Fun fact: M Night Shyamalan found out about Avatar from his daughter, who loved the show. So... at least none of us got our souls crushed as horribly as she did.
Yeah she was obviously confused. The movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron, actually has nothing to do with Avatar: The Last Airbender, despite the similarity in name and coming out only a year after the show. Completely different.
@@naimmahboubi7499 It's a reference to the fact the Secret Police in Ba Sing Se hid the fact the war was going on, everyone who's seen the film would rather be in a totalitarian society where it is covered up and be brainwashed to forget that it was ever made
"And then they just waved their arms awkwardly for a while, and then bending happened." I'll never forget or forgive Katara waterbending by doing a sloppy macarena
Agreed we don’t need to see them make one of the best characters in the show into Tooph the insignificant blind earth bender the best they would at least be able to do to keep with the awfulness of the film is to have her do alone what that entire dance squad did with one rock
New Mission in Life: 1). Make an Avatar Book 2 Puppet Musical. 2). Hire a giant buff dude with the vocal range of an angel/demented pterodactyl to play Toph (everyone else is played by voice-acted puppets). 3). Pay Jessie Flower to live react to the whole thing. 4). ??????????? 5). Profit?
It’s really sad when you think about it. I remembered this movie being advertised heavily, so everyone knew who was involved. These actors didn’t have a chance.
It really is sad. I cannot imagine that statistically each of these actors are terrible so I have to imagine it has to be terrible directing and production.
@@andreahensher8469 it was a bad choice, but that's how the movie format is. So many good stories ruined because it's not profitable to have a longer movie
My favorite exchange from the stream: Merphy: "But Zuko would never do that- he would never just pick a kid off the street like 'Hey, you heard of me?'" Daniel: *"hEy kId wAnT sOmE hOnOr"*
@OriginalTharios This movie does not have "perfect and total power" over anyone. We know the movie exists, it is just considered non-canon and badly done by most if the fandom. This movie is, in essence, treated like bad fan fiction and so is either ignored or complained about.
There is an Avatar movie, in fact, it's the second highest grossing movie of all time, but it has nothing to do with The Last Air Bender. Though I can see why people get confused with the names and all.
And you got a very high mark by finding a perfect example of a horrible movie/scene (that is not bad just because it was make with extremely low budget), right?
That scene is all you need to demonstrate that Shyamalan had precisely zero understanding of the source material. If he did, he would have understood why imprisoning Earth benders in an area surrounded by rock and boulders doesn't make any sense.
@@kyanchambers260 The only good thing I can say about it is that the sets looked pretty good, and some of the costumes as well. Everything else was just terrible.
I’m really happy that it seems we took two different angles. I focus a lot more on the direction and remarkable dropping of the ball for VFX. Not planned between us but happy end result 🤷♂️
It’s astounding how bad the movie is as a *movie* all lore and character problems aside. Terrible screenplay, acting, editing, directing, just terrible everything.
It took all day of me staring at two notifications (within a half hour of each other) for a review of the same movie by two of my favorite fantasy reviewers to decide that I would watch them in timestamp order.
One of my ex-boyfriends actually said: "This movie wasn't so bad. I kinda liked it." .... in this moment I knew that the relationship wouldn't last long. I'm not kidding. I just knew.
I HAD THE VERY SAME REACTION! My ex told me that I was “overreacting” and that it was “just a movie”. I thought to myself, “If you don’t understand this, there is no chance of us having a future.”
I knew a dude who genuinely thought this movie was really good (which it objectively is not, even if you have never seen the show). His favorite movie was Joel Shumschmucker's Phantom of the Opera, though, so it's not like he had any taste to work with.
The first time I saw the “stomp the yard, slow rock moving” scene, I genuinely didn’t see the rock. It was so small, moving so slow and kind of blended into the background ... mix that with the fact that there was no reaction from anyone else in the scene and I was just super confused. Thought they were initiating a dance off or something
There was no real dialogue in the movie. Just characters explaining things because M. Night thinks the audiences are too stupid. It’s a mockery to filmmaking in every way.
i think that may be the accents of the actors? i haven’t watched the movie but i don’t have an american accent and i don’t think i can physically say sokka the same as the show but it might just be me
I loved that in the stream, Merphy was critiquing the plot/characters, Dan was critiquing the direction/acting, and Tim was critiquing the details/aestethics.
I remember my friends and I were so excited to see this movie in the weeks leading up to its release...but then it hit theaters and the first reviews began pouring in. We went to see it a couple days later; I'd drastically lowered my expectations by then, to the point that I was pretty sure I'd walk out of the theater feeling extremely disappointed. It turns out even *that* assessment was too optimistic.
All I have to say is: *That Earthbending Scene* Also, you wanna see the perfect review for this movie? Just watch the last scene of the Ember Island Players episode of the show.
@@NIDELLANEUM OMG I love Margo in the Magicians. Didn't even realize she was Azula... I'm glad she was able to move over this dissastrous movie that never happened.
@@RainCraver I honestly think she would have pulled it off. I can totally see her say stuff like "don't flatten yourself, you were never even a player"
@@NIDELLANEUM No... No actor/actress could pull of the garbage Shamalan gives. He litterly has the power to take someone's acting ability away just like he did with Mark Whalberg in The Happening.
Imagine having watched the series as you grew up only to see a live action trailer in theaters. Imagine the excitement in a young kid only to be disappointed so badly after finally seeing it a year after the trailer released.
That was literally me. I grew up with “Avatar” and naive young me was so excited to see the movie. Yeah. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.
@@DaltonHBrown what?? He was handsome, impossibly ripped, had golden eyes and a meter of straight black hair. Plus the build up of not seeing him. And the voice!! Hate the chin hair though.
I didn’t confirm it myself, but I heard the reason the show’s creators gave M. Night the go ahead on directing a live action movie was that he showed them a four hour long script they liked. The problem was no studio wanted to make a movie that long so they forced him to cut it. Also, M. Night was apparently one of the only people who was really nice to the child actors. If I’m wrong feel free to correct me, but hearing this made me hate this movie SLIGHTLY less and just feel bad for the guy
Lmao no. He said he wrote it for 7 year olds. Dude never even watched the series. He caught glimpses here and there while his 7 year old daughter had it on tv. 150 million dollars....
