Earlier today Paramount Pictures unveiled the third full length theatrical trailer for The Last Airbender. Suffice to say it features a great deal more bending money shots, and is sure to garner a lot of attention from moviegoers. It is also the first publicly released media touting the recently announced 3D version. Without further ado…
Tags: aang, airbender, avatar, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Katara, m. night, Noah Ringer, Paramount Studios, shyamalan, Sokka, Zuko
April 23, 2010 at 10:50 pm |
I love love love this one! The very best yet, in my opinion. Yue is beautiful. I actualy like how her eyebrows don’t match her hair. It shows her original hair color; I doubt the Spirit Oasis Water touched her eyebrows, right? lol! If I remember correctly, Yue DID say something like, “You are the only one who can save my people.” I love Zuko. His face, his voice, the acting etc. EVERYTHING! It is something Zuko would say, of course. The bending, including when Aang jumps over the Firenation Soldier, looks amazing! Possibly the best CGI or the elements I have ever seen. Appa looks so real!
Aang’s voice is fine with me. True, it sounds a little rough for a young boy, but Noah, the actor, has a certain gentleness about him that screams MONK to me. Katara’s expression is so fierce in the start of the video- very cool! I also love Roku’s dragon, Feng. At least, I’m assuming it is Feng. I may be Koh if they changed him into a dragon. At least that would explain Aang’s tense stance.
Overall Grade: A
Can’t WAIT for this movie!!!!
April 23, 2010 at 10:54 pm |
Yea I totally saw this before they posted on this website. If you have a mac you can watch the really super high quality trailer by going to the TLA movie website and following their link. THIS IS NOW MOST DEFINITELY THE BEST TRAILER OF THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 23, 2010 at 11:08 pm |
1rst!. I just had a geek-gasm. I haven’t been so hyped for a movie since well… ever!
April 23, 2010 at 11:20 pm |
Woo! Looks great!
I love the effects in this.
April 23, 2010 at 11:34 pm |
Hmm… interesting.
April 24, 2010 at 12:17 am |
holy ****
April 24, 2010 at 12:50 am |
Finally, Zuko talks. And sounds pretty good.
Also, Zhao. Yeah! Sweet!
Blue Spirit with hair… eh, oddly cool.
Iroh is still awesome.
But now the movie has taken a downturn by being in 3D. Ugh. Avatar didn’t come out well in 3D in my theater.
April 24, 2010 at 3:57 am |
It isn´t Zhao, that was Ozai… It is Cliff Curtis not Aasif Mandvi
April 24, 2010 at 12:38 pm
zhao is shown when the water comes down on him toward the end. zhao was killed that way by the moon spirit.
April 24, 2010 at 2:16 pm
actually, Zhao appears. at the bridge, being killed by the water spirit. Just as in the tv serie!
April 24, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Wait, that was Ozai?
Well, I guess I can handle that too.
Oh who am I kidding? All hail Fire Lord Ozai.
April 24, 2010 at 7:39 am |
I literally squeeled when I saw this. It’s absolutely amazing although did anyone notice that when zuko talked it seemed like it was two pieces of dialogue strung together?! Aside from that, the awesomeness of appa was there, Ozai, perfect storm style wall of water, and Christ doesn’t yue look like Jess alba in fantastic four 2 (bleached blonde and ridiculously blue eyes!) loved it !!!
April 30, 2010 at 12:12 am |
Actually, it didnt sound anything of the sort. Zuko sounded perfectly fine to me
April 24, 2010 at 9:43 am |
Zuko!
He speaks! And so so so cute!
Overall this was very epic: the bending, the action, the dialog. Yue is beautiful, and I like how her eyebrows are dark because, when she was put into the Spirit Water, I doubt it touched her eyebrows, right? Only her haur. It just makes sense to me that way. Her bit of dialog is fitting, as is Zuko’s.
Aang’s voice sounds funny here as well, but so does the dragons. They both have a deep, resonating quality about them. I’ll see what else Aang has to say.
If I ever had any doubts about the movie, they’re dead along with Zhao.
