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

[Mondt]

I'm gonna see it at midnight with a friend.

I have this awesome condition where I can be entirely unaffected by bad movies that are related to things I like.

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Lumenskir

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.

Well in all honesty, Painted Lady was just the one that immediately comes to mind for the series as a whole that's a slap-in-the-face filler episode that doesn't belong.

However, if we're talking season one and this movie, I'd say cutting Jet etc was a fine choice. Never liked Jet or his whole arc in general. Still sad at no apparent Boomy though. I would have swallowed Jet's presence if it meant chewing on gemenite.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by TIME BOMB

I think the whole racism argument is pretty ridic though honestly now.

Why? Non-white characters were replaced with white ones for no apparent reason, and the characters who were white-washed just happened to be the "good guys". In what way is that not racist?

[Bells]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Why? Non-white characters were replaced with white ones for no apparent reason, and the characters who were white-washed just happened to be the "good guys". In what way is that not racist?

Well, this is me playing Devil's Advocate really... but you have the consider the "Why". As in "Why" those actors were picked... do you have any sort of evidence that the people with power to directly influence casting choice have this White Washing Habit? I ask just so we don't get stuck on "I know cause i'm sure" territory.

Maybe this were the best performers avaliable... i mean, "looking the role" is just one part of the process. People also need to know how to act and work with other actors AND crew, there are schedules that can't conflict too much and Money to be talked about.

I mean.... it can be a little more complicated than "It's racist because the people behind it are closeted racists", for all i know it could be a simple matter of flat out stupidity... like "we White-washed the cast cause our research showed that the Audience likes it better this way".... At the end of the day, they aren't here to celebrate Avatar, they are here to sell a product, and they want as many people buying as possible...

[Meister]

Originally Posted by Bells

for all i know it could be a simple matter of flat out stupidity... like "we White-washed the cast cause our research showed that the Audience likes it better this way".... At the end of the day, they aren't here to celebrate Avatar, they are here to sell a product, and they want as many people buying as possible...

Well then it's a matter of society being racist and producers of a major cultural product actively catering to that for profit. Somehow that seems a lot worse.

[Amake]

It's not that people won't watch nonstandard* movies, apparently we have shown that we do as far as any conclusive evidence can be gathered. (Which is hard because A-list nonstandard movies so rarely get made.) But it's the studios that wants to keep standard movies the standard because it makes things less confusing for their investors. I covered that in another thread but it bears repeating.

*The standard being movies that are about straight white males.

[Aerozord]

remember corporations aren't people they are semi-autonomous businesses with no conscience, morality, or agenda beyond "make money". They are profit machines and if america wants a white cast thats what they'll get. They as always actively catering to something just to make a profit. Its the whole reason they exist in the first place. Only way it will is if its not profitable, in which case society is to blame not them.

[Lumenskir]

However, if we're talking season one and this movie, I'd say cutting Jet etc was a fine choice. Never liked Jet or his whole arc in general. Still sad at no apparent Boomy though. I would have swallowed Jet's presence if it meant chewing on gemenite.

I dunno, I liked Jet because the writers always used him well to bring out different aspects of the main characters. I guess they could have just written episodes where one of the Gaang inches closer to falling off the slippery slope until the others reined them back in, but Jet always seemed to function well as the guy that lead them to the edge, jumped off, and proved how crazy the line of thinking was. Plus, hook swords and omnipresent hay is cool.

In fact, the only filler episode I could think of from the first season was The Great Divide, and just because it didn't really offer anything new/have any cool fight scenes. Like has been said, the first season benefits from the decompression inherent in television.

The third season, however, would make a great movie. The looming deadline would actually be palpable in a two hour movie, instead of it being forgotten week-to-week so Aang could dance with the kids from Footloose or episodes from Season 1 could be redone or all the bullshit that happened when Zuko finally switched sides and they had to forcefully integrate him somehow (to say nothing of finally being rid of The Beach). Hopefully they'd think up something better than a Talking Island From A Time Before Bending to end the series though.

[Azisien]

That would be like getting rid of the giant squid-alien in Watchman. You just can't do it man!

[Fusionman]

I am worried. Why are dragons in the preview? Why does the Aang actor look 8? Why is none of the original cast returning? This is going to be this year's Dragonball Evolution.