If you're a student of patterns like American treasure Will Smith, then you already know that the forum of media that we're in can't really handle the complexity of things that we say all the time. It's just a fact! But here's another fact: After Earth was an utter bomb at the box office. Thankfully, a group of Smith sympathizers are doing their darndest to cheer him up.
The group of Scientology enthusiasts (or, more precisely, parodists) have posted the above signs around midtown. And they set up an elaborate website, CheerUpWillSmith.com, which includes video testimonials showing support of Smith and the much-maligned film. Is the whole thing a plot by Matt Zoller Seitz to encourage people to see the film? It is just an anti-Scientology mockery exploiting a movie that has been calleda love letter to Scientology?
5 Photos of Tom Cruise Pulling Weird Faces That Prove He’s Probably Insane
Posted by Pamela on June 4th, 2013While it’s difficult to buy in to every single “Tom is a wacko because he tries to force everyone to be a Scientologist” story, Tom Cruise is probably at least a bit insane (sidenote: most celebrities fall in to this category). Here are 5 amusing photos of Mr. Cruise pulling an array of crazy faces which not only show his acting diversity (he can play cool action man, and er… less cool action man) but they also show his amazing teeth, which he inherited from his mother who is his female doppelganger to a scary degree. Tom looks happy, shocked, and just weird in this strange images which includes one bonus terrifying “triple smile” collage that will haunt your dreams forever. It’s all Katie Holmes sees when she closes her eyes.
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Scientologists do sci-fi again.... and by Xenu it's another stinker
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After Earth (12A)
Verdict: The Scientologists are back
Rating: Turkey
Up to now, the most notorious attempt to sell us Scientology in the cinema was John Travolta’s legendary stinker, Battlefield Earth.
Will Smith — who donated $122,500 to the cause in 2007 — and his more openly Scientologist wife Jada Pinkett Smith thought they could do better. After Earth is the catastrophic end product.
A strong contender for 2013’s worst film, it educates us about several precepts of Scientology — suppress emotion, be in the present moment alone, earn the respect of your father-figure, and become a kind of human robot.
Disaster: Will Smith and son Jaden in the appalling After Earth
That last bit is, incidentally, terrible advice to give actors.
Not only is After Earth a tedious sermon on Dianetics, it’s as inept as you would expect from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, not as far as I know a Scientologist, but the man responsible for three of the most ponderous and unwatchable films ever made: Lady In The Water, The Happening and The Last Airbender. This guy couldn’t direct traffic.
After Earth stars Will Smith and his 14-year-old son Jaden, and is based on a story by Will that suggests writing is definitely not his talent.
Although Jaden was passable in his previous movie, The Karate Kid, he’s grown into an uncharismatic teenager.
He plays Kitai, a boy who is a repellent combination of cocky and whiny. He desperately wants to impress his stern military commander dad (Will) and atone for failing to rescue his teenage sister from a creature called Ursa, which — despite its name — is not in the least bit bearlike.
It’s how Tolkien’s giant spider creation Shelob might have looked, had she undergone ill-advised plastic surgery.
When the pair of them crash-land on Earth, killing their crew and breaking dad’s legs, the father is suddenly dependent on his son to rescue them. And there’s an Ursa on the loose.
The dialogue is platitudinous and delivered in stilted accents. The structure is that of a very dull video game made by someone who once watched The Lord Of The Rings.
The computer-generated special-effects are jerky: easily the worst I’ve seen in any recent blockbuster, and unforgivably amateurish.
But it’s the script that makes this a toe-curling embarrassment. Unlike Shyamalan’s previous movies, there’s not even an attempt at a twist.
Throughout the second half, the robotic Will Smith tries not to fall into a coma. He succeeds, but I’m not too sure about the audience.
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