First Reactions To M. Night Shyamalan's AFTER EARTH

Atleast it's not as bad as the last airbender.

Jan de Bont, M. Night Shymalan, Renny Harlin, Joe Dante. Four good directors whose careers got derailed by questionable film choices. I would have wished for any of these guys to direct a MARVEL film earlier in their careers.

if this movie got good review, i might take a look.

I hate this guy... Luckily I knew Last Airbender would suck and I didn't watch it in the theatre. I just watched the movie for laughs... My name is Ong XD

worst thing to happen with jaden is him growing up it seems. Very good in pursuit of happyness but he doesnt seem to have much about him talentwise.

sounds shite!

shit young actor, shit movie creator, shit movie

The guy's a hack and was never as talented as people made him out to be. I rarely say this but I hope the movie bombs.

I prefer the Will Smith of old, pre-Jaden. Same with Shyamalan, pre-Lady in the Water.

The kid is riding on his dads fame... I grew up on Fresh Price, and will always love his work.

i think shyamalan needs to stop writing his own films. purely from a directorial standpoint, he's still pretty good. he needs someone else to do the writing though. the laughable plot points, the lame twists, the clunky dialogue, its mostly his writing that has sunk his films.

although i still cant forgive him for making a terrible film out of a pretty good cartoon. he didn't even get the tone right. avatar-the last airbender's supposed to be a fun adventure, not broody emo-crap. aang's (not aung's) whole character arc was to start taking his responsibility more seriously. people who haven't seen the cartoon, probably had no idea that this kid was supposed to be energetic and adorable.

Oh, Jaden's the star and not Will? Smells like teen shit to me, f#ck this then...

Is he releasing a hot new single to coincide with the film's release date? That would just ssssizzle! Maybe an After Earth choreographed dance scene for the video consisting of mutated earthlings as background dancers akin to Michael Jackson's Thriller! That be hot! :-|

Signs - doesn't make sense, aliens are hurt by water and don't realize it when they try to take over a planet with over 75% water.

The Village - equally as dumb as Signs.

Shamalacka has made two decent movies in my opinion; Unbreakable and 6th Sense (but I didn't really like that movie either, it's just passable)

This guy is a hack of a director.

definitely NOT going to check this out. he is a crap director. period.

it sounds cool....sort of....well...not really...

Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs. The good three. The rest was crap.

I'm still not going to see it even if it gets nominated for Best Picture.

sixth sense & unbreakable are the only good films by m.night shyamalan.

I'm siding with Grif on this one...

So he gets criticised for having twists. Now he criticised for not having twists.

@Stumblin Everyone makes shitty movies at one time or another. Some go through a dry spell. Don't see why he gets more hate than John Carpenter.