How exactly did everything in the planet evolve to kill humans after all humans had died or left? It's like saying "that shark specializes in eating two toed sloths"

"Everything here has evolved to kill humans" "Humanity hasn't lived here in centuries" Two of the DUMBEST lines meant to be taken seriously.

A platoon of naked human berserkers from the Viking age could probably wipe out the Ursa in a weekend.

After Earth is one of the most historically important science fiction movies ever made. Because it annihilated Jaden Smiths acting career.

If you are able to create a creature from scracth, as it seems the URSA are, why would you make it a blind creature that can only track one smell? The fact these things don't run around bumping into walls is impressive

This man read the extra lore for the After Earth series?! He deserves more than a Like and a Sub. He deserves the Purple heart

After Earth is a rare example of the more answers you get to how this universe works the dumber it becomes.

The first time I watch After Earth I never understood why they didn't fight in a sealed "Power Armor" or ever a bodysuit that absorbed their scent.

After Earth is one of those movies where, had they not explained anything, the story would make a lot more sense. We would assume they crashed on a random alien planet and it is just a simple survival story.

Given the URSA's terrible senses and the cliffy nature of the planet, one can only imagine the amount of incidental casualties they would be taking from just plummeting to their death.

_"as thin as a single molecule"_ ???? Why then, if you have a weapon that can cut through ANYTHING, would your first thought not be to fire it _from a gun?_ This may be the worst Civilisation we've seen so far.

"Mr. Smith may I please have a cohesive plot?" "Denied! Sit down!"

Honestly, I still think the aliens from after earth deserve a spot more than the humans. They have at the very least hovercraft, interplanetary travel and advanced bioscience technology. And they use all their technological might to make blind aliens who smell fear... Since the aliens clearly like making stupidly elaborate weapons. I recommend making explosive boomerangs that explode when they return to the users hand.

"My uniform turned black. I think it looks cool but I think it's something bad." This will be one of my favorite lines from bad movies.

"We could probably wipe these things out by complete accident" most true thing I have heard all week.

The chapter about this movie in will smith's recent autobiography really clarifies what happened. It was made shortly after willow decided she didn't want to do music business because will pushed her so hard so will pampered Jayden and was so distracted trying to make sure his son was comfortable he didn't pay attention to the script and actually fired the coach will had been working with for most of his blockbusters. All his films suffered afterwards AND jayden repaid the pampering by trying to emancipate himself.

This movie could have had some killer visuals. Imagine if jaydens treck was through a former city being reclaimed by nature. Climbing the ruins of fallen skyscrapers, caved in roads forming new rivers, and maybe even left behind savage humans who help jayden because they think he's a god.

My first reaction to the monsters was : how do they avoid obstacles ? Because I'm pretty sure walls and holes in the ground have absolutely no fear.

The plot of this franchise seems like there's a The Village situation where the cult is keeping a fake war going

M. Night: "What if we made humans the Quarians, but, like, completely dumb. Also Scientology's cult shit is shoved in there for some ungodsly reason." Intern: "Okay... why?" M. Night: "Because I ran out of fucks to give about halfway through Signs."

Fun fact: The Earth scenes were filmed in Costa Rica my country. Second Fun fact: As a result I went to see it only because of that and honnestly the most fun I got out of the movie was seeing when I reconnized our local terrain

I find it hard to believe that humans would forget how to fight. (Low oxygen levels when the world looks like a forest? Yeah I call bullshit on that too. :D And nights aren't freezing when the trees are mostly leafy, they aren't adapted for it.)

The line that still makes me angry was "everything on this planet evolved to kill humans" but humans were gone for only a few hundred years? And even then if there's no humans on earth then *how* does a creature evolve that fast again against something that's not present on earth? And then there's the "smell your fear issue" , the movie shows that you are protected if you're in a bubble, the main characters sister put him in one... So why don't they wear something like a hazmat suit? And then there's the gravity. They constantly say Earth's gravity is stronger than what they're used to but they never do anything with that, in fact Katai (kitai?) runs and even jumps pretty high and far despite that information constantly being fed to us

I would believe it more if the aliens from after earth only sent small attacks on nova then let them rebuild only to attack again because they are bored and seeing the puny humans struggle is the most fun they've had.

