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Will And Jaden Smith Crash Land In The Trailer For M. Night Shyamalan's AFTER EARTH!!
The Kidd here...
It's hard to get up for anything with M. Night Shyamalan's name anymore. I'm not exactly one of his big fans to begin with, although I do consider UNBREAKABLE to be among the best superhero films ever made (that's how you go dark) and find there's a lot to like in SIGNS. However, THE SIXTH SENSE has always felt overrated in my book, and then you've got THE VILLAGE, LADY IN THE WATER, the laughably bad THE HAPPENING and the atrocious THE LAST AIRBENDER, and you wonder how anyone is still giving him sizable budgets to make films people get angry about. It's as if the twist ending became the only trick up his sleeve after awhile, and then when he couldn't use it anymore since people knew it was coming, he just lost his way.
That may seem like a harsh approach to Shyamalan's work, but his track record doesn't lie. Each new film seems to be worse than the last, which makes me wonder whether or not getting Will Smith on-board for his latest, AFTER EARTH, might be enough to turn this ship around.
Then again, there is the Jaden Smith factor to contend with. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE KARATE KID remake... that's hardly a solid filmography to instill confidence in me as a viewer (okay, I will give some credit to their pairing for THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, which turned out fine).
There just seem to be more than a few elements already working against AFTER EARTH before the opening credits ever even roll... but that's why they play the games, right?
And that brings us to the trailer for AFTER EARTH, which found its way online today (via Yahoo!)...
Is there enough here to get you to at least check it out beyond whatever biases you may have for or against the principals involved? Or has Shyamalan fooled you enough already?
-Billy Donnelly
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Piss on this fucking turd.
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Oblivion >
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:18 a.m. CST
So what's the twist? It's really before Earth?
by DidntPullOutInTimeCop
It all happened before and it will all happen again?
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Sorry. Is it already played out?
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Even the ones with great trailers seem to be falling short (Prometheus being a great example of that). Hoping these films are going to turn out better than they look...
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..this looks like it may actually be pretty good.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:21 a.m. CST
Won't play on my phone, and I'm not interested enough to seek it out elsewhere.
by tomandshell
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Those are some of the best cartoons ever produced. In fact, if you haven't seen them yet, do yourself a favor and queue them up in Netflix. Good luck trying to get through just 1 a day. When they reboot the movie properties, just stick with the cartoon format and it's gold! That fucking easy. Anyway- M. Night must have some scandulous pictures of Will Smith ... no way Smith would do a movie without some really good reason.
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...for all the CG animals. That will probably be what does it in, much like the CG creatures ruined I am Legend.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:23 a.m. CST
Did they just give away the Planet of the Apes twist in the trailer?
by Gary Makin
That would be like knowing Bruce Willis was a ghost in the trailer for The Sixth Sense.
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I know, man! Where is it?! They've been working on this film forever now ... we should have a trailer, FFS!
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Shyamalan once knew how to assemble a good film, so who knows what we're in for? I'll always go in for a big budget sci-fi concept based on an original IP and not some bullshit property.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:25 a.m. CST
So far I will not be buying movie tickets next Summer
by Karl Childers
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:27 a.m. CST
CRISPIN_GLOVER'S_ACID_FLASHBACK ALREADY NAILED THIS THING: "WELCOME TO (AFTER) ERF!" IS THE ONLY ENTERTAINMENT VALUE HERE.
by Darth Busey
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One stinking sloppy mess after another. This trailer looks like SON OF I AM LEGEND: WHEN NATURE CALLS. And the three minute monologue about quarantine planets and the illusory nature of fear were snoooooozzzzzzzzzze inducing.
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If it starred a complete unknown rather than Will Smith's kid (and it weren't a remake of an "untouchable" 80's classic), it wouldn't have been nearly as despised as it has unfairly been. Check out the Nostalgia Critic's "Old vs. New" comparison of both films for a fair and balanced rundown of the strengths and flaws of BOTH versions.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:32 a.m. CST
This really could have used the 'BWAAAAAAA' sound from the other trailers
by Baron Karza
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:34 a.m. CST
I wonder in 15 years if there'll be a movie with 3 generations of Smith in it? After After Earth.
by Gary Makin
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Will Smith's character is called Cypher Raige in this.
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...how does this trailer get such negative feedback, and Cruise's Oblivion trailer is getting such positive feedback? I think they look roughly the same in terms of promise. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of either Cruise or Smith, but we could use a good sci-fi film after the shit that was Prometheus. Grabthar knows Shyamalan could use a successful release about now.
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...but Before Common Error of Shyamalan moving making. you see it
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:44 a.m. CST
Looks like they released two trailers for this today then...
by Reynard Muldrake
When they run into Tom Cruise, AWL HELL is going to break loose. See what I did there?
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I think that is a good sign. My interest is piqued. I want to see how Will Smith's character survives the decompression scene there.
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I thought this was 'After Earth'? Should have called it 'Terra and Back Again: An Unforseen Twist by M. Night Shyamalan'. Willy 'Shitty' Smith? No, thanks. Jaden 'Double-Shitty' Smith? Fucking no, thanks.
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This looks like the same movie as OBLIVION.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:02 p.m. CST
This could be entertaining if, after Will and Jaden Smith crash land,
by buggerbugger
...their only means of survival is to take turns slicing bits off one another for food. The movie ends with two annoying-fuck torsos trying to shuffle-headbutt each other to death just as a rescue ship arrives. And it's crewed by juicy-looking cow-people who live on the moon.
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I couldn't figure it our, seemed southern, or maybe African? I wonder if people will feel burned by this movie, going in hoping to see a Will Smith action sci-fi flick and getting mostly his son instead.
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Cheap trick to get you into theaters.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:06 p.m. CST
Between this, Oblivion and Elysium, looks like 2013 is ruined Earth year at the movies.
by blackmantis
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Shylaman trailers do a good job in masking the absolute turds the films actually are.
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My phone hates whatever links (YAHOO?) that you typically use. I need to waste more time at work dammit!
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It was an effective film the first time through, but when you think about it, it falls apart. Unbreakable's very good, though. Everything else he's made is terrible. Also....Jaden Smith sucks.
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Basic survival story. No "twist" in that trailer, that's just the premise: a boy and his father seek to survive on an Earth that has evolved beyond humanity. Could be great fun.
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And since they already made a movie about the world destruction 2 years ago, they are making all the after apocalypse thing. Mad Max, oblivion, elysium and after earth. This trailer would get me excited if it wasn't Shyamalandingdong directing. It looks like avatar meets I am legend. The twist is either they traveled back in time or everything is a simulation a la matrix. Therefore the "fear is not real" bit.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:26 p.m. CST
My thoughts after a few seconds: Wow, Jaden Smith is making the same stupid fucking face he makes in every photo I've ever seen of him
by Autodidact
Will continue watching trailer now.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:26 p.m. CST
Even his trailers have shitty, predictable plot twists.
by Kelly Grimes
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:28 p.m. CST
After about half the trailer: Looks damn good, will wait for an HD trailer.
by Autodidact
Jaden Smith is pretty annoying but I'll probably give it a chance.
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I'll go see it.
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How exactly does The Sixth Sense not hold up to scrutiny?
