After Earth

[SinisterDeath]

I just had to endure "after earth"

When end dredits rolled and i saw who directed it i actually felt ashamed that i gave him money

as if id validated him

It flopped? That's.. a disappointment..(was actually looking forward to it..)

[Tiinker]

 

I just had to endure "after earth"

When end dredits rolled and i saw who directed it i actually felt ashamed that i gave him money

as if id validated him

It flopped? That's.. a disappointment..(was actually looking forward to it..)

 

Think it got a 4.6/10 or something like that. Will Smith doing anything to propel his kid into stardom. Poor kid is still so young.

[dapianoplay3r]

Shall I start at the begining with the hate?

I understand its a book?

Anyway minor spoilers to follow so ill tag it. But I tried to keep it to first 5 min stuff and ambiguous beyond that

 

 

Anyway main issues. will smith and his kid. Don't like either of them that much

 

Narratively there were gaps. Example. Will looks at the computer and it tells him possible routes for his kid in one scene, only one works but its dangerous. He and his son then have a verbal fight.

Son takes the route, however will never explained it to him, mentioned it, and it was never set up as being possible pre that scene.

 

The opening of the movie is edited terribly, like a kids doco made for school

 

The whole movie felt like a video game. Clear levels and objectives. It was like the hunger games on single player mode

 

Weird dream sequences to try ad emotion to the scenes

 

Weirder futuristic accents? Honestly wtf

 

Kids meant to be a straight As student and pretty bright. (Stated in the first 5 min)

For the remainder of the movie there is no evidence of this at all

 

The movie starts with a shot from about 20 mins in. This is different from the actual shot when we ge to it in the story (like noticeabley)

 

M night

 

at times the CG was awful. Which was weird cos it was rather good elsewhere

 

Music wasnt that bad (I actually like the composter) but it was added in awfully. At times they were hammering so hard that you should be scared right now, it just got distracting

 

And from a scientific POV, they say man had to leave cos of breaking the planet (global warming) but then later apparently all the animals have evolved to be good at killing humans? But humans left.

There were no humans to influence the said evolution at all. Plus the earth suddenly freezing at night was just weird and unexplained and done with a pretty bad effect until about mid way

 

/rant

 

 

 

[dapianoplay3r]

Oh and will smith has aged

[SinisterDeath]

Shall I start at the begining with the hate?

I understand its a book?

Anyway minor spoilers to follow so ill tag it. But I tried to keep it to first 5 min stuff and ambiguous beyond that

 

 

Anyway main issues. will smith and his kid. Don't like either of them that much

 

Narratively there were gaps. Example. Will looks at the computer and it tells him possible routes for his kid in one scene, only one works but its dangerous. He and his son then have a verbal fight.

Son takes the route, however will never explained it to him, mentioned it, and it was never set up as being possible pre that scene.

 

The opening of the movie is edited terribly, like a kids doco made for school

 

The whole movie felt like a video game. Clear levels and objectives. It was like the hunger games on single player mode

 

Weird dream sequences to try ad emotion to the scenes

 

Weirder futuristic accents? Honestly wtf

 

Kids meant to be a straight As student and pretty bright. (Stated in the first 5 min)

For the remainder of the movie there is no evidence of this at all

 

The movie starts with a shot from about 20 mins in. This is different from the actual shot when we ge to it in the story (like noticeabley)

 

M night

 

at times the CG was awful. Which was weird cos it was rather good elsewhere

 

Music wasnt that bad (I actually like the composter) but it was added in awfully. At times they were hammering so hard that you should be scared right now, it just got distracting

 

And from a scientific POV, they say man had to leave cos of breaking the planet (global warming) but then later apparently all the animals have evolved to be good at killing humans? But humans left.

There were no humans to influence the said evolution at all. Plus the earth suddenly freezing at night was just weird and unexplained and done with a pretty bad effect until about mid way

 

/rant

 

 

 

I get it!

 

Its a sequel to the day after tomorrow! lol

 

[Tiinker]

 

Shall I start at the begining with the hate?

I understand its a book?

