Benders. Will. Fail.

[shadydave]

Bah. There's a new trailer for The Last Failbender. On the plus side, it appears to have been cut by the people who did the last Clash of the Titans trailer, right down to the random metal "Unleash the Guitars of War" soundtrack. On the down side, it actually looks pretty cool, which just makes me mad they were such bastards about the casting and ruined the whole thing.

The narration is still kind of faily, but I suspect it's actually being provided by Roku (which might make it kinda in-character). Also, I find it VERY INTERESTING you don't get any close-ups of the main characters.


I notice we didn't have any problems correctly reproducing the SET DESIGN.

"You are the only one --"

The Boy in the Ion Cannon?

"-- of your kind, -- "

I like to think that's the Great A'Tuin back there.

"-- the last hope for peace --"

And we can recreate a minor shot from the intro to the series, but we can't cast the main characters with anyone remotely connected to their real-life culture equivalents.

"-- in a world consumed by darkness."

Err, "fire", yes. "Darkness", no.


Maybe by "darkness", he means "blue".


"Fire Nation jazz hands, go! Maraca Guy, provide backup! Prepare the Russian pirate dance!"


Earthbending. These are all action scenes; I guess it's to make it appropriately Super Bowl-y.


Airbending.


Now you're making me invoke "Demon Buffet Limbo"! SHAME.


Waterbending. I can't decide if it looks cool, or like someone waving a firehose around.


Warrior. Legend. Seabiscuit Generic Subtitle.


Hey, his outfit actually looks saffron here. That's new.


Avatar state, yip yip!


And the Fire Nation tries to set the movie on fire again.

In conclusion: as Clash of the Titans so succinctly put it,

Comments

[naturalblue208.livejournal.com]

haha! but to discredit ILM, the first frame images should have the forcefulness-- it's not the detail that's the issue, but the basic shapes and the speed at which they move-- which are already done. If the first grey animated blob does not express the essence of what it's trying to animate, the finished product also will not. waterbending in the animation is FWOOM BWAFF!! not here i am turning a hosepipe on you-- even when Katara moves it in a flowier way, it moves as a unit in sync with her movements. the water moves as a unit, not as a flow. same with the fire, and earth-- they tried to make everything fancy and flowy and in doing so missed the point ;) and that would show with the first experiments as much as the final product :D

And it's not like they CAN'T do it; even though it's not serious, Pixar caught that kind of bending force and movement PERFECTLY with Frozone in the Incredibles.

also, making the air invisible just makes airbending look hilarious in the grand tradition of Gandalf vs. Saruman :D

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the basic coding should allow for that forcefulness, but what I meant by these being the first shots completed is that they might not have quite worked out that aesthetic yet. So it's possible that other SFX shots in the movie will match that better. Or not!

The airbending's actually not invisible; it's kind of a blue mist, like in the show, but looks much funnier live action :D

[naturalblue208.livejournal.com]

haha! it still just looks off, though... i don't think we'd be missing much ;)