I Finally Watched The Last Airbender....
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Also is this movie is Made by M. Night Shyamalan lama Ding Dong
@@pikachuyip1478 indeed
One of the reasons why Fire Lord Zozen thought they where supereour to the other nations is because they are the only ones that can cast thier own element. Shama-lame nerfed them for no reason.
Hey BionicPIG You should review the Horror movies Blades(1989) Which is about a killer evil lawnmower which is filmed in the style of Jaws or Review Jack Frost(1997) which is about a serial killer Who gets trans-mutated into a living snowman.
@@pikachuyip1478 I really wanna know who made that decision
Fun Story: I got this confused with Avatar when I first saw it at the age of 15. I spent the whole runtime of Avatar thinking "Wow this is nothing like the cartoon", then I finally realised my mistake and that I was an idiot and then watched the Last Airbender and thought "Wow, this is nothing like the cartoon"
@shadonic565 breeding with ponytails
That blue cat one was probably more like the cartoon.
Me too, but in a different situation. My dad rented the DVD and I explained to every one the plot about the animation and how amazing it was and how I was so in love with it and was my favourite animation EVER. And they listened to it and were really impressed... But when the movie started we all are like WTF hahahahahaha them I have to stop it and explain to every one that I was talking about the wrong movie 😅
I’d like this but I’m not gonna ruin it.
@@dresikIRONIC bet that was a little embarrassing 😂😂
They turned Fire lord Ozai, one of the most mysterious and terrifying villains into a mustache twirling stereotype.
clean shaven at that.
So all that was left was some dude.
mark hammil
and I’m still wondering why the good guys are white and why the fire nation are brown-
@@starrsmith3810 to be fair m. night is also indian and he played one of the fire nation soldiers
@@yoindianbro
That makes it worst. And that’s not even bringing the only Asian actors being background characters-
The only difference I ever liked that Shamalama made was Aangs tattoos. The pattern is dope
Ngl. Same. Movie ass. Arrow fye
That's fair. I like simplicity but some things like celtic knots are definitely awesome, and the arrow does have that vibe.
When literally the only good thing you can say about a movie is: "this guy's tattoos are nice."
And the scenery, the air temple looked badass, as well as the northern water tribe
The costumes,hair, and scenery were great but the rest was the worst
I thought the whole thing with firebenders being able to create fire spontaneously was one of the things that made them so formidable, and what made them feel superior to other benders.
Their advantage also helped them create technological advancements that they used to suppress other benders, like *STEEL PRISONS THAT EARTHBENDERS COULDN’T USE AGAINST THEM*
It hurts to knock a child’s acting, but the characters in ATLA had so much depth to them that wooden, expressionless acting just takes such a huge dump on the internal struggles the characters have. Aang had so much going on that he had to deal with, he felt like a real person navigating his youth, his morals, his desires, and his responsibilities. Honestly this as big of a slap in the face to his character as TLOK was. That’s saying something.
Also Shymalan’s obsession with changing the pronunciations to be more accurate to how they’d be pronounced in Asian cultures is especially funny when he cast white actors for the Asian and Inuit protagonists while once again casting Indian men as the antagonists.
I think what happened with the names is that Mike and Bryan spelled them all so they made sense to a Western method of pronunciation. Shymalan looked at just the spelling and said, "that's not how a particular Eastern culture would pronounce that arrangement of consonants and vowels," and didn't realize it was already spelled specifically to not confuse Western audiences. Might be putting too much thought into it, but it really is such a bizarre aspect of the film I wondered about it a lot.
@@eowynsisterdaughter I would think Shyamalan just saw a synopsis of the show and never watched it so when he thought "bending" he took the meaning literal which is why the fire benders need a flame source lol.
Though then I can't think why it would take so many earth benders to move a pebble. Wonder how strong a single earth bender is then lol.
@@TheCommanderTaco My man Shyamalanga just created the AU where the Firebenders couldn't wipe out the airbenders because the torches on the air temples were turned off.
I recently watched someone who made an in depth video about the cultural origins of ATLA, like the origins of the clothing and what asian culture might have inspired different aspects of the show.
There's a lot going on in ATLA, whoever made the show did solid research and that Shymalan thought he'd probably do a better representation of real asian cultures by pronouncing the names different is just an insult to the whole show.
@@shadowbanned1999 They aren’t all Indian lol but you know what I’m saying. It’s just funny that he seemed to care about being sensitive of cultural differences while not caring about the source material which was diverse and took great care and put a lot of research into building the cultures of the nations in the show.
