'dad I wanna work with mom' 'DENIED SIT DOWN'

Shyamalan comparing himself to Hitchcock and Kubrick hurts me in the heart.

The worst thing among the M Night interviews is that he genuinely looks like a nice, earnest guy. I'm almost glad he's aloof to criticism since it means we can poke fun without hurting the guy.

Your mom's review had me cracking up "Yeah the whole film is just.. a little boy scampering around on rocks" and she's not wrong at all

Had the whales evolved to kill people?

The whole message on the ship reminded me of that Futurama episode with the neutral planet. "If I die, tell my wife hello."

"someones gonna slap you... It might be me" Will was taking oscar notes.

with so many trees around, you'd expect the oxygen levels to be off the charts...

Better plot: Instead of the kid discarding all fear, have his father discover fear again after seeing his son in grave danger for so long. Have the father rescue the kid because the kid isn't ready to defend himself yet, and that's okay; he's a child. Have the father realize that fear is part of our nature and what makes us human, and we shouldn't let some random alien race take said humanity away from us. Have the father love his kid better after realizing how scared he must have been for all these years thinking he's failing his father. And I know 'the usaahhh' only reacts to fear and not feeling it makes you invincible, but guess what? If the kid didn't feel any fear when all those animals attacked him, he'd be toast. He wouldn't try to flee or defend himself because he woudn't feel like there's anything at stake and it would all be his dad's fault if he was eaten alive. If the kid really would've 'gotten over his fear', he would've told his dad what a piece of shit father he is.

"faack, faaack, faaaack" bird 3012

I've got an idea: let's take one of the most charismatic and physical actors in the world and cast him in a movie where he plays an emotionless automaton that's bedridden for 95% of the movie! LOL

"Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans" *Giant killer bird dies protecting Jaden Smith*

Shyamalan says his movies, "always had a European sensibility" and then mentions three directors who influenced him and out of the three, *only one of them was European.*

Even Jayden acknowledged that the interviewer asked a stupid question. *mumbles* "none of the animals were real".

Remember, the terrain is full of fear pheromones. That's how the Ursa can see where they're walking.

There was so much potential with cypher. Have him be emotional at first, family love him for it, then he had to ghost to save humanity, which changes him into the person we see. Have it take a toll on his family relationship, have it be a side plot, and have moments where it takes trauma and extreme measures to show emotion, like the moment where his kid was about to jump down the waterfall. Seeing him break character will be emotional as he begs his son to return home. Have the conclusion of his arc finding the ability to control his fear, and balance out his emotions together. It's unfortunate that we never see that

This is a message for my wife... Fajita

If the ursa can smell fear, wouldn't it make sense to teach kids that nobody has any reason to be afraid of an ursa?

Чувак, который запилил русские субтитры к этому шедевру -- ты мой герой. Сабы просто великолепные, я мало видел даже фильмов, где был такой уровень перевода. Шутки, мат, общий тон -- просто шик. Грац. I'm just commending my Russian comrade on doing a fucking excellent job subtitling this review, nothing interesting, move along.

Cypher Rage would make a good Jedi. Emotionless, no love, good with martial weapons, etc.

Interviewer: "What do you think Earth will look like in the future!" Jaden: "Errrr, very futuristic"

7:02 Literally thought he said "I crap like crazy, so for this one I crapped for 1 year"

The Ursas are melee only. You don't need emotionless psychopaths to fight them, you just need guns. Or even bows and arrows.

4:42 “Someone will slap you”. This aged well…

The only good thing that comes from Shyamalan movies are the YMS reviews

02:58 "Will is a physical actor". This is why I had him sit down and avoid emotion throughout the movie...

"... Hitchcock, and Kurosawa, and Stanly Kubrick, these are, like my teachers." If they were your teachers, then you'd be their failed student. I can imagine Kubrick tearing your ass to shreds with his strict filming methodology.

