mrvino15

It's hard in Hollywood these days. It's soo easy for us to judge a script and be like "meh, we've seen this a million times..." What we rarely see, is a script that brings us/me back to the 80s, when we enjoyed fun, love, and adventure in movies, not everything so serious.. That's what this movie brings.. It's totally unrealistic and easily can be judged but it's fun, the music is fun, the action is fun, and the actors are on point.

Aside from someone these days saying "this is soo unrealistic," which is the point, go into this with an open mind, just to enjoy the movie.. You'll get good acting and a fun script and you'll get to feel a bit of the 80s, imo.

I didn't read the manga.. but, I did listen to the audio books per a request from a friend, and I couldn't stop.. The story was soo well told, even by someone that wasn't all that "know." I listen to audio books going to sleep and I've probably listened to each of the books, aside from 7 and 8, 4-6 times each.. It's a comfort read now..

Then, I heard about this series and I was extremely excited, but skeptical. I don't consider myself a major anime fan, I do love Demon Slayer and Bleach, but I don't have a ton of experience.. But.. this anime is soo damn fun.. It's pretty much exactly what I imagined in my head..

My gosh it's fun.

First off, thank GOSH this isn't anything CLOSE to the 2010 movie! Lol. Overall, Netflix, I thank you. This is about as close as you can get to live action vs animation. The small pitfalls, so far, are in regard to casting and some choices made to which characters to cast. Most of the Avatar audience, imo, have "grown up" by now but they still made a few casting choices that are for, well, the younger audience.

I didn't grow up watching the cartoon but I did find it and Korra about 6 years ago and absolutely LOVE the cartoons. So, going into this I was skeptical and hopeful. Imo, they delivered. This version does feel like a live action of the cartoon we all love. The feel of this is great. The CGI is absolutely awesome! Sokka, lmao, that was spot on casting. Same with Aang. Most of the acting and casting is really good. Katara, imo, falls a little short. Her acting is pretty dry tbh. It gets better at times and during others you can really feel her lack of experience.

Don't get me wrong guys, this isn't perfect. There are things to be nit picky about. But, comparing this to other failed live-actions, or live actions where they took their own liberties with it, this one feels like Netflix stayed true to the source material and I thank you for that! I can't wait for future seasons!!!

Kyoshi Island, wow! Lol.. I won't say any more. :)