Then, everything changed when M. Night Shyamalan attacked.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great comment Hahahaha
He single handily made an entire community hate him with one movie. If you want to see someone create so many enemies, look at Shyamalan’s Last Airbender movie
The scene with the earthbender prisoners pisses me off to this day I was screaming YOU'RE LITERALLY SURROUNDED BY EARTH WHY AREN'T YOU FIGHTING BACK!!! At that moment as a child I realized M Night never watched The last airbender.
He did, he just watched it with his kids and made the mistake of thinking it was an ordinary kids show
It was the scene where they needed a ton of earthbenders to fling a pebble I can throw with my bare hands that did it for me lmao. I don't think i've ever seen the movie itself but that just cracks me up every time
@@kimkillillasfuq8212 even ordinary kids shows are extreme at times. I mean just think about how many people SpongeBob has killed lol.
Yeah like????
I feel like this is a throwback to that episode where the earthbenders were trapped.
However, they were not in a lil campsite, THEY WERE IN A HUGE STEEL SHIP.
at that point, metalbending was unthinkable and they defeat them because Aang and the Gaang managed to steal the coal the firebenders were using for the ship, because coal is earth.
THIS IS WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE.
@@TrashbashMan
to be fair, the group was actually raising the wall to protect the father and his daughter. but due to bad choreography and direction, they look like they're flinging a tiny ass pebble.
even then, the actually bender who does it makes way too many moves, it's just bad.
In interviews, M. Night has said he changed the name pronunciations to be more "culturally diverse" and "ethnically appropriate," to their initial backgrounds.
But in the words (and voice) of Prince Zuko himself, Dante Basco:
*"okay, then why are they WHITE?!"*
Edit: Also, notice how the extras in the Southern Water Tribe are pretty accurate while "Soaka," Katara and their grandmother (aka the main speaking characters) stick out like sore thumbs as the only white people in the village.
I was also not a fan of making the Fire Nation as Indians.
"ethnically appropriate"
***TURNING JAPANESE TO INDIANS***
dtester I understand your point but that still sounds racist🤣💔
@@Uninterested69420 It sounds racist, but it's very not since east asian culture is integrated within fire nation in the show. (Or at least that's what I noticed.)
@@Uninterested69420 Maybe because of mindset these days it "sounds" racist to mention anything about race ^_^
In this case It is not because there is no bigotry, superiority, malice, etc involved with my statement.
I love how in the OG avatar the play episode is better than the whole movie and the play was supposed to be bad. 😂😂😂
Your so right lol
There was literally a joke in the show where someone mispronounced Sokkas name as how they say it in the movie, it’s like M. Night only watched that part and just said fuck it
I think that part was like how pig put it " a terrible high school play" except in the show the only thing the play got right was Toph lol.
Well big reveal but... The pronunciation in the film is closer from the way it should sound (And by that I mean the Asian way to prononce it). M. Night has really done reserche about how it should sound.
@@lilyaug7704 Well, the show is American, and if he cared that much about demonstrating the eastern Asian influences, he wouldn't have stood for casting white main characters.
@@ToryIsCooliest The asian culture is the main inspiration for the world building in this show. The actor choice is another "problem".
But I guess it doesn't choc me as much as american viewers cuz the names sounded pretty similar as the way of the M. Night film. So I'm not really afected by this.
@@lilyaug7704 i mean sokka's name isn't supposed to be asian inspired tho
WHY DOES IT LOOK SO DIFFICULT TO WATER BEND? like it's taking all their energy to move a tiny ball of water. its so unlike the absolute spectacles that the fight scenes were in the show
Does it look difficult? Looked more like interpretive dancing to me
They nerfed all the elements so they'd match fire (which was also massively nerfed)
I mean it also took 6 earth benders to move a smallish rock at half the speed of smell. like you could just pick it up and throw it and it would be faster and do more damage lmao
@@VagabondVerdas the speed of smell?
@@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf yea lol like if you spray something in a room, however long it takes to smell it would be the speed of smell. its more like the speed anything gaseous moves through an area but saying speed of smell is easier
I had a friend in college who said he loved this movie more than the show....so long story short, we don't talk to him anymore.
As you should
Good
Leave that man and never speak to him ever. Who ever thinks that the movie is better than the OG is delusional
i hope that wherever he is, he gets the help he needs 😔✌️
Should've jumped him then had him arrested
It's weird how they made the water tribe super light when they were darker in the show, but made the fire nation (the villains) all darker skinned when they weren't dark skinned at all in the show.
If I'm remembering it right the fire nation was heavily inspired by Imperial Japan pre world war 2, Zuko's character was very driven by his sense of honour and he probably followed a code of honour similar to Bushido, there's even Japanese text all over the fire nation and the picture of Iroh's son has "see you after we win the war father" written in Japanese in "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" episode, they should all be significantly lighter than the members of the water tribe
@@komi-sanmustbeprotected5665 tldr: "fun fact!"
