The latest trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth has dropped. Staring Will Smith with his son Jaden, the film opens in early June. We’ve been teased before but this trailer adds a lot more details about the film.
I for one am looking forward to it. So what do you think?
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Crap, I didn’t realize this was a Shamalangadingdong movie :/
Neither did I, however most of his not so great haven’t been sci-fi and Smith I’m sure has script approval so… I’m hopeful.
But his near worst movies have been scifi
I call Signs and The Happening scifi.
I guess his worst, The Village and Devil, would count as horror or suspense?
I initially liked Signs for the scare factor it generated at first, but the resolution left little to be desired.
The Village was better, but the ending was predictable.
As for this movie, the fact that it’s M. Knight is enough for me to stay away.
That seems to be M. Knight’s main problem now. He spent so long on the first film and it resolved well, now he is expected to make movies on a normal Hollywood timeline and so the endings just aren’t as neat.
son, you and I are gonna have to have a discussion on the definition of “better”
If I could have snapped the DVD in half and thrown it out the window when that Village ending unfolded, I would have. I haven’t had such a violent reaction and urge to destroy a stupid story for wasting my time since reading Robert Thurston’s “Set of Wheels” 30-some-odd years ago (and that one I slowly tore apart and added to the toasty warm flames in the fireplace).
And you know how I feel about books.
Haven’t seen Signs or The Happening. From the trailers I can see Signs as possibly Sci-Fi… but I would have thought Happening was something else.
What does it say about his career when I knew it was an M. Night project but when I saw the trailer in the theater they didn’t even mention his name. Could he be the new Alan Smithy? I’ll listen for buz though, if enough people take it for the team and tell me it’s good then I’ll give it a go.
Remember how they kept his name off the online ads and promos for Devil, but word got out that at several films where the trailer for it played, the audiences seemed interested, but started booing as soon as his name flashed on the screen at the end of the trailer?
Yeah, that’s why.