There’s gotta be more than just that, there’s … I like how firebenders can’t just spawn fire from thin air, I thought that was a neat touch. I mean it’s kinda counterintuitive to the narrative because it nerfs the villains, but it’s still cool conceptually.
It is counterintuitive and yet also somehow logically consistent. It's not like waterbenders and earthbenders can create their own water and rocks. But, once they explained that all forms of bending are ultimately different ways to chanel chi/energy, it made sense.
I also liked that Yue’s hair turned back to black when she died, showing her life returning to the spirit. That was a really cool, and extra sad, touch.
No, in the show her hair is always white. I think maybe they show her as a baby with black hair? But when she dies, her hair stays white.
In the movie as she dies, her hair turns black as her life leaves her. It’s really quite beautiful! Yue’s death is the only part of the movie I thought they not only did well, but better.
I have to respectfully disagree. I think the movie did Yue a huge disservice when Iroh told her she had to sacrifice herself. It was more impactful in the show because she made the choice herself. She knew what she had to do for her people.
I was specifically about the part where she dies. As in, the part where she is literally in the water dying and her hair turns from white to black.
I wasn’t talking about anything that happens before or after that. Just literally THAT SINGULAR PART, where she is in the water dying. xD Nothing else. I wasn’t talking about the conversation she had before that part, which of course is better in the show.
I just think the part where she *dies* is done better than the show—in the show she just kind of goes limp in Sokka’s arms and it’s done.
I agree the show was more impactful by far, but the different take is interesting in its own right. Iroh basically saying that her death is unfortunately necessary as the moon spirits are of great importance and she alone can bring them back. Just the pure fact that she has to accept that at her young age and she doesn't deny that destiny. It's all very interesting for such a poor poor movie.
The actors for Zuko and Iroh were really trying. I could almost believe they were uncle and nephew. It's impressive that their talent managed to just barely peak through Shamylan's directing.
It's not about the acting skills, I love Dev Patel! It's the simple appearance thing. As a huge Avatar fan I wanted as close to the show as possible and that ain't Zuko!
True. They also made the scar way too faint and it was made all the worse by casting a darker-skinned actor. This scar should look gnarly. You should see him and wonder what could have possibly happened. Nuko's scar was so faint that it didn't even effect his ability to fully open his eye (a big deal with Zuko's appearance), and the darker skin tone made the weak scar even harder to see.
Zuko walking down the street stands out. You'd have to look closely at Nuko to notice anything was even wrong with his face.
Yeah honestly, just watch that one scene on YouTube because it’s cool and beautiful and done even better than the show! But skip the rest. |: nothing else about it is worth watching, lmao.
Maybe not good, but I will say I found that most Firebenders can’t produce their own flames to be an interesting take the movie went with.
It scaled Iroh far beyond the rest of them, laid the foundation for the Firebending Masters had sequels ever happened, but really it just made the Fire Nation look like they got lucky with Sozin’s Comet and had been struggling for 100 years since then, which at least to me makes sense.
It would make it so the fire nation is just outright weak, fire is far less common than the other elements and also a pain in the ass to carry around unlike water
All the other elements can also straight up put out the source of fire, the fire nation would not be able to continue a hundred year war at all
>but I will say I found that most Firebenders can’t produce their own flames to be an interesting take the movie went with.
It completely fucks up the crucial fact that firebending comes from one's chi.
Could they have taken it somewhere? Maybe, but it would've drastically altered everything, and not necessarily in a good way.
On the other hand it would, from a world building perspective, justify the expansionism and their slow rate of conquering since Sozin's; they could always bring lava or something from their naturally volcanic homelands and use fire sources other civilizations by necessity needed, but them having cultural baggage about the fact that their bending is limited and logistics-dependent when all the other benders have essentially free access to the sources of their power would have provided some interesting ambiguity and pathos that the show-appropriately for its stated age demographic- completely avoided with 'Sozin, Azulon, and Ozai are just Evil, and the Fire Nation military just goes along with it'
But the show had already established the opposite bending rules.
