WILL SMITH DESTROYED BY MOVIE CRITIC IN HIS SCIENTOLOGY INFLUENCED PILE OF CACK KNOWN AS 'AFTER EARTH' [PLUS HIS SON'S "Scientology school uniform"]

Horrendous ‘After Earth’ Insults Entire Planet

Submitted by BrianTT on May 30, 2013 - 8:35am. 

• After Earth
 
• Brian Tallerico
 
• Film Review
 
• HollywoodChicago.com Content
 
• Jaden Smith
 
• M. Night Shyamalan
 
• Sophie Okonedo
 
• Will Smith
 
• Zoe Kravitz

Your vote:

20

40

60

80

100

Average: 1 (1 vote)

Rating: 1.0/5.0

CHICAGO – The “sci” in M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi blockbuster “After Earth” clearly stands for Scientology and not science. There’s nothing remotely approaching honest science in this boring, preachy, horrendously made film that occasionally looks good but has nothing more worthwhile to say than a pamphlet trying to get you to convert to a cult. “Danger is real. Fear is a choice.” With more dialogue like that than actual plot or character, “After Earth” numbs the viewer into thinking it’s saying something deep when it’s really just a shallow, vanity project for the Smith family.

Will Smith, discarding so much of his likable charisma for an iron-jawed tough character that he really shouldn’t have played, stars as the hilariously named Cypher Raige, the toughest soldier in the universe. Raige is a legend among fellow Rangers for his “ghosting” ability. The human race was forced to leave Earth after, of course, we destroyed the planet. But humanity found itself the target of monstrous aliens called Ursas, who are blind but can smell your fear before they gut you. Raige has no fear. And so he is a ghost to the creatures that have hunted people and even killed his daughter Senshi (seen in flashbacks as Zoe Kravitz).

After Earth
Photo credit: Sony Pictures

Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) wants to be just like the father that crippled veterans of the alien war salute and who forces his son to call him “Sir.” Kitai has been in ranger training but his Commander doesn’t graduate the young cadet to the next level, much to the adolescent’s dismay. Kitai hasn’t been able to deal with his own fear, seen racing ahead of his fellow cadets when he just needs to keep the pace, and crying when faced with fear. Of course, Kitai is about to be thrown out of the nest and forced to fly.

The Raige men are on a transport ship to another planet when they get caught in a horrendous meteor storm that could crash their vessel. They try to warp out of it and end up, randomly, in Earth’s orbit. The ship plummets to the Earth and tears apart. Of course, only Cypher and Kitai survive, although the old man breaks both his legs, leaving the boy to have to traverse the miles to the half of the ship that contains a beacon for others to find them. Oh, did I mention the ship was carrying an Ursa for “training purposes”? Yes, we’re supposed to believe that a creature that has wiped out much of the human race is kept alive and used to train others. Leave your disbelief at the door.

After Earth
Photo credit: Sony Pictures

As Cypher tells his son, everything on Earth has adapted to kill humans. Why the animals of Earth all have human bloodlust given the fact that the air there has been unable to support homo sapiens life is never explained (and it’s clearly not all life as Kitai sees birds and tons of flora and fauna in the very first scene…just scary, fanged life). And rather than set the film on a dangerous planet that we were forced to leave behind and just leave it at that, writers Gary Whitta & M. Night Shyamalan (working from a story by Will Smith) are forced to bring a CGI creation in the form of the mysterious Ursa to chase Kitai along his journey.

It’s only one of several decisions that make no sense. Where do we begin? The CGI monkey chase scene? There’s nothing effective about CGI monkeys. The accents? They sound vaguely British, vaguely Indian, vaguely pretentious cult leader, and vaguely made-up, and will be mocked for decades, long after the film’s been forgotten (“The accents were silly but at least they weren’t as bad as “After Earth””). But I could give the speech patterns a pass if they were saying anything of interest. When the script for “After Earth” isn’t falling to typical coming-of-age sci-fi cliché, it is bombarding viewers with Scientology-centered teachings about fear that would make a ten-year-old cry uncle. So self-serious as to verge on parody, “After Earth” simply isn’t fun. It’s a chore.