April 24, 2010 at 12:16 pm |
ok, Awesome trailer I almost die!!!. Firelord Ozai looks a little odd because don’t have long hair and wears almost the same uniform like the rest of the fire nation soldiers only the colors change. and Zhao is shown when the “ocean spirit” kill him, you know the big water tentacles that falls over a guy trying to maintain a fire source with his cape! looks epic and I really like it!! but not momo yet… that’s sad
April 25, 2010 at 12:45 am |
Momo is shown in the teen choice awards on sokkas lap in a appa shot
April 24, 2010 at 12:26 pm |
Yeah, but Momo WILL be there, possibly with a purpose by the third season. It has been confirmed that Momo will be in all three movies, mostly as comic relief, though M. Night has vowed to one day give Momo a purpose!
In the toy line I’m excited for, you can see our fury friend on Aang’s shoulder.
April 24, 2010 at 2:30 pm |
Like Bumi saids: “Someone’s missing from your group, someone very important… Where’s Momo?”. By the way, Bumi’s missing to, but unfortunatelly it’s confirmed that he will not appear in this movie. but i don’t care, i will see this movie, it looks freaking AWSM
April 25, 2010 at 10:04 am |
isn’t he going to be in the next movie? You know, for season 2; earth?
There was a picture of some earthbender standing overlooking a city that looked like Omashu, so I wonder if THAT’s Bumi! 
April 24, 2010 at 3:52 pm |
Bumi will appear, according to M. Night, in the second movie, and June and Jong Jong in the third. This makes a little more sense to me, and we’ll get to know the Book One characters a bit more without introducing characters like June and throwing them away. It makes more sense to have Bumi in Earth and Jong Jong and June in Fire. Right?
So long as they’re SOMEWEHRE in the trilogy. Maybe Jet will appear in the second movie . . . only to die . . . but I’d like to have him show us what happens inside Ba Sing Se.
Can’t wait!!!
April 24, 2010 at 4:16 pm |
I’m afraid we won see any Koizilla (La fused with Aang)…
Just a big tsunami knocking down and drowning fire nation guys
April 24, 2010 at 4:16 pm |
*won’t see
April 24, 2010 at 7:37 pm
i would hate that.. the part when he says ‘no.. its not over’ will be a tainted and when he gets sucked into the water then the blue water spreads throughout the black and white.. i hope we still see a black and white world as well as a red sky.. anyway aang’s not supposed 2 be that strong yet by himself.. he needs the help of the spirit!
that better not be ozai.. im pretty sure it isnt ozai.. his face isnt supposed 2 be shown!
that really sucks that jeong jeong, bumi and june wont be in here. it will now seem that they will bring characters in for just one moment and have no relationship with the aang gang beforehand, i liked that they showed every characters almost at least 2 times (but usually 3 times) in the series – it gives us something to miss (like after seeing june 4 the second time- u say, oh i missed her). we wont know that jeong jeong’s wall of fire is his signature move because he only does it once.. it will seem like june’s shirshu will just be some crazy idea made up on the spot that will help the gaang for that part. it ensures that the peole the aang gang interact with are close knit and have importance throughout the whole series! eg seeing bumi 3 times, yue 3 times, jet twice, and they have all had their impact on the aang gang in some way for every time they meet them
even the shirshu was mentioned 3 times in the series to show its usefulness ITS ALL ABOUT MOTIFS SHYAMALAN!
the dragon reminds me of some corny scne from the show.
‘merlin’.. if he is supposed to be a face stealer, why does he only have one face.. if he is supposed 2 be roku’s dragon, why does he look so real, isnt he supposed to be blue and ghost-like, im pretty sure its a spirit replacing koh because of what he says
one more thing — the last scene of this trailer in the battle between aang and zuko.. watch zuko.. his bending is not in coordination with his movements! he just stand there for a moment as well! and when aang jumps over and freezes a soldier, aang doesnt do any distinct waterbending movements just hands raised, the returns back to his closed fist fighting stance
the only non-hater part of this comment – the only part i love is katara’s face near the beginning of the trailer.. it has the most emotion out of the whole thing…
April 25, 2010 at 12:31 am
about roku’s dragon, it’s blue and ghost-like in human world (hei bay chapter) and red in spirit world.
and at the trailer, at first when I saw an entagled mass in the shadows and Aand expresionless face, I thought it was Koh! but then a clearly solid dragon head appeared, so it must be Fang soooo Spirit World is in!