It’s kinda racist! 😒
Actually not all benders could create their own element. Waterbenders needed water around them (the best ones made it out of air cus theres water in air). Eartbenders needed earth around them, and Air benders, well its literally air so. Firebenders were the only benders who could create it out of nothing, making them far more devastating and powerful in that regard. That was one of the bigger reasons they were intimidating. But now, because they need a little campfire first. They are seriously the weakest villains in the history of villains. How did these people ever wipe out anything? You explain why its stupid yourself but yeah, its stupid.
Another thing is they explain that Sozin's comet (which why do they mention it already?) can make firebenders bend out of nothing. So the comet that in the show, made firebenders who could already make fire out of nothing 100 times stronger (as stated in the show) makes firebenders in this movie just as strong as a normal firebender in the show. How boring is that. Like how do you make something as awesome as firebending boring. You have to deliberately try to make your movie as bad as possible to make a decision like that.
*showrunners*
"Well see originally firebenders needed a source of fire but that didn't really work for storytelling and fight scenes."
*M. Night Roshambo*
"I won't be worrying about either of those so I'm keeping that idea for the movie."
Yep, he said that sozin's comet part at the end.
In an interview M. Night said he nerfed fire benders because it was unfair how they can shoot fire out of nothing. Which doesn't make sense because other benders always had their resources on standby. Earth is everywhere, air is everywhere, and water benders had tribes that lived in the north and south poles where water is plentiful (also swamp benders say hi) and water is can be pulled from the air/soil/plant life around them. So what was going through M. Night's mind thinking fire benders needed that crutch is beyond reason.
@@TheDeadlyBlueWolf yea and even more, the fact that they can create it out of nothing is what makes them a threat to the other benders, its why they wipes out air benders first, so that there would be no more benders that would be able to deal with being put out of their element other than them
@@cinnamoncat8950 No they wiped out the airnomads because they knew the Avatar was gonna be an airbender. Had nothing to do with their abilities. Its directly stated in the show that it was done to kill the Avatar and buy Sozin time to spread the fire nation. Airbenders were also pacifists so there wouldnt be any other reason to take them out. But its true that other than them, firebenders are the only ones who you cannot take away from their element (altho you can put them in a cold box and make bending more difficult)
1) They had firebenders *need* fire. 2) They had earthbenders imprisoned *on fucking ground!* A.k.a, the fucking Earth!
M. Night clearly didn't put any thought process into the show.
3 they didn't call him Aang once
There’s no Toph, Jet, Combustion man, common sense, good dialogue, etc.
Well to be fair toph debuts in season 2, combustion man debuts in season 3. This adaption is supposed to be about season 1.
Everything else however is ridiculous.
This movie showed in my local theater. A couple friends and I went to go see it, the theater was full when we got there, within 15 minutes, the last few people were walking out. The theater actually lost so much money due to people demanding refunds for that movie that they pulled it from the showing floor a week after airing it lmao.
Serves them right😂
the way he says "a little rock just flies by the screen" with such painful boredom is just so fucking great
Also gotta love how the Fire Benders kept the Earth Benders...
IN A DIRT/ROCK PIT.
In the show, they put them on a metal ship out in the water, because they can't bend anything there. I really don't know who's dumber; the Fire Benders who kept Earth Benders in an EARTH PIT, or the Earth Benders for needing an 11 year old to explain that to them.
Man I gotta rewatch the original show. Haven't seen it since I was a wee lass XD
Did M.Night even watched the cartoon or understood anything cause that scene was the dumbest in the movie.
That would be even a little better if they didn't went with the "I can bent fire without a campfire" and cause if they could bent out of nowhere, they would be at least scare to bend, because if they did the soldier would burn them to dead. But they didn't did that, and don't give us any information in why they don't just say "f* you, I'm leaving, and I'm putting away this fire too so you guys can't do sh*t". Hahahaha so lame.
Fire Nation Soldiers Begin to Sing: "Oh we blow. We bloooooow."
the fact that they looked at the 20 episodes of content they had to condense into a movie and picked IMPRISONED of all episodes is insane
Hey it worked so clearly the fire benders had a reason for it soooo earthbenders are the stupid ones.
One benefit of most characters having different names is that’s it makes it really easy to separate this movie from the rest of the Avatar franchise.
When Zuko was the blue spirit and saved Ang in the show he still didn’t like Ang he did it cause he needed to capture the avatar not the other dude.
This movies was the equivalent to a “neflix adaptation meme”.
This was the original adaptation meme
@@emmadobbins694 ?
