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Post by lacocious on Feb 17, 2011 21:54:23 GMT -5
I am reserving this spot for the eventual review of The Last Airbender, or as I like to refer to it, The Movie That Crushed My Soul.
Coming soon.
-J
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Post by laserx on Feb 27, 2011 17:33:26 GMT -5
This review is taking toooo long. I thought about watching it today and I really want a reason not to.
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Post by lacocious on Feb 28, 2011 0:49:46 GMT -5
Dude, it's a work in progress. I've downloaded it, and I started rewatching parts to see exactly what to comment on, but it's fucking hard cause it's fucking terrible. Just whatever you do, don't watch it.
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Watch it and be prepared to watch the entire series again, just to make sure and remind yourself that that one didn't suck.
-J
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Post by lacocious on Nov 8, 2011 18:32:27 GMT -5
Ok, so here goes, my attempt to remember what I wrote in a dirty notebook in MN that I'm almost positive I threw away, but whatever today is really slow at work and I have an hour and a half til I get off...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Last Airbender is a wonder of Hollywood movie making that somehow, perhaps through some dark arts or human sacrifices, has absolutely no redeeming qualities. From the first moments of the movie to the last agonizingly boring moments of the climax, nothing of note seems to happen. I don't even know where to start with my complaints/sad remembrances of what might have been. I guess I'll just rant then... that seems easiest.
1. They fucked it up. Like, in the nose, with a cock. Fucked. It. Up. When the movie was first greenlit, so many fans of the series were ecstatic, but hesitant. For you see, The Last Airbender is based on a solidly built existing property, Avatar: The Last Airbender. One of the things that comes with adapting an existing property is that the base of the story already exists. The framework is there. 50 some odd episodes of backstory, relationship history, and themes are all available to draw on. The screenwriter, it seems, has chosen to eschew all this backstory, and make something else entirely. Take the character of Uncle Iroh. In the cartoon series, Iroh is the solid role model for his angry, maladjusted nephew Prince Zuko. He is a an old man, with the knowledge of a life spent doing things he now regrets. Past wars and battles, including the loss of his only son, have changed him. These days he is a kinder, gentler man, quick to forgive and even quicker to joke. He is the perfect foil to his nephew, understanding and carefree where Zuko is apprehensive and frustrated. While it is easy to forgive the movie for not being of the same length of the series, and therefore not being able to give the same back story in the amount of time it has, it's possible to at least give some motivations to a somewhat main character. Instead we are treated to a lifeless characterization of the old man character with really nothing of note to how this character differs from any other old mentor. This treatment of characters are the same across the board. In the cartoon, Aang, the eponymous last airbender, is a complicated character who is burdened with responsibility and the thought that thousands of lives, including all of his people, have been lost due to his careless running away. In the Movie, Aang whines. A Lot. Nothing else is really made of his happy-go lucky character, he just laments the fact that everything is different than he remembers. These upsetting character deficiencies really are set upon a couple people. The screenwriter, the director, and the actors. Luckily, The screenwriter and the director are the same person, so I can kill two shitty birds with one stone. So let's do that first. Stay tuned for part 2 of what is sure to be at least 5, i think:
2. M NIGHT SHYMALASFNGFD- A HUGFDF- COUGH SPUTTER DIE
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Post by laserx on Nov 11, 2011 14:59:08 GMT -5
Even if this review gets finished, it will be too late. The damage is done, i've seen things I can't unsee.
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