*THE LAST AIRBENDER* caused me PHYSICAL PAIN
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Man, when is Natalia going to pull her weight on this channel. 2 strikes against her now. She's on her final warning 😄
OMG did you first your own video? Natalie you are the most lovable kind of dork. ❤️
STRANGER THINGS SEASON 4 :
Hopefully Dragon Ball Evolution is next. That is the worst one. Also Mortal Kombat Annihilation, a sequel to Mortal Kombat.
Congratulations! After suffering through this movie you are now officially a full-fledged avatar fan.
Now head on to Ba Sing Se and report to Lake Laogai for your final initiation. "... there is no live action Avatar in Ba Sing Se!" 😵💫
Multiple earthbenders: stomping and punching the air.
Single rock: lazily floats by
VS multiple earthbenders in the show taking out TANKS in less moves.
That never fails to make me laugh.
5 earthbenders in the show took out TANKS mind you.
As much as I hate the guy but when the NC reviewed that scene it made me laugh a bit
Was that scene in this reaction? I think i might have missed it
I think they were supposed to have made the wall that came up before that, but that just makes more issues--why was it edited so that it looks out of order? A single earthbender in the show could've done that by themselves and faster! How can Shyamalan sleep at night knowing this is his creation?!
I always get so amazed this movie managed to take everything from the animated show and fundamentally misunderstand everything about what made it so great.
It's a piece of art, but for all the wrong reasons.
The thing is M Night Shyamalan did this film because his kids were fan of the series so I have no idea how he messed up this badly when he could literally just ask his kids whether he was doing it right or not.
@@thepanpaladin1043 are you mentally slow or something? ask kids on advice for film production????
@@qefewfwdcwdc I'm unsure as to why you've decided to insult me but yes, when children are you're target audience you need to know whether or not what you're making will actually be liked by kids and seeing as avatar was a kids show and his kids were fans he could of at the bare minimum ask if he was getting the names right or if it was funny enough or exciting enough.
@@thepanpaladin1043 kids dont care about acting perfomance or special effects and costumes. GUESS WHAT the movie is shit because of what I mentioned.
As a kid, I remember I counted down from over 400 days for this movie. It was my first midnight premiere! I sat in that theater, so extremely excited with such high hopes. And when the movie ended, the entire theater stood up and booed. To this day, I've never experienced such unification in a crowd of strangers.
Well, if there's one surefire way to piss off everyone all at once, it's ruining something they all like. Hate! It brings us together....wait...
I don't get the hate for it personally.
@@passionsquietrageit’s pretty bad when you think about it. and pretty distasteful
@@judaihyugayour not exactly wrong…
@@passionsquietrage Even as just a movie on it's own, it's poorly acted, poorly written, poorly paced, and riddled with plot holes. The fact that Earthbender prison is in a place surrounded by earth alone is just the tip of the shitty iceberg. That it's meant to be an adaptation of one of the best animated series ever made only makes it worse as they failed to adapt even one character correctly. Nobody's personality is in tact and many of their defining character traits are completely abandoned.
Every time I revisit this movie I just gain more respect for whoever cut and edited the trailer, cause somehow they made it actually look decent
The studio is not the one that creates the trailer. Usually, the hire other company to make it.
I remember the Aang fire candle scence from the trailer. Was the coolest scene. AND its not even in the movie. lol
@@johntravis8894 dude! I know!
It actually was a decent movie though.
@@passionsquietrage Did you watch the series?
The scene where the group of earth benders move the rock is unintentionally one of the funniest things in modern film.
If it takes that many guys doing that much kung fu to move one rock, they should have just rushed them and used their kung fu or picked up the rocks and threw them
This actually is the only part of the movie I liked, because it made me laugh rather than sigh
I never noticed that until the Nostalgia Critic did an episode on this movie, now I can never un-see it lol
actually: they didn't move nothing, someone else moved the rock lmao
Correction. They moved it into place for another dude to do an entire different subset of moves to launch it.
Can we just appreciate the fact that they really found Aang, brought him back to their village, rescued him from the fire nation, and traveled with him all the way to the Southern Air Temple, all without knowing or asking him his name? How do you even carry on a conversation?
