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Watched After Earth last night. It got a trouncing from the critics but I didn't think it was that bad. Sure, Will Smith was grumpy and po-faced, but he was playing a guy who had taught himself to suppress fear, and if you suppress fear, you'll wind up suppressing every other emotion too. The kid was a decent lead, the special effects were fine, the story was enjoyable. The whole "fear isn't real" premise was interesting. And the weirdly stilted accents struck me as being rather true-to-life. After all, the first white people in America didn't speak with "American" accents; that took time to develop. So in a couple of millenia, how likely is it that the American accent of today would still be around?
There was one false moment when an animal's actions seemed too anthropomorphised, but it was over pretty quickly. So yeah, overall I liked it.
There was one false moment when an animal's actions seemed too anthropomorphised, but it was over pretty quickly. So yeah, overall I liked it.