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helIy posted...

i have seen the majority of the show, though

it was extremely cliche and boring, and the movie was too, don't get me wrong

But that's my point - you didn't have an irrational love and obsession for a cartoon made for 8-12 year olds, so when you went to see the movie the (inevitable) fact that a 90-minute movie that was trying to condense 10 hours worth of cartoon plot was going to miss a lot of things, rush through a lot of things, and change a lot of things didn't send you into an apoplectic rage.

I went into it with the same degree of mostly not giving a shit, which left me able to judge it for what it was - a fairly mediocre fantasy film for children. And as I pointed out at the time it came out, I knew kids that were squarely in its demographic who were perfectly fine with it. THEY weren't the ones screaming about how terrible it was.

I'd also compare the situation there to the case of The Seeker. I'm sure there are actually people somewhere in the world who might actually have enjoyed it, and others who would point out that it was a fairly mediocre to moderately substandard fantasy film aimed at stupid kids. Whereas I want to slaughter every human being who had a hand in making it, right down to the caterer, because I actually read the books first and consider the movie an abomination bordering on the level of a war crime.



MICHALECOLE posted...

It does have a 6% on rotten tomatoes

To be fair, it has a rating of 30% in the only part of that site that actually matters. And even the 30% is sketchy because this is the Internet, where fanboys and manchildren rage-downvote everything that threatens their fragile self-ego.

But RT is pretty much a shit metric for film quality anyway, regardless of how many have latched onto it as if it actually means something.

(Incidentally, the aforementioned The Seeker? Has 14% critical and 33% audience on RT. Yet I would argue that every single positive vote ever made and every professional critic who ever gave it a positive review was actually a secret Hitler clone. There are also not enough drugs in the entire history of the world to put me in a mental state where I would ever agree that that abortion of a movie is even remotely comparable to Last Airbender, which I was actually able to watch without almost walking out the theater three times)


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