news culture You hate Dragon Ball Evolution. There is an even worse live action movie!
There are films that mark the public for the worst reasons. In 2009, Dragon Ball fans suffered a sad event that changed them forever. A year later, it was the turn of another fanbase to be savagely attacked…
Summary
- Avatar wasn’t always all blue
- He should have stayed in the ice
Avatar wasn’t always all blue
If video games have a reputation for never being well adapted to the big screen, they are not the only ones. Often appreciated by the same public, manga and their animated versions are also struggling to find a worthy place in the cinema. Dragon Ball fans will remember without problem the trauma that was the discovery of Dragon Ball Evolution in 2009, but we could also talk about Netflix’s few attempts to adapt some nuggets like Death Note Where Full Metal Alchemist.
But there is another work much loved by his fans that had to suffer a low blow from Hollywood. Avatar the Last Airbender was an American animated series produced by Nickelodeon and aired between 2005 and 2008. Particularly successful, it depicted the adventures of Aang, a young boy with the ability to control the 4 elements, and his group of friends. On the strength of its critical and commercial success, the series was adapted to the cinema in 2010 for a result that was regrettable to say the least.
He should have stayed in the ice
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan whose work has proven to us that he is capable of the best (Sixth Sensethe trilogy Unbreakable/Split/Glass) like the worst (Phenomena, after-earth), The last air Master unfortunately falls into the latter category. While it follows the original synopsis of the animated series well, the rest of the film is a veritable festival of bad decisions that don’t do the original material any credit.
Endless exposition scenes, very badly written dialogues, barely convincing choreographies, whitewashing, nothing was to be saved in this film as expected as it was disappointing. A cocktail that ended up getting the very severe rating of 5% for the press according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Fortunately for the film and its director, if the most hardcore fans of the animated series did not hesitate to express their dissatisfaction, some neophytes managed to appreciate this adaptation of The Last Airbender. Thus, still on Rotten Tomatoes, we can also note the 30% rating awarded by the public. Let’s be honest, it’s still extremely bad, but it’s still a little more moderate.
In any case, we can only advise you never to set your eyes on this error of cinema and prefer to discover the series Avatar the Last Airbender which has still not aged a bit and whose quality is no longer to be proven. Also note that the latter will very soon be adapted again in Live Action in a series produced by Netflix, hoping that it will not be a second trauma.