My favorite part was the beginning of the movie where they had a emotionless exposition robotic back and forth conversation between Aang and Katara in the south Pole tent/igloo. I'm sure you know which scene I am talking about. In theaters, after that scene played, I was like "oh no.... this is what the movie will be like, won't it?". I was wrong. It was so much worse.
see what saddens me the most about this movie is what they did to Aang's actor. In reality, he's a bubbly, happy go lucky kid that fits Aang perfectly, but the shitty script and poor direction sucked the soul out of his performance. Zuko's actor is actually very good in genersl, but again, the diectino was just awful and he's better suited for comedy roles anyway. Honestly, those two and the costume designers deserved better than this piece of flaming trash of a movie
I agree, I actually like the actor of Aang, he fits visually very well (and that he does martial arts already, is a plus). So it's really sad to see the movie ... or not ... because there is no movie ... I don't know what you guys are talking about or what this video even is ...
I rented this movie soon after it was available on dvd, thinking "It can't be *that bad." I was much more tolerant toward less than stellar movies back then, and never before have I voluntarily stopped watching a movie I hadn't seen. I only made it to Merphy's favorite scene with the awkward earthbending, that was the last straw, I couldn't take it anymore. Kudos to all of you for making it all the way through!
Imagine if there was a second movie and they didn't put the ba sing se scene with iroh on lu ten's birthday singing little soldier boy (leaves from the vine ) and let's do not try to think about toph and how they could have ruined her if they did that i would've invited my self to lake lao gai without the dai li arresting me there is no movie in ba sing se here we are safe the earth king invite you to lake lao gai . I am honored to accept his invitation but there is no need i will go my self no need for invitations
If they wanted to “honor” the cultures maybe they could’ve gotten the details right, like the different symbols for the water tribe. It just contributes to the idea that everyone within a certain bending culture has a homogenous culture. The two water tribes specifically had different ways of life and even different styles of bending. But no bending had “style” in the movie so I guess those fine distinctions were too much to ask
@@FionaA17 To be fair there the director really didn’t have a choice in that. The producers of this movie owned the father of Katara’s actress (who is a big named producer in Hollywood) favors and were more or less forced to cast her as the leading lady of the movie. Some in the production even noted that her acting was ‘subpar at best‘ but they had no choice to put her in the movie. This directly affected Sokka’s casting since it would look really awkward for a Native American brother to have a white sister, so he was casted to fit the actresses race then anything else. So yeah this whole thing wasn’t a result of white washing, it was a result of Nepotism.
@@brandonlyon730 It's also really sad how M Night is getting blamed for many things in the movie that were due to producers and higher-ups changing things.
Hopefully the live action TV show, that the creators of the show are fully involved with, will be more accurate and maybe have some deeper dives into characters and lore. Got to say, I loved your ATLA videos, I would love to get your thoughts for Legend of Korra, the sequel series to Avatar. It's very different in tone and character, but I am interested in your thoughts
I hated the movie but I'm the only person I know who liked the change that fire benders needed fire to bend and the comet let them conjure fire. I'm also the only person I know that disliked star wars phantom menace but liked the idea of midichlorians. Must be something wrong with me
@@sethtipps7093 but then that make all the fire benders loose their visual representation of inner strength, like when zuko switched sides or Zhao or the difference of iroh to other firebenders
@@sethtipps7093 So how would firebenders have conquered the world? I just want to remind you that even in the world of avatar, the majority of the world is water. And the remaining part is earth. Air is also everywhere. Needing a source of fire would make fire the weakest element in the world. Add the fact that it was mainly added for a cheap twist at the end and it removes any leg that the change had left to stand on.
@@samfowler9851 Avatar is worse because Percy Jackson, at least from a movie point of view , is pretty good. It's a dissapointment because it is not faithful to the source material.
@@jwinget1999 the Percy Jackson movies were decent on their own, but were terrible adaptations. The Last Airbender was a bad movie and a bad adaptation, but I still dislike the Percy Jackson movies more because of how badly it adapts nearly anything from the books, TLA at least tried to adapt things directly from the show, even if it failed, but the Percy Jackson movies plots barely resemble the books'
I remember back when this was first released, my brother went to a get together with some friends to watch the show and then attend a midnight showing. I stayed home and saw Nickelodeon air a special in which Shyamalan explained and tried to justify all the changes he made. I knew it was going to be bad. The next day, when he got home, I asked my brother, "So, how was Ahng's performance?" He glared at me and said "Don't even get me started."
Dai Lee Brainwashing Dai Lee: I’m Joo Dee welcome to Ba Sing Se Avatar fans: I’m Joo Dee welcome to Ba Sing Se Dai Lee: We’re so lucky to not have the movie to create order Avatar Fans: We’re so lucky to not have the movie to create order
I have seen it.....I wouldn't be watching this if I haven't 😂 I definitely think that movie wise Percy Jackson is better, but both Avatar and Percy Jackson movies just make me sad haha
"Cue the rock!" near the end of the livestream absolutely killed me I was still giggling five minutes later. (also I still haven't actually SEEN the movie, I couldn't make it it through the first five minutes. I *did* watch like the second half of the livestream, however, and I'm so sorry but I DID greatly enjoy y'all's pain)
The only moment, and I mean ONLY moment, where I felt the movie did something slightly better from the show was with the PURELY VISUAL portion of Princess Yue's sacrifice in the movie. In the show, while it is certainly a lot more emotional, impactful, and simply makes more sense; the visual aspect is just Yue touching the fish with a little light thing that happens and she collapses. That's all fine and dandy, much easier to animate than the direction the movie took it, but I do think the movie version looked better. In the movie, as far as my memory can recall, she lays down gently in the pool next to the dead moon spirit and her hair floats delicately in the water. Then we see the white from her hair drain away magically into the dead fish, restoring it's life but taking hers. We know that the only reason her hair is white was due to the moon spirit giving her life as a baby so it makes sense why that representation of the life the spirit gave her could drain back into it. Visually it just seems much more interesting then walking over and touching the fish and her hair remaining white. That's just my view anyways. I tried really hard to take something good away from this terrible film and that's all I could muster, sadly. Let me know if you agree.