And have the audacity to mention his name in the monologue as they're flying towards the temple xD
Yeah forget that fact that the film does everything wrong to ATLA, as just a stand alone movie, it is extremely incompetent. What you pointed out is just one example
@@Spongebrain97 exactly and Natalie pointed out a lot of the others. From the "more Asian" way of pronouncing everything instead of using the established dialect, to the awkward dialogue delivery, the stiff acting, the bending feeling like it takes a whole kata from 12 people to move a 10 lb rock at 2 mph. I don't understand why they didn't keep bending as an extension of their limbs and have any scale or power to 99% of the attacks in the movie. They managed to get almost every character's personality wrong from Sokka and Aang's immaturity and playfulness. Iroh's jolly old man that loves tea and deals with things very passively.. They made all the characters dark and broody with no stakes and no individual personalities
"Hey, buddy, get your ass over here!"
"Yo, pa! Which way?"
"Jeez, fella, lay off with the airbending already, will ya?"
Entirely doable. If you really don't give a crap about the guy and just want to get the whole trip over with.
Who's Aang? Don't you mean "Ong?"
😉
This entire movie was like watching a twisted version of the play in The Ember Island Players.
And just a fun fact, there's a clip where Shyamalan was asked what went wrong with the movie. He said,"I really don't know. I thought it was wonderful."
Not kidding.
How does someone manage to direct Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, and then think this is fine? I get not being good at some genres, but this movie has some problems of just basic competence.
At least The Ember Island Players was entertaining
I don't seem to get the idea that someone who has made so many good movies, and a few absolutely great ones, can see this as a great movie. It was so clunky, nothing fit together, basic stuff that any passable editor and director can avoid. Maybe if they had made the soundtrack to fill in those gaps with emotional music, it might have helped, but the pauses were just there for no reason.
Ember*
Stop insulting ember island players
My main issue with the movie is the bending. In the animated show the elements moved with the person. Every movement seemed to have a purpose and the elements responded to it. Like you could see the cause and effect. In the movie they just pull off a dance routine then the element does its thing. Not only does it make the fights ridiculously slow paced but it just looks comical.
My fav bending moments:
-Katara and Aang (Ohng) clearly supposed to be water bending in the North Pole, but they never actually move a single bit of water so they’re just waving their arms about in silence
-6 earthbenders doing a synchronised attack only for a single rock to slowly move across the screen
-‘HES BURNING HIS OWN CHI!’
THAT'S the main issue?
@@brandonwei2430 Exciting fight sequences can make even the worst crap enjoyable. So yeah.
I would say the main issue is the dialogue for me. But ya, the fight scenes are equally as important as the dialogue in Avatar so I get where you’re coming from
Every single moment in this movie fails to land. It's... almost impressive.
Yeah, even going into it knowing it's going to be horrible does not prepare you for exactly how horrible it is. This was a professional, high-budget movie written, directed and produced by a professional of some renown, and based on a phenomenal animated series. How is it possible for it to be this bad in every single way? It boggles the mind. Granted, I think Shyamalan is overrated, and that most of his stuff is pretty lame, but this was so much worse. To call this a dumpster fire is to unfairly malign burning garbage.
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"Amazing. Everything you did with that movie was wrong".
@@stuffyouotterlistento1461 Like with those things you listed a person would think at least some parts of the movie wouldn't be.. this. but somehow it is.. this? it doesn't make sense 🤣🤣
You're... *stares.... right.
I mean... I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have succeeded that much if they tried to do it on purpose... ^^'
When Zuko said “for a moment I had my honor back.” It really reminded me of the play from the cartoon show with the island actors. “What’s that over there? I think it’s your honor.”-Azula😂
It still amazes me that the Ember Island Players was a much better adaptation of the show than this movie. This movie is such a bad adaptation it can't even pass as an adaption to the Ember Island Players episode 🤣
@@santosic The effects weren't even decent.
🔥🔥🔥"HONOR!!!!"🔥🔥🔥
@@santosic yeah i agree i guess the ember island players is better than live action version
The Ember Island Players episode was actually making fun of this movie as well as being a nice recap before the finale
The only joy I get from this film is watching others suffer the same way that I did 😂
23:13 That super-awkward "Yes." was the moment that I walked out of the theater. I've walked out of a movie maybe twice in my life. I just couldn't take it anymore. I had reached my limit and I was just done.
The worst part though was that I was with a group of friends. But I was so disgusted as a fan that I didn't even say anything to anyone. They thought I had just gone to the bathroom, but I never came back XD (I apologized to them the next day though)
What was the other movie you walked out?