After Earth
Photo credit: Sony Pictures

The slog through “After Earth” isn’t helped by the fact that poor Jaden Smith has given his first disastrous performance. I don’t think it’s his fault as the young actor showed he inherited his dad’s screen presence in “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “The Karate Kid” but the poor guy is not effective as a protagonist here. He’s too broad in his emotions and not engaging as a lead. I blame Shyamalan, who once seemed so deft at directing children but has proven with the abysmal “The Last Airbender,” and now this film, that he’s lost that touch. His dad isn’t much better, stuck in the crashed ship and left only to give words of wisdom and guidance as he deals with his own pain.

The Smiths aren’t good and Shyamalan’s direction is leaden, but it all comes back to that awful, awful script. “After Earth” is just silly. Whether it’s the bizarre supposition that climate changes will happen so quickly in the future that areas of the Earth will go from tundra to rainforest in a matter of hours with no impact to the foliage (sorry if I just gave you science geeks a migraine) or the Dianetics-laden preaching that has about as much real-world weight as a 3AM infomercial, there’s just nothing fun about “After Earth”. I don’t mind scripts that play silly (as someone must have known parts of this would with a character named Cypher Raige) in pursuit of B-movie escapism but there’s NO WAY that the Smiths, who produced the film as well, see this as blockbuster entertainment. They set out to make a sci-fi film with the power to change the way you look at your fellow man. And they made one that just made me want to leave this planet that much sooner.

“After Earth” stars Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Sophie Okonedo, and Zoe Kravitz. It was written by Gary Whitta and M. Night Shyamalan and directed by Shyamalan. It will be released on May 31, 2013.

By BRIAN TALLERICO Content Director HollywoodChicago.com brian@hollywoodchicago.com

Read more: http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/reviews/22261/horrendous-after-earth-insults-entire-planet#ixzz2Uoco8OIy

Tristar Pictures Pissed @ Will Smith Over Scientology Scheme!

by Jacky Jasper

Bible-Bumping Alien???

HSK Exclusive - Will Smith is reported to have nearly cost Tristar Pictures their summer blockbuster — all in the name of religion. We’re talking about the religion of The Church of Scientology. That’s because the “After Earth” leading man is said to have forced the movie house to redub ALL of his voiceovers, after the actor reportedly replaced his lines with the secret Scientology “Xenu” language aka ‘alien dialect’.

It’s a situation which is said to have cost Tristar big bucks to finish the M. Night Shayamalan flick “After Earth”. And, Smith ain’t the first! You may recall Travolta did the same in “Battlefield Earth”.

Check It: According to L Ron Hubbard, Xenu is the supreme ‘Galactic Emperor’ – and speaking the secret dialect could help a person rid their body of alien parasites. Not sure if Will was looking to turn out more Scientologists, but we can tell you his son – Jaden – was working alongside daddy on the set.

Here’s the drop:

“Tristar spent $200 million on the film After Earth. The movie comes out May 31st. It’s the summer blockbuster and Tristar is not going to let Will and his Scientology friends screw it up.
Will is a powerful dude in Hollywood, he almost got away with it.”

Will Smith Movie “After Earth” Being Called out By Critics for Scientology References

05/31/13 12:10amRoger Friedman0

“After Earth,” the new Will Smith movie, is a bust. At least critically. Almost every critic and movie blogger hated, including yours truly. The movie is being cited for being dull, slow, and humorless. But it’s also being cited for referring to the text of Scientology, Dianetics.

The tag line of the film is “Fear is a choice.” It’s emblazoned on shoulder bags that were given away at the premiere the other night. Now both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have called out Smith– who invented the story– for repurposing gobbledygook of Scientology in the “After Earth” monologues. They’re right of course.

Smith denies being involved in Scientology. But he’s been closely associated with Tom Cruise. He funds a private school in Calabasas, California that teaches Scientology curriculum. And his whole “I can save the world” gestalt–humorless, un-ironic, savior stuff– coincides with his statements from a few years ago that Scientology had as much validity as the Bible.

