[YMS] You said you wanted to see it right?
[YMS's mom] Yeah. It's the one with Will Smith in it, I think.
[YMS] Why do you want to see it?
[Mom] 'Cause I saw the trailer, and I like sci-fi.
Well, it has the parental, umm,
father/son kinda catch to it.
The added element of the sci-fi, I think it would be cool.
[YMS] Do you know who made it?
[Mom] Umm... No.
[YMS] That's okay.
[Mom] Should I know who made it? [YMS] Nobody knows.
[Mom] Oh.
[YMS] Well... I know. But I--
[Mom] Who?
[YMS] We'll see.
We'll see.
[YMS] Did you get what you expected?
[Mom] I wasn't expecting much. No, I didn't get-- I didn't get much.
[YMS] Was it bad?
[Mom] I got less than I expected.
[YMS] Was it enjoyable in the least?
[Mom] Ya know...
I can't honestly say that I enjoyed it. That's honestly one of the worst
Shows that I've ever seen and my standards aren't very high.
[YMS] What did you call After Earth again? What was that joke you made?
[Mom] I said "It seemed more like afterbirth"
[YMS] Ohhhhhhhhhhhh...
[Mom] It was just, like, this little piece of guase that's supposed to
keep them in a spaceship.
[YMS] And did nobody put on their harness except for one person?
[Mom] Yeah. [YMS] And the only person to survive
[YMS] that didn't-- Did you think--
'Cause when he put Jaden Smith into the harness and was like "Be calm."
Right? Then he got sucked out of the spaceship. Right?
[Mom] Yeah. Like, shouldn't he have-- (uncomprehensible) [YMS] Then why was he in the spaceship after?
[Mom] I know, that made no sense.
Even construction workers have that, like, they have carabiners.
They know they're strapped in. You can do that on a spaceship.
"After earth" In that day and age, You would think, right?
The technology, the spaceship, the medical stuff. It looked really...
Out of place and weird.
Soap operas. people that are playing their part they act in the role of that person.
So you act like a nurse and you know what you're doing.
(Giggles) Except they did'nt look like they knew what they were doing.
[YMS] The entire crew on the ship was ridiculous.
(Glass clinking) Thank you, by the way.
The entire crew on the ship was ridiculous and the one guy that was trying to intimidate
Jaden Smith did not look like he belonged there.
And I don't even fully understand why they were going anywhere.
They were trying trying to do training for ghosting
and yet every single person on the ship, looked extremely irresponsible.
and was like "Why don't you go closer to this thing that we have captive. so he can smell your fear."
[Mom] They have the whole ranger training thing and yet the people, like you say,
The people that were on the ship on this mission were supposed to be rangers.
It looked like they were tough guy hooligans rather than umm...
Star ship personnel.
[YMS] They looked like they were bad actors.
They had the breathing apparatus attached to them but there was absolutely nothing that it was attached to.
It was literally its own thing. it was like an oxygen mask but it wasn't attached to anything.
But they couldnt leave the ship with it, so...
[Mom] I though it was just a big smear. [YMS] They had to use something else to breathe.
[YMS] I don't understand. If that wasn't attached to anything,
why couldn't they have brought it out of the ship?
Because it would have had to have been some sort of air filtration thing.
'Cause it wasn't attached to anything. There was no oxygen coming from it.
[Mom] It didn't show how he broke his little disk inhaler things.
[YMS] I know. It was inside his suit and it-- apparently because it was made out of
Gauze, it was just so fragile that there's no point in keeping it inside your suit.
[Mom] Where did that thing go, When he was running?
[YMS] When Will Smith is like "Why don't you get some rest"
and then it cuts to a different angle and Will Smith is already asleep.
But you can tell that it wasn't supposed to be later in the film
because the white noise in the background didn't clip or anything.
He was just already asleep.
The guy trying to scare Jaden Smith, and he's telling him, like,
"Oh. Your fear will attract this animal blah, blah, blah." Trying to intimidate him.
And on the close shots his arms are up and then in the background his arms are down.
[YMS] It doesn't make any sense. [Mom] Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Mom] Yeah there were a lot of continuity things, right? [YMS] Mmhm.
[Mom] It was just-- [YMS] Poorly directed?
[YMS] There was at least one aspect in every scene that was
preventing it from being something good.
Will Smith could have been delivering a decent performance had he not had that stupid accent
[YMS] and had he not-- [Mom] Yeah. Yeah, that was lame.
[Mom] I thought that the boy that had the parent with him--
[YMS] Yeah, Jaden Smith could not pull off the accent. Whatever the accent was trying to be.
[Mom] I though maybe he was a young man with a speech impediment.
[YMS] (laughs) [Mom] No seriously.
[Mom] I thought that's how they wanted this character to be that, ya know,
[Mom] he's small for his age, he has some difficulties.. [YMS] A disability? (Laughs)
[Mom] to overcome or to conquer. And so, I though that was part of it.
I thought maybe he had a speech impediment.
[YMS] And then Will Smith started talking like that too. [Mom] (Laughing) yes.
[YMS] Will Smith looked bored the entire movie.
[Mom] Yeah, he did.
[YMS] Did it bother you, as much as it bothered me, how Jaden Smith did not know how to run?
[Mom] He was trying to make it look like he knew how to run.
And you do see guys doing that.
[YMS] He was imitating what he thought he was supposed to do.
[Mom] Yeah, he wasn't-- He wasn't a runner.
And yet they had a lot of emphasis on his running.
Yeah, it just showed this... Young... Little boy scampering around on rocks for most of the show.
That was it.
Not a lot of... personal development of the character,
which that's what the show should have been all about right?