April 25, 2010 at 10:07 am
Lol your argument defeats itself, though– like you said, these things gained a significance because they were mentioned throughout the series in numerous episodes…. movies don’t have episodes, so this can’t be done. And why are you nitpicking? If you’re that obsessed with minute detail on a molecular scale, you are more than welcome to study microbiology instead of watching movies.
April 25, 2010 at 8:02 pm
hey man i meant i hope that they will show those particular characters 3 times/2 times over the 3 movies eg introducing bumi to the audience in book 1/movie 1, realising we miss bumi then seeing him again in book/movie 2, and wanting to know if he is well by book/movie 3.
-just like in pirates of the caribbean – they brought barbossa back in the third movie to make the first movie connect with the other two more (i think (well, it does)), and to not make it seem like the relationships main characters form with other characters are not ALL short-lived.. doesnt it show character building aswel.? i like seeing this in movies, eg jet.. the second time we see him he’s more mature, at the same level of mindset (skill, will, priorities, etc) as the main character zuko such that they become friends for a while
as for me nitpicking, im just worried there might be more obvious mistakes/fails
im pretty sure the dragon creature thing is a replacement of koh – it talks, and conversates with aang about the spirit fish
April 24, 2010 at 7:52 pm |
at 0:18, what would make ice wobble like that? haha
and correcting my comment above, i think there may be a koizilla, because the water tentacle things that get zhao are supposed to be its fingers i think, like in the show when it grabs him and pulls him under….
April 25, 2010 at 10:08 am |
Really? It looks like the ice itself isn’t wobbling, but rather the unfrozen water around it. Take a really close look– it looks like the liquid water is moving, whereas the ice isn’t.
April 25, 2010 at 11:12 am |
Yeah but aang could have just bended the water to do that
April 25, 2010 at 9:49 am |
Seriously!! Nobody’s gonna comment on the blue spirit part!
Was i the only one who saw The Blue Spirit protecting Aang!
Awesome trailer!
Loved every second!
April 25, 2010 at 1:39 pm |
fan girl squeal! can’t wait looks great!
April 25, 2010 at 2:09 pm |
Where is Momo! XDD And Suki? why she’s in website and calendars but not in any trailer?? I love kyoshi warriors!
April 25, 2010 at 2:20 pm |
@bob
about roku’s dragon, it’s blue and ghost-like in real world, but red in spirit world, sooo I think aang’s travel to spirit world is in!
and then, for a second I tought it was Koh, a entangled mas in the shadows you know, but then a clear dragon-shape head appeared! must be Fang.. It’s weird tho
April 25, 2010 at 8:00 pm |
Maybe not – I agree that the dragon could be Fang, but what confused me is that Fang doesn’t talk…. he shows empathic visions. Although they could have changed that to make it easier. But it could be Koh – he could have stolen the face of a dragon right? And it would make more sense that it were Koh if the dialogue in that trailer suits the scene its shown with. I can just here Aang going “I need the help of the Moon and Ocean” -”Actually, they need your help, someone is going to kill them” “I’ll stop them!” “You may already be too late…”
It would also add to that because of how the dragon seems to be eyeing Aang in that scene.
And did anyone else notice the koi fish in the scene where Yue fell into the water?
April 26, 2010 at 2:21 am
I heard from somewhere that M.Night is going to do what the shows creator were originally going to do and Roku will be a dragon.,,,,,cant really complain because when they first did it Roku was gonna be Momo…So yeah……
April 25, 2010 at 11:49 pm |
Oh, i got it!………..As a neutral to the whole race issue (i’m open to both sides and in between), I thought of a solution:
We could ask the original creators (Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko) at Comic-Con. Just simply ask them “what ethnicity are each nation based on?”.
