M. Night Shyamalan's 'After Earth' Flops With $9.8 Million


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I generally like M. Night Shyamalan's films (even the so called bad ones (The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening - I wouldn't have cared about Airbender no matter who directed it), but thing thing never interested me, which is a shame because I really like the writer (Gary Whiita).

Jaden Smith is dreadful. Some people have made the argument that he's young and people should go easy on him. That's fine, just don't put him into a big budget sci-fi movie.

Will Smith has a certain charm, when I go to a Will Smith movie I don't want it to be devoid of that.

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I like Will Smith but feel like his son is getting shoved down our throats.

Jaden Smith is dreadful. Some people have made the argument that he's young and people should go easy on him. That's fine, just don't put him into a big budget sci-fi movie.

I'm going to have to agree; I don't mind the kid but he isn't what I want to see in a movie. Although I can't think of another young black kid for the role to be honest, I keep thinking of that kid from Role Models but I doubt it'd suit him, besides his vulgarity was never funny to me anyways (not that that is the kids fault).

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I saw unbreakable on hulu late one night, just watching it without knowing anything about it except for Willis and Jackson.

Come the annoying end "twist", my immediate reaction was "this is the kind of thing that 6th Sense fellow would do".

Sure enough, it was M. Night Shyamalamadingdong.

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I'm going to have to agree; I don't mind the kid but he isn't what I want to see in a movie. Although I can't think of another young black kid for the role to be honest, I keep thinking of that kid from Role Models but I doubt it'd suit him, besides his vulgarity was never funny to me anyways (not that that is the kids fault).

If they'd gone with their initial idea of it being set in modern day Alaska, and dropped all the weird borderline-religious "fear is a choice" crap, it would have been way more believable.

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It was a nice movie 13 years ago :D For me it was a movie to watch once, not more....

That goes for all Shyamalan movies, of course the fact they're all the same means you only want/need to see the first one, once... :)

The problem wasn't just MNS but that this, like Battlefield Earth, is essentially a Scientology inpired flick - Smith and his wife likely being closeted Scientologists. The word got out to quite a few movie & sci-fi sites and....

http://www.vulture.com/m/2013/05/after-earth-will-smith-love-letter-to-scientology.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-scientologist-reviews-earth-guest-561310

Doesn't that make ID4 and any other movie with aliens, especially attacking/invading earth "Scientology inspired" to then... Seems a bit of a stretch to me.

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