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Will Smith is also one of my favorite actors, so I'll be there to see "After Earth" on opening day.
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And the horse it rode in on.
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also, unneccessary accent alert. how much you wanna bet they find a white woman and her daughter and end up becoming the first adams and eves. yawn.
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I can think of two or three areas that look after-Earth.
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How the fuck does this guy still get to make movies?
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I thought that he covered his ass on everything. Of course, it only works effectively one time, due to its nature. I was working for a bitch producer when this came out, and my last words to her, were the night she was going to the film...let's say I spoiled it. However, one of the main film magazines did some spoiler-ing of its own in print, while the film was still out. And it wasn't in the review. They thought they they were being obscurely cute...
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...M Night's name doesn't appear in the trailer? The guy is marketing kryptonite. If this new film bombs I can't see another studio taking a chance on him again.
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They happen upon a family that's been living on earth for generations. *Uninhabitable? Haha, we have lived year for always, you simply must learn to live WITH mother terra, and not act upon her* Or something.
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Though I didn't hate Lady In The Water I thought it was ok. But after The Happening & The Last Air Bender his name does nothing for me. I mean it looks interesting, and I like Will Smith so I'd be willing to give it a gander. But my expectations will be pretty low for this.
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After each movie he made got worst than the last one- then he butchered The Last Airbender- and let's not forget the incredibility boring and cliche Devil. Shyamalan your name is mud.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:50 p.m. CST
Judging by the fact that Jaden Smith is alone for most of the trailer...
by paper
I'm going to guess that Will Smith dies way early. Either that or Jaden needs to get some magic medicine for the dying man.
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Plus Battlestar Galactica (Both old & new) already did, and did it well.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:51 p.m. CST
Umm yea...Will Smith's character is flung like a ragdoll, and he survives? Unhurt? Looks like one part Robinson Crusoe On Mars, one part Jumanji, and one part Planet Of The Apes.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
But what seemed to be M Night's strength, not the twists, but his work with actors..Willis, Jackson, Osment, Collette, Phoenix, Gibson, etc. all gave some of their best performances in M Night films. And let's not forget the breakout role for Bryce Dallas Howard. But now he looks like your basic director for hire, shuffling scenes of CGI mayhem.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:52 p.m. CST
So, Smith dies during the crash, and his AI avatar helps his son survive the wilds
by melonman
I feel like Shyamalan is taking a big dump on his audience… again.
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halleluja!
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The effects look good enough, and the landscapes too, but all the ultra-serious dialogue and lack of anything remotely humorous makes me wonder. Oh, and for the record: fear is NOT an illusion. Not remotely. It's half of the organic fight or flight mechanism that allows humans and all living things to survive. Unless it's part of Shyamalan's twist at the end, of course. Then it IS just an illusion. Frank Herbert said it much better, however, and for a much more specific reason: fear is the mindkiller. But then, he was a thousand times more creative than M. Night. Anyway... I guess the effects look good. We'll see.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 12:55 p.m. CST
loved the last scene were good ol' Mel regained his faith..:D
by Windowlicker74
hilarious movie
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Does Will survive the movie? Is Jaden simply a clone of Will? Is anything even real? Is it a test? Do women ever show up on the planet? If not, what's the point? Might as well call it "Planet Gray".
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OF COURSE if everyone wildly speculates about what the twist is in this movie (if there is one) it's going to be predicted before the release. At Super Bowl parties that dumb girl always predicts the final score right in the picks pool too because everyone just guesses wildly!
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:15 p.m. CST
M Night IMHO: Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, Happening(it makes me laugh).
by kindofabigdeal
Only seen Village once and that was all I needed. Saw most of Last Airbender and it sucked. Watched some of it on mute on Netflix and it was actually better. Will never watch Lady in the Water. I think by the box office humbling him he can probably do another decent film but casting Jaden is like putting out a fire in your house with kerosene. I think this is movie jail for all 3 people involved. Jaden for even trying to get into the film business. Will for forcing the bad taste of his son on us, and for that stupid jellyfish movie. And Shyalhamadingdong for the second half of his career.
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Is a perfectly reasonable thing for a coach to say, or someone trying to coax someone out of a corner, when they feel that their internal representations "are" reality. That if they are scared, the fear means "you cannot" or "you must not." While of course fear is a genuine emotional response, anyone who has ever been helped through a fear-freeze response before a fight, or a speech or performance or other challenge will recognize the perspective. It may not be "true" but it is useful as hell.
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lame
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:20 p.m. CST
saw "M. Night Shyamalan" and panicked thinking it might be a Star Wars announcement,,,,whew...
by FleshMachine
bullet dodged.
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So I'll give this a go,I just hope Night nails this as others have said he may not get many more projects if it bombs. And that would be a shame imo
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:23 p.m. CST
Intriguiing..as are all of his concepts..but of course he will fill fuck it up..as always.
by FleshMachine
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:26 p.m. CST
i predict bullshit plot twists, bullshit character arcs, bullshit situations and a big bullshit ending.
by FleshMachine
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Another boring slow Will Smith movie. Looks like a Lord Of The Rings wannabe with all the walking and nature shots. Bet the twist is they landed on earth in the past or Will was dead the whole movie and the kid is crazy. Either way I will pass for something better that will make me think not some boring I Am Legend in the jungle.
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Operator error, I suppose. Sorry.
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Nothing against him want to follow in his daddy's footsteps, but he just looks boring in everything's he's done. And the wooden serious demeanour is doing nothing for him. But he's still young and has time to grow, but around the same age Will was starting the Fresh Prince of Belair and that was a great proving ground for him and opportunity to develop his comedic skills and charisma. Maybe Jaden needs to cut his teeth on a sitcom and come into his own creative self, before they start to position him as the next big action dramatic star.
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Hasnt he been in some pretty big movies, not to mention he knocked Karate Kid out of the park (box office wise)
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Plays out like Shyamalan intentionally chose the worst TAKE in every scene and put it in the movie. Dear God did he even WATCH those performances or the dailies?
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is that you can exclude a whole lot of movies you might enjoy real fast if you play that game. I won't argue about the quality of recent movies from Shyamalan, but Kidd's attitude seems awful hostile, and a bit patronizing of the reader. If his recent track record is really that off-putting to you, just walk away. A whole bunch of people seem eager to waste their time beating up on one guy. It looks more ugly to me, and I doubt when he looks at it, his first reaction is going to be to make better movies. I think his first reaction when greeted by such hostility is "fuck them."
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This site is hilarious. You guys need to chill out sometimes. I admit, he lost me with The Village and I have avoided his movies. The trailers to his stuff didn't move me enough to want to see anything he made. But this trailer doesn't look bad at all. Also, why the strong negativity toward Smith's son? Nepotism happens in Hollywood all the damn time. Look at Barrymore, Jolie, Sheen, Estevez, The Baldwins. So why does this kid get shit? I loved the original Karate Kid as a child and ended up seeing the remake on a redeye flight, and he was far more impressive with his skills than Ralph Macchio ever was. So I don't get it.
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Is it in Will Smith's contract that if real-life animals are featured in one of his movies (lions in I AM LEGEND, monkeys in AFTER EARTH) they have to be represented by obviously fake CGI?
