I thought the movie was decent. It wasn't GREAT...but it wasn't BAD either. Its worth a watch...and it's no where near as bad as some of these people are saying. Seems as though their opinion is tainted by their distain for Smith going to bat for his son. If any of us were in the position to help our children get a head start in life...we would most certainly do whatever was in our power to do so. So, I don't think that should play a part in people's opinion about the movie. It was decent.
Honestly this movie was horrible and the actors are to blame jaden clearly isn't ready to carry a film of this caliber all by himself and will could have chose from other young talented trained stage actors his decision to introduce jaden to such a role seemed a little hasty and selfish "my REAL son and I" in a movie where we save everyone and everything -__-
Have you seen the recent "Karate Kid"? Jayden can act, he just needs a good director like all actors. Honestly, there is not actor in the world that can make this movie look good when the director says "show no emotion whatsoever."
Jaden was least of the problem. The movie was badly edited. Every animal on Earth are friendlier than the Ursa, which was on the colony planet. No tension at all. Awkward scripts.
Ursas are not like earth's fauna. if you had payed attention, they say that the local aliens released the ursa on humans because they were unwanted there
yeah you have a point, I think they say it's the oxygen that's not breathable anymore. but then why not go back home and give everyone the breathing liquid, which by the way is also scientifically inaccurate.
hellvanful The whole theme was that earth was quarantined because everything had EVOLVED to kill humans, implying that dangerous creatures were what drove humans out. So as an audience, I expect to see some scary creatures beyond imagination but it ended up with eagles and baboons. If they had made the Ursa native to Earth, it would have made way more sense. There was also this emphasis on the planet being EARTH. Yet, there is nothing unique or significant about the planet. It could have been Pandora and the story would be no different. Then, there is the lackluster ending of Jaden becoming fearless, but was he fearful at any point of the movie? I see that he had survivor's guilt but the plot wasn't driving him towards resolving the guilt. Rather, it was some cliche out of nowhere moment of clarity to stay calm.
You are correct. By the time a child of a high profile actor gets to play a starring role along side their famous parent - especially in a blockbuster film - they have earned their way to that stardom by acting in smaller parts in other films, independently of their parents. This way the child earns the respect of the viewing audience.
I agree completely. I really went in expecting the worst, but it wasn't horrible. I wasn't necessarily good and I wouldn't suggest people see it. But if you do you wont be horrified. I really did feel like a movie Smith made specifically to either spend time with jaden or boost Jaden's career. I was shocked that M. Night wrote it, however Will did the story. I was shocked that it was almost all Jaden, they should've had it more a duo story.
I dont know much about scientology but from what i know of it, human fear is from extraterrestrial spirits that we have in us carried from the past life we lived as extraterrestrials. if there's such a thing as 'ghosting" it negates scientology so that lady was being ignorant calling it an allegory to scientology.
I agree with you from what I've seen in general, but the Oscar was deserved in my opinion. Lost In Translation is a very good movie and it captures a certain feeling of being frightened of the future that I really identified with.
Exactly. People act as if nepotism is a brand new thing. This has been going on since Hollywood began. Just to call a few names--Fonda, Bridges, Barrymore, Huston, Redgrave--generations of actors with the same last name. And what about actors who's last names don't match their famous parents? There are a TON of actors who owe their careers to the parents and no one complains. But somehow, it's wrong for Jaden Smith to be in movies because of his connections.
To add to your discussion, this is the second time these two have been together as the two main characters as father and son. The other one being The pursuit of Happyness. I'm trying to think of real father/mother son/daughter pairings from movies in the past. Golden Pond comes to mind. Wall Street as well. I know it's been done several times but I think most of the sons or daughters from famous actors had already established themselves before staring with them.
Ack! I do so hate cringing. Thanks for sparing me. That said, I liked the cable-TV show "After Earth" so I wasn't really thrilled that they took the concept and made a movie. I probably would;'ve seen it in any case because I keep hoping Shymalan will one day prove himself again. Thanks for the great review as usual. My love for Ben knows no bounds.
As for the whole quantification of tastes, I never claimed that it can be quantified either. However, I am claiming that our tastes are influenced by our lives and developments. Again, this is where education is a part of, as well as intelligence. This is exactly what subjective means, in fact. Tastes are subjective precisely because we have different backgrounds and different levels of intelligence and education, among various other things.
As a science fiction movie I thought it was great. I got into it. The story line as to why humanity left Earth some 1000 years ago was that nature evolved into something lethal to humans. The bit about the alien monsters were discovered on the new "Nova" planet. It was two different story points. I bought into the technology because it was so far into the future. Even the radio device to call for help. Sure, current technology, it doesn't work. But 1000 years later, maybe.
