"After Earth" a new film from M. Night Shyamalan

[chimeracreator]

The twist is...
that its a good moive

Nope, that's way too edgy. I'm guessing that it's all in the past given that they said it was Earth in the first place. Either that or it's all in the past and this world, that isn't their earth, becomes our Earth... dun dun dumb. Like most movies this falls under the maybe eventually on Netflix for for me.

 

[Quaxar]

Oh look who drags his son into yet another movie just because of being related. I do like Will Smith as an actor but he has really taken a turn for the worse as a person... anybody remember that <url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/monster_that_ate_soho_VdW5POGj4kk2YKCD1R0g6I>giant enormous mega-trailer he had during the last MiB filming?

Plus I never really liked any M. Night films. Sixth Sense was ok and Unbreakable would have been great with another ending but he isn't really the guy they could use to sell me anything.
Now how about a Quentin Tarantino Samurai Gangster Western Space Opera? That one I would pay any price for a premiere ticket, even knowing it will be pretentious.

 

[Vivi22]

He desperately needs to go back to those twist ending movies he used to make. His quality has steadily dropped over the years, but he was by far at his best when he relied on twist endings to carry the movies. The man needs to concentrate on making more movies like Devil, not going off into sci-fi.

This looks mediocre, I doubt it will be any good unless there is something the premise isn't telling us.

You realize he started to suck long before he gave up the twist endings right?

 

[Antonio Torrente]

Wasn't there a fundraiser website that tried to earn enough money to send M. Night Shamalama back to film school?

I guess it failed

Really there's is one. Can you show me the link?

 

[Bertylicious]

Wasn't there a fundraiser website that tried to earn enough money to send M. Night Shamalama back to film school?

I guess it failed

That being said, having a movie with Will Smith in it were he isn't the main character? Yea that doesn't work. All I can tell you is that he better play this movie by the books if he wants a chance to be relevant again.

HA! Brilliant.

I find myself wanting to dislike Will Smith because of the mercenary way he stars in films but I just can't bring myself to do it. He's a bit like Tom Cruise in that regard.

Anyway, this film will be alright I reckon. Shyamalan isn't that bad, not really, he's just a bit meh is all. The Last Airbender wasn't great, well it was awful, but I think he just couldn't pull such a large film together no matter how hard he tried. You look at Signs or The Sixth Sense and they're much less sprawling concepts.

Now this effort is considerably more contained than TLA with the advantage that he'll be able to draw on his experience with that catastrophe to do a better job with this thing.

 

[Alternative]

In After Earth, one thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity?s escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind?s new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige (played by Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (played by Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai?s craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth.

Doesn't seem too bad so far, if a little formulaic.

As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

Oh god this is going to suck. Unless the twist is that the movie focuses on a trapped and injured will smith attempting to survive while his son gets help, this movie will suck.

 

[Lunatic High]

WHAT A TWIST!!

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Interesting (yet somehow also boring) premise. "After Earth" doesn't have anything to do with nor is even necessary to the plot.

 

[Westaway]

At least he's not making the next Avatar movie, yet.

 

[Navvan]

I refuse to see it regardless of reviews. He destroyed TLA movie which should have been an epic series of movies. I will spite his career for that reason alone.

 

[Dethenger]

I can guess the ending already...

They discover that earth is in fact another planet, and it's not earth after all.

Actually, it turns out that it was Before Earth, not After.

Psychic Prostitutes earn enough money to retire on as everyone's mind is blown.

 

[Woodsey]

Twist: they're all ghost-apes who were on Earth all along, only Earth is now inhabited only by people from Mars who wanted to get away from it all, who pretend they're living a couple of hundred years in the past.

 

[dementis]

Now how about a Quentin Tarantino Samurai Gangster Western Space Opera? That one I would pay any price for a premiere ticket, even knowing it will be pretentious.

You basically described Firefly there, well serenity to be more accurate.

OT: I'm calling that the crash sent them back in time and the son grows up to be his own father.

 

[GiantRaven]

Is this the movie that redeems MNS? and might become a hit because the Smiths are attached to it or it will end up as another flop because the name M. Night Shyamalan is involved.

I hope so, because his first four films are nothing short of fantastic. He doesn't deserve the bad reputation he gets at all.

 

[Antonio Torrente]

Is this the movie that redeems MNS? and might become a hit because the Smiths are attached to it or it will end up as another flop because the name M. Night Shyamalan is involved.

I hope so, because his first four films are nothing short of fantastic. He doesn't deserve the bad reputation he gets at all.

That's just it, he seems to exhaust all his creative talent to the first four movies and the next ones to recent ones can now be compared to uwe boll and seltzer and friedberg in terms of being bad and not to mention he is arrogant who thinks that (most)people still see as a celebrated director.

 

[saintdane05]

Nova Prime? They live on a giant robot?

I forgot to mention this in my original post, noticed what their names are.
Cypher Raige and Kitai Raige, is this movie taking cue from Hunger Games and other old scifi movies in terms of cheesy names like Katniss Everdeen or as MovieBob prefer to call her Catpiss Jellybean.

Kattniss is actually the name of a plant.

"If you can find yourself, Katniss, you can never go hungary."

~~~Mr. Everdeen.

 

[Torrasque]

Now how about a Quentin Tarantino Samurai Gangster Western Space Opera? That one I would pay any price for a premiere ticket, even knowing it will be pretentious.

You basically described Firefly there, well serenity to be more accurate.

OT: I'm calling that the crash sent them back in time and the son grows up to be his own father.

+1 for that description of Serenity. That is bang on.

On one hand, I fucking hate M Night Shyamalan, especially in Birdy the Mighty.
On the other hand, I love just about every movie Will Smith has ever been in.
At least this movie has his son being the star rather than him, so that makes me lean more towards "this will be shit like anything Shyamalan does"

 

[viranimus]

Im sorry, but Shamalayn is not a bad director. He might not be the most robust writer, but as a director he is solid. His greatest problem is when he has too much control over what he is working on.

However his films are actually pretty good, they simply do not hold up to the test of time because they are in essence one viewing only. Once you get the twist, all the buildup is useless. But just because you wont want to watch it a second time does not mean it diminishes your enjoyment for the first time.

And yes he screwed up TLA... but is that entirely his fault? Or does some of the blame of that fall on the movie studio, considering the long long track history of bad other media to film conversions that completely drift from the original source material...

... anyone?

Anyway.. that said.. It looks pretty interesting and I would likely get behind it.