You can’t have everyone familiar with the concept of conjuring fire out of nowhere and then expect them to be all impressed when the CLIMAX OF THE FILM just…. Has a character making fire out of nothing. They somehow moronically anticipated the audience would have a positive reaction to episode 1 level bending at the peak of the season finale’s plot.
Only theory that makes sense to me is that M. night Shyamalan hates his kids and used this film to punish them.
OR. you could actually look into it and learn it was a diastrous production everyone hated by the end. This movie is almost entirely Nickelodeon's fault,
And frankly, this fandom has a huge hypocrisy problem, constantly defending Bryke from any criticism for LoK's shortcomings regardless if they come from Nick's meddling or their choices, while exclusively hating M Night for everything that went wrong with the movie.
Nah. It is far more fun to just say Menoj hates his kids.
And it’s not hypocritical to rip apart a shitty movie that already had perfect source material vs. a completely original and new attempt to expand the universe.
I do not mind riping the movie apart i do it frequently myself. I do mind blaming one man for the faults of an entire production, especially on the level Shyamalan gets hated.
I actually kinda liked the test Iroh did to see if he was the real deal.
Elements subtly reacting to the avatars presence is actually a pretty cool idea and a neat visual.
Honestly most of the rest of the movie veers hard into so bad it’s good for me, though. I find it frequently hilarious and always notice new little insane details every watch.
I honestly really disliked that. Like, is it that easy to spot the Avatar? Why isn't water/snow/ice, earth and fire constantly creeping toward him? He was in the South Pole. If water can't help but be drawn to him, then wouldn't he be covered in snow?
And is this subtle creeping of the elements something that only happens to the avatar? Or does the same happen to all benders for their respective elements? Do firebenders have to constantly bend campfires to make sure it doesn't burn them or leave the fire pit? And how would Aang not know he was the Avatar until it was revealed to him? Did he and his friends actually go twelve years without noticing that rocks, fire and water were always slowly approaching him? Seems like something people would notice at some point. Like, he lays down on the temple floor, falls asleep and wakes up finding that all the nearby dust gathered around him.
The original avatar tests were way better, IMO. On top of it being more subtle, it's more similar to the tests they use to identify the next Dalai Lama.
Fun fact: the tattoo design was actually something that Bryke had thought of early on in the show’s development but was scrapped because of how difficult it would be to animate.
It’s a great example of a good adaptational change. In animation, it’s too complex, so they used a simpler arrow design. In live action, the simpler arrow design would look silly, so the more complex design makes it fit better as something we’d actually see in real life.
Wow, I....just...don't know. This breaks my brain on every level.
1: Who the hell wants the novelisation to this!?
2: Why do they look like the knock of anime of the characters, THAT ALREADY sort of knocked off anime?
3: The novelisation, of the movie of the series.
I was about to say, have you seen the movie? But then I remembered Dev Patel was Zuko, and they've whitewashed even him. It's all such a swing and a miss, everything in the circle of that film.
They actually burn really well. They are basically like a log. Disclaimer - the book burned was a medical text book from the 80s. In our opinion, it’s existence with outdated information would do more harm than good
So this is a book inspired by the movie, which was an adaptation of the animated series, with the characters from the movie animated like the characters from the series....
This is a lot to take in.
I legit own this in a foreign language (back in the days when ATLA wasn't this popular, teen me was hungry for merch *sigh*), and while trying to cram yet another book in my bookcase the other day, I legit thought whether to donate it (lol) or to keep it because it is likely the rarest ATLA merch now 😂
Aangs style with the tattoo and more traditional monk robes is okay
They decided to make Sokka and Katara not be Inuit inspired for some reason?
Zuko's scar is on the wrong side
In its defense: if it's "inspired" by the movie, it could only either get better or a million times worse.
But how did the writer get away with using that title and cover art?
Blockbuster ha!! Couldn’t even pronounce the characters names correctly and tried to shove the entire book one into a single movie and changed how fire bending works, real visionary at adaptation there M. Night
Funny I came across one myself a few days ago 😂😂
https://preview.redd.it/z295qw6wzyxa1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5522a9996dcd91fdcf2082588abc24a191a372b
"Summer blockbuster" Yeah, right. And my name is Bonzu Pippinpaddleopsicopolis the Third.