I'd be okay with the criticism if it was strictly about Jaden's acting. But the main reason people are upset here is because he is in the movie in the first place. They object to him just on "principle," and not on much else. Half the people here haven't even SEEN the movie, yet they are SO upset. It's ridiculous.
The concept was ludicrous. Every species on our home planet has "evolved to kill humans"? Riiiiiiiight. Every species on the planet "got together" and decided to "get" those damn people cause they drove too many cars? Also, all the plants somehow altered the process of photosynthesis to NOT produce oxygen, just to "get" us? Wow, this flick was terrible on SO many levels.
Actually that's exactly how accents work, when a small group of people colonize some place then everyone in that place ends up having a variation of the accent of the original colonists. There are specific accents in England that sound just like American accents because the original Americans came from those parts of England.
Harsh.... I know Will Smith is trying to help his son start an acting career, but I do not think he was acting more narcissistic than other parents who are in a position to help their children start a career in the same field as them. This is your channel and you can say whatever you want, but I feel like the conversation drifted into unnecessary bashing. He's just a kid.
Let's be honest. Christy wouldn't of liked this movie even if it was good. Kudos to the other two for actually putting their personal feelings about the Smiths aside and actually giving an unbiased review.
I have criticized nepotism, regardless of what race is guilty of it, before. I am particularly sensitive to nepotism, because I have seen many deserving people, including myself, passed up for promotions because of it. It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with valuing merit. Besides, if Will Smith did not cast his son, he would have cast another young black actor who looks similar to him to play the role of his son in this movie. How could I be racist for wanting that?
ITS NOT A HORRIBLE MOVIE SEBASTION! I happen to think its a great movie. Especially because my dad and me are very close and even though my dad isn't mean commander guy my dad is tough, but also loving! I could see me and him in that movie. I really loved it
I must say I'm astounded at how low the review numbers are for this one. Through commercial, as most films do, seemed to have such promise. It's a shame it wasn't better.
Jayden didn't do bad at all. I think people tend to bash him because Will Smith is such a huge giant compared to his son. People overlook Will's shadow and expect Jayden to do the same? That's pretty insane.
actually I'm black. and I liked the trailer because of the premise and roles given. It reminded me a bit of the Lion King. but hey whatever floats your boat. the name M Knight made me wince ,but the things they criticized in the review are none of the things I look for in movies or anything I could garner from the trailer.
after doing even more research and listening to the scenario of how this came about, the timeline is kinda stupid. the producer is chosen first, HE picks shalaldingdong, who then pics will smith - at this point it is just a "project" - SMITH comes up with a script of FATHER AND SON WRECK IN A CAR IN THE WOODS. shaladingdong turns around and makes it this epic sci-fi [but not real sci-fi] over budget movie, that he can't handle. Smith's idea blown to shreds, but he got paid.
Of course liking or disliking a movie depends on your education. It also depends on your experience, context, and preferences. It's the conglomeration of all these factors that form our tastes, and making this experience subjective. Otherwise, if liking a movie does not depend on education-and by extension, any uniquely shaped backgrounds-then preferences might be objective. But you know otherwise. So then, it's probably not wise to imply that Kanchala Pancha's comment is stupid.
This review talks about the Smith family being in it, the technical aspects of the film...but misses the whole idea of the story. If someone else played the characters, would you still be so harsh? I'm not saying the movies isn't without flaws. But it's paced well, tells a coherent story and is exciting. The suit Jaden wears that allows him to fly and changes colors to alert dangers makes sense for a technology 1000 years from now. This isn't a CNN documentary, it's a piece of fiction.
If it weren't for me reading all of the negative reviews by critics for this movie, I would have NEVER known that this was directed by M. Night Shyamalan :P It's like they were DELIBERATELY hiding that fact from us thinking that we would all remember how bad "The Last Airbender" was lol
Here is what you need to understand, the actors get their money up front. They get paid to make the movie, not off box office receipts. I'm guessing the both pulled down some pretty serious cash. And what is with M. Night Shyamalan? His movies are very visually powerful, but their doesn't seem to be any substance to them. I could see the potential in "The Last Airbender", but in an ancient movie like this, he seems to have cast all Calif Surfer Boys. That totally took me out of the movie.
The nepotism, on Will Smith's part, probably angers me the most. Jaden Smith is already going to inherit an obscene amount of money from his father, so he is already privileged. So why not give this part to another 15 year old, who can actually act, and who needs to be recognized. There are probably thousands of kids out there, who don't have silver spoons in their mouth, who can actually act far better than Will Smith's son. Why not give them a chance?
