The Last Airbender: Super Cool Domestic & Japanese Trailers

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Two new trailers for “The Last Airbender” were released last week and it's rocking my fanboy genes to ecstasy. These trailers features unseen footage of different elemental bendings and tons of action. From what we have seen so far, it looks like the series is going to be dark and gloomy, compared to the animation series. After watching these new bad-ass trailers, I'm already sold out for this movie. I'm going to forget about Night and the race-bending issues, and move on with the movie in our hands.

Domestic Trailer

First time ever, we get to see …

1.Katara doing water-bending. It looks very graceful and beauteous as we have seen in the original series. And water-bending visuals are mindbogglingly realistic.

2.Zuko doing fire-bending. This is freaking fierce. I'm loving Dev Patel as the bad dude here.

3.Aang'staff getting transformed to a glider. Awesome!

4.And we get to hear Aang's voice - saying “I don’t deserve their praise”. I have seen lots of sites complaining about the voice acting comparing to original series. I think it doesn't matter that much. Yeah it feels uncanny, with every other voice acting sounding close to the series (especially Iroh sounds exactly like in the series.)

A glimpse of battle between Katara and Zuko looks marvelous. I can watch Aang sliding under the arm in slomo, 1000 times. I will never get bored of it.

Again whether do we have an awesome movie in the way? Not sure yet. But whatever we have seen looks goddamn promising and it has raised my expectations immensely. For that, you have to give it up to trailer. The tone, the music, the subtle eeriness, the slow buildup and entry of Aang – a freaking great job by the trailer editing team!

Japanese Trailer

Avatar: The Last Airbender is completely based out of the Asian culture and that's what makes it unique. And this Japanese version of the trailer stamps the deal by making it look like one badass martial arts flick. Japanese voice-over adds the depth to tone of the movie. Now, I really want to watch this movie in Japanese to get a different outlook.

We also get to see some new visuals.

1.A fire-bender using campfire as the source and bending it over water tribe. This might be Zuko attacking water-tribe while searching for Aang, which was in the 1st or 2nd episode of Book 1. This looks freaking cool!

2.I also noticed Aang's air-bending looking smooth with his landing and swirling his staff, making fire-benders fly away in seconds.

Of all the teasers and trailers, I think this Japansese one is more badass, authentic and closer to the series.

Night's Roundtable

Two weeks back, Paramount organized a round table discussion with bunch of fansites and established movie websites. The discussion seemed to have raised lot of hope for the movie seeing Night's commitment to the franchise and understanding of the characters.

You can check out the snippets of the discussion in UGO.com linked below. Glad to know Momo is in the movie version :) The video version of the roundtable would be soon released. But going through the snippet, I think we are in for lots of fun with the movie version.

http://www.ugo.com/movies/m-night-shyamalan-the-last-airbender-and-blueberry-muffins

Get your fanboyism on and geek out with the new clips. Wait for twinkle-toes has never been so much fun!