Couldn't they just call it "The Avatar" or "The Last Avatar"?

[MJN SEIFER]

Ok guys, I get that David Cameron's Avatar came first (not just the film, but he did the script for around the time of Titanic and then gave up as there was no way to film it), but "The Last Airbender" is a poor name for a film in my opinion.

They could have at least given it one of the titles in my thread title! I mean come on, it's not like Cameron invented the word "Avatar" it's a propper word, no one should have copyright over it - it makes no sense...:confused:

[Old Manus]

David Cameron:grover:

[Clo]

I do think the title of the movie was a bad choice. But if you look at the rest of the decisions they made about the film, I'm not surprised they were all der der der about it.

[blackmage_nuke]

"The Last Avatar" Makes no sense since apparently Aang wont to the last Avatar
Avatar: Legend of Korra - Avatar Wiki, the Avatar: The Last Airbender resource (http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar:_Legend_of_Korra)

I still refer to the movie as Avatar. And refer to James cameron's as blue people Avatar

[Shlup]

I thought "The Last Airbender" was a good title.

Then again, I have no interest in seeing that movie anyway.

[Madame Adequate]

They could have at least given it one of the titles in my thread title! I mean come on, it's not like Cameron invented the word "Avatar" it's a propper word, no one should have copyright over it - it makes no sense...:confused:

How are you going to give things titles if you're not allowed to use words to do it? :confused:

[I Took the Red Pill]

I thought The Last Airbender was a pretty good name for the movie. But yeah that's about the only thing it had going for it. I would count it among the worst movies I have seen in the past 10 years.

[Shiny]

The fact that people even went to see The Last Airbender is laughable to me. I told em! I told em! Dey didn't think it be like it is, but it do!

[Jessweeee♪]

I heard it was a complete bastardization of the series anyway, so the title isn't so bad I guess. But I haven't seen anything Avatar at all ever so what do I know.

[Chris]

I thought "The Last Airbender" was a good title.

Then again, I have no interest in seeing that movie anyway.
This pretty much sums up my humble thoughts.

[Peegee]

movies have the same title all the time.

The Illusionist (2006 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illusionist_%282006_film%29)
The Illusionist (2010 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illusionist_%282010_film%29)

watch both btw. If they named both films Avatar it would be okay but I don't think I've ever seen two films released in the same...wait they weren't even released in the same year!

argh I have no arguments for this. I'm leaving.

[blackmage_nuke]

I guess since James Cameron's Avatar was such a big hit they didnt want to pretend they were leaching off their success or set anyone's expectations. I dont think it was really a copyright issue at all.

[Peegee]

I guess since James Cameron's Avatar was such a big hit they didnt want to pretend they were leaching off their success or set anyone's expectations. I dont think it was really a copyright issue at all.

http://animeswitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/avatar.jpg

They should've called it that instead of just avatar. But let's see if wikipedia tells me anything about marketing! Oh wait, it's what we said:

:ichigo: sauce (http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/15/m-night-shyamalans-the-last-airbender-gets-release-date-avatar-dropped-from-title/)

[Laddy]

The movie sucks anyway.

[Bunny]

I've read the original post several times and I can't really figure out what the issue is.

[Peegee]

I've read the original post several times and I can't really figure out what the issue is.

read it again :) especially the bold text

[DMKA]

I think The Last Airbender is a fine title.

It's everything else about the film that's a problem...

[Moon Rabbits]

i heard they made everyone white in the movie.

[DMKA]

i heard they made everyone white in the movie.

That's a lie. All the good guy main characters were white. All the bad guy main characters were middle eastern arab desert people. They are asian. Lots of the extras were east asians though. The kind wapaneses love that they wanted the entire cast to be. :p

I think it's stupid that it was ever complained about though, seeing as it's an American cartoon based in a fictional world and no one's race/ethnicity is ever talked about or indicated, as far as I've seen. Unless there's a race of pale white to slightly tanned people with deformed, gigantic blue eyes out there in the mountains of east asia that I'm unaware of.

[blackmage_nuke]

i heard they made everyone white in the movie.

That's a lie. All the good guy main characters were white. All the bad guy main characters were middle eastern arab desert people. They are asian. Lots of the extras were east asians though. The kind wapaneses love that they wanted the entire cast to be. :p

I think it's stupid that it was ever complained about though, seeing as it's an American cartoon based in a fictional world and no one's race/ethnicity is ever talked about or indicated, as far as I've seen. Unless there's a race of pale white to slightly tanned people with deformed, gigantic blue eyes out there in the mountains of east asia that I'm unaware of.
Since theres Asian architecture everywhere, Asian writing, medieval Asian clothing and ocaisionally even Asian words, I think its pretty clear what the writer was going for.

Also who has blue eyes in the series (not counting Avatar-state Aang)?

[DMKA]

i heard they made everyone white in the movie.

That's a lie. All the good guy main characters were white. All the bad guy main characters were middle eastern arab desert people. They are asian. Lots of the extras were east asians though. The kind wapaneses love that they wanted the entire cast to be. :p

I think it's stupid that it was ever complained about though, seeing as it's an American cartoon based in a fictional world and no one's race/ethnicity is ever talked about or indicated, as far as I've seen. Unless there's a race of pale white to slightly tanned people with deformed, gigantic blue eyes out there in the mountains of east asia that I'm unaware of.
Since theres Asian architecture everywhere, Asian writing, medieval Asian clothing and ocaisionally even Asian words, I think its pretty clear what the writer was going for.

Also who has blue eyes in the series (not counting Avatar-state Aang)?
....................

Have you ever even watched the show?

http://lulabeth.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/aang.gif
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Katara.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Toph_ep26.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/Sokka_the_Thinker.png

And who cares if there's "asian architecture" everywhere? Asian covers a huge amount of people, varying greatly in race and culture. There are tons of caucasian people, arab people, persian people, and tons of other types of people in asia, not just Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese and Koreans. And again its A FICTIONAL FREAKING WORLD JESUS CHRIST.

Wapanese fanboys need to get over it and stop being so racist. There was no problem whatsoever with casting white people as these characters who, again, are fair complexioned, blue eyed people. Makes sense to me.

[blackmage_nuke]

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081212212861/avatar/images/thumb/d/d0/New_Avatar3.png/300px-New_Avatar3.png

Aangs eyes are brown.

Also it's obvious the writer was going for different Asian cultures in different nations. The air nomads were obviously Tibetan Monks (living in the mountains giant Tibetan like temples), the Earth Kingdom was China (walls everywhere, names like Bei Fong Toph), the Fire Nation was likely Japan (and firenation has the slantiest eyes and blackest hair of them all, if someone cant determine that they were meant to be one of the larger Asian Countries like china or japan then theyve never seen an asian) and the Water Tribes were inuit, also if anyone knows, what colour are inuit eyes generally?

There's already a limited number of roles Asians get to play in Hollywood, now theyre saying we cant even play roles that were obviously written for Asians.

[Peegee]

Then finance your own movie - the casting scene in America is heavily biased to benefit white actors. Blacks a close second and asians a distant miscellaneous category.

I could start a whole ooc discussion on this - the point of which is that there's a whole slew of things wrong with TLA