I wonder why you guys did such a long review for this film, given that the consensus is that it is utter crap. As of me writing this, the movie has a 12 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A movie that is that universally panned by critics doesn't deserve over a 10 minute critique.
I can tell alot of the commenters have not seen the movie. Don't believe the hype, the movie is entertaining overall. I watch movies for entertainment, not to critique them and pretend like I'm a filmmaker and GOT ALL THE ANSWERS SWAY!!!
I agree with Woerner, this is just one of the most visible examples of nepotism. And maybe he believes his kid can act, I dunno. But it's by no means the only time people have criticized nepotism, like they mentioned, Sofia Coppola has had some serious hate for her early work especially.
Because it's his son and it look more real with both actor are really father and son. Like that other movie will smith did when jaden was more of a kid
11:09 Alonzo "It was all about how..." How great would it have been if he said "It was all about how this movie got turned upside down, it flipped and I want you to sit right there for a min and let me tell you how..."
Again, our tastes are a result of our backgrounds, and education is part of that background. I never claimed that people shouldn't like what they like, simply that our subjective tastes are reflections of where we come from, including how smart or how much education we had, but it's not limited to that. So yes, sometimes smart people like dumb movies, because maybe something resonated within them. But we can't discount education in contributing to our tastes. This is not a difficult concept.
Everyone needs to stop saying how terrible this is before they see it. I saw it and looovvvvveed it. It was a great movie and I would recommend it. And for that comment about the green screen it wasn't. Watch some behind the scene stuff. U have no room to be talking. Honestly. Look in a mirror!!
I heard that line in the trailer 'Everything has evolved to kill humans', and immediately thought it would be a crappy movie. That's like saying everything on the planet right now has evolved to kill dinosaurs. Ugh.
But why does that bother you? First, it's science fiction. Second, the nature of this planet is balance. If you throw that balance off by polluting it, nature finds a way to balance that off. Which is why we have so many more natural disasters. For a sci-fi story, it's a great topic.
Boy, you really showed them. After that scintillating, full-proof argument, they've gotta shut up now. But, more amazing is that 2 year-olds are now trolling. Good job
@ 5:25 he said, “This was some of the worst narration I’ve heard outside MST3K.” I don’t think he was bashing MST3K . I think he was referring to the terrible movies Joel/Mike & the ’bots had to sit through. After all the shows they reviewed were deliberately …. “cheesy movies, the worst we can find. LA -LA- LA” - MiSTy-4-ever !
I always try to give movie makers a chance because making one bad movie doesn't necessarily ruin careers. but honestly, how is Shyamalan getting more work?
I liked the movie. Why so much hate? How could anyone think it's that bad? This is the first What The Flick? review I have watched and I'm disappointed.
She just says "Will Smith is pimping his son etc etc, I heard no legitimate gripe, accept snarkiness and celebrity bashing. It didn't seem judged on its own merits. In other words I assumed it sucked, but this review rubbed me the wrong way. So now I feel like at least checking it out.
it's not wrong; but if Jaden did a poor job acting, well expect criticism. If he had done a good job, everyone would have looked past the fact Will Smith is his father. I haven't saw the film, so I'm not criticizing him either way. Don't think you can compare a 15 year old Jaden Smith to a grown Peter Fonda in 'Easy Rider'.
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS was earnest enough to give me credit to both Will & Jaden. However, all throughout THE KARATE KID remake, I felt will Smith was always just off camera coaching his son; as for this crap, it's clear that Smith is clearly on a vanity trip.
Also, Christie must be a Psychiatrist because she is accusing Will Smith of being a narcissist, and both of the guys are linguistics experts who "know" how accents work. People of Boston have the closest accent to British accents.In 400 years accents have changed dramatically from settlers coming from Europe. So it really is not that far fetched to think that accents would change in 1000 years in a different planet. They need to just stick to reviewing the movie because they sound unintelligent
I once wrote a 27 notebook page appendix of the speech from "A Clockwork Orange," the book. I spent time translating each word used by Alex and his "droogs," by order of appearance of each world; translated by the context in which the words were used. I had a dumb friend at help. the time, and I really wanted him to read the book - I thought the translations would help. Well my noodle-head friend never read the book, and I lost
Why did this have to be a gazillion dollar science fiction thing? How about this? Will Smith, a distant military guy, takes his kid on a road trip for some reason. The car crashes in the middle of the woods and Will Smith's legs are broken so he's stuck in the car. So Jaden has to get to a ranger's station or something. There are scary animals in the woods. There could have been a lion escaped from the zoo or something, I don't know. I've just written the same movie and saved 50 million.
