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l33tminion) wrote2010-07-02 03:57 pm
l33tminion) wrote2010-07-02 03:57 pm
Sometimes Mistakes Cancel Out
Evidently, the movie The Last Airbender1 is crap. Which is great! Since that means I don't have to watch it, don't even have to deliberate about whether I should boycott it,2 don't have to worry about it marring my experience with the animated series (which I hear is great and have yet to get around to watching). Plus, it's bad enough to produce reviews more entertaining than the movie itself.
1 The original is called Avatar: The Last Airbender, but the first bit was dropped presumably to avoid confusion with that other movie.
2 For those of you who haven't been reading the internet, the setting conceit of Avatar: The Last Airbender is (among others) that it's set in a fantasy world where the entire world is Asia, as compared to the usual Tolkein-esque fantasy world where the entire world is Europe. However, the casting call descriptions for every main character in this particular movie started "whitey or whatever" (though they did end up casting some Asians among the villains). It was not just activists who think that decision was dumb.
1 The original is called Avatar: The Last Airbender, but the first bit was dropped presumably to avoid confusion with that other movie.
2 For those of you who haven't been reading the internet, the setting conceit of Avatar: The Last Airbender is (among others) that it's set in a fantasy world where the entire world is Asia, as compared to the usual Tolkein-esque fantasy world where the entire world is Europe. However, the casting call descriptions for every main character in this particular movie started "whitey or whatever" (though they did end up casting some Asians among the villains). It was not just activists who think that decision was dumb.