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For Mine is an Evil Vindicated Laugh
Jul. 1st, 2010 10:18 amThe Failbender is failing so hard. And its getting 9% Freshness from Rotten Tomatoes. This is so very precious.
And Ebert gives the movie a HALF-star! HAH!
Really, aside from all other issues, Shyamalan is the wrong director for Avatar: The Last Airbender. AtLA is fun, hopeful, grand and epic. It is not a moody story filled with ~atmosphere~.
If there should have been an AtLA movie it should have been an animated movie. Or, they could have still made this movie epic if the people working for the movie had an ounce of respect for the source material. They didn't. And, that was a recipe for disaster.
In the words of Justified's showrunner, Graham Yost:
It was clear from the beginning Shyamalan and the people involved in the movie had neither respect nor love for Avatar: The Last Airbender and that's their downfall. The fans have been up in arms about it and yet they were arrogant enough to assume that they can wave us off.
My only concern about this is that a majority of the people who will be watching might not know about AtLA and assume that the series is as dire as the movie. Which it isn't, by a long shot.
Someone in LJ recasted the movie and I wished that this was the cast the movie went for instead of the one they insisted on keeping. Here, look at the recast. It's perfect!
Particularly when Dev Patel was recasted as Sokka because OMG. That works! That works! He is Sokka! And I can't unsee it now!
This could have been a good movie but Shyamalan failed it spectacularly.
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And Ebert gives the movie a HALF-star! HAH!
After the miscalculation of making the movie as live action, there remained the challenge of casting it. Shyamalan has failed. His first inexplicable mistake was to change the races of the leading characters; on television Aang was clearly Asian, and so were Katara and Sokka, with perhaps Mongolian and Inuit genes. Here they're all whites. This casting makes no sense because (1) It's a distraction for fans of the hugely popular TV series, and (2) all three actors are pretty bad. I don't say they're untalented, I say they've been poorly served by Shyamalan and the script. They are bland, stiff, awkward and unconvincing.
Really, aside from all other issues, Shyamalan is the wrong director for Avatar: The Last Airbender. AtLA is fun, hopeful, grand and epic. It is not a moody story filled with ~atmosphere~.
If there should have been an AtLA movie it should have been an animated movie. Or, they could have still made this movie epic if the people working for the movie had an ounce of respect for the source material. They didn't. And, that was a recipe for disaster.
In the words of Justified's showrunner, Graham Yost:
"The problem with anything is when people think they can improve upon it," he says. "I think that’s pretty dangerous with Elmore. He’s pretty great as it is. You get Peter Jackson to do ‘Lord of the Rings’ because he loves ‘Lord of the Rings.’ You get someone to do Elmore Leonard because they love Elmore Leonard, not because they want to make a cop movie."
It was clear from the beginning Shyamalan and the people involved in the movie had neither respect nor love for Avatar: The Last Airbender and that's their downfall. The fans have been up in arms about it and yet they were arrogant enough to assume that they can wave us off.
My only concern about this is that a majority of the people who will be watching might not know about AtLA and assume that the series is as dire as the movie. Which it isn't, by a long shot.
Someone in LJ recasted the movie and I wished that this was the cast the movie went for instead of the one they insisted on keeping. Here, look at the recast. It's perfect!
Particularly when Dev Patel was recasted as Sokka because OMG. That works! That works! He is Sokka! And I can't unsee it now!
This could have been a good movie but Shyamalan failed it spectacularly.
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Awesome Ladies Ficathon is in Dreamwidth!
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It feels good to have a new administration. There's still a ways to go but I feel like its better than the yoke we've been living under.
