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I watched this piece of shit tonight. Joe, Valerie and I listen to a podcast called How Did This Get Made, and we’re currently working out way through a number of movies which have been featured just so we can hear the hosts discuss their awfulness. Tonight’s feature: The Last Airbender. I had read reviews and heard secondhand how awful this movie was, as it certainly isn’t new anymore (released two years ago). I hadn’t really had the urge to see it, despite being impressed by the initial trailer, because I wasn’t ga-ga over the animated series. I watched some of the first season, and actually really enjoyed it — cartoony, adventurous with decent animation and fun characters. The action was creative and the overall plot seemed to have a lot of time and thought invested into it. But I just never really delved deep, and therefore wrote the movie off. I wish I had maintained that mindset. The Last Airbender is one of the most fucking BORING fantasy adventure movies I have ever viewed. And not just boring because the action sequences are stunted, or that the dialogue is muted and lacking creativity, or that the actors and actresses seem to waltz around sets in a sense of general confusion, or that the majority of the neutered cartoon plot makes no sense and gives you no real feeling of tension or danger, or that there isn’t a shred of humor or glee found in a single frame of this movie. No, it’s boring because… Oh, wait, I guess it’s for all of that shit above.  This movie was bad. The kid playing Ang was awful, the characters were completely misrepresented and bore only a physical resemblance to their cartoon counterparts (and some only just), and the overall tone of the cartoon was thrown away with what seems to be another three hours of necessary footage which could have make the film seem at least a tiny bit cohesive. I had to keep telling Joe and Valerie that Ang, in the cartoon, wasn’t this awkward, lame character who looked as though he was going to cry every five minutes, or that Sokka wasn’t a stoic and quiet brother who seemed to have absolutely no emotion in regards to his sister, who was more often than not exasperated and physically exhausted from vomiting her lines out every 20 minutes. It was just bad. If I had never watched the cartoon, I would have been completely lost during the entire film — moreso than I already was. I won’t even touch on the odd racial switch-ups, as it’s been beaten to death, or the fact that this movie cost $150 million to make and grossed over $300 million worldwide and will probably get a sequel despite the fact that it is ranked at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ugh. It wasn’t even fun to watch for the sake of goofing on, because it’s so FUCKING BORING. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN MANIPULATE THE ELEMENTS, WHY AM I NOT RIVETED BY THESE FIGHT SCENES? But then we watched Cool As Ice starring Vanilla Ice, and I felt much better.

I watched this piece of shit tonight.

Joe, Valerie and I listen to a podcast called How Did This Get Made, and we’re currently working out way through a number of movies which have been featured just so we can hear the hosts discuss their awfulness. Tonight’s feature: The Last Airbender.

I had read reviews and heard secondhand how awful this movie was, as it certainly isn’t new anymore (released two years ago). I hadn’t really had the urge to see it, despite being impressed by the initial trailer, because I wasn’t ga-ga over the animated series. I watched some of the first season, and actually really enjoyed it — cartoony, adventurous with decent animation and fun characters. The action was creative and the overall plot seemed to have a lot of time and thought invested into it. But I just never really delved deep, and therefore wrote the movie off.

I wish I had maintained that mindset.

The Last Airbender is one of the most fucking BORING fantasy adventure movies I have ever viewed. And not just boring because the action sequences are stunted, or that the dialogue is muted and lacking creativity, or that the actors and actresses seem to waltz around sets in a sense of general confusion, or that the majority of the neutered cartoon plot makes no sense and gives you no real feeling of tension or danger, or that there isn’t a shred of humor or glee found in a single frame of this movie.

No, it’s boring because…

Oh, wait, I guess it’s for all of that shit above. 

This movie was bad. The kid playing Ang was awful, the characters were completely misrepresented and bore only a physical resemblance to their cartoon counterparts (and some only just), and the overall tone of the cartoon was thrown away with what seems to be another three hours of necessary footage which could have make the film seem at least a tiny bit cohesive. I had to keep telling Joe and Valerie that Ang, in the cartoon, wasn’t this awkward, lame character who looked as though he was going to cry every five minutes, or that Sokka wasn’t a stoic and quiet brother who seemed to have absolutely no emotion in regards to his sister, who was more often than not exasperated and physically exhausted from vomiting her lines out every 20 minutes.

It was just bad. If I had never watched the cartoon, I would have been completely lost during the entire film — moreso than I already was. I won’t even touch on the odd racial switch-ups, as it’s been beaten to death, or the fact that this movie cost $150 million to make and grossed over $300 million worldwide and will probably get a sequel despite the fact that it is ranked at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ugh. It wasn’t even fun to watch for the sake of goofing on, because it’s so FUCKING BORING. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN MANIPULATE THE ELEMENTS, WHY AM I NOT RIVETED BY THESE FIGHT SCENES?

But then we watched Cool As Ice starring Vanilla Ice, and I felt much better.

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