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Post by Musogato on Jun 30, 2010 17:28:56 GMT -5
Reviews from critics and others who have seen early screenings of the movie are starting to roll in, and it's looking like Ember Island Players called it. ROTTEN TOMATOES As of this posting, the tomato meter is at 7% with 28 reviews -- 26 rotten and 2 fresh. The main complaints are the bad writing and exposition-filled dialogue, wooden acting, no character development, no emotional storyline, melodramatic, an incomprehensible plot, scenes that jump from one place to another with only a title card and a voice over to tell you what happened in-between, a few mentions of the racebending, and the non-existent 3D that just made the movie look darker and dingier. For a detailed fan's overview, Mike Le saw a pre-screening. community.livejournal.com/racebending/246774.htmlI know some of you guys will see Racebending in that link and automatically disregard it, but he really does stay objective and details what characters aren't in the movie (including, bafflingly, the Kyoshi Warriors), as well as a breakdown of which plots are used, changed, disregarded, as well as talking about other parts of the movie like the acting, action, pacing, and 3D. Finally, here are a bunch of other review links that aren't on Rotten Tomatoes: Rudie Obias @ Fused Film Scott Mendelson @ BlogSpot Merrill Barr @ Merrill Bar R-Girl @ Off My Chest Tees DireWolf @ ComicBookResources Hollywood Prophets Robert Frankel @ The Daily UW Fury of the Film FanFor those going to see the movie, I hope you'll at least take the advice of not wasting your money on the 3D version. Apparently it's only noticeable during the opening/ending credits.
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Post by Leaf on Jun 30, 2010 17:43:03 GMT -5
It's still going to make enough money to guarantee it's sequels.
The tomato meter was up to 10%.
I'm expecting it to be over 13% at the least at the end of the month.
Also, if the sequel to Dragonball Evolution is true, then Airbender's sequels are a given go.
In before Japan finds this movie good.
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Post by Musogato on Jun 30, 2010 17:56:55 GMT -5
The T-Meter critics is at 7% with 30 reviews total, and the Top Critics meter is at 8% with 13 reviews.
Not really. There's nothing solid on the Dragonball: Evo sequel, just that it's not entirely impossible. adsjfls ...Regardless, we'll see how the box office goes.
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Post by syarafire on Jun 30, 2010 19:41:46 GMT -5
Wow, this looks absolutely awful.
What bothers me the most out of all the reviews I've read were the few that explained the movie as set in a post-apocalyptic future where modern mankind has destroyed everything and the Avatar world is the only thing left. I don't even know.
EDIT: For instance, in Roger Ebert's review: "The story takes place in the future, after Man has devastated the planet and survives in the form of beings with magical powers allowing them to influence earth, water and fire."
Is this actually a thing? What?
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Post by Musogato on Jun 30, 2010 19:46:16 GMT -5
Yeah, there was something like that in Ebert's review and I was like..... dude, WHAT? I just don't even. Especially since he's mentioned before that he's seen the show, so... yeah. I have no idea where he got that from.
ah, edit-ninja'd. But yeah, seriously, where would he get that from? I mean, it's not like Firefly, where, even though there's a lot of Old West stuff there's also spaceships and laser guns.
Plus, how is it that Man "devastated the earth" when there's so much natural beauty in the show? Maybe he wrote that review when he was super tired and just got some wires crossed with some other show or movie?
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Post by syarafire on Jun 30, 2010 19:54:50 GMT -5
I have absolutely no idea. Apparently it's an easy mistake to make about the movie, though; it was in another review: "this saga revolves around (I think) a war-torn future world waiting for a messiah to unite it."
I can't say I'm disappointed because I was kind of expecting it to be mediocre, but wow.
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Post by Leaf on Jun 30, 2010 20:20:14 GMT -5
The tomato meter was 10% then went down to 8% and now 7%.
User meter is 75%, LMAO!
Then again, did you really expect anything from Rotten Tomatoes.
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Post by Musogato on Jun 30, 2010 20:36:08 GMT -5
The problem with the user meter is that there are over a dozen pages of 100% approvals that date all the way back to 2008. While typing this out, the user meter page wasn't even loading anymore, perhaps from an overload of brand new accounts trying to counter the critic reviews. Personally, I don't think user reviews should count toward a meter percentage unless it's made AFTER they've actually seen the movie. If the meter only counted the reviews made after the prescreenings and movie premiere, or at least those that actually said something aside from 'everyone's wrong this movie will be epic,' I think the percentage would be a lot more accurate.
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Post by GROOONK'D on Jun 30, 2010 21:34:37 GMT -5
There is NO chance in hell that this makes enough money to warrant a sequel.
Sorry, but Paramount spent over 350 million dollars making and marketing this wreck. Paramount will be lucky if this doesn't pull a Golden Compass and, literally, destroy their studio.
I feel we should all be thankful.
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Post by Escalus (Syn) on Jul 1, 2010 1:47:06 GMT -5
As for the movie, I just got back from the midnight release, and as far as I can say, it holds up for the most part. I'll put it this way....... I felt the same way at the end of the first season of the series, and I am going to go see the second. While it had its problems, it had potential.
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Post by asian malaysian on Jul 1, 2010 4:10:25 GMT -5
NYT's review was particulalrly painful: movies.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/movies/01last.html“The Last Airbender”? Let’s hope so, though there is a scene at the very end that gestures toward a sequel. After 94 minutes — was that all? I could have sworn it was days — of muddy 3-D imagery and muddled storytelling, the idea that this is just the first “Last Airbender” seems either delusionally optimistic or downright cruel. An astute industry analyst of my acquaintance, who is 9 and an admirer of the Nickelodeon animated series on which the movie is based, offered a two-word diagnosis of its commercial prospects on the way out of the theater: “They’re screwed.”
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Post by Horyo on Jul 1, 2010 5:21:52 GMT -5
Well RT has a 6%.
I'm only offended that it's lost to Eclipse.
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Post by Zidaneski on Jul 1, 2010 9:45:06 GMT -5
Yeah the movie was disappointing, but for the most part there were a few scenes I thought was done better than the actual TV series. The intro was really awesome with the four elements and then confuses you cause it never looks that good during the movie. Dialogue was good whenever they actually stuck to the original script of the series.
So as I fan I would definitely watch the second installment its just that if I were to watch this movie again I would have to cut to the cool parts like when Aang fights Zuko.
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Post by Zukosfire5 on Jul 1, 2010 11:48:34 GMT -5
From reading that review on Racebending's LJ, as well as the NY Times review someone linked, I have to say that all my worst fears about the movie have been confirmed.
This could have been an awesome movie. It could have been so, so good! I'm just really upset that it turned into such a steaming pile of fail. *sighs* Poor Bryke.
At least I still have my DVDs of the TV show.
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Post by truwaterbender on Jul 1, 2010 16:07:15 GMT -5
Though the critic reviews are hurtful and point toward major disappointment, they are rightfully so. I didn't see the 3D (since my neighborhood theater didn't feature it in 3D >_>) But from the critics critique, I'm glad I didn't waste my money on it.
The Last Airbender could have been better and hopefully it doesn't totally sink and we can get a sequel that's better than this one.
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