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1. Zahra wrote:

   WHAT have they done to Dev Patel? He doesn’t look so much like a burn victim as someone who’s been deprived of coffee and hair conditioner for days on end.

   And those kids–no no no! They look so white. That’s not Sokka; that’s definitely not Katara. NO NO NO. Count me out.

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 12:17 pm ¶

2. Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist wrote:

   Regarding Airbender, they (except Dev Patel) look like silly, rich white kids dressing up as natives to go on an expedition/adventure, with money paid for by their rich daddy.

   as for the babe in the photos, DAAAAMN, well, I envy her. Look at that ass. She sort of looks like Rosario Dawson, too. *jealous*

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 12:35 pm ¶

3. sejw wrote:

   @ the Avatar cast shots:

   It hurts. It hurts just to look at them.

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 12:38 pm ¶

4. Marcy Webb wrote:

   Girrrrrrrl…get OUT of there!!!

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 1:00 pm ¶

5. greg wrote:

   The new Diesel ads look like a ripoff of American Apparel, except the models here look like they are at least 18 years old, as opposed to pervy-Dov style glamor shots.

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 2:05 pm ¶

6. Medea wrote:

   Dev Patel has a good fierce face. We didn’t get to see that expression in Slumdog Millonaire. The others look like models showing off some designer’s Asian/Scandinavian fusion 2010 winter collection.

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 2:10 pm ¶

7. Phil Deeze wrote:

   OK, “The Avatar” pics make me think a taun-taun is going to come walking up.

   As for what the guy is smearing on the model’s belly? That is lotion, but it ain’t “really” supposed to be lotion. This one’s right up there with the sunscreen lotion picture where the pig is squirting lotion on a woman’s back with a self-satisified grin on his face while the lady is looking back and saying “don’t squirt that on me!”

   LOL.

   I also find it interesting the guy with the beard is handling the black booty in quite gruff fashion.

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 2:29 pm ¶

8. Erica wrote:

   I think Phil is on the right track… just about the only way to save the utter failure of the casting would be taun-tauns, followed by wampa attacks. Nom nom nom!

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 3:10 pm ¶

9. brownstocking wrote:

   I am physically ill looking at the Diesel commercial. Those pics increased the level of my headache.

   I’ve been done with ATLAB’s fail. Dev is not Zuko in my mind, but hey! He’s closer than the others.

   Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 3:14 pm ¶

10. Fiqah wrote:

    1.) Yeah. Covered this. Will stick to the show and pass on the movie. Shame on the casting people for this nonsense.

    2.)Hm. Ass-groping and lotion-slinging (euw) aside, let me make sure I understand. I’m looking at a bunch of ads subtitled “1 WoC Model and 3 Average Looking White Dudes” right? I mean, that’s the theme, isn’t it? They aren’t actually models, are they? ‘Cause the beauty double standard will make my head explode if they are. Seriously.

    So much to side-eye in this mailbag. Thank you, Latoya.

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 3:17 pm ¶

11. Fiqah wrote:

    No, for real. Tell me those guys are not models.

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 3:35 pm ¶

12. brownstocking wrote:

    ROFLMBBO @ #11. Giiiirrrrrl, you know those are models.

    I guess I should have looked at the actualy underwear, but all I saw was grad-student-looking dude with the “lotion.” Yep, head still hurts.

    Now that I see the unmentionables, I could never buy that stuff, I’m a thicky-thick, so they won’t fit.

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 4:06 pm ¶

13. atlasien wrote:

    The bearded guy is versatile. He holds down two careers: model, and professional hair farmer.

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 4:14 pm ¶

14. sejw wrote:

    Oh, and the teaser trailer is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsojNtU9yQ&feature=related

    It just hurts my heart to watch it. It could have been so good…

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 4:18 pm ¶

15. Phil Deeze wrote:

    @ Erica,
    Maybe Billy Dee Williams can show up as Lando Calrissian carrying a six pack of Colt 45, grab Princess Leia and throw his tongue down her throat while Han Solo does a slow burn in the background.
    And everytime, as a kid, that I saw Princess Leia with her hair in those big twists on the side of her hair (weave!!!), I had an urge for a cinnamon bun and a glass of milk.
    Chewbacca was fucking cool, and Jar-Jar Binks was a reject from “The Song of the South.”

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 4:33 pm ¶

16. Zahra wrote:

    Is it just me or does the trailer seem to go out of the way to hide the racelift?

