This is true. I remember how there was a wave of positivity in the weeks leading up to its release, with people crying, "M. Night is BACK!". The promos were spectacular and backed the hype. So then the actual quality of the movie when it opened was a big, shocking blow. HATED it that the humor of the series was surgically removed from the film. Shyamalan is an enemy of fun or what? And Dev Patel should have been Sokka instead of Zuko. In fact, if there was a tribe that could have been whitewashed without much controversy, it was the Fire tribe. So of course that had to be the only colored tribe in the movie!