My only disagreement with this review is the accents being silly. If it's a small settlement of people, it's entirely possible for there to be a mix of accents that's eventually turns into its own accent. No you wouldn't "retain" your accent but when you teach your child English they grow up with the accent you have. The stupid part was they had an extremely inexperienced actor try to tackle something that hard to consistently perform and then didn't even stick to their own rules (Katai being pronounced 300 different ways).
OK, the cult made it do him, but not necessarily directly, it's their twisted teaching that he embraced that made him do that, so in his mind he wasn't forced.
The lady is wrong for the whole pimpin'jayden comment. I would think shamalan sought jayden to get his father on board. Considering Will is a producer/writer, jaydens family has the means to create Jayden his own empire, but they go with shamalan instead? No, that doesn't make sense. But what does make sense Will brings the crowd, Jayden dominates screen time for experience and reputation away from daddy, shamalan keeps his name off of this shit and After Earth isn't a complete FAILURE/flop.
Your basing your talk on evolution and sciences as it stands today. The story takes place 1000 years into the future. It's speculative fiction. It's not fact, it's a story with ideas. You're uncomfortable with the idea that we have no control over the natural forces of this planet. The movie presents the idea that Earth develops a defense system to keep humanity off the planet. It's an intriguing idea. And that is one of the goals of science fiction, to explore ideas.
Saying this is a bad movie I found it good and enjoyable to watch you guys just think it was a bad movie because Jadan smith was the lead character and not will and nobody really understands what the movie is really about
Oh cmon man. Yes they're hating on it, but they bring up actually points as to why it was bad. You're playing devils advocate now for RUclips because no one in the world liked this movie.
I disagree about the effects. The effects were pretty good it was one of the reasons I wanted to see the movie. Just because the movie is bad doesn't the effects are.
Airbender severely underperformed. The series was a very valuable IP and the movie didn't even recoup the budget in domestic sales. The Happening made 64 million domestic. The budget was 48. It made money but at that point Shamhammer was a big name and should have gotten box office money. Both films were flops by large-budget Hollywood standards, which is the standard by which they're judged. They recouped cash overseas but that's a given these days so domestic is really what they count.
Judging only from this video (I have no other reference) I wouldn't characterize said argument as "over-the-top outrage" but as legitimate grief. What does it matter to me? I mean, how does the plight of people in the 3rd world, victims of violence, etc etc affect me? Not in any tangible way, so according to you I shouldn't care at all. But you know what; if there hadn't been people in this world who cared about insjustices, we would still be ruled by monarchs today.
Go to rotten tomatoes and find a critic you like to give you a "fair" assessment that suits your taste. There are also the major newspapers and publications, of course. Then there are the many independent self-styled critics on RUclips. Just search "After Earth review" and go nuts
what would have been awesome is that the the son died somewhere at the end and the father wakes a clone of his son telling him he's bee asleep all this time they were marooned on this planet!
I thought the movie was decent. It wasn't GREAT...but it wasn't BAD either. Its worth a watch...and it's no where near as bad as some of these people are saying. Seems as though their opinion is tainted by their distain for Smith going to bat for his son. If any of us were in the position to help our children get a head start in life...we would most certainly do whatever was in our power to do so. So, I don't think that should play a part in people's opinion about the movie. It was decent.
Honestly this movie was horrible and the actors are to blame jaden clearly isn't ready to carry a film of this caliber all by himself and will could have chose from other young talented trained stage actors his decision to introduce jaden to such a role seemed a little hasty and selfish "my REAL son and I" in a movie where we save everyone and everything -__-
I think Jayden can carry a film, just not here...with this director/screenwriter.
Have you seen the recent "Karate Kid"? Jayden can act, he just needs a good director like all actors.
Honestly, there is not actor in the world that can make this movie look good when the director says "show no emotion whatsoever."
Thanks for not cutting the video anymore, guys :)
5:47 Nostalgia Critic (holding his hand puppet): "Cyper Raige?!"
Jaden was least of the problem. The movie was badly edited. Every animal on Earth are friendlier than the Ursa, which was on the colony planet. No tension at all. Awkward scripts.
The story is about overcoming fear and the protagonist has no fear at all (provokes baboon for no reason, jumping off cliff without hesitation)
Ursas are not like earth's fauna. if you had payed attention, they say that the local aliens released the ursa on humans because they were unwanted there
that's exactly my point. Nothing on Earth is worst than the creature they have on their own home planet. So how is Earth worst than the colony planet?
yeah you have a point, I think they say it's the oxygen that's not breathable anymore. but then why not go back home and give everyone the breathing liquid, which by the way is also scientifically inaccurate.
hellvanful The whole theme was that earth was quarantined because everything had EVOLVED to kill humans, implying that dangerous creatures were what drove humans out. So as an audience, I expect to see some scary creatures beyond imagination but it ended up with eagles and baboons. If they had made the Ursa native to Earth, it would have made way more sense. There was also this emphasis on the planet being EARTH. Yet, there is nothing unique or significant about the planet. It could have been Pandora and the story would be no different.