Also we need to ask for/know the film’s intention whether if it’s supposed to be a faithful adaptation, a re-imagination, or mix (or other).
April 26, 2010 at 3:01 am |
We already know this stuff. Mike and Bryan set them as:
Fire = Imperial Japan
Earth = China
Water = Inuit
Air = Tibetan Monk
The movie makes them:
Fire =Indian/Middle Eastern
Earth = Asian
Water = Caucasian leads/Inuit backdrop people
Air = All the rest
And that’s all because M. Night cast the leads and they had those qualities.
April 26, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Oh i see, so that probably means M. Night’s version could be his own re-imagination (like how Tim Burton is to his ver. of Alice, Bay is to the recent Transformers movies).
So, yea, that should/might answer to some people confused about what race the animated counterparts are (no offenses intended), because some comments others made I’ve seen in the past say that “it’s asian inspired but it doesn’t mean they’re all asians”, but then Mike and Bryan already set this in one of the interviews ( now I remember, thanks for reminding me).
Although I prefer “faithful adaptations” first (@least equivalent to how in Harry Potter- crew worked close with Rowling), Re-imaginings are great too, if done well, and hopefully they succeed and become part of my faves. But of course both combination of “faithful adaptation” and “re-imagining” might work also.
April 26, 2010 at 5:03 am |
there are a few things that show that there is no one ‘real-world’ nation that the avatar nations are based on. eg guru pathik, im pretty sure he’s a citizen of the air nomad? and he acts obviously indian.. combustion man looks arab and hes from the fire nation, sand benders are also arab looking, not sure who the sun warriors represent, ty lee (other than her name) doesnt seem asian, as well as chit sang, the ‘fire nation man’ wrestler from the blind bandit sounds russian, someone from zuko’s crew in the winter solstice part 2 has a french accent.. but seriously, im over the race crap
April 26, 2010 at 2:30 pm
yea same here.
It looks like for those constantly fighting online, it seems to separate some of the fans; like: haven’t we already learned from some of the television series’s morals, like on unity (set differences aside-not only just race but also beliefs and thought-differences).
People should respect other’s differences (which by the way doesn’t mean they agree) and just coincide in harmony.
April 26, 2010 at 4:24 pm
So true. I was over it after I realized race doesn’t matter to me at all. I love Noah as Asng. Sorry guys, but he ‘s only 12 or 13- leave him alone and stop complaining about his being white and all. He’s got a certai ngentleness about him you don’t find in most boys his age. And it’s his first role and he appears to havcing acting down as well. Dev is an impecable actor, and very cute as well.
Everyone should just shut up about race. Be it fans or Hollywood. Why does it matter whyat color someone is??????????????????
April 26, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Sun warriors are from ancient Middle America. Mix of Aztec/Maya/Inca nations.
April 26, 2010 at 4:39 pm |
Dude, they’re not based on races, they’re based on cultures. And the cultural elements are still there.
April 26, 2010 at 6:55 pm
I have never loved anybody as much as I love you right now.
April 26, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Um… thank you?
April 26, 2010 at 8:49 pm
You’re veru right. And the culture IS there. Leave the actor and Racebending out of it. I’d love to shut down Racebending.com if they make ONE MORE snobby comment about Noah, or Dev being from Asia, but the WRONG PART!? What’s wrong with them, really?
April 26, 2010 at 9:09 pm
i love you aswell :]
April 26, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Such a short post… yet so much wisdom in so few words. Thank you o_o
April 26, 2010 at 11:12 pm
*claps* Thankyou, someone else finally gets it. You my friend have restored some of my recently lost faith in the Avatar Fanbase.
April 27, 2010 at 1:26 am
Wow.
Where were you guys four YouTube videos ago.? Kidding, kidding.:P
April 27, 2010 at 3:46 am |
thanks. Yea, pretty much even though it’s not much a move, hopefully that message of people setting aside differences; to forget the whole flame wars that divides us fans, I hope it does at least something to unite the Avatar fans back together.