Yes, the movie was awefull. But the Livestream was funny! But hey, getting tortured live on TH-cam is now a thing! What Movie is next? Percy Jackson? Eragon?
this movie seems like the play remake a seven year old would make to impress their parents during quarantine with props and costumes from the kitchen and laundry pile
When I was younger I really enjoyed this movie, I liked the magic and the koi fish stuff, similar to the Percy Jackson Movie. But, when I saw the original, when I read Percy Jackson, I was so disappointed with the adaptations, because I could be so much more... I'm glad I know the originals, and I'm just waiting for Avatar Live Action in Disney+
What I like about you is whether you like something or not, whether you're talking about a book or a movie, you see so many different aspects--character development, pacing, structure, continuity, etc. You would make a great editor. Loved the rant, even though I haven't seen the series or the movie. I just love you, Merphy.
I always like to remember that there are a couple things about this movie that I do like! 1. The score when Aang went into the avatar state at the end and raised the wave is absolutely beautiful! That scene also has some cool imagery. 2. The actress they got for Azula owned her role at the end. When she smiles to her father, it is so sadistic! It’s as if she’s thinking about how much fun it’s going to be going on this mission and hunting the Avatar down.
I’ve heard that the kid who played aang was like a lot like aang in real life on set, full of energy and playing pranks on the cast members, but then they... made him act like this??
Zukko:"I must restore my honor!" Me:"because your father, the scar and so..." Zukko:"no! Because I have seen my character in the ATLA movie!!" Iroh:"zukko, don't let the angry take you..." Zukko show the movie to Iroh. Iroh:"I will burn everything!!"
Is someone gonna tell her about the Netflix live action series coming out of ATLA with the original writers and music producer along with (i forget his name) Zuko’s voice actor as a cameo.
Dont get your hopes up, they did make Korra as well and approved this movie. I think its better if its left alone, instead of trying to make more money from it...
I went to go see this movie in the theater with my best friend. We were both huge fans of the show, and so was her boyfriend (he got her into it). He refused to go with us because he heard the reviews were bad. Me and her are both stupid optimists, though, so we were like, "Oh it can't possibly be *that* bad." Her first comment when we left the theater: "Wow, I'm really glad my bf didn't come with us." Tbh I never walk out of movies. I think I've done it a total of two times in my whole life. But I almost walked out of this one, and it was because of how they botched Aang & Zuko's "We could have been friends" scene. Aang & Zuko's relationship is one of my favorite, favorite parts of the show, and that scene is one of my favorite scenes. I couldn't even believe it when I saw it: they set everything up the exact same way the show did, but then when it came time for that little exchange of dialogue, the movie was like, "Hahaha nope" and Aang just left. He just left! And then they had the nerve to throw that line randomly in at the end, when it made no sense and didn't have nearly the same emotional impact. I was so pissed. There were a lot of bad aspects of the movie that I could just laugh and shake my head at, but that one thing just really made me rage.
My summary: "The Music is fantastic. Wait this is a Movie?." I really think musicians get done poorly with movies like this because, Like Daniel Greene says, "The creators are so full of their own ego that they don't appreciate the people that end up creating the art/music for them."
So at the very end of this movie we briefly see Azula and she's played by Summer Bishil who went on to play Margo in the tv show The Magicians which she was amazing in! It leaves me wondering how she would have been as Azula if a second movie had been made. I think she actually would have made a pretty good live action Azula, she's a great actress, however she'd still probably have been held back by Shyamalan's directing.
The only thing I could defend is Zuko and Iroh being able to produce fire without a source since Iroh was teaching Zuko in the show how to make the fire come from his breathing and Iroh, well, he's the Dragon of the West and is a member of the White Lotus, who all have super cool powers. (And yes, there's quite a few instances where he behaves very fatherly towards Zuko. I really liked him both in the movie and the show.) But the rest... I really get all the frustration.
My favorite part of this movie is that it was so forgettable that I have completely forgotten 99% of it. My least favorite part is that I still remember how atrociously bad it was.
The people who like the new pronunciations because they are closer to the Asian names, I point out that the creators of the AMERICAN cartoon made the names and they should be kept the same if the film is meant to satisfy the fans.
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There is no movie in Ba Sing Se. The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.
Horse Johnson I’m honored to accept his invitation. Is it safe and free?
I would be honored to accept his invitation.
I am honoured to accept his invitation.
r/LakeLaogai
I am honoured to accept his invitation
I am honored to accept his invitation.
She really going through the whole cycle of being an Avatar fan.
I know, right?!!
She’ll be disappointed again if she ever watched Legend of Kora, lol
@@tyronejohnson7050 I like it.
It's like watching my experiences with this franchise on fast-forward.
They grow up so fast
Fun fact: M Night Shyamalan found out about Avatar from his daughter, who loved the show. So... at least none of us got our souls crushed as horribly as she did.
That was the meanest thing I have ever heard and I'm not even mad😂😂
She probably hates her dad now
that's rough I feel bad for her
I remember a quote from him where he tells her he's planning to remove Momo and Appa from the movie...
Some people want to see the world burn
“I’m so glad they didn’t get the chance to ruin Toph!” Amen, Sista. Amen.
and Azula. Despite Fire Nation being indian for some point, I really liked Azula's teaser at the end.
Артур Фролов No. IMO, Azula wasn’t scary in the movie.
And Suki
@@12s0ph they ruined suki by forgetting her
Tyrannapus And Friends hey at least they didn’t do anything bad to her lol
The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.
There is no Avatar movie within this world. Here we are safe. Here we are free.
I am honored to accept his invitation.