It's literally the origin of that meme
That's an insult to Netflix. :P
@@lixthewitch6718 I guess you haven't heard but Netflix is planning on making an adaption of Avatar which is going to be a thousand times worse.
It's sad that they messed up a movie that was practically already done. They could have made a carbon copy of the anime and it would have been fine
I think doing straight copies defeats the purpose of making another movie in the first place. I totally get condensing the film, cutting the fat, and playing to the strengths of the crew, but this movie is basically a step by step guide of how not to do that properly
I think in an interview he did watch some of it and thought a change was a good idea which was definitely a backfire
@@LYNN-id9rb its like calling ben 10 an anime cuz of the animation
@@LYNN-id9rb But the animation was outsourced from Korea
I watched it recently, mispronounced the names (and I don't want to hear "correct" pronunciation, they are fictional characters, the pronunciation is exactly what the original content said it was and nothing else) but they didn't even do the normal Avatar intro. The elements was similar, but Katara's narration of the last 100 years wasn't even the same and sounds so much more lame. Even just changing "But 100 years ago he vanished" to "But 100 years ago he disappeared", like why? Vanished is cooler word anyway, why change it...? I was triggered in the first 15 seconds lmfao.
If Iroh summons fire out of nowhere when the movie cannon states they need fire it feels like they were trying to work around Iroh controlling and teaching Zuko lightning bending. Like they didnt wanna figure out how to make lightning effects so they butchered the entire fire nation canon to cheat around that
"a little rock just flies by the screen" KILLED ME
12:14 Wait, wasn't the actor for Sokka a fan of the show? Is it possible he reached for the boomerang instinctively cause that's what would've happened in the show? Aw man. Watch his face go from excitement, to realization, to disappointment
I'm starting to think the whole thing wasn't directed. It was just improv.
Where was his boomerang anyway? He's using it a bit later in that same fight scene, it's almost like it fell off his costume but nobody told him because they didn't want to redo the whole take again or something
@@kayden232ou if it was improved by fans of the show, we wouldn't be in this situation. Movie would still be a mess, but it would be a confused one of those who know what to do and those who don't
@@thebitten1 improv my guy 😂😂
@@taylorrhouser I shouldved said “improvised” rather than using the “ed” at the end
I speak for everyone when I say, pig should release the rant cut. I would watch all 54 minutes of it.
Honestly, who wouldn't watch that?
“Long ago, the 4 nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the live action nation attacked”
Aang definitely killed some people even accidentally in this movie, they were slammed full force against solid rock his spine is shattered and his neck is probably broken, in the show Aang preferred to be a pacifist but he'd have no problem fighting in self defense or to defend other people but his one rule was he couldn't bring himself to kill someone both because of his upbringing as their world's version of a Buddhist monk and because he felt violence just lead to more violence, the only time Aang took a life it was during the attack on the northern water tribe and he was in a fit of pure rage where basically the avatar state took the wheel and he just watched one of the spirit's which he is supposed to protect be killed in cold blood, movie Aang just flings people to their deaths and moves on
I clearly remember Aang shooting down a Fire Nation airship. Those people are dead.
And definitely remember him freezing water with fire Nation dudes underneath still
"Not even glasses guy has a perfect diet, but he like feet"
Truly a man of the people. He's got my vote
Fun fact: My dad was a background actor in the Last Airbender, he told me he always snuck little nerds candy boxes on the set to see if he would see them in the movie. i dont think you see either in the movie though.
Lol, what was his role is he on screen?
@@goat369 It was during one of the army scences I think when there was just a bunch of soldiers, I dont think he made it in though. He also had a role on the bounty hunter where you can see him for a few secs.
I would’ve loved seeing candy on set here and there LOL
@@fatcow4236 Yeah lol that would have been so cool just seeing a tiny pink square in the background
The reason the fire-nation were such a threat to the water tribe and earth Kingdom was due to their ability to make fire from nothing, while the other two needed it around them.
Changing it just makes them less of a threat. Actually no, not a threat at all.
Put out the fire = WIN
I can't recognize General Zhou without his mutton chops
We need "JUST PUT OUT THE FIRE! AAAAHH!" As a shirt.
And the logo should be a rock over a burning trash can lol.
Will Never Get Over how they made
Katara, Sokka, & Aang white and Zuko Indian despite them being East Asian or Intuit. Also it's great that shyamalan coded all the villains to be Indian / darker skin and all of the good guys to be white, that's always great 🙄
Well if the movie had continued the series like it was supposed to then eventually the white bald tattooed guy would have made friends with the darker skinned people who would then join the side of good lol.