@@WhatAboutUs522 I don't remember clearly. I just seem to recall doing it once before that. Though I might just be thinking of seeing Jurassic Park in theaters when I was 10 years old. It was too scary for me XD. Though my mom was with me, which meant that she had to walk out too lol.
@@serelryk5365 lol thanks
You made it that far...wow
That's what made you walk out? I didn't see this in theater but Nickelodeon aired it...a lot and I stopped watching the minute White-Katara said "Ah-vatar" instead of how the hell it's supposed to be said -_-
I'll never forget seeing this movie in the theater. After LITERALLY the very first line of dialog, my husband and I just both looked at each other, horrified, and asked "Do you want to leave?" But we decided to stay, lol.
i watched it with a friend in the theater to help her out of a bad time....... well, we both remember the experience thats for sure
My favorite fan theory is that this movie is actually a live-action adaptation of the Ember Island Players episode and that is all.
My friends and I did a double feature with Toy Story 3. That movie was great and made me cry. And I turned to my friends, none of whom were Avatar fans, and said “yeah that was great but this will be better.” Never been more wrong in my life
@@gutscross9706 I'm guessing her bad time became worse after watching the movie?
I was pissed after the first line but petty because I paid for the tickets.
She has finally gone through the rite of passage of all fans and it was gloriously enjoyable to watch
It's necessary rite of passage in order to truly appreciate just how amazing the show is; every second of this movie makes you wish you were watching the animated version instead.
Jeebus. I haven't watched it yet. I plan to, but now right now lol.
"That was... really bad."
"But the effects were decent!"
Avatar, predicting the reaction to this movie about 10 yearsbefore it aired.
That episode was actually 2 years before the movie.
@@ZukoHalliwellTime is warped and space is bendable
I love how in one scene they try to keep the Firelords face hidden and be all mysterious but a couple of scenes before we saw him clear as day. They also couldn't have cast a less intimidating actor for him. Mark Hamills voice nailed it and even if he didn't look too intimidating the way his lines were delivered was just awesome.
People usually mention that it's a relief they didn't do book 2 because they would've also ruined Toph, but could you imagine what would happen if they tried to recreate the Leaves from The Vine moment???
Oh dear lord no. *insert please god no moment from The Office here*
With all respect, are you kidding? Leaves from the vine is character development, an emotional scene with nuance and pathos. Shamylan would have left it to die on the cutting room floor, if he bothered with it at all.
@@dubyadrake You're totally right. If people asked him why it wasn't on the "book 2 movie", he would probably not even know what people are talking about
I doubt anything from Tales of Ba Sing Se would've made it into the second movie. That whole episode would have been skipped. No cool fight scenes to butcher with mediocre special effects.
i dont think they could continue the movies because of the change they made to fire bending. it breaks the story.
It's actually impressive how this movie is all exposition yet leaves everyone more confused
The thing I always say when thinking about how this movie is rated is to try to imagine what it was like going to this movie opening day back in 2010.
All of my nerdy college friends and I went to go see this movie opening day, 20 of us in total, because we were such big fans it'd been just over two years since the release of the last episode.
Sitting there and seeing the intro bending got a rousing cheer from the audience, a packed theater...and then the narration hit. Now: no fault or hate towards the actress, and in full knowledge that the series does have Katara fully narrate an opening sequence, but how they were doing it quickly made the audience fall quiet. And from the moment we realized Sokka was going to be dour the entire movie, that's when we realized we thought we knew how bad the movie was going to be.
And we were wrong. It was so much worse.
There were the occasional chuckle or clap, but otherwise the theater was quiet with the sound of depressed boredom and disappointment.
Outside, we were immediately making Ember Island Player jokes and ripping the movie to shreds, and getting home we stayed up and watched the first 4 episodes again, to clean the slate of that movie. Over that weekend, the nerdy corners of the internet lit up with dire warnings and analysis of why the movie was so bad. It was a more enjoyable time critiquing the movie than watching it.
"but the effects were decent"
It wasn't actually that bad though, it was decent at best.
The Last Airbender was a huge thing in me house. My kids Loved it. So much so. That I, my Mom (Grandma) and even my brother (uncle) all watched with them. We watched every episode and caught up with the ones we missed. We were glued to the TV for the Finale. So Awesome.
