Here's a look at the "Last Airbender" trailer to premiere during the Superbowl.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1933509657/
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1933509657/
Superbowl trailer for "Last Airbender"
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M. Night is still making movies? And I'm not? No fair. 
I can understand some of the apprehension about M. Night making this movie, but most of the complaints I've heard about his movies centre around them being based around flawed concepts. I don't hear many criticisms about him being a bad director, visually,for example. The creators of the TV show are seemingly happy with the direction he's going to take the cartoon to film translation, and since he's not really inventing anything so much as adapting an existing work, I have less of an inclination to believe that it's going to be a train wreck like that stupid killer tomatoes movie he made. 
From what little we've seen it in these trailers it looks visually appealing, IMO. I'm not going to avoid seeing a movie based on a show that I really like just because of who is making it. He has a large number of films ranging from exceptional to crap, I'll take the chance.
From what little we've seen it in these trailers it looks visually appealing, IMO. I'm not going to avoid seeing a movie based on a show that I really like just because of who is making it. He has a large number of films ranging from exceptional to crap, I'll take the chance.
M. Night Shyamalan.
Great director. Decent "idea guy". So-so screenplay writer.
That's my tuppence, old boys.
Great director. Decent "idea guy". So-so screenplay writer.
That's my tuppence, old boys.
I can understand some of the apprehension about M. Night making this movie, but most of the complaints I've heard about his movies centre around them being based around flawed concepts. I don't hear many criticisms about him being a bad director, visually,for example. The creators of the TV show are seemingly happy with the direction he's going to take the cartoon to film translation, and since he's not really inventing anything so much as adapting an existing work, I have less of an inclination to believe that it's going to be a train wreck like that stupid killer tomatoes movie he made.
My problem is that stylistically, tonally, his previous work is everything Avatar: The Last Airbender isn't -- slow-paced instead of quick and lively, drab instead of colorful, somber instead of witty, quiet and understated instead of raucous and intense. I have a hard time believing he could pull off the diametric opposite of his own usual style.
True, the shots in that trailer look very authentic, casting aside. And it does look like it's going to be a visually impressive movie. I still find him a bizarre choice of director, though.
More or less. Fox greenlighted Cameron's Avatar just barely before Paramount greenlighted the A:TLA movie. The announcements were made literally hours apart, in January 2007. Fox protested when Paramount tried to register the Avatar title. Three months later, Paramount backed down and dropped Avatar from their title, presumably because Cameron was the bigger director with the bigger movie.
Personally, I don't see why Cameron couldn't have had the courtesy to back down, since the TV series had a prior claim on the name. Sure, he'd been developing the project under that name for years, but he could've changed it, called it Pandora or something.
I don't really get why the title was such a big deal, but whatever.
Shyamalan just needs someone working next to him at all times to act as a "No Man." Someone who can always try and change his worst ideas and when that fails as a backup he has an unrestricted ability to veto say, two or three of M. Night's ideas for every movie, even if he insists on keeping them.
Aliens that are allergic to water are coming to a planet that's 75% covered in water? PASS.
Casting yourself as a writer whose stories bring about a new era of world peace and prosperity in a movie where the only person you kill off is an obnoxious movie critic? PASS.
Trees, wind, and Marky Mark's acting ("Don't you guys want to know about the bees?!") as the main antagonists of the film? PASS.
That being said, since this movie seems to buck the usual format M. Night uses in his other films, and since it is based on an existing property instead of something he wrote entirely on his own, I have some hope for it being a good film (and hopefully the rest of the trilogy will be good as well). He certainly knows how to build suspense and is a good director.
I am somewhat nervous that he set the bar a little high by calling this trilogy his 'Star Wars.' Granted, other people might not see that as a lofty goal, but he definitely seemed to in the interview. It just came off a bit full of himself, and when he gets full of himself and starts buying into his own hype that's when he starts cranking out crap.