Open your mind and it will be true
I am honored to accept his invitation
I am honoured to accept his invitation
I am so damn honored to accept his invitation
Favorite part are the end credits and least favorite is the whole movie.
laughed out loud at this one
My favorite part is when I didn't watch the movie
Favourite part is when I never watched it because I have a slight liking for myself and I don’t want to subject myself to it
@@colonelsanders177 lucky!
@@boogiewoogie343 y'all are now showing off.
You are wrong. there is no movie for ATLA. What are you talking about?
Yeah she was obviously confused. The movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron, actually has nothing to do with Avatar: The Last Airbender, despite the similarity in name and coming out only a year after the show. Completely different.
What? Of course there is, Book 3, Episode 17th
We’ve got a tekking fan I see.
There is no movie inside the walls here we are safe here we are free.
There is, look it up.
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se. Here we are safe and here we are free
But, I don’t feel safe with the Dai Li around
Here we can watch the series instead
... wasn't Ba Sing Se book 2?
@@naimmahboubi7499 It's a reference to the fact the Secret Police in Ba Sing Se hid the fact the war was going on, everyone who's seen the film would rather be in a totalitarian society where it is covered up and be brainwashed to forget that it was ever made
"And then they just waved their arms awkwardly for a while, and then bending happened."
I'll never forget or forgive Katara waterbending by doing a sloppy macarena
I mean, it's kinda like the waterbending in the swamp
The bending was so pathetic as well. The water moved so dang slow and any person with half a brain could’ve just stepped out of the way.
😂
*waved
@@Eidolon1andOnly thank you 😭😭
This movie makes me want to trap myself in an iceberg for 100 years.
Same
@Cadan Hinds I mean the original creators are apparently taking a swing at a live action adaptation so we'll see.
The actress that plays Yue also voices Asami in The Legend of Korra, so there's that...
Marche
And that, lady’s and gentleman, is why Aang was in an iceberg for that long.
@@Deon82 She was Shyamalized too.
The moment when the Ember Island play was more accurate than the Shyamalan movie 😂😂😂
BlackSouLII BRUH IKR
i am cringinge on the fact that it is true...
The play at least got the heart of the characters right if in a simplified and comedic way.
The creators mentioned something like that in the dvd commentary after Sokka said, "At least the effects were good."
Imagine what the show would be in the movie . Good thing the 3rd movie won’t come
"So thankful they didn't have a chance to ruin toph" 😂
Agreed we don’t need to see them make one of the best characters in the show into Tooph the insignificant blind earth bender the best they would at least be able to do to keep with the awfulness of the film is to have her do alone what that entire dance squad did with one rock
Makes me wonder what Toph would think of this movie. Maybe she’d love it like she love the ember island players?
MossyRabbit even the ember island play did better telling the story than this piece of crap so idk
@@CloudyMagpie considering she’s blind I don’t think that would ever be possible.
New Mission in Life:
1). Make an Avatar Book 2 Puppet Musical.
2). Hire a giant buff dude with the vocal range of an angel/demented pterodactyl to play Toph (everyone else is played by voice-acted puppets).
3). Pay Jessie Flower to live react to the whole thing.
4). ???????????
5). Profit?
I feel so bad for those child actors, they probably thought that was going to be their big break
It’s really sad when you think about it. I remembered this movie being advertised heavily, so everyone knew who was involved. These actors didn’t have a chance.
I yelled, isn’t that the guy from twilight?!?
@@12CANTMATTER you can see Jasper Cullen's characteristics in the guy through out the movie😂😂😂😂
Aleo Vera Right? Only Dev could cushion the fall because of slumdog millionaire.
It really is sad. I cannot imagine that statistically each of these actors are terrible so I have to imagine it has to be terrible directing and production.
Merphy at 17:37 - "I'm trying to keep this short, I'm bouncing around and skipping over major points"
Me - oh, just like the movie!
They somehow took ten hours of episodes and shoved them into a two hour movie.
@@andreahensher8469 it was a bad choice, but that's how the movie format is. So many good stories ruined because it's not profitable to have a longer movie
My favorite exchange from the stream:
Merphy: "But Zuko would never do that- he would never just pick a kid off the street like 'Hey, you heard of me?'"
Daniel: *"hEy kId wAnT sOmE hOnOr"*
Yeah, I loved that.
@@bluesbest1 Ember Island players: "Look your honor!" ----"Where?"
*sees the title for the video* “good, good let the hate flow through you”
Dew it
Every ATLA fan:
“There’s an Avatar movie? Never heard of it”
th-cam.com/video/z7TGWOHTdac/w-d-xo.html
What movie? There's no movie in Ba Sing Se!
Of course there is, it takes place in a forest with weird blue cats
@OriginalTharios This movie does not have "perfect and total power" over anyone. We know the movie exists, it is just considered non-canon and badly done by most if the fandom. This movie is, in essence, treated like bad fan fiction and so is either ignored or complained about.
There is an Avatar movie, in fact, it's the second highest grossing movie of all time, but it has nothing to do with The Last Air Bender.
Though I can see why people get confused with the names and all.
Is your scar a problem?
Zuko: barely an inconvenience.
Ooh Pitch Meeting references are tight!
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It looks like a birthmark in the film
Iroh: The Avatar got away again. Whoops.
Zuko: Whoopsie.
Ha ha
I had to do a presentation in High School about a very bad movie, and I literally used the earthbender scene as example of very very bad scene
thats awesome
And you got a very high mark by finding a perfect example of a horrible movie/scene (that is not bad just because it was make with extremely low budget), right?
That scene is all you need to demonstrate that Shyamalan had precisely zero understanding of the source material. If he did, he would have understood why imprisoning Earth benders in an area surrounded by rock and boulders doesn't make any sense.
"That...wasn't a good movie."
"You said it."
"Totally."
"But the effects were decent."
LOL! Except the effects weren't even decent tho which is pretty sad
The sad thing is that Ember Island Players is better than this movie in every way, including effects
@@kyanchambers260 The only good thing I can say about it is that the sets looked pretty good, and some of the costumes as well. Everything else was just terrible.
