Has Lived For 14000 Years, Man Can't Even Age or Get Sick

John Oldman, now 14,000 years old and teaching in Northern California, realizes that not only is he finally starting to age, but four students have discovered his deepest secret.

[Jeff-cgku]

They deduce that their professor is an immortal dude who's just vibing and publishing tons of books over various lifetimes, and their first course of action is to try and find how to publicly out him, break into his home and take pictures without his consent and best of all, tasing him, trying to keep him prisoner in his own basement, and stabbing him in the heart. I'd have much preferred if the movie ended with John icing all these fools to protect his secret.

[raphthalia]

A classic case of malicious people not keeping their nose out of other people business and being so entitled they mess someone's life up. Instead of messing up their own lives. They had no right.

[rafaelalodio]

Holy crap, those students are the worse, their curiosity turned into harassment, that turned into kidnapping, torture and attempt murder... just because the guy didn't want take pictures.

[matman]

Man, what a letdown. The first movie is a masterpiece of low-budget cinema with great dialogue and a unique concept. John spends the entire movie convincing people he's immortal through long interrogation and debate, yet here the students jump to the conclusion straight away. It's no wonder, though. The original screenplay was written by a veteran sci-fi author Jerome Bixby, who worked on Star Trek and The Twilight Zone. The sequel was written by the director Richard Schenkman, creator of such classics as... Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies.

[tylerdurden]

"You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because expecting to wake up."
If I knew of a person who had been around for 14, 000 years, my fascination with them would be endless. Having access to someone with that level of historical memory would be amazing, and I would do whatever I could to ensure that he was able to continue his life as freely as possible.
I resonate with the character from the first movie played by John Billingsley who is the friend who picks him up at the end of the review. I'd just want to be the best friend possible to such a person. Keeping their secret would be the paramount priority.

[dadadabest]

Thus kids respects no boundaries...
Knowing that a man can live 4ever doesn't mean that you can bother him and fuck up he's life😑

[aye]

I swear to god these kids are the most annoying people in the movie.

[duesalbladesinger]

The entitlement of those college kids was unreal. John was just minding his own business and trying to live his life.

[theoavg]

He is teaching an entire class and no one can hide a camera to videotape him? Not the most gifted college students…

[bIler]

this had me going "teenagers are fucking stupid" the whole way through

[rolypoly]

Its interesting he survived the heart stab. If I recall, in the first movie, he wasn't actually sure if getting mortally wounded would kill him or not because it hadn't happened before. The closest was he got some ancient plague that he was able to recover from, but some people did that already so he still didn't know. Not something you'd really want to test.

[---iihl]

kid literally murdered, or wanted to murder a guy and its just brushed off. wtf

[markhatfield]

The original version is 2007 'Man from Earth'. I'm afraid to watch this newer version for fear it will be really screwed up. He wasn't aging in the original version and no one discovered his secret. I highly recommend the original.

[hendrsb]

I own the movie prior to this, THE MAN FROM EARTH, but I didn't know there was a sequel until a day ago... now I'm seeing a recap of the movie plot today. I like the first movie a lot but I'm not sure I'll like this one. I liked the premise of the characters in the first movie, trying to rationalize the conundrum of John Oldman through the prism of their respective fields, but the characters in HOLOCENE felt annoying at attempting to pry into his secret life. The ending seemed to suggest a sequel but ultimately feels unresolved because I doubt a sequel will ever come about to continue the tale of John Oldman/Young. David Lee Smith, who's playing a man who doesn't age, is visibly aged from the prior movie. I know his aging is natural, but it breaks the visual spell of the story for me. In this case, I think the first movie was better served by not trying to continue it with a sequel.

[storm]

why are police questioning about him those kids are killing him and kidnapping him tasing him breaking and entering im just questioning how stupidd these teens are and why john is being labeled a criminal when they are breaking many laws

[killajr]

Imagine.. minding your own business, doing nothing bad. Kids get nosy and kidnap you and torture you 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

[jaycol]

I never understood why they didn’t just switch to the other guy for the sequel.

In the original, John said he met another man that he thought might also be an immortal a few hundred years ago then thought he saw him but lost him in a crowd like a century later.

That would have sustained the “not aging” thing.

[hankmoody]

Did not know they made a sequel. A man from Earth was one of the best movies I've ever seen

[stuffystuff]

WHATS WRONG WITH THESE KIDS

breaking into his home
tasing him
straight up stabbing him through the heart.

whyyyy.

[mikicerise]

LMAO. They find an immortal who lived through the paleolithic, so what do they do? The sorority girl tries to seduce him and the religious nut decides he's the "antichrist" and stabs him. The brainy girl manages to only break into his house. Yep, sounds like murka, the land of insanity. xD