After Earth was not a very good movie

it's worth a watch imo

Wide Awake was his second movie, directed and written by him. A year before 6th Sense came out.

I also liked 6th Sense, Signs, The Devil, Lady in the Water, Unbreakable, and I thought The Last Airbender was an interesting start to a trilogy and didn't suck as bad as people said. In my opinion though, The Village sucked, The Happening was HORRIBLE, and without seeing it I already know After Earth is going to suck but I'd watch it once anyway.

Obummer said it was great.

The best part i liked was that "we" Humans killed the earth again bla and we "HAD" to evacuate it i loled after that.

Lets see we almost got 5 Films now that telling us that we should or we will leave this earth.

I think WWZ will be better -- they 'reshot' half of the film because they had to throw so much footage away once they canned the first director.

I am not sure it will be 'great' but... it will be better.

So far most movies have been disappointing lately, however I will say that Gangster Squad was *really* good. Kind of an old-timey batman feel with punisher type of vengeance.

Dark Skies was an utter disappointment. Its like the only thing that guy can do is paranormal activity, so he did it again, but called it 'aliens' instead of 'demons'. Seriously.

Oblivion was fairly boring, though the acting was good.

Jack Reacher was pretty good, I can definitely see myself watching that again.

And the Arnold Schwarzeneggar movie, The Last Stand, was surprisingly entertaining.

Im just happy to hear im not the only one who loved Lady in the Water. Last Airbender was never my thing, and I can say that is the only thing he has done that I never saw.

I've heard the new Star Trek is pretty awesome though. I hope so, because I have been looking forward to it.

Signs is my favorite. Lady In The Water is also very good -- oince you realize that the story came from a bedtime tale he would tell his children every night that he decided to turn into a movie. THEN it makes sense. Wish it would have been marketed that way -- too many people went in expecting a horror-type of tale instead.

I enjoyed The Village and The Happening, however I enjoyed it in spite of itself.

IDK why but I could watch it 100 times. Jessica Chastain reminds me of Bryce Howard... and Michael Shannon is a neat guy. Again, another "quiet" movie.

I have seen both Another Earth and Take Shelter. Both were slow in the typical indy style. Both had substance. I did not see Melancholia, though.

Signs above all is my favorite, everything about it. Im also a shameless Mel Gibson fan <ducks> ... Zoey Howeveryouspellherlastname made The Happening.. The closeup shots of her eyes added suspense.. and it was fun.

Melancholia is kind of hard to watch, but if borderline disturbing and slow is your thing, its great. I did enjoy it and have watched it more than once. My husband is very hard to entertain with movies but he liked it.

I have to agree. Mark Wahlberg was probably not the right guy for that part, though John Leguizamo was convincing.

I also like Mel Gibson a lot :-D

recognize this look? tell me which movie?
:mel_signs:

Here's a rule of thumb: Avoid to watch movies that has anything to do with Night Shaymalaynen, lol, he's one of the absolute worst filmmakers of our time, I could direct better (sci-fi) movies than him.

I usually hate not knowing something like this, but Im just happy someone else loves him too :p
I do give up though.. If I had to guess Id say Signs, cause he looked worried all the time in it lol.. but its not the right age

Another Earth sucked too....very disappointing.

Prove it.

Its totally from signs :-P

Its the scene in which he sees the UFOs hovering over the cities on the news for the first time. When he realizes its *real*.

This picture is from the Jodi Foster 'coming out speech'... Its the same expression: Horrified / Worried / Anxious / Disbelief

:mel_worried:

Nice LOL.. I was getting ready to guess forever Young lol

I loved melancholia. It was filmed beautifully and it starred lovely Charlotte Gainsbourg.

I thought it was rather cheesy and had too much emphasis on aspects that are just not entertaining.

For starters, the film's tagline is, "Danger is Real, Fear is a Choice". That second part is taken straight from Scientology. Not to mention heavy volcano imagery, the premise of emotion is the enemy, and Wil Smith is a scientologist (although he tries very hard to hide that fact). There are plenty of other things in the movie as well. Just look it up.

Still it wouldn't be eveywhere the same price, I guess ?
Sure it wouldn't be as expensive in the crocodile infested swamps as in Tampa or Miami ?

Thanks. I did not know Smith was part of that wacko group...

Parkersburg WV / Marietta OH.. $12.50 for 3D .. I think its $10 for a reg ticket

I just remember that I promised myself never watch movies directed by him, I forgot why but I believe it was the lack of culminations in his films, much stirring, much holding back, much dullness and so on, he doesn't have any "edge" and so on.
I never felt like this when watching the cool work of other directors. (JJ Abrams, Ang Lee, R Scott, you name it)

Ok, he may have put right the "Signs" but that's it, he just doesn't "have it" like the talented directors, it's an economic suicide to let him direct sf movies, he's got water in his veins or something. lol

So is Shyamalan, but as long as Im entertained by their character I dont care what they do irl. I LOATH Tom Cruise irl.. But I cant help myself from enjoying his movies. I put off watching The Last Samurai forever because he starred in it.. same thing with War of the Worlds.. I ended up loving them both.

I so dont want to argue, but Shyamalans culminations are what makes his movies. Its all about the end in his stories. Thats why they need rewatching most of the time. As for JJ Abrams, he can do no wrong in my book.

After 50 minutes I had to walk out and got a refund. Then I saw now you see me and didn't think it was anything special

That's a shame - I was looking forward to that one.