The Last Airbender: An Abomination

Long ago, a director tried to adapt a popular cartoon. There were no survivors.

Avatar as a franchise was forever haunted. Many chose to forget. But not me. I chose to suffer.

[KidnamedFinger]

I will never forget the scene where 4 to 5 earth benders did a 5 second bending sequence just for one other earthbender to throw one rock

[DoktorEmilSchuffhausen]

The kid who plays Ong, Noah Ringer, actually acted a lot like cartoon Aang in real life, pulling pranks on his costars behind the scenes and being a fun, light hearted kid. Shyamalan must have made him act all dour and emotionless on purpose.

[davidwilliam]

"My name is ong"

This quote simply traumatized me until now

[powerfulmoocher]

Zuko's slack jawed, gormless stare at 17:53 while his uncle lore dumps really kills me. Nothing but a potato spinning in a microwave in his little head.

[GunnGuardian]

That story with the kid who thought only girls are waterbenders is hilarious with the context that we find out only men in the northern tribe were allowed to become waterbender fighters

[Capum]

Avatar Kyoshi absolutely loved games! "How long can you survive until I kill you and all your friends?" is her favorite.

[Skaiser_Wilhelm]

"My name is Ong. And I'm the Avotar!"

Will go down as one of the worst Introduction lines in the history of Hollywood. This was my first official introduction to Avatar: The Last Airbender, I was cursed from a young age.

[thefilmwatcher]

Just as clarity: Aang’s refusal to kill Ozai in the series was, in fact, perfectly in line with what Avatar Yangchen told him. Yangchen in her time in the original series put aside her Air Nomad principles for the role of the Avatar, because she knew Air Nomad culture would still carry on after her transgression, since the airbenders were still around back then. Aang in his time was the last airbender; if he sacrificed his principles to kill Ozai, the culture of the Air Nomads would die with his transgression.

Figured that was worth bringing up to explain the end of Aang’s fight with Ozai.

Edit (four days later): The Netflix series is going to absolutely make Aang kill Ozai. With how poorly he’s written in that show, they’d NEVER go that deep with Aang’s ideals as an Air Nomad. Or hell, with how everything wants to make villains sympathetic these days, Ozai might just straight up turn good through some asinine Care Bear means.

[edmo]

"the Ahvotar? He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders…right before she died"- Madame Web

[kaneaquino]

My family was invited to be part of a screen testing. The effects weren't finished, and I will tell you, seeing the unfinished effects was a lot more entertaining than the actual movie.

[Eva-jyqupur]

Its amazing how this movie has been criticized to death yet every single time its always an entertaining spectacle

[JWMStopMotionAnimation]

I don’t watch avatar. I don’t know what I’m doing here. I’m just here to hear Cody ramble. It makes my day. I just pleasantly listen to him talk about something I have no knowledge of, and I just take his word for everything.

[ArchangelExile]

The sad thing about the Netflix adaptation is, from what I heard, the original creators of Avatar were involved and wanted it to be set after the original cartoon's ending, in a different period of time, with different conflicts, when everyone was more mature. Netflix said, "no way, we're remaking the original series", then the creators said "k, bye".

[TheBruheak]

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when M. Night Shyamalan made a movie...

[santiagoherrera]

I remember when I was little, when we went to see James Cameron's Avatar, I was so confused about where Aang was and why it had nothing to do with the Last Airbender

[Akursedtime]

I love learning about Ong, Katara and Suka going on a journey to slowly bend the four elements and to defeat the Firelord with exposition.

[DISTurbedwaffle]

"The Avatar's not supposed to hurt people."
Kyoshi: "And I took offense to that."

[carlosi.]

As an Ecuadorian, having us potentially be the ones who conquered the world is extremely funny.

[AmericaChavez]

Fun fact, the actress who plays Yue in this movie is voicing Asami in the Korra series

[TheBearOfSpades]

I do think Noah Ringer, despite being white, looked strikingly like Aang. Arguably the only actor that actually fit the appearance of his character.