The Last Airbender officially hits theaters today. But I will not be going and seeing it.
I will not see this movie, even though the series it was based on, “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is one of my favorite television series ever and it is a series that I recommend wholeheartedly and unabashedly. One important reason why I will not see the movie is
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I didn't see it because I heard it was terrible, and I love Chun Li (as many female gamers my age do) - I didn't want to see the character ruined.
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Turns out according to IDMB, "Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch ancestry and her mother, Deanna Che, is of Chinese ancestry but born in Indonesia; both are landscape architects."
But yeah, the movie looked pretty bad, and everyone else whose opinion I trusted said it dropped the ball on a really cool character.
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Why can't anybody get video game movies right??
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Personally, I've never seen a more cut-and-dried example of racist casting than for this particular film. But I wouldn't see it even if all the actors' ethnicities were faithful to the original. The casting just looks to be the tip of the iceberg in "what the hell were they thinking"-level bad decisions. Live action? No involvement whatsoever from the series creators? Directed by M. Night Shyamalan? Seriously?
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Hopefully this will flop badly enough to prevent any sequels. Avatar was one of my favorite shows, and I'd love to see a properly made movie adaption someday. That won't happen till this turd is forgotten, if ever.
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And I'm not going to lie: I want to marry this man.
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"I hate everything about M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. I hate that it’s racist. I hate that it takes a great, easy-to-adapt show and completely disrespects the material. I hate the performances. I hate the special effects. I hate the borderline non-existent 3D that serves only to jack up ticket prices. I hate the lack of imagination. I hate the embarrassingly bad script that would be laughed out of a Screenwriting 101 class. I hate the consequences if this movie is a success at the box office. I hate the consequences if it fails at the box office. I hate that this movie exists. And “hate” isn’t a strong enough word."
DAAAAAAAMMMNNN.
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One of my favorite lines. :D
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That's why I, even with free movie tickets given to me, refused to go to the movie theatre.
Until GOOD MOVIES come back, I'll stick to waiting for Pixar on Bluray.
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I'm waiting for it to come out on Blu-Ray.
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