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Penny Arcade - Comic - Call Now
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Call Now
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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While you're not wrong about series-to-movies adaptations always having issues, those problems barely scratch the rim of the Pit of Wrongness that is the AtlA movie. It's downright twisted, as if someone took a rainbow and somehow turned it into a straight line of purest darkness.
Witness: "That is correct."
Defense Attorney: [Feigning surprise as a good lawyer always knows the answer to the question he asks] "You did? And tell me, did you see who was the director for this film."
Witness: "I did."
Defense Attorney: "And could you tell the court the name of that director."
Prosecuting Attorney: [Panicked] "Objection, Your Honor, the defense-"
Judge: "Overruled, it's a valid question. Witness, answer the question."
Witness: "...M Night Shyamalan."
Defense Attorney: "M Night Shyamalan! A director known, after the Sixth Sense, to produce awful movie after awful movie. Your Honor, I have affidavits from several of the clients of the prosecution that also claim that they too were aware of who was the director for this film."
[Baliff collects the affidavits for the judge to peruse}
Defense Attorney: "Your Honor, if I were to see a sign labeled 'Warning: Bridge Collapsed, Do Not Attempt To Cross', I would not attempt to cross. The clients of the prosecution knew full well what they were going into when they watched The Last Airbender. Defense calls for dismissal."
Judge: "The court agrees. Case dismissed."
Worse.
Counterpoint: The Village.
I figured Jerry was timing the newspost with the release of the PAX West Limited Edition pins, because he does do that at times. But I guess it was just tardy this time.
Same here. I've never been into the AtLA, so that term is already wired into my brain to the Cameron one for the keyword "movies".
Which is unfortunate, because AtLA has way more legs in terms of discussion than the other Avatar. I'll be making this mistake for decades.
Hey now, Cameron's making two (or maybe four?) sequels, so who knows what sort of Avatar discourse we'll be having in the next decade.
Yep, that's it. It didn't go up until about 11:30 pm for me. I think there might have been an issue and it didn't post correctly or something until it was pointed out that it wasn't up...
I'm pretty sure I know. Especially considering 3d cinema is pretty much dead (and not even because of the pandemic), and that was about 90% of Cameron's Avatar's appeal.
That movie got so dull the moment they stopped introducing new areas. I found the whole back half of that film deeply tedious. Stripped of technical gee-gaws, that film is just a rote exercise in fantasy. It was extremely profitable, so I can't call it a mistake. But it sure seems like James Cameron just didn't both himself on the story.
I maintain that James Cameron found the least interesting possible combination of the elements available to him and made that into his movie.
You never go full Shyamalan.
They should have done an animated movie as an overall wrap up / last adventure for the characters. Tie up some loose ends, set the stage for Korra, just more TLA fun. But instead we got M. Night Shyamalan insisting he knew the creators' creation better than they did whilst also creating something exceptionally problematic, what with the white washed heroes and the brown washed villains.
Which was especially eyebrow-raising, given that MNS isn't just some white dude who you already have low expectations for when it comes to those issues. Not that it excuses it when white directors do it, but you can at least not be surprised because you've seen it so much before.
There's this perception in Hollywood that animated = lesser. That's why.