it's german for happiness at the misfortune of others!

[ivy_chan]

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

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[lvsinsanity]

I read somewhere that Night had this freak breakdown where he started shouting at people to get off his back about the races of the characters... I'm so tempted to try and find that.

Editing to say that I am in love with Eberts review of that movie where an entire paragraph is dedicated to racefail, that is so full of win!

Also, the fancasting was amazing! THAT IS how it should have looked!

[ivy_chan]

HA HA, M NIGHT. YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST TO UNDERESTIMATE FANDOM, AND YOU SHALL NOT BE THE LAST! WE CAN SEE YOU RACEFAIL AND WE WILL NOT BE MOVED.

Ahem. It's good to know that the movie was half as stressful to him as it was to us.

[lvsinsanity]

Yes! You know it's bad when EBERT is facepalming at your Race!Fail!

[lalachoy]

I have this horrible squick when it comes to embarrassment. I wish I could be happy, because the movie was not done right in every way possible, but I'm so squicked out because I can just imagine how he feels...*wince* He does deserve it, but damn this squick of mine. Damn it.

I looked at that one recasting that fan did and my gosh, that's doing the cast right! Especially Katara's. I think Ayesha Kapoor is her. Wow.

[ivy_chan]

Aww, I have that too. Whenever I see a character being humilated on screen, I have to look away or even cover my ears and hum if it's bad enough.

[ivy_chan]

Noah is just...so adorkable. He would team up with Vignesh and together they would create a work of pure genius. Although I'm sure Indiana Jones would appear somewhere.

[redbrunja]

Ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh.

[ivy_chan]

Ohhhh yes. Full of triumph and vindictiveness.

[redbrunja]

Mostly vindictiveness. I'm personally feeling a little low on triumph.

[t3h_toby_chan]

Ia on the schadenfreude front.

Although I have to wonder- it looks like since it's a muckup on every theoretical level, it would have probably sucked at least 90% if it had appropriate casting. My guess is that if that were the case, the fail would be blamed on a nonwhite cast. >_>

I talked to my little sister last night, who had been excited to go see it at a midnight premiere, but was disappointed by a negative review she read. I said I'd kind of seen the suck coming. "Ever since you heard it was M Night Shyamalan?"- "Well, ever since I first saw it was full of white kids." Then she vented. "Ugh! I wish everyone would just shut up about the race thing! I mean, it doesn't matter anyway, and the voice actors were white." :(

I'm so ready to be over this.

[ivy_chan]

*lol at your sister* Yes, Mako, Dante Bosco, and Grey DeLisle. All whiter than white. (Okay, yeah, a bit problematic that they're all FN and the rest of the cast are voiced by white actors, but still. Way to ignore them.)

I think it still would have been sucky without the casting. Maybe I should be glad that POC weren't hired, because then they'd blame their failure on the POC actors. They should have gotten a director who WASN'T Shymalan, dammit.

[t3h_toby_chan]

I've been hearing speculation in the comms on who could've done it better. JJ Abrams and Ang Lee were big on the list. God what I wouldn't give to have seen TLA directed by ANG FUCKIN LEE!

Also maybe Peter Jackson. It'd be long but it deserves to be long, idgaf.

And now I'm sad because I'm remembering the skit we never got to perform at the spring con where the Ember Island Players enact the film according to various other directors' suggestions.

[ivy_chan]

ANG LEE. Yes, that would be the stuff of gods.

ATLA does deserve to be long. I've often thought that they didn't have enough episodes to work with.