    Also, those racist homophobic You Tube comments are way out of bounds, even by the “standards” (and I use the term loosely) of You Tube.

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 4:38 pm ¶

17. Casual Observer wrote:

    LOL@the picture of “Jesus” smearing lotion on “Rosario”.

    Of course the WoC is going to get groped. We all know what time it is. Especially those coming to THIS site.

    Oh…and the Avatar movie? More white people white washing an adaptation. You will get no apologies, nor would I, as a person of color ask for one. You want them to truly understand how you feel and to actually CARE? Write to them as to why you won’t be watching this horrid movie, then follow through with action.

    Nothing hurts worse in Hollyweird than a wallet that’s taken a financial punch. If this movie doesn’t do well, they will know why. It’s not like people have been shy about letting them know how they feel about even the Eurocentification of a complete fantasy land.

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 4:49 pm ¶

18. Casual Observer wrote:

    Yes. I made that word up. But it served my purpose

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 4:50 pm ¶

19. Kendra wrote:

    That Avatar picture hurts my eyes. God, M. Night has ruined this movie. I couldn’t stand the trailer . . . did everything they could to conceal the racebending. I’m just going to hit them in their pocketbook and send angry letters.

    As for the pictures with the models . . . um . . . yeah, always got to otherize black women by grabbing the ass. Without that picture it would have looked kind of interesting. But is that supposed to be a stream of cum? I didn’t notice it until much later . . . Very tacky.

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 5:59 pm ¶

20. ashlynn wrote:

    1. Oh god. just laughable. They didn’t even try to match their appearance to the characters. At least they’re not rocking Bonanza-style taped eyebrows.

    2. I can’t say I’m crazy offended or concerned because really, almost all fashion ads, lingerie or otherwise, look like that now. But I will say that I agree wholeheartedly about the beauty double standard- the white dude can look half dead and be sexy, but the girl has to be a bajillion times more gorgeous than that.

    Posted 04 Aug 2009 at 11:55 pm ¶

21. dejamorgana wrote:

    I’m not sure which group of pics is tackier, the Airbender shots for whitewashing the cast and looking totally generic or the Diesel shots that look like the opening of an IR porn gallery.

    Um, not knowing much about the Avatar series, I’m guessing that the Indian dude with the scars and the brooding attitude is the bad guy?

    If that’s true, and given that M. Night Shmyalan is (well, used to be, at least) actually a pretty cerebral director who likes to mess with audience’s heads, I wonder if it’s at all possible that M. Night is going to pull off one of his “surprise” endings and show us at the very end that Brooding Attitude is actually NOT the bad guy, and the Hot Euro Model Kids are the real villains?

    No, probably not, since this isn’t really a Shmyalan movie but a Hollywood mega-blockbuster production that he happens to be directing. But I think that would be a pretty damn cool fantasy movie.

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 12:40 am ¶

22. dejamorgana wrote:

    OK, so looking around at the site linked to suggests that Brooding Attitude isn’t the bad guy, just a good guy with lots of Brooding Attitude. Honestly, I’m still wondering if it’s even worth trying to figure out. Is the original series as amazing as the fans think it is?

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 12:50 am ¶

23. Kaonashi wrote:

    I refuse to acknowledge all the hipster fuckery doings going down in those Diesel ads. They remind me too much of rent parties back in the day…minus the chicks roaming around topless, the Black dudes doing the dick smack dance they originally saw in the movie Kids, nerds in the corner playing cards while getting drunker by the minute while giving side-eye to the abundance of breast meat on display and greedy folks in another corner who BYOBed and definitely weren’t in “sharing” mode.

    I’m also going to refuse to acknowledge the very existence of this Avatar movie. As far as I’m concerned, the only Avatar movie coming out is the Cameron one.

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 4:30 am ¶

24. ztastz wrote:

    As an Avatar: The Last Airbender fan the more I see those pictures, the angrier I get. It’s bad enough the studio and M. Knight are going to fuck up the mythology, but the inexplicable racebending just adds to the suck. Avatar: TLA is going to be another Jumper or Transformers 1 and 2, when the only watchable thing about the movie will be the action and special effects. Everything else will be shit.

    Diesel Ad: I was fine with it until I saw the booty grabbing. Classy.

