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Ahem. With that out of the way...
The trailers have been increasing in quality, intensity and downright awesomeness. With this becoming a pattern, I can only hope that the trailers are just stepping stones to a movie of spectacular proportions. Let's go over a few things.
The bending. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, OH. MY GOSH. The water bending is superb! The firebending is sick nasty (in a completely positive way, of course), air bending looks cooler than I could've ever imagined and--while it has not received much screen time--the earthbending looks great.
Princess Yue. She's absolutely gorgeous! The white hair looks awesome, her eyes look otherworldly and beautiful. Her costume is spot on (can I just say I love her little hair pieces? Because I do.)
Prince Zuko ANGST! It's unbelievably refreshing to see Dev Patel pull off the classic Zuko pout, and even spout off some quintessential Zuko-isms in the trailer. Zuko is someone I definitely love to hate and I think Dev Patel will surely capture the essence that is Zuko in the movie if he's exactly how he is in the trailers all the time.
Appa. You see Appa! Enough said. Oh, and the Komodo Rhinos (which are definitely more "komodo" and a lot less "rhino") are looking pretty fierce as well.
Those are just a few of the highlights of what I liked in general. Now let's go through a list of all the moments that I totally freaked out during.
0:10 - Appa, F-T-W!
0:16 - I'm not certain, but that looks like Pakku waterbending. Sweet!
0:24 - WHY HELLO FIRE LORD OZAI. Great costume design. (:
0:47 - Princess Yue looking sexyfine.
0:48 - Again, that's probably Pakku standing off to the right.
0:56 - Nothing says Avatar like a talking Spirit Dragon.
1:00-1:06 - Great fight sequence with the Blue Spirit.
1:10-1:15 - COOLEST BENDING MOVE EVERRRR.
1:23 - Watch closely--is that a homage to the air scooter?
1:28 - OMG WTF BBQ? I don't want to spoil anything, but that's just downright awesome.
"There are reasons each of us are born. We have to find those reasons."
Things are looking up! My faith in M. Night from the beginning is finally starting to pay off. I'm trying to to have too much naive optimism here, but frankly, if the movie is anything like the trailers, I think we'll be in for quite the treat.
My only complaints: Suki? WHERE ART THOU, SUKI? I heard a rumor she would have a stronger prescense in this trailer. I suppose not. I also heard that we'd see a shot or two of Momo. Again, did not happen. But at least there was another glimpse of Appa (who's design is pretty much identical to the show's).
Other than that...woohoo! Yeah! Tell your friends and family! Go see it so it can make enough money for Paramount to green light the sequel and have fun!
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