Well, it's a good thing I checked...

[cleolinda]

... my feeds before I went to bed.

Full 'Last Airbender' teaser trailer.

Comments

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

*sad face*

Well, if it's bad, the Avatards will just pretend it doesn't exist and continue the fandom as before. Hopefully.

[grimorie.livejournal.com]

It... it kinda makes my heart bleed.

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

I love how Shyamalan's name is SO IMPORTANT that it actually has to be incorporated into the title graphic.

[genmaicha.livejournal.com]

Beh.

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. The overall look of the film from those 3 scenes looks good. The bending might turn out to look good live action. Dev is beginning to look more convincing as Zuko but that remains to be seen. (Although I have no doubt he is WORLDS better than the blond apple pie kid they had originally.)

So, no sinking pit of despair yet, but I still can't quite bring myself to cautious optimism. Need more information. Honestly, right now I'm more worried that Appa will either look like the Never Ending Story or like a bunch of flying pixels. (All this race debate -- WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE AIR BISON?)

[ladyvoldything.livejournal.com]

:|

Might be useful as a drinking game.

[reticent-lass.livejournal.com]

I thought the casting was failtastic, so I wasn't going to see it anyway, but even if I knew nothing about Avatar: what a boring trailer!

No world: no cities, villages, mountains, and buildings to draw the eye. No people: no villains, supporting characters, or background villagers to give an idea of what this place is about and why you should be invested in it. No action, just a kid in a robe messing around in the Room of a Billion Candles that must have taken for-frickin'-ever to light.

This is what happens when you piss off your fanbase and tell them the painstakingly crafted world they've spent years enjoying is going to be set aside for a generic fantasyland with as few Asian touches as they can get away with. Boring trailers that don't leave room for controversy.

[aiyakiu.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I am excited for this film -- as angry about the casting as I still am. I will say, however, I think the teaser trailer in no way will bring in viewers who are not already Avatar fans. The trailer itself is vague and rather boring -- I found myself wondering if the kid doing martial arts in a cloak was some kind of alien for a moment rather than the storyline that I know so well and love.
I hope that the films do the series justice, at least.

(frozen)

[kamiawolf.livejournal.com]

People ragging on this movie because the casting make me so angry. Their "no whites" attitude sounds just as racist as the way they are trying to make the movie out to be.

yeah, i went there.

[sunni-sideup.livejournal.com]

I am probably one of the few fans who doesn't care at all about the casting of this movie. I think they've done a great job so far, and really, I have no complaints as of now. Who knows, the whole thing might be a disappointment, but I'm liking what I've seen so far. Just wish there had been a little more to the trailer, but it's a teaser and the movie is a year away. I'm happy with what we got.

(frozen)

[sunni-sideup.livejournal.com]

I... kinda agree. I don't think it should be an issue at all. May the best actors be cast.

[zeelandia.livejournal.com]

Exactly! WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE AIR BISON!?

I expect huge teeth. It's not Appa without those choppers.

(love you for this post, oh yeah!)

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

just watched, was preparing to say "eff this live-action crap" when I saw SPECIAL EFFECTS BY ILM.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO M NIGHT SHAMAMALLAMA YOU HAVE DISCOVERED MY FATAL WEAKNESS

still probably won't see it. it just looks...weird. and when the voices are wrong I will probably go through the ceiling.

[skye-writer.livejournal.com]

This. (Also, Pushing Daisies icon FTW.)

(frozen)

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

I think the reason people are so upset is that it doesn't appear that the casting directors did look for the best actors. If they had gotten skilled actors who were white, people might bitch, but be cautiously optimistic. Instead it seems like they just grabbed a bunch of Disney-channel glitterteens and tossed them into a movie that was supposed to be richly Asia-influenced and now will be random fantasyland. The apparent lack of effort plus a nearly all-white cast is what really pisses people off, I think.

[sun-star-n-moon.livejournal.com]

I one of those people who know nothing of Avatar, and I full heartily agree. A very boring trailer indeed.

[sunni-sideup.livejournal.com]

HEHE. PD makes me so happy and sad at the same time. FAIL, ABC.

[sun-star-n-moon.livejournal.com]

and I totally did not intend for that to rhyme, but it does.

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I don't think the film will draw any new fans, and they've managed to piss off at least half the fanbase into boycotting the movie, so... I'm not too hopeful that this will do well.

I'm definitely not going. The visuals look decent but right away I was wondering why Aang was in that weird-ass cloak and why he apparently sucks at airbending enough that he can only blow out a few candles at a time, instead of doing a sweeping wave of air that took out all of them.

(frozen)

[sunni-sideup.livejournal.com]

Dev Patel and Jackson Rathbone are the ones I really want to see. They have both proven themselves as really great actors, I think. And the rest of them are newcomers, so I reserve judgment. :) We'll see how the movie turns out.

[baku-chan.livejournal.com]

"...hy he apparently sucks at airbending enough that he can only blow out a few candles at a time, instead of doing a sweeping wave of air that took out all of them."

Uh, he did that at the end of the trailer :O

[baku-chan.livejournal.com]

this, so hard.

[beansalad.livejournal.com]

*flaaaaaaaaaaaaail*
Everyone keeps picking at it and saying how awful its going to be...dude. I am SO excited! I don't care what anyone says, I think its going to be AWESOME

[himhilien.livejournal.com]

That was such a boring teaser. Good thing the racefail was enough for me and my friends to not spend our money for this.

(frozen)

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

that, and in casting for extras they made several racially/just downright culturally insensitive comments about different ethnic groups.

and I just can't quite bring myself to believe that the bestest people they could cast turned out to be all white. I mean, if they're not shying away from newcomers, are we really supposed to believe they couldn't find, for example, a really talented brown girl to play Katara? There are a lot of people in this world, and a lot of talented people at that.