The Last Airbender

[Depression Moon]

Just went and watched this film tonight. I'm disappointed in some of you for treating this film as if it were a total butchery. I was expecting something on par with Double Dragon or Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in terms of a terrible adaption and quite frankly I was pretty surprised it worked out so well.

It was basically the Reader's Digest version of Season 1 (Book 1: Water) but it highlighted the main point of that story and for the most part stayed pretty accurate which is more than I can say for most adaptions. It sacrifices two of the characters growth but seeing as how one basically played nurse maid to the Avatar and the other was mostly comic relief I don't feel their characters being stunted was a disservice.

I feel the only major problem with the film is that it does try to fit 26 episodes into a two hour film and it frankly can't be done well no matter what,

Aren't all the books with the exception of 3 just 20 episodes? Four of those usually have nothing to do with the main plot. I still dissaprove of this though. The choreography seemed whack. The movements didn't seem to flow at all with the elements, just look at that Earthbending scene for an example.

'Legend of Korra': The 'Avatar' Creators on the New Spinoff - Speakeasy - WSJ

Look at how the creators themselves avoid talking about the film. I doubt they would do that if they loved it.