One day Merphy will stop calling Sokka Zuko. That day is not today.
😂🤣😂
She’s still infinitely better than any of the people who alllowed that to be in the movie
You'd think after watching the entire series she'd get it right by now.
You made me choke on my pop tart.
At least she's not calling him soaka.
I’m really happy that it seems we took two different angles. I focus a lot more on the direction and remarkable dropping of the ball for VFX. Not planned between us but happy end result 🤷♂️
It’s astounding how bad the movie is as a *movie* all lore and character problems aside. Terrible screenplay, acting, editing, directing, just terrible everything.
The rest of movie is shit, I do love James Newton Howard’s score but its wasted in a movie like this.
Really, there was a movie?
Eamon Manning It’s quite amazing really.
It took all day of me staring at two notifications (within a half hour of each other) for a review of the same movie by two of my favorite fantasy reviewers to decide that I would watch them in timestamp order.
My boss left the theater as soon as they mispronounced "Aang"
I left the theater after the scene when it took six earth benders to move on rock.
@@UnclePhil1112 God that scene......
Hoshang Raj it was so awful dude lol.
UnclePhilLawl lmfao that’s so sad
y o M. Night Shamalyan. The biggest hack in all of Hollywood.
Star Wars fans: "The Ris of Skywalker is the worst thing that can happen to a franchise." Sweet, innocent souls.
Compared to Dragon Ball Evolution, the last airbender isn’t that bad.
Well, at least we could just completely erase this movie of existence, star wars Fandom can't because its CANON
@@agustinleiva525 It's not canon in our hearts just because some multi-billion dollar organisation says so.
the sequel trilogy as the worst thing to happen to a franchise.
I was fortunate to NEVER the the avatar movie in my whole life.
@@agustinleiva525 The sequels are not canon to me.
EU all the way.
This movie is the ATLA fandom’s cursed child
Woah there, Cursed Child isn't remotely at the same level.
the cursed child is at least a little goofy, TLA is entirely soulless
Jonathan Guito cursed child is worse because it’s reckoning. At least the ATLA movie is separate from the show
that's exactly what I was thinking lol
Ah yes, the worst movies that ruined fandoms:
ATLA
HPATCC
MPHFPC
PJATLT
TGC
One of my ex-boyfriends actually said: "This movie wasn't so bad. I kinda liked it."
.... in this moment I knew that the relationship wouldn't last long.
I'm not kidding. I just knew.
Sounds like you dodged a slowly, moving rock there.
I thought this too when I first watched the movie as a 10-year-old and had no knowledge of the show's existence.
I HAD THE VERY SAME REACTION! My ex told me that I was “overreacting” and that it was “just a movie”. I thought to myself, “If you don’t understand this, there is no chance of us having a future.”
I knew a dude who genuinely thought this movie was really good (which it objectively is not, even if you have never seen the show). His favorite movie was Joel Shumschmucker's Phantom of the Opera, though, so it's not like he had any taste to work with.
@@deadmanreading3152 I think this is the most hilarious thing I ve ever heard in my life hahah
--AND THEN THE FIRE NATION... stands and looks around awkwardly.
MENACINGLY!!!
M. Night only watched the ember island players episode, and thought that was the plot
EnjeoLineMedia I know this is a joke and someone will woooosh me for this but that episode wasn’t out when they started the production of the movie
Mr. T
WUT
@@toluolomolaiye6433 say sike right now
@Evan Foster a very short bad game of telephone
they probably played chinese whispers with the plot with shyamalan at the end
The first time I saw the “stomp the yard, slow rock moving” scene, I genuinely didn’t see the rock. It was so small, moving so slow and kind of blended into the background ... mix that with the fact that there was no reaction from anyone else in the scene and I was just super confused. Thought they were initiating a dance off or something
'Initiated a dance off or something' 😂😂😂😂🤣made me laugh ouut loud!
"There is no movie amongst the fanbase. Here we are safe. He we are free."
Poor Merphy looks like she witnessed someone die
In a way, she did
Didnt we all?
@@chriscamacho1480 Rip Aaa-ng and soaka and Aa-va-tar
And she's wearing black
Rip the kioshi warriors😥
There was no real dialogue in the movie. Just characters explaining things because M. Night thinks the audiences are too stupid.
It’s a mockery to filmmaking in every way.
"Notice my directing"
"As you know." Shut it,Zhao.
I love that. I love that SO much: "You cannot cut entire characters, but leave them on the screen."
Sokka’s name in the movie is pronounced soaka cause he’s such a wet blanket
Haha
His lack of humor soaks up the hilarity of your comment and now others are wondering why you called him a useful inanimate object.
i think that may be the accents of the actors? i haven’t watched the movie but i don’t have an american accent and i don’t think i can physically say sokka the same as the show but it might just be me
You know in third seasom when team avatar went to theatre to see the play? That play was more accured than this movie. Honestly.
Correct
"i have no words"
*looks at how long this video is*
*Sees notification*
My first thought:Oh no sweetie why did you put yourself through this?
I dont even know what your talking about... what movie? There was never a movie.
The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
Gaby A. Faris I am Joo dee
You are forbidden from mentioning the movie within the walls of the Avatar fandom
I loved that in the stream, Merphy was critiquing the plot/characters, Dan was critiquing the direction/acting, and Tim was critiquing the details/aestethics.
I remember my friends and I were so excited to see this movie in the weeks leading up to its release...but then it hit theaters and the first reviews began pouring in. We went to see it a couple days later; I'd drastically lowered my expectations by then, to the point that I was pretty sure I'd walk out of the theater feeling extremely disappointed.
It turns out even *that* assessment was too optimistic.
The Last Airbender movie? what the hell are you taking about? there's no TLA movie. nice try with those homemade footages ;)
It s so funny that u said that cause I think that me and my friend with one camera at home could have done a better job than this movie did
Sad fact This movie was the first I bought a ticket with my own money to go see.
