I haven’t seen the movie myself at all somethingguy912 and you shouldn’t worry about hurting my feelings on the matter, but overall from what I heard I have no interest in seeing it for myself at all. (Nitpick here: Aang is 12 and 13 by the original epilogue though not 10. I like the Aang or the -original- series. He’s a fun kid. Plus I liked the eventual friendship he formed with Zuko, which was adorable.).
In the end Noah did mean I was somewhat hopeful though for his part, due to the fact it seemed there was a reason he was picked- behind the scenes he SEEMED like Aang in personality, also he was a martial arts expert. There seemed to be some kind of logic behind choosing him for the role. Also because I heard the Blue Spirit episode was in it, one of the best episodes of the first season along with the finale itself. It was one of the few times Zuko was actually an impressive fighter too in that season- probably because he wasn’t firebending and keeping his mouth shut. I also love the season 1 finale for Aang going down to Koh and dealing with that the best he could as well as being a real hero and saving his enemy. Also for Yue.
Noah seemed to have Aang’s opimistic personality from behind the scenes evidence. And he also had martial arts. The director in question has previously been lauded as being GOOD at directing kids, since the Sixth sense and all.
But then the director didn’t use any of that possibility with Noah it seems, and Sokka and Katara were absolutely horrible actors apparently (but I think everyone has the potential to be a good actor, and acting isn’t hard at all- you just have to grow in confidence yourself, put yourself in the characters shoes and learn to take criticism and good direction without being a pre-madonna. After that acting is EASY.). Zhao apparently was the worst- generally in the fandom there seems to be people saying it’s terrible to those who say Aang’s actor was okay but not great (and not used to his best potential), a few others actually say Zuko and Iroh were… tolerable. But absolutely everything else was horrible.
But Zhao, Sokka and Katara were just unforgiveable to everyone who saw it basically.
Plus apparently it took a whole troop 5 minutes of extreme dance moves in order to move one measley rock. XD.
There was even a person called rufftoon on the net cricised their scenes (who was an early fan of the show who actually eventually came to work on THE ACTUAL SHOW later- she has also had jobs elsewhere- and is also fandom famous also for producing perhaps the best ‘fancomic’ of the series based on Zhao himself in an AU where he survived- but that’s off topic). Anyhow, she pointed out some problems with the movie action scenes such as here:
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The first half of the piece is an example of a GOOD scene (from the actual animated series), one where it flows and doesn’t confuse the viewers)- it’s from the episode ‘Imprisoned’. The panel underneath shows however where logical problems have resulted in using the exact same scene.
(Even disregarding the fact in the movie they were surrounding by earth in this instance instead of metal).