Will Avatar: The Last Airbender survive the review massacre it has been through?

Question

Firstly I refuse to call it just Last Airbender because of some James Cameron flick. Furthermore, I want to know if the legacy of the series will survive after the onlsaught of bad reviews. I am a big fan of the series and that is why I hope some one in the future will have the courage and talent to bring the Avatar to the big screen. Happy watching : )

Answer 1

Oh, I think the series will live on in the hearts of the fans. But as for the movie, it will be eaten by the savage reviewers that roam the internet, until there's nothing left but bones. If you want to see Avatar on the big screen, don't ask for the live action movie. Instead, just go for an animated feature, written and directed by the show's true creators. No cheap interpretations of what the show was, but a new, epic adventure. You know, that actually has a bit of humor in it.



James Cameron's Avatar was a mediocre movie, that should have been left on the shelf. No reason to hold back because of it. Feel free to give me thumbs down for that statement, seeing how it will only serve to prove your own ignorance.

Answer 2

I agree strongly with what everyone has said about both the James Cameron Avatar and the animated series epic following, for good reason. That said I also feel the M. Knight did an okay job with what he had to work with. As a director he had to take a season of story line and condense it into a 2 hour movie, maintain a PG rating while still showing the violent nature of the Fire nation, and introduce the audience of people 80% of which have never seen the animated series to a cast of characters that millions already know and love. Also he needed to be able to change the story enough so that when they begin to film the two followup movies in the trilogy, which they will do, it makes sense that Ang is 2 to 4 years older when if they stuck to the original story he would be the same age throughout all three movies which isn't possible with live action. For those people who are fans of the series the next film will be season 2 and the last will be season 3. Season 2 will be an action packed story much more fast paced than this one showing Ang growing in his water abilities learning his path, and training in Earth bending. The final movie (spoiler alert for those who don't know the series) will have Ang and Zuko team up, Ang learning Fire Bending and the final battle scene with Ang and the Fire Lord will be an Epic battle not to be missed. There where several things that could have and maybe should have been done differently in this first movie but give the series a chance and I believe M. Knight will do us all proud.

Answer 3

I wanted to cry after i saw the movie. How can you turn something so epic into an epic disaster? I think that regardless of what happens on the big screen die-heart Avatar: The Last Airbender, fans will still support the original amine series. I think that Nickelodeon should have made the movie instead of this no talented M. Shyamalan, and his sorry cast. The original series will always remain in my heart

Answer 4

I am not exactly sure but Aang wanted another way of bringing peace back without killing Ozai, so he was called by the the lion turtle to figure it out. He met the lion turtle face-to-face and he touched him on the forehead and the heart and gave him the idea to do that to take it away (not sure what he said, sorry!) Then Aang did that to Ozai. The read represents that fire power-bending that Ozai has and the Blue represents like normality/purity/human/avatar stuff Aang has. They switched it so Aang takes Ozai's fire bending skills while Ozai becomes neutral/powerless/normal/human, etc... And I think the turtle was saying something about like destruction and creating peace. Sorry again! I hope this helps. And of course they will probably have re-runs later in the future so you can watch it again OR you can wait until like Netflix or Blockbuster gets them so you can see it then. Or buy them on Amazon. If you want the whole Book 3 collection, be patient and wait until September 16, 2008 when they are released or just pre-order it now and wait patiently until it magically arrives and all of a sudden you remember that you bought it in July.

Answer 5

I dont think so not that many people watch the series now. I hate M.Night Shamalamadingdong he seems like a very unexperienced guy I would rather wish there was no airbender movie then having that movie. He murdered the series so bad the movie was allmost like a parody of the anime series and you could tell he was a real idiot by casting Dev Patel as Zuko. Now they can't do a redo of the last airbender movie.

Answer 6

This movie was a HUGE travesty! i WHOLEHEARTEDLY LOVE the Nickelodeon Animated series, im one of the show's biggest fans out there, and i was absolutely disappointed with what M. Night produces. i was absolutely ok with the condensing, its to be expected with an adaptation like this, but he didnt even make it a 2 hour long movie, it was only an hour and a half, and with the crap that he produced, that extra hal hour of slow down and character building could have saved the movie, but it didnt. Just because its an adaptation doesnt give him the freedom to go out and change almost everything in the movie, very little of it was similar to the source anime, that sucked. The cast was appalling, the only decent cast members were Sokka,Iroh, and Yue's cast choices and Aang's of course, every one else was just horribly picked for this movie. I love DBZ more than this so you can just imagine what i had to say about Evolution, and this movie was just a hair short from being just that...Lets pray to whomever you may pray to that Shayamalon or however you spell his friekin name, does not make the following two movies. The first was ok for him to make because nothing HUGE happens in the first season, but if he makes the last 2 and messes it up like he did this, EVERYONE will hate him and lose faith in him, if they havent already of course, like many of us have

Answer 7

It's got as much a chance as Dragonball Z had, which has had 2 live action movie adaptations and they both failed. Studio Companies don't like to waste money on things that fail the first time, I think that it is agree that M. Knight destroyed the movie and he fought hard to get it made. It would need to backing of a good director, writer and cast as well as it would have to be Iconic like Superman or the Hulk to get a reboot. I think the show will always be good and they can even make another Avatar, but another live action version is slim. Thanks M. Knight!

Answer 8

I agree. James Cameron's Avatar was a piece of crap that became #1 because of inflation and 3-D tickets. Furthermore, Avatar: The Last Airbender, at times has more to say than that "naturalism, fight-the-man" crap that Avatar tried to feed the masses. Another thing, M. Night Shamylan sucks as a director. His only good movie was "Sixth Sense". With all this said, it was really to be expected that Avatar: The Last Airbender would be a crap movie. Like you said, we just have to wait for someone with more talent and passion for the series than Shamylan.

Answer 9

The movie adaptation was such a travesty, I tear up every time a comercial for it comes on. I hope to God it goes and dies in a hole somewhere.

Answer 10

no i think it will be like street fighter and we will have to wait 10 years for a sequel