Here's my expereince with the Last Airbender movie:

The series was different than many other shows on TV. My freinds an I were excited when we heard a live action movie was being made. (I was in highschool at the time) At first, when I heard that M. Night was going to make the movie, I thought , "hey, he's made some interesting yet different from the norm movies before, maybe he'll be able to pull it off." Then I heard about the casting controversy and figured, "he could still find good casting for Ang and Zuko, as long as he doesn't mess with their personalities I guess I'll be fine." This was followed by disappointment when I first saw Sokka and Katara in advertisements, but I decided to be positive because the costumes looked good. I got excited again when I saw the commercials, those looked good, until I noticed something was off about the fire bending. I finally saw the movie and was really disappointed. No matter what people say in defense of M. Night, like how some things are out of a directors control or it was his vision, he flat out made a lot of stupid mistakes.
1. He changed fire bending! For those who say this movie was okay because of the special effects, wouldn't it have been way cooler if the fire benders could shoot fire out of their hands like they did in the show? For those that say it makes more sense the way M. Night did it, sorry, he made the overall plot of the movie make no sense. How could the fire nation carry on a hundred years war by themselves when their firebending is so wimpy? In the movie all the water benders have to do is splash some water on their source of fire, or earth benders can dump some dirt on it. Look, no more firebending! ( of course this doesn't happen in the movie. Remember the earth bender concentration camp?)
2. Sokka isn't funny. He's the responsible big brother. Come on. He's the comic relief and plans guy. Katara takes care of him.
3. Katara's a wimp. When they get to the north pole and she masters water bending, Kataras awesome, in the show. She and Zuko have an awesome fight scene I was looking forward to. She had practically won before the sun came up. In the movie she does hardly anything before Zuko beats her.
4. Where's Zuko's scar? Oh, there it is, kinda. I figured the make up people would tone it down a little bit to make it look less cartoonish, but not nearly that much. Come on, its only one of his most defining features, both physically and mentally.
5.Iron isn't funny. Yes, he is actually a totally awesome fire bender, but he's also funny! At first you think he's just Zuko's goofy, fat old uncle, who's obsessed with tea. Then you find out how cool he is, and that makes him even more awesome. Not so in the movie.
6. The earth bender concentration camp. In the show it made perfect sense. Put a bunch of earth benders on a ship in the middle of the ocean, and hey, now they can't earth bend. Now they're not a threat. In the movie, it makes no sense. Let's put a bunch of earth benders in a normal camp, with earth everywhere. Then we'll leave hardly any firebenders there to guard them with only a little, easy to knock over, stand thing they're burning something on as a fire source. (See, that wimpy firebending again.) Really, no one thought to put out the tiny little fire and deprive the fire benders of a bending source?
7. The "racebending". At first, this actually didn't bother me that much, except for the fact that most of the actors don't look even close to the characters on the show. ( I thought Ang wasn't too bad, and if you ignore sokkas skin color, his facial features are close.) What really made me decide this was an issue was when fans of the movie called me racist for not liking it because M. Night is a minority. Guess what, that's being hypocritical. He made Zuko and a lot of the fire nation dark skinned, I thought a lot of the actors looked Indian, maybe some were from the middle East too. In the show, most of the fire benders are very pale. Some have said they specifically look east Asian. The fire nation definitely makes me think of Japan, but if you ignore the buildings and clothes and just look at the characters, many of the fire nation citizens could be white too. Then Soka and Katara were cast as white actors, when they look native american to me in the show, even when they're not wearing their water tribe clothes. Wasn't it kind of racist of M. Night and whoever else was involved in casting to switch the bad guys to minority actors and two of three of the main good guys to majority actors? I grant my interpretations of some of the hand drawn characters may be different than other peoples, but I feel as if some very basic casting was messed up. There may have been a better argument for the casting if the acting had been better, like they really captured the personalities of the characters or something, but that certainly didn't happen.

Wow, that ended up much longer than I thought it would. Thanks to anyone who actually reads the whole thing, no matter what your opinion is. Sorry if there's typos, this was done on a touch screen.

I'm not surprised. I think anyone involved in the creation of the show would avoid it.

But that's pretty funny because Bryke bring screwed up The Legend of Korra almost as bad as the movie.

I was so stoked for that movie. I remember seeing the trailer for it, and you could hear EVERYONE in the theater go, "Oooohhhhhh!" and right when it said, "Directed by M. Night. Shamylan" everyone (in complete unison) let out a, "Gaaaahhhhhhhh…"

It was the single greatest moment of my life.

Of course, being the outrageously huge fan that I am, I had to see this movie, despite it's…..unfortunate director. Needless to say, I was unsurprisingly let down.

God I was so excited for that movie….

Why did it take "Ong" five minutes of dancing to bend anything? and since when was Zuko an indian scarface?

I don’t think they wanted to talk about it because like the rest of us they wanted to forget it ever existed.