April 27, 2010 at 12:44 pm |
I’m SO sick and tired of this race-thing!
It’s a MOVIE for god’s sake! every single place someone starts the race-argue! here, youtube, imdb, facebook.. ¬¬
it’s effing tiring.. and won’t reach any point.
just limit to enjoy the trailer and discuss it and expres yourself about it
April 28, 2010 at 3:05 am |
yea, just like stated already:
Avatar fans are being separated by this two sides war; Which is why I wondered, haven’t we already learned from some of the television series’s morals, like on unity: to set their differences aside, not only just where they are from (like the bias Sokka used to have on all firebenders) but also beliefs differences in opinions and thought-differences.
in other words, people should respect other’s differences (which by the way doesn’t mean they agree) and just coincide in harmony.
April 27, 2010 at 1:50 pm |
Let’s stop complaining for what it could have been and start being thankful for what it is!
April 27, 2010 at 4:20 pm |
Yeah.
Let’s begin with this amazing preview, and how similar the design is. They COULD have screwed up the entire thing; this movie was INSPIRED by Airbender, not a COPPY of it, so imagine what they COULD’VE done? They’re sticking to the oringinal source as far as I can see, and what they’ve moved to the next two movies seems to be good choices. People complain about race, yet how would you feel if Aang was a girl and Katara a boy, Sokka took Momo’s place, Zuko was a commoner, and Suki was the moon spirit? I’ve seen this happen to adaptations before, so just imagine how faithful this is in comparason????????
I have high hopes for this movie that refuse to be dashed by others.
April 27, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Yeah, or a movie where a happy-go-lucky innocent hero was made into a skirt-chasing punk with anger issues, a prissy, super-intelligent heiress was turned into a gun slinging soldier-type with an itchy trigger finger, a legendary bandit and fighter was made into a simple con man who can’t fight, an ancient perverted old master was made into a middle aged guy who was less pervy than the supposed hero, and our lead villain who’s the personification of evil was made into someone who wanted revenge against the people who sealed him away and made him lose his youth when all he was trying to do was help, and two VERY important characters were missing…
Oh wait, we got that movie, didn’t we? Silly me.
April 27, 2010 at 9:58 pm
I know right?
See if this sounds familiar. Goku goes to high school and his like 18 not a kid.
Chi chi is a popular girl. Bulma has guns and her hair isn’t blue. Master Roshi lives in the midle of the city and is young and has hair and no goat tee and his not a pervert. Yancha is more like a surfer dude and can’t fight (no wolf fang fist). Krilin doesn’t exist. Picolo is not green and has no antennas. Mai is a shape shifter. the dragon is tiny. Goku’s kah-mei-ha-mei-ha looks like airbending. he doesn’t have a tail. His ape form is not a giant but more like bigfoot. There is no dinosaurs and no animal people and no flying cars (thus is not set in the dragon ball world but in our world).
The list goes on and on. And a aside from the names and dragon balls involved it doen’t share much else with the sourse material. If I gave you the plot of this and didn’t say any names would you have guessed it was Dragon Ball? don’t think so.
Now compare that to all that The last air bender is getting right.
So far we’ve seen:
-Bold 12 year old with an arrow on his head found in an iceberg after 100 years, that can control all the elements and save the world *check*.
-Brother And sister that find said boy and are helping him save the world *check*.
-Banished prince from an oppressing war wegging nation that is trying to capture this boy to restore his honor and whos uncle is the only real suporting family member he has *double check*
-Flying wingless 6 legged beast *check*.
You get my point.
what I mean is that right of the bat without knowing any names you knew I was talking about Avatar. Because this description Applies to the show and the movie identically.
April 28, 2010 at 12:54 am
LOOKS like airbending? They said outright that it IS airbending… which, as you know, is NOT what they use in that series.
In fact, they sorta tossed in elements from Naruto and Avatar as well, more likely than not to try to draw in their fanbases.
…goddang, I can go on for hours on that movie if you let me.
