Photo Journals and Airbending

Are photo journals really the thing?  I looked on the list of noteworthy blogs and most of the top blogs are photo oriented.  Perhaps I am the only one left obsessed with words???  I am so enthralled with them that I have approximately ten Words With Friends going at a time.  I think about the way words are shaped, the way they sound, the way I say them, the way others say them...  ah well, you get the point.  Am I the only person left with this obsession on my mind?  Is everyone else that much more visual than me?

Well, there is another thing here that I am a fan of, despite everyone else's opinion: The Last Airbender.  This film was the latest by M. Night Shyamalan and was really unpopular.  It is a children's movie and is incredibly well done so that an intelligent adult may just find that they like it too.  There are a few spots of C.G. here and there that weren't executed perfectly, but that's not the reason that no one saw the film.  Apparently it wasn't Asian enough.  Yes, I just said that.  Since The Last Airbender was an anime, moviegoers were upset that there weren't any Asian characters in the movie.  What they did not take into consideration was the fact that this series was an American made franchise, thus it makes complete sense that the characters were a complete mix of ethnicities.  America is the "melting pot" of the world, is she not?  I would beseech fans of good sci fi/fantasy to view this film without bias and consider the magic it presents to us.  After all, it is a tale of balance in the world.  It tells the story of our planet missing some of it's elements and how to fight against that imbalance.  Ah, perhaps that is why American's didn't love it... it tells the tale of making sacrifices for the better of the earth, rather than letting her flounder in our disruption.  Simple enough answer?  Or am I paranoid as well as strange?

There, I added a photo for good measure...

Really, M. Night did a fantastic job.  The music is that he added is a vital part of the film, it ties everything together.  The script is simple enough for the target audience but not dumbed down so that the more mature audience can't enjoy it if they are intereted.  Today, I saw it for the second time, and I marveled at the beautiful set construction, elemental themes and wardrobe.

If you have kids, let them watch this movie... also, feel free to sit yourself down while they view it and get lost in the fantasy.