Oh noooo
I'm truly sorry for your loss! ;_;
i feel you bro, i negotiated with my mom for future allowences in exchange for buying the dvd....not a good choice haha
@@SeptimusTSS That's rough buddy.
Dude me too. I Crunch my lunch money for a month just to watch this back when I was in highschool.
All I have to say is: *That Earthbending Scene*
Also, you wanna see the perfect review for this movie? Just watch the last scene of the Ember Island Players episode of the show.
But the effects weren't even that good 😆
Can we talk about the AUDACITY they had to cast a smooshie faced, adorable little girl as Azula?
Well, seeing that actress in The Magicans makes me think she could have been a great Azula. Too bad she would have been wasted in a sequel
@@NIDELLANEUM OMG I love Margo in the Magicians. Didn't even realize she was Azula... I'm glad she was able to move over this dissastrous movie that never happened.
@@RainCraver I honestly think she would have pulled it off. I can totally see her say stuff like "don't flatten yourself, you were never even a player"
@@NIDELLANEUM No... No actor/actress could pull of the garbage Shamalan gives. He litterly has the power to take someone's acting ability away just like he did with Mark Whalberg in The Happening.
Imagine having watched the series as you grew up only to see a live action trailer in theaters. Imagine the excitement in a young kid only to be disappointed so badly after finally seeing it a year after the trailer released.
That was literally me. I grew up with “Avatar” and naive young me was so excited to see the movie. Yeah. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.
That "oh no..." was so genuine.
The worst casted actor in terms of looks was fire lord who looked like just normal soldier
tbf, Ozai himself was a very normal looking guy.
@@yshihootelle true
@@DaltonHBrown what?? He was handsome, impossibly ripped, had golden eyes and a meter of straight black hair. Plus the build up of not seeing him. And the voice!! Hate the chin hair though.
He literally looked like that one uncle you invite to a big family dinner
This movie is the reason Toph is blind.
I didn’t confirm it myself, but I heard the reason the show’s creators gave M. Night the go ahead on directing a live action movie was that he showed them a four hour long script they liked. The problem was no studio wanted to make a movie that long so they forced him to cut it. Also, M. Night was apparently one of the only people who was really nice to the child actors.
If I’m wrong feel free to correct me, but hearing this made me hate this movie SLIGHTLY less and just feel bad for the guy
He said in an interview that he didnt watch the series, but his kids liked it. It explains a lot...
Lmao no. He said he wrote it for 7 year olds. Dude never even watched the series. He caught glimpses here and there while his 7 year old daughter had it on tv. 150 million dollars....
My favorite part was the beginning of the movie where they had a emotionless exposition robotic back and forth conversation between Aang and Katara in the south Pole tent/igloo. I'm sure you know which scene I am talking about. In theaters, after that scene played, I was like "oh no.... this is what the movie will be like, won't it?". I was wrong. It was so much worse.
see what saddens me the most about this movie is what they did to Aang's actor. In reality, he's a bubbly, happy go lucky kid that fits Aang perfectly, but the shitty script and poor direction sucked the soul out of his performance. Zuko's actor is actually very good in genersl, but again, the diectino was just awful and he's better suited for comedy roles anyway. Honestly, those two and the costume designers deserved better than this piece of flaming trash of a movie
Dev Patel would have made a great Sokka. Someone who is funny but also smart with great leadership skills and a good heart.
@Black Ninja Patel has such good range. He is really talented.
I agree, I actually like the actor of Aang, he fits visually very well (and that he does martial arts already, is a plus).
So it's really sad to see the movie ... or not ... because there is no movie ... I don't know what you guys are talking about or what this video even is ...
I rented this movie soon after it was available on dvd, thinking "It can't be *that bad." I was much more tolerant toward less than stellar movies back then, and never before have I voluntarily stopped watching a movie I hadn't seen. I only made it to Merphy's favorite scene with the awkward earthbending, that was the last straw, I couldn't take it anymore. Kudos to all of you for making it all the way through!
Use me as a "THERE IS NO ATLA MOVIE" counter
There is no Avatar the Last Airbender movie in Ba Sing Se.
Imagine if there was a second movie and they didn't put the ba sing se scene with iroh on lu ten's birthday singing little soldier boy (leaves from the vine ) and let's do not try to think about toph and how they could have ruined her if they did that i would've invited my self to lake lao gai without the dai li arresting me there is no movie in ba sing se here we are safe the earth king invite you to lake lao gai . I am honored to accept his invitation but there is no need i will go my self no need for invitations
hey i m girl They’d likely just make Toph a brat and reduce the jokes about her blindness from actual cleverness to here walking into stuff.
Poor Merphy, that's a lot of "ugh" for a single body to process. To detox, take 2 Miyazaki movies with food and company.
By watching this movie, Merphy is finally one of us. “One of us, one of us, Gooble, Goble, Gooble, Goble, One of us.
We accept her, one of us~
Oh Merph, why would you subject yourself to that. I know a good electroshock therapist if you need your memory wiped 😂
someone needs their brain flossed.
I really appreciated the closed captions :) I'm hard of hearing and most people don't bother with them. Thank you!
"My first live-action movie turned into a disaster."
"That's rough, buddy..."
If they wanted to “honor” the cultures maybe they could’ve gotten the details right, like the different symbols for the water tribe. It just contributes to the idea that everyone within a certain bending culture has a homogenous culture. The two water tribes specifically had different ways of life and even different styles of bending. But no bending had “style” in the movie so I guess those fine distinctions were too much to ask
They literally used white people to play sokka and katara
Fiona A yeah it’s outrageous
@@FionaA17 To be fair there the director really didn’t have a choice in that.
The producers of this movie owned the father of Katara’s actress (who is a big named producer in Hollywood) favors and were more or less forced to cast her as the leading lady of the movie. Some in the production even noted that her acting was ‘subpar at best‘ but they had no choice to put her in the movie. This directly affected Sokka’s casting since it would look really awkward for a Native American brother to have a white sister, so he was casted to fit the actresses race then anything else.