He said himself he wanted the fire benders to be indian because he liked them and hes indian so
@@TheCommanderTaco I mean even if it's unintentional he still made all the villains Indian and took away East Asian representation from Zuko & Aang and Intuit representation from Katara & Sokka. So I would say that makes a net negative. Also the fire nation is very much based off of Japan so YEAH.
@@tijanaself897 Okay then what's your defense for making Aang, Katara and Sokka white?
@@PrismOpal64 It isn't his defense, genius. He explicitly said that it was Shyamalan's reasoning.
Are you somehow under the impression that the person you're responding to is M Night Shyamalan?
You know when Aang discovered that all of the other Airbender monks (the only family he’s ever known) were dead, he found them all gathered together in a scattered field.
Like they were gathered and killed all at once. That’s what made it horrifying.
In the live action one, they’re just dumped all over the place, and the skeletons don’t look like they had ANY remnant of clothes on them. This movie is so frustrating
Ahh yes, OOng and Soda. The best characters from ATLA.
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@@AxxLAfriku ……who?
one of my fav movies ever
@@dalime605 Obviously
Me when I think the title is Avatar the last airbender (the show): Oh nice one of my favorite shows is going to be done by Pig!
Me when I realize he means the movie: *Uh Oh*
*fire nation doom sound plays in the distance*
Its pretty crazy how the actor for Yue is literally Asami, its a good thing that the writers of LoK gave her a chance cause she really won every fans heart, and I think she's probably the highlight in the movie for me, she was actually not that bad.
I saw this one in theaters. My older cousin and I were big ATLA fans, and for some reason we thought a live action version would be good.
We both left regretting we woke up that day. This film isn't even fun bad. It's suck the life out of you bad.
I'm still on minute 6 but I expect you talk about
-the fantastic scene of the whole earthbenders to just throw a rock
-how they were kept in a DIRT camp
-Why are Sokka and Katara the whitest kids around when their whole ethnicity was darker?
- Why are firebenders not able to bend without fire, so how are they the strongest nation???
- Zuko. Just Zuko. Why
I was hoping someone would bring up the whitewashing. Thank you
You want to know the worst part about this movie?
Mnight got the job because he claims him and his daughter were huge fans watched every episode and he really wanted to make it into a movie. Which either makes it worse because he saw the show enjoyed the show and then pissed all over It and its creators.
Or it makes it worse because he was fully bullshiting knew nothing about this show and still got the rights to direct it
Kinda both. He watched it but knew nothing about why it was loved or what made it good so here we are 🤷🏾♀️
The worst part for me was expecting aang to merge with the ocean spirit for a great fight and all he does is make a big wave.
I remember watching this movie for the first time and one of the most prominent things that stood out so much it made me yell “WHERE THE F*** IS ZUKO’S BURN SCARE”
10:04 that scenes actually supposed to be the earth kingdom city where the fire nation arrest the earth benders and takes them to that METAL boat so they can't bend
Right, because otherwise they would have fought back ages ago. And the writers thought of that. Therefore, the base case scenario is to remove that disadvantage and make the scene stupid.
@@smittythetaxcollector2239 yep
"Darunia: We need rocks to eat but Dodongo's cavern is blocked by a giant boulder.
Link: Why don't you eat the boulder?"
Same energy of this lame earthbending scene.
Do you just eat *any* plant you see on the ground? Just *any* fowl you see walking around?
@@anguspodgorny2283 This comic always get me XD
at least in that situation it was an error in translation, they eat bomb flowers, not boulders.
meanwhile the firebenders have no translation errors.
@@dorkfish1275 I was refering to the TerminalMontage video, but yeah. XD Also, in BOTW, Gorons have some special shaped rocks to eat
Also, also, the earthbenders could've made a freaking mecha to kick their asses, but that's just my ruined expectations, lol!
I'm pretty sure there's a line in the game that says the Gorons have become accustomed to eating the rocks from that specific cavern, and they can no longer stomach just any rocks. That boulder would have been inedible.
The scene you say is in Ba Sing Se is a take on the episode where Kitara gets purposely arrested and put on that prison ship and convinces the earth benders to bend the coal... so they changed a LOT for the movie
i saw this movie in the theaters the weekend it came out. went with my dad and my sister with whom i had watched the entire series and bonded with over. show meant (means) so much to me growing up and is a part of so many great memories, so we were SO pumped for the movie
we left an hour in. dad got us dairy queen as a consolation. only movie i've ever walked out of :)
my mom was nice enough to buy me tickets to the premiere and went with me even though she didn’t care about it at all and i still feel bad for making her sit in such an atrocity.