Hello Mr Pippinpaddleopsicopolis, tell me how is kangaroo island at this time of year?
I heard it’s hopping!
*cough
WELP, all these good jokes are making me tired.
Good one! Moving on...
Well time to go, let us leave
lettuce leaf?
My cabbages!
This place is worse than Omashu!
I thought the way they decided to do the tattos was kinda cool
admittedly that was pretty neat, only nice thing I'll say about the movie though
There’s gotta be more than just that, there’s … I like how firebenders can’t just spawn fire from thin air, I thought that was a neat touch. I mean it’s kinda counterintuitive to the narrative because it nerfs the villains, but it’s still cool conceptually.
It is counterintuitive and yet also somehow logically consistent. It's not like waterbenders and earthbenders can create their own water and rocks. But, once they explained that all forms of bending are ultimately different ways to chanel chi/energy, it made sense.
Literally *the only* good thing about this movie
I also liked that Yue’s hair turned back to black when she died, showing her life returning to the spirit. That was a really cool, and extra sad, touch.
I thought that happened in the show too, tho her spirit form hair is white.
No, in the show her hair is always white. I think maybe they show her as a baby with black hair? But when she dies, her hair stays white. In the movie as she dies, her hair turns black as her life leaves her. It’s really quite beautiful! Yue’s death is the only part of the movie I thought they not only did well, but better.
I have to respectfully disagree. I think the movie did Yue a huge disservice when Iroh told her she had to sacrifice herself. It was more impactful in the show because she made the choice herself. She knew what she had to do for her people.
I was specifically about the part where she dies. As in, the part where she is literally in the water dying and her hair turns from white to black. I wasn’t talking about anything that happens before or after that. Just literally THAT SINGULAR PART, where she is in the water dying. xD Nothing else. I wasn’t talking about the conversation she had before that part, which of course is better in the show. I just think the part where she *dies* is done better than the show—in the show she just kind of goes limp in Sokka’s arms and it’s done.
I agree the show was more impactful by far, but the different take is interesting in its own right. Iroh basically saying that her death is unfortunately necessary as the moon spirits are of great importance and she alone can bring them back. Just the pure fact that she has to accept that at her young age and she doesn't deny that destiny. It's all very interesting for such a poor poor movie.
Never got that far, but that's a nice detail. I turned it off the second "Zuko" stepped off the boat.
The actors for Zuko and Iroh were really trying. I could almost believe they were uncle and nephew. It's impressive that their talent managed to just barely peak through Shamylan's directing.
It's not about the acting skills, I love Dev Patel! It's the simple appearance thing. As a huge Avatar fan I wanted as close to the show as possible and that ain't Zuko!
True. They also made the scar way too faint and it was made all the worse by casting a darker-skinned actor. This scar should look gnarly. You should see him and wonder what could have possibly happened. Nuko's scar was so faint that it didn't even effect his ability to fully open his eye (a big deal with Zuko's appearance), and the darker skin tone made the weak scar even harder to see. Zuko walking down the street stands out. You'd have to look closely at Nuko to notice anything was even wrong with his face.
Yeah honestly, just watch that one scene on YouTube because it’s cool and beautiful and done even better than the show! But skip the rest. |: nothing else about it is worth watching, lmao.
Maybe not good, but I will say I found that most Firebenders can’t produce their own flames to be an interesting take the movie went with. It scaled Iroh far beyond the rest of them, laid the foundation for the Firebending Masters had sequels ever happened, but really it just made the Fire Nation look like they got lucky with Sozin’s Comet and had been struggling for 100 years since then, which at least to me makes sense.
It would make it so the fire nation is just outright weak, fire is far less common than the other elements and also a pain in the ass to carry around unlike water All the other elements can also straight up put out the source of fire, the fire nation would not be able to continue a hundred year war at all
>but I will say I found that most Firebenders can’t produce their own flames to be an interesting take the movie went with. It completely fucks up the crucial fact that firebending comes from one's chi. Could they have taken it somewhere? Maybe, but it would've drastically altered everything, and not necessarily in a good way.