Father you've returned I've missed you please... no more cigarettes trips

If they're capable of creating sticks that can shape metal into a molecule thin blade, then they should be capable of creating bullets that come to a similar point enabling them to pierce whatever armor the Ursa have. Why the fuck haven't they just built new guns?! They literally have the technology, right there!

It’s amazing that either species even made it past a single generation in this movie.

I’m more amazed there was actual lore to this

Also, if the creature’s are significantly bigger than humans why not have narrow corridors only humans can fit in?

This movie was literally the dumbest incarnation of humans vs the dumbest incarnation of alien lifeforms. both could be defeated in ground combat by 14th century warriors. all it takes is some nord berserker taking up some mushrooms or a samurai trained in bushido to defeat one of these aliens

"Everything has evolved to kill humans." "Ah I see we are in Australia."

You know somethings wrong when bubble boy can be used as an effective survival guide

It would make sense to make earth a no go quarentine zone if it was overrun by the flood from halo or something, but harsh climate and some freaky animals? Just build fortified settlements.

I heard one that this was originally pitched as a survival movie where will and his astranged son get into a car accident in the wilderness and the son has to go find help while being guided by will via radio. I feel like the story might have breathed a bit more without having to introduce a scifi world on top of the usual character and plot intros that all movies have to do.

I love Tuvok he's one of my favorite star trek characters, he's also extremely terrifying when angry which is why he suppresses his emotions.....if he didn't he would probably strangle everyone, lol.

My problem with After Earth was that the monsters could have been defeated by wear hazmat suits. Wars over, Novan's win.

I know they were in the desperate pinch but if you made blades that can pierce The Ursa...You made bullets that can pierce the Ursa, granades with shrapnel that can bust an Ursa, and youve made missiles that can go through Krell ships.

*And the worst part …* All the weapons and tactic deficiencies were freaking obvious *when watching the film.* A lot of "Societies too stupid to exist" films have flaws that _only become really noticeable_ after you've watched the film and thought about it. During the movie every viewer was banging their head against a wall over these mistakes. You weren't lost in the moment and the experience of the make believe Universe, you were hate watching and doing a real time critique. [That's why I've already posted a few comments before watching this video (which it turns out covered points I also made), as the failures are that obvious].

I actually don’t think Shyamalan should take any blame cause Will Smith is actually the one who pitched the idea to make the movie in the first place. He deserves shit for A LOT of the directing and story writing he’s done, but this wasn’t even his idea

It's sad really, read online that the original script was about a father/son story, where Will's character, who was a workaholic, tried to bond with his son on a camping trip on the way back they would have a car accident and Will's cxharacter would be incapacetated, leavin Jaden's character alone to face the woods in search for help, seemed like a good story, dunno why they had to add the "sci fi" twist....

If you can build generation ships then you can build orbital habitats, the Novan's really have no excuses. And if they have drives capable of a percentage of C then they should have strapped a bunch onto some asteroids and fired them at the enemies planet. The sudden appearance of self-guided kinetic impactors should get the message that we are sapient and sick of their bull-shit across nicely assuming they survive.

So the ursa don’t even register you if you aren’t afraid of them? So why would you be afraid of something that’s harmless because it doesn’t even register you until you start to fear it? Such a stupid bio weapon to engineer.

Will's emotions sure made for a slapping good time at the '22 Oscars.

I have now created a head-canon that theres another version of humans living on earth, mostly underground but traveling to the surface to hunt and what have you. The oxygen is actually fine and its actually the Novans that eventually evolved while in a more oxygen heavy environmwnt.

My theory: the aliens don't want to exterminate humans. They're using Ursas (which operate on fear) against humans to slowly select for fearless humans Forced evolution basically

The idea that animals on Earth specifically evolved to kill humans despite humans not inhabiting the planet for 1000+ years is the dumbest part of this movie. That's like North American predators evolving specifically to kill horses despite them having gone extinct on the continent and not existing there for millennia, only being reintroduced when Europeans arrived and unknowingly brought the species back to the continent they came from.