Fun fact sokka’s name is based on the Japanese word So ka which means “I see”
I see
I see
I see
I see
oh i get it
The Water Tribe is heavily based off Inuit (indigenous Alaskans) culture - from the outfits, to the social structure, to the villages and boats. Sokka and Katara should’ve been casted as indigenous. The Inuit people already have minimal representation as it is.
Sidenote: Airbenders are based on Tibetan culture; the Fire Nation Japanese, and the Earth kingdoms Chinese.
If it makes you feel better Netflix is making a new And supposidly improved tv show.
@@foxpro3002 well, the story summary is to believed, it will be set in moderns times and they will be students or something who awaken or something to their powers. So not really thrilled about it
@@marisvirsis1769 I know nothing about this new show in the works. However I do know netflix and I unfortunately believe a high school drama is exactly what they'll give us
I somehow don't think the Fire Nation is based on Japanese culture. I can't find anything that says that it is, only that parts of it are while other parts are based on Chinese culture.
@@mechanomics2649 it’s not purely based on Japanese culture, but the fashion and architecture seems to be a blend of styles from multiple Japanese dynasties (mainly Edo and Meiji). The Fire Nation is also on an island, which tracks.
Aside from Stomp the Yard: Earthbender Edition, the BEST scene was Pakku’s strange battle cry. “Hoooooo!” 😂🤣
Googled it. A 2010 interview with Wired, he said: "For me, the whole point of making the adaptation was to ground it deeper in reality. So I pronounced the names as Asians would. It’s just impossible to pronounce Aang the way it is used in the series. It’s incorrect! I can’t do it. So I just pronounced it correctly."
Literally dumb, like he did not care about being faithful to the original series and to the fans of the show, which is what you’re _supposed_ to care about.
For real, if he cared why did he have a white cast playing airbenders and waterbenders, and why is the fire nation middle eastern/indian, there are barely any asian people in this movie
@@inappropriateusername1917 exactly
It's so infuriating. It's a fictional world! Obviously there are Asian influences but it's deliberately ambiguous. He also casts very white people for Air / Water tribes and still talks about doing things culturally "correctly".
as far as I could tell from watching the series:
Water Tribe = Inuit
Air Nomads = Tibetan
Earth Kingdom = Japanese
Fire Nation = Chinese
Guru Pathik = Indian
So if he wanted it to be realistic, he should have cast only Asians, have them speak in their native languages, taken away all their bending and make them normal people, and then the show would be just like real life!
@@inappropriateusername1917 To be fair, that wasn't his choice. He was forced to make those casting choiced by the studio.
Bionicpig: "I've been seeing a lot of avatar the last airbender clips on youtube"
Also Bionicpig: *plays clip from kora*
Korra*
LMAO RIGHT 😂
Legend of Korra was really good and I appreciate him showing clips of it. He has taste, clearly
@@erifaerie364 or you dont lmao. Feel like this is a r/whoooosh moment
@@jakobbeelar oh no, I know what *you* meant, it’s just incorrect 😌
9:35
You're thinking of when they met Haru in season 1 and learn that his father was arrested, along with all the other Earthbenders in his village, and taken to an oil rig style prison. Which was made of metal and out in the ocean, far away from EARTH so the EARTHBENDERS couldn't EARTHBEND. Instead we get a bunch of EARTHBENDERS in a camp, surrounded by EARTH, and just kind of going with being attacked by the Fire Nation I guess?
Not to mention that they give Aang the spotlight in the movie when it was Katara that tries and succeeds in rallying the Earthbenders to fight for their freedom. Katara, along with many other characters, could be background characters for all the movie cares.
That whole scene in the Earthbender camp seems to be reminiscent of the episode where Katara gets herself taken to a prison ship where they keep Earthbenders and there literally is no Earth to bend, thats why they're all weak (As well as their spirits being broken from years of imprisonment and torture), but the movie literally puts them on dirt like??
To be fair, i think the dragon is supposed to be Fang, Roku's dragon. Fang was Roku's messenger to Aang throughout the show...
Still, we all know Fang didn't talk at any point in the show. Weird how whoever wrote the script couldn't even let the ACTUAL Avatar Roku give Aang the time of day.
@@shadowstar8619 yeah wasn't the dragon the one who carried Aang to Roku's temple in the spirit realm.
IDK maybe they were trying to make Roku more MyStErioUs
I'm only just realizing that the change in name pronunciation is more in line with how the Japanese would properly pronounce the vowels (literally the only thing to stick with me from Japanese studies). Still annoying as hell though.
Huh, and I was wondering why, with exception of Sokka, they used the german pronounciation for the names. But now it makes sense, considering how some similar both german and japanese pronounce some things the same way.
