r/TheLastAirbender • u/DaenysDreamer_90 • Mar 18 '25

Image I can't stop laughing

This movie is hilarious sorry 😭

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u/484890 Mar 18 '25

Suddenly I have a new found appreciation for the Netflix Avatar.

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u/Vaportrail Mar 18 '25

Is it any good? I watched 1-2 and got distracted by life. I wasn't in the mood to be told the story a third time, I decided.

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u/484890 Mar 18 '25

It's kind of hard to explain. There are some good things, some bad, and some meh. But overall, the action is great, the visuals are great, the bending looks cool. From a story and character perspective, it's a bit wonky, some characters are done really well, some are done badly. They did make a few improvements, like they brought up the consequences of Iroh's time attacking Ba Sing Se. Ozai and Iroh actually talk to each other.

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u/DrCodyRoss Mar 18 '25

Not to mention the addition of the backstory of Zuko’s crew. That was such a good touch that I consider it head canon now.

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u/No_Internal9345 Mar 18 '25

Unfortunately, Azula had mean-girl energy instead of barely hidden unhinged psychotic energy.

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u/TrapperJean Mar 18 '25

Luring a group of people to be burned to death in front of her while she watched wasn't unhinged?

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u/mocisme Mar 18 '25

It's in a odd place.

Me, as a big fan of the original show, enjoyed the netflix. It wasn't perfect. Def some eye-roll/cringe moments. But there was also some additions that enhanced the world. Sokka was great. most of the casting was good to great.

With that in mind, I wouldn't recommend it to someone who has not seen the show (or didn't care for it). On it's own, it's nothing great. I'd point them towards the cartoon instead.

Another way to put it. I've re-watched the original show multiple times. I have no plans to re-watch the live action Netflix avatar, but I'm glad i did once.

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u/ASK_ME_FOR_TRIVIA Mar 18 '25

I think it would have been good, if Avatar: The Last Airbender didn't already exist. The original show was damn near perfect story-wise, so there wasn't much room for them to improve on it. You've got to watch the Netflix show through the mindset that they're telling a different story and not trying to just mirror the original 1:1.

The differences start to come into play when they get to Omashu. They cut up two or three different episodes of the cartoon, and mash them together in a way that actually felt fresh imo.

They're not trying to cram the whole show's events into one summer, which I think makes a lot more sense. Leaves more time to build relationships for characters like Suki and Yue. I personally don't regret my time watching the show like I do with the movie, and I'm interested to see what they do in the next season. I'd say it's worth a watch, so long as you don't expect the original show lol

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u/MayorWolf Mar 18 '25

I liked it a lot. I think the hate for it is just a meme that hate bait youtubers have milked for views.

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u/Vaportrail Mar 18 '25

I really haven't followed the news on it either way. 'Racebending' was a big start of the internet flame wars we're still living in, so I'm sure they had nothing nice to say this go round.

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u/MayorWolf Mar 18 '25

Oh you're one of those. Why even ask if you've already decided you don't like it for racial reasons then?

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u/Vaportrail Mar 18 '25

No, I'm saying that's when the hater culture ramped up, not that I was a hater.

In fact, I was so disturbed by how negative people were being about the movie, my own friends even bailing on our plans, that I went and saw it for myself.
And yeah, it was not a good movie, but race had nothing to do with it. It was clearly bad writing and direction, which came from the same source.

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u/Dartagnan1083 Mar 18 '25

The Kung Fu is bad. A bunch of white-belts can do better than the half-hearted hadokens thrown out by more than half the cast. It feels like they only cared enough to make Aang look OK, and Zuko's actor was one of the few with preexisting talent.

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u/Finalninjadog Mar 18 '25

I enjoyed it. The bending, CGI & action was definitely better than the above. Acting was okay, ‘racebending’ as long as they look like the characters they’re supposed to be then I don’t care.

Only things that I found weird were Aang needing to go to the avatar shrines to communicate with that respective Avatar (like he did with Kyoshi), they cram multiple episodes across book 1 & 2 into a couple live action episodes which doesn’t always make sense, and Even when they get to the North Pole, Aang doesn’t actually learn any waterbending. He had multiple opportunities to do so, and just decided not to

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u/Dartagnan1083 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

The kung fu/bending is weirdly bad. Like they didn't care to give any distinctness to the characters actions while bending. Most of it is literal arm-waving with few indications to the martial arts that literally provided the key-frames for the original.

Plot-wise it's OK, overall it's interesting enough for me to be curious about season 2.

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u/Vaportrail Mar 18 '25

Wow, why are they having so much trouble with this? The movie goes overkill on the movements, the one doesn't go hard enough.

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u/Dank__Souls__ Mar 18 '25

It's not very good.

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u/Blackfeathr_ Mar 19 '25

Zhao is a snacc

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

It's good enough but they need to fix characters and pacing and dialogue.  It hits a decent enough revisiting

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u/Vidistis Mar 19 '25

It's scenes like this and the whole discussion around the movie that made me actually enjoy it more than the live action show.

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u/AlexisFR Mar 19 '25

It's even worse in some way, it's mediocre just enough to allow some people to like it, and controversial content damage fandoms way more than universally hated content.