This aged beautifully.

If the ursa detects the humans based on pheromones, the ultimate super weapon would be gimp rubber suit.

I never understood the emphasis on "no fear" in this movie... Doesn't Little Willy Style hide from the URSA in a glass ball or something at some point?? So why don't soldiers battling the URSA just wear a damn wet-suit and motorcycle helmet?? Surely, the thing isn't reading your mind, it's smelling the pheromones or whatever your body produces when stressed! Cover your body, problem solved! I won't even get into idea of using some damn projectile weapons and/or pheromone-lure to fight these monsters. ANYTHING is better than battling them with close-range melee weapons with their ONLY way of finding you not being masked or hidden at all! Not being afraid of the URSA is one thing, but feeling NO FEAR, period, when battling them seems impossible. You're not worried about ANY of the people under your command? Sidenote: it's like when scuba divers dive with great white sharks. You're wearing a full-body rubber suit and full face mask... To the shark, you smell like a damn tire or something. Go out with just some snorkeling gear and swim trunks and see if that same shark doesn't take a little test-bite... PS: a little disappointed Zealot didn't reach for the low-hanging fruit and link the Novans to Scientologists!

I like the part that he says most of the Earth freezes at night. It's obvious everyone involved with this movie has no clue how weather works on Earth... AND THEY LIVE ON IT. Also, never understood how they can't breath in "low oxygen" when in fact that many plants on the planet would create massive amounts of oxygen. Ugh.

So they consider humans vermit yet have failed for centuries to defeat us. That's like a rat just bodyslamming you multiple times in a row then giving you a swirly and atomic wedgie at the same time. Also, I think a funnier way of expressing Will's abilities is "Has left him without the ability to feel any of the positive emotions, only the negative ones."

After reading will's book i think the roles of him and Jaden was inspired by will and his own pops relationship

The animals on Earth shouldn't even be any different than the ones we have now, after all, they only left 1,000 years ago, you'd barely have any changes in the species that survived the extinction, besides maybe very small animals that breed rapidly, like rodents or small birds, but even then it wouldn't be anything near as drastic and easily noticeable as they show in the movie

The fact that the monster is basically called "bear" really bothers me. I imagine the writer used a thesaurus to come up with "ursa" and mistakenly thought it was really clever.

You deserve a medal for being able to do more than watch the trailer

How does a planet covered in so many photosynthesizing plants have a lower oxygen level than a desert world?

"Considering them little more than vermin. But if the supposed vermin are capable of repelling your forces constantly, what does that make you?" Australia, that makes you Australia, ask the Emu. Or most of the occidental world during the numerous plagues.

"Humans are walking talking mass extinction events. We could probably wipe these things out by complete accident." Rofl!

This movie feels like a slap to the face of the Sci-Fi genre.

What gets me is that humanity is hunting killer aliens with spears designed to sell toys. Did all of mankind suddenly forget how to make guns?

It would be fascinating if the reason why everything is happening this way is because someone or something is pulling the strings. A never ending war is a good way to keep a population under control. This logic applies to both sides.

The Novans, in how they act, how their society is structured, even the Rage family, just scream "this was written by a Scientologist, or written so a Scientologist could tolerate it." The whole fear control technique sounds like Scientology training, they don't like democracy (one of the hidden elements of Scientology is they aren't wild about voting), they try to combine religion and science (which is what Scientology does). The only thing out of true with it totally being Hubbard-like is that the alien enemies are also religious fanatics, and that they aren't willing to fight the humans face-to-face like the Psychlos in "Battlefield Earth" (both the novel and the film.)

With the size of the emergency beacons, there should be 5+ on each ship. Also, they had plenty of time to send a distress signal before entering Earth's atmosphere.

"My suit's turned black, I like it, but I think it's something bad!"

My favorite part of this video is that all the supplementary material for the movie exists only to excuse all of the plot holes and crappy worldbuilding I get a lot of expanded universes do this sometimes, but it feels like the entire point of the 1000AE universe WAS to be an excuse

Holy crap, the entire universe has the impressive ability to not utterly implode due to the sheer amount of plotholes.

