After Earth (2013)

2025-02-28

After this episode we will be taking an extended break from the show (HUNDREDS of past episodes over the span of 2 and a half years at your disposal SUBSCRIBE NOW!) but we did make a promise to talk about all of M. Night Shyamalan’s filmography throughout the year AND WE’RE KEEPING THAT PROMISE! So it will probably be another M. Night joint when you hear from us again. Shyamalan’s movies have always been divisive amongst film fans but this particular discussion is of a movie that arrived, made it’s money and disappeared into the ether of cultural noise that this YouTube/podcast about movies is very familiar with. It did not inspire. The Smith’s are involved in this one. Even the Brother-in-Law. Including Jada but no Willow. We’re talking M. Night Shyamalan’s 2013 sci-fi “AFTER EARTH” starring father & son, Will & Jaden Smith. Elder Smith plays a heroic sociopath in a future where we’re still not free of various versions of off-white on everything. His son, our special-boy Jaden, wants to be a Ranger but failed at it so his dad feels bad because he’s never around so he nepos his kid onto a flight. Just like how Will nepo’d his kid into a sci-fi lead. They crash onto a planet Earth that rejected humanity long ago and then the video game level one tutorial begins. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is just you thinking about the future, y’know? This movie is pretty much those “No Fear” shirts kids wore in the 90s but filtered through Scientology. You probably have better things to do than watch this movie but hearing us discuss it should be a top priority.

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