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:36 p.m. CST
sixth sense was ok..even though the ending was no surprise to me..unbreakable was cool..everything else: all misfires to one degree or another.
by FleshMachine
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Not interested in a two-hour advertisement for the Smith Family entertainment conglomerate. I swear, all Will and Jada is interested in now, is furthering the careers of their kids.
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Will Smith was 22 when Fresh Prince of Bel Air began and Jaden is 14 this year, hardly close to the same age. You make a fairly good point, though.
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Shyamalan got labeled the next spielberg too early in his career. They set him up to fail only to beat up on him after they do so. The hate on Jaden is unwarranted. Haters gonna hate.
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"gave me chills"? really. dying to know how smith survived the decompression? right....cuz of course he didnt and you're trying to trow people off the trail. LAME!!!!!
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:39 p.m. CST
BTW every talkback is infested with industry insiders trying to steer the buzz. EVERY TALKBACK INFESTED.
by FleshMachine
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:40 p.m. CST
look slike itll have some bullshit "message" as well//LAME!!!!!
by FleshMachine
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to all of the haters on this site...If every movie trailer looks like shit, shy do you keep watching this MOVIE WEBSITE? Go read a fucking book or something. Personally, I think this looks ok, as does Oblivion. Jesus Christ people - stop fucking hating everything everyone else does just because you don't do anything with your worthless lives.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:40 p.m. CST
They are the same person.....Jaden is alone the whole time.
by CullenisPrime
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It should be "...all Will and Jada [are] interested in..." not "...all Will and Jada [is] interested in..." Plus, the second comma in that sentence is unnecessary. This has been a message from your friendly neighborhood grammar police asshole.
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If it is taking place after humans have been driven off Earth by the planet, I wonder if it will be a sequel to "The happenning?" I mean in that movie the stupid TREE'S were trying to get rid of us. Sounds like "Evertyhiing on earth evolved to kill humans" to me... Also "The Happenning" was not very good. Even leaving it a mystery as to what was making people kill themselves would have been prefereable to Trees.
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Will save us from a crap movie
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Dec. 10, 2012, 1:52 p.m. CST
It's a holodeck simulation of some kind (although the kid doesn't know it), and it's his final test.
by 3774
They talk too much about all the training he's undergone, and how they (really, 'he') will have no one to help them now. At some point, maybe early on in the movie, Smith will be 'killed', which ups the stakes of his son's test. Before he 'dies', he stresses the point to his son about ignoring his fear, because the father knows nothing can really hurt him, and wants him to really perform well for the holodeck test. I checked out of Shamalongadingdong movies after the village. Now I find entertainment in guessing the endings. You're welcome.
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...even if it looks like I AM LEGEND mated with AVATAR and this is what came out.
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This does look a little like Avatar, but damn it if I don't want to see more. Maybe Shyamalan will be able to shed the format of his last few movies, which has gotten stale. He's easy to hate on, but it wasn't so long ago when an M. Night Shyamalan movie was a good thing. Here's to hoping that he might bring back that magic.
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...is that with that haircut, Jaden Smith looks a shitload like his dad now. Is this basically just Jaden Smith carrying the movie like Hanks in Castaway? Cuz, um, yeah...that probably won't work.
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1. Re: No mention of Shyamalan in the trailer anywhere You do realize this is an international trailer, right? Isn't it possible that the domestic U.S. trailer will feature some mention of his name? 2. I recall reading somewhere early in Shyamalan's career (around the time he made Signs I think) that he hated CGI and its cartoonish look. Now between The Last Airbender and After Earth, he's going berzerk with it, just as many other directors have gone. Either he sold out or genuinely changed his mind on how CGI has progressed over the last decade.
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First of all there is nothing wrong The Village or The Lady in The Water...IF you realize that all shyamalan's movies are really nothing but stylized, bigger-budgeted and extended Twilight Zone episodes. This guy has NEVER been an "event" director and expectations should be moderated thusly. Sadly, early accolades got him believing his own press and therefore he created a mystique that fanboys couldn't wait to tear down.... ...and he obliged big time with utter dreck like The Happening and The Last Airbender (how anyone could fuck that up is beyond me). But at his core, he is a simple filmmaker and if he remembers that, he'll be just fine. He just needs to learn from guys like Spike Lee and simply shut the fuck up and put out quality, even if the wunderkind label no longer fits (as if it ever really did). Putting 2 generations of wise-talking Smith's in this movie doesn't seem like a good start I will say, but I could be wrong if he keeps the tone properly subdued.
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You know, the former child actor with the tiny face and huge head? What part will M. Night assign himself? The savior of worlds? Wouldn't be surprised. No one will see this and Smith will claim it is racism. They should merge this with Tom Cruise's Oblivion and sell it as the TV movie of the week. BORING.
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Just like every other movie he's ever made. Will and Will jnr are the MNS version of the origin of the species - we're talking past not future. I bet ya.
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The increasing trend is to cut down on comma usage, but I am a "comma king," and choose to use them at almost any natural pause. Somebody told me it reflected a particular writing style, although I forget which one it is.
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That statement could come true on a bacterial, or viral scale, but we would exterminate larger lifeforms that represent a significant threat to us on a macro level. Our intellect pretty much guarantees we win the evolution race by default.
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Anyone who didn't think the Karate Kid remake was good isn't human. Anyway, someone said they thought Will Smith and Jaden were the same person in this movie. That could be true. Think Castaway, but instead of "Wilson," it's future Jaden. By the way, I liked the Last Airbender. I never saw the cartoon, so I don't have a bias.
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WHY do they have to be shoved down our throats? oh and shylamadingdong movies...ZZZ, sorry i fell asleep just typing that.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 2:26 p.m. CST
The only films I'm interested in him making are the two sequels to Unbreakable.
by Ecto-1
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i guess its too predictable
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The Village was beautiful and tonally, a great movie. Because of that I will always give him a shot. I didn't not like Lady In the Water or The Happening...and hated Airbender, but The Village and Unbreakable gives him a lifetime pass from me of hoping he has something good left.
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I'll check it out for sure.
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Because I'm better than that one month ago guy.
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Will watch it, on BluRay.. Not in the theater, doesn't seemed to be worth the 15$ ticket.
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Mr. Glass
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Dec. 10, 2012, 2:41 p.m. CST
Can we get a sci-fi movie where the rest of us aren't all dead, and only scientologists survive?
by papabendi
I mean I may sund a bit conspirtorial but is Hollywood tying to tell us something? Remember when sci-fi was fun? There was a time wasn't there, before Hollywood decided that we were all going to die or lead shitty repressed lives in a one world system?
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"One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. 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." -Written by Columbia Pictures-
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M. Night has produced mostly fair to good material as far as I am concerned. The only out-and-out piece of shit he's made is the laughably bad "The Happening". I enjoyed The Village and Lady in the Water and thought Devil was very entertaining with a refreshingly different, morality tale ending that surprised me. Will Smith normally delivers,....After Earth could be a good time at the movies.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 2:47 p.m. CST
the most unintentionally funny sci fi movie since Wing Commander or Battlefield Earth
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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Premiere...and it was a letter to the editor, not a reporter. "What do you call a person who doesn't know that he's an asshole? Bruce Willis." I immediately figured out the "Sixth Sense" twist, and I hadn't seen the movie. The magazine received a flood of complaints.
