![]() What it delivered was a boring coming-of-age story with birds and baboons and big cats and jungleness and a kid who, despite being an almost Ranger on his own planet had NO IDEA how to use a double-sided sword and could barely fend for himself. What this movie advertised was a sci-fi-action-epic where Will Smith and his son have to battle against hyper-evolved Earth-monsters after a crash-landing. Jaden Smith yells the entire movie because he's mad that his ~*dad was never there for him and his sister.~* Despite the two being ACTUAL father and son in real life, they have virtually no on-screen chemistry, which we thought was impossible. He didn't think he should just USE THE FLYING SQUIRREL APPARATUS THE ENTIRE TIME WHEN HALF OF HIS BREATHING FLUID WAS DESTROYED?īack to the concept of this movie: it could have been good, but the story, the acting, the directing, the CGI (WHY CGI THINGS WE'VE SEEN BEFORE?).everything! Everything was bad! Will Smith's seriousface just comes off as unintentionally comical, but not in a HA-HA! type of way. Three-fifths of the way through the movie, we find out that Kitai's super awesome, wonderful suit HAS A FREAKIN' FLYING SQUIRREL APPARATUS WHICH WOULD CUT DOWN HIS TIME TO REACH THE TAIL-END OF THE SHIP BY HALF. THE MOST DANGEROUS THING IN THIS MOVIE IS THE THING THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM ON THEIR SHIP AND LIVE WITH ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS. Here lies the problem: despite this warning, it would seem most of Earth's animals and beings are a minor nuisance and not much different than TODAY'S animals, given that you were stuck in the jungle all alone with only a double-sided sword. Cypher explains to Kitai that he must wander through the "perilous" regions of Earth, a class-one quarantined planet on which everything has evolved to kill humans (WUT?) to find the tail-end of the plane with the second signaling device. ZOMG, BONDING TIME! Nope, Cypher has two broken legs and a damaged signaling device to let their home planet know they crashed. URSA in tow, their ship crashes on Earth, killing everyone aboard except for the father-son duo. Cypher is pretty much forced by his wife to drag Kitai along on his last routine mission before retirement. His father, Cypher Raige (Will Smith, OMG HIS RILL LIFE DAD!!!11) is a stone-cold, fear-suppressing commander type person who is sorta kinda disappointed his son didn't pass his training but will only yell at him to get his point across. Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) fails his Ranger training because he is unable to control his fear. Not a bad concept, but we'll get to that later. IT'S CALLED GHOSTING, PEOPLE, AND IT'S SERIOUS BUSINESS. Otherwise, it's fine! The Rangers are trained to become fearless and suppress their fear in order to become invisible to the URSA. They settle in a place they call Nova Prime, HOLD UP! This planet is no ordinary planet: it has alien monster things called URSA(s) that smell and sense fear. Humans are forced to leave Earth after it becomes uninhabitable due to their own negligence. Night Shyamalan, director of such flops as "The Village," "The Happening," and "The Last Airbender" didn't want to get his stink all over this poo-storm, HOW BAD CAN IT BE?"įirst of all, let's do a short synopsis. We also saw it from his perspective: "if M. WELL FOLKS, IT DIDN'T NEED ANY HELP HIDING ITS AWFULNESS BECAUSE IT'S JUST AWFUL. It seems like everyone involved with the film tried to hide the fact that Shyamalan was the director of this movie for fear that it would be terrible. In fact, I wouldn't have even thought twice about him being the director of this movie if wehadn't gone on IMDB firsthand to see for ourselves. He's got nothing left except twist endings and failed franchises. Night Shyamalan did with "The Sixth Sense." It's a freaking classic. ![]() Now, while we love the movie "Signs," which some people think is awful, you can't diminish the good work M. He's okay, but I think he's try-hard, and Oscar baity, and plus, he's "in the know" with Tom Cruise. We don't particularly like Will Smith either. If his dad wasn't Will Smith, I don't think he'd get half the recognition he gets. He seems to be an arrogant little twerp who is leeching off his dad's fame. "The Karate Kid" remake was nothing special. We also probably wouldn't have seen it on DVD, either. If it weren't for our sick curiosity, we wouldn't have seen "After Earth" in the theater. Josh and I made it a point at one time in our lives to only see "big" movies in the theater, such as actions, musicals, big theatrical movies, you know? Stuff that's better on the big screen. Welcome a post about the worst movie we have seen in a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.
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