torn!

I've seen a bunch of people owning up to some amount of schadenfreude that The Last Airbender is getting so totally panned (and, I think, failing at the box office? I'm not sure). And I was totally feeling that, too, until something horrible occurred to me:

When TLA is written off as a failure, is Hollywood going to learn the real lesson here? Are they going to see that poor directorial judgement manifested itself in racist, sexist casting and storytelling, and so many other ways besides? Or are they going to take it as a reason to narrow their focus further, telling themselves that clearly the audience won't want to sit through movies about other cultures, movies with (gasp) actors of color?

In a world where Hollywood says a male audience won't listen to female characters, I shudder to think what other ridiculous conclusions they could draw.

So, I want to cackle gleefully over TLA's failure; I'm just afraid that it means next year's movies will be more faily, not less.