Avatar: The Last Airbender

[Johnny M]

Hoping and praying this is good. Anyone else?

[Steeven]

I will rent it for sure.

I just started watching the series with the kids. We are on Book Two and they love it . . . so do I

They were knocked off their feet when they saw the trailer for the movie.

Well, they weren't literally knocked off their feet . . . so I pushed them down.

[groven79]

My wife and I just finished watching the cartoon. Her sister owned it and we borrowed it last Monday, finished the show last night, every episode in 8 days. All this in preperation for the movie that we are seeing probably Friday night. The cartoon was amazingly good and M. Night has never done a movie I did not like. Recently found out that the movie is going to be a trilogy and it looks like the first movie is basically the first season or Book 1 (Water). Really looking forward to the movie and hoping Nic decides to do a 4th season too.

[Johnny M]

[bwhancock]

Wet blanket time!

Roger Ebert hated it!

0% on the Rotten Tomatoes reading right now and days before the release usually the positive reviews get out.

The TV show was such an epic, man, I hope the movie doesn't suck. At this point, I don't think it will come close to the TV show.

Still taking my kids to see it.

[Pamp]

I have my tickets for the midnight showing.

My daughter and I have been watching the show and are almost to Book 2 right now.

The thing I'm worried about, with the film, is that the tone will be too serious and you'll lose all of the fun that comes from Aang and Sokka simply being goofs. The trailers are showing a pretty dark film, with a rather serious tone.

[GeekyWhiteGuy]

I just started watching the series on Netflix about 3 weeks ago and got so sucked into it that I finished all 3 books about 2 weeks ago. I LOVE the show.

I have high hopes for the movie...but I have a feeling that it's going to be really bad. I read that the guy who plays Ang is really good...but that Shamalan (sp?) did a lousy job casting and handling the BIG scenes.

Still...I hope it doesn't COMPLETELY suck.

[Johnny M]

[bwhancock]

Don't want to judge before watching - no matter how the movie is, we have the TV show. So we got that going for us.

[groven79]

Ebert Sucks

[Steeven]

The kids got Happy Meals last night with The Last Airbender toys . . . they got Kitara . . . my girls were just plain tickled!

[Johnny M]

It's over
http://io9.com/5576076/

[Pamp]

[Steeven]

I think I'll like it. I tend to like what the internet hates . . . which make me better than everyone

[THE DANOSAUR]

[Station]

"gerbil machete fish dumpling crank handle" This is my new catch phrase. Maybe the twist in MKS' next movie should be that it was actually worth the money you spent to go see it. I still can't believe he hasn't been laughed out of the industry yet.

[groven79]

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***




Just got back from The Last Airbender. It was not good, the acting was horrible but the biggest mistakes were the length of the movie and the casting of Uncle Iroh (my favorite character). I think it would have been okay if they set out to do 6 movies, 2 per season and each 3 hours long, to capture everything that needed to be in there. Too much was cut out from the cartoon that needed to be in the movie. I know there was plenty of stuff that could be cut but they cut stuff the was essential to the story. I won't go into details, I don't want to spoil anything for anyone. Also, many of the names were pronounced differently than in the cartoon, very odd.

[Johnny M]

Saving my money. I'll see Predators twice now.


If that's bad, I'm really going to be bummed.

[Frank Rincon]

What is the word on the street? Should I go see it?

[JordanFromJersey]

The word is that it's worse than "The Happening" (which is the worst film I've ever seen in theaters)


(Hey Johnny, can you merge this with the other thread?)