Last Airbender (Avatar movie)

[jordyd19]

tropic thunder!! robert downey needs a PC class too. I want to see it now that white's are acting chinese. Laughing at inappropriate times is golden in the theater

[Falrune]

I can respect the protest from the perspective of Asian actors needing work (but they should've listened to their Mom and Dad and got a real job, LOL); but on the other side, I believe a director or a producer has the license to interpret a cartoon any way he feels and use whatever talent he wishes. I'd bet the choice of actors was a marketing decision.

[BrendaQG]

I would like to point out that Katara and Sokka are supposed to be Inuit. People with a slight reddish brown to their skin (especially latter int he series where they are in allot of sunlight) and blue/green eyes.

Now in real life their are only a couple tribes of Inuit that actually look that way, they are a mixture of Inuit and Scandinavian. I don't know how many of them are actors. If they had cast one actor who was say from Norway and another of Inuit descent that would have been cool.

As for the casting of Asians. If they had cast the fire nation like the cartoon they would have to have said it was racist against Japanese folks. (Think about it Asian, strong navy, heavily industrialized, lives on a long thin landmass, the red sun is their national symbol, all their talk about honor and the look of their culture...)

Oh and M. Knight managed to work in some black people as part of the Earth Kingdom. The cartoon world with all it's varieties of earth benders had no black folks what so ever.

All in all I don't think they did too bad.

[CaptainPlanet]

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.

Just read that the movie got a 8% rating, thats worst then the DBZ movie.

And yea its a kids movie but even the kids are calling out M.Night Shyamalan on this one!

[Bopper007]

Well Tom Cruise was "The Last Samurai".

Did you even see that movie? Tom Cruise was not the Last Samurai.

[rockabilly]

^ Did you even see Chapelle's Show and get what the joke was?
Obviously not.

[gieric]

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

It was like Battlefield Earth all over again.[/QUOTE]


OMG That is the best comparison I've heard yet! I ended up watching it in 3D, from the second row..... I don't recommend ever watching 3D from the second row, but the 3d was the bast part of the movie and that was only OK. I take it back, the best parts of the movie were the hot chick sitting next to me and listening to all the fanboys Oh, Aw, and cheer through out the movie at the times when they did an ok job of reenacting a scene from the movie. Sigh, I'm not even going to make fun of that attempt to start a "roaring" applause at the end of the movie, I went to a midnight showing on Wednesday and there weren't even enough fanboys to make an acceptable applause =-( I'm just glad the guys at the cartoon saw this coming and finished the series. At least we have that.

[rockabilly]

Wait untill the Naruto movie comes out.

[Mara JamesCD]

I Saw The Movie Lastnight and I would say it was a GREAT movie a 20 out of 10

[deadlyray]

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~

Of course he doesn't, he's a fucking moron.