Then the movie came out. So disappointing for all of us.
The most enjoyment I can get from this movie is when I can show it to other fans of the show and watch them quickly get that “what the hell am I watching?” face.
Every fan of the original show has to watch this trainwreck at some point, it's like a rite of passage so we can all share in the disappointment
@@christianwise637 Afterwards we all go to Lake Laogai for the final initiation "...there is no live action movie in Ba Sing Se"!
@@christianwise637 No
I too love watching people die inside...
its so funny I love the WHY
For Iroh, who has been to the spirit world, to say "wow to meet a spirit would be a great honor," it hurts
Maybe Iroh hadn't yet been to the spirit world.
@@passionsquietrageyeah wait a minute since when did Iroh visit the spirit world before the end of Atla?
@@lordmonocr6206 I don't know, I was just making a suggestion. Perhaps in the movie's timeline, he hadn't been to the spirit world yet.
@lordmonocr6206 before the series began
@@lordmonocr6206 When his son Lu Ten died he goes to the spirit world to find a way to get him back, instead he comes back healed from his trauma, a changed man, which is what everyone means when they say “he had a complicated past”
Iroh wasn’t always the tea loving zen dude we know in the show.
He was once a formidable general of the fire nation, like a smart Zhao. He found his compassion after going to the spirit world and connecting with the spirits, which is why he could see Aang on Rokus dragon during the Hei Bai episode, and notice Yue was touched by the moon spirit. Irohs history is very interesting
I've watched multiple reactions to this atrocity, but it's just now that I realised that in this film, it's Sokka who attacks the ice to release the orb with Aang in it. Rather than Katara.
I've never seen anyone react so calmly to this movie before.
omg no Natalie whoever told you to watch this movie wanted to torture you i feel so bad for you
haha I mean it was for a punishment!
@@sebastianevangelista4921 Vampire's Kiss would be good too
@@sebastianevangelista4921 Oh, yes! Face/Off and Willy's Wonderland would be fantastic!
@@sebastianevangelista4921 I take issue with that. Face/Off is NOT a bad movie. It is a MEGA movie!
@Natalie Gold You should watch Troll 2 next for this series of bad movies. It's one of the greatest bad movies ever.
My favorite thing about reactors new to Avatar: The Last Airbender is watching their surprise at just how wonderful a show it is, and fall in love with it.
My second most favorite thing is the evil glee at ‘how bad could the movie be?’ and watching them find out
Calm down, Satan...
Cool fun fact: the actress portraying the Northern Water Tribe's Princess Yue is also the voice of a main, reoccurring character in all four seasons of The Legend of Korra. I still highly recommend you eventually watch that.
16:47 was literally: ma nam is ong, end am di ovoter. *Katara runs for no reason and pushes some fire solider* LEAF HEEM ALON😡
It’s almost like Shmyamlaman looked at Book 1 and thought “No way we’ll be able to fit all that in one movie! Let’s just pick about 5 episodes to build a script from.” But then they wrote the script and realized it was barely an hour, and instead of making any attempt to rewrite it they just drew out every single scene in whatever ways they could.
100%
You're not alone Nat, this movie caused all of us physical pain
Trauma
There is no live action movie in Ba Sing Se. Here we are safe. Here we are free.
@@adrianjamesdelfin7414 Dai Lee, arrest M. Night Shyamalan, I want him tried, for crimes against the avatar franchise
Iroh in the show: Whatever you do to that spirit, I will unleash upon you tenfold!!
Iroh in the movie: Zhao.. Don't
My favorite thing in this movie is watching the extras while the benders are winding up whatever attack they're attempting. They genuinely look like video game enemies just repeating their animation in place until the character knocks them over. 🤣
Now hopefully Natalie will watch Korra. A true palate cleanser after this movie lol.
Agreed. The series was always overhated and while it's not perfect (especially S2) I really enjoyed it. The animation is also very beautiful
@@tripled2505 yeah. Season 1 was dope, Season 2 was aight, then Season 3 was f’n sick.
@@tripled2505 omg yes! it was amazing. i never understood why it got so much slack
Yes, she may like that some of the old crew will be in...
I literally came to the comments to recommend Legend of Korra as a palate cleaner. I've been looking forward to it since she finished Avatar.
