My Weird Thoughts: Last Airbender

My reaction after watching The Last Airbender.

This week I finished watching The Last Airbender. You may remember Boog's review of the movie. In the video below M. Night mentions that he basically wanted to make The Last Airbender, because his daughter really loved the show. 

After seeing the movie I really hope he apologized to his daughter. This movie has a lot of problems which is troubling considering how good the show is. A template on how to make this work basically exists. Granted it's hard to condense one season of a show (20 episodes) into a (not even) two hour movie.

M. Night's shenanigans are cruel and tragic.

He says in the video that he watched the show with his daughter numerous times. I call shenanigans. If he had watched it multiple times, why are the character's names mispronounced? Aang, Sokka, Iroh, and the word Avatar are all mispronounced in this movie. Avatar is actually pronounced two different ways, so at least they were consistent with the names. Why are certain characters even in the film? Momo, Sokka, and Aapa really serve not purpose. (Outside of Aapa as transportation.) Why is the casting so tragic? Why is there no humor at all? Since I had a long list of questions and no one to answer them I went to the source and interviewed M. Night Shyamalan*.

He tried to run so we had to keep him under guard. 

His reasons for so many of the problems, is at the left. I asked him if he had in fact apologized to his daughter. He said he had and had bought her a pony to apologize. She has not forgiven him, and refers to her father as "Commander Zhou" when she does address him.

He also stated that he would be setting up a fund to help those who had been wronged by this movie.

However at this point during the interview Paramount Pictures stormed our offices at Geek Streak and took M. Night by force. I could hear the Paramount representatives tell M. Night that "The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai."

*Paramount pictures denies the interview ever happened, as well as their kidnapping of M. Night.