Anyway minor spoilers to follow so ill tag it. But I tried to keep it to first 5 min stuff and ambiguous beyond that

 

 

Anyway main issues. will smith and his kid. Don't like either of them that much

 

Narratively there were gaps. Example. Will looks at the computer and it tells him possible routes for his kid in one scene, only one works but its dangerous. He and his son then have a verbal fight.

Son takes the route, however will never explained it to him, mentioned it, and it was never set up as being possible pre that scene.

 

The opening of the movie is edited terribly, like a kids doco made for school

 

The whole movie felt like a video game. Clear levels and objectives. It was like the hunger games on single player mode

 

Weird dream sequences to try ad emotion to the scenes

 

Weirder futuristic accents? Honestly wtf

 

Kids meant to be a straight As student and pretty bright. (Stated in the first 5 min)

For the remainder of the movie there is no evidence of this at all

 

The movie starts with a shot from about 20 mins in. This is different from the actual shot when we ge to it in the story (like noticeabley)

 

M night

 

at times the CG was awful. Which was weird cos it was rather good elsewhere

 

Music wasnt that bad (I actually like the composter) but it was added in awfully. At times they were hammering so hard that you should be scared right now, it just got distracting

 

And from a scientific POV, they say man had to leave cos of breaking the planet (global warming) but then later apparently all the animals have evolved to be good at killing humans? But humans left.

There were no humans to influence the said evolution at all. Plus the earth suddenly freezing at night was just weird and unexplained and done with a pretty bad effect until about mid way

 

/rant

 

 

 

I get it!

 

Its a sequel to the day after tomorrow! lol

 

 

Just tagging this in spoilers cuz I'm replying to your spoiler

 

 

That first part really pisses me off. Where he tells the kid about this thing and there's no talk of it but the kid somehow knows anyway? It's like when you see those rom-coms where the guy meets the girl at like the post office or supermarket and they start talking and hit it off and he asks her out and then is all of a sudden like "So I'll pick you up at 8!" - it's always 8 - and I'm like huh? YOU DIDN'T EVEN ASK HER WHERE SHE LIVED.

 

[dapianoplay3r]

 

 

That bugs me too Tiink

 

Ok so in this film he wears this smart suit, which his dad gives an exposition heavy run down of what it can do.

Then later he comes to a cliff but doesn't have the oxygen to make the climb (some of it was damaged along the journey) so the computer says the only way would be to skydive down.

So his dad orders him to turn around and they have a big sad moment

 

At this point it wasn't mentioned that the suit could go all flying squirrel and he could use it to glide. He also has no parachute that I am aware of, and his dad never said that the only route was to jump

 

Anyway he ends up running and BASE jumping ff the cliff.

Still not being told that that was the option, and as the audience not being really told how his suit would cope in that context

 

So yea it was annoying. Just cos the audience can see the dad looking at the computer graphic doesnt mean the kid instantly knows that BASE jumping is a good idea

 

 

 

[SinisterDeath]

 

as to the intelligence thing... mind you, I haven't watched the movie,... there is a difference between book smart, and survival smart. Its one of the reasons, IQ tests are.... not accurate.

 

Spend the day with one of those "tribal people" out in Africa, or deep in south America, and they'd think we were morons.

 

[dapianoplay3r]

 

 

No his intelligence smarts were servilely lacking as well

 

But like right at the end when the becon thing isn't working he's all confused and takes ages to figure it out.

There is clearly a large erupting volcanoe behind him and giant ash cloud above. That might just be the thing that is disrupting the signal perhaps?

 

Oh and I'm pretty sure his dad gets sucked out of the plane when the film starts, but some how he survives and manages to appear back in the plane in the next scene (unconscious)

 

 

 

[Tiinker]

So.. final rating?  

[dapianoplay3r]

3 / 10

Do not see

 

In fact download

[SinisterDeath]

Split the topic.. 'cause I felt  like it.

[Nolder]

Really? This is disappointing. The trailers looked pretty cool...

[dapianoplay3r]

Yea it had potential as a story

[Turin Turambar]

I found it quite hilarious how similar the trailers for this and oblivion? (Recent Tom Cruise film were) makes me wonder if they were hanging out st the scientology center and made a $1 bet on who could make the worst movie.