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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Colonol Dekker on August 08, 2010, 08:34:33 am
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Just saw a tv ad. I'm completely unfamiliar with the story for the series. I know There's a giant six legged flying dog bear thing. Aside from that is it any good?
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I read a review about it last week. Bottomline is that if you're looking for something similar to Megan Fox, you should probably look somewhere else.
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the movie was OKish, there is lots so sloppy implementation, but most of it isn't bad enough to totally ruin the movie.
you should however watch the tv show as it's pure awesome wall to wall win.
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:ick:
It was soo sad... I had low expectations and it still was horrible.
They made so many unnecessary changes. Like names and fire-benders needing fire before they can bend, the lack of character development.
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Watch the cartoon series and give the movie a total pass. The movie was one of the worst I've seen... the sets were incredible and the visual effects were great but everything else fell flat completely. They don't even say the characters names correctly... Ten minutes spent watching the cartoon would have helped.
So just watch the cartoon. All three seasons are on DVD now in a pack.
Also ... I hear there is a new spin off series set 80 years later. The teaser art looks cool!
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the sets were incredible and the visual effects were great...
This is true
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the sets were incredible and the visual effects were great but everything else fell flat completely.
Sounds a lot like the other Avatar movie.....
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You don't understand. It was an abominable adaptation. Kinda like Starship Troopers, but less entertaining in its own right.
Watch the TV series, it's awesome. Skip the movie, it sucks.
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Everyone i've seen blasting it is basing that off of the series. I never watched that and have no desire to (i have seen an episode or two and was not really impressed). How is the movie as a STAND-ALONE?
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Everyone i've seen blasting it is basing that off of the series. I never watched that and have no desire to (i have seen an episode or two and was not really impressed). How is the movie as a STAND-ALONE?
Awful. Godawful. Arguably one of the worst movies of the decade.
Rottentomatoes consensus is less than 10%.
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Everyone i've seen blasting it is basing that off of the series. I never watched that and have no desire to (i have seen an episode or two and was not really impressed). How is the movie as a STAND-ALONE?
Nah, see, you don't get it at all. The movie is bull**** from beginning to end. We're blasting it in comparison to the cartoon because the cartoon is a better use of your time. If you watch the first Agni Kai in the series repeated for the same length as you'd spend watching the movie, you'd still enjoy the Agni Kai more.
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Also ... I hear there is a new spin off series set 80 years later. The teaser art looks cool!
It's just a mini-series. Only gonna be something like 12 episodes long.
Still looks like it'll be good though.
As for the movie, it did some things right: the fights looked awesome for the most part, although there was a lot of unnecessary movement (whirling arms around and spinning just to levitate a rock in the air), where in the series each single movement generally corresponded with some act of bending. The special effects were amazing too. I was wondering if they were just gonna try to ignore Appa somehow, but they went ahead and animated him! It didn't look half-bad either. I also thought the recreation of the series opening was pretty cool (the four different Benders against a red background).
However, the story fell flat on its face. Most of the characterizations were wrong in some way, the acting was just bad, the name pronunciations were bizarre, and they made a bunch of weird changes (the Avatar not allowed to have a family? WTF? And what was with Roku's dragon being Aang's spirit guide, rather than Roku himself?). And the Earthbender prison camp was just... the way it was handled was just stupid. Really stupid.
Which is really a shame, because if you look at the tiny details of the movie it is obvious the director was very familiar with the source material... it wasn't that he didn't understand the series. He knew it pretty well. So why did he change so much?
To clarify: I'm not bashing the changes for the sake of being changes. The changes I'm mad at were ones that were detrimental to the story (IMO). Some were beneficial: the Firebenders needing a source of fire makes a certain amount of sense, and was handled well for the most part, and the change in Sozin's Comet from "the end of summer" to "three years away" makes a lot more sense given that Aang needs to master three whole elements before it arrives (mastering them all in a couple of seasons, as was done in the series, is a little unbelievable to me).
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the sets were incredible and the visual effects were great but everything else fell flat completely.
Sounds a lot like the other Avatar movie.....
:lol:
But yes, Avatar:TLAB really is terrible, and it doesn't matter if you've seen the TV series or not. If you want to see an entertaining movie about kids with magical superpowers, watch Order of the Phoenix. At least the director of that film knows good cinema. :P
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I never watched that and have no desire to
well then I don't see why you would have any desire to see a half assed adaption of it.
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Everyone i've seen blasting it is basing that off of the series. I never watched that and have no desire to (i have seen an episode or two and was not really impressed). How is the movie as a STAND-ALONE?
