I actually really enjoyed the Avatar cartoon. Probably one of the better cartoons out around it's time around here. Can't say I'm too thrilled for the new movie though. Right off the bat, Aang looks more like someone who would get picked on in school. It's like they didn't even try to make him either match the movie, or at all lovable like in the movie. I smell disaster, but what do I know?
The kids name is Noah Ringer, apparently this is his first appearance.. He kind of came out of no where. But enough of this, back on topic!
I swear I've seen that preveiw a while back but it can't have been this, it seems pretty new to me. Looks interesting although, I'm not sure I can add much at this point. As OMC said, there is a touch of over-cartooniness and the storyline feels a bit cliche (although what isn't cliche these days?).
I also feel ashamed that at 0:28 I was reminded of that awful Skyland show (If you've seen it you'll know what I'm talking about. If you havn't seen it... don't.)
Saw this tonight. I quite enjoyed it indeed. Great storytelling and a very fanciful but almost believable world. Even old plot devices and predictable turns were usually acceptable since it was well crafted. Discussions of movies are better in person (post-late-night-movie brain overload and all that), but I just thought I'd mention that I thought it was good. Get the discussion going, you know. It's not without flaws, but on the whole they were worth ignoring.
The advertisement doesn't do it justice, by the way. It's got a fairly interesting plot, even though the general arc is old hat (what general arc isn't?).
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I agree with OldMan. The movie wasn't perfect but it looked great and was interesting enough to have me hooked the whole way through. The CGI was good enough to create believeable actors and I didn't really spend any time thinking about how these are actors are "3D Animations" which means that they succeeded in the animation department.
I saw it in 3D aswell which was a good novelty but it might be better to just see it normally.
Hmm just got back. I really liked the film, but it was the first time Ive seen a new film in 3D (appart from at Themeparks ) To be honest, it kinda made some of the action scenes blurry IMO.
Other than that, great film Loved the motion capture techniques in the faces, pretty realistic stuff
That site must be joke.
It looked nice. One of the Weta artists is on a forum I visit and he's constantly been talking about the story is recycled (really is Dances with Wolves. There's nothing else to it) but how people should watch it for the visuals. So it pretty much is the Crysis of films. Recycled pretty. Was okay but I have no desire to see it again.
Btw they're planning 2 sequels and a remake of the Incredible Journey too. The latter of which would look superb I reckons.
Any possible sequels had better be darn good to not ruin the first one. I hate it when movie studios ruin movies by not handling sequels well. By ending the movie the way they did, it kind of leaves a lot open. If you clamp it down by continuing the story, it loses something. :\
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Get the discussion going, you know. It's not without flaws, but on the whole they were worth ignoring. 
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Loved the motion capture techniques in the faces, pretty realistic stuff 
