The Last Airbender - live action movie by M. Night Shyamalan

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The actual anime is a bit kiddish, but does have some deeper themes to it. The movie looks like it will shoot for about the same age range, but a little older perhaps. At any rate I thought the movie trailer looks a lot more serious than the anime, as far as general mood and atmosphere go.

And IMHO, I hope it beats the hell out of Twilight.

I think there are some skeletons shown in the latest trailer of the movie apparently from the Air Nomads, and the cartoon did not show anything like that.

I look forward to this movie, did you see Appa in the trailer? Fuzz yeah!

Also, I hope we get to see some blood bending. A little girl puppeteering someone by manipulating their blood gets me all exited in a non-sexual way.

I was about to say there's no such thing as blood bending, but then I got to thinking, the human body is 70% water, right? So maybe a skilled waterbender could control people like Lecks was saying.

Bloodbending was actually possible in the show, but only by a skilled waterbender and only on the full moon. However, it didn't appear until very late in the series, so chances are next to none it appears in the first movie and still unlikely it appears in the movie series at all, since it wasn't really crucial to the plot.

Blood bending was done in the show by an old waterbender who useing the full moon could gain the ability to control peoples blood, and used it punish a fire nation town for it's nations crimes. Katara even managed to learn it when she was angry, though it is the most evil part of water bending, and was a good way to develop Katara in terms of holding back on an evil use of her bending.

I would also like to see how they could pull off Toph, how can you make a blind little girl, be one of the toughest characters in the cast, actually makeing kids in general look tough would be a bit of a chalenge.

I'm guardedly optimistic. The bending sequences in the trailer really pleased me, and some of the shots I swear must have been storyboarded straight from the cartoon. The kids looks about as good as any live kid would playing Aang, considering I assume they would have looked for a kid with some martial arts experience... dunno that for sure, but it would make sense. The bending moves always looked cool in the show because they were real moves taken from different styles, chosen because they fit the kind of bending each was used for. So it makes sense that with a little CG to back it up, it's going to look cool. I haven't seen any acting so far, so who knows? But it "looks" cool, specifically "looks" in that no matter how the rest turns out, I still think that it will be fun to see some of the stuff turned live-action.