it's german for happiness at the misfortune of others!
I am feeling so much sweet, sweet schadenfreude at the complete and utter failure of the horrible Failbender movie. I am loving every single horrible, nasty, well-written review it's receiving, but I think Ebert has put it best so far. I'm sure y'all have read his statements already, but I shall have the quote here anyway, because it's a work of reviewing genius:
"The Last Airbender" is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.
Oh, Ebert. You brilliant, lovely man.
More links:
Preliminary thoughts on race and gender in The Last Airbender.
The Last Airbender film: changes from the cartoon series.
Gorgeous fan recasting of the movie, as it should have looked.
So, now that I see that the movie failed on almost every level any work of fiction and cinema can possibly fail, I am only left to wonder what the hell M. Night was thinking. He reminds me of the horrible racefail events we've had on the net, where people flail and backpedal and tone argument and utterly refuse to realize how thoroughly they are filling out the race bingo card. I can only hope that they don't pin the failure of this film of visual effects and the failure of an American audience to accept an Asian/multiracial setting, because honestly that is just the sort of bullshit I can see Paramount settling for, instead of pausing to admit for one moment that the masses of fans they enraged were right.
I am so disappointed with this film, which could have been wonderful, had it been done right. I remember the thrill of joy I felt when I read that they were making a movie based on Avatar: The Last Airbender. I wish they could have hired a different director for this wasted effort, and I hope that the new Avatar series doesn't hinge on the success of this wretched film.
I have a little kid named Noah at the daycare who adores ATLA and Aang. Aang is his hero. About the movie? He said: "It sounds like crap. And why did they make Aang white? He's supposed to be Asian." Noah is eight, white, and still more savvy than these idiots.
"The Last Airbender" is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.
Oh, Ebert. You brilliant, lovely man.
More links:
Preliminary thoughts on race and gender in The Last Airbender.
The Last Airbender film: changes from the cartoon series.
Gorgeous fan recasting of the movie, as it should have looked.
So, now that I see that the movie failed on almost every level any work of fiction and cinema can possibly fail, I am only left to wonder what the hell M. Night was thinking. He reminds me of the horrible racefail events we've had on the net, where people flail and backpedal and tone argument and utterly refuse to realize how thoroughly they are filling out the race bingo card. I can only hope that they don't pin the failure of this film of visual effects and the failure of an American audience to accept an Asian/multiracial setting, because honestly that is just the sort of bullshit I can see Paramount settling for, instead of pausing to admit for one moment that the masses of fans they enraged were right.
I am so disappointed with this film, which could have been wonderful, had it been done right. I remember the thrill of joy I felt when I read that they were making a movie based on Avatar: The Last Airbender. I wish they could have hired a different director for this wasted effort, and I hope that the new Avatar series doesn't hinge on the success of this wretched film.
I have a little kid named Noah at the daycare who adores ATLA and Aang. Aang is his hero. About the movie? He said: "It sounds like crap. And why did they make Aang white? He's supposed to be Asian." Noah is eight, white, and still more savvy than these idiots.