“After Earth” is such a bore that it’s unlikely anyone will join Scientology after getting through it. Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal actually wonders in his piece today if it’s the worst movie ever made? (Worse than “Cable Guy,” or “Gigli” or “Glitter”? Hmmm….) Maybe it’s Scientology traininy osmosis or subliminal communication. Because most people will be sleeping through this interminable film.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324412604578515000854294308.html?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_6

Open Post: Hosted By Jaden Smith As Iron Man

While most 14-year-olds were in school yesterday, Jaden Smith put on a crappy Iron Man costume his assistant bought on clearance at Party City and went to lunch in NYC with his 15-year-old girlfriend K-Something Jenner. Jaden Smith redefines "smug" every time he poses for a picture and he's quickly reaching Bieber levels of doucheness, but he gets points for taking attention away from a Kardashian. I give him that.

That said, Jaden's STUNT QUEEN move isn't going to get me to see thatAfter Earth mess.

Here's more of Jaden in his Scientology school uniform and K-Something in her ho stroll uniform in NYC yesterday. I also threw in pictures from the premiere last night. Jaden lost the night by making that "uh oh, I just had my period and I'm wearing white" face in every single picture. Willow Smith won the night by dressing like JoAnn Worley circa 1976.

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Will and Jaden like pattern

May 29, 2013Posted at 4:25 PM

Posted by Duana

Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailMore Sharing Services

Tags:

• Baby and Bump Obsession
• Chills Chills Chills
• Jaden Smith
• Parent Pimps
• Will Smith

Photos:
WENN

(Last night I emailed Duana about the Will & Jaden Smith Vulture interview. I heard from her an hour later:

OH MY GOD.

Like I'm not even through it and I only woke up because Libby barked and I checked email on phone and could not even get through it before I had to put it down to email you.

Like it's a f-cking Brechtian play. I am RIVETED. I want everything and nothing to do with these people. I want to know what kind of mania makes you quote Joe Kennedy's parenting philosophy to an entertainment magazine. I would read this for hours.

Needless to say, Duana has some thoughts. See below.)

Let’s just for example say that the Dean of the Faculty of Celebrity Studies hires me to work in her department someday. I think there could be an entire course on The Interview.

Of course, every profile or piece is based on an interview, but there are all different kinds. Usually, you’re not supposed to feel like the subject is being asked questions, or if you are, as per Interview Magazine, it’s because the interviewer is as interesting as the interviewee.

So with that in mind, please read the following Will and Jaden Smith interview in its entirety.   

You finished?

First let’s give thanks to Vulture for consistently being Vulture, and giving us these gems. Next, let’s jump into our investigation of this interview…

…
…

I know. I couldn’t really process it either. I couldn’t think of a way to describe this, although I certainly hope it is adopted as an acting exercise. I would really enjoy watching people do scenes based on this interview. Because you know it wasn’t boring, the two of them just sitting at a table.   I bet there was movement and smiling.

What gets me the most out of a whole lot of “gets me”s is that there is a real lack of a parent-child dynamic here. A little bit in terms of “Don’t talk to my dad, he’ll bore you to death” (which sounds totally accurate, both for teens in general and for my perception of  Will Smith) and of Will’s overriding any comment Jaden might make about the Kardashians but mostly I’m struck by the whole “mutual respect” angle.

Not totally sure I’m down with it.

Yeah, sure, I’m draconian and nobody who loves their kids would ever be an authoritarian over them and blah blah. But I do kind of have a vibe that someone who checks his own bank statements at 14 (what?!) will have nothing to rebel against. Is that accurate? How can you be your own person when you are so literally grown in your parents’ image? Or am I overthinking it?

There are way too many gems here to investigate individually, but let’s look at just a few:

Even though we’ve looked at this already, let’s just take a moment to digest this.

What would you buy?
Jaden: I have four [Cartier] rings I’m not wearing today. I haven’t bought anything that expensive in a really long time. The only thing I buy is, like, food and skateboards.
Will: Once he started approving his own bank statements and credit cards and all, yeah, he changed.

