sailor scouts a 'guy' that transforms into a 'girl' or something, and there's alot of shounen-ai they couldn't remove with a few other relationships though.

Lol- Card Captor Sakura was a GREAT series, but yes, America did rape the show of alot of it's goodness. I'm not sure how much as I've only read the manga, but I've heard that the anime got chopped alot. Sailor Moon certinly did. I watched the Japanese subtitles of Sailor Moon- stars and they actually didn't show the last season- Sailor Stars... I think cause the Sailor Stars couldn't be changed in gender or something or cause they changed from men to women or something

Wait... lets see what Wiki says-

[spoiler]"Censorship

In the Italian dub, the Starlights were always men, and simply summoned their twin sisters instead of transforming, as the original deception was very controversial in Italy. Similarly in the Russian dub, the Sailor Starlights were consistently referred to as men, even in their Senshi forms (despite the visible breasts). However, they had different voice actors in their civilian and senshi forms. Some countries implied that they were still men, even when transformed, or were women in civilian form. The North American, French, Swedish, Dutch, and Hungarian dubs did not get the rights to this season, so they never appeared. In the Korean dub, the Sailor Starlights were female in both their civilian and senshi forms. This change was made to make them become straight women, but this made Usagi's and Seiya's relationship more like a homosexual relationship than a heterosexual relationship.
In fact, the anime made them transsexuals instead of cross-dressers to avoid the controversy caused by Uranus and Neptune's relationship. This made Seiya and Usagi's relationship heterosexual in the anime. In the manga, Yaten was a heterosexual woman and Taiki was an asexual woman. The anime implies that Yaten has feelings for Minako Aino and Taiki for Ami Mizuno and Makoto Kino, although nothing clear comes from either.
The Starlights are usually falsely attributed to the fifth season not being dubbed into English. Despite popular belief, this is really because Toei would not sell the rights to it. However, it has been reported that an independent British company attempted to produce a dub, but later backed down claiming they were dressed provocatively for a children's program. The French dub reportedly did not dub the series viewing the idea of transsexuals too risque for children, however."[/spoiler]

There you go O.o