Saving the World with Postage

[linhyan]

Yeah I barely saw it myself.
He looks too....... normal.
I needs more scarring on mah Zuko plz. >.<

[linhyan]

Okay. I have some very mixed feelings on this. the ships... *twitch*
Just look for yourselves. New movie website and trailer.

www.thelastairbendermovie.com/

I had goosebumps.... I am ashamed.... V.V

[chamir]

Saw the trailer when I got roped in to see Transformers 2.

Not sure which one I have a lower opinion of.

[chamir]

Ready for another dose of the movie adaption failure?

Of course you are!

Courtesy of the livejournal community Deadbrowalking and poster Willow, I link thee to --> movie pics and a lil more!

EnjoyRAGE!

[jialingjin]

Thank you Chamir for that dose of FAIL. Pretty much.. seeing them in costume.. seeing how they have ignored so much of the show's visuals (...Colored clothing people. We freaking have an animated show for visuals! I know it might not be realistic for inuit-like people to have blue cloth (I have no clue) but.. IT'S FANTASY HOW IT IS IN THE SHOW.).

Yeah.... not gonna see it unless it has absolutely rave reviews from the people who have organized the whole racebending movement.

I predict.. an eragon-like failure. Enough money made to keep them happy but enough of an OUTRAGE to ensure that no one makes a sequel. Not without redoing the first one.

[linhyan]

ARGH!

How hard is it really to get blue dyed parkas? If they're going to mess up the characters they should at least have the clothing right. -_-

*Checks another box on the fail list*
The only thing they've got going for them so far are graphics...

[zuko]

M.Night Shyamalan is directing it. How much more FAIL is there? xD

[jialingjin]

Well considering his Daughter LOVES the show and LOVES Katara and he himself is a person of color.. I had some hope! Plus, I love his movies u.u. Honestly, I don't blame M. Night. I blame Paramount and the executives who make these choices.

[chamir]

So what is the opposite of 'squee'?

The rubbish looms closer and the only thing I can look forward to is the possibility of additional and reinvigorated players here.

Meanwhile the OhNoTheyDidnt livejournal community posted pics of 'The Last Airbender' figures and I continue to have geek crush on Avalon's Willow due to her recent and inspiring post of "Recognition, Codes & Box Office Draw" posted on her blog and signal boosted at racebending livejournal community. Her tags concerning the movie are also worth perusing through whenever you find time.

[nakamura]

Some of those people seem overzealous to me... but I signed a long time ago. *shrug* Like the article, but those reasons she passes off as excuses ARE reasons (as far as the studio is concerned). I wonder if she realizes that.

[chamir]

So Shyamalan has given failtastic interviews recently concerning the movie with comment sections that are even more wonderfully failtastic.

From IO9
From UGO
And some particular changes

Just a few of the many things that made my slapping hand twitch.

M. Night Shyamalan:

When you see the whole movie, where the characters go, the Northern Water Tribe all have the European look that Sokka and Katara have, with a few exceptions here and there.

" So when we watch Katara, my oldest daughter is literally a photo double of Katara in the cartoon. So that means that Katara is Indian, correct? No that's just in our house. And her friends who watch it, they see themselves in it. And that's what's so beautiful about anime."

Well, it is the most culturally diverse tent-pole movie ever made. And I’m proud of it. It’s part of what drew me to the material, to see the faces of our whole world in this new world. And only time will assuage everyone and give them peace. Maybe they didn’t see the faces that they wanted to see but, overall, it is more than they could have expected. We’re in the tent and it looks like the U.N. in there.

So more so than the show, it will have a much more diverse ethnic backgrounds to it.

Jordan Hoffman:

Noah Ringer, who plays the titular last Airbender named Aang (pronounced Ahh-ng) is, according to Shyamalan, a photo double for the show. Before casting Ringer, however, the number one contender was someone of Chinese origin. The final choices place the Air Nation as one of "mixed race."

From the looks of the first trailers, the only characters of color are baddies.

“It’s called irony,” Night said of the controversy in a follow-up phone call exclusive to UGO.

And here's a lovely link to the Avatar Racefail Bingo game

EDIT:
UGO's tag for the movie.

[vu]

A lovely little comic/would-be public service announcement from Gene Luen Yang, an award winning graphic novelist. =)

And don't bother with the comments section. Full of fail. You've been warned.

[chamir]

Jedifreac regales us with her experience of the movie at an early pre-screening.

[aratak]

If it wasn't for Robin Hood, this move would be the worst of the year and possibly the decade. They left out Jet, Suki, and Avatar Roku... There was no air ball riding, very little comic relief, and no drama to require any comic relief. They took a great concept, butchered it up into little bits, tossed away a couple vital characters, and then slapped it into a live action adaption without any soul or effort.

Seriously, I thought "I am legend" was a better movie... I thought spiderman 3 was a better movie...even ...evan almighty...