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#26

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/1/13 at 10:36pm

It's almost like he's gotten sequentially worse ever since the day he started.

He's the Benjamin Button of film directors.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#27

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/1/13 at 10:42pm

Except his second film is his worst film.

#28

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/1/13 at 10:47pm

So can we all agree The Sixth Sense was a fluke? Unbreakable was unwatchable, as have been most of his other films. Some to a lesser degree. Smith's role as Summer Blockbuster star died with Wild Wild West. Was this movie a Production of Hasbeen Studios?

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#29

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/1/13 at 10:50pm

I haven't seen Unbreakable in a while, but I remember liking it quite a bit when it came out, and then again on DVD.

So, no, I don't agree.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Updated On: 6/1/13 at 10:50 PM

#30

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/1/13 at 10:51pm

"don't forget the one where earth was invaded by aliens whose weakness was water, which covers 90% of the surface of the planet."

And falls from the sky.

And is part of every living creature.

Those aliens did some piss-poor research. Like, "packing nothing on your trip to Arctic but tank top" stupid.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

#31

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/1/13 at 11:11pm

And is in the atmosphere in huge amounts in most places of the globe.

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#32

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/1/13 at 11:14pm

All we ever have are movies about smart aliens. If anyone could give us a movie about stupid aliens, it's M. Night Shamalamadingdong.

#33

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/2/13 at 1:50am

Besty, you win the Best Analogy of the First Half of 2013 award.
I despised THE VILLAGE when I saw it at the movies and told myself I'd never watched one of his movies again, then I had a gigantic crush on a guy who invited me over to watch a movie and the movie turned out to be THE HAPPENING (that twist is worthy of the worse of his films too). I think that might be one of the worst, biggest wastes of time committed to film ever, it makes THE VILLAGE look like CITIZEN KANE. I watched an interview with Amy Adams (one of the most professional, not-into-dishing stars) and she basically expressed politely how happy she was she dropped out from it. Talk about a dodged bullet.
I find everything about this movie so deplorable, it's sad how little the Smiths seem to care about their kids turning into decent, grounded adults.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#34

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/2/13 at 3:29pm

26 million this weekend - about 10-15 million less than the studio had anticipated. It opened in the number 3 slot among the top ten films.

Bombs away!

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

#35

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/2/13 at 5:26pm

For some reason I have two friends who were insistent this was a Planet of the Apes sequel. Ihave zero idea if it's because of how it was marketed--because I've managed to miss the tralers, or what.

#36

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/2/13 at 6:01pm

Eric, that is kind of hilarious, that's how confusing the marketing is. The previews show Smith and Jr's spacecraft crashing and Smith tells the son they're on Earth as if it was some unknown place. The "reveal" in the preview does kind of recall the famous ending of the original APES movie except it looks embarrassing, awful and not iconic.

#37

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/2/13 at 6:14pm

I was going to see this today but decided to see BEFORE MIDNIGHT again, instead. I needed a modern masterpiece this morning and not a craptastic work of Scientology.

#38

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 9:09am

Movies about stupid aliens: Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS. The Martians are masters of technology, building marvelous machines of war and destruction, and have mastered the art of interplanetary travel via lightning bolt.

But they're pretty dim creatures nonetheless. For some reason, they came to Planet Earth millions of years ago, buried a lot of those war machines, and then went back home for some reason, instead of just invading all those millions of years ago. I mean, WTF? And it never seems to have occurred to them that breathing the atmosphere on an alien world, to say nothing of drinking water running down the walls of a desolate building on that alien world, is probably not the best idea.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

#39

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 9:52am

I wonder what the weekend was like at the Pinkett-Smith household.

#40

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 10:02am

I can't remember disliking an entire family so much. And Jada is at the top of the list.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#41

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 11:06am

I enjoyed Village and Lady in the Water. I liked Signs and Happening until their respective endings. Unbreakable and Last Airbender were just plain AWFUL. I fear this film will fall into that category as well.

I love this quote from the New York Magazine review:

"By the standards of M. Night's Shyamalan's recent films, After Earth is surprisingly not horrible."

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#42

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 11:20am

You could not have paid me to see this movie. I cannot stand Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith or either of their offspring. I feel like they have been shoving those kids down our throats for the last few years.

#43

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 11:30am

When their daughter shaved her head and pierced her tongue at such an early age, it was apparent these kids were going to do what ever they felt like doing.

Terrible parents, snotty, entitled kids.

I'm done with the whole lot of them.

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#44

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 11:35am

Can not stand the Smiths. Wish they would disappear forever. You couldn't pay me to sit through this swill.

Updated On: 6/3/13 at 11:35 AM

#45

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 1:39pm

I'm seeing this when it starts in a few minutes. If I didn't have MoviePass, there's no way I'd pay for it but I do want to see just how bad it is. Here in Times Square they've moved it to one of their tiny little theaters and there's nobody else in here with me. Maybe I'll live blog!!

#46

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 2:04pm

Jaden Smith's line readings have as much emotion as a 6th grader reading Shakespeare.

Updated On: 6/3/13 at 02:04 PM

#47

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 2:15pm

Lol, keep blogging!

....but the world goes 'round

#48

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 2:17pm

Will Smith's character was written to display no emotion. Good casting.

#49

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 2:18pm

Jaden Smith overacting in his reaction shots will make some amazing gifs.

#50

Is 'After Earth' Will Smith's 'Battlefield Earth'?

Posted: 6/3/13 at 2:43pm

My battery is dying and this movie is too boring and stupid to even commnt on. Seriously, watching Jaden is like watching that kid in your acting class who's only there for the credit and would rather be anywhere else, reading a monologue.

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