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Avatar: The Last Airbender teaser trailer

(so did James Cameron win the lawsuit or what? anyway, talk about bad omens, not even getting the full title of the thing in.)

but amidst it all, my real reaction?

fuck this liveaction shit.

granted this reaction is probably influenced by all the horrible language in that most glorious of films, Bridget Jones's Diary, but if Colin Firth can say "fuck" then so can I.

(OH GOD COLIN FIRTH.)

But seriously? It just looks...weird. It was the ships that threw me. The airbending sequence was, as others are pointing out, boring, or at least it was too long, but then it zoomed out (nitpick!fangirl says, "where the hell is he supposed to be?" and "OH MY GOD HIS ARROWS WTF HIS ARROWS") and the ships started appearing and I just went...wtf? It just looks so weird, all 3D. And I know Katara isn't going to look like Katara (biggest concern? probably) and worst of all they're not going to sound the same and it isn't going to be them. No matter how good a job the actors do, it isn't going to be them. The Gaang. And the villains. And everyone.

So in the end, it's not even a problem of racefail (which basically amounts to "was there a fair shot at racially-balanced casting? um no"). It's a problem of being not-right. I'm happy with the cartoon medium, and I love the voice-acting cast. The movie's like--like the third Mummy movie, where they didn't have Rachel Weisz as Evie because she was all "I'm not taking my baby into China" (perfectly understandable). It doesn't matter how good a job the next girl does, she isn't Evie. She's some other chick saying Evie's lines and acting in her place. Like the guy who plays Lupin, who is so completely detached from my image of the man character that every time he comes on screen I have to think to remember who he's supposed to be.

so fuck this liveaction shit, and give me my cartoons, dammit.

Comments

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

I was watching Sozin' Comet today, and I thought to myself, (like you said) this Cannot Be Topped. So I'll just think of the movie as based on the cartoon, a story very heavily influenced by Avatar, but NOT AVATAR. I hope that'll work for me.