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...I can see where a lot of people lost it with the story (same way a lot of people lost it with THE RING or CONTACT) but @batmanster's right...THE VILLAGE set a vibe and environment that were simultaneously gorgeous and tremendously creepy. I enjoyed every minute I spent in that little world...even if the big Shamalamadingdong revel in the guard shack at the end made me feel dirty. ...and of course if anyone's hating on UNBREAKABLE, they simply haven't seen it. Still one of the best takes on comic book heroes yet IMHO.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 2:52 p.m. CST
-I've seen for a about a month now...- where the fuck is that idiotic quote from and why do people keep saying it?
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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Dec. 10, 2012, 2:56 p.m. CST
I've learned that when I click a link and the first thing I read is, "The Kidd here..." it's better just to close the window immediately..
by The Real McClane
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Will Smith likes to die for others alot in movies these days. I am betting now that Will Smith is like Dexter's dad.
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This is a clever ALF remake.
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that monkey looked SUPER tough!
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After the vacuous bilge presented in the shape of "Lady In The Water," "The Happening," and "The Last Airbender," the thought of Smith & Son traipsing across the wilderness trying to locate a rescue beacon, and interplaying with GGI wildlife, seems about as appetizing as a sequel to "Battlefield Earth". Sorry M.Night - time you reconsidered a new path. How you persuade studios, and entice James Newton Howard back onto musical duties, will remain a twist onto itself.
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this might work as a film so long as there's no TWIST. If M. Night can bring his character's into focus (he's done it before) and let go of the surprise ending crap thats failed in his last few, this could be a good story. That being said, it will probably fail miserably. and for the record, I kind of liked The lady in the Water, could've been executed better...
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Which I saw coming a mile away. Somehow it still worked for me.
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Love that guy!
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.. our ever growing series of Looks-Like-A-Shitty-Computer-Game-movies of late and nothing Shamalama can pull out of his hat will change that.
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Now in scifi *yawn*
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How this director keeps being employed to make movies is a complete head scratcher.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 3:15 p.m. CST
I bet Jayden Smith was plucked out of thousands of kids in the audition process.
by Gary Makin
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Dec. 10, 2012, 3:18 p.m. CST
Seriously though, at least with this, Oblivion and Into Darkness, there will be some genre films out next year that aren’t superhero, zombie or vampire movies.
by Gary Makin
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Dec. 10, 2012, 3:22 p.m. CST
trailer looked kind of cool, but yea, Em Nite kinda blows the deal
by rhizomeman
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...a boring and dull version BTW, with a kid in it. Looks like a big so what movie!!!!!
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I'm not going to lie: MNS's track record certainly appears to set this up to be another "twist" movie (not ironclad, obviously, but...) and I'm not sure if I'm okay with that. And I guess that's the thing--the expectations I have for the director in this case FAR outweigh the apparent positives of the movie itself.
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I felt like it suffered from trying too much to emulate the show in the wrong places. Never understood the hate for The Happening. I think it's quite good. I do wish M would up his CG game, though.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 3:38 p.m. CST
At LEAST this looks like Shya gives a fuck this time around
by aphextwin
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Not one! Come on People, you're better than that
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Damn "The Village" for not being the horror movie people thought it would be and being boring. Damn "Lady in the Water" for it's bad acting (minus Giamatti) and rushed, juvenile story. Damn people for not getting the joke behind "The Happening". And Damn Shyamalan for thinking the changes he made to "Last Airbender" as well as casting decisions would make it GOOD. Now. There's still a good director in there somewhere. Now we just have to see if he ever emerges again. He's like the cinematic equivalent to Weezer.
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Also known as The Village/Lady in the Water/The Happening. Some of the funniest, campiest, most out there stuff put out in the mainstream Hollywood cinema of the mid to late 2000's. It's a pity he went off that path to just make boring shit like Airbender and more then likely this Smith vanity vehicle, because the trilogy of shit always brings a smile to my eye.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 4 p.m. CST
Jaden is fine (Karate Kid remake was good), M. Night is capable (agree 100% about Unbreakable), and this looks cool. Give it a shot, folks.
by chifforobe
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I think this actually looks like a cool movie. Great opening to the trailer. On top of that, Shamalama has made some very good films. The Village is one of those movies that's gets better with every viewing. Lady in The Water was "interesting" but had some genuinely good moments. I'll give you guys The Happening and Last Airbender, but that's not nearly enough eveidence for me to write this off. I'm pulling for this to be a good one!
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That producing team seems to be the common denominator for M. Night's decent films vs. the utter dogshit that has become the norm. The only outlier is The Last Airbender and I'm guessing they weren't really that involved beyond cashing their checks. The way M. Night has deteriorated steadily tracks with the amount of control he has over the entire process. He knows where to put the camera and get a decent performance out of talented actors. That's it. I can't even tell how good a screenwriter he is but I'm guessing not that great, he's still using the trick endings after almost 15 years. I like Big Willie and have no opinion on his kid but M. Night makes this doa for me.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 4:12 p.m. CST
"AWW HELL NAW, DAD! THIS CAN'T BE ERF! I THOUGHT THE RIGHT-WINGERS HAD DESTROYED IT CENTURIES AGO WITH THEIR EVIL FLUOROCARBONS!"
by Mark
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Dec. 10, 2012, 4:15 p.m. CST
dukiemichaelnamondrandy, so The Happening is meant as a joke?
by Jayemel
I always suspected so. Why do you say it is?
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just saying
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Dec. 10, 2012, 4:19 p.m. CST
Seriously, when you start to defend a crappy movie as if it was intended as a joke
by lord Baul
you're scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Shaymalandingdong has had an steady downward spiral towards bull. Also: prometheus a 300 millions joke.
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His bowl-cut does battle with Sam from Dif'rent Strokes' bowl cut and they fight over Jake Lloyd's bowl cut. Coulda been huge..
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My guess: Too many SUVs on home planet of Mars destroyed planet. Had to flee in ship. Uh-oh, crashed on wild, lush, dangerous jungle planet called Earth. Way too much life here. Scary. They figure out how to domesticate horses. Ominous final scene shows kid sketching plans for new auto factory in sand.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 4:30 p.m. CST
The joke behind The Happening?? The joke is that it was released as "the first R rated thriller from M Night Shyamalan"...
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Or was it supposed to be a parody of a thriller and we didn't get it? Or the characters were slow and borderline mentally deficient on purpose, and we didn't get it? Or was the joke is that I paid money to see this in a theater? Yup...thats the joke.
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The hunted becomes the hunter
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I hope
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Looks pretty good. The Last Bender nearly destroyed all interest i had in Shyamalan, but this does seem interesting.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 5:09 p.m. CST
That was a good trailer ... Very good. the movie may well suck.
by GINGE_MUPPET
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this actually looks pretty fuckin' good. I shall subscribe to the news letter post haste!
