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Please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck…
Hoping for the best. Prepared for the worst. If nothing else, we have the animated sequel movie from the original creators to look forward to.
As bad as the m night movie was, I can’t image they would attempt this unless they were going to do it right. But it also seems impossible to do right.
I still struggle to imagine how they got it so wrong in that movie. It’s as if they deliberately made the most wrong choice at every opportunity.
- What’s his name? I’m just gonna go with eeng.
- “Bending”? So just like, waving your hands around like a spell or something. Got it.
- Why would we make it funny? Kids these days really want stoic, expressionless characters in their flicks.
- The main characters weren’t white? Ah, whatever. Nobody will notice.
- You know what, we should still represent the cultural roots of the show. Be respectful and stuff. Let’s make the bad guys all Indian.
Etc, etc, etc. It’s almost impressive how disparate it is from the source material.
So far it looks good.
Costumes look too clean in my opinion, but these are promo shots, we’ll see how it actually looks in the show. But if that’s my second biggest complaint, then we’re off to a good start visually.
(The biggest complaint is the new lady with the Walmart looking kimono - way too detailed for random island village)
We dont know yet who that lady will be, do we? But on first impression I agree that it looks odd
I believe the rumor is they added Suki’s mom. (Or it was actually announced in the cast list, I dont recall, and instead of looking it up real quickly, I’ll just type this pointless sentence.)
If not Suki’s mom, my next theory would be they just cast a woman for the town mayor. Maybe both? Dont really care as long as they don’t try to shove modern politics into the fact a town is run by a woman.
Got the ears right.
He doesn’t have that light-hearted, sweet little kid look that the animated version has. Probably because anime can give you larger eyes and narrower chins, which are associated more with children and women, which makes us think cute and sweet.
Just an observation.
Edit: also bad lighting in the live action photo
It seems like they really are going for a 1:1 adaptation. So, unlike other IPs that have had unfaithful (and shitty) live-action adaptations, this one will live or die by how well it manages to create the magic and heart of the original. It might come off as soulless, because things like “heart” are so intangible (unlike plot points and character lines) that it’s incredibly difficult to replicate.