So yeah this whole thing wasn’t a result of white washing, it was a result of Nepotism.
@@brandonlyon730 It's also really sad how M Night is getting blamed for many things in the movie that were due to producers and higher-ups changing things.
@@scientistservant Yeah including the forced last minute 3-D that was apparently terrible.
Hopefully the live action TV show, that the creators of the show are fully involved with, will be more accurate and maybe have some deeper dives into characters and lore. Got to say, I loved your ATLA videos, I would love to get your thoughts for Legend of Korra, the sequel series to Avatar. It's very different in tone and character, but I am interested in your thoughts
What network is the show being made under?
@@nahmean7045 Netflix
I don’t know how this show can be good in live action
@@Kairi1416
Thanks
Oh really? I wasn't aware this was in the making! Awesome!
The movie made me want to bleach my eyes. I was honestly so disappointed
Technically, Zuko did have a source when he was under the water, his own body heat.
Oh god why am I defending this trash pile!
I hated the movie but I'm the only person I know who liked the change that fire benders needed fire to bend and the comet let them conjure fire.
I'm also the only person I know that disliked star wars phantom menace but liked the idea of midichlorians.
Must be something wrong with me
@@sethtipps7093 but then that make all the fire benders loose their visual representation of inner strength, like when zuko switched sides or Zhao or the difference of iroh to other firebenders
@@sethtipps7093 So how would firebenders have conquered the world? I just want to remind you that even in the world of avatar, the majority of the world is water. And the remaining part is earth. Air is also everywhere. Needing a source of fire would make fire the weakest element in the world. Add the fact that it was mainly added for a cheap twist at the end and it removes any leg that the change had left to stand on.
You should read "The Rise Of Kyoshi novel" it's based on a past avatar and is really good!
Epic pfp
This is why I want her to finish Percy Jackson just to see her review the bad adaptations
ugh that would be a beautiful double whammy
It has been a while since I saw either the avatar or Percy Jackson movies, but gosh I do not know which one receives more hate.
Sam Fowler avatar is definitely worse
@@samfowler9851 Avatar is worse because Percy Jackson, at least from a movie point of view , is pretty good. It's a dissapointment because it is not faithful to the source material.
@@jwinget1999 the Percy Jackson movies were decent on their own, but were terrible adaptations. The Last Airbender was a bad movie and a bad adaptation, but I still dislike the Percy Jackson movies more because of how badly it adapts nearly anything from the books, TLA at least tried to adapt things directly from the show, even if it failed, but the Percy Jackson movies plots barely resemble the books'
The only way to watch this movie is the way the Normies did, high as a kite. And even then it’s still not good
Ehhh!! you been watching the Normies too!!
Tyler Boring oh yes the normies are best
#notakidsshow
I remember back when this was first released, my brother went to a get together with some friends to watch the show and then attend a midnight showing. I stayed home and saw Nickelodeon air a special in which Shyamalan explained and tried to justify all the changes he made. I knew it was going to be bad. The next day, when he got home, I asked my brother, "So, how was Ahng's performance?" He glared at me and said "Don't even get me started."
Aang*lol
Dai Lee Brainwashing
Dai Lee: I’m Joo Dee welcome to Ba Sing Se
Avatar fans: I’m Joo Dee welcome to Ba Sing Se
Dai Lee: We’re so lucky to not have the movie to create order
Avatar Fans: We’re so lucky to not have the movie to create order
Ah, the good ol' "six dancing men and one floating rock" gets me every time XD
"I've never seen it done so badly"
Merphey buckle up for the Percy Jackson movies 😂 also I'm super happy you loved the show, I love it too
The Percy Jackson movies are better in every single way. You haven't seen the Avatar movie, have you?
I have seen it.....I wouldn't be watching this if I haven't 😂 I definitely think that movie wise Percy Jackson is better, but both Avatar and Percy Jackson movies just make me sad haha
You mean the Peter Johnson movies?
@@charlleedodson haha yes. Everyone should call them that.......I mean even Rick hates them 😂
Percy jackson and the lightning thief. I remember saying that no movie could ever be worse, then shamalaya dingdong was like 'hold my beer'
"Let's talk about bending" let's not
Funny thing is I have a relative who is in the movie and even she hated it...
Who did she play?
Maybe she finally found her lost honor
Most likely an extra
"Cue the rock!" near the end of the livestream absolutely killed me I was still giggling five minutes later.
(also I still haven't actually SEEN the movie, I couldn't make it it through the first five minutes. I *did* watch like the second half of the livestream, however, and I'm so sorry but I DID greatly enjoy y'all's pain)
The only moment, and I mean ONLY moment, where I felt the movie did something slightly better from the show was with the PURELY VISUAL portion of Princess Yue's sacrifice in the movie. In the show, while it is certainly a lot more emotional, impactful, and simply makes more sense; the visual aspect is just Yue touching the fish with a little light thing that happens and she collapses. That's all fine and dandy, much easier to animate than the direction the movie took it, but I do think the movie version looked better.
In the movie, as far as my memory can recall, she lays down gently in the pool next to the dead moon spirit and her hair floats delicately in the water. Then we see the white from her hair drain away magically into the dead fish, restoring it's life but taking hers. We know that the only reason her hair is white was due to the moon spirit giving her life as a baby so it makes sense why that representation of the life the spirit gave her could drain back into it. Visually it just seems much more interesting then walking over and touching the fish and her hair remaining white.
That's just my view anyways. I tried really hard to take something good away from this terrible film and that's all I could muster, sadly. Let me know if you agree.
I liked that bit too, actually
Yes, the movie was awefull.
But the Livestream was funny!
But hey, getting tortured live on TH-cam is now a thing!
What Movie is next? Percy Jackson? Eragon?
OMG Eragon... I will just be sooooo happy if someone decided to give it a good adaptation !!!
Finger crossed for the new PJ and ATLA series🤞🤞
I loved eragon the book but the movie just ruined it for me
Season 2 of Legend of Korra?
