Buffistas

Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.

Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'

Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai

A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

First Previous Next Last Recent

amych - Jun 04, 2009 8:21:14 am PDT #2269 of 30000

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

that's why the Avatar movie has to be called The Last Airbender.

A-ha! I didn't even know about that -- I'm so used to hearing it talked about (generally as "the Avatar movie") but haven't seen much coming from official channels. So I actually got about halfway through the Cameron-Avatar blurb going "... combat dudes transported to an alien planet? And, what, then they meet Aang there? I knew he was taking some liberties, but..."

Jessica - Jun 04, 2009 8:33:04 am PDT #2270 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Heh - the first I heard of Avatar was when I was recounting for DH some of the fandom response to the racial casting of the Airbender movie (but calling it "Avatar" because that's what it's called by everyone on the entire internet everywhere). It took us AGES to figure out what the hell we were actually talking about.

amych - Jun 04, 2009 8:33:55 am PDT #2271 of 30000

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

YES! I am not crazy, then! or, not for that, at least.

Jessica - Jun 04, 2009 8:35:34 am PDT #2272 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

YES! I am not crazy, then! or, not for that, at least.

For further reassurance, see my current tag! [from the surprisingly good conclusion to an otherwise very mediocre lecture series on biology and behavior I've just finishes listening to]

Scrappy - Jun 04, 2009 8:37:51 am PDT #2273 of 30000

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

My friend Andy is doing props on it (and has been for literally a year) and I can vouch that the crew t-thirts call it "Avatar."

Glamcookie - Jun 04, 2009 8:57:29 am PDT #2274 of 30000

I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Grumbles about how there is only one Avatar (the Last Airbender, yo) and also how there is no need for a live-action movie of it as the animated series is perfection.

Offa my lawn!

amych - Jun 04, 2009 9:00:20 am PDT #2275 of 30000

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

stands at the edge of GC's impeccable lawn with a "what she said" sign

Tom Scola - Jun 04, 2009 9:05:04 am PDT #2276 of 30000

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Grumbles about how there is only one Avatar (the Last Airbender, yo) and also how there is no need for a live-action movie of it as the animated series is perfection.

And that's even before the casting FAIL.

§ ita § - Jun 04, 2009 9:13:57 am PDT #2277 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And that's even before the casting FAIL.

But didn't you see? They cast an Asian person. It's okay now. There's one.

Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2009 9:36:28 am PDT #2278 of 30000

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Oh, there are three or four, actually. Too bad they're the villains!

First Previous Next Last Recent