Then, there is the lackluster ending of Jaden becoming fearless, but was he fearful at any point of the movie? I see that he had survivor's guilt but the plot wasn't driving him towards resolving the guilt. Rather, it was some cliche out of nowhere moment of clarity to stay calm.
You are correct. By the time a child of a high profile actor gets to play a starring role along side their famous parent - especially in a blockbuster film - they have earned their way to that stardom by acting in smaller parts in other films, independently of their parents. This way the child earns the respect of the viewing audience.
I agree completely. I really went in expecting the worst, but it wasn't horrible. I wasn't necessarily good and I wouldn't suggest people see it. But if you do you wont be horrified. I really did feel like a movie Smith made specifically to either spend time with jaden or boost Jaden's career. I was shocked that M. Night wrote it, however Will did the story. I was shocked that it was almost all Jaden, they should've had it more a duo story.
Calling it a Scientology alegory just because they suggest that we can choose not to be afraid is quite a stretch.
I dont know much about scientology but from what i know of it, human fear is from extraterrestrial spirits that we have in us carried from the past life we lived as extraterrestrials. if there's such a thing as 'ghosting" it negates scientology so that lady was being ignorant calling it an allegory to scientology.
I agree with you from what I've seen in general, but the Oscar was deserved in my opinion. Lost In Translation is a very good movie and it captures a certain feeling of being frightened of the future that I really identified with.
Exactly. People act as if nepotism is a brand new thing. This has been going on since Hollywood began. Just to call a few names--Fonda, Bridges, Barrymore, Huston, Redgrave--generations of actors with the same last name. And what about actors who's last names don't match their famous parents? There are a TON of actors who owe their careers to the parents and no one complains. But somehow, it's wrong for Jaden Smith to be in movies because of his connections.
To add to your discussion, this is the second time these two have been together as the two main characters as father and son. The other one being The pursuit of Happyness. I'm trying to think of real father/mother son/daughter pairings from movies in the past. Golden Pond comes to mind. Wall Street as well. I know it's been done several times but I think most of the sons or daughters from famous actors had already established themselves before staring with them.
First subtitles: "Hello welcome to what the fuck and prestigious as." Fantastic.
Ack! I do so hate cringing. Thanks for sparing me. That said, I liked the cable-TV show "After Earth" so I wasn't really thrilled that they took the concept and made a movie. I probably would;'ve seen it in any case because I keep hoping Shymalan will one day prove himself again. Thanks for the great review as usual. My love for Ben knows no bounds.
Lmfao Sebastian Caine that was probably the most accurate most truthful and most passionate review summary on this comment feed lol that was precious.
when Christy said "I gave it a 1" OMG my jaw dropped! that's like her lowest score, same score that she gave to "playing for keeps!" YOU GO GIRL!
Christy's first line about Will using it just to make his kid an actor is absolutely spot on lol
As for the whole quantification of tastes, I never claimed that it can be quantified either. However, I am claiming that our tastes are influenced by our lives and developments. Again, this is where education is a part of, as well as intelligence. This is exactly what subjective means, in fact. Tastes are subjective precisely because we have different backgrounds and different levels of intelligence and education, among various other things.
no, what else are they going to cast people on?
As a science fiction movie I thought it was great. I got into it. The story line as to why humanity left Earth some 1000 years ago was that nature evolved into something lethal to humans. The bit about the alien monsters were discovered on the new "Nova" planet. It was two different story points. I bought into the technology because it was so far into the future. Even the radio device to call for help. Sure, current technology, it doesn't work. But 1000 years later, maybe.
I am just interested to know if it was worse than The Last Airbender.
I'd be okay with the criticism if it was strictly about Jaden's acting. But the main reason people are upset here is because he is in the movie in the first place. They object to him just on "principle," and not on much else. Half the people here haven't even SEEN the movie, yet they are SO upset. It's ridiculous.
You guys do a great job. Best video reviews since At The Movies was canceled. I really don't understand all of the haters your reviews attract.
BTW, these people are the stingiest raters ever created. I would hate to have them grade an essay or something....
Bashing MST3k is a giant fail which instantly causes me to disregard anything you say from this point forward.
The concept was ludicrous. Every species on our home planet has "evolved to kill humans"? Riiiiiiiight. Every species on the planet "got together" and decided to "get" those damn people cause they drove too many cars? Also, all the plants somehow altered the process of photosynthesis to NOT produce oxygen, just to "get" us? Wow, this flick was terrible on SO many levels.