April 28, 2010 at 2:56 am
Also, the Northern Water Tribe place really captures the likes from the show too, especially at 0:49 or 0:50 for example. Also not only just the visuals but yea, knowing that they are sticking with the original story structure, sticking to that helps in making it a good adaptation.
I think usually, when the movie trailers are shown, many people out there were complaining so much about the cast/visuals so much, that they get blinded to not even see the other aspects, to not even consider the POSITIVE goods (Like Appa!! Finally we know know he would look in real-life form, yayeah). Not to say they don’t, but it’s for those who just like to focus only on the negatives.
Early at this point, months before the movie is out, complainers generally judge a book by its cover, when, really…. they need to go inside it, such as the story structure, acting and HOW they are all put together ( we will find out when we watch the movie itself). As what my instructor in animation class advised me, WRITING is the key and is MORE prioritized than just the visuals, which is why I’m super glad that they have the original’s story as a foundation/base!
April 28, 2010 at 12:32 pm |
As much as I like DBE your kinda wrong on your list there….bulma had gun in the anime…she used em ore in the film (in fact on first meet she tried to shoot goku), and no one has natural blue hair so they gave her brown hair with blue streaks….which was fine to me it made sense. Roshi Did like near a city but was on a connected isle on the outskirts….and had a few magazines. Remember in America in a PG film people will frown upon a man rubbing his face into tits all day. Piccolo was green and his psychic antennae were closer to his head. And with some film when you try to make it for a general audiene you cant add talking dinosaurs and shit….Avatar’s universe is different from our own…while believe it or not Dragonball universe kinda claims to be our own. Plus no matter what it’s impossible i stress it IMPOSSIBLE to make a perfect DB film. For general story line it was ok….still crap but ok….you cant possibly put everything in and what they did was fine…Goku trained with gohan, gohan died, goku met bulma for the balls, met roshi for training, met yamacha who was still a techno desert bandit, fought piccolo, summoned a dragon, turned into a monkey (ok…..yeti/werewolf/gorilla i dont care he transformed into something large and furry…) they tried.
April 30, 2010 at 12:02 am
Alright, since you brought it up, let’s tackle your points here.
Geeko, as I refuse to call him Goku, was a skirt chasing spoiled brat with anger issues. He was the virtual opposite of Goku. Everything about him was off.
Bulma had a gun in the series, (and I love when people try to pull that out, it’s so funny) which she fired… then got worried when she thought she killed Goku… then screamed and dropped when he got back up uninjured. FAR cry from swinging two guns around and acting like a chick out of a Terminator film or Lara Croft. Not to mention her motive got changed to some sort of honor quest, her intelligence was severely downplayed… and as for her hair, one single stripe won’t cut it. Highlights at least, but blue hair can work. Snow white hair isn’t exactly natural on a girl Yue’s age, but they’re doing it in this film, aren’t they?
Then we can move on to Roshi. No, they didn’t need to show a man rubbing his face in a woman’s bosoms (nice terminology use, btw) to show he’s perverted, but… that’s what Roshi did. See, he’s not a kid-friendly character, shows not really meant for kids below a certain age. But even then, let’s look at what he has, shall we: a swimsuit magazine hidden in a trunk covered with dust. Meaning it hasn’t been opened in a while. Meaning he hasn’t read it in a while either. Then when he catches Bulma after they fall, he realizes his hand is near her butt and gets embarrassed. Embarrassed when they find his mag too. That’s not Roshi, that’s more Yamcha. Roshi would be laughing.
Now let’s also look at Roshi’s backstory. Roshi was a 200 year old Master who was witness to Piccolo’s reign of destruction. He saw what he did and what he was capable of, saw his fellow students fall one by one and his master’s painful decision to give his life to seal this monster. This gives Roshi’s own sacrifice meaning and depth. However, in the film, Roshi is now a skeptic that Piccolo ever even existed, somehow trained a man older than he, and only used the Mafuba when he lost faith in his “chosen one”. Yeah, real deep.