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Dec. 10, 2012, 5:37 p.m. CST
Airbender was great film...if no baggage bout Shy & like those style of fantasy films...is a miss not being a trilogy
by even9
I knew next to nothing bout Shy, or the anime, & i think Airbender is the best film of that type of fantasy style for long long time. Problem was, audience targeted by marketing rejected the film (not wat it expecting) & other more random fantasy film audience loved it. a review i read at the time summed it up: Got dragged to the film, knew nothing bout it, got really absorbed in it - enough to blog about it & say how great it was, the people who did the draggin didn't like it... Although now i think about it, part of my initial interest was piqued by an Ain't it Cool review, the disdain of the whole thing was of a particular type of mode that i thought; hmmmmmmm.......there might be something about this movie, it could be really good even! & i saw it multiple times in cinema run for starters.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 5:59 p.m. CST
IF ANY ALIENS ENCOUNTER SMITH AND HIS LARVA I HOPE THEIR UNIVERSAL TRANSLATORS UNDERSTAND EBONICS!!!FACT!!! "BAH WEEP GRANAH WEEP NINI BONG MOTHERFUCKER"!!!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinMan
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Dec. 10, 2012, 6:01 p.m. CST
Little late but cullenisprime, my response is below...
by kindofabigdeal
What "big" films do you refer to? Pursuit of Happyness? That peddled to the smug center of Hollywood asking for the racial sympathy vote. Now Smith was amazing in that in my opinion. And I'm referring to Will right now. His performance made a lump in my throat. I don't konw if it was his sad story or that fact that I felt sorry for him being stuck living in a bathroom with that little annoying cunt. Which pretty much tells you what I thought of his performance. He whined and complained. He acted like a little spoiled shit. I would have felt more compassion for a kid who was forced to grow up to fast and only whined when he was starving and not because he was annoying. Maybe your referring to The Day the Erf Stood Still. That was an utter disappointment of Battleship like levels. It took a classic story and made a cheap, uninspired, cash grab of a remake. Once again Jaden plays a little shit who you have no sympathy for. He is living with his step mom who really has no reason to take on this burden. What does he do, act like a turd everytime he's on screen. The part where he takes off running made me want to go and demand a refund. But it had Keanu so I stuck it out to the end. Then I demanded a refund. Oh, you did say Karate Kid was huge success. A term I use loosely. This has been my biggest travesty to date. Erf Stood is a scifi classic, but I didn't grow up with it like the Karate Kid. So this was personal this time. I shouted "unnecessary" when I read about it on here. I shouted "bullshit" when they announced the casting. (apologies to Jackie Chan) And then I shouted "fookin bullshit" when they said he was in China learning Kung Fu. Which, fine, Miyagi says in pt 2 that Karate originated from martial arts in China. But still, it's not like he's learning Karate he's learning fucking KUNG FU. I would have been perfectly fine with this being called KUNG FU Kid in homage to the original. But that cheap knock off scene for scene rip off that this was did not deserve my 9 bucks. I only went cause my friends all convinced me to go and give it a shot. At the end of the day wax on wax off >>>>>jacket on jack off. In all fairness he wasn't annoying this time around. But he is no Machio. That is all.
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That Will Smith died in the crash, and his mentor role is either an AI construct, or else the kid not wanting to remember the true horror of the crash. Or the entire thing will be revealed to be some kind of Matrix-like training exercise. Alternatively... Oh my God! What if the twist is that there is no twist? What a twist!
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Well that's one twist I can see coming. Shades of Nu Battlestar Galactica, eh?
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Then I am ALL IN ! Seriously, is there nothing more powerful than a father/son story? NO. And all you dicks know it.
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It's from Harry's revew of ... Jack Reacharounder. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/59895
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INT: Supermarket We track through the store slowly. In the background we hear muffled screaming. Someone isn’t happy. Other shoppers skip past us briskly, like animals running from a bush fire. The sound gets stronger, more easily defined. A child is upset. We come to rest at the final aisle. We see two familiar faces standing together. A child is lying on the floor. Will and Jada Smith are having a rough day. JADA: (To Will) I can’t deal with this. I got shit to do. You get your son’s black ass off that floor! JADA strolls away in a huff. The child, JADEN is thrashing about violently, kicking his feet and pounding the floor with his fists, channelling and hip hop combination of Veruca Salt and Regan MacNeil . JADEN: I WANT A MOVIE CAREER!!!! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! WILL: (Unprepared, emasculated) Now, now, hold on son. JADEN: Do it or I’ll I hate you forever! Some of the other shoppers are still nearby and watch from a distance, disgusted. WILL has no idea what to do. He’s embarrassed and out gunned. He’s desperate to divert the attention the family is receiving. One particular elderly lady sneers at the boy, in full tantrum mode and looks up to sneer at the father. WILL summons a Hollywood photo perfect grin and points his fingers to the lady with his thumbs up. WILL: Welcome to Earth! He, he. The lady huffs disapprovingly and flees the scene. WILL drops his head in frustration. JADEN picks up a handful of chocolate bars from the confectionary section. JADEN: I’m going to throw them, I swear! WILL: Aww Hell no, you don’t got to do that! JADEN: I’ll do it! Movie career, now! Starring role. Science fiction hero. 30% on the back end and a tie in song as well. WILL: Well I don’t know about the song, that’s my th.. JADEN throws the chocolates at WILL. WILL: What if I get you a Lexus instead? JADEN: (Points to his groin) Do it or I’ll tell people you touched me...there! WILL: (Getting desperate) Ok, ok, ok. I’ll call the WME when we get in the car. JADEN: Fucking Ari Emmanuel NOW! WILL: Calm down now son, you will have your movie career, I promise. JADEN: (wiping tears from his eyes) You promise dad? WILL: I promise son, it’s goin’ to be aight! Tell you what. We’ll do the movies together. JADEN: And I get top billing? WILL: Both names together. Like McQueen and Newman in The Towering Inferno. Now alone together in the supermarket, JADEN sits up and embraces his father. JADEN: I love you dad. WILL: (Defeated and relieved both at once) I love you too son. I so despise nepotism and Smith's is the most garish and blatant. As a lifelong fan of fuse to watch the abominable remake. Intesting observation on bowl cuts too. I always wondered why 90% of male child actors through the years have HIDEOUS bowl cuts, even post 1985 when it should have long gone out of fashion.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 6:42 p.m. CST
Refuse to watch The Karate Kid remake...lifelong fan. Bloody internet cut my post.
by Sean
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You must live within the proximity of an old Drive-In Theater.
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Wiki wiki wild wild west!
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Dec. 10, 2012, 6:56 p.m. CST
This has a slim chance if both Smith's cut the 'too cool' routine and just calmly slide into the roles and actually ACT. The trailer suggests this MIGHT have happened.
by GINGE_MUPPET
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Dec. 10, 2012, 7:03 p.m. CST
I tell ya, ain't nuthin' like Will Smith & Son to bring out the peckerwoods.
by glodene
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It's not Earth, the whole thing is a computer simulation.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 7:14 p.m. CST
It's got to be great for Will, living the dream though right?
by sweeneydave
Making sci-fi movies with his SON? Am I the only one who is envious?
