Comments | kali921: Avatar teaser trailer: still some weak blancmange

kali921

Avatar teaser trailer: still some weak blancmange

Jun 23, 2009 08:00

Can someone tell me what this warning wank is about? Because I seem to have missed it, and I'm betting that there's some serious obnoxiousness being perpetuated by all sides involved.

Avatar live action teaser trailer:

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One minute and forty seconds of...not that impressive stuff:

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We get That Guy doing the ponderous voice over, a ( Read more... )

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kali921 June 23 2009, 17:19:40 UTC

I noticed Ang's moves

Aang, not "Ang."

They were nomads! Not that a nomadic culture can't be a nation but I never got the impression they saw themselves as a nation.

I strongly disagree. A nation does not have to be confined to one physical place in order to be defined thusly.

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outlawpoet June 23 2009, 17:33:12 UTC

yeah, I also missed it until this post.

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kali921 June 23 2009, 17:37:40 UTC

Wait'll you see the concept art I'm about to post for the John Carter of Mars films.

mercuryeric June 23 2009, 18:42:42 UTC

WANT.

DO WANT.

I CAN HAZ?

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Er...what? kali921 June 23 2009, 18:49:59 UTC

Er...what fight? In the Avatar trailer? There isn't a fight, there's just Aang practicing. As for Aang's martial arts, have you watched Avatar and read about the meticulous construction of the Avatar world? All of the bending styles - Airbending, Firebending, Earthbending, Waterbending - were based on specific styles of Chinese martial arts. It's not generic kung fu at all. Firebending is based on Nothern Shaolin (with bits of Praying Mantis and other things thrown in), Airbending on Ba Gua, etc.

Edit: Er, my phrasing above sounds unnecessarily tetchy - apologies! I just get a little amped when people think of the bending/fighting styles in Avatar as generically kung fu after all the work the creative crew of the show put into differentiating and worldbuilding.

Re: Er...what? outlawpoet June 23 2009, 19:11:17 UTC

Avatar was a fairly sophisticated cartoon, with lots of references and jokes and straight up historical homages to stuff from all over the world. It's not quite at the level of classic Shaw Brothers or Golden Harvest cinema, where every object and every movement can be understood in it's complexity, but it's still very surprising, and rewards the viewer with some grounding in martial arts, Chinese history, and old movies ( ... )

Re: Er...what? outlawpoet June 23 2009, 19:11:47 UTC

arg, typos of RAGE, when will LJ let me edit.

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darthphere June 23 2009, 19:42:48 UTC

It's hard for me to get excited by anything with Tim Burton's name attached. I just don't see what the big deal is.

Also, Zombie Mad Hatter is not cool.

arpegius_wolf June 23 2009, 19:49:38 UTC

Full.....scale.....RX78-2 Gundam....FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

I'm drooling, literally drooling. I LOVE anything to do with giant robots, but Gundam holds a special place in my heart(right next to Zoids, which got me into anime in the first place).

That thing should be permanent....I wish I could go see it.

And if you think that is big, lets see them try and make a full scale repleca of Evangelion unit-01....The gundam would reach its knee...I think. The EVAs are retardedly huge.....and awesome. But not technically robots....

I'm ranting....and way too excited to see Transformers: ROTF in IMAX this weekend. Like, seriously....It has been my birthday present twice in a row XD