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premium_shaday in wtf_tla

I have a theory.

Jul 14, 2010 21:02

So after all the terrible press and ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwccNqklC_k ) this scene, I have decided to forgo this movie because it is clearly awful. BUT. Since watching that scene, I have come to this conclusion: THE BENDING DOESN'T SUCK BECAUSE THE CHOREOGRAPHER ( Read more... )

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psylum_atla July 15 2010, 01:27:58 UTC

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: HEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!

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psylum_atla July 15 2010, 01:42:06 UTC

A plausable reason for Sifu Kisu to have been kept out of the production process.

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himhilien July 15 2010, 01:52:03 UTC

I vaguely remember reading/hearing about this.

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dietotaku July 15 2010, 01:52:23 UTC

the bending is all over the place, to be honest. waterbending is, IMO, actually the worst of the 4. you know how, in the show, waterbending creates these tight bubbles and ribbons of water, sort of like the bending is just increasing surface tension and holding it in a particular shape? in the movie, all waterbending is SOPPING. katara pulls a blob of water out of the ocean in the opening scene and it is GUSHING water like a running faucet the entire time, and yet the bubble never gets any smaller. aang's practice waterbending looks like it's imitating the fountains at the bellagio in las vegas. pakku's attacks on the firebenders look like he turned a garden hose on them all. the ONLY time waterbending is not either sopping wet or nonexistent is when pakku is playing water!hackeysack with aang trying to train him offensively. i am not kidding, he kicks around a ball of water like a soccer ball ( ... )

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dietotaku July 15 2010, 01:57:01 UTC

oh! oh! you know what it is? all the bending... IS THE QUAD-LASER.

and that's me at the end, to shyamalan: "I HOPE HE CAN SEE THIS BECAUSE I'M DOING IT AS HARD AS I CAN."

premium_shaday July 15 2010, 03:25:33 UTC

CLEARLY THAT SCENE WAS RIPPED FROM THE MOVIE.

irishgal487 July 15 2010, 02:57:08 UTC

......How in the hell could you do a martial art film...and have no fight choreographer!?!?! Really I mean what the hell!

It makes so much more sense now why the bending sucked ass!

turtleyurtle1 July 15 2010, 05:52:40 UTC

That family film council component I mentioned above had to do with the “intense” action sequences, or lack thereof. As you watch the slow motion pan across the battlefield at the end of the film, you can’t help but think that it looks an awful lot like a thousand extras with swords and other weapons continue to try to punch and kick each other to no avail, while leaving their swords at their sides. Wait, it doesn’t look an awful lot like that, that is actually what is happening. That happens- seriously.

All of the “bending” involves tai chi-like movements made in front of a green screen so that some fake water, fire, earth, or wind can be animated as a weapon in battle. The tai chi movements are often rather random as it seems Shyamalan’s direction must have been, “Make large sweeping movements with your entire body, make it look like you know what you are doing. Go for it, you’re a professional.”

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