Actually that's exactly how accents work, when a small group of people colonize some place then everyone in that place ends up having a variation of the accent of the original colonists. There are specific accents in England that sound just like American accents because the original Americans came from those parts of England.
Harsh.... I know Will Smith is trying to help his son start an acting career, but I do not think he was acting more narcissistic than other parents who are in a position to help their children start a career in the same field as them. This is your channel and you can say whatever you want, but I feel like the conversation drifted into unnecessary bashing. He's just a kid.
Let's be honest. Christy wouldn't of liked this movie even if it was good. Kudos to the other two for actually putting their personal feelings about the Smiths aside and actually giving an unbiased review.
I have criticized nepotism, regardless of what race is guilty of it, before. I am particularly sensitive to nepotism, because I have seen many deserving people, including myself, passed up for promotions because of it. It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with valuing merit. Besides, if Will Smith did not cast his son, he would have cast another young black actor who looks similar to him to play the role of his son in this movie. How could I be racist for wanting that?
ITS NOT A HORRIBLE MOVIE SEBASTION! I happen to think its a great movie. Especially because my dad and me are very close and even though my dad isn't mean commander guy my dad is tough, but also loving! I could see me and him in that movie. I really loved it
I actually know a 30 year old brigadier general in the marines who got every medal short of the Medal of Honor.
Have you even watched it? He wasn't there for his son, that is driving narrative behind the story. He's only there for him at the end.
I must say I'm astounded at how low the review numbers are for this one. Through commercial, as most films do, seemed to have such promise. It's a shame it wasn't better.
Had I not read a few reviews before watching after Earth, I would have never known that Will Smith's character's name was Cypher.
Jayden didn't do bad at all. I think people tend to bash him because Will Smith is such a huge giant compared to his son. People overlook Will's shadow and expect Jayden to do the same? That's pretty insane.
actually I'm black. and I liked the trailer because of the premise and roles given. It reminded me a bit of the Lion King. but hey whatever floats your boat. the name M Knight made me wince ,but the things they criticized in the review are none of the things I look for in movies or anything I could garner from the trailer.
after doing even more research and listening to the scenario of how this came about, the timeline is kinda stupid. the producer is chosen first, HE picks shalaldingdong, who then pics will smith - at this point it is just a "project" - SMITH comes up with a script of FATHER AND SON WRECK IN A CAR IN THE WOODS. shaladingdong turns around and makes it this epic sci-fi [but not real sci-fi] over budget movie, that he can't handle. Smith's idea blown to shreds, but he got paid.
this deserved its low rating but to say the movie looks bad is ridiculous, it's an astounding looking film 5/5 for the bluray transfer.
M. Night is really beating a dead horse here. I didn't even think The Sixth Sense was that special, but how low he has stooped since...
Of course liking or disliking a movie depends on your education. It also depends on your experience, context, and preferences. It's the conglomeration of all these factors that form our tastes, and making this experience subjective. Otherwise, if liking a movie does not depend on education-and by extension, any uniquely shaped backgrounds-then preferences might be objective. But you know otherwise. So then, it's probably not wise to imply that Kanchala Pancha's comment is stupid.
This review talks about the Smith family being in it, the technical aspects of the film...but misses the whole idea of the story. If someone else played the characters, would you still be so harsh? I'm not saying the movies isn't without flaws. But it's paced well, tells a coherent story and is exciting. The suit Jaden wears that allows him to fly and changes colors to alert dangers makes sense for a technology 1000 years from now. This isn't a CNN documentary, it's a piece of fiction.
If it weren't for me reading all of the negative reviews by critics for this movie, I would have NEVER known that this was directed by M. Night Shyamalan :P It's like they were DELIBERATELY hiding that fact from us thinking that we would all remember how bad "The Last Airbender" was lol
so because you liked it, nobody else is allowed to comment on it's flaws?
why does an interstellar beacon need a signal?
Here is what you need to understand, the actors get their money up front. They get paid to make the movie, not off box office receipts. I'm guessing the both pulled down some pretty serious cash.
And what is with M. Night Shyamalan? His movies are very visually powerful, but their doesn't seem to be any substance to them. I could see the potential in "The Last Airbender", but in an ancient movie like this, he seems to have cast all Calif Surfer Boys. That totally took me out of the movie.
You gave some score, out of how much? 5? 10? 100?
The nepotism, on Will Smith's part, probably angers me the most. Jaden Smith is already going to inherit an obscene amount of money from his father, so he is already privileged. So why not give this part to another 15 year old, who can actually act, and who needs to be recognized. There are probably thousands of kids out there, who don't have silver spoons in their mouth, who can actually act far better than Will Smith's son. Why not give them a chance?
