>>100466331>Even Shayamalan's last airbender was a more respectful adaptation than this traysh.Shyamalan's adaptation of ATLA was not intentionally a buddy cop style movie, and was not only a pisspoor adaptation, but showed Shyamalan's oddly consistent race switching of every faction.
Fair enough, it's a western release, you want to make everyone white? Nobody'd give a shit back then. Want to ignore race entirely and just choose who fits characters the best? Also cool.
But
>Switch entire fire nation from japanese/korean to pakistani/indian>Switch water tribes from unqiue african/inuit hybrid to the most annoying child actress since the golden compass, a dude who has one facial expression of mildly annoyed surprise, penis haircut lady, and white people>Earth Kingdoms are left as ambiguously asian, tbf>Switch Tibetans/Nepalese/ White air nomads for annoying grey alien looking motherfucker That's way too much goddamn effort for it just to be random casting choices, the dude rearranged ethnicities to literally self insert his own.
>>100466010It's the last film before the much darker tones of Black Panther and IW.
All that death and destruction of the latter films means nothing if there's not a bit of joy along the way. What, did you want a film where Hela reenacts the armenian genocide?
