I am also very disappointed with the casting of the film, but I'm more concerned about what they decided to put in and what they decided to remove from Book 1. Going through the series, it feels like every episode is indispensable because the show was so balanced in terms of pacing of plot and character development.
I doubt the movie will be a success what with all the Asians boycotting it and it being a kid's sci-fi movie, so it will probably be a storyline loosely based on the original material, kind of like the DBZ movie which shared similar casting issues, similar genre, and most likely similar lack of box office success.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
DBZ movie had terrible cgi for its budget, so if nothing else atelast this one will look pretty.....im also somewhat weary about how they'll handle it and what they'll cut, but i think that majority of it will be there.....they mite not include stuff like aang learning firebending in the first season from the general who deserted, but its nothing that cant be worked around. As long as the main focus of the first movie is going to the north pole and learning waterbending, i think we'll be good.
DBZ just plained sucked period.Originally Posted by Animeniax
Other than a select group of people complaining because of "lack of Asians" and "white people taking their roles", box office success will depend on the movie being good or not, regardless of the perceived notion if it's a faithful adaptation or not or perceived casting issues by some group of people.
DBZ didn't fail because of who was casted as Goku. It failed because the writers and directors were incompetent, and the plot just sucked ass.
This movie has 4% so far on Rotten Tomatoes.
This is one of my favorite of the reviews:
Another favorite:
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"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
I quite like -
I believe M. Night can ruin the world.
I'm not gonna lie, the fact that this is bombing so early gives me a feeling of schadenfreude I haven't experienced in a while. I love that in Ebert's review he says Aang looks like a young Wallace Shawn.
lol, hey man, your "opinions" are "valid" and "worthwhile"
Don't trivialize an issue that's quite apparently very important for Americans. Anyway, there's a lot more to factor in to box office success than just the quality of the script. Marketing and the release date also play a big role (being released so near to Twilight might hurt sales, and it won't make any money from the 3D showings), not to mention the bad publicity. The horrendous casting decisions aren't going to dent it too badly, but that doesn't give you cart blanche to pretend the issue doesn't exist.
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<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
Stop accusing me of things that I'm not doing.I'm not gonna lie, the fact that this is bombing so early gives me a feeling of schadenfreude I haven't experienced in a while. I love that in Ebert's review he says Aang looks like a young Wallace Shawn.
lol, hey man, your "opinions" are "valid" and "worthwhile"
Don't trivialize an issue that's quite apparently very important for Americans. Anyway, there's a lot more to factor in to box office success than just the quality of the script. Marketing and the release date also play a big role (being released so near to Twilight might hurt sales, and it won't make any money from the 3D showings), not to mention the bad publicity. The horrendous casting decisions aren't going to dent it too badly, but that doesn't give you cart blanche to pretend the issue doesn't exist.
Thanks.
Oh my god the reviews are so terrible, I can't wait to see this!
Uh oh, it's up to 6% now.
From reading and listening to reviews, I'm going to pass on this terribad movie. I pray Shyamlan does not think to redeem himself by continuing to direct Book 2 or Book 3.
I was initially a bit annoyed by the casting decision, but decided that it's ok if the actors can at least do a good job with the roles.
This is clearly not the case. I don't think I've ever seen such bad acting in my life and I've watched a few movies starring Madonna. I wonder if M. Night Shyamalan is a sadist at heart, because he must've bound, gag and screwed the original story pretty badly in order to get this monstrosity. Other than the very bare bone of the story, there isn't so much as a coherence thought within the rest of the script.
Compressing a full 20 episodes season into one decent movie is a rather impressive undertaking. Mr. Shyamalan demonstrated that he does not have the skills or talents to accomplish this.
I suggest that anyone who is planning to watch this to save your money and go do something more enjoyable. Watching paint dries would be a preferable alternative.
One last note: i thought Dev Patel was ok, but he kinda doesn't feel right as Zuko. The actor who plays Aang is so emotionless and unlike his cartoon counterpart that i could've swore i was looking at a miniature Keanu Reeves.
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Haha, reminds me of this amazing review:
M. Night Shyamalan finally made a comedy
Even when Ringer is filmed on location, in front of a real-life mountain, he still manages to create the impression that his surroundings have been keyed in, and he's actually in a studio somewhere. This is a huge, crucial factor in the way the movie makes fun of its own epic-ness. And I think everybody who has criticized Shyamalan for casting white actors as Asian characters in this film should admit they were wrong. Clearly, Shyamalan tried to cast Asians, but he just couldn't find any whose performances were lifeless enough.
Not to mention the many scenes in which characters rattle off exposition, and it feels as if somebody must have fed the scripts from the TV series into an office shredder, and then glued some of the word stripes together. You can just imagine Shyamalan stopping the actors and demanding a retake, over and over again, because the actors were still stringing the sentences together as if they had a logical sequence. It must have taken hours to get the right level of random, Ketamine-overdose level of dissociation into every scene where somebody explains about importance of the avatar and how you have to feel your feelings, in order to gerbil machete fish dumpling crank handle. At its most sublime and brain-sluicing, the expository scenes approach the level of the opening act of D-War. And that's high praise.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
From that review, I found this hilarious -
Oh yeah - that's another one of the ways in which this movie pokes fun at the very idea of epic fantasy: the endless confusing voice-over, in which tons of important story developments happen off-camera while we're looking at a picture of a tree or a CG mountain. Because why do we privilege the story of the hero's progress over the tree?, Shaymalan asks. Why does the original Star Wars insist on showing us Luke Skywalker training with a lightsaber, instead of telling us that Luke Skywalker trained with a lightsaber while showing us a tracking shot of some rocks? Why pretend that one thing is more important than the other thing? Why pretend that any of it has any meaning? As a wise man once wrote, "A menu is as good as a myth."
how, that horrible huh? it almost makes me want to watch it just to see how bad it is.
wow.....a little part of my died after watching that.
I'm not sure if I even want to try it... but interestingly enough, the only one that had positive things to say about the movie was actually Asian.
And mystery continues...
Is that Psyke at 2:23??
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
There's always usually one of those guys that have really low standards.
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