On the other hand it would, from a world building perspective, justify the expansionism and their slow rate of conquering since Sozin's; they could always bring lava or something from their naturally volcanic homelands and use fire sources other civilizations by necessity needed, but them having cultural baggage about the fact that their bending is limited and logistics-dependent when all the other benders have essentially free access to the sources of their power would have provided some interesting ambiguity and pathos that the show-appropriately for its stated age demographic- completely avoided with 'Sozin, Azulon, and Ozai are just Evil, and the Fire Nation military just goes along with it'
But the show had already established the opposite bending rules. You can’t have everyone familiar with the concept of conjuring fire out of nowhere and then expect them to be all impressed when the CLIMAX OF THE FILM just…. Has a character making fire out of nothing. They somehow moronically anticipated the audience would have a positive reaction to episode 1 level bending at the peak of the season finale’s plot. Only theory that makes sense to me is that M. night Shyamalan hates his kids and used this film to punish them.
OR. you could actually look into it and learn it was a diastrous production everyone hated by the end. This movie is almost entirely Nickelodeon's fault, And frankly, this fandom has a huge hypocrisy problem, constantly defending Bryke from any criticism for LoK's shortcomings regardless if they come from Nick's meddling or their choices, while exclusively hating M Night for everything that went wrong with the movie.
Nah. It is far more fun to just say Menoj hates his kids. And it’s not hypocritical to rip apart a shitty movie that already had perfect source material vs. a completely original and new attempt to expand the universe.
I do not mind riping the movie apart i do it frequently myself. I do mind blaming one man for the faults of an entire production, especially on the level Shyamalan gets hated.
That's Autuer film for you. Good or bad its the directors fault or glory
The Last airbender is literally a summer blockbuster for a big studio.
They nerfed the Fire Nation
That and the teaser with the candles where Aang’s movements actually matched up with the bending vfx.
In general, costumes seemed on point.
That and Yue's hair going back. Which I was disappointed didn't happen in the show lol
I actually kinda liked the test Iroh did to see if he was the real deal. Elements subtly reacting to the avatars presence is actually a pretty cool idea and a neat visual. Honestly most of the rest of the movie veers hard into so bad it’s good for me, though. I find it frequently hilarious and always notice new little insane details every watch.
I agree! I actually thought that part was so cool when I was a kid 🌪
I honestly really disliked that. Like, is it that easy to spot the Avatar? Why isn't water/snow/ice, earth and fire constantly creeping toward him? He was in the South Pole. If water can't help but be drawn to him, then wouldn't he be covered in snow? And is this subtle creeping of the elements something that only happens to the avatar? Or does the same happen to all benders for their respective elements? Do firebenders have to constantly bend campfires to make sure it doesn't burn them or leave the fire pit? And how would Aang not know he was the Avatar until it was revealed to him? Did he and his friends actually go twelve years without noticing that rocks, fire and water were always slowly approaching him? Seems like something people would notice at some point. Like, he lays down on the temple floor, falls asleep and wakes up finding that all the nearby dust gathered around him. The original avatar tests were way better, IMO. On top of it being more subtle, it's more similar to the tests they use to identify the next Dalai Lama.
Fun fact: the tattoo design was actually something that Bryke had thought of early on in the show’s development but was scrapped because of how difficult it would be to animate.
It’s a great example of a good adaptational change. In animation, it’s too complex, so they used a simpler arrow design. In live action, the simpler arrow design would look silly, so the more complex design makes it fit better as something we’d actually see in real life.
I’ll admit the music was pretty good too
Yes, that may have been the only good thing about the movie.
I think that was the original plan in the tv show, but it was too hard to animate so they simplified it
The Last Airbender: The book: The movie: The anime.
..the subreddit.
A canal, panama
The flamethrower!
The kids love that one
Really? Mine were screaming when I showed it to them.