Out of everything I regret in my life, nothing will ever compete to watching this in the midnight release in full zuko cosplay. I have have never experienced a quieter exit at an end of a film. I didn't even bother waiting for pics and stuff. Everyone just hurried out.
I feel for you
That’s so awkward… hopefully you had fun doing the cosplay tho
Lmaooooo that’s so awkward. I’m sorry you experienced that
Hopefully you at least got the scar on the right side? 😆
Ouch.
I respect that she was trying her best to be open to this movie
I learned very recently that Jesse McCartney was originally cast as Zuko, before he was recast due to a massive amount of backlash. It, in fact, could have been worse.
holy shit thats the funniest thing ive ever heard.
This is a great example of how actors are really just hostage to the director and editor's talent (or lack thereof), really makes you appreciate how impossibly hard film making is.
Imagine being the studio people and seeing this sh*tshow form slowly over months and months with no choice but to release it...
This movie is incredible! And by that I mean that it's incredible that somehow, they managed to get EVERY single decision wrong. You'd think that somewhere along the way they'd accidentally make a right choice but, no.
I've never understood what's so bad about the movie. The story was good, the acting was solid for the most part, and the visuals looked great. Pronunciation was the only issue I saw.
@passionsquietrage3617 acting wasn't very good lol you're crazy 😂
@@passionsquietragedid we watch the same movie? The dialogue was stilted, delivered without emotion, over expository, and just awkward and the bending scenes were slow, awkward, and poorly choreographed
@@ivybennett2274 Idk what stilted means, but I do know that not every sentence needs to be delivered with emotion. What's wrong with over expository dialogue if dialogue is a way of showing things. They had to slow down the bending scenes to make them easier to see on screen. But yes, the choreography could have been slightly better.
@@passionsquietrage the bending didn't need to be slow to see, it loses all impact and beauty from the show. And by stilted I mean that every line feels like it's being read off a teleprompter, like no one actually KNEW their lines. Someone says something, there's an awkward pause, someone says something else, there's an awkward pause. The story was all exposition and no emotion. Nobody felt anything. And no characters actually had motivation to do what they were doing. This is highschool play level acting.
And none of this touches on how much contempt it holds for the source material. Taking away every likeable characteristic from every character. Sokka isn't funny or smart, katara isn't motherly or overbearing, aang isn't playful or whimsical, zuko isn't angry or brooding, iroh isn't happy or wise.
This movie is bad writing, performed badly, then layered with bad CGI (even for the time) there's a reason almost nobody likes this movie. It takes one of the greatest stories of our generation and somehow sucks all life and love out of it
Geez Natalie is so nice even when describing her idea for watching bad movies she says it so nicely and positive
This movie feels like you're sitting in a house of a random family you don't know and you're just watching them go about their boring lives but it's awkward because you know you're not even supposed to be there.
I remember as a kid I was so hyped for this movie. My dad was open to taking me to see it cause he knew how excited I was. Even spent the money to get us 4D tickets which was a new idea at the time. btw, in 4D during scenes with water, literally felt like they were spraying the back of your leg with windex. Starting off with the names I was upset but thought “eh, things could be worse”. Oh boy was I right. My favorite show of all time subjugated to this. It was so clear nobody involved ever saw the show. It was the one and only time I watched the full movie and never will I again. Let’s pray these coming up ATLA projects, live action and animated, are not like this. Thankfully they have the og creators behind them tho.
I watched this whole series with my son, enjoyed it and we went to see it on opening day. I'm right there with you.
I heard they bailed
@@kingjellybean9795 I think they did at least from the live action show because of ‘creative differences’ so that doesn’t give me lots of hope
@@emmetthowell899 that's what I'm saying. The news of them dipping out is old too. I doubt it'll even happen at this point.
same my sister and i convinced my stepdad to take us opening day. After the movie we walk out and he's like "that was kinda good". we were both so mad we didn't talk on the way home.
You're a brave soul, Natalie.
Yooo did not expect to see you guys here. Can we expect a collab in the future? 👀
The Homies, YOOOOOO!
