Avatar: The Last Airbender
Why did M. Night Shyamalan’sThe Last Airbenderforgo the term " Avatar " in its title ? Arriving in field in the summertime 2010,The Last Airbenderhas gone down in history as one of the most ill-famed big - screen gear wrecks . It also remains one of the most ironic one , given how beloved the television series that enliven it was at the time ( and still is today ) .
Avatar : The Last Airbenderfollowed the adventures of Aang , a 12 year - old male child who is the latest embodiment of the Avatar , cause him the lone individual in the world of the Four Nations able to master the artistry of " bending " all of the elements of Water , Earth , Fire , and Air . With Fire Lord Ozai , rule of the Fire Nation , determine to conquer the residuum of the creation , the Airbender Aang is called upon to master Water , Earth , and Fire and shoot down Ozai , with the help of his close friends who make up " Team Avatar " . Spanning a three - season runnel on Nickelodeon , Avatarcemented itself as one of themost popular animated seriesever created , and recently showed how little its plaudits has died down in the twelve years since its conclusion by drawing superb viewership figure after it was added to Netflix in May .
As for why its picture show version dropped the key term from its title , that can be attribute to James Cameron’sAvatar . It ’s certainly commonplace for fans of the series to name to the show as justAvatar . However , in parliamentary law to prevent confusion with Cameron ’s movie , which was terminate its run in theaters when the incarnation : The Last Airbender movie was going to give up , Shyamalan ’s picture show went out plainly asThe Last Airbender . Not that doing so made any divergence in how it was received once it score theaters .
The Last Airbenderis unquestionably among the most universally trash movies of the twenty-first century , with audiences , critics , and fans of the series point to almost nothing both failings on the cinema ’s part . From its horrendous dialog , its lustreless diversion of the show ’s turn away action , and the botched attempt to capture the essence of the intact first season in a runtime of 103 minutes , The Last Airbenderbecame the by far the most loathed entry in theAvatarcanon .
This did n’t do much to slow down theAvatarfranchise , though , with its continuation showThe Legend of Korraarriving in 2012 and running for four season . 2018 would also take the announcement of a live - action reboot ofAvataron Netflix , with the show ’s creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino on board . The two also emphasise that the whitewashed cast ofThe Last Airbender , among the motion picture ’s most criticized element , would not be repeated in the novel adaptation of the serial publication .
Although Cameron’sAvatarsequelsare also in the whole kit , given that the show ’s reboot will be a cyclosis release , the newAvatarseries can very belike retain the full title with little confusedness . Moreover , the pic ’s title being shortened due to James Cameron’sAvatarwouldn’t even finish up being the most noteworthy shock of that conclusion . In the closing , The Last Airbender ’s title lacking theAvatarterm has , in the farsighted run , ended up put far great distance between it and the much more acclaimed animated series it was born out of .
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