Posted on 12/12/2008 6:50:28 PM PST by CE2949BB
(CNN) -- Call it the second coming.
Klaatu the spaceman first visited these parts in Robert Wise's 1951 Cold War classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still," when he threatened to blow us all up unless we stopped threatening to do the job for him.
Klaatu wasn't exactly greeted with open arms back then -- he was shot and hounded for his troubles -- and if the earth has moved on over the past half century, you wouldn't know it from the trigger-happy welcoming committee that surrounds his luminous snowball of a space craft in New York's Central Park.
Where sci-fi films in the 1950s used to see red(s), today they go green. Directed by Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose") and scripted by David Scarpa ("The Last Castle"), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" 2.0 ditches the Cold War theme. Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) means to save the planet, but war isn't the problem. Mankind is the problem.
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Nor do I. I follow the ‘Shut up and sing’ school of thought.
I am not a fan of remakes and definitely not re-imaginings.
Keanu Reeves no worse than other actors, I hope none of those are employed!
All they really had to do is stick with the original script. A few tweaks would have been OK (color, new actors/actresses, updated special effects), but they have ruined it. Sad to say, that’s pretty typical for remakes. I won’t be paying to see this one.
If a movie has any politically correct content to it, such as man made global warming, I refuse to watch it. I don’t care who’s in it, who directed it, or who produced it. I’m not alone. There are millions of people just like me. Hollywood doesn’t seem to care. Kind of like all the major news papers going broke because no one wants to read their bias bull shit.
In my humble opinion, the only remake of a Hollywood classic that was better than the original was “The Thomas Crown Affair” with Pierce Brosnan and Renee Russo. It was clever, fast-paced, hip and really sexy. The original had a great cast, but bank jobs are a bit more to stomach than an art heist. Other than that, I’d have to go into the vault to haul out the 1951 version of “A Christmas Carol” with Alistair Sims over the 1938 Reginald Denny version. The postwar version was tremendous.
Sad...all the rest are total bombs.
I don't look to them for wisdom or political views.
An actor's political views off camera are easy to ignore when you're watching a good movie. But what about the politics of movies, and the explicit political views that those movies were created to communicate? If you ignore that, you're not really watching the movie.
Dark Knight arrived today. I’ll watch it tomorrow.
I saw it tonite. I am sucker for anything sci fi.
I got to say it was awful. Do not waste your time or money.
John
PS. I pretty much on boycott with Hollywood and have been for years. I only go to sci fi movies.
I will watch the movie when it is available for home viewing and hope it is good.
I still think the remake of "The Thing from another planet" with Kurt Russel was so much different from the original that both can be considered classics.
Yes, I do.
I worship Eric Cartman as my God.
The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Better than the original.
A very well done, super classic.
Met Billy Gray at the flat track races a few years back in Orange County, CA.
He was racing in the event. Nice guy, seemed like a regular joe.
Billy played the kid in the classic, in addition to playing Bud Anderson in Father Knows Best, back before America had been taken over by Communist, Freaks, illegal aliens and corrupt politicians.
OOOOOOO!!!!! It's so good! But be warned, it's very brutal. Not bloody, just brutal.
At times there are so many high tension things going on, you'll be ready to jump out of your seat. My hubby said that it's so much better to watch at home because in the theater his muscles were taunt through the whole thing.
He let me go see it in IMAX on the second day. It was our wedding anniversary. He got tickets for the girls to see Space Chimps and told me to go in. Then he delivered Popcorn to my seat.
The guy next to me asked how I got it delivered and I told him. My hubby got applause! He is my hero. (he saw it two weeks later with my nephew)
Every review I have heard or seen, badmouths it.
“The day after tomorrow” rocked?
Hmmmm...I thought it was so-so. Good special effects, but a terribly silly story. Decent family angle, but way too preachy with the enviro-nazi message.
50 years from now this film will be presented, along with others, at a “Global Warming Film Fest”. We will be in a hot “Global Cooling” debate with Al Gores’ grandson as the moderator. I only wish I would live that long.
No “The Day After Tomorrow” sucked because it was really really BAD! Cool special effects with moronic plotline. Just dumb!
Nothing like paying to have yourself berated by some green PC Hollywood producer and then going home feeling you got gypped. That’s how to pack them into the theaters.
Was there a lot of T&A in the remake?
>>I got to say it was awful. Do not waste your time or money.
John<<
Thanks John!
What are you skmoking dude????
Keanu Reeves cannot act. Hes horrible.
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