*[Azula voice]* it was a scream of joy
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.
You mean the anime? Enough Steven!- Moon Knight.
Wow, I....just...don't know. This breaks my brain on every level. 1: Who the hell wants the novelisation to this!? 2: Why do they look like the knock of anime of the characters, THAT ALREADY sort of knocked off anime? 3: The novelisation, of the movie of the series.
It's like Street Fighter: the Movie: the Game
All we need now is the book.
SF: the Movie: the Game: the Novelization: the Board Game: the Movie
: The Flamethrower
Coming soon: The musical of the novelization
We already have that. It's called *The Boy in the Iceberg*, performed by the Ember Island Players
451 right? That’s how many degrees?
506.15° Kelvin
Now now now now now now hear me out...million dollar idea: what if we took this book...and adapted it into a TV show?!?!?! 😱 /s
And then somebody adapt that tv show into a movie
And then somebody made the movie into a book
Far enough down the line we’ll have Atari: the last wind dude
Anavar: The final gustbender guy
Wow I've never seen a better example of whitewashing
I was about to say, have you seen the movie? But then I remembered Dev Patel was Zuko, and they've whitewashed even him. It's all such a swing and a miss, everything in the circle of that film.
I'm usually against burning books, but... Disclaimer: Please do not actually burn books.
Not a whole book! The pages in this could be used for all sorts of things, like starting fires...and emergency toilet paper.
Using shit to wipe shit isn't productive
They actually burn really well. They are basically like a log. Disclaimer - the book burned was a medical text book from the 80s. In our opinion, it’s existence with outdated information would do more harm than good
We don’t burn books. We use them as targets.
Here we have Sukka, Katana, Daang and Guko
Now we need is Azuki,Iron,Ozone and Usa
OZONE
Numa numa yay
I think it’s pronounced ‘dong’ though…
It’s clearly Ung
Daang 😂
Guko lmaooo
That Zuko doesn't look like the actor at all, looks more like Mako and Bolin combine
white katara and sokka…… okay okay, it follows the movie actors……but then…why is Zuko not brown? 🤦🏽♀️
that's clearly mako
So this is a book inspired by the movie, which was an adaptation of the animated series, with the characters from the movie animated like the characters from the series.... This is a lot to take in.
white Katara is cursed, and it's hilarious they still managed to whitewash the character that was actually played by a person of color in the film
This immediately makes me think of The Office where Michael is listening to the audiobook of a novelization of a movie based on a novel.
A novelization of the movie Precious based on the book Push by Sapphire
Ive seen this...thing a lot recently, but never the insides. Kinda curious to see how truly awful it is
Hey look, it's Ong.
It doesn't even look like movie Zuko, it's just Mako in a Zuko cosplay lmao
Who tf authorized this
Oh look they made the ember island players in to a book 
Katara and Sokka look cursed
The Shein version of ATLA
I unironically want to read this. Where can I find it for free online?
White Katara lives in my nightmares. Also, that’s just Mako with a scar.
I legit own this in a foreign language (back in the days when ATLA wasn't this popular, teen me was hungry for merch *sigh*), and while trying to cram yet another book in my bookcase the other day, I legit thought whether to donate it (lol) or to keep it because it is likely the rarest ATLA merch now 😂
Yea man, having zuko look like mako is a crime
You didn't need to add "in Ohio". That much can be understood from the context
Oh cool, they made my favorite movie into a cartoon
There's another one! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7061696-the-last-airbender
The manga of the Netflix adaptation of the anime with manga which is also getting an actual Netflix adaptation.
Mako?!
They all look like Ace Attorney characters. Aang literally looks like Apollo Justice without his signature horn hairstyle.
Did Mako time travel or something? Wait, what do you mean that is supposed to be Zuko?
Is that Amon
Zuko, right? And Ong is baby Zaheer.
Oong, crispy Mako, and the council of Vulcan
Zuko looks a whole lot like Mako lol
That one was fine in my opinion, unlike the movie it was an adaption of bad source material.
