It's strange. What is it that people don't like?

they called it white washing even though the characters look WHITE ON WHITE plus his name change and basically white washing

Look like Tarzan talk like Jane! HAHA

- Poor performances.

- Lazy special effects.

- Lazy choreography, heard that all the bending choreography in the film is actually waterbending instead of its respective element. Sifu Kisu has openly criticized all of the bending techniques in the film.

- Shyamalan breaks the golden rule of cinema: Show, don't tell. Seriously, most of the time we need to be told what's going on.

- Nicola Peltz. *beep* it, I already mentioned poor performances, but holy *beep* is her acting bad.

It works as a comedy, though. Or a guilty pleasure, in my case.

I'm tired of talkin, Fuchs. I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk.

Okay, so I'm going to try to summarize, but as a huge fan of the show it might get out of hand. I'm apologizing in advance.

Firstly, pronunciations and characters. I'm sure you've heard this one time and time again, so I'll skim over it. This wouldn't be so bad if the rest of what I'm going to talk about didn't happen, but since it did it's rather irritating. Fans, also known as the main audience of this movie, went through three whole seasons of hearing the names pronounced as "Ai-ng", "Saw-kah", and even "Eye-row." "Awng", "Sow-kah", and " Eeh-roh", made a majority of us cringe. On top of that, the characters in the show are clearly based on certain cultures. I'll use the Fire Nation as an example, since Katara and Sokka are overused. The Fire Nation was based on Japan, as viewed by Zuko's dertimination to restore his honor, Iroh's comical obsession with tea, and their music. Shymalan made them Indian (except for Iroh[?]) for some reason. A change that nobody really understood. Once again, wouldn't be that big of a deal.

Secondly, acting. Personally, I don't usually complain about child actors, but woowee, was this cringeworthy. There's compilations out there that are pretty easy to find because so many people find it that funny. I mean, look at the Spykids movies. Somehow they've made it pretty okay despite the pretty bad kid acting. Then you look at The Last Airbender and you get lines like "Are you the Avatar, Aang?" (Again an overused example, but it's been running through my head since I started this section.) They could have done another kind of take, where the kids are directed towards a different way to read the line. Or, it could've been better if it were for a somewhat less awkward script.

Moving on. Look at the movie and try to write out the personality types of each character. ... I'm having troubles without trying to reference the show. For example, the first time Aang is introduced in the show, you automatically see that this kid is just that. A kid. He's happy, sweet, has a sense of humor and keeps an open mind like the precious little monk he is. And throughout the show you feel so bad for him because he's pressured into learning all of the elements by a certain time or everything will be destroyed. No pressure. In the movie I don't see a high-spirited, energetic, fun-loving little smol. I honestly didn't feel bad when he saw his culture and people in rubble and extinct. I really, truly didn't, which can be attributed to the fact that we don't learn about him, just what he is. "The Avatar." Katara is meant to be a motherly but still very hold-her-own kind of gal (she took on a master trainer with hardly any experience herself because he refused to teach her), and Sokka is an intuitive, protective leader (who just so happens to be a huge dork that loves meat). None of that was retained in the movie. They were as important to the movie as the chess pieces were to a game of chess, sure, but you also got to know these character just as much as you get to know your chess pieces. "You go here and do this. You do that thing."

I'm almost done here, I knew this was going to be a ramble, I'm sorry. The majority of the movie was just exposition. Katara narrated most of the movie, destroying the rule of "Show, don't tell." As someone who just writes for fun, I try to live by that rule. One would expect professional story tellers would do so as well. An example of everything being one huge exposition is when Zuko randomly calls a kid over to tell him the story of the banished Prince. That was questionable. I mean, who does that? It seemed like the only way to get exposition across without flat out narrating. I'm going to hurry up here and try to finish this off with this last bit.

The bending. Dear God, the bending! Shymalan said he was trying to make the bending more realistic. Go him! I've always thought that in the show they were moving too fast to be humanly possible, anyways. Yeah, the techniques were based on actual martial arts, but there's no way two people would be able to execute some of what they've got going on (especially Aang, 'cause, man, that kid can move faster than the Flash on coffee mixed with crack and RedBull). Then, look at the bending in the movie. It looks so unnatural and impractical it makes one wonder why they even showed any bending at all. The people in this universe have had generations upon generations to explore and pin down the technique to bend their elements, and even to invent more ways to bend elements. Heck, a twelve year old earth bender invents a way to bend metal into makeshift armor. And she's blind! In the movie, it took six men to make a rock kind of float in the direction they wanted it to go. Huge nono when this movie is supposed to be based on a show that has some of the best animated fight scenes ever.

Now, I too liked Shymalan, and I wasn't going to hate him for this movie. I absolutely loathed Batman and Robin like many people, but I still claim Phone Booth as one of my favorite movies even though it was also directed by

I recommend this video, because it focuses on the movie's storytelling ineptitude rather than character races, name pronunciations, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8dF-3nzoFw

I think the biggest problem is..

This is a show for kids. But you have adults who expect far too much.

If you really have to ask that you are not that bright

The Last Airbender gets tons of hate but I, like M. Night don't really get why.

"IF you have to ask, you'll never know." -Angelica Pickles.