Yow! I'm a subscriber to the both of your channels! 😁
It’s not even bad *butt that Iroh was “making fire out of nothing” 😭😭 like in the show, they already 𝒄𝒂𝒏 bend fire out of nothing. That’s part of what made them so powerful, because they didn’t need fire around them like earth benders need earth or water benders need water in order to bend. This movie was just like, “nah, I’ll make them way less intimidating” 🗿😭
This movie caused me so much emotional pain I remember watching it theaters. 12 year old me was disappointed 😂
We need more “bad” movies with these funny edits lol. And hearing her say fish daddy was a mental flash bang 😂
Fun fact, the actress for Yue in this plays Asami in Legend of Korra, and she's like my favorite LoK character lol. I think she redeemed herself
But not... Everything else
I just growled out loud through gritted teeth when he introduced himself as “eero.” Christ, I forgot how much I abhored this movie.
And Ong and Sohkuh
Ear-Oh
I really hope Netflix uses these actors in the 3rd season of the live action show. Just imagine them as the Ember Island Players!
Atleast there is The Legend of Korra, which i hope you get to soon!
i personally love that series so much like yes Last Airbender is iconic but i just cant describe how good korra is idc what people say its amazing
I still remember watching this in the movie theaters with my brother. It was so awkward and painful to watch but we were just hoping it would get better and never did. The end with that awkward smile from the sister. Nobody clap awkward silence. Everybody just walked out knowing we lost our money lol
Dang, wanted to see your reaction to the ridiculously pitiful rock chuck moment of the Earthbender scene. The one where a group of guys basically just dance and do nothing but pose and scream while another guy off camera lifts a rock in front of said camera and chucks it at someone.
Also, the way they decided to shoot the Fire Lord, feels completely backwards. His first scene is just him showing up out of nowhere yet later shots try to make him seem mysterious and imposing. Like...we already saw him just walking around like a regular guy...any mystery you try to set after that is kind of already out the window. XD
I've also heard that if you watch the movie at like 1.5 or 2 times speed it at least helps with the pacing of the fights.
Also, kind of glad you didn't point out the p*nis hair at 24:27 - 24:30. Honestly has been one of the few times I haven't seen it being pointed at. XD
the funniest moment is when katara just *pushes* that prison guard in the weakest way possible, then few seconds later 10 earthbenders be doing a whole 30 minute dance workout routine for a slow ass little rock 😂😂
There is a single line in the entire movie that I would consider good: When Zhao gives Iroh condolences on his nephew burning to death. It is officially so formal and proper, while obviously being venomous and unneccisarily cruel, and clearly shows that he wants to taunt Iroh and is arrogant enough to think he can get away with it. It actually reveals a lot about his character, or rather, his character in the TV Show, where he actually has a character. But still, it provides some character building that just doesn't exist anywhere else.
But there's also a problem with even that. Zhao actually respects Iroh!
Zuko and Iroh were the... well not "best" but "least likely to make me kill myself" parts of this movie. The race-swapping was odd (I don't really care much in this case since it's a fictional world so fictional tribes can be whatever, but still it's just... weird), but they had some recognizable traits which is more than I can say for literally anyone else.
I feel like Ozai's comment there was so flippant. Like "your nephew burned to death...sorry...anyway...".
I’m only 13 minutes into this and your facial expressions and your editor have made this movie so much better than the actual movie. This was truly something to behold lol
I love your reaction to everything. The only thing I'll mention is that when Aang switches from "I do, too," to "I still do," it's because in the first he's speaking as if he and Kiyoshi are separate people, and in the second he realizes that they are the same, so he still likes games, just as he did when he was Kiyoshi.
Not that that excuses the movie's horribly awkward dialogue in any way
Condolences for having to sit through this travesty
Natalie, didn't you notice in the series that fire benders always bended fire from nothing; but in this movie they need to draw the fire from a source.
The idea of Shiamalan watching Avatar and saying "yeah, I gotta fix that part. Doesn't make sense" feels so insulting.
It's not a bad idea in theory, pyro from X-Men has the same limitation, Gandalf says in the book that he can not burn snow. It was the execution. Rather than having them carry around something flammable that they can ignite, like gun powder or wood shavings or even matches, they carry around those big torches. They could have actually done something creative with that, but like everything else in this movie all that premise delivered was more mediocrity.
@@iainwhite8617 yeah, it honestly evens the playing field a bit.
@@androkguz Honestly, it made sense for Firebenders to have a source, as so do air, earth, and water benders need a source
@@DulceReposa superficial sense.