F. I. R. E. Legend of Korra season 2 is a shitshow
Ouch!! If she watches those "beauties" too soon, we'll be left with a shell of a Merphy!!!
this movie seems like the play remake a seven year old would make to impress their parents during quarantine with props and costumes from the kitchen and laundry pile
Nah. The seven year old would do better.
I don't like kids but the seven-year-old's version would be way better and creative than this film.
When I was younger I really enjoyed this movie, I liked the magic and the koi fish stuff, similar to the Percy Jackson Movie.
But, when I saw the original, when I read Percy Jackson, I was so disappointed with the adaptations, because I could be so much more...
I'm glad I know the originals, and I'm just waiting for Avatar Live Action in Disney+
Netflix is doing the live action series, unless you're talking about something else
Disney + is making a live action for the Percy Jackson books
What I like about you is whether you like something or not, whether you're talking about a book or a movie, you see so many different aspects--character development, pacing, structure, continuity, etc. You would make a great editor. Loved the rant, even though I haven't seen the series or the movie. I just love you, Merphy.
"There is no Avatar movie in Ba Sing Se.
Here we are safe.
Here, we are free."
Merphy that little white fuzzy in your hair is so distracting🥺😂
It's like, you wanna tell her or just reach out your hand and remove it yourself, but you can't because it's a video.
Ok
I didn't notice it until you pointed it out. Now I can't unsee it. Thanks.
I didn't notice it until you pointed it out. Now I can't unsee it. Thanks.
@@adamvialpando106 🤣🤣
This movie belongs in *Cats* category.
Or does Cats belong in this movie’s category?
@@majesticmundanity both
Along with Dragonball the movie
HEY at least cats was a semi faithful adaptation
This movie makes Cats look good...
Movie? I only remember the Gaang seeing that fire nation play, when did they watch a movie?
The little bitty rock scene gets me every time I’m so glad you brought this up 😂
I always like to remember that there are a couple things about this movie that I do like!
1. The score when Aang went into the avatar state at the end and raised the wave is absolutely beautiful! That scene also has some cool imagery.
2. The actress they got for Azula owned her role at the end. When she smiles to her father, it is so sadistic! It’s as if she’s thinking about how much fun it’s going to be going on this mission and hunting the Avatar down.
9:07 Dante Basco, the VA for Zuko, said the exact same thing lmao
"Now I want to move on to the action of this movie..."
There was action in The Last Airbender? I must've missed it.
I’ve heard that the kid who played aang was like a lot like aang in real life on set, full of energy and playing pranks on the cast members, but then they... made him act like this??
I love hellofutureme! It’s weird though how y’all made a video about a movie that doesn’t exist.
Zukko:"I must restore my honor!"
Me:"because your father, the scar and so..."
Zukko:"no! Because I have seen my character in the ATLA movie!!"
Iroh:"zukko, don't let the angry take you..."
Zukko show the movie to Iroh.
Iroh:"I will burn everything!!"
Is someone gonna tell her about the Netflix live action series coming out of ATLA with the original writers and music producer along with (i forget his name) Zuko’s voice actor as a cameo.
Dont get your hopes up, they did make Korra as well and approved this movie. I think its better if its left alone, instead of trying to make more money from it...
Hopefully they don’t make them white this time
@@swamidude2214 yeah but they weren't that much involved. Even they criticised the movie. And they said their suggestion fell on deaf ears.
I went to go see this movie in the theater with my best friend. We were both huge fans of the show, and so was her boyfriend (he got her into it). He refused to go with us because he heard the reviews were bad. Me and her are both stupid optimists, though, so we were like, "Oh it can't possibly be *that* bad."
Her first comment when we left the theater: "Wow, I'm really glad my bf didn't come with us."
Tbh I never walk out of movies. I think I've done it a total of two times in my whole life. But I almost walked out of this one, and it was because of how they botched Aang & Zuko's "We could have been friends" scene. Aang & Zuko's relationship is one of my favorite, favorite parts of the show, and that scene is one of my favorite scenes. I couldn't even believe it when I saw it: they set everything up the exact same way the show did, but then when it came time for that little exchange of dialogue, the movie was like, "Hahaha nope" and Aang just left. He just left! And then they had the nerve to throw that line randomly in at the end, when it made no sense and didn't have nearly the same emotional impact. I was so pissed. There were a lot of bad aspects of the movie that I could just laugh and shake my head at, but that one thing just really made me rage.
My summary: "The Music is fantastic. Wait this is a Movie?." I really think musicians get done poorly with movies like this because, Like Daniel Greene says, "The creators are so full of their own ego that they don't appreciate the people that end up creating the art/music for them."
So at the very end of this movie we briefly see Azula and she's played by Summer Bishil who went on to play Margo in the tv show The Magicians which she was amazing in! It leaves me wondering how she would have been as Azula if a second movie had been made. I think she actually would have made a pretty good live action Azula, she's a great actress, however she'd still probably have been held back by Shyamalan's directing.
The only thing I could defend is Zuko and Iroh being able to produce fire without a source since Iroh was teaching Zuko in the show how to make the fire come from his breathing and Iroh, well, he's the Dragon of the West and is a member of the White Lotus, who all have super cool powers. (And yes, there's quite a few instances where he behaves very fatherly towards Zuko. I really liked him both in the movie and the show.) But the rest... I really get all the frustration.
Hi Merphy, do you think you’ll give a ballad of songbirds and snakes a go and maybe a review? Loved the vid by the way :)
She didn't start off with "Ok, so". Was this movie so bad that we just abandon protocol?!
"It just made me sad" ~Merphy Napier
My favorite part of this movie is that it was so forgettable that I have completely forgotten 99% of it. My least favorite part is that I still remember how atrociously bad it was.
The people who like the new pronunciations because they are closer to the Asian names, I point out that the creators of the AMERICAN cartoon made the names and they should be kept the same if the film is meant to satisfy the fans.
bro they literally took names from Asian cultures they didn’t MAKE anything with that. most of the people have normal ass east asian names