A lot of species are dead and gone, sure, but the ones that are still around probably look mostly the same.
I mean, a thousand years ago it was the Dark Ages and things were certainly different, but I'm pretty sure animals look basically the same now as they did then. But why are there new species of tigers and giant birds that understand concepts like repaying kindness? That's not, um, exactly how evolution works.
It's been a thousand years since everyone picked up and left, right? So, sure, some things would have changed, definitely. Some questions about this world, meaning Earth. Thus begins our adventure, if you can call it that. Everyone else is killed and Cypher is seriously injured, so it's up to Kitai to traverse the treacherous terrain and retrieve a homing beacon from the tail section of the stingray-shaped spaceship. (This fearlessness is called "ghosting." Whatever.) He's a beloved war hero who is stern and distant with his own family, until he and his teen son Kitai (Jaden, duh) are on a mission together that crash lands on, get this, Earth. (They look a bit like the Rancor in Return of the Jedi, only with more legs.) But then comes a dude named Cypher Raige (elder Smith) who is fearless in the face of these alien ghouls, and is thus invisible to them. Those monsters, get this, navigate by smelling fear, and are as deadly as they are slimy and buggy. Trouble is some aliens don't want humans on these planets, so they send strange monsters to the settlements to kill everyone. I'm afraid that in the actual world, young Jaden still has some work to do.Īs Jaden sorta-explains in mumbling, oddly accented (more on that later) voice over at the beginning of the film, in the future humanity has fled the Earth they've made uninhabitable and resettled on other planets. Swap showbiz out for alien fighting and you basically have the hereditary tension of After Earth, which is about a son realizing his potential and making his father proud. Sound familiar? Well, it should, as rapping/acting Jaden is essentially endeavoring to recreate the career of his mega-star, most-bankable-actor father. Not only do father and son Will and Jaden Smith star together as father and son, but the movie is very much about their relationship, specifically the son's struggle to grow up proud and strong in the darkness of his father's long shadow. It's the sense that we are getting a glimpse into some intimate family moment that we shouldn't be privy to. There's something unsettling hovering in the air in the tedious new sci-fi survival adventure After Earth.
After earth movie part 1 archive#
And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep and beautiful relationships I could possibly have.This article is from the archive of our partner. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. “You can’t win enough, you can’t have enough money, you can’t succeed enough. “That Monday started the new phase of my life, a new concept: Only love is going to fill that hole,” Smith said. “That put it in perspective - viciously.”Īfter a 90-minute treadmill session immediately following the news, Smith had an epiphany. Smith said when he received box office numbers the following Monday, he was “devastated for about 24 minutes,” and shortly after, he received a call that his father had cancer.
And I never released that and moved into a mature way of looking at the world and my artistry and love until the failure of ‘After Earth ,’ when I had to accept that it’s not a good source of creation.” All I have to do is make sure that no one’s ever better than me, and I’ll have the love that my heart yearns for. I was a guy who, when I was 15, my girlfriend cheated on me, and I decided that if I was number one, no woman would ever cheat on me. “I never would have looked at myself in that way. Then he contemplated the importance of having films that topped box office charts. “‘Wild Wild West’ was less painful than ‘After Earth’ because my son was involved in ‘After Earth,’ and I led him into it. That was excruciating,” the 46-year-old said. Smith said “Wild Wild West,” a pic that also opened with $27 million, was still a better experience.
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