Now as for Yamcha… Yamcha was never that stupid, man. And no, a Legendary Desert Bandit is NOT one who digs holes in the desert and waits for people to fall in so he can pull them out for cash. That’s a con man, and a lousy one at that.
Now on Chi-Chi, they took a strong, capable woman who was deeply in love with our rather oblivious protagonist, and they turned her into a spoiled rich girl who was so shallow that she mostly ignored Geeko until she saw he had powers. THEn she’s offering her BODY as a prize for him if he learns the freaking technique that he originally only needed ONE TRY to learn. (And it’s AIRBENDING now!
) In other words, she’s a sexist male fantasy.
Now onto Piccolo. Piccolo has been altered from the evil half of Kami (Yin and Yang, btw) into an alien who came to earth thousands of years ago, meets “the ancients”, disagrees with them on the development of humanity, then enacts near genocide to try to force some kind of result out of them. The Ancients then create seven Dragon balls for some reason, then never use them as they use the Mafuba to seal Piccolo away. (And die in the process, so how does anyone even know how to use the Balls?) Then Piccolo get out without us ever knowing how or why or what he wants to wish for or why Mai is his servant or why he can sense the Dragon Balls where they’re “supposed” to be even though they were moved there after he was sealed, yet he somehow cannot trace them once they’re moved…
Aside from the plot holes, we also have blatant slaps in the face. Such as Geeko looking right at a full moon, there’s a music shift as he stares right at it, you think something’s gonna happen, and… Nothing. He looks away and grins, and the music goes back to normal. Then we have the little motorized ten speed he’s riding that, if you look at the plates on the back, is called “Nimbus”… and the BIGGEST one is the Oozaru, which has gone from the transformation a Saiyan undergoes when exposed to a full moon to an ancient demon that inhabited Geeko and would emerge on his 18th birthday and serve Piccolo… which piccolo somehow knew would happen despite being sealed. Again. Wow.
And don’t give me any “universe” arguments. The universe of Avatar is no more or less like our world than the one in Dragon Ball, where there’s one giant super-continent, anthropomorphic animals, mecha… And when you combine all that with the director claiming he was more faithful to the manga than the anime, the writer calling the film’s decriers “a bunch of nerds”, the production basically telling us to be grateful they made it at all AND the actors and director slamming the source material itself and claiming they improved it… no. No, they did not try. THIS crew, THIS director, THIS movie is trying.
DBE was an insult, nothing more.
April 29, 2010 at 11:36 pm |
I agree with all you said to beardofpower (and also agree with his comments) below. It is very ignorant for fans to judge a book (or movie, in this case) by its cover (AKA judging a movie by the races of the actors than the quality of the acting/plot) and very stupid might I add. If they were really respectful fans of the show they would realize off the bat that the show itself had nohing to do with race and all to do with moral values, friendship, courage, betrayal, learning from past mistakes, romance, etc. The show NEVER DID say what ‘real-life’ races the characters are, and therefore the boycotters shouldn’t be assuming the characters to be one particular race. And also, the Avatar world is NOT our own, therefore meaning that there’s no Asia and no Asians (or Inuits/Native Americans). That world is divided between Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation and Air Nomads, not Europe, Asia, America, Australia, etc. I have gotten very mad at the rude things the boycotters have said about the actors (especially Nicola Peltz Jackson Rathbone and Noah Ringer, because they assume them to be (full) white). They do not realize (or do not want to acknowledge) that they’re being racist towards white people for saying mean stuff about these 3 particular actors in this film. They have this mentality: that by having these 3 actors in this film (and the people acting for the Northern Water Tribe, who are primarily played by white actors), that it is whitewashing the whole cast, which is definitely NOT true! The other nations have people played by actors of different ethnicites as well. They also seem to believe that since the Fire Nation is being played by Indian/Middle-Eastern people (or dark-skinned people, as THEY call them) they think this movie will be a ‘white is good and dark is evil’ type of movie. They need to accept the fact that the casting people picked the right Zuko without ANY casting discrimination (who is Dev Patel and Indian-British) for the job, and that the rest of the Fire Nation must look similar to him in many aspects, appearance-wise. This is also true for the other 3 main actors, they were also chosen without racial biase and instead chosen for how well their acting was.
