Last Airbender (Avatar movie)

[Inigo_Montoya]

No, no. You didn't read what I said carefully enough: all of the Asian characters, save for one, was played by a Caucasian. You don't think that's just a bit racist? Really?

~BB~

No more racist than Asian actors being cast to play Native-Americans; and even so, most of the characters from the cartoon were depicted as vaguely if not totally Caucasian anyway. The only ones that were all without a doubt Caucasian were the bad guys (fire - so destructive just like all us white people who can't wait to burn things down and enslave others, because we invented all that, you see.) who ironically were all depicted as Indian in the movie.

But none of it really matters because, you see the movie sucked. REALLY BAD!

It was like Battlefield Earth all over again.

[BellaBellucci]

But none of it really matters because, you see the movie sucked. REALLY BAD!

It was like Battlefield Earth all over again.

Oh, no! Really? My son's going to be disappointed.

~BB~

[ARMANIXXX]

I agree,

It's kinda insulting putting a whole bunch of Caucasians in the movie when clearly in the cartoon, they were Asian.

Basically, the only way they thought this movie would be Palatable, is if you turned the Asians into white people.

This movie failed before the first take.

It's a shame, because the cartoon was a really good and inspiring show.

[laoda8]

How were they "asian" in the series. I mean people complainign about it re-inforce the stereotype of "All asians do kung-fu" . The show takes place not on earth. There is no "Asia" to speak of. Asia is a region only applicable to our earth, not some fantasy land where the world consists of 4 island countries.

[rick_932]

How were they "asian" in the series.

the main character's names are Aang, Katara, and Sokka. This alone is enough to assume they were asian. Also, the producer of the TV series has said in numerous interviews that the show mainly drew on elements from asian culture. It's also worth noting he had nothing to do with the casting of the characters in the movie

[CaptainPlanet]

Its like the Dragon Ball movie they made and casted a WHITE GOKU, doesn't make any fuckin SENSE. Thats why it flopped as well lol. Been reading alot of mixed reviews on Airbender alot of hate towards director M.Night Shyamalan

[rockabilly]

Well Tom Cruise was "The Last Samurai".

[rick_932]

Well Tom Cruise was "The Last Samurai".

dont get me started on that lol

[rockabilly]

That DBZ movie was awful.

They claimed it would be hard to translate the action and style of the anime to live action , hmph i guess they should have watched "Shaolin Soccer" and "Kung Fu Hustle" before making DBZ.

[laoda8]

the main character's names are Aang, Katara, and Sokka.

Those names are made up, nothing intrinsically Asian about them. It's a dumb argument