avatar: the last airbender

New Airbender TV Spot: Appa’s Creepy Face

by Susana Polo | 12:55 pm, June 20th

Avatar: The Last Airbender (A. K. A. the real Avatar) is nearly upon us, and so we’re down to the final few TV spots to pour over. Unnervingly, we haven’t seen much character dialogue in the released footage, leaving many fans still in suspense over the quality of the acting in the movie.

Even I, who have been pretty relaxed in the knowledge that if the movie is awful, it will still be pretty, and I can just go home and watch all four Sozin’s Comet episodes to make myself feel better, am getting a little worried.

And then there’s Appa’s face.

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This Exists

The MTV Movie Awards’ Exclusive Summer Movie Clips: Scott Pilgrim, Last Airbender. (Oh Yeah, and Twilight.)

by Susana Polo | 3:04 pm, June 7th

Everybody watched the MTV movie awards this weekend, right?

Yeah, that’s what we thought. It might interest you to see the three exclusive clips of previously unseen footage from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and…

Well, and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

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there's an appa for that

New Full Length Last Airbender Trailer

by Susana Polo | 11:32 am, April 25th

There is a brand new full-length trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender, featuring more Appa, more bending, more Avatar state, Fang, and one more special, blue guest.

Check it out after the jump:

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I'll Just Leave This Here

6 Hugh Jackman Period Films That Can Be Watched as Wolverine Prequels

by Susana Polo | 5:55 pm, April 9th

Hugh Jackman is a jack-of-all-trades sort of actor, as comfortable playing the action hero in a modern special effects blockbuster as he is playing the lead in a period musical. The best thing about this (I mean, aside from good acting) is that he’s done a lot of period films. He’s also the live action face of one of the Marvel Universe‘s nearly indestructible probably immortal badasses: Wolverine.

This lead me inevitably to the conclusion that you could pretend that some of his period films were also about Wolverine. Secretly.

You couldn’t call it canonical, since movie Wolverine spends his entire post-X-factor life with his half-brother Sabertooth (until the 1970′s or so). But you could call it amusing.

Here’s the Netflix queue for your fanfiction adventure:

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there's an appa for that

Volcano Erupts in Iceland After 200 Year Nap [Video]

by Susana Polo | 11:51 am, March 22nd

At about 11:30 Saturday night, just as Iceland was easing into the day of the vernal equinox, a volcano erupted right next to the Eyjafjallajokull (yes, really) glacier. Icelandic authorities evacuated hundreds of people from surrounding towns, fearing flooding from the melting glacier. There have been no reports of injuries or property damage, and so we can say with only a little guilt that this volcano looks awesome.

The fissure is half a mile long and looks like something out of the Rite of Spring section of Fantasia. Video after the jump:

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Essay

What is it about Movies Called Avatar and Race?

by Cindy Au | 12:14 pm, February 15th

M. Night Shyamalan‘s forthcoming adaptation of Nickelodeon’s animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender won’t be released until July 2010, but criticism over the whitewashing of the series’ Asian characters has already given birth to a thriving year-old community of dissenters at Racebending.com and preemptive discussions on whether the casting is racist.

While other movie critics were having eyegasms over Airbender’s Superbowl Ad and latest trailer, both Topless Robot and Salon.com turned to address the racial anxiety Shyamalan has stirred up by casting mostly white actors as the series’ clearly Asian and Inuit lead characters.

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Humans Are Jerks, Part 9,376: Slaughtering Awesome Megafauna

by Susana Polo | 2:43 pm, January 25th

Lately paleontologists have revealed the newest information in really old stuff: that there is more evidence than previously thought to support the theory that humans are largely responsible for the extinction of megafauna. Even the Economist has an article up about it.

Once we got past our species shame, we became fixated on the ex-animals mentioned in the Australian Broadcasting Company‘s short post on the subject:

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The Unintentional Hilarity of Twitter Spam Bots

Back Alley Internet is a recurring column in which we explore some of the weirder corners of the Internet and see what we can drudge up for your amusement and education. This week: We study the legions of Twitter bots that trawl the trending topics and spit out some unintentionally hilarious tweets.

Tweetosystem

Eric Limer You have to tew two tutus?! I have to tew two tutus too!
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Max The Pizza and Pasta Foundation supports the federal SAUCE act. Ask your congressman to put some SAUCE on it!
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Eric Limer I like how if you make a mistake typing a popular URL, invariably the site you find is all "YOU'RE WINNER!" It's uplifting for a second.
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Max Spam for work involves a false teeth supplier and someone looking to buy magnetic plates.
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Eric Limer So that improv show was definitely a good idea. Ben Schwartz, Zach Woods, Justin Long, AND Adam Scott. #EverythingWentBetterThanExpected
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Max Got a lot crossed off my to-do list tonight, and I'm starting to feel significantly less freaked about about, well, life.
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Eric Limer I need trephination like I need a hole in the head.
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Max AIM CHAT: I like you, too. *belushis*
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Eric Limer Listening to Call Me Maybe and cropping screengrabs of Twitter bots. It's times like this that I really love my job.
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James Plafke Popular rapper Ladies Love Removed Eyes.
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Eric Limer I am genuinely enjoying using So.cl to make weird picture mash-ups. I just made a collage of becks. http://t.co/ulGbDbwn
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Eric Limer This Facebook IPO coverage needs to stop cuz I'm seriously sick of seeing Zuckerberg staring creepily at me from the top of every story.
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Max Put on your poodle skirts and choose your favorite syrup because we're gonna have a sock-hop at the iHop.
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James Plafke I just threatened my mom to email me something by telling her I'd discuss with her all the lady celebrities I'd have sex with.
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Max New Hallmark Card: "I held an extended conversation with you without being able to remember your name" Inside: "I'm sorry."
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Eric Limer To any of you bros who might like to ice me, I encourage you to act on that urge, bro.
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Eric Limer If anyone is looking for some totally garbled, nigh-incomprehensible ad copy, I'm your man.
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Eric Limer What? None of my Facebook friends are on So.cl? How can this be?!
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Eric Limer "Does this mustache look creepy? Experts are blind; can't tell."
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Rollin Bishop Lin Beifong is suddenly one of the best things about Legend of Korra.
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