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Dec. 10, 2012, 7:20 p.m. CST
sweeneydave : Yeah ... it must be pretty cool, for both of them.
by GINGE_MUPPET
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I was just reading on another website that M. Night did not write the first draft of the script. M. Night did get a chance to make revisions, and then I believe the writer of the movie Traffic polished off the script. So, it's possible that the movie does NOT have a twist like most of us are expecting, yet I suppose M. Night may have pursued the script because it DOES have a twist, or maybe he added one. Regardless, I think we should keep in mind that the story wasn't created by him.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 7:53 p.m. CST
35 minutes in...Jayden is befriended by cute evolved/mutated creature... Sharing of chocolate space rations will be involved... I'm putting money on it.
by fauns_bass_1
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And played by one of Will's kids!
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That is all! :)
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Devil was dumb fun even if it had all the quality of a made-for-cable movie. What happened to the follow-ups? Devil didn't make much, I guess? And I can't help but notice that Shyamalan's name isn't slapped on top of the movie's name. It's not "M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth". It's just simply After Earth. Which is good in a way. Shyamalan's stock was too high after The Sixth Sense and has only gone down ever since. That Oscar nomination went straight to his head and he suffered from a severely overinflated ego. In Lady In The Water, Shyamalan's character is a writer who is told his work will change the world for the better. Man, I rolled my eyes so hard at that. He needs to keep his head down and work on making decent films and there's nothing wrong with doing more standard summer fare. You're not gonna change the world, dude, just make some movies people enjoy and if you knock it out of the park on occasion? All the better.
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PUNCH
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And also the TOS ep Shore Leave.
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Hopefully Will Smith was able to reign in on Shyamalan and bring out the things that made his earlier works successful, including The Village (yes, The Village, which was great with the exception of the ending).
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Dec. 10, 2012, 8:59 p.m. CST
When this comes out it will only be Smith's second movie in 5 years ... Feels like there have been more ...
by GINGE_MUPPET
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Dec. 10, 2012, 9 p.m. CST
DrMorbius... because I saw the ending coming a mile away? lol
by Autodidact
Is that some old nugget I have never heard before, or did you make it up? Funny.
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THANKS FOR SPOILING IT ASSHOLES!!!!
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I GUESS YOU'VE FINALLY MADE A MONKEY OUT OF MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! - Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Summer 201X
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Clearly a two-edged joke: One, a nod to (or middle finger at) viewers who know Shyamalan's trademark all too well; two, an indication that the real twist will have to be something else entirely.
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Why does everyone in Hollywood just ASSUME that Jaden Smith is Will Smith's son and can play him in a movie?! There plenty of other actors who could play the part of his son and be much more natural and convincing. My mind goes naturally and immediately to either Nathan Fillion or Bai Ling, but maybe that's just me.
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M Night, please don't go down that route this time! Enough already. As for Will Smith, he has megawatts of charisma, hope it's a good film. As for his kid, he's fine actor for his age, really don't accept where all the hate on here is coming from. Fuck the nepotism argument, you'd take out half of Hollywood since the talkies began with that bullshit. But unfortunately some of the hate on this thread comes from coward keyboard racists, 'ebonics', 'axe em where erf is', 'shyamamadingalong' - hilarious, seriously so so hilarious. Twats.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 9:58 p.m. CST
I was interested until all the CGI animals started showing up. Suddenly, it became "Jumanji".
by dasheight
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although it had some moments that seemed like they were trying to be profound (and maybe one that sorta was), there were so many ridiculous moments that I knew M. Night was making a joke of things as well as shocking us with bloody stuff. I felt like Mark Whalberg KNEW he was acting a goof the entire time, especially talking about the cough syrup. And then when they were in the prop house and he was holding the glass of wine like it was real while making a speech (or whatever). Then there was that whole random craziness with the giant doll in that lady's bed...it was like something you would see in a 50s/60s horror movie that would make no sense and be weird and freak an audience out....although it seemed like more of a JOKE to me. Also, when I watched it, although this wasn't explicit, it seemed like the cure to whatever this plant disease was involved people being in physical contact with each other. Holding hands. Not being isolated. We never see that one couple die. And it wasn't spelled out for us. So then M. Night tries to make a straight story and kills the joy of "Last Airbender", an AMAAAZING animated show (2nd only to "Invader Zim" in my book) because people didn't get the giant joke that didn't hold their hand and guide them. So yeah.
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It would be good to get a decent sci-fi movie.
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90s ftw bitches
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:30 p.m. CST
M. Night Shyamalan is to movies what The Kidd is to movie reviews
by SifoDyasJr
They both have use a gimmick that may have been okay a time or two, but got old and irrelevant very quickly.
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Dec. 10, 2012, 11:50 p.m. CST
Shyamalan is still making movies? How come? Do the studios have a need for someone who can burn through some cash?
by The Comrade
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You just saw the best parts of the movie....
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I hope he doesn't even put it in the beginning credits like he usually does. I hope it's a good movie, and most people see it without even knowing it's a Shyamalan film. I want this to be successful because, as much as Shyamalan deserves the hate he gets, he no doubt feels terrible about it. He's a sensitive guy. I hope this is him trying to prove that he can just make a decent movie, hopefully without his name attached. It would be really uplifting to see that someone can get over their personal quirks and change for the better. He still has a talent and vision that other filmmakers don't. I hope that this is him thinking about what the general audience wants, like he used to, and him listening to other people's input (forceably or not). I don't really care about the movie, I just care about him personally. It's sad to see a guy fall like that.
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IT WAS EARF THE WHOLE TIME!!!!!!!
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Dec. 11, 2012, 1:37 a.m. CST
Wait until you see big willy and jaden on the promo tours....AWW HELL NO!!
by HoLottaMo
Can see it now...already want to puke at the thought of it
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Hope your reading Shymaojdpaja or whatever the fuck your name is. I hope this movie puts u away for good.
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I too after first viewing it thought it was a spoof on the craziness of the hole environmentalist movement ("OMG the trees are killing us.") couched in an absurd 50's Paranoia B-Movie. I believe Shyamalan even said that. I mean, I still random the random shot of nuclear powerplants for no reason in it.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 2:09 a.m. CST
The Shamalamalamaman twist is that white people are the slaves now.
by Fries Against
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Dec. 11, 2012, 2:13 a.m. CST
Interesting, don't you think, how Shyamalan's name is completely absent from the trailer? First time I've seen that.
by GreatWhiteNoise
His films are usually such a vanity project that the first thing you see is his name. Guess he finally wore out that welcome. Hardly surprising; his name's become a marketing liability rather than an asset. But, still interesting.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 2:18 a.m. CST
This movie was better when Charlton Heston made it. And where's the Statue of Liberty head on the beach??
by GreatWhiteNoise
"Damn you to hell!!" Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
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Son, I would do anything for you. I would go into the bowels of an atmosphere processing factory infested with an alien horde armed only with my charm and a sharpened banana to save you. I would risk an eternity of pain and miseryin Hell to fight the tag team of Mephisto and Andrew Breitbart to spare your soul. Yes, I would even star in a M. Night Shyamalan film for you. Well, co-star. More like an extended cameo, really. We can film all my scenes on a Sunday, right?
