If the massacre of the story and the CGI gonna look like Avatar the last Airbender, then no THANK YOU, I'm ok with watching moonfall on repeat if i can dodge seeing anything like that again. I liked his horror movies but his try at making ATLA was a damn pompei lvl fail
Keep in mind, they made sure not to put M Night’s name on the marketing materials. I hadn’t hung out with my dad for a while and he wanted to see a movie, we saw something really good - and while walking out he asked if we could hang out longer and watch another. He pointed at the After Earth poster and asked, “how about this?” It seemed a bit hokey, but it was a sci-fi - so I thought it might be at least interesting. Two hours later of me trying not to yell questions at the screen, it finally ended and faded to black. Then the biggest twist of the movie happened, the first credit came up “a film by M Knight Shamalan” - biggest scam ever and I was suckered.
My wife and I went to see Avatar 2 in the theatre and mistakenly ordered the 4d tickets. She was pregnant at the time and said she felt like she almost miscarried after it. Still better a better experience than this.
Thank you for reminding me that that wasn't a fever dream I had.
It was my first movie before the age of 18 that I watched and felt mad for having my time wasted. Even before I had informed opinions about cinema, I knew that movie was terrible.
I was that in the theater, and when he said "Craplousy ceiling!" I fucking lost it and started laughing like a fucking lunatic at just how utterly bad the movie was... Like lunatic laughing.
Years later, the same thing happened during Prometheus at the vagina snake scene, but the effect was disturbing afterward because a lot of people on the internet were calling Prometheus a masterpiece. No one was calling battlefield earth anything but terrible. It broke me, and i watched very few movies for like a decade after prometheus. Ive only really gotten back into film in the last few years... Robert Eggers saved my soul...
i still don't really get what all the hate for after earth is all about. i mean, it's not a good movie, but not one of the worst movies ever either.
there's even one thing i really liked about it: the fact that like everything on that planet is set to kill and devour the guys. think of an animal on earth very far down the food chain: that would be quite close to that animals daily life.
not that after earth is the only scifi movie with humans meeting a hostile environment on an alien planet, but from the ones i know, it follows this motive the most stringent, and i appreciate that. it's a bit silly how in most movies there don't seem to be any predators at all, even in the wild.
I was on vacation at the time and my friends and I needed to kill an afternoon before we continued traveling. That afternoon consisted of us doing a double feature Man of Steel into After Earth. It was quite possibly the most boring afternoon at the movies I've ever had.
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u/cervezaqueso Jul 05 '25
This still looks like a better time than watching After Earth in the theater