• Will Smith Calls ‘After Earth’ the ‘Most Painful Failure’ of His Career
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[quote]Will Smith has opened up about “After Earth,” the 2013 sci-fi film in which his son Jaden Smith also starred, calling it the “most painful failure” of his career. The comment, in an interview with Esquire, came after the reporter referenced a “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” quote from Smith’s TV aunt, who advised his character on an episode, “Don’t let success go to your head and failure go to your heart.” “That was a valuable lesson for me a few years ago with ‘After Earth,'” Smith said. “That was the most painful failure in my career.” The Sony/Columbia pic, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, made $27 million on opening weekend and grossed a global $243 million on a reported production budget of $130 million. In comparison, in 2008, “Hancock,” the Smith-starring fantasy drama from Sony/Columbia, raked in $624 million globally and made $62 million on opening weekend. His rom-com “Hitch” made $368 globally and $43 million on opening weekend. Smith said “Wild Wild West,” a pic that also opened with $27 million, was still a better experience. “‘Wild Wild West’ was less painful than ‘After Earth’ because my son was involved in ‘After Earth,’ and I led him into it. That was excruciating,” the 46-year-old said. Then he contemplated the importance of having films that topped box office charts. “I never would have looked at myself in that way. I was a guy who, when I was 15, my girlfriend cheated on me, and I decided that if I was number one, no woman would ever cheat on me. All I have to do is make sure that no one’s ever better than me, and I’ll have the love that my heart yearns for. And I never released that and moved into a mature way of looking at the world and my artistry and love until the failure of ‘After Earth,’ when I had to accept that it’s not a good source of creation.”[/quote] [url]http://variety.com/2015/film/news/will-smith-after-earth-comment-most-painful-failure-of-his-career-1201432773/[/url]
I personally felt like After Earth was mostly created to give Jaden Smith some more spotlight
[quote]Smith said “Wild Wild West,” a pic that also opened with $27 million, was still a better experience.[/quote] Thats because Wild Wild West was atleast so bad its good. Where the hell else are you going to get a giant mechanical spider.
[QUOTE=megafat;47138876]Thats because Wild Wild West was atleast so bad its good. Where the hell else are you going to get a giant mechanical spider.[/QUOTE] Will Smith must still be mad about having picked Wild Wild West over The Matrix.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;47138880]Will Smith must still be mad about having picked Wild Wild West over The Matrix.[/QUOTE] I'm not, because Laurence Fishburne did a better job than Will Smith could have.
Probably the worst because he discovered his son has no acting talent what so ever.
[QUOTE=Kirbyfactor;47138871]I personally felt like After Earth was mostly created to give Jaden Smith some more spotlight[/QUOTE] it was, he said so explicitly in interviews
[QUOTE=megafat;47138896]I'm not, because Laurence Fishburne did a better job than Will Smith could have.[/QUOTE] Will Smith was offered the role of Neo. :v:
[QUOTE=Sonic Fan;47138925]Will Smith was offered the role of Neo. :v:[/QUOTE] Wow. No. Just no.
I liked Wild Wild West.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;47138940]I liked Wild Wild West.[/QUOTE] Same here. i have the VHS tape of it. To topic. After earth was very bad. I walked out of the cinema.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;47138940]I liked Wild Wild West.[/QUOTE] It was one of my favorite DVDs as well, still enjoy it to this day.
If you film Scientology-themed movies, you're gonna have a bad time. [editline]14th February 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=megafat;47138896]I'm not, because Laurence Fishburne did a better job than Will Smith could have.[/QUOTE] Absolutely. Laurence Fishburne is and always will be Morpheus.
i was looking forward to that movie, but then that tweet fiasco came out and i realized who whould be in it.. gave up after 5 minutes of watching it, god damn.
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;47139033]i was looking forward to that movie, but then that tweet fiasco came out and i realized who whould be in it.. gave up after 5 minutes of watching it, god damn.[/QUOTE] You mean the one where Jaden is dressed up as a white Batman at a wedding?
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;47139053]You mean the one where Jaden is dressed up as a white Batman at a wedding?[/QUOTE] no, after the 2deep4u tweets started emerging
[QUOTE=download;47138905]Probably the worst because he discovered his son has no acting talent what so ever.[/QUOTE] That's not entirely true. Go watch the Karate Kid remake, he's pretty good in that.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;47139213]That's not entirely true. Go watch the Karate Kid remake, he's pretty good in that.[/QUOTE] His acting got shittier as he got older
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;47139213]That's not entirely true. Go watch the Karate Kid remake, he's pretty good in that.[/QUOTE] to be honest i don't think it's entirely fair to judge his skills based on After Earth given the outside circumstances of it being made, in the interviews it's just so obvious that he doesn't want to be there
Jaden was pretty good in the pursuit of happyness but then again he was like 7 or 8 in that movie
that movie was pretty painful to me too
damn will always had a sterling appearance of his son. wonder what its like now
To be fair Jaden is still 16 years old. I know there are people that at his age were a lot better than him, but he's as everybody surely knows in a teenage phase, maybe he'll get his act together - pun intended - when he snaps out of it.
Focusing on Smith admitting that the film was shit is all well and good but the full interview is actually a really interesting read (well, to me anyways): [url]http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a9938/will-smith-interview-0315/[/url]
and it's not like the director is very good with actors to begin with [video=youtube;9Rq-7zEVuwI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rq-7zEVuwI[/video] i would be surprised if anything half decent could have ever come out of this perfect storm
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;47139404]M. Night is just a really bad film maker.[/QUOTE] The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs are the only films of his I care anything for personally. The Village wasn't terrible, but it was a definite decline. I've stopped watching everything after it.
The Happening was literally the dumbest movie I've ever seen, it might as well have been a comedy.
[QUOTE=megafat;47138876]Thats because Wild Wild West was atleast so bad its good. Where the hell else are you going to get a giant mechanical spider.[/QUOTE] Well if the producer got his way, it would've been Superman. :v:
after earth was seriously so horrible [sp]will smith was dying the entire movie and he still didnt die[/sp]
[QUOTE=megafat;47138876]Thats because Wild Wild West was atleast so bad its good. Where the hell else are you going to get a giant mechanical spider.[/QUOTE] Uh, DooM?
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