Battle to the Bottom: The Blue-faced White Savior ‘Avatar’ Is Even Worse Than ‘After Earth’

Debate is a main pillar of nerddom, right up there with the constant consumption of content and the perpetual ranking of it. There’s always the need to discuss your conclusions with your peers. We here at Black Nerd Problems are more than happy to navigate that space of debate for you in a new series called Battle to the Bottom. BTTB will feature two (or more) members of our staff facing off against each other to prove which product is worse than the other. This could cover movies, comic books, TV shows, whatever! Pretty much the same wide array of topics you’re used to getting from BNP on the regular. Without further adieu, here’s our introductory issue of Battle to the Bottom featuring Oz Longworth and Keith Reid-Cleveland respectively debating Avatar and After Earth, two films about humanity’s exit from Earth and the lives they live afterward. Feel free to let us know which side you’re on and which pairing we should focus on next time. The year was 2009. We lost Michael Jackson, Ashton Kutcher was still a thing and Disney gave us our first black princess (and turned her into a frog). I’ve always (90% of the time) been pretty good at being able to determine what movie I’m going to want to see and when something has all the makings of a train wreck. It’s served me well in the sense that I’ve still never seen Battleship or Transporter 3. But everyone once in a while, there are cracks in the armor. An ex-girlfriend of mine kept urging me to see this new James Cameron movie tha…