Avatar The Last Air Bender

Anyone going to see this? I just got into the show, a friend of mine has been bugging me to watch and I kind have put it off since its Nickelodeon show, but wow its much better then what I was expecting!

Anyways, this moving is coming out sometime this year, going to be a trilogy and each movie is getting about 130Mill Funding!

M. Night Shyamalan-a-ding-dong (If only he would make a DBZ movie... =[) is directing it and producing it, which makes me want to see it 100X more! SuperBowl will be when a 30sec tralier is released and few days after a 2min one will be out!

Live action versions of anime/cartoons never turn out well...
With that said, totally seeing it.

Huh. Didn't know it was getting that much funding, nor that it was a trilogy.

Still not expecting much. Let's hope i'm pleasantly surprised.

Huh. Didn't know it was getting that much funding, nor that it was a trilogy.
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It will probably be because of the 3 books in the series, Im looking forward to see if its a fail or a win

It will probably be because of the 3 books in the series, Im looking forward to see if its a fail or a win

Yeah, that makes more sense than just having one movie.

I'd be awesome if it was all animated though. Of course, if they make it more violent, that'd be f'ucking awesome.

One thing thats intrests me is there sticking to the storyline and not cutting things that might seem "corny" to much directors... For example Appa and Momo will be in

One thing that bothered me at first is that the nationality of the actors, since in Avatar they are all animated to look Asian and in the movie they are not. However Shyamalan wanted to make the change since its like the 4 tribes are earth wide, so each one has a diffrent nationality.
Water Tribe = White
Fire Nation = Dark skin/Indian almost
Earth Kingdom = Dark/Black

I've got higher expectations for this then most movies, I geuss we will get a idea by sunday! Since the producer said that all four bending abilitys will be shown off.

It'd make more sense if...

Water = asian
Fire = white
Earth = black
Air = indian

Yea, cuz White people populate the Poles. If anything, Fire Nation should be white: India never tried to take over the world.

Water: Eskimo
Air: Indian/Tibetan.
Earth: Varied. That place is huge, I don't buy everyone having the same skin color there.
Fire: White. (although, if Air were Tibetan, Fire could be Chinese for lulzy allusions)

I'm more interested in the 2nd part of the trilogy then. Curious to see what Azula will be like

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Opinion on it? I think the scar is to light...

./spazes

Please for the love of god, don't screw this up Shamalya-ding-dong Sama. If Avatar can be epic, so can this.

*Actually, would that be a bad thing? Regardless, I'm awaiting reviews before watching this.

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Opinion on it? I think the scar is to light...

yes, i agree on the scar, needs more skin burning. xP
but holy hell i hope this movie doesnt fail like The Happening.

Yea, cuz White people populate the Poles. If anything, Fire Nation should be white: India never tried to take over the world.

You seem to be forgetting the arctic circle includes a quarter of the Scandinavian Peninsula, and that lighter skin colorization is generally considered to be an adaptation to living in a low sunlight environment (the Inuit and Yupik you alluded to as being more likely polar candidates escaped that form of evolution due to their diet being high in vitamin D). The further a culture expanded from the equator the lighter they'd have become without other environmental factors.

Assuming, based on the Avatar world Map, the Earth Kingdom served the role of their Africa as the birthplace of humanity before the nomadic diaspora it would not be illogical for the natives of that country to be particularly dark, while the ones who moved into the poles became pale and the air islands became rather median. The fire nation being equatorial would likely remain as dark, or perhaps even go darker as the earth nation is large enough to have created a mellowing due to intermingling while the fire nation remained more tightly interbred and unvarying.

I'm definitely seeing it, but I feel as if the person playing Aang...shouldn't play Aang....he doesn't seem to be an "Aang" to me. He seems too serious.

I liked it when they were all Asian...I mean, at least include some Asians...

Asian influenced movie with no asians in it that are main characters would be epic fail. I recall it being in the newspaper a few months ago: Asian based cartoon turned movie to have non-asian as lead character.

This better not turn out to be another Forbidden Kingdom (only watched that cause Jet Li + Jackie Chan had a fight scene) where the white guy is the main character and saves the asians in an all asian world...

wasnt the boy that was slotted to play aang taiwanese or something?

wasnt the boy that was slotted to play aang taiwanese or something?

Was.

Was.

elaborate please?
i has to get to work now, so i cant stick around sadly. =/

Live action versions of anime/cartoons never turn out well...
With that said, totally seeing it.

Ugh, friggin' Garfield. THE HORROR, THE HORROR!!!!!!! The two Scooby Doo movies, The Flintstones, and all sorts of other trainwrecks added too.
Hell, the movie industry has tons of problems with adaptation already. Tons of failed superhero movies, for an example: Catwoman and Daredevil. I'm shuddering at the thought of them just saying their names. Novels are equally botched up as much: as we know, the Twilight series may absolutely suck major chocolate salty balls, but even the movies screwed it up even worse; and how about The Lovely Bones directed by Peter Jackson right now? Hell, even "remakes" for either Westernization or modern updates tend to screw up: bad. A horrible offender that comes from the top of my head would be The Day the Earth Stood Still remake. Ugh. Then again, some of the movie industry's finest works are adaptations.

Still, that's not to say I'm not optomistic about this movie. I'm hoping it might be decent.