Even if you ignore the series it's a horrible horrible movie that will make you cringe with the bad dialog, nonsensical plot development, etc. At least the plot sort of made sense because I had seen the series but anyone coming in from the outside would probably be confused.
If you didn't like the premise of the series then the movie is not going to make that part any better for you.
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You don't understand. It was an abominable adaptation. Kinda like Starship Troopers, but less entertaining in its own right.
Watch the TV series, it's awesome. Skip the movie, it sucks.
What was wrong with Starship troopers!?
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You don't understand. It was an abominable adaptation. Kinda like Starship Troopers, but less entertaining in its own right.
Watch the TV series, it's awesome. Skip the movie, it sucks.
What was wrong with Starship troopers!?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidNotDoTheResearch (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidNotDoTheResearch)
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It's less what's wrong with it [Starship Troopers] as a movie with its own merits, and more about how much of a Godawful piece of **** it was when evaluated as an adaptation.
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Basically, nobody read the book.
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they aren't saying it's a bad movie, they are saying it's a bad adaption.
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Yeah. The first Starship Troopers movie is actually a decent action flick if you've never read the book. If you have read the book, it is one giant facepalm as you realize they probably had a script already written and just slapped the Starship Troopers name on it for the IP exploitation.
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they aren't saying it's a bad movie, they are saying it's a bad adaption.
Oh I dunno, there's plenty wrong with the movie even as an action flick. It's not quite Batman and Robin, but it's probably at least a Batman Forever level of crappy.
as you realize they probably had a script already written and just slapped the Starship Troopers name on it for the IP exploitation.
They did.
It was called Bughunt.
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What was wrong with Starship troopers!?
James Cameron made it better and called it "Aliens". And that, BTW, is Cameron's own opinion as stated in the introduction of "Aliens - The Original Screenplay" (http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Complete-Illustrated-Screenplay/dp/0752831941/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281398480&sr=1-1) book. Thats all I'll say about that.
Me, I'm reserving judgement till i see the film. Waht I really wish that Mako was still alive to play Iroh. That alone would make this movie awsome - he makes anything he's in awesome. Hell - he's the Saveing Grace of Pearl Harbour
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o play Iroh. That alone would make this movie awsome - he makes anything he's in awesome. Hell - he's the Saveing Grace of Pearl Harbour
There was a clip from the film up on youtube for a while. It wasn't as bad as everyone says it is, it was worse. The sort of thing that gets the MST treatment.
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the sets were incredible and the visual effects were great but everything else fell flat completely.
Sounds a lot like the other Avatar movie.....
Nah, It's not that bad, really.. Avatar (the blue one) was a rather standard story which was executed in a rather good way, although the focus was a tad too much on the graphics side. But I didn't notice any major 'film-breaking' flaws.
I get the feeling that all of James Cameron's movies are like that. The Abyss was also very cliché at the end which was a film-breaker for me - I watched the Director's Cut, the version with the Aliens), but the acting was awesome. I have never seen Titanic, but apperently, that is a cliché Romeo and Juliet story as well, executed in a rather good way, although the focus is a tad too much on drama.
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the sets were incredible and the visual effects were great but everything else fell flat completely.
Sounds a lot like the other Avatar movie.....
Nah, It's not that bad, really.. Avatar (the blue one) was a rather standard story which was executed in a rather good way, although the focus was a tad too much on the graphics side. But I didn't notice any major 'film-breaking' flaws.
I get the feeling that all of James Cameron's movies are like that. The Abyss was also very cliché at the end which was a film-breaker for me - I watched the Director's Cut, the version with the Aliens), but the acting was awesome. I have never seen Titanic, but apperently, that is a cliché Romeo and Juliet story as well, executed in a rather good way, although the focus is a tad too much on drama.
Pocahontas 2150 didn't have any flaws per se, it just didn't have anything remarkable either.
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the sets were incredible and the visual effects were great but everything else fell flat completely.
Sounds a lot like the other Avatar movie.....
Nah, It's not that bad, really.. Avatar (the blue one) was a rather standard story which was executed in a rather good way, although the focus was a tad too much on the graphics side. But I didn't notice any major 'film-breaking' flaws.
I get the feeling that all of James Cameron's movies are like that. The Abyss was also very cliché at the end which was a film-breaker for me - I watched the Director's Cut, the version with the Aliens), but the acting was awesome. I have never seen Titanic, but apperently, that is a cliché Romeo and Juliet story as well, executed in a rather good way, although the focus is a tad too much on drama.
Pocahontas 2150 didn't have any flaws per se, it just didn't have anything remarkable either.
I prefer the original film, that it was based on, "Dances With Smurfs."