After he said he skim-read all the books and comics I was compelled to like and subscribe. He truly sacrifices for his craft

You really went above and beyond for us with this one, thanks.

Even without watching the review I can say it isn't the stupid civilization, it is a stupid movie that should have never been made.

This should've been called: Movies Too Stupid To Really Exist.

Cypher Rage, can't even say that without laughing.

Just had a thought after the part where he mentions using fear fair moments to lure the Ursa in and take them out with mines; if explosives aren't very effective They could still construct mines that shove spikes up out of the ground using the Cutlass tech. It's not like you'd even have to bury them since they can see.

Still find it funny how with all that green we see and Earth has a lack of O2? So photosynthesis some how stopped in that 1000 years? Any way, bad Sci-Fi is bad.

Any time M. Night Shyamalan gets ahold of a project, you know it's going to suck. He made two decent films, let it go to his head, and then churned out disaster after disaster. SOMEHOW, he keeps getting studio money to make more godawful crap.

couldn't they just design a suit that prevents their fear smell from getting out of the suit, thus rendering the enemy worthless?

A mech walker with advanced rail gun tech and built in adaptable cutlass weapons that can change shape to whatever the pilot wants would be awesome and would have made for a much more interesting movie if I gotta be honest.

You should try the Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout next cause some of their decisions are pretty stupid

Good lord, thank you for tackling this movie. I swear there are few movies that piss me off more than this one. The sheer stupidity of it all, the lack of weapon variety, the ineffective ursa bioweapons, the lack of pressurized suits, the freezing nights, the lack of oxygen, I feel insulted someone thought this would be entertainment. My younger brother who was around 8 could see the flaws in this story. Never gonna get those hours back...

I want a sequel where the humans execute their tribunal of incompetent dictators, go back to earth and give nova back to the alien dudes, and have it end with the humans and aliens chilling together and smoking pot or something.

You’re dedicated to this essay earned both a like and my subscription. That is dedication!.

I suggest the Nazi regime from the Wolfenstein games and the Earth Federation from the Gundam franchise for analysis on how they're advanced sci-fi civilizations that are too stupid to really exist.

The extra materials just makes everyone in this universe even more stupid than they already appeared to be. Absolutely everyone is dumb in this situation. The aliens, the humans, heck even the animals. This wouldn't have been as stupid a movie (though the acting would have still sucked) if they just made it a fantasy movie. Dump all the advanced tech into the abyss. The Ursa track human fear using magic, everyone only has melee weapons because it's a medieval fantasy setting, etc. It would still not be good. But at least the universe would be a bit less stupid. Anything to avoid the painful bending over backwards to explain why everyone is so dumb here. The humans don't realize that Earth has become habitable because...reasons. Their enemies don't give the Ursa the ability to adequately track their prey because...religion. All to defend a planet that is holy to them despite not living anywhere near it.

I love these videos. The way Media Zealot tears apart these sci-fi universes is hilarious.

My first thought wasn't even using a sealed suit, my thought was trying to collect the pheremones to set traps for the creatures. Spread a ton in one area, let the ursas come and because the whole place is covered it should be much harder for the ursas to fight. You could also put holes everywhere for them to fall into, you could ambush and spear them, you could use that as a distraction in order to move people, etc.

You know After Earth is bad when you have a successful war strategy that’s literally something that humans do on Tinder.

And the Novans looked on at the Giant clad in red armor, adorned with ruby inlaid blood drops and a winged blood drop motive on his left shoulder, as he lay waste to the Ursa with what could only be described as a small automatic grenade launcher. Unhelmed, he gave off no sign of fear, moving far quicker and more quietly than such a massive figure should move, with only hints of a deeper wrath burning in the eyes of the unkown warrior. Within moments the last of the Ursa was slain and as he turned, the Novans could finally see the face of their savior more clearly, a pale, white face of noble bearing, framed by long hair of a golden hue. He finally addressed them: "Fear not, for the Emperor has sent his Angels to save you and bring you back into the fold of the Imperium." Well, anyway, the Novans are just what happens when you have an actor that was influenced by a third rate science fiction writer turned cult leader, tries to create a science fiction universe. There was no regard given to all the implications of the technologies an advanced civilization with FTL technology would have. There is also no terra forming, no experimentation with space habitats (e.g. O'Neil cylinder and its larger cousins) and other such possibilities. Oh, and logic, well, who needs logic if you have a story told by feelings, rather than logic.