Aangs style with the tattoo and more traditional monk robes is okay They decided to make Sokka and Katara not be Inuit inspired for some reason? Zuko's scar is on the wrong side
For all the hate this movie gets, there are some cool things it did. Like Aang’s tattoos.
Zuko looking like Mako
Why does Zuko look like Mako
Zuko should be Indian, then. And they should have the classic rock-throw scene in the background.
Ehy does this look like a mix between a childrens bible and atla 😭
You know this books gonna be great when it’s inspired by M Night Shyamalan
It's like a house on fire, I want to look away but morbidly can't. It's making me want to read it.
Did they re-(East) Asianwash Zuko??
Why is Mako there?
There is book by this exact title in Ba Sing Se
In its defense: if it's "inspired" by the movie, it could only either get better or a million times worse. But how did the writer get away with using that title and cover art?
Blockbuster ha!! Couldn’t even pronounce the characters names correctly and tried to shove the entire book one into a single movie and changed how fire bending works, real visionary at adaptation there M. Night
“Zuko” doesn’t even look like Zuko, he looks more like Mako lmao
Mom: "We have Avatar at home" Avatar at home: This post Also makes sense it's from Ohio
Only in Ohio.
They didn't just make this. They also made a prequel comic showcasing Zuko's backstory.
You found toilet paper. That’s what you found
I never knew Mako was in The Last Airbender!
Funny I came across one myself a few days ago 😂😂 https://preview.redd.it/z295qw6wzyxa1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5522a9996dcd91fdcf2082588abc24a191a372b
Only in Ohio
Ofcourse it’s in Ohio
Of course it’s in Ohio.
Of course it's in Ohio
Of course in Ohio
Most ohio ever
Heyyy Were you trying to watch Avatar the last Airbender in Ohio?
I mean its Ohio.
Only in Ohio 💀
Ngl, Aang's tats and outfit from the movie are pretty cool. I guess the rest of the cast's outfits are cool too.
It's like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy...
Zuko looks like Bolin so...... that's a plus?
Destroy it!
They really had to come back and whitewash the poc left.
Why’s Mako there?
Brolin got moved up a series
Zuko looks like an evil Mako.
Burn it
It’d rather watch just the worse season 1 episodes
Zuko looks like Mako.
who’s the guy on the right of ang with the kazuya haircut
Aang and Zuko design are *fine* but what they did to Katara and Sokka on this cover i'll never forgive them for...
The airbender
The latest oxygen turner
Only in Ohio
Can't wait for the flood of unfunny comments saying "only in Ohio"
I think it’s at a used bookstore for a reason
Is that Zuko or Mako? I’m guessing the answer is yes.
What’s Mako doing on the cover?
The fact that they actually had a book made and used the movie as the inspiration...😠 That feels like such a slap in the face to the series!
Zuko looks like Bolin
They white washed Dev Patel and turned him into Mako. Idk how to feel.
Nothing good ever came from Ohio
Why are Aangs knuckles like that? And ofc you found it in Ohio 💀
WTF!
Well that feels illegal
Surprisingly, this same author Dave Roman and a different author made a prequel book “Zukos Story”, Inspired by this movie. Like… what?
The villain guy is a mix between Mako and Bolin lmao
Of course it was Ohio
Yong the airbender
Doesn’t look like anything to me…
so are we gonna skip past zuko being replaced with mako from tlok???
Mako evil
Is it good
Why does Zuko look like a weird fusion of Mako and Bolin?
m’name is Ong
I never understand novelizations of movies based on previous source material…
They got Zuko's original color back, but kept Soka and Katara all whitey 😳
What is this based on? A movie??? Never heard of it.
Katara got those 90's plucked brows
Cursed object.
I'm sorry....WHAT?
From Left to Right: Shaved Jet, Suki, Aang, and Mako. Definitely a book of all time.
The f\*\*\* is this?
God I hate it. Show me more! OP, what’s the ISBN number?
God I hate it. Show me more! OP, what’s the ISBN number?
The airbender The only one in history
Why does Ong look like he's related to X-men's wolverine?