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thispatternismine · 2 months

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ATLA live action impressions part 2

Following on from last night's post, here are my impressions of eps 5-8

Still really loved it. Gonna be tarred & feathered for this but I actually like it better than the animated show

Highlights:

Ozai giving Zuko credit for finding the Avatar. There's this weird idea in the fandom that Ozai never intended to take Zuko back. Even though we saw him do exactly that at the beginning of Book 3. Yes he set an impossible task, but when Zuko (apparently) achieved it, he was like 'ok yeah cool - you have met my standards'. Sure, there's no way Zuko would have continued to meet those standards if he'd stuck around, but Ozai did actually keep his word. The fact that he does it to make sure Azula knows she's overstepped & remind her she's replaceable, is an especially nice touch

Getting to see how Azula is treated by her father. I've seen way too many people try to claim Azula was never abused because she wasn't literally set on fire like he was. Never mind that she avoided that fate only because she was able to meet his standards. And having to constantly strive to meet the standards set by someone who thinks 'find a guy who's been missing for a century' is a suitable task to set his kid is abuse.

Another annoying tendency of the fandom is to flanderise Ozai into some diabolical caricature who spends all his time thinking up new ways to torment poor Zuzu, so having that scene of him banishing Zuko was a nice touch. He genuinely believes he is being a good dad & raising his kid to be strong (note: This isn't me saying Ozai is right - I'm saying he thinks he's right.)

The 41st Division 😭

Iroh & Ozai interacting with each other

Gyatso!

I spy some female soldiers! A problem with the animated show was that it's all well & good deciding that the Fire Nation has female soldiers, but bias is a thing & 99.9% of the time if you ask someone to draw a soldier it'll be a man. Yeah sure they all stayed to guard the Fire Nation that's why we didn't see any till Book 3 suuure

"Anything you need." "It has to do with Koh." "Anything but that." DYING

Aang's whole speech to Zuko about how helpful his notebook was (let's be real Iroh probably sighed & told him it was a waste of time so this was the first time he heard 'Hey good job on the Avatar research!') & the way they bonded before he unwittingly set Zuko off

"Quit it before they think there's something wrong with you. More than there already is."

"The Firelord deems your performance... below average." OOF. Pretty sure that's the worst thing you can possibly say to Azula. She'd much rather be told she sucked outright than just 'meh'

Waterbender Yue

Non-arsehole Hahn

Using Kuruk lore from the Kyoshi books!

I like the changes to the NWT siege. Having the spirits' mortality be an occasional, temporary thing to gain an appreciation of life that occurs during a full moon when the powers of those who will protect them in that state are at their peak, makes more sense than permanent vulnerability that relies on nobody finding out. Also never made sense that a naval officer was stationed in a fucking desert & was able to just take time off to go through a spirit library, so having Zhao find his info from the Fire Sages works better IMO. I do hope we'll still get the spirit library though

Ozai's lil eyetwitch when Azula backtalked him like if you agree

Haven't mentioned yet but I love the costumes in this

Also never mentioned Momo, the Real Hero of ATLA

Sokka continues to be awesome

Lowlights:

June calling Iroh cute & fawning over him. Normally I'd think it's unfair for the live action version of a character to be held accountable for what the animated version did, but this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Like og!Iroh's groping of June being treated like a joke has been called out many times so they fucking had to know what they were doing

Why isn't Azula's fire blue? We got like 1 second of it & that's it. Maybe consistent blue flames are a power up she'll obtain later idk

#atla #zuko #azula #ozai #aang

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thegayhimbo · 2 years

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Worst flim you've ever seen please.

I needed time to think about this because I was trying to recall all the bad movies I'd ever seen. I assume that when you ask about worst films, we're talking about movies that were awful to sit through. This will probably be a shorter list than I thought, and I should state for the record that this is just my personal opinion. I'll try to give my reasons for why I dislike these movies to the best of my ability.

In no particular order:

1.) The House Bunny (2008 film)

Before streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ became a thing, my family used to rent movies to watch on the weekends. Some movies were great, and some sucked ass. This movie falls in the latter category. I've never been a fan of Anna Faris as an actress, and the type of comedy she usually does makes me cringe. Most of the jokes in this movie weren't funny, the characters felt like stereotypes rather than people I could care about, and the story wasn't engaging. I remember gritting my teeth and wishing we had gotten a better movie to watch that night.

2.) Avatar The Last Airbender (2010 film)

I didn't become a fan of ATLA until I graduated high school, and when I started watching the show, I fell in love with it instantly. Great story, amazing worldbuilding, phenomenal animation, well-developed characters................it ranks as one of my top 10 favorite shows.

And like most Avatar fans, I DESPISE the live-action movie. M. Night Shyamalan took everything that made the show interesting and sucked the life out of it. The acting was awful, the dialogue was wooden, the movie constantly relied on boring info-dumping and exposition, the changes they made from the show not only didn't make sense but ended up creating unnecessary plot holes, and the decision to cram 20 episodes worth of content into a 103 minute movie was stupid beyond belief.

I hear they're talking about possibly doing another ATLA movie, and I'm hoping it's better than this turd. At the same time though, I think the show is enough. This wasn't something that should have been made into a movie in the first place.

3.) St. Elmo's Fire (1985 film)

I've heard this movie gets called a spiritual successor to "The Breakfast Club," which I kind of understand since it has some of the same actors in both movies (Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, etc). That being said, I draw a line when people try to act like these two movies are the same. They aren't.

Breakfast Club had its flaws, and there are certain aspects of it that haven't aged well, but I respect the movie for its ability to deconstruct high school stereotypes and for capturing what it's like for high school students facing the reality of one day growing up and entering the adult world. And while the main characters had unlikable moments, they were given enough redeeming qualities to balance out their negative traits. It's a movie that had something to say about being a teenager, and it said it in a unique way.

St. Elmo's fire has none of this. It tries to capture that feeling of graduating college and entering into the workforce, and it does a piss poor job at it. All of its main characters are either self-absorbed, narcissistic, or genuinely unpleasant. To give a few examples: One of the characters is a straight up stalker whose behavior is framed in a sympathetic light. The other is a deadbeat dad who cheats on his wife and then slut-shames said wife when he sees her talking with another man. He also sexually harasses a girl at one point, but it's quickly glossed over. The movie tries really hard to sell that these characters are all friends, but they are so awful towards one another that it isn't believable. There's barely a coherent story, and it's mostly a bunch of side-plots crammed together with none of them being entertaining to watch. The climax of the movie is stupid, and just an excuse to unite all these characters for an unearned emotional moment. It's just a bad movie overall.

That's all I got for worst movies. If I can think of any others (or if I see other bad movies in the future), I will update this.

#tgh opinions

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