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Dude thinks calling me ugly somehow negates my review of Captain Marvel.
handcrafted film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
Dude thinks calling me ugly somehow negates my review of Captain Marvel.
At the behest of several readers who appear to believe they know my taste better than I know it, and also in an attempt to figure out just what the hell M. Night Shyamalan was thinking with his The Last Airbender, I watched the entire first season of Nickelodeon’s pseudo-anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Look, I love white people. Some of my best friends are white. But that doesn’t mean that I want to see white people in every movie, particularly if they don’t belong there. Like in The Last Airbender, which is based on a cartoon in which the characters are clearly from Inuit- and Asian-flavored cultures and … more…
Shyamalan wanted to leave us shaking our heads and marveling at a terribleness that was not merely terrible, but a terribleness that leaves you astonished at just how very, very terrible it is.
Fans of the anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender are up in arms over the casting of the live-action movie adaptation, being directed by M. Night Shyamalan and scheduled for release in 2010: not one member of the cast is Asian or Inuit, as the setting and ethos of the original series suggests they should … more…