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Seriously dude what is with folks like yourself and some of the others on this board? Yes Will Smith is black and a hugely successful star and is using his power to promote his kids, as have countless other stars over the years. Yes M Night is American of Indian extraction, was feted initially too highly, made three good films and has dropped the ball very badly since. But are you just straight up racist or does it just provoke your ire to see non-whites doing well in Hollywood? I mean seriously, what the fuck? If you're just racist, have the guts to admit it. Instead of the bullshit that passes for 'humour' on this thread.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 2:53 a.m. CST
Willsmithing your child like that's a new thing ... heard it on 30 Rock.
by alex
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Dec. 11, 2012, 3:42 a.m. CST
This actually looks pretty good -- older, CGI'ed Jaden looks a bit weird but at least he got a decent haircut
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Dec. 11, 2012, 3:56 a.m. CST
After Air Bender they let this idot make another film?
by old_man_and_the_sea
I'm all for giving people a second chance but really this guy, who turns potential movie gold to lead time after time, shouldn't be allowed near a camera again.
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I think he might have learned his lesson a while back. The movie studios probably threatened him into it, although I'm still amazed they didn't just dump him completely. I liked 6th even though I guessed it before I saw it. Loved Unbreakable but think it didn't really need a twist ending. By the time Signs rolled around it was like watching a good moviemaker whose scriptwriting lessons were learned from Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The Village could have been a 30 minute AHP episode. Although from the trailer and that last line, maybe he's turned his "twists" into "premises" and puts them in the trailers now.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 5:05 a.m. CST
Cloud Atlas, Oblivion, Elysium, The Zero Theorem... Jesus H Christ, what more do you geeks want?! 2013 is going to be awesome for scifi
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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And this looks just as good! I think Shyamalan learned a lot of lessons. I think there is no twist, this is just a fascinating film. I'm all for this!! And while The Last Airbender was no bueno, I admit that I LIKED IT! Your flames can only nourish me!! :P
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That would be the lamest twist.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 7:34 a.m. CST
If Martin Lawrence never shows up on anything ever again, we'll all be better off
by KGersen
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Dec. 11, 2012, 8:02 a.m. CST
So is the twist in the answer to how Will Smith survived the decompression? ie. He didn't.
by siouxfire
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Looks really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really AWFUL. A washed up director's attempt to mimic Avatar with some Rise of the Planet of the Apes thrown in. Basically, no talent Shamalam is hoping for success by just ripping off 2 of the most recent big sci fi hits.
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Pass.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 8:29 a.m. CST
"Cloud Atlas, Oblivion, Elysium, The Zero Theorem... Jesus H Christ, what more do you geeks want?! 2013 is going to be awesome for scifi"
by Nintendarth
Cloud Atlas FLOP Oblivion Likely FLOP Elysium Likely FLOP The Zero Theorem Likely FLOP Hee.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 8:29 a.m. CST
I hope I can get the ball rolling on calling this BLACKATAR and that it sticks and ruins the film's chances at the B.O.
by Nintendarth
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I just meant putting Jaden in the movie is not a death wish. He is just meh in my opinion. But America doesnt hate him, so I think that M would be the only person to bring this movie down.
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Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 9:30 a.m. CST
nintendarth, I think these movies will underperform, but still do pretty well. Why would you root for them to fail?
by kidicarus
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Run Jaden Paw
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1. Shamamalong maybe made another good movie finally. 2. Too bad you can literally hear Jaden's puberty voice crack.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 9:34 a.m. CST
Shouldn't we have trailers for Elysium and Pacific Rim by now?
by kstewandthecuntsman
Or will that be around Super Bowl time? Also, fuck Cloud Atlas
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He's made 3 or 4 really good movies and then a few not-so-good movies. Quite honestly though I'd rather watch a failure from an auteur than a "successful" studio movie. "The Happening" isn't good but it's more interesting to me than "The Avengers". I didn't like "Last Airbender" but it was more boring to me than just outright awful.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 10:04 a.m. CST
Unbreakable is a masterpiece. Everything else is like the ultimate twilight zone movies ever made. Lady in the water at a fine art house cinema was fucking transportive
by UltraTron
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Dec. 11, 2012, 10:05 a.m. CST
Ok so air bender has the worst actor ever cast with that daily show guy or whatever. I'd say the good still outweighs and he makes good zone.
by UltraTron
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Dec. 11, 2012, 11:13 a.m. CST
In fairness to MNS, how many directors ever pull off three films like Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs?
by kevred
Who else could have done those films the justice they were done? No one, that's who. We're all so busy looking for instant geniuses that we seem to have lost tolerance for failures along the way. I haven't seen his last few films and don't know what I think about this, but really, has the guy personally harmed anyone here? Shouldn't we be rooting for new films to succeed? This isn't a lame remake, it's not crapping on some beloved property. It's an original sci-fi film. Wouldn't everyone be happier if this worked?
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Dec. 11, 2012, 12:12 p.m. CST
I want the version in which Will and Jaden die during the crash.
by kabong
The End
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Contrary to a lot of people here, I like watching Will and his son on screen. - Hopefully MNS brings his old-style self to the party.
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Keep runnin.
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the will and jayden hate is pathetic. will has been fantastic and he has been bad. just like every other actor in film history. so many of you hate will smith, and his "uppity" family. jayden wanted to act and his dad is opening doors for him, just like all of those white actors and directors in hollywood. even if will wasn't pushing his son. his son would get a push and doors would open, because he is will smith's son. jayden has done ok work and looks like he is improving. jayden does the same spoiled brat pout christian bale does in all of his movies. if his name was jayden bale you'd applaud him and want him in the new justice league movie.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 2:32 p.m. CST
the twist will be the movie isnt real and M Night is retiring and willow smith is moving to greece to stay there forever.
by Balkin Flabgurter
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even when he had a dumb script like Signs. Ever since that one though, he's devolved from a guy who obviously memorized everything that made Hitchcock great--into a guy who forgot every single thing that made that director what he was. He never, ever found his own voice as a filmmaker. It's really quite a sad, sad story imho.
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Much (but not all) of what you see here is simply fear of one powerful black man passing that power to his son. Now, if Jaden wasn't hugely likable and talented, it wouldn't work. But countless Hollywood (or Nashville, or Washington, or anything else) families have done exactly the same thing, and to my knowledge, none have triggered the kind of fear and anger that has happened here. Consider it a side effect of "Obama Derangement Syndrome"--black people jumping off the "reservation" where whites can feel comfortable with them. Jaden is coming, bitches, and he'll be doing Mylie Cyrus doggy-style onscreen before you know it. Get used to it.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 3:25 p.m. CST
Shalamalam? Will Smith died in the crash and the kid hallucinates him, ala Fight Club, the rest of the movie
by j
When hes rescued, we find he is alone. /thread
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It's got real subtext and tension to it that still works even after you've seen it a dozen times. Unbreakable is damn close behind. Even if that's all he ever gave me I'd be happy. Orson Welles only made 1 good movie.
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He was really solid in "Pursuit of Happyness" and "I Am Legend." I didn't feel like he was being Fresh Prince in either of those. Hopefully AE falls into that category.
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IN fact the speech sounds like it was written for Sam. in the end lonely jayden humps a baboon and evolution begins. and the baboons make fun of his haircut.
