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13.02.10 # Trailers # 17 Comments
The first full length trailer has hit for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender.
It’s pretty much a long version of the Super Bowl spot, which is a little disappointing (for me) because I liked the teaser a lot more than that spot, though I seem to be alone in that on the internets.
So, what’s new? You hear some dialogue, notably from Katara, the Water Tribe girl that finds Aang, the last Airbender of the title, and Unle Iroh, mentor to Aang’s nemesis Zuko. He’s kind of like Obi-Wan. But bad.
What’s interesting is the way Shyamalan’s slightly modified his style for action. We still have the long takes, but he’s incorporated some snap zooms into the mix to add a little more movement. It’s hard to see how well it works just from the trailer, but it looks like it’s used to emphasise parts of the fight choreography which should work quite well.
The Last Airbender is based on the first season of the Nick cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender, where a young boy named Aang begins to learn how to manipulate the four elements so that he can defeat the Fire Nation.
It’s visually impressive, though the concept makes that pretty easy. I just don’t believe that Shyamalamadingdong is capable of getting a performance out of this young cast, he hasn’t made a good film in many years now, and recently he’s made some spectacularly terrible ones.
it looks really lame… rathbone and peltz stand out like sore thumbs infront of all the inuit peoples in the background, it just looks wrong. The CGI looks pretty crappy aswell (1:18 from the trailer).
The trailer looks awesome. Everyone execpt those who simply hate shyamalan have all appreciated the effort gone into making this work on the silver screen. Look at the special effects, how amazing those are. But the nitpicking brigade isn’t looking for a good trailer, them only want to brag about something, anything to keep complaning. Some idiots can’t get over his previous movies. If U r so stuck in the past then Y r u watching his trailers??
@Alex – To know the future you must know the past.
What’s up with Aang’s arrows?!!? I know that you were trying to make it your own design M. Knight, and while I can usually dig that; I also dig that old and always true adage about if something isn’t broke not trying to fix it… The blue arrows were part of what was so cool about this cartoon for me, the movie version of them looks kind of weak thus far…
I’m not here to knock the racebenders, they have a legitimate gripe. But outside of the casting, this looks really good. So the question is, can you deal with this current cast. Because if you can’t, then don’t watch the movie. But if the cast doesn’t bother you, then definitely watch it, because it looks really good. Shyamalan will make his come-back here. I foresee it.
@Trigon – The cast totally bothers me. But I don’t have a choice but to deal with it. If I want buttered popcorn and they only have salted, I’m having my popcorn. It’s a shame though.
@ Grey Pilgrim – I missed those at first too, but I think they made the right choice for live action. And the Avatar State looks perfect.
@ Sheridan – He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
@ dnwilliams- Good point brother I am still kind of heated about it but you are right, from what we can see of the arrows when Aang is avataring up it definitely looks very slick, I bet the designs will look very cool when brilliantly glowing! And in a way its kind of honoring the fact that this is NOT the cartoon just regurgitated into live action, it will be a movie telling the same story yea, but in its own way.. and because i also agree with you about the casting, and because while I am excited about the potential of this but also crazy scared that it might fall flat,I kind of like that the O.G. Aang gets to keep his blue arrows..
That slide at 1:27 is fantastic. That’s all I have to say.
That’s what I said at the office presentation yesterday.
…Where’s Joker when I need him?
I for one am very excited about this movie even though I have a god awful feeling it’s going to rated rotten on RT. RT knows all.
@Dnwilliams: 1984 reference y/n?
Hmm… It was actually pretty good. I thought that it would be terrible….
I’m excited as is my wife, yet disappointed, as are most, in Sokka and, especially, Katara’s casting. Hearing her speaking parts in the trailer made our disappointment greater.
I think the tatoos are a good change, large blue arrows are very cartoony and this clearly ain’t no cartoon. I think this movie will be fantastic.
Also, people are giving too much consideration to Shyamalammycake’s past movies, w/ twists and whatnot. This story has been told and has a very good basis. There isn’t (hopefully) much for him to add as far as changing the story. No pheremone(sp?) releasing plants in this one. No sirey.
I’m frankly a little tired of the race debate. One can only stomach so many +1000 comment threads for so long. It’s raged for over a year now and I’m just tired of it.
I’m African American and personally it never bothered me. I care about the film being decent and I’ve always viewed the complaining as just people ranting and flaming and nit-picking. I understand the complaints. . . I’m just not in as much of a frenzy about it myself as other’s are.
Of course I expect my opinion to be ignored since I’m not of Asian descent and therefore “can’t possibly understand it”. At this point I’m ready to talk about something else and not have every conversation on the internet about this film DOMINATED by this issue.
Besides after looking over the cast it seems to me that most of the nations are based on separate RL cultures rather than them being ALL Asian based.
The Water Tribes are Caucasian.
The Fire Nation is Indian/Middle Eastern.
The Earth Kingdom is Asian.
Personally I’m stoked about the film.
Oh and I took one look at Aang’s arrows and immediately thought to myself “Night is of Indian descent and the design of Aang’s tattoo’s looks of Indian descent”.
It’s like at traditional Indian weddings when they apply temporary tattoo’s to the hands of the guests.
Overall the effects look awesome and hopefully he doesn’t change too much of what was IMO a pretty solid story.
My ONLY 2 concerns is how the kids act and how will they age as the trilogy progresses. I’m willing to cut them some slack since Noah is 12 and Nicole is 15 but I’m still hoping for solid performances. On the aging concern I’m wondering about that because this is 3 movies spread over 6 years. By the time this is done Noah will be around 18 and I’m wondering how they will “keep” him 12 in terms of looks and height (he is going to hit puberty in the middle of filming after all).
@ SamAzu – Literary references? That’s doublepluscrimethinker talk.
@ random guy – Won’t ever find your comments ignored here. Disagreed with, maybe, but not ignored.
You’re right, the arrows are reminiscent of Henna! I assume they’re going to ignore the ageing thing. Or just change the amount of time Aang has to learn all forms of bending.
The Water Tribes aren’t caucasian though. Look at all the faces in the background in the top picture.
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