April 27, 2010 at 6:20 pm |
this trailer answered two of my big questions. First, this version of the avatar universe will not feature crossed animals (no comodo rinos, only comodo dragons in trailer). Second, Iroh can infact create his own fire and with his fricken fists too!!!
April 27, 2010 at 11:58 pm |
i bet you its a komodo rhino, just no horn LOL. IM HOPING D; but if not, its all good cause the komodo dragon looks sick.
April 28, 2010 at 12:05 am |
*Ahem* what about the flying bison and flying lemur.
April 27, 2010 at 10:07 pm |
This makes Iroh ever MORE epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cannot wait to see what he has to teach Zuko. Oh, can;t wait for the lightning thing!
April 28, 2010 at 12:58 am |
Amazingly, I thought Iroh being more Epic was impossible. Glad to know I was wrong.
April 28, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Imagine though that people are COMPLAINING that only the more powerful firebenders can make their own fire? COME ON! Its only fair to the other Nations, right? And people like Oazi, Azula, and Iroh will be even more powerful because of this. Perhaps Zuko will one day follow!
April 28, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Can you imagine, Zuko and Aang on the third movie learning how to make their own fire from the sun warriors. how cool would that be.
April 28, 2010 at 3:00 pm |
YES, YES, YES x a thousand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its brilliant and i dont know if i can wait to see the movie soooooo stoked and this is really strange bc i have never been this way over anything!!
April 29, 2010 at 7:45 pm |
@ apjgraphix i hope ur right about aang and zuko learning to make their own fire from sun warriors.. it would be fitting as the sun would be a source of fire strong enough that they wouldn’t need to ‘ literally draw fire’ from it but draw its power to make fire.. i hope azula can make her own fire too or else she would be carrying around a stove/oven everywhere for her blue fire.. as well as combustion man, how the heck would he be able to use a source of fire to do what he does. i hope they don’t drop the character completely from being hard to explain his way of bending
April 29, 2010 at 10:53 pm |
I think if any Character is going to make it into the third one is combustion men. they might reduce him to a couple of scenes of him stalking team avatar and like a big fight towards the half way point of the movie. and Azula I think she will be able to create her own fire. On season two of the show they made very obvious that Azula was a more skillful bender than Zuko. A way they might convey this notion in the film is by giving her the ability to create fire and Zuko having to use a source. Also she better, cause she also needs to create lightning, remember?
April 29, 2010 at 11:13 pm |
I hope Azula and Combustion man can create their own too, or else they might have to through the trouble of “wait for me guys, let me start my fire first!” Katara says “ok, continue.” Fire lights up, and Katara swishes water over the fire, and repeat.
So yea, definitely Azula and other powerful peps most likely might create their own fire (makes them more threatening that way).
May 1, 2010 at 7:42 pm |
Yes, I think that to emphasize how these generals and masters really ARE on a much higher level than other firebenders, they will be able to create their own fire. After all, it would seem to a firebender that learning to create your own fire would be an achievement worthy of the title of master, given the circumstances. It is because of this I feel that it would be neat if Zuko couldn’t yet create his own fire, whereas Azula, Iroh, and General Zhao (pardon my spelling) could. This would still help portray him as one who still has much to learn in his lifetime.
May 1, 2010 at 9:37 pm
I agree! And people complained about that?? lol!
May 2, 2010 at 11:48 am
Yup agree here. Also complementary with that concept (that Zuko has much to learn), the movie can use Iroh’s quote:
“Power comes from the breath. Not the muscles. The breath becomes energy in the body. The energy extends past your limbs and becomes fire.” (Iroh in episode 1)
Iroh’s quote from above paragraph can be applied to the concept of creating fire from within, for the movie-verse. Which will definitely show the awesomeness of Iroh, Azula, and Sparky-Sparky-Boom-man’s epic-ness has.
May 25, 2010 at 8:43 pm |
cool story bro