Anyway, the action and FX in that trailer look pretty good, so hopefully we'll at least get something visually exciting. I know absolutely nothing about the show it's based on, so I'm going in fresh.
Aliens that are allergic to water are coming to a planet that's 75% covered in water? PASS.
Casting yourself as a writer whose stories bring about a new era of world peace and prosperity in a movie where the only person you kill off is an obnoxious movie critic? PASS.
Trees, wind, and Marky Mark's acting ("Don't you guys want to know about the bees?!") as the main antagonists of the film? PASS.
That being said, since this movie seems to buck the usual format M. Night uses in his other films, and since it is based on an existing property instead of something he wrote entirely on his own, I have some hope for it being a good film (and hopefully the rest of the trilogy will be good as well). He certainly knows how to build suspense and is a good director.
I am somewhat nervous that he set the bar a little high by calling this trilogy his 'Star Wars.' Granted, other people might not see that as a lofty goal, but he definitely seemed to in the interview. It just came off a bit full of himself, and when he gets full of himself and starts buying into his own hype that's when he starts cranking out crap.
Anyway, the action and FX in that trailer look pretty good, so hopefully we'll at least get something visually exciting. I know absolutely nothing about the show it's based on, so I'm going in fresh.
According to this article, FOX registered the title 'Avatar' with the MPAA in 1996 (presumably on behalf of who Cameron was working on the initial scriptment at the time) - So this was several years before 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' was started as a TV series. That, and the fact that Cameron's 'Avatar' was in production earlier meant that Paramount did not have enough of case to build on. Of course, who knows the details of the final settlement.
As much love as I have for those guys, they're getting paid quite a lot of money as a result of this movie, so I don't really take their word as meaning much.
As much love as I have for those guys, they're getting paid quite a lot of money as a result of this movie, so I don't really take their word as meaning much.
Yeah. There's also the mantra of every writer whose work gets adapted for the big screen (or if it's not their mantra, it should be): any publicity is good. Even a bad movie adaptation of your work will bring a bigger audience to your own original work than it had before. And I'm sure they're hoping it will turn out well, though that's no guarantee it will.
At the very least, it seems to look good.
Maybe because you might be viewing it still as a cartoon and not a live action drama.I can understand some of the apprehension about M. Night making this movie, but most of the complaints I've heard about his movies centre around them being based around flawed concepts. I don't hear many criticisms about him being a bad director, visually,for example. The creators of the TV show are seemingly happy with the direction he's going to take the cartoon to film translation, and since he's not really inventing anything so much as adapting an existing work, I have less of an inclination to believe that it's going to be a train wreck like that stupid killer tomatoes movie he made.
My problem is that stylistically, tonally, his previous work is everything Avatar: The Last Airbender isn't -- slow-paced instead of quick and lively, drab instead of colorful, somber instead of witty, quiet and understated instead of raucous and intense. I have a hard time believing he could pull off the diametric opposite of his own usual style.
Instead view Ang as a little boy that feels guilty for the death of his people, abandoning his duty and doubts he has what it takes to free a world in over run by war. That is the underlying tale of Avatar, at least up until "Day of Black Sun".
The tale shouldn't be colorful & lively.
Being 12yrs old and chosen savior of a world isn't a joy, it's a burden. Don't expect Sokka's slap stick comedy either, he mother is dead and his father is away. I 'd expect him to be more of a bitter wise ass instead.
OK so I never saw the goddamn trailer and I spent all this time with baited breath! I started watching with the kick-off at 6:30, did they air it before that or something?! I want to see what the characters look like!!! I'm a brand new fan just getting into the third season and I love it.
I guess they figured they didn't need to bother with everyone already seeing it on the internet.
As much love as I have for those guys, they're getting paid quite a lot of money as a result of this movie, so I don't really take their word as meaning much.
Unless your name is Alan Moore.
It was one of, if not the first, commercial of the evening.
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