If you think about it, fire is the only element that appears and disappears. Old interpretations of this were that fire was always around you, just not ignited, or that fire is the only element linked to time in this way.
The lore of avatar tells us it's chi that's being ignited.
In any case, they are the weakest element and the one least in need of a nerf
Oh nooooo, why did you subject yourself to this abomination 😭😭
I was literally about to say that
She probs got dared to watch it 🥺
Its for the culture
It's the rite of passage. It's so we as fans can hate this movie together and to learn to appreciate the original more.
It’s a right of passage for all ATLA fans. We watch it, it brings us unspeakable pain, then we deny its very existence.
Thank you for voicing all the ridiculous things that we were all yelling about in the theater twelve years ago.
It’s like the actors forget their lines and wait for someone to whisper it for them behind the camera during the dialogue pauses 😂
Man, finding myself saying "oh, thank God Natalie interrupted the reaction with a commercial" is a new experience.
yep, that was the rearest, entreteinend, creative and funiest that she do🤣🤣
I think a dual watch of « Suicide Squad » and « _The_ Suicide Squad » would be a great experience. You could see how different two movies with the same base premise can be.
I second this
yes! absolutely
Catwoman also... unforgivable.
Aka a movie that was butchered by the studio vs. one that wasn’t.
Oh thats good
You should watch Around the World in 80 Days mini-series (1989) with Pierce Brosnan. It's great!
I always suffer with this movie because I really think the overall design is good (like Aang’s arrow is so gorgeous) but the script is so incredibly horrendous that is almost painful
I feel bad for the people who worked on the sets and costumes, they were the only things that felt right
Actually yeah, like the movie LOOKS good and accurate, but everything else is so off
Except for the fire nation costumes
Here's my theory on M. Night: He's at his best with small casts in mundane domestic, or isolated settings. His characters are always deadpan, and in a slow-burn thriller/drama it works. The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, Split, even The Village - the characters don't know how to react to their situations, so their emotions are very restrained. That does NOT work with epic fantasy. He was about the worst choice to direct this disaster. I don't know how anyone could look at the filming dailies and think they could be salvaged. The only redeeming quality it has is the soundtrack - I have a theory that James Newton Howard was actually inspired by the show when he wrote these themes, because they are beautiful.
This movie is the definition of "snatching defeat out of the jaw of victory". They have good materials, a huge fanbase, 100 mil dollars, and this is the result. 😆
Nickelodeon actually announced a whole division called Avatar Studios which is being led by the original creators. They are planning 3 animated movies and a TV show. Meanwhile Netflix is also working on a live action adaptation of the series. Originally the creators were working with Netflix but due to creative disagreements they have left that project (Netflix is still making it and it is planned to be released, no official released date but filming for season 1 wrapped up this past June).
"Katara, do not hit that sphere!" is really a memorable line.
M. Night Shyamalan went full Tommy Wiseau with this movie
I don't think the Room is a good comparison. That's an ego driven pile of lunacy. The Last Airbender strikes me as someone taking on a project far beyond their means. Not just in terms of budget but also in terms of managerial and narrative scope. It reminds me more of the Amazon Wheel of Time show.
Nooooo.. The Room is a lot of things but boring is not one of them
This was actually painful to watch, but also cathartic bc I know everyone here will get it and be just as pained as I am
i love how during all this her dog is just trying to sleep there with her losing her shit. 🤣🤣
To talk about the future of this series, there are 3 animated theatrical films planned. The first one will follow Aang, Katara, Zuko and Sokka as young adults and is set to release in 2024. Netflix also has a live action TV show with a massive budget that's set to release it's first season of 8 episodes early next year. So, you might have something to react to sooner than you think :p
Netflix terrible track record with live action adaptions and the fact ATLA creators left the project because of disagreements make it so I and most people believe it's gonna be a shit show. But who knows, maybe we would be happily surprised.
@@Ash16180 They left because they got the opportunity to create Avatar Studios tbf, Netflix couldn't really compete with that offer (well, they probably could have but they probably didn't want to commit that much money to it before they had even released their first Avatar thing ^^)
@@Wolfer1OOO exactly^^
I have no hope for the Netflix show because Bryan and Mike left the production very early on
This film is the embodiment of ‘we’ll fix it in post’. But forgot the crucial step of doing anything in post to actually make it worth watching.
