Agreed. I'm 99% positive it was the worst movie I've ever seen. I'm a huuuuge fan of the series, and am in general very good at appreciating movies based on a book or movie, but it was horrible. I didn't enjoy it at all. I could go on for hours.

My biggest beef with it was the casting, I think. The fact that the main characters were white would not bother me in the least, if they were good actors. It was very strange casting. Main actors: white. Extras from the Earth and Water Tribes: mixed. Fire Nation: Indian. Weird. In some interview I heard M. night say something about wanting to make it as authentically Asian influenced as possible, which was his excuse for changing the pronunciation of all the names (also ). However, he then goes and makes those casting choices, and, and this really got me, makes the dragon as non-asian as possible?! Duh. Casting has two important parts in my eyes: the ability of the actor/actress to act, and for some movies, although some would argue, cultural differences. I could care less about casting white actors; but if you're going to deviate that much from the show and then claim you're keeping the movie as authentic as possible, casting excellent actors in place of culturally accurate ones would have helped alot. Buuuut he paid attention to neither of these.

And the script was so poorly written.

And that head water tribe guy's honking/bellowing/call-to-arms "we're going to war" thing was possibly the strangest thing I've ever seen.

Man, usually bad movies don't get me this worked up. But sheesh. I liked at the end though, when it said "written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shaymlyanaladansalsdf (sp?)" It was that bad because he couldn't get anyone to back him. It was just him.

UUUUGH AND THE BENDING. (you thought I was done, didn't you? ) I thought that at least would be really cool. But they did so much work, flinging their arms around, and then a couple little droplets would hover around. And the sparring looked like it was in slow motion.


Overall, a poorly made film, in my opinion. Hopefully he doesn't get the right to the next two books.