The Last Airbender

Overall, I'd say the film was fairly good. Good action sequences, great score, decent casting, and for how much they had to cut out, they managed to do a decent job of trimming things down and mixing scenes together into an acceptable film adaptation. That isn't to say I'm without complaints, however. Some name and term pronounciations were annoying; ones that jumped out were "Aang" like "Ah-ng", "So-kah" instead of "Sokk-a", "Ee-roh" instead of "Eye-roh", and "Agni Ki" instead of "Agni Kai". Some cinematography was awkward, having the occasional sweeping shot where it's hard to make things out. The film's biggest problem, however, is that it has a bad start, chopping from one scene to another and cramming it with some pretty awkward exposition. Forgiving these complaints, though, it was still a pretty good adaptation, but I'd definately recommend the original series over this... in fact, it's probably best to see the actual series before seeing this film at all. If you haven't, things would probably come across as doubly contrived, which is probably why critics panned this. As a fan of the actual series, though, I give it a thumbs up.

may have to check it out, i quite liked the series
all though the end was awful

I'm going to see this very soon.

Im going with a few friends tomorrow, tobi and haseo are tagging along too.

I saw it last night. I agree 100% with you, Kimarous. The pronunciations were just odd. I think they were trying to go for Japanese authenticity where they didn't really need it. I mean, Avatar isn't really an anime.
*Spoilers below*

One thing I found odd as well was the whole earth bender captivity part. Originally they were loaded on a metal ship so that they couldn't actually rebel. The fact that they loaded the earth benders in a place where they could earth bend the entire area seems kind of dumb. That was very minor though.

I was really hoping at the end when Zuko was about to go up against Zhao that they would fight and have that same outcome as what happened in the show only much earlier than that part. Zuko beat Zhao in the show much before that and they skipped that which I would have loved to see.

On the positive side, they were very close to the original in most parts and had good action and such. The casting was standard. Could have been better, but not too bad.

That said, I found it to be an enjoyable film.

The pronunciation is Indonesian, which is the nationality of M. Night Shaymasidsecnkiefhlwfl

I think they follow the same rules, because that's how the Japanese would pronounce it too.

Zero wrote:

I think they follow the same rules, because that's how the Japanese would pronounce it too.

Indonesia and Japan is like Germany and America.

Spain and Japan aren't alike at all yet their languages follow the same basic rules.

Zero wrote:

Spain and Japan aren't alike at all yet their languages follow the same basic rules.

Point is, Indonesia and Japan are quite different.