And it wasn't. He basically just rebelled and told his dad off--
[YMS] He rebelled against the advice of the only person on the planet
in civilization that's ever been able to ghost.
That's ever been able to fight back against these monsters and survived against a whole war
and he saying I'm not going to listen to your advice.
[Mom] They took what could have been a simple story that has merit
and they even dumbed it down and made it... um...
Just bad.
I was disappointed. Can ya tell?
[YMS] Did you notice how when Will Smith was telling Jaden Smith
that there's something following him and it showed one dot on the radar for the whole...
at least two miles it showed one dot?
And then hes like "Don't aggravate it."
And so Jaden Smiths like "Screw you. I'm gunna do what I want and not listen to you." and throws a rock at it.
and then all of the sudden there's like twenty of them that come out from the bushes right there.
[Mom] They were bouncing and jumping and running.
So how's this little boy on two legs supposed to outrun a pack of orangutans?
[YMS] How com none of the other twenty-some orangutans showed up on the radar
[YMS] when he told him they were following him? [Mom] That made no sense.
[YMS] Can you explain why the bird saved him from the cold?
[Mom] Yes.
[YMS] Why?
[Mom] Because...
The bird... It made it look like the bird was attacking him for food
or something at the start when he was flying.
Then when he woke up in the nest with all the hatchlings, and they were playing with him,
I think the bird-- accepted him as one of her chicks.
I think that they were trying to, and it was not done well,
but they were trying to get the viewers to see a parallel between the mother birds behavior
and how she still protected the one remaining offspring who didn't save the other ones in the nest.
So, comparing that to Will Smiths other parent,
you know, not being able to save his daughter but should still have a--
[Waitress] (incomprehensible) [Mom] Thank you.
[Mom] Protective relationship with the one remaining one.
[YMS] Regardless of what the birds intentions were, it sort of just circled around in the sky
out of distance following him around until he got cold and passed out. And then saved him.
[Mom] Yeah, and then died. [YMS] Yeah like--
[Mom] Why did she die? [YMS]Why did the bird die?
[Mom] Yeah.
[YMS] The bird died from the cold?
Did the bird die from the cold?
Why was the bird dead?
[Mom] Yeah, 'cause the bird could have flown somewhere else. (laughs)
I don't know. I couldn't figure out why the bird died either.
[YMS] It was so that you could feel sad and also know that it was the bird that did it.
Every single thing that happened in the movie was exactialy the way you'd expect
it to end from the first ten minuets of the film.
As soon as they introduced the "Oh I'm the only one that can ghost
and Jaden Smith is going to be alone on the planet and I'm going to have broken legs elsewhere."
You immediately think okay, so Jaden Smiths going to learn how to ghost by the end of this movie.
Right?
[Mom] Oh yeah. [YMS] Right?
[Mom] Thats-thats--
[YMS] And as soon as they introduce the "oh this creatures on our ship
and there's only a 1 in 99 chance that it's actually escaped from the pod. It's probably still safe."
Immediately once they say that at the very beginning of the movie you think "yeah, it's definitely escaped."
[Mom] Yeah, of course.
And seeing the other crew members hanging from a tree...
Come on.
Don't you think that was a little too much?
[YMS] It was retarded. [Mom] Yeah.
[YMS] (laughs)
[YMS] It was a bad movie. [Mom] Yeah.
[YMS] At the end of the movie he couldn't send out the beacon
because of the cloud of magnetic field coming from the volcano.
And then he went to the top of the volcano where it was the closest to the cloud
and then he was able to set it off.
Does that make sense?
[Mom] That makes no sense at all.
[YMS] If there was a magnetic cloud that was preventing him from being able to use the beacon
caused by the volcano than why--
[Mom] (incomprehensible) above the cloud.
[YMS] Above the cloud. he went closer to the cloud and then it worked.
That doesn't make any sense.
[Mom] Well, there is some people that say that the periphery, that's where the fallout pollution--
[YMS] That would be a tornado.
[Mom] No, not just with tornadoes but with other--
[YMS] A cloud of smoke coming from the volcano though. That's what they said it was right?
[Mom] I know, it was ridiculous. it was absolutely ridiculous.
And what about the toxins that come out from the volcano? You're not supposed
to be able to breath volcanic air 'cause there is sulfur something.
Its a chemical in the air--
[YMS] Yeah it is. [Mom] That's toxic.
[Mom] You're not supposed to be breathing volcanic air at all.
[YMS] I don't know why they didn't bring it out of the spaceship.
'Cause it wasn't attached to anything so I assume that it was filtering the air
But instead they decided that they needed to add some tension
by having little capsules that only worked for a specific period of time.
How many times in the movie did Jaden Smith either fall asleep or get knocked out?
[Mom] Well, at least once a day and the movie took place over five days.
[YMS] Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be about five times or more.
That got really repetitive.
What I found really hilarious was mostly Jaden Smith's acting.
I found it hilarious when he was about to jump off the cliff
and he had those awkward pauses in his emotional breakdown and he was crying.
(Laughs) And it was really poorly delivered.
I thought it was funny when he was trying to be emotional
when he had the ridiculous flashback of his sister for no reason.
When he fell asleep on the log in the river and he was screaming at her.
I found that hilarious.
I found it funny when Jaden Smith climbed through the top of the hole on top of the volcano.
And as soon as he gets out (laughs) hes stumbling around
and he makes these grunting noises to try and make it seem like he was just exerting himself.
But it was just so forced and fake that it was like "Ehhh, ehh, EHH."
[Mom] It was pretty weird, I remember that. [YMS] "Ehhh, ehh, EHH, ehh, EHH"
[YMS] (laughs) It was ridiculous.