Wow. Did you guys see this?

[kirkeyressa]

Yesterday, Angry Joe (an Internet reviewer who saw The Last Airbender, hated it and checked out the original series out of curiosity. Needless to say, he liked it and is now a fan!) tweeted about a Youtube video where M. N. Shyamalan sat down with the Elder Gods Mike Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko, the two creators of Avatar: the Last Airbender. (

Comments

[syonanto]

Erm, I know it's been a running trend for a while so no one person is solely to blame, but I don't think it's a good idea to butcher the man's name in an argument about disrespectful/ unfair casting.

Shyamalan is Shyamalan, and personally the only occasion I see fit to change it is when he's rightfully nicknamed Shyama-Hahn XD

Back to the topic: watching that video makes me sad. BUT, knowing Mike and Bryan have mentioned that they are upset about the movie does make me feel much better. I mean, although they didn't go into detail about what was upsetting them, the fact that they had people sporting movie merchandise removed from the lineups for their most recent autographing event is all the detail I need...

[kirkeyressa]

Eh, I'm mostly making fun of the sheer sucky-ness and continuity raping of the movie, not the whole "race-bending" fiasco.

Yes, the fact that Bryke don't like (read, despise) the movie is a comforting notion, and yet, it isn't.

Mike and Bryan had faith in the movie. They trusted M. Night! And what does he do? Why, he makes a movie that Sokka could have written/directed/edited better while high on cactus juice.

I would so see that movie

[syonanto]

LOL a movie about Sokka on cactus juice would definitely be far more riveting than the sad excuse for an adaptation.

As for Mike and Bryan having trusted M Night, I think as depressing as the outcome of that has been, there was no way they could have foreseen this huge a failure coming- much less do something about it. Plus, Nickelodeon was mostly responsible for the agreement to make the live action adaptation. Sadly Mike and Bryan don't own Avatar. Nick does =/

[kirkeyressa]

That movie would kick ass.

*Sigh* Alas... Oh well. We still have "Legend of Korra to look forward to! :D

[sabertooth_kit]

a movie about Sokka on cactus juice

Fear and Loathing in Ba Sing Se ^-^

[kirkeyressa]

OMFG YOU WIN TEH INTERNETZ!!!!!!1!!

That would kick SO much ass!!!

FaLiBSS!Sokka: We can't stop here!... This is wolfbat country.

[kirkeyressa]

Heh, the icon is not mine :P. I snagged it from http://othellia.livejournal.com/. She also has Zhao icons! :3

Mike and Bryan; Masters of passive agressiveness since this steaming piece of shit hit the big screen.

I take it that Zhao is pleased? (Excellent...)

[dietotaku]

i had actually not heard anyone call him shyama-hahn... i've gotten better about using his name correctly in serious discussions (particularly here as opposed to capslock comms), but when he says/does something to piss me off or i'm just being tongue-in-cheek, i'll butcher his name on purpose because, frankly, he butchered this series with his movie. he butchered the names, so we butcher his. he has shown zero respect for the series, its creators or its fans, so i don't see much reason to show respect for him outside of just being nice. otherwise it's kind of like "oh yeah? well fuck YOU!"

[kirkeyressa]

You make a valid point. :P

Your icon fits perfectly for this situation.

[fussyfangs]

pretty much this.

there is absolutely no reason to respect someone who:
a) blames the fans and critics and general audience for not "digging" his movie because of some story-telling accent he claims we don't understand
b) blames bryke for him not understanding the season finale of book one
c) blames the "guys who invented anime" and the "ambiguous" cultures within avatar.

all this asshole does is shift the blame on other people for his blatant errors, and there's no reason why we should give him the slightest bit of respect.

[dietotaku]

blames bryke for him not understanding the season finale of book one
was that shyamalan, or that spoony guy who did a review yesterday? i remember the reviewer not understanding the point of the whole "oh we killed the moon but then the princess sacrificed herself so everything's back to the same," but i don't remember shyamalan saying anything that implied he didn't get the season 1 finale.

[kirkeyressa]

Eh, Spoony didn't watch the show and was making fun of the movie itself (which fails at making sense.) As for M. Night, I think he is stupid enough to think that...

[fussyfangs]

it was in some interview. i posted it back in capslock_atla.

"Basically the last two episodes of the first season was like a whole season. They slammed everything. I remember when I saw it I told the boys [Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko], you're killing me in those two episodes. Just every back story, every single thing you can jam in there. Even in our third act there's a ton jammed in there. It's as much as an audience can take jammed in there. You would need to turn the third act into half the movie to do justice to the back stories."

[zamkenobi]

That doesn't seem to me like he doesn't get it. In fact, I understand exactly what he's saying. The finale of season 1 just has so much going on that's really important that it's going to take up a lot. Still, he just tried to cram too much into too little time. It wasn't an adaptation, it was, "I'm going to redo the original show in live action, cut it down, and smush it together." Some things need to change to fit a season into a movie, and he didn't change those things :/

[fussyfangs]

i find it hard to believe he even understood the finale to the point where he knew what the audience couldn't handle and how long the run-time would be for those two episodes plus the waterbending master, and where he knew who to cut out from what. because seriously, cutting out koh and arnook and replacing koizilla with some unimposing tidal wave is just ridiculous.