The worst part for me is they totally changed and butchered the scene where Zuko runs off with Aang into the wasteland without a plan and almost dies, but gets saved by Aang because Aang is a good person.
I’m sorry, but your editor is the real MVP this time 😂😂😂 these cuts have me actually bursting out loud in laughter
“Are you the AW-VUH-TAR ONNG” Lmao
Theres a scene in the very beginning after the opening monologue that says it all. Its an over head shot of the snow, Katara and Sokka are walking through it. You can tell no one cared about resetting the snow to make it look fresh, like they're walking through it for the first time. I can see the exact poing the ditector said "cut! Ok, 1 more for safety"
32:26 The actress for Katara had an expression of complete indifference to finding Aang lol...like deadass, she got a stone faced expression. She's supposed to be relieved and happy to have found him, right?
It’s a Shyamalan movie. He does NOT know how to direct emotion so he gets all the actors and actresses to give the same deadpan expressions for 95% of the time.
For movies that are his original creation, it can work (not always, very rarely nowadays), since it kinda ads a distinct style to the weird nature of a lot of them. But for something like this, it’s an awful mix.
“My grandmother will ask you a lot of questions.”
I actually like that line delivery.
You shared your pain with us on this movie Nat 😄 Ridley's comment " I've awoken to the pitch of my people" OMG!! You guys are so good 🤣
Hadn't watched it before, will never watch it again. Thanks Nat 😂💛
Yes please never do that 🤣
I *live* for these reactions. The shellshocked surprise and disappointment brings me sick joy 😂😂
I can't believe how hard this is to watch even as a reaction
even tho i cant watch you (or anyone) watch this, i still gave a thumbs up for your pain. youre so brave Natalie!
It's always so nice having 8 episodes worth of story crammed into like 80 minutes of film
21 episodes actually, lol
just wondering, do you plan on watching Legend of Korra? :) if you don’t know, it’s about the next Avatar after Aang
Thank you, Nat. You helped me in my healing process. This movie scarred my soul!
The way you do your sponsors is so great. Usually I’d skip past them for other videos but yours are just so funny I have to stay to see what happens 🤣🥰
WOW even watching Nat watch this movie still hurt my soul.
I'm so old now I remember when we thought M. Night Shyamalan was a promising director.
Ego is destructive
HAHAHAHA despite how offensively awful it is this movie actually has such a nice fond place in my heart for the theatre experience alone. I got to experience a real live action version of essentially a MST3K type thing. The theatre was packed full of patrons who just riffed loudly the entire time. One of my favourite movie theatre experiences of all time.
They should have just made the animated series into a feature length movie. It would have been incredible on the big screen.
You need to 100 percent watch Legend of Korra as a palate cleanser after this.
The only good thing we got from this movie is that this is how the show producers found the voice actress for Asami, one of the main characters in the sequel series, Legend of Korra. She plays Princess Yue in this movie!
For me the bit that gets me is Iroh going "Commander Zhao, don't." In the cartoon, Iroh gets properly pissed off. He's warned Zhao several times not to fuck with the spirits and then he says something like "Whatever you do to them, I'll do to you tenfold." It's a great moment that shows just how wise and powerful Iroh is, and they just completely removed it.
my friends and i went to go watch this movie in 3d when it came out. one of them had just gotten their car, we were so excited. When it was over, we spent a minute to recover and never spoke of it again. Watching you watch it, brought back the trauma.
I gotta say I actually like the "I do too... I mean, I still do" line. Its about Aang referring to Kioshi as a distinct, separate person then realizing and rephrasing it to properly reflect his belief in reincarnation. Just a nice little touch to shed light on Aang's beliefs. Or maybe the rest of the movie made something competent seem clever.
Yeah, that's a line I could see making it into the show.
They could've made Aang say "I did...I mean, I still do" to make it seem more "yes, I should correct the way I phrased it"
The problem with that line is "I do too" is not past tense. There wasn't any reason to correct himself. If he had said "I did too" it'd be a completely different story.
I just sort of assume the kid just forgot what he was supposed to say because they were only allowed to read their scripts once and then Shamuonmylawn was like "Brilliant!" and just left it in the movie.
One of The Moments every fan of ATLA waits for when watching reactions. The joy of watching someone fall in love with the show and the joy of watching someone die a little when watching the "film"?
I watched that video with such a topic for five minutes without feeling any pain, you are amazing! :D