It is also the pronunciation in almost every latin romance language and german, japanese, chinese, and many others. English probably is the most inaccurate pronunciation of any name ever. Take almost any anime in english and sounds nothing like it should. I know Avatar is american but the culture, names and world is supposed to be inspired in asian and indigenous tribes.
@@NaturalNihilist I only mentioned it because of the East Asian pronunciation being relevant to the inspiration of the show. As for why it's originally pronounced "Incorrectly" (I'm not sure if it's clarified anywhere but) it could be a number of things. Perhaps the cast were ignorant of the pronunciation, but with how much work went into accurately capturing East Asian martial arts, I'd say that's unlikely. My assumption is that despite it being BASED on East Asian culture, it is it's own unique world and the showrunners didn't want it to feel too much like it was ripped from anime/took too heavily from the cultures. It feels like a deliberate decision regardless of the accuracy, but once again that's purely an assumption. Just because it was inspired by a culture doesn't mean it needs to take everything from that culture.
I feel like one of the big threats of the fire nation was the fact they don’t need to have their element of fire around them they can create it anywhere
One thing that I really hated about the movie was the earth benders prisoner camp. In the show, the original earth benders prison they are referencing was a giant metal factory in the middle of the ocean and that’s why they couldn’t earth bend and they were only able to earth bend after Aang and the others got a bunch of coal to spew out from a vent on the metal factory island and that’s when the prisoners had to get motivated again to earth bend. But in the movie, they just ignore that whole metal factory prison camp island and they just portrayed it as a normal looking camp on the ground and just say that they lost their motivation to earth bend!! Like what the fuck?!
I would love to see the 54 minute rant cut
Fun fact the reason why Katara and Sokka are white is because the actress was the niece or something of one of the investors who demanded she be put in a main role or he would withdraw funding. One explanation why she is so....insanely bad at acting and everything.
Rumors have it that the actor playing Zuko was planned to play Sokka...as to why Shamalamadingdong made the fire nation Turkish or something and fcked up absolutely everything else....no idea.
The fire national is indian bc m himself is indian and he likes the fire nation
he said that
The scene with the 6 or so earth benders moving the 1 rock is one of my favorite scenes ever. Kills me every time
In all fairness: Sokka forgetting his boomerang wasn’t on him would be on par with his character. In this case it wasn’t, but Sokka would toss his boomerang then forget he tossed it.
Finally, at 1:23, the video we’ve been waiting for…
BionicPIG: The Rise of Glasses Guy
"that kid just stone bend me from behind, thats really hurt"
- random fire nation soldier.
Maybe the reason M. decided to change the names of some of the characters was because he knew it was shitty deep down and decided to separate it from the original vision by changing the names. More than likely though, he was having an ego trip and changed their names because he's rich and he can do what he wants.
Wait if Sozin's Comet was the only time that firebenders could spontaneously create fire than wtf was that earoh scene
Not gonna lie, I'd kill to see what Shamalan King Bumi looks like. It would be so fing stupid
Probably just a normal old guy
Or the cabbage vendor.
Prolly get an old white man and make him out like Clint Eastwood
How about Hollywood just stops trying to make live action anime? It's in a cartoon format for good reason. Or at least not make a movie that is so condensed that the story doesn't make sense or feels completely hollow.
There's literally a point in the first chapter where one of the Northern Water Tribe _mispronounces_ Sokka as "So-ka" to spite him.
Also, why are Katara and Sokka, who are clearly and obviously POC in the show, whiter than the snow they start in, while Zuko has a way darker skin tone?
The thing about it is making it where the fire benders have to use pre-existing fire it's just so stupid to me because apparently they wanted to make it feel more grounded like they felt it was unfair that the firebenders could just create fire.
Which the show explains that yes first of all it is supposed to be unfair it's part of the reason they became so powerful, secondly they draw their power directly from the Sun, and finally technically speaking any Bender can just pull their element from thin air except for Earth and even then most of the places on the planet have Earth so it's still a pretty fair advantage.
Water benders can pull moisture from the air and surrounding plant life, airbenders control the literal air, earthbenders are literally surrounded by rocks most of the time so every nation has the capability to usually use their element, the fire nation became so powerful because they figured out ways to basically counteract other benders using metal until toph invented metal bending and the old lady figured out how to blood bend
One of the most infuriating thing about why the fire benders in this movie needed fires to actually bend was because M Knight thought that if the fire benders can just make fire out of nowhere, it would be unfair
its like... that was the whole point or something
7:02 In the show, all benders can’t just create elements, fire benders are the only ones who don’t need a source, and even they cannot bend under certain circumstances, i.e. in an eclipse. The changes made in the movie are retarded, though.