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Fear is blah blah blah.
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Because of a lot of reasons. I have an intense hatred of psuedo-religious mumbo-jumbo masquerading as science, so I rooted for CLOUD ATLAS to fail. And, thankfully, it did. I like to pretend this means the American public have no tolerance or patience for the -we're all connected- chaos theory nonsense that sprouted up and made magical happy-money for many con artists for a few years. You remember when Virtual Reality (R) (TM) was going to change the world? And every single thing on the planet tried to shoehorn in virtual reality, right down to JURASSIC PARK with the glasses and hand-waving interface? And movies like JOHNNY MNEUMNONIC and pitiful tv shows like VR5 tried to cash in on the VR -non-craze- -non-event- and ST:TNG had its like-life HoloDeck (R) (TM)? Yeah, well, I hated that, because I knew that VIRTUAL REALITY was a meaningless phrase that would never - ever - achieve the levels of sophistication required to fool all five human senses. It's ABSURD to think it would. We haven't even perfected a way to create artificial SMELLS yet that can't be discerned from the real thing, let alone sights and sounds. But that didn't stop a lot of people from cashing in on the phenomenon and from movies featuring ENDLESS shots of people typing on keyboards screaming about firewalls and waving their hands around while staring blankly straight ahead and wearing funky Blu-Blockers. And I hated every minute of it because I hated seeing people so thoroughly conned, and seeing movies project a future that was so utterly nonsensical and downright STUPID that it ignored the real issues of the day that made science fiction movies and books of the past so great. Remember whne books about sci-fi were about things like overpopulation? Global disaster? Hunger? War? Social issues? I sure do, and by simply creating and spending nearly 3 hours developing a nonsensical religion, CLIUD ATLAS ignored everything that's REAL about the REAL WORLD and REAL PEOPLE. Stories MUST be about real people, no matter the genre. It's something SCI-FI forgets because sci-fi today is ABOUT the sci-fi. It's ABOUT the ships. ABOUT the battle armor. ABOUT the armies. It's never ABOUT people. That's why I stand tall when every single one of those movies not about anything crash and burn, and will continue to do so in the vain hope Hollywood would crash and burn with them and be replaced by an entity interested in telling human stories. But, please, do enjoy reading THE ART OF BORDERLANDS 2 instead of donating to homeless shelters this Christmas. Happy holidays, motherfuckas.
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so the score is 2-1. I won't be seeing this until it's on rerun on the Hallmark channel of cheese.
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For M. Knight that is. The Happening was fucking incompetent. Avatar looked like video game cut scenes. This however actually has some decent cinematography. Who the fuck knows whether the story or Jaden Smith's performance holds up. I think Will Smith is not in this flick as much as the trailer conveys.
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The Aliens dump all the survivors into Volcanos. Fear is just something your mind makes up, truth is your mind is full of dead space people killed in After Earths volcanos
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I think most people would be glad.
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Well that's why everyone thinks you're full of poppycock, Mr. Kidd.
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Dec. 11, 2012, 6:52 p.m. CST
nabster, actually you are revealing a little too much about your own psyche while thinking you speak for the masses
by Bobo_Vision
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So basically you hate (a term you use a lot it seems) anything that doesn't tackle 'real' people and 'real' issues? You think many films actually depict anything approaching reality? Even the vast majority of documentaries use artifice and story-telling and reality, whatever your definition of it, gets left behind. And any of us who don't agree with your rampant hatefest don't care about the homeless (or which 'real' people you care to stick in)? What a twat you are. I know I know, don't feed the troll, but hey once in a while
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Dec. 11, 2012, 8:19 p.m. CST
As for nabster - someone call the cops. We've got a live one here!
by KGersen
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Yes, I did write that. I watch that film now and I still get chills. The atmosphere M.Night created with that film was fantastic. And the acting is off-the-charts. Check out the scene near the end in the car between Collette/Osment. It's unbelievable. The film is hardly just about "The Twist" like many claim. It's a terrific horror/thriller. Great fucking movie. And the unfair backlash it got hardly makes it "Overrated".
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It never loads properly.
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The thing most of us fear about jayden is that he might star in something we want to see. Also we.forgave Big Willie for the WWW. We.never forgave Kleine. Draw your own conclusion. Oh and the jaden / cyrus sex tape ? Everyone will check it out ... As long as they are both legal. (still laughing @ your use of miley cyrus. So 2005}
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Fuck everyone involved in it. You too jackie.chan. I don't hate Will for Wildwildwest. Bill Willie got to feed his family.
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I agree with Kidd, one of the best superhero movies there has been. I'll watch it over Dark Knight (yes, the Joker one) any day. Signs had a silly ending but it was 90% smart scares. I even liked The Village, and I knew the twist (maybe that helped). The first appearance of the monster is fantastic, and the stabbing is so well done. Truthfully, though, even The Sixth Sense is severely flawed. Why doesn't Bruce Willis realize he has no memory of the year between getting shot and meeting Cole? How does he think he ended up in their living room, sitting across from the mother? Hasn't he been trying to talk to her?
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It's that feeling you get in your stomach when she misses her period.
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You sound cranky. Have a nice cup of homeopathic herbal tea and relax.
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Never mind.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld That's what I thought until the last few words Will says...
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Dec. 11, 2012, 11:18 p.m. CST
Can't be worse than the happening - just isn't possible (didn't and won 't see airbender)
by FrodoFraggins
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Dec. 11, 2012, 11:56 p.m. CST
I don't believe films DEPICT reality. Doesn't mean they can't be ABOUT reality.
by Nintendarth
A good movie tells us about ourselves, even if it's an animated cartoon with unrealistic physics. It's about whether a story has a beating heart or is just a cold, lifeless commercial.
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Recent, grounded syfy that is good? Looper, District 9, Children of Men, Never Let Me Go, Sunshine...I'll even throw in Contact (1997) just because it evokes a somewhat thoughtful response from nearly everyone. It's out there. Not every syfy flick needs to be Assassination of Jesse James...but a few filmmakers do have a firm idea of what it takes to combine art and entertainment into something durable and more than just a visual touchstone.
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my hair back and forth
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Dec. 12, 2012, 8:08 a.m. CST
Looper was good, District 9 crappy, Children of Men good, Never Let Me Go didn't see, Sunshine I found dull. Contact was shite.
by Nintendarth
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Dec. 12, 2012, 8:08 a.m. CST
But you're right in that all of those WERE legitimately about HUMAN issues.
by Nintendarth
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Dec. 12, 2012, 8:50 a.m. CST
This is going to tank. Looks like 10,000 B.C. in the Future.
by SergeantStedenko
Bye, bye, Shamalanadingdong!
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...would anyone root for the humans in this film? They're intruding in a place they're not supposed to be. Okay, granted, they aren't there by choice. But you can't blame the creatures for trying to devour them. Sheesh. Another illogical Shyamalan film. Terrible.
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really do. i don't get all the hate. i like his style and his movies in general. a few top my list of my all time faves.
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...is going to be that Will Smith died during the atmospheric entry. You see him blown out at the start of the teaser, then suddenly he's alive and well (though maybe injured) throughout the rest of the teaser. I think he's a hologram the whole time.
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