Oh, Failbender

[fey_puck]

So I was going to seeThe Last Airbender for the lulz, but apperantly the movie is too depressingly bad to even laugh at. This makes me sad. I wasn't expecting a good movie at all, but I thought something would salvage it at least a little. I mean, I like to mock things but if the reviews are any indication, the movie crosses beyond the mocklands

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[orcapotter]

Let's just say, I'm glad I didn't pay to see it today.

Honestly, I was willing to post judgment until after my own view of it. But God, for once, every single bashing remark and scathing review is 100% absolutely freaking true.

It was a train wreck that you did want to look away from. It was like a very, very bad LARP with CGI effects. Not a single role stood out. In fact, you would have gotten more emotion and personality if they had performed the entire movie using paper dolls. It's a sad, sick joke on the beautiful, compelling, hilarious, and multi-layered story that the series actually is. I felt like standing up and yelling, friends! Please do not judge the story based on this man-made Hollywood disaster! This is NOT the real Avatar: The Last Airbender ... this is some overzealous, egotistical, melodramatic fool's desperate grasp at regaining exposure. But oh, I hope after this that the man goes far, far away and re-focus on what stood him out in the beginning of his career.

Honestly? I wanted to cry, I was so disgusted. Now, there WAS potential. There were some brief scenes that were, oh, cool ... they could've kept going with that. They included the Blue Spirit, although the significance of him was immediately tossed out the window. Appa was cool during his brief moments. And Momo was just, there, and never named.

(I liked Katara's movie outfit, though. Wouldn't mind wearing that.)

But the racebending. Now, I acknowledged it before but did not think it warranted *such* an outcry. Frankly, I never considered the cast to be ethnic in the sense of being "Chinese" or "Inuit". The Avatar world was inspired by many different cultures. But yeah, the Water Tribe clearly has darker skin. The Fire Nation is really the whitest of the four tribes, next to the Air Nomads--though they're more from Tibet. Frankly, they were animated, so aside from the architecture, the rest seem fairly generalized. So, it was just really off when the main cast are whiter than crackers, but everyone else is clearly ethnic. It looked really, really off. Now, if they could act, then sure, okay, at least they did the part great. But no, it was as if they were simply picked up off the street and asked "Can you read?"

And oh, my, God, they mis-pronounced all the names. Aang was "Oang" and Sokka was "SO-ka". ... Um, hello? WTF? You could tell everyone in the audience was feeling the same.