What AMAZING timing for this videos release given recent Oscar related events

If Jaiden just makes a few more series that are “Neo Yokio” tier memes, he could actually cement himself as legendary, just maybe a more underground, cult-y kind of legend.

To be frank, 1000 years of evolution without is almost nothing compared to the amount of time with humans

*A explanation that "redeems" the film.* What if Will Smith's character and the other Ghosters *were Psychopaths?* That would explain the lack of fear … and their deficiencies in both parenting and _running society._ [BTW, Psychopaths are known for throwing rocks at animals when children, perhaps like father like son. Junior has unlocked his birthright and is now as emotionally damaged as dad]. As for settling on other planets including back on Earth, what if the Aliens will use their full military potential on other Worlds, and Nova Prime is the only "safe place" due to them handicapping themselves. Any other Human Colonies get Base Delta Zeroed, so Nova Prime is the only place where the big issue is just stupid big blind predators … and that Humanity is _ruled by psychopaths that hamstring the Human countermeasures_ in order to make themselves super important and Humanities _only hope,_ instead of letting Humanity develop very effective technology and strategies that would completely negate the Ursa. *Or…* perhaps the Aliens would be okay with Humanity moving back to Earth _(or anywhere else)_ … they only became anti Human once their own planetary temple was invaded, perhaps they were never bothered by Humans being on Earth. What if the Ursa are also a *limited response* _just to get Humanity to move._ Keep pestering Humans with an annoyance, not a extermination attempt, just to get them to relocate. So in fact the opposite of the above _Base Delta Zero scenerio,_ if Humans leave Nova Prime the Aliens will leave them alone. And that could also explain why "Will Smith" was so adamant about not going to Earth … can't let your fellow Novans/subjects know that there's a lush garden World that just happens to be Humans original home, waiting to be resettled. But … that would mean that "Will Smith" no longer is the un-opposable leader of Humanity, as he's no longer vital to Humanity's survival _and a living God Emperor [oh I'm going to regret writing that last line]._ So he keeps Humanity trapped in this needless cycle, in order to preserve his own power. And now he can hand the reigns over to his disturbed son one day, knowing that he also is a potential psychopath. There could be a sequel/fanfic where Humanity tries to overthrow the Rangers, who are deliberately keeping Humanity in peril?

I’m writing a sci-fi series. If you’re lucky everything gets ripped apart by fans, non-fans and readers. This series makes me scared af but it is so helpful.

Hey. Watched this a few days ago. Just came back to say that I saw this on my recommended as "After Garth" and it made me chuckle. Have a nice day.

Another issue with the Ursa is that humans should be able to be desensitized to them over time and with exposure, at least making their fear-sensing a lot less effective against trained military personnel.

I know this sci fi civilization is kinda weird but can you do the Ratchet and Clank universe next cause I really want to see you deconstruct the shit out of the sci fi villains in that series

"Dude's need to take a knee and have a serious think about this shit" too funny

City of Ember deserves a solid spot in this playlist

One crazy idea is that the novans leaders don't want to advance and cause their enemy's to pull out all the stops knowing they would lose better a never ending stalemate then final death.

I feel like this story actually has a ton of potential to be really interesting. If they could fix some of the weird illogical bits, it could be fun!

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it’d be way cooler if the URSA uses the warhammer strategy of throwing bodies at something until they die, it would make more sense (though not by much) for them to have no eyes if their only job is to crash land, find the nearest easy target, because a fearful target in the enemy line is the weakest link, and charge at it head on with no regard for its wellbeing, so there’d be a few landing zones where endless streams of URSA pour onto the surface, then flow out like a tidal wave, either shredding up everything in the path or crush it with bodies