Poll of the Day > Hopes were crushed

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Was going over archived posts of mine, found this
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I recently watched Avatar: The Last Airbender on DVD. In the bonus features there was a Comic Con panel with a blurb from M. Night Shyamalan for the live action movie, and fans went nuts cheering.

Broke my heart.
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hey so

i liked that movie

do not like the cartoon
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helIy posted...

hey so

i liked that movie

do not like the cartoon

That's the real issue, honestly.

The movie itself was just mediocre fantasy aimed at younger kids. Younger kids who saw it didn't necessarily hate it. And for people who never saw the cartoon (and thus, had zero previous emotional investment), it was forgettable more than it was terrible.

Most of the backlash against it was because the older people (and let's be honest, a very specific demographic of people) who'd loved the cartoon couldn't accept that the movie wasn't really made for them. And because it's trendy to hate on Shyamalan, so it picked up that stink before anyone ever even saw it.


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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
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

helIy posted...

hey so

i liked that movie

do not like the cartoon

That's the real issue, honestly.

The movie itself was just mediocre fantasy aimed at younger kids. Younger kids who saw it didn't necessarily hate it. And for people who never saw the cartoon (and thus, had zero previous emotional investment), it was forgettable more than it was terrible.

Most of the backlash against it was because the older people (and let's be honest, a very specific demographic of people) who'd loved the cartoon couldn't accept that the movie wasn't really made for them. And because it's trendy to hate on Shyamalan, so it picked up that stink before anyone ever even saw it.

Well

It does have a 6% on rotten tomatoes

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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tbh, I picked up X-Men Destiny during a black friday sale years ago and still need to play it >_>

I know it also had a handheld port or something but it looked terrible.

keyblader1985 posted...

I recently watched Avatar: The Last Airbender on DVD. In the bonus features there was a Comic Con panel with a blurb from M. Night Shyamalan for the live action movie, and fans went nuts cheering.

Broke my heart.

Oh, those poor fools...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

That's the real issue, honestly.

The movie itself was just mediocre fantasy aimed at younger kids. Younger kids who saw it didn't necessarily hate it. And for people who never saw the cartoon (and thus, had zero previous emotional investment), it was forgettable more than it was terrible.

Most of the backlash against it was because the older people (and let's be honest, a very specific demographic of people) who'd loved the cartoon couldn't accept that the movie wasn't really made for them. And because it's trendy to hate on Shyamalan, so it picked up that stink before anyone ever even saw it.

That and the movie was intrinsically flawed simply because it tried to compress an entire season of events into one film, which is why there's so much linking narration. I didn't think it was great (and, for all that kids movie talk, I'm not sure many children thought it was great), but I still wanted a sequel.

And, honestly, the real problem was trying to follow the general story arc too closely which was completely infeasible... actually, scratch that, they *could* have made it work. If they had broken the individual events into episodes/segments, the film wouldn't have seemed as messy.
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Zeus posted...

I know it also had a handheld port or something but it looked terrible.

Got cancelled

Edit - Never mind, local release was, but other regions still got it. I'd just end up getting something from the UK or US if I found it somehow.
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Zeus posted...

tbh, I picked up X-Men Destiny during a black friday sale years ago and still need to play it >_>

It was okay. The gameplay is simplistic, the voice acting is generally meh, and the plot is somewhat generic, but it's not terrible as a time-killer.

It's not helped by the main characters all being kind of terrible, though. Just being able to character create yourself a unique character would have added a lot to the game, IMO.


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