Avatar: The Last Airbender
I like animation. As such, many friends have recommended Avatar: The Last Airbender to me. I have resisted this in part because I have particular tastes when it comes to animation – Believe me… that’s a whole different post about the advantages and disadvantages of animation as a story telling device versus as a children’s colorful distraction. You can see I have opinions, and I had put Avatar in the later category because of its marketing and presentation by Nickelodeon. Luckily, enough people whose opinion I trusted said I’d like it that I gave it a shot and my only disappointment was that it took so long for me to watch it.
I highly recommend this show even if you aren’t a big fan of animation – though I understand some people just can’t take animation seriously… I feel sorry for them. If you are a fan of good storytelling I think you’ll like this series. It is a bit saccharine at times – it is a cartoon aimed – but it also treats the audience like they have a brain. I’m impressed. I hope more cartoons take this approach.
Also, there wasn’t a single fart joke in the entire series. Not one. No wonder people think it isn’t an American cartoon.
Oh… they are also making a live action movie with M. Night Shyamalan and the original creators working together to make a trilogy (the series is broken up into 3 parts so it makes sense). Hopefully that will work out okay.
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Fart Jokes are funny dude…but I still might give it a whirl…:)
That first comment is Spam. Just thought you should know.
I can’t believe that this is getting made into a live action movie and that M. Night is directing it. Considering his last superhero movie is a travesty that I still can’t erase from my mind… I’m not sure how I feel about that.
I think he’ll stick with the original vision since it isn’t his story (unlike his other movies).
I liked Unbreakable, but I know it’s a “love it/hate it” movie. There has been talk of a sequel too it but I’m not sure how that would be received.
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