Fear is the mind-killer
Can you name another fairly well known movie that has a hollywood star co-starring in it at the same time as his or her son/daughter?
Hell yeah, Ben! Let's go, BLAZERS!!!!
connerspencern LOL, thanks for watching!
I wonder why you guys did such a long review for this film, given that the consensus is that it is utter crap. As of me writing this, the movie has a 12 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A movie that is that universally panned by critics doesn't deserve over a 10 minute critique.
I can tell alot of the commenters have not seen the movie. Don't believe the hype, the movie is entertaining overall. I watch movies for entertainment, not to critique them and pretend like I'm a filmmaker and GOT ALL THE ANSWERS SWAY!!!
I appreciate that perspective. Too many critics in the internet age!
I agree with Woerner, this is just one of the most visible examples of nepotism. And maybe he believes his kid can act, I dunno. But it's by no means the only time people have criticized nepotism, like they mentioned, Sofia Coppola has had some serious hate for her early work especially.
Because it's his son and it look more real with both actor are really father and son. Like that other movie will smith did when jaden was more of a kid
11:09 Alonzo "It was all about how..."
How great would it have been if he said "It was all about how this movie got turned upside down, it flipped and I want you to sit right there for a min and let me tell you how..."
I Am Legend, Pursuit of Happiness - this isn't the first time Will has starred in a movie with his children...
Again, our tastes are a result of our backgrounds, and education is part of that background. I never claimed that people shouldn't like what they like, simply that our subjective tastes are reflections of where we come from, including how smart or how much education we had, but it's not limited to that. So yes, sometimes smart people like dumb movies, because maybe something resonated within them. But we can't discount education in contributing to our tastes. This is not a difficult concept.
It was poorly acted. Mostly on Jayden's part. Zzzzzz.
Where was I criticizing the special effects of the movie? I don't think they were particular good, but I have seen worse.
Everyone needs to stop saying how terrible this is before they see it. I saw it and looovvvvveed it. It was a great movie and I would recommend it. And for that comment about the green screen it wasn't. Watch some behind the scene stuff. U have no room to be talking. Honestly. Look in a mirror!!
His Portland T-shirt Logo and the What the Flick logo behind him look very very similar lol
I heard that line in the trailer 'Everything has evolved to kill humans', and immediately thought it would be a crappy movie. That's like saying everything on the planet right now has evolved to kill dinosaurs. Ugh.
The ratings are out of 10 correct????
Jaden has that same scared face all the time so he fits good in this movie
But why does that bother you? First, it's science fiction. Second, the nature of this planet is balance. If you throw that balance off by polluting it, nature finds a way to balance that off. Which is why we have so many more natural disasters. For a sci-fi story, it's a great topic.
Boy, you really showed them. After that scintillating, full-proof argument, they've gotta shut up now. But, more amazing is that 2 year-olds are now trolling. Good job
@ 5:25 he said, “This was some of the worst narration I’ve heard outside MST3K.” I don’t think he was bashing MST3K . I think he was referring to the terrible movies Joel/Mike & the ’bots had to sit through. After all the shows they reviewed were deliberately …. “cheesy movies, the worst we can find. LA -LA- LA”
- MiSTy-4-ever !
I always try to give movie makers a chance because making one bad movie doesn't necessarily ruin careers. but honestly, how is Shyamalan getting more work?
"Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans."
this ridiculous statement alone is reason enough to skip this movie.
I liked the movie. Why so much hate? How could anyone think it's that bad? This is the first What The Flick? review I have watched and I'm disappointed.
She just says "Will Smith is pimping his son etc etc, I heard no legitimate gripe, accept snarkiness and celebrity bashing. It didn't seem judged on its own merits. In other words I assumed it sucked, but this review rubbed me the wrong way. So now I feel like at least checking it out.
it's not wrong; but if Jaden did a poor job acting, well expect criticism. If he had done a good job, everyone would have looked past the fact Will Smith is his father.
I haven't saw the film, so I'm not criticizing him either way. Don't think you can compare a 15 year old Jaden Smith to a grown Peter Fonda in 'Easy Rider'.
I think your love for that boy is clouding your judgment about this film.
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS was earnest enough to give me credit to both Will & Jaden. However, all throughout THE KARATE KID remake, I felt will Smith was always just off camera coaching his son; as for this crap, it's clear that Smith is clearly on a vanity trip.
Also, Christie must be a Psychiatrist because she is accusing Will Smith of being a narcissist, and both of the guys are linguistics experts who "know" how accents work. People of Boston have the closest accent to British accents.In 400 years accents have changed dramatically from settlers coming from Europe. So it really is not that far fetched to think that accents would change in 1000 years in a different planet. They need to just stick to reviewing the movie because they sound unintelligent
I love it but I understand why some don't. Also, 7 7 and 5 aren't awful numbers. 7 is positive and a 5 is understandable for that movie.