The earthbender part is supposed to be that episode where they take earthbenders and put them on a metal rig in the middle of the ocean so they can't bend, and Katara has this idea of freeing them by peoviding the earthbenders with coal so they can escape. But they did it so poorly that they had earthbenders... ON EARTH!
Like the point of that episode is that they could take away their ability to bend, but they shouldn't lose their fighting spirit.
I always thought the firebending was connected to the sun,
1) because when the fire nation attacked the water tribe in the end of season 1, they didn't attack at night, because they're weaker when the sun has set.
2) In the eclipse episode, the firebenders can't firebend, while the sun is being blocked.
So I guess they do need something to bend, just not fire lol.
I'm always happy when I see a Avatar movie reaction, it's like this rite of passage for every movie reviewer.
I remember liking this movie when it first came out. I was also a very dumb child that just wanted to see people fight.
I remembered when I first watched this I was about 7 or 8 and switching it to watch Barbie Diamond Castle when I reached the first fight with zuko and I never watched it again until I came across these reviews some months ago.
I watched almost all TLA reviews, but I think only you made a point about the "put out the fire" thing :D
Them needing fire to firebend could work if they had a scene showing the intensity of the fire turning the water to steam when attempting to put it out.
No matter what anyone else says, thank you for viewing this movie. Sharing trauma is said to be helpful.
I've been binging your channel all morning. I'm so happy I found this.
The scene with the earth benders originally took place on a metal ship in the cartoon
Imprisoned" is the sixth episode of Book One: Water of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the sixth of the overall series. It debuted on March 25, 2005.
Fun fact, when i was little my family hired the movie and then copied it to our disk for movies. something went wrong... and the whole movie was messed up. some parts were missing, and most of it was out of order. it started at the middle, then jumped to the end, then back.
it did not make the movie any worse
Apparently Netflix is doing another live-action adaptation.
Why are we here? Just to suffer?
And the creators of the animated show left, because Netflix wants to make it completely different from the show. More modern
.... Just why
@@angelspiritfoxx I’m not watching it unless I hear anything even remotely interesting, but I expect it to flop hard and get flamed just like the movie did
@@silver7215 They already casted people for it and the cast honestly looks good ngl
@@tijanaself897 cast can be godly, but the story, choreography, special effects, etc can still be shit
@@silver7215 All very true, especially as we know netflix repoots it looks like the story is going where it always fails, however ALSO knowing netflix, the cast being good means a lot
One Of the things I find weird about this movie is mainly around the Kid Actor who played Aang. The weird thing, is that I think he would have actually been perfect for the role. He loves the original show, he's really good at Martial Arts, and If you saw the interviews with this kid, you'd see that he even had the same energy as Aang from the show. Even before he was in the movie Kids in his school nicknamed him Aang. So yeah I think that if Shamalyan wasn't the Director then this kid would have been great......also I think Sokka in the movie would have been a good Zuko
Right before the 6 man floaty rock dance happens, someone throws a rock at the guard at a high velocity... which anyone could do. By far the most effective use of any element in this movie.
Alright but props to the kid who played aang he honestly wasn’t that off from the original cartoon character
I forgot this movie even existed, and I wanted it that way, but now I remember, thanks
The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.
Nice king pfp
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This movie just reminds me of when a (now former) school friend of mine offered to give me a copy of the movie she had on her school laptop because ‘I seemed like the person who would enjoy this movie.’ Bitch, we’d been complaining about the trailer, why the hell would I willing watch this after growing up with the show?!
I remember when my dad took our family to go see this movie. Usually when we came out of a movie, we'd be quoting the best parts if it was good, or have a small conversation about the good parts if it was bad. We came out of this movie and we were all silent the whole way home, but it wasn't uncomfortable. We all knew why no one was talking and we were all fine with that.
Its like M Night saw Oldboy and was like "damn, one-take fight scene is awesome, lets only do that"
This movie convinced me that there was a hell
6:59 Nah. The only benders that can just spawn their element out of thin air are the Airbenders and Firebenders remember?
Waterbenders need to be near water since highly advanced techniques like pulling water out of the air itself is very rare. And earthebenders have to be on solid ground, losing their bending if they're surrounded by metal.
Fire Benders: Need Fire, yet somehow the ultimate winners and most powerful.
Earth Benders: Covers fire with Earth
Air Benders: Bends air away from flames to starve them of oxygen
Water Benders: Water Bender used Splash. It was super effective.
my fiance and I make jokes about the earth benders doing this long dance just for a pebble to float across the screen. ots still one of the best/worst things I've ever seen.
Respect for BionicPig for sacrificing his mental health for our entertainment
"Hey don't punch a woman!"
they don' call him Socka for nothing
This video is two years old, but I will never turn down the opportunity to hear someone tear down this movie.