Fuck you M. Night Shamwow, the Last Airbender totally sucked!

[Kim]

Did anyone else think the acting wasn't so good in the trailers?

[Aerozord]

honestly my problem with the movie isn't even casting, director, or that its live action, I think its gonna suck because its a movie. Show had pretty much flawless pacing, you cant cut it down without reducing the quality.

[Azisien]

You could cut out the Painted Lady... :p

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Azisien

You could cut out the Painted Lady... :p

*SMACKS*

[Nique]

Perhaps we should snowball this into a 100 page yelling match on racism in Hollywood! I'll put 10 down on Prems, he's got 2:1 odds against Nique and Funka.

Not that it matters but I'd actually have to go back through that thread with a machete to make sure I'm not contradicting myself here. Anydangways, with casting decisions like this I'm more inclined to take the MORAL OUTAGE route. This is... more of a blatent dismisal of the issue than what I percieved the *OTHER* movie to be.

Also: Aasif Mandvi as Admiral Zhao? No thanks, I'd rather take another white guy.

But yeah I mean it's also sort of a fuzzy issue becuase you've got an obviously not white guy directing + a largely non-white secondary (but important) cast and, maybe, less of an oppurtunity for racial stereotypes to creep in? Like, seriously, Indian imperialists oppressing white natives? There are just so many directions to approach this from.

They didn't randomly ask "the twist guy" to direct this thing. He battered their door down with a tree he ran into and broke off on his way there and said "PICK ME PICK ME OH GOD PICK MEEEEEEE!"

Grgit >.O - I can not stop thinking of the Family Guy joke 'It's a twist! It's a twist! etc etc on and on'

[Lumenskir]

You could cut out the Painted Lady... :p

Like I said in some other thread, the third season is the only one with enough expendable flotsam that it not only makes sense, but is actually merciful to cut down to two hours.

TL;DR: Spizace Sizword sucked ass. All who disagree suck cock by choice.

EDIT: On the director front, the last time Shimmy tried to make a movie 'for his kids' he made Lady in the Water.

[Lithp]

And my biggest peeve I bet they will totally ignore the fact Sokka is sexist.

Why? It wasn't very important.

Anyway, I'm with the people who hate the very idea of this movie. Why? It's wholly unnecessary. Since it doesn't add anything to the story, which already includes like 3 "movies," of sorts, it really can't do anything "good" for the series, even if it defies everyone's expectations & actually turns out to be pretty kickass by some--turn. If not, I guess it'll still just be that shameful installment that I ignore in my nostalgia. Even so, I have to watch it, if only to pass self-righteous criticism on it.

[Ecks]

The way I see it... adaptations of ANYTHING are guaranteed suckage. Anime adapted from manga generally sucks (with notable exceptions), games adapted from movies most certainly suck (on this point, there can be no dissention), games adapted from movies adapted from comics BLOW FUCKING CHUNKS (unless they're called Batman: Arkham Asylum).

So, as I usually do... I'll probably watch this movie. I may enjoy it. May not. Won't change how I feel about Avatar. Won't change how I feel about Hollywood clinging to fifty-year-old conventions in every single movie they make, no matter the subject matter.

[Red Fighter 1073]

What I don't get is how do you go from an Asian Prince Zuko to having an Indian playing the character? I mean, I can at least understand a white guy playing Aang because the skin tone is kinda similar, but Dev Patel looks nothing like Prince Zuko. And on the same topic, casting white people for the Inuit Sokka and Katara just seems weird to me. If anything, I would cast a bunch of Indian people as the Inuits if you were gonna do that.

[TIME BOMB]

im so stoked out of my mind for this movie! I sure hope it doesnt suck cuz thatd make me sad. I think the whole racism argument is pretty ridic though honestly now.