Hey, they’re still letting M. Night Shyamalan make movies! Big-budget Will Smith movies no less. After Earth stars Will and Jaden Smith as a father and son who get stranded on…Earth. Say whaaat? Yeah, apparently in the future everything on the planet “evolves to kill humans” so we jet off to the cosmos, leaving Earth behind us as just another quarantined planet.
Neat premise. Not sure if the movie’s going to be any good. The trailer is just a series of mostly unrelated brief images. Those images are pretty, but then nobody’s ever questioned M. Night Shyamalan’s ability to capture the occasional beautiful image. Just saying, Will Smith’s dialogue seems awfully stilted. Also, what’s with that accent he’s affecting?
Anyways, you can hit the jump to check the trailer out for yourself…
Yikes, now that he’s abandoned the braids, Jaden Smith looks freakishly like his dad.
via The Film Stage
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The Shamalagadingdong twist? This is actually prehistoric earth and the Fresh Prince and his clone are actually Adam and Steve. Also, wingsuits? Are you effing kidding me?
Good move not to have M. Night’s name be mentioned in the trailer in any way, shape or form.
Stranded on Earf, you mean.
The scene where 1996 Will Smith punches current day Will Smith is going to be great.
West Philladelphia done changed, son.
That banner pic is like having the coach and your dad yelling at you from the sidelines, except neither of them know what they’re talking about.
A thousand years and still using blade weapons. We don’t even do that now. Hell I don’t think you can even put a bayonet on an m16. Where are the laser guns and light sabers. boooooooo
Can you get kicked off the internet for admitting that you don’t hate M. Night Shyamalan? Asking for a friend.
you’re* one of those people that insists The Happening was made intentionally/ironically terrible aren’t you
*sorry, you’re friend
I was a fan longer than most. Hell, I liked The Village. But there’s no denying The Happening and Last Airbender were both astonishingly s–tty.
Even the basic premise of this doesn’t make any sense. After abandoning planet earth _for 1,000 years_they get stranded on earth where “everything on this planet has evolved – to kill humans.” I would think they would have evolved to make use of things OTHER than humans. Why the fuck would everything evolve to eat something that isn’t present in the environment? That’s tantamount to killing off every single blue whale on the planet and all of a sudden everything starts wanting to eat blue whales.
Also, it’s everything man, EVERYTHING. Hamsters, goldfish, aloe plants — all out to KILL HUMANS.
This article neglects to mention that Will Smith’s character’s name is CYPHER RAIGE. Seriously.
I apologize sincerely for this oversight. Cypher Raige. Jesus.
Will Smith was dead the whole time!
This looks OK but after the other Avatar not with the blue people I’ve given up on anything M. Night.
Considering that The Sixth Sense was ruined for me before I actually saw it, I’ve actually never seen a good Shamalyan movie and I assume this will continue.
+1
Unless it’s a sequel to Unbreakable, color me “meh” on this one.
I thought this was called I Am Legend