6:38 hahaha the bird saying Fuck, reminded me of the Bird in the series "Lost" shouting "Hurley" name

So this movie is supposed to take place on Earth a thousand years in the future, but the fact that it's Earth is completely inconsequential when you think about it. We never see the ruined remains of cities, piles of garbage, or really anything that makes the fact that it's Earth tie into the plot in any meaningful way. If this movie took place entirely on some unknown alien planet, it wouldn't have made any difference. Actually, it would have made more sense if it wasn't Earth, because an eagle with a ten-foot wingspan wouldn't have evolved in the thousand years that humans had been off the planet. So not only is the fact that it takes place on Earth completely pointless, it also makes the movie seem less credible.

There is a story written by James Aldridge called "the last inch" that is basically "After Earth", except.. you know.. good. It was written in 1950ies and the plot is esentially the same, except in takes place in Africa, post-war, and the kid, instead of firing a beacon, has to fly a plane by himself to get his badly injured father help.

When Will Smith says "the atmosphere above your current location is causing electrical interference with the beacon", I can't help but think that when Jaden looked at the volcano, he didn't really telepathically understand his dad, he really just looked at the volcano and thought "man, it would make me look so cool if I climbed up a volcano. Hell yeah, I'll do that" and then just tried the beacon while up there just in case lol.

The fact that Will saluted Jaden instead of hugging him says that he only respects him as a soldier. As far as loving him as a son, that’s boring.

If the Ursa can smell fear pheromones, even when Jayden is no longer afraid, wouldn't the Ursa still be able to smell the fear pheromones in the sweat staining his clothes?

"I think it's just bad directing." Most true thing ever said.

“It just showed this little boy scampering on rocks for most of the show” dang, that’s pretty accurate. Now we know where Adam gets it

the bird and baby birds were my favorite characters

Also, how can The Uhhhsa make those lovely decorative corpse trees to spook other people if it can only see things that are afraid? Dead people AND trees don't feel fear, so how could it possibly make its little art installations? How does it avoid bumping into everything while just moseying around? HOW. Love your vids, btw!

ShammaLammaDingDong, you did NOT just put Clint Eastwood and Jaden Smith in the same league. You did NOT.

Watching this after the iconic slap.

Petition for more of Adam's mom content, she is so sweet and cute. and its cute that Adam clearly loves his mom :)

M. Night: So do you want to make After Earth 2 Will Smith: DENIED!

In 1,000 years earth will be futuristic.

7:50 "This is a message for my wife... I have killed my son's acting career........ end message."

I just hate overbearing parents. For all the status it gets him Jayden is so clearly under his parent's thumb, both in the movie and in the production shots for this movie. Like Will couldn't be bothered to even write himself in away that does not look completely controlling because he thinks there's probably nothing wrong with it.

"I always had a European sensibility to my movies" omfg the guy is clueless.

I've read Moby Dick and I can assure you there's really no connection between this movie and that book. Moby Dick is basically the story of a madman who drags his ship and crew down with him and his obsessive hatred for the animal that bit off his leg. He doesn't care about his whaling business, he doesn't care about the wellbeing of his crew, he only wants revenge, even thought there's no logic behind his hatred for Moby Dick. (after all, Moby Dick is simply an animal, there was no real concious intent behind him biting off Ahab's leg.) I see no connection between anything in this movie and Moby Dick. In fact, judging by what Will Smith said, I wonder if he even read Moby Dick himself. There's no inviromental message in Moby Dick, in the times it was written people weren't that concerned with the issues of whaling yet.

I can imagine Will Smith pitching this movie to Shyamalan Will: So they both get on this stranded planet. Shyamadingdong: ...and the planet was Earth! Will: OH MY GOD THATS SO DEEP I CAN'T EVEN

Your videos are so entertaining I find myself rewatching years old and already viewed reviews just to refresh my memory of why I love your content so much.

I just realized something that made me even more annoyed at this movie. Shouldn't remnants of human cities still exist after a 1000 years? The movie would have been much more interesting if at least a part of it took place in the ruins of a city abandoned for a milennia, overtaken by nature and animals. But instead we got a generic jungle. Fuck this movie.

"How can our careers be real if our talent isn't real" -Jaden Smith when he's 17 and can look back and go "yea I been an actor for a decade"

"Dad, I want to work with mom." "Me too." // Careless Whisper.