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 7:13 am ¶

25. cathy wrote:

    dejamorgana, they didn’t just darken the antihero, Zuko, they lightened/whitened the other characters (here’s a character guide, to get the difference with the origionals http://www.cartoonwatcher.com/avatar-last-airbender/avatar-airbender-characters.php). Though, a point that non-Avatar fans might not get is that while Zuko (top right here) is something of a beloved antihero, his sister is evil and his father is the primary villain. Darkening Zuko does not just darken one character, it makes the big bad guy dark too, it makes a good white female character and a vicious female character of color, and the invader of the other(now lilly white) characters’ homelands will be a person of color. They didn’t just make Zuko dark, they make the hero (Aang) white and the main villain (the fire lord, Zuko’s father) a person of color.

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 10:11 am ¶

26. Terrie wrote:

    Ugh. I look at the Avatar pictures and all I can think is “”who are these people and where are the real characters?”

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 10:50 am ¶

27. Big Man wrote:

    That ad with the chick looks like a soft porn remake of Ghetto Gang Bangs.

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 12:02 pm ¶

28. Zahra wrote:

    @dejamorgana

    Yes. The original Avatar series is made of awesome. Bear in mind that it’s a kids show and go in with those expectation; then watch it take off.

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 1:08 pm ¶

29. bertie wrote:

    hmmm…3 dudes, 1 girl and creamy white substance smeared on her belly…who knew wearing diesel draws could make running trains look so fashionable.

    Posted 05 Aug 2009 at 4:53 pm ¶

30. Phil Deeze wrote:

    @ bertie,
    The smearing of spooge on the black lady’s stomach and the gripping of her buttock, to me, did suggest a multi-partner sexual encounter was the theme of the lay-out.
    That said, the sister DID have a nice booty, I mean, body. But what was depicted is no different, really, than what we would see in a Nelly video, etc. as far as the objectification of the black female body. Of course when the white temperance movement shows up to say “See, you people objectify your own” the part they forget to say is “so it’s alright if we white folk do the same.”

    Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 11:54 am ¶

31. octogalore wrote:

    Those Diesel ads are horrific.

    I agree with Fiqah, it makes it even worse that the attractiveness level of the female and male levels are so disparate! She’s hawt, they are average, even with spray-tans they would strain to be 7’s. They need to even out the male-female gap, get rid of the pawing of the WOC model, and get some guys who are eye-candy the way she is, before this becomes remotely acceptable.

    Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 12:31 pm ¶

32. Fiqah wrote:

    Ohhhhhh…it’s supposed to look like a hetero interracial PORN flick! So THAT’S why they went with a buncha plain Joes from the Nothing Special Modelling Company. Male porn actors are rarely easy on the eyes, so I guess they had to make it true to life…

    Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 12:56 pm ¶

33. sara wrote:

    What on earth is the guy in the red skivvies doing?

    And of course the male models look fug as hell, they’re supposed to be hipsters.

    Ugh. Does no one in Hollywood remember how the pursuit of Hmong people helped out Gran Turino? Especially when it came to movie reviews? M Night and the people casting this movie shot themselves in the foot big time.

    Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 5:13 pm ¶

34. Betty Chambers wrote:

    Not familiar with Avatar. I don’t fit the demographic to see this flick, and since it is not on my list of things-to-see. I don’t care.

    I like Patel. He looks cute.

    I can wait for the DVD.

    The Diesel ad: hipster porn, right?

    Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 5:22 pm ¶

35. anonymous wrote:

    The beauty double standard is just as obvious when comparing White female models to the men. 90% of the time, the woman, regardless of her ethnic background, is considerably better-looking. That doesn’t surprise me, the modeling industry has been like that for many years, along with Hollywood, in general.

    The groping and stuff is also common in the modeling world, unfortunately. I disagree with that woman, they do it to White female models, too.

    Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 6:40 pm ¶

36. octogalore wrote:

    RE #35, I don’t know if I agree with 90%. I’m thinking Calvin Klein, Guess, DKNY, Gucci, Versace, Hugo Boss, Prada. My personal type is more Men’s Health cover than the skinnier version in many of the fashion ads, but that’s true for women as well. I think female modeling is a bigger industry, but the attractiveness level is usually not as imbalanced as here.

    Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 7:51 pm ¶

37. Sharese wrote:

    Uhm, does this remind anyone else of the Duke LaCrosse debacle?…

    This is so ridiculous and blantantly racist/sexist. I am disgusted.

    Posted 07 Aug 2009 at 1:43 pm ¶

38. J wrote:

    The Avatar shots make me so sad. I wish they had made a direct-to-video movie about Zuko’s mom instead of this crap.

    Posted 07 Aug 2009 at 10:11 pm ¶