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Movie of the weekend: The Last Airbender
Apr. 23rd, 2011 03:33 pmOkay, so I'm trying to watch this movie. My expectations were so low going in that I figured I might actually like it; I was expecting a handful of white kids sitting around telling racist jokes while drooling on themselves, so it had to be better than that, right?
Not by much.
It's the little things that are really killing me. In the scene down in the arctic village, they live in igloos, right? The entrance way of the igloos are covered in flimsy, see through lace-like material. WTF. They're all dressed in fur and yet they let the cold air freely into their homes?
And this: 26 minutes into the movie and they just arrived at some earthbending village. A bunch of huts. Of course the huts are built on flat dirt ground. One of the people in the background was sweeping right outside of his hut. Sweeping. The dirt ground. Because it was dirty? Seriously, look! And 33 minutes in someone else is sweeping the dirt! Must clean dirt, must clean dirt. Seriously, do people actually sweep dirt? Is this something I've missed learning somewhere along the way?
This just so very doesn't work as a live action movie. What looks cool animated looks silly live action.
The one and only good part is Iroh. He looks and sounds nothing like the cartoon version, but I liked him.
I really had thought that people were overreacting about the races, but it really is bad enough to be disturbing. Characters who should be brown are shockingly white. The bad guys are all dark skinned.
Wow, I actually made it through the whole thing. Two hours wasted. I didn't see one positive review of this movie, and they were all right. Ugh, what a waste.
Not by much.
It's the little things that are really killing me. In the scene down in the arctic village, they live in igloos, right? The entrance way of the igloos are covered in flimsy, see through lace-like material. WTF. They're all dressed in fur and yet they let the cold air freely into their homes?
And this: 26 minutes into the movie and they just arrived at some earthbending village. A bunch of huts. Of course the huts are built on flat dirt ground. One of the people in the background was sweeping right outside of his hut. Sweeping. The dirt ground. Because it was dirty? Seriously, look! And 33 minutes in someone else is sweeping the dirt! Must clean dirt, must clean dirt. Seriously, do people actually sweep dirt? Is this something I've missed learning somewhere along the way?
This just so very doesn't work as a live action movie. What looks cool animated looks silly live action.
The one and only good part is Iroh. He looks and sounds nothing like the cartoon version, but I liked him.
I really had thought that people were overreacting about the races, but it really is bad enough to be disturbing. Characters who should be brown are shockingly white. The bad guys are all dark skinned.
Wow, I actually made it through the whole thing. Two hours wasted. I didn't see one positive review of this movie, and they were all right. Ugh, what a waste.