And then of course there’s this:

In the movie, Jaden, your character calls his dad “Sir.” Is that the dynamic with you guys?
Jaden: In real life, no. It’s like how it is right now.

How is it right now?
Jaden: It’s hard for me to explain because it’s so normal to me. It’s like asking, “So, Jaden, how do you breathe?” He’s, like, really just cool. He lets us have our freedom as long as we can control our freedom.

“So Jaden, how do you breathe?” I can’t get over this kid. I really can’t.

I mean, maybe preternatural confidence at fourteen is something the rest of us can only wish for.  And for all I found this interview weird and way too buddy-esque and not based in what looks like a parent-child relationship, it still felt honest(ish). Will admits he pushes his kids to do something (invoking Joe Kennedy, of all people) and freely reports (though not for the first time) that Willow was the one who backed away from the level of fame she was approaching.

Everything is strategic, so what does this side-by-side buddy interview do for us?

It keeps Will Smith young. If he’s free and easy and not that parental with his 14 year old, how old can he be, really? It keeps you interested enough in the relationship to see how it plays out in the movie – that is, if you cared to begin with – and it creates a new franchise: “The Transparent Smiths. Ask us anything!”

I still think they might be robots, and that has nothing to do with any alleged religion – though I thought it was interesting how quickly that topic was brought up and then dismissed. I am more interested/fascinated/curiously horrified by them than I was 24 hours ago, which means that they have won, I have lost, and I’m not sure I’m mad about it.

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  

• 

  Will and Jaden Smith give the most bizarre interview in Hollywood history

  Father and son 'After Earth' stars explain their quest for a theory of everything. Warning: it involves 'multidimensional mathematics' and will make your brain hurt Email
  • 
  • • Oliver Burkeman
    • guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 May 2013 12.15 BST
    • Jump to comments (455)

  
  

  Jaden and Will Smith in a still from the trailer for After Earth. Photograph: Sony Pictures

  Everyone knows you rarely learn much by reading interviews with movie stars. It's a less commonplace experience, though, to feel yourself becoming actively less well-informed as you read, as if the celebrity's words were eliminating your brain-cells, one by one, like bubble-wrap being popped. Yet take a look, if you dare, at this Q&A, in the current edition of New York magazine, with Will Smith and his son Jaden, to promote their forthcoming film After Earth. It should definitely win some kind of award, though I'm not sure the relevant Pulitzer category has been created yet.

  Smith senior is, of course, one half of the uber-powerful Hollywood couple who insist they're not Scientologists but who do give money to groups affiliated with Scientology and who did set up a private elementary school that deploys teaching methods formulated by L Ron Hubbard. Here, he claims not to be religious (though a few years ago hedescribed himself as a Christian) and explains that, anyway, his real worldview is all about "patterns":

  I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

  It's just a tiny bit unclear what Smith means by a "pattern": the two examples he endorses in the interview are a) that the sun rises every morning and b) that the Best Actor Oscar tends to be awarded to people portraying historical figures or characters with mental illness. One can also use patterns, Smith informs the interviewer, Claire Hoffman, to predict whether he will make another movie alongside his son:

  
  If you were a student of the pattern, you'd have to say we were going to do another one.

  
  Wait: "the pattern"? Is there one pattern, or are there many? I'm confused, but that's probably because mainstream media like New York magazine can't fully accommodate the profundity of Smith's thought:

  You know, the forum of media that we're in can't really handle the complexity of things that we say all the time.

  One feels inclined to cut Jaden Smith some slack, since he's only 14 and has been raised by Will Smith. But it ought to be noted that his contributions to the emerging Smith theory of everything are in many ways more mindwarping than his father's:

  Jaden: I think that there is that special equation for everything, but I don't think our mathematics have evolved enough for us to even – I think there's, like, a whole new mathematics that we'd have to learn to get that equation.
  Will: I agree with that.
  Jaden: It's beyond mathematical. It's, like, multidimensional mathematical, if you can sort of understand what I'm saying.

