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After Earth- starring Will Smith, directed by M. Night Shamalamadingdong


Cary Kollins

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Spoiler Alert:

 

This movie is terrible.

 

and no I haven't seen it.

 

 

 

 

If you thought this looked decent in the preview, I'm here to save you some money this weekend.  I thought the trailers looked God-awful.  Maybe I just had a clue because of how terrible M. Night's last effort "The Happening" was.

 

"After Earth" is apparently following the trend of crappy films by M. Night, who showed so much promise with films like "The Sixth Sense", "Unbreakable" and "Signs".

 

 

Here are some snippets of reviews for "After Earf":

 

"If you're still wondering whether "After Earth" is a disaster, the question is not if, but how big?"  1.5 out of 5 -LA Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-after-earth-review-20130531,0,5520934.story

 

"After Earth has all the trappings of a vanity project, a chance for Will Smith to create a vehicle for his son. Thus, the naturally ebullient actor buries his charm under a military bearing and a strange southern accent that all the performers assume, for some reason. This leaves Jaden out there on his own, with nothing to support him but a tedious plot, a look of panic and his eyes, and M. Night Shyamalan"  1.5 out of 5  http://o.canada.com/2013/05/30/movie-review-after-earth/

 

 

 

 

"Neither of these two have an ounce of charisma in this film – and that’s fuging amazing because they both absolutely have crazy charisma.   To suck the life out of Will Smith, I really have to give M Night credit.    That’s not easy to do.  I’ve seen Will Smith in a whole lot of bad sci fi movies that I love, because no matter what…  I fuging love Will Smith.    But here.    Here it is so easy to just not care."  http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62629

 

"Though a scant 100 minutes long, After Earth feels longer and slower than your average PBS pledge drive.'' D - http://www.mania.com/mania-review-after-earth_article_137649.html

 

 

 

 

 

see more glowing reviews at http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/after_earth/reviews/

 

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I saw the trailer for this before Star Trek and thought it looked decent...

 

They played a clip from the movie on the radio this morning and listening to that I thought "holy over acting batman" Will Smith sounded really dumb...

 

I'll probably save this one for DVD.

 

 

I may see 'Now you see me' instead...  I think my son would like that one.

 

 

WWZ is the next big one out for me...  3 weeks.  

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I saw the trailer for this before Star Trek and thought it looked decent...

They played a clip from the movie on the radio this morning and listening to that I thought "holy over acting batman" Will Smith sounded really dumb...

I'll probably save this one for DVD.

I may see 'Now you see me' instead... I think my son would like that one.

WWZ is the next big one out for me... 3 weeks.

Don't forget "Man of Steel" June 14th. Holy hell that movie is going to be awesome.

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"After Earth" is apparently following the trend of crappy films by M. Night, who showed so much promise with films like "The Sixth Sense", "Unbreakable" and "Signs".

 

"The Sixth Sense" was decent, but I though "Unbreakable" and "Signs" were both epic crap. M. Night has always been a ***** hair above awful, imo.

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It seems like he got burned out on making movies...  shame.

 

 

He should have been the next great action star.

 

 

I think he just lost the hunger or drive to put in the work.  He made a poo ton of money from his previous films, and I think the past 5 years or so he's devoted his time to raising his family and just enjoying it.

 

I guess that's just where his priorities were.

 

He even turned down the role of Django, which worked out great for the rest of us.

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"The Sixth Sense" was decent, but I though "Unbreakable" and "Signs" were both epic crap. M. Night has always been a ***** hair above awful, imo.

 

 

Yea I haven't watched "Signs" in a long time, but I remember liking it a lot.  "Unbreakable" is the same way, and lots of people feel it's very underrated.

 

I remember watching "The Sixth Sense" sitting like front row in the theater, and just having my mind blown by the twist.  That was a great movie.

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I think he just lost the hunger or drive to put in the work.  He made a poo ton of money from his previous films, and I think the past 5 years or so he's devoted his time to raising his family and just enjoying it.

 

I guess that's just where his priorities were.

 

He even turned down the role of Django, which worked out great for the rest of us.

 

He's a closet Scientologist. That's the real problem. 

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