Fan + male + annoying = fanboy

You’re a dumbass.

You obviously did not see the same movie I did because you are completely wrong.

Or I just have what is called a different opinion.

and who ever played katara really should NOT be in this industry, they suck at acting.

That’s actually what I said, too.

But then there is an obvious problem, all the heros in the movie are white, and all the vilans are dark-skinned, and all the poor little victims who need protecting are non-white.

I disagree with the notion that all the villains are dark-skinned; Prince Zuko is portrayed as a tragic anti-hero and Uncle Iroh is a highly sympathetic character (in fact, the character I enjoyed the most).

Have you never read his interviews? Have you never been exposed to what a pompus ass this guy is?

I have. He never struck me as anything but a director who takes his work seriously. Maybe that’s because I wasn’t projecting my hatred onto him.

How he completely refuses to take any critisism?

You mean how he refuses to listen to you, so you have to throw a fit? Just like you’re doing here because one person dared to express the notion that the movie, while not great, is not the worst movie ever? Have you ever considered that you have a really big issue with allowing others to have their own opinions?

I deeply dislike Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, but I don’t hang around TheOneRing.net and scream at people.

you’re just a butthurt M. Night fanboy who can’t take the fact that most people actually don’t like watching utter crap

So you complain about racism, but you’re a homophobic bigot. Fantastic.

Wouldn’t it make sense to cast Asian people in an Asian-themed movie?

It would, and I’ve said in multiple places that I think this is a major failing. I simply felt that the movie’s overall tone wasn’t racist, especially with the ethnically diverse cast (which I found to be a very pleasant feature of the film). It’s still a problem, and I think it’s a problem that does deserve highlighting, but the hysterical tone in which this is mostly done doesn’t lead anywhere, particularly because I think the problem is more complex than “it’s racist.” There’s an obvious attempt here to make the movie somehow globally inclusive – with problematic results that deserve analysis and criticism.

Also “And what exactly is wrong with saying that the cast is culturally diverse?” a lot of things, actually. First off, it IS racist, no matter what you say, that casting did show and obvious pro-white, anti-asian bias. For starters, the casting call asked specifically for caucasins while looking for the main actors, actually M. night originally cast Jesse McCarteny for the role of prince Zuko, but only changed to Dev Patel after learning that Jesse had something conflicting whith filming and that the fans of the show were throwing a complete shitfest over the white-wash. But then there is an obvious problem, all the heros in the movie are white, and all the vilans are dark-skinned, and all the poor little victims who need protecting are non-white. Can you honestly tell me that there isn’t something wrong with that?

Also, with the M. Night hate? Have you never read his interviews? Have you never been exposed to what a pompus ass this guy is? Or how fucking inflated his head is? How he acts like his movies are god’s gift to cinema? How he completely refuses to take any critisism? He is an asshole, and he took a really good show and raped it. And he acted like that was not only okay, but better than the original. M. Night deserves the hatred he gets, that movie did a damn good job of sucking and it deserves hate too.

I will say I agree with The Bard though, you’re just a butthurt M. Night fanboy who can’t take the fact that most people actually don’t like watching utter crap, especially when it rapes their favorite TV show. DEAL WITH IT.

I agree that casting whites as the leads was a silly thing to do, but surely that does not prevent the rest of the cast, including several main parts, from being more racially diverse than most movies we see? A movie being badly cast does not necessarily make it racist.

Oh it’s was racist on the fact that the cast was white washed and any Asian cast was in the background. Waaay to be a white person and miss that.

You can go on about “Shyama-wank” and find anyone who likes the man’s work infuriating, but I’m not allowed to dislike Michael Bay, or to assert that it’s sad that Bay’s soulless nonsense is still successful when much more individual directors like Shyamalan are not? I don’t want anyone to blindly worship Shyamalan, I just find it rather sad that he attracts all this hatred when at least he believes in his work and has a clear directorial vision (whether you enjoy his work or not is a different question) – in an age where so much generic nonsense in produced.

And what exactly is wrong with saying that the cast is culturally diverse? Yes, it was fairly silly to cast the main protagonists as they did, but racist? In a movie with this cast? Sorry, I disagree. Casting mistakes? Definitely. Racism? I honestly don’t think so. (And please don’t start with the business of labelling people who disagree with you “privileged.” You don’t know the first thing about me.)

As for the silliness of the names, I was referring to the names of the tribes and a few other elements (they simply never sounded real to me, both in the series, of which I have seen the beginning, and in the film – but perhaps I am simply sensitive to such things), not to the rather straightforward character names.

My problem isn’t that you don’t appreciate Shyamalan’s other movies, or that you think The Last Airbender is a weak adaptation (as I said, I don’t think it’s particularly special either). My problem is the sniggering hatred that is so openly on display here.