Thread by @OSPyoutube

All right gang I’ve been using my brain for Stressful Adult Things for three days straight and need somethig stupid to unwind so let’s real quick PICK A TERRIBLE MOVIE FOR ME TO WATCH -R

oof -R

OOF -R

oh man I love how the actual chinese characters in the opening were replaced by vaguely asian-looking squiggles -R

“the ahhvatar”

why

that’s an english word why are you having trouble

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yea okay everyone’s already said that katara’s actress sucks so I’m not gonna beat that dead horse but JEEEEEZ why is she the one narrating everything -R

also everyone’s already talked about how the multiethnic good guys are suddenly white kids and the bad guys are all indian except for iroh who’s russian but damn it’s distracting -R

sokka’s over-serious “it’s trying to EAT me” is actually funny -R

fun fact I watched this movie in theaters and at the time I didn’t realize just how badly the dialog was put together

it’s just like, strings of characters talking about what’s happening onscreen, introducing themselves super clumsily or yelling context-free non-sequiters

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“If you don’t come, I’ll burn down this village”

this village made entirely of snow

seems very flammable

good threat zuko

-R

eeroh, sow-kah, aahng

this was a SHOW! these names were SPOKEN! WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING

-R

this movie is so confusing. parts of it were made with love and thought - the reference to Hama the bloodbender totally blindsided me and some of the visual details are very carefully done - but the casting, acting, and cgi are all TERRIBLE -R

this movie is a perfect case study in the terrible consequences of trying to summarize a plot without ever stepping back and seeing if the summary makes ANY goddamn sense without the context of the full story

they FORGOT to establish Aang’s NAME for 20 MINUTES

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Okay, aang finding the air nomads dead was at least… ACTED, which makes it a standout scene in contrast to the rest of the movie so far -R

still mad they left out Zhao’s muttonchops -R

It’s amazing to me how much they COULD have made bending feel weighty and impactful and instead it just looks like people flailing at each other -R

“hey aang are you the avatar”

I dunno, did his glowing floating temper-tantrum strike you as normal airbender behavior?

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they are so afraid of having any bending actually HIT anybody that all the benders just show off for half a minute before whalloping each other -R

hey writers pro tip, if you have a character run to another character and shout “dad!” the character doesn’t need to then turn around and tell the other characters “this is my father” -R

“Okay! Everybody can help us now!” good news guys sokka has TWO whole funny lines -R

this movie needed like… two additional trips through the editing room to tighten up the script and close all the plotholes, another editing pass-through to make it look better-shot, a proper soundtrack, or maybe just burning the whole thing to the ground and starting over -R

I still can’t get over “hey earthbenders! you’re standing on earth… RIGHT NOW!” “omg he’s right let’s bend the fuck outta these firebenders” like jeez did you not have the budget for the floating metal prison -R

firelord ozai deserves a better reveal than this. avatar didn’t keep him in shadows for two whole seasons for this nonsense -R

“agnee kee” are you serious they SAID THE GODDAMN WORDS ARE YOU SERIOUS -R

I’ve got it - the bending in the movie feels wrong because it’s (a) way too much motion for a single effect and (b) the WRONG motions; the element just kinda does its own thing while the bender does their yellow-belt demonstration in the background -R

holy shit is that master oogway -R

for the record the old man in the temple is the same guy who played master oogway and it’s really weirding me out -R

zhao is probably the overall most competently written and acted character in the movie and that is. not great -R

this movie hasn’t earned the blue spirit it hasn’t earned ANY of the cool moments from the show NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE CHARACTERS -R

guys this movie is less fun than dragonball evolution -R

oof this Super Cool Long Take is really just showing off in glorious slow motion how bad the fight choreography is -R

y’all know this movie has a six percent on rotten tomatoes? -R

my guess is they had a crew of people who actually liked the show, and they stayed on just long enough to do all the set and costume design and then got fired before the scripting, casting, plotting, vfx and sound design happened -R

guys this movie is so bad there’s almost nothing to talk about

uhhh wanna hear about katara’s terrible narrating again?

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penis-hair notwithstanding, yue is super cute, so that’s something -R

give ozai his beautiful luxurious hair you cowards -R

wow, an actually okay bending scene - aang sparring with the waterbending master is smoothly choreographed and the cgi water is only a little distractingly bad -R

I know there’s a lot to hate but I’m not gonna lie, I think the soundtrack is surprisingly badly used. Silence is a tool for emotional impact; here it feels like they just forgot to put a soundtrack under some of these scenes -R

Every time they could use a scene for emotional impact they use it for exposition instead. When Zuko’s knocked Katara out, he could’ve said “I’m sorry” and it would’ve added depth. Instead he says “I’m not allowed to go home with out him” which we ALREADY KNOW -R

“As the avatar, you are not meant to hurt others”. Aside from every other problem in this movie, this undermines the fact that Aang’s pacifism is a trait of himself as a PERSON, and sets him APART from the other avatars forcing him to confront Ozai alone and in his own way -R

This movie hasn’t shown us the avatar state (just the glowy temper tantrum), or that Aang can use all the elements in that form, and I think that’s a big-ass oversight -R

god it feels like there’s no point bringing up the small problems with the writing when it’s overshadowed by how FUCKING RIDICULOUS EVERYTHING ELSE IS -R

a cheesy eighties-movie zoom on iroh’s eyes is just what this moon-stabbing scene needed -R

anyway “he’s making fire from nothing” was fuckin stupid and I still don’t know why they depowered firebenders by removing their ability to create fire; iroh was special because he had unprecedented control and could do the fire-breathing trick -R

“yue no we’ve shared one conversation you can’t die on me” -R

“we have to show the fire nation that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs” -R

wonder if in-show zuko ever put together that sokka’s “first girlfriend who turned into the moon” correlates to that time he saw the moon go red for like three minutes -R

Zuko’s scar would look much more effective if they’d just gotten rid of that one eyebrow; as things stand it really just looks like he’s having a minor allergic reaction to something -R

in-show: aang bonds with the ocean spirit and rampages around the city in a water kaiju and sort-of murders zhao wreaking untold epic destruction
in-movie: soft pacifist uwu boi aang makes the ocean higher and the fire nation gets spooped and leaves
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this movie almost has a good subplot; clearly they were aiming for the message that Aang couldn’t master waterbending until he let his emotions flow freely and stops “bottling up” his grief about the air nomads, and his big moment at the end is letting go - but they MISSED -R

firebenders are so nerfed in this movie that sozin’s comet is supposed to give them the normal powers they have in the show

if they ever made the sequel azula’s powers would probably be “can make pre-existing fire slightly bluer”

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what happened, shyamalan? were you just really tired the whole time you were writing, directing AND peoducing this movie? -R

no lie guys I legitimately enjoyed dragonball evolution more than this movie; at least that flick was TRYING to have fun -R

this was definitely the least fun I've had with a terrible movie night; it's just so incompetently done there's nothing even unintentionally hilarious about it

I might need to do a NOT-terrible movie night just to recover :o -R