21:44 Oh Adam, if only you could have seen into the future for the absolute train wreck that is The Lion King 2019

hahah 7:49 reminds me of the Neutral planet in Futurama. "If I don't survive, tell my wife... hello."

Guys, I have an idea... A film by M. Night Shyamalan... staring Nicholas Cage.

Good to know in the future no one wears body armor and carry spears instead of guns

Why wont he just stop. Like m night stop it...you're done, its over. Go home, jeez

wow i bow to you guys, it takes real dedication to make 3 parts of a youtube series to just shit on a single movie...you earned yourself another subscriber

"no dAad"

22:30 M. Night talking about how the "European sensibility to [his] movies" doesn't play well with American critics, after which he cites Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, and Stanley Kubrick as his strongest inspirations. I feel like there are so many mental gymnastics taking place during this bit that all I can do is focus on how an American and Japanese director comprised two of the three directors that supposedly contributed to his "European sensibility" in film.

"One's a thriller and one's a romantic drama actually" So we got The Visit, which is a thriller And we have Split, which is a romantic drama???

What I don't get about the pheromone thing is, just because you stop secreting them doesn't mean they're just gone from your skin. You'd need like a shower or something.

fire the bacon kitai do it for earf

If the Ursa were blind , how to they see rocks and stuff?

Will Smith's whole thing on how Moby Dick relates to the movie was painful to listen to.

You know watching M. Night's awkward interviews, I almost feel sorry for the guy being so out of his depth - and then I remember that he's still probably sleeping every night on the pile of money he made from the 1-2 movies of his that were actually good.

"very futuristic" i'm dead

14:14 i was really hoping he would say fire the beacon at the pecan

Will gonna SLAP some sense into you!!! @ 4:42 !

This is a message for my waf. Fajita. I've lost all contact with the part of me that is not bored. End message.

I don't think Will understands the message of Moby Dick at all. The real messgae is that you shouldn't be too obsessed with your vengeance. Otherwise, you're not only gonna hurt yourself, but everyone else around you. Well, this is my interpretation of the story.

Shyamalan has this delicate combination of being incredibly smug but so charismatic at the same time that I couldn't bring myself to hate him.

"It might be me" - love british television

How could humanity possibly be on the verge of extinction if they can colonized multiple planets?

that "...and someone will slap you. It might be me." was AWESOME XD

9:20 Will obviously had no idea what he was talking about. To me, Moby Dick represents Cypher Raige's crusade against the Ursa and how far he is willing to go for it - losing his ability to feel emotions and connect with his family, basically crippling himself emotionally and even losing his daughter. In a way, Cypher Raige is Ahab and the Ursa are Moby Dick. It's not about the whaling and never was. The whale, like the Ursa was an object of fixation. Now as Cypher stands to lose his son, he needs to decide whether or not he will continue with his obsession or allow his emotions to help him reach and guide his son. That's also the symbolism of the one legged man standing up to salute him (ahab had only one leg) as a possible future for Cypher Raige. Just like in Moby Dick, Ahab is first pictured as someone dedicated, but in the end it's quite clear his consumed by his obsessions. Cypher Raige manages to pull out of it though, and in the end completes a circle by standing up for his son, who he now looks up to, who is able to keep anchored to his emotions, but also Ghost to achieve his goals. This is what I feel the Moby Dick motif is. I feel it was poorly conveyed in the movie and badly represented everywhere else. Especially by the cast who didn't understand this at all and had never read the book.

Stumbled upon this channel during quarantine and have been bingeing these videos--how did I not discover this BEFORE the viral apocalypse? Oh well! Love the content! Good to have something to laugh about 💃🏿

It's funny to imagine Jaiden Smith really meant the line "I want to work with mom." at 19:05 to be real, and not part of the movie script.

You know, this movie was originally just supposed to be about a father and son on a camping trip. No science fiction, no needlessly complex back story, just a father and son who get separated during their camping trip and them trying to find each other again. To me, that sounds like a much more interesting, and better movie.

"Thanks you dead betch." Definitely my favourite moment.

22:50 If Kurosawa, Kubrick and Hitchcock were his teachers he didn't learn shit...

that picture of jaden hotspot picture gets me every time, dude.

I wonder how fucking awkward it is for actors when they are running from computer genreated monsters in movies. "Alright Frank, run as if something were chasing you!" and you're just sitting there in a green screen running in place.

The ultimate weapon against the uhhsuh: deodorant

17:42 BOREGASM

Dying is mainstream #MONEY

17:12 "Uhhh the ursa. . ." *spits out beer all over screen laughing

I thought this was supposed to be a coming of age/overcoming adversity film - that Jaden would eventually differ from his father in a unique way that makes him able to succeed and thus win the admiration and respect of his father.... but a fucking bird saved him.... by treating him like a helpless baby chick. And he wouldn't have succeeded without this helpful bird. This defeats the movie's goal. What the fuck? To be perfectly honest though, the only character I had a hint of emotional attachment towards this entire time was momma bird. Wonder if the bird fed him, too.

I legitimately think you're right about their roles being reversed. Not only because will is a better actor and would perform better as the emotional one, but in a plot sense too. Just imagine the roles reversed. It would take alot of plot and lore tweaks, but I think it would legitimately be a good story. Imagine, his son, born without the ability to feel emotion, watches his family slaughtered by an alien beast. He is forced, sad and afraid to leave young child behind with broken legs. His only son emotionlessly guiding him through an alien land as he tries desperately not to break, with every setback bringing him closer to a breakdown. His son slowly teaching him how to separate himself from his emotions, and when push comes to shove, he does it. He succeeds in breaking away from emotion but in so doing loses the ability to feel emotions. By saving his son, he loses him. He loses his ability to care and to love. After being saved, the two teach the remaining humans how to stop feeling fear. In order for them to save humanity, they had to lose their humanity.

Every time there is an interview, I have to skip ahead because I cringe so hard.

That clip with everyone laughing at Jayden Smith was actually depressing. I'm not the most perceptive person but it definitely looked like it hurt him. Thing is, he doesn't seem completely talentless, this film just sucked. Also I get a laugh out of his weird ass pseudo-intellectual tweets, I think he knows that they're just batshit insane really. So yeah, I feel sorry for him.

One thing out of many problems in this movie is the emotion thing. Sure, it's been mentioned before, but instead of feeling fear, instead of being stoic, why not use any other emotion? Run around slicing the alien monster things while laughing, or screaming in anger. And if these things can hear you, then just grin or sneer as you slice them to bits. Not showing fear doesn't mean you've lost your soul. And besides all that, why not just have an event in the past which put Will Smith into some sort of trauma-induced state of mind where he can't emote. Or even have him gain some sort of brain damage so feeling fear, happiness, ect. is impossible for him.

13:40 I've watched this whole review like at least 9 or 10 times through the years and have never realized that edit. I'm just now excited to keep rewatching these reviews and find other things I haven't noticed before. These videos just keep giving.

Guy: Hey Will, you're about to die, any last words for your wife? Will: If I don't survive, tell my wife hello.

22:36 This is absolutely correct. As an european citizen I can say his movies are perfect for my sensibilities. Americans just don't understand this meaningful 5/5 art, those plebs.

9:38 This is what happens when you've never read Moby Dick but have to write a paper about it for English class.

I love how Adam uses the interview clips to inform and entertain.

Just got to where Will Smith is talking about "Moby Dick"... I don't think I've ever seen someone try that hard to make up BS on the spot. High school students trying to come up with excuses for why they missed class have been less forced. Did they think about *any part* of this movie before they started shooting?

There actually is almost no connection between Moby Dick and the environnement. Yes, it talks about wailing, but it's more about the chase between a man and a whale, vengeance, the descent into madness, and maybe a little bit about the fight for power between man and nature. In no point of the book does it talk about the extinction of whales (because it wasn't a thing when it was written), or does it have a environmental reflexion. (spoiler) In any case, the whale wins at the end, and we really don't pity the whale (which is a killer)

One Legged Willy: “I said stand me up” Medical staff at the end: “D E N I E D L A Y D O W N”

I'm not a coward, YOU'RE A COWARD! [jumps over cliff] [wing-suit fails] Ahhhhhhh!!