It feels like its based on a young adult science fiction novel, majority of people are hard on it because its directed by Shyamalan and stars Jaden Smith.
... majority of people are hard on it because its directed by Shyamalan and stars Jaden Smith.
You're probably right. It has its flaws, but it's arguably not deserving of all the Razzie nominations and tags about "worst film of all time" etc.🐭
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Was it perhaps marketed as something more serious? Is that why so many are being so hard on it?
This was an opinion I expressed a couple of years ago. If this movie had been marketed as a kids or YA movie I think it would not have received all the backlash it did. But it was marketed in the standard, high budget, summer blockbuster way.
Problems in the story line aside, young Smith does not have the talent to carry such a movie and it showed. Had he been trying to start a YA series, that audience demographic is much less concerned with quality in acting and the movie would have been more successful - in my opinion.
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Had he been trying to start a YA series, that audience demographic is much less concerned with quality in acting and the movie would have been more successful - in my opinion.
I think that's what they were trying to do by making sequel which has been scrapped, they've spawned books that build the universe of After Earth before and during the events of the movie.
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