Yeah I really miss him. Sounds like he will come back though based on the end of the clip.
I once wrote a 27 notebook page appendix of the speech from "A Clockwork Orange," the book. I spent time translating each word used by Alex and his "droogs," by order of appearance of each world; translated by the context in which the words were used. I had a dumb friend at help. the time, and I really wanted him to read the book - I thought the translations would help. Well my noodle-head friend never read the book, and I lost
Didn't he play in karate kid aswell though?
Why did this have to be a gazillion dollar science fiction thing? How about this? Will Smith, a distant military guy, takes his kid on a road trip for some reason. The car crashes in the middle of the woods and Will Smith's legs are broken so he's stuck in the car. So Jaden has to get to a ranger's station or something. There are scary animals in the woods. There could have been a lion escaped from the zoo or something, I don't know.
I've just written the same movie and saved 50 million.
Hey don't forget who DIRECTED this movie, M.Knight. I wouldn't certainly blame the entire movie on Will Smith and his son.
My only disagreement with this review is the accents being silly. If it's a small settlement of people, it's entirely possible for there to be a mix of accents that's eventually turns into its own accent. No you wouldn't "retain" your accent but when you teach your child English they grow up with the accent you have. The stupid part was they had an extremely inexperienced actor try to tackle something that hard to consistently perform and then didn't even stick to their own rules (Katai being pronounced 300 different ways).
What are allegories?
Jaden Smith always has that "I'm concerned about something" look on his face.
Th... they said almost nothing about what made the movie good or bad. Why can't I find a critic who talks about the movie fairly?
OK, the cult made it do him, but not necessarily directly, it's their twisted teaching that he embraced that made him do that, so in his mind he wasn't forced.
With captions on the video starts with "Hello welcome to What The Fuck!"
Another film I wish Roger Ebert had seen that he could've put on the Worst of 2013 list.
they cut the ad down in britain so all will said was 'everything on this planet has evolved' thought it was an evolution documentary
The lady is wrong for the whole pimpin'jayden comment. I would think shamalan sought jayden to get his father on board. Considering Will is a producer/writer, jaydens family has the means to create Jayden his own empire, but they go with shamalan instead? No, that doesn't make sense. But what does make sense Will brings the crowd, Jayden dominates screen time for experience and reputation away from daddy, shamalan keeps his name off of this shit and After Earth isn't a complete FAILURE/flop.
Your basing your talk on evolution and sciences as it stands today. The story takes place 1000 years into the future. It's speculative fiction. It's not fact, it's a story with ideas. You're uncomfortable with the idea that we have no control over the natural forces of this planet. The movie presents the idea that Earth develops a defense system to keep humanity off the planet. It's an intriguing idea. And that is one of the goals of science fiction, to explore ideas.
WTF the most ridiculous comment was 'Will Smith trying to use the movie to pimp out his son' Jaden is already an icon in his own right.
Saying this is a bad movie I found it good and enjoyable to watch you guys just think it was a bad movie because Jadan smith was the lead character and not will and nobody really understands what the movie is really about
Oh cmon man. Yes they're hating on it, but they bring up actually points as to why it was bad. You're playing devils advocate now for RUclips because no one in the world liked this movie.
making an ignorant claim about evolution is not science fiction.
I disagree about the effects. The effects were pretty good it was one of the reasons I wanted to see the movie. Just because the movie is bad doesn't the effects are.
Airbender severely underperformed. The series was a very valuable IP and the movie didn't even recoup the budget in domestic sales. The Happening made 64 million domestic. The budget was 48. It made money but at that point Shamhammer was a big name and should have gotten box office money. Both films were flops by large-budget Hollywood standards, which is the standard by which they're judged. They recouped cash overseas but that's a given these days so domestic is really what they count.
Judging only from this video (I have no other reference) I wouldn't characterize said argument as "over-the-top outrage" but as legitimate grief.
What does it matter to me? I mean, how does the plight of people in the 3rd world, victims of violence, etc etc affect me? Not in any tangible way, so according to you I shouldn't care at all.
But you know what; if there hadn't been people in this world who cared about insjustices, we would still be ruled by monarchs today.
Go to rotten tomatoes and find a critic you like to give you a "fair" assessment that suits your taste. There are also the major newspapers and publications, of course. Then there are the many independent self-styled critics on RUclips. Just search "After Earth review" and go nuts
what would have been awesome is that the the son died somewhere at the end and the father wakes a clone of his son telling him he's bee asleep all this time they were marooned on this planet!