  
  I sort of can't, actually! But never mind. As Jaden – who has reportedly announced his desire to become an emancipated minor, free of parental control, when he turns 15 – explains about his mother, Jada Pinkett Smith:

  If we're at a six, she's like at an eight and a half.

  …whereas I'm probably more like a one or a two, so my confusion is understandable. (On what scale, you ask? We never learn.)

  What to make of all this? It certainly demonstrates just how loopy your uncontrolled speculations can become when you're insulated, through fame and wealth, from people pointing out that they make no sense. Other than that, I'm fairly certain there are absolutely no conclusions to be drawn from it whatsoever. Sorry. Our mathematics just hasn't evolved sufficiently yet.

  If you wonder where Smith is getting all this from, by the way, Jaden gives a hint at the end:

  He's watching hours and hours of TED talks…

  Ah, well, there you go.

  
  

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/30/will-smith-new-york-magazine-interview

________

Will Smith keeps on plugging After Earth with son Jaden... as critics label it 'more than mildly annoying'

By MIKE LARKIN

PUBLISHED: 03:20, 31 May 2013 | UPDATED: 03:30, 31 May 2013

 
 
 

1 shares

0

View
comments

They looked as proud as punch of their latest project After Earth at its premiere less than 24 hours earlier.

And Will Smith managed to keep on smiling as it emerged the film was being savaged critics as he emerged with his son and co-star Jaden in New York on Thursday.

However the 14-year-old looked far less pleased as they turned up at BET studios to plug the turkey, perhaps aware that he had been given a particularly severe roasting by reviewers.

SCROLL DOWN FOR TRAILER...

Keeping his chin up: Will Smith managed to force a smile in New York on Thursday despite his film After Earth being savaged by critics

The not-so-dynamic duo play a father and son team sent back to Earth a thousand years after humanity fled the planet due to numerous environmental catastrophes.

Unfortunately they end up badly damaging their spaceship in an asteroid field, and as the rest of the Ranger Corps troops travelling alongside them die when they crash land, it is up to Jaden to make a perilous journey across uncharted land and signal for help.

In his one star review of the film, the New York Post's Lou Lumenick says: 'Most of the film consists of Kitai (Jaden) traveling miles on foot to recover a rescue beacon, and then, even less interestingly, trying to find the intergalactic equivalent of a cellphone signal.'

And Variety's Scott Foundas had his knife out for the stars' acting, claiming: 'The senior Smith gives one of the least substantive performances of his career, while the undeniably charismatic Jaden toggles between two primary modes of expression: paralyzing fear and simmering rage.'

What did they say? By the look on his face it seems Jaden had just discovered his performance had come in for particularly severe criticism

Back to the drawing board: Will conceived the story and had hoped it would be a money-spinning franchise

Two fingered salute: But Will, seen here with wife Jada at the premiere's after party on Wednesday, may feel like turning his hand around for his critics

Fine filly: Will's wife was looking in fine figure in this sparkling blue dress at the celebratory bash

The Washington Post's Michael O’Sullivan is even more scathing in his assessment of the teenager, arguing he 'spends much of the movie running around in a panic, waving his little arms at predators and shouting, “Leave me alone!”

'It’s appropriate to the character, I guess. But it’s also more than mildly annoying. Kitai comes across as a whiny, willful and one-dimensional brat.'

The New York Daily News refused to grant the film, which is released on Friday, even a single star out of five.

Their reviewer Joe Neumaier stated: 'Lurking in every corner of After Earth are poky action scenes, sketchy plot details, lazy logistics, junky sci-fi mumbo jumbo and dull-as-rice attacks by futuristic baboons. 

'Even the movie’s alien antagonists are similar to those in a dozen other movies.'

Not sitting pretty: The pair looked smug at the New York premiere on Thursday but have been given a critical caning

Pen pals: Fans could not get enough of the pair at the premiere but may throw away their autographs in disgust when they actually see the film

Planet of the japes: Jaden enjoys a series of adventures in post apocalyptic Earth in the movie

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2333661/Will-Smith-keeps-plugging-After-Earth-son-Jaden--critics-label-mildly-annoying.html#ixzz2UqahBuhU
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook