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The REDEMPTION of M. Night Shyamalan ???
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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#1 - 2013-03-08 13:49:55 UTC
'After Earth' Trailer

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#2 - 2013-03-08 13:58:27 UTC
yeah I'm definitely am looking forward to that one.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-03-08 14:08:37 UTC
Looks pretty good if you ask me.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#4 - 2013-03-08 14:13:33 UTC
Weird, ain't it ? To be both so good and bad here and there ?

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-03-08 14:15:37 UTC
Bad by being cheesy? Yes. Plus im curious about the back story. What the hell screwed up the earth if it wasnt us? Probably some kind of crazy evolution.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#6 - 2013-03-08 14:22:39 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Bad by being cheesy? Yes. Plus im curious about the back story. What the hell screwed up the earth if it wasnt us? Probably some kind of crazy evolution.



No it was pretty much us. We stretched resources so thin that it made the planet volatile. Water stopped being clean, volcanoes started erupting, earthquakes formed, and the air even became toxic, so we went out to settle on a new world. It turns out that the world we settled on was being used as a religious site for another race. Naturally being humans we shoved a foot up their ass and kicked them off of the planet with the creation of the Rangers. In retaliation they created a creature that was almost invincible and it tracked us by the smell of fear. Over time some of the Rangers learned to fight without fear, hence all the talk about it in the preview.

Meanwhile Earth became known as a class 1 quarantine planet. Again being human, I guess all the other life grew to hate us explicitly for what we did to the planet. Not quite sure on that part.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#7 - 2013-03-08 14:26:54 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Graygor wrote:
Bad by being cheesy? Yes. Plus im curious about the back story. What the hell screwed up the earth if it wasnt us? Probably some kind of crazy evolution.



No it was pretty much us. We stretched resources so thin that it made the planet volatile. Water stopped being clean, volcanoes started erupting, earthquakes formed, and the air even became toxic, so we went out to settle on a new world. It turns out that the world we settled on was being used as a religious site for another race. Naturally being humans we shoved a foot up their ass and kicked them off of the planet with the creation of the Rangers. In retaliation they created a creature that was almost invincible and it tracked us by the smell of fear. Over time some of the Rangers learned to fight without fear, hence all the talk about it in the preview.

Meanwhile Earth became known as a class 1 quarantine planet. Again being human, I guess all the other life grew to hate us explicitly for what we did to the planet. Not quite sure on that part.



Well, at least that makes makes more sense than "The Last Airbender" (of which I actually saw the original animes of......)

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-03-08 14:27:43 UTC
Looks pretty verdant to me. Time for some recolonisation! Looked like gibbons in the trailer and possibly some kind of chimera. Nothing some flak and high calibre rounds wont stop.

Mankind; screwing the galaxy one planet at a time!

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#9 - 2013-03-08 14:33:35 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Graygor wrote:
Bad by being cheesy? Yes. Plus im curious about the back story. What the hell screwed up the earth if it wasnt us? Probably some kind of crazy evolution.



No it was pretty much us. We stretched resources so thin that it made the planet volatile. Water stopped being clean, volcanoes started erupting, earthquakes formed, and the air even became toxic, so we went out to settle on a new world. It turns out that the world we settled on was being used as a religious site for another race. Naturally being humans we shoved a foot up their ass and kicked them off of the planet with the creation of the Rangers. In retaliation they created a creature that was almost invincible and it tracked us by the smell of fear. Over time some of the Rangers learned to fight without fear, hence all the talk about it in the preview.

Meanwhile Earth became known as a class 1 quarantine planet. Again being human, I guess all the other life grew to hate us explicitly for what we did to the planet. Not quite sure on that part.



Well, at least that makes makes more sense than "The Last Airbender" (of which I actually saw the original animes of......)



I'm not much of a anime fan but I rather enjoyed The Last Airbender and I have the whole series. Having said that, I agree, I couldn't even get through the movie. From what I can tell he was doing ok with following the storyline but the characters just all seemed off. I know he hasn't been doing very well in the business lately, but I also think that its hard to translate cartoon to life (Take speed racer for instance).

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-03-08 14:37:06 UTC
[quote=Micheal Dietrich(Take speed racer for instance).[/quote]

That movie was an abomination. Then again, I watched the cartoon a few years ago again on youtube and realised just how bad it was too.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#11 - 2013-03-08 14:48:27 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
I know he hasn't been doing very well in the business lately, but I also think that its hard to translate cartoon to life (Take speed racer for instance).



The only thing I liked about "The Wachowski Siblings"( they defininately are not 'brothers' any more) Speed Racer was watching a film with psychedelic, candy-colored plastic strapped across my face.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#12 - 2013-03-08 15:44:07 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:

The only thing I liked about "The Wachowski Siblings"( they defininately are not 'brothers' any more) Speed Racer was watching a film with psychedelic, candy-colored plastic strapped across my face.


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Reiisha
#13 - 2013-03-08 20:48:56 UTC
Will Smith looks absolutely...

Apathic in that trailer. How did Shyamalan manage to do that?

Not really interested. Looks like some strange cross of 10,000 BC and... Er.... Well, something. No clue.


Oblivion looks like a much better alternative....




I don't think i can ever forgive that guy for making Avatar into the ridiculous mess that it was.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#14 - 2013-03-08 21:06:25 UTC
Reiisha wrote:



I don't think i can ever forgive that guy for making Avatar into the ridiculous mess that it was.



For me, it was the ability to guess the ending surprise of "The Village" during the Trailer.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Alara IonStorm
#15 - 2013-03-08 21:56:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
I enjoyed Signs.

One thing I really didn't get was the Aliens big weakness. They were naked and unarmed, bullets would have worked fine. A Nation with hundreds of millions of guns I just don't buy is that someone reached for the Supersoaker before the 12 gauge and that somehow caught on.

I half expected them at the end to go into town and learn that the radio report on their unknown weakness was shooting them in the face.
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#16 - 2013-03-08 22:39:22 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
I enjoyed Signs.

One thing I really didn't get was the Aliens big weakness. They were naked and unarmed, bullets would have worked fine. A Nation with hundreds of millions of guns I just don't buy is that someone reached for the Supersoaker before the 12 gauge and that somehow caught on.

I half expected them at the end to go into town and learn that the radio report on their unknown weakness was shooting them in the face.


I always envisioned that it was some old hillbilly sitting on his front porch with his hose complaining about varmints all over his house being the light bulb moment.

Cracked had a recent article on this as well which even covers many of the points you made, like how they discovered spaceflight but not pants, and they also ask why the aliens from signs who are deathly allergic to water are coming to a planet that is mostly made of water to harvest humans, who are also mostly made of water. When you think about it that just seems straight up suicidal.

Aside from he glaring holes, I also enjoyed signs. I think it was after that where he really started to slip and get stuck in his twist plot at the end movies.

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Alara IonStorm
#17 - 2013-03-08 22:50:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
Micheal Dietrich wrote:

Cracked had a recent article on this as well which even covers many of the points you made, like how they discovered spaceflight but not pants, and they also ask why the aliens from signs who are deathly allergic to water are coming to a planet that is mostly made of water to harvest humans, who are also mostly made of water. When you think about it that just seems straight up suicidal.

I read it before. An inch of plastic or whatever passes for plastic to them nullifies the weakness entirely. Not going to stop a rocket propelled grenade though. That is why the water thing threw me, give humans spaceships and we could totally invade the planet of hydrochloric acid.

Thank god we were invaded by nudist with no weapons huh. Things could have turned ugly making our only remaining option to bust out the Mac Book and hack them.
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2013-03-09 01:36:14 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Micheal Dietrich wrote:

Cracked had a recent article on this as well which even covers many of the points you made, like how they discovered spaceflight but not pants, and they also ask why the aliens from signs who are deathly allergic to water are coming to a planet that is mostly made of water to harvest humans, who are also mostly made of water. When you think about it that just seems straight up suicidal.

I read it before. An inch of plastic or whatever passes for plastic to them nullifies the weakness entirely. Not going to stop a rocket propelled grenade though. That is why the water thing through me, give humans spaceships and we could totally invade the planet of hydrochloric acid.

Thank god we were invaded by nudist with no weapons huh. Things could have turned ugly making our only remaining option to bust out the Mac Book and hack them.


Its the nude scammers from Futurama!

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"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#19 - 2013-03-09 02:53:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Eurydia Vespasian
the only parts i liked about "signs" were when the bird was flying and hit the invisible space ship (which was oddly removed from the dvd release) and careened to the ground.

and when mel's character ran around the house with his brother (phoenix) trying to sound sincere when cussing. lol

oh, and about the plot holes mentioned above, as i was watching it in the theater i was shocked at the stupidity of the aliens. hand to hand combat on a world poisonous to them. can't handle water...when even the atmosphere we breath is chock full of water molecules at all times. any one of them should have been steaming and bubbling the moment they opened the hatches of their space ships.