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Review: 'Earth Stood Still' falls apart
CNN ^ | Fri December 12, 2008 | Tom Charity

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barf; earthstoodstill; environmentalism; hollyweird; movie; tdtess
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I’m a bit glad they are taking their time. There’s really no reason to rush it, since Jackson did so well on LOTR and the Hobbit is somewhat connected, but can be outside it as well.

I’d like to see Jackson and Del Toro work together on it, I think they’d make a fantastic prequel.


81 posted on 12/13/2008 1:12:28 AM PST by MartinStyles
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To: humblegunner
See, you don't have to agree with the theories espoused in a film in order to enjoy it.

Speak for yourself. I don't enjoy being patronized by Hollywood liberals. I won't support their BS productions.

82 posted on 12/13/2008 1:37:28 AM PST by Misterioso ( Socialism is an ideology. Capitalism is a natural phenomenon.)
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To: MartinStyles
I’d like to see Jackson and Del Toro work together on it, I think they’d make a fantastic prequel.

Jacson will be Executive Producer and Co Writer. He implies that he will not be a hands on Producer, and will leave the creative control to Del Toro.

83 posted on 12/13/2008 1:52:27 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Just because I am an Oogedy-Boogedy kind of guy!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Should be very good news, even if it takes a few more years. I’ll be surprised if it’s out by 2011.


84 posted on 12/13/2008 3:07:11 AM PST by MartinStyles
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To: humblegunner
"Enjoy those boogers, spaz-boy."

LOL!

What an awesome tagline that would make.

85 posted on 12/13/2008 3:22:42 AM PST by mitch5501 (Yeah,but is it shatterproof?)
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To: netmilsmom
We just watched the original last night on one of the movie channels. It’s one of my all time favorite movies.

Klaatu barada nicto!

86 posted on 12/13/2008 3:40:27 AM PST by jslade (People who are easily offended......OFFEND ME!)
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To: CE2949BB

Does Gort eat hippies? If so, I’ll go see the movie - twice.


87 posted on 12/13/2008 5:21:27 AM PST by sergeantdave (We are now in the Age of the Idiot)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

Now I want surround sound!


88 posted on 12/13/2008 5:28:40 AM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: CitizenUSA

“The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Better than the original.”

No Way!


89 posted on 12/13/2008 5:32:27 AM PST by bricklayer
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To: jimfree

“The 1951 Sims version was absolutely brilliant.”

I like your thinking...One of my favorite flicks!!


90 posted on 12/13/2008 5:37:20 AM PST by bricklayer
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To: MartinStyles
Too bad Jackson didn't just go ahead and do all four -- in order, with consistent settings and quality.

I re-read the books -- starting with The Hobbit -- each year (during the heat of the day -- in my hammock) when we camp out. Many of Jackson's scenes (example: the Argonath) will forever be my mental images of the scenes as I read...

91 posted on 12/13/2008 7:35:29 AM PST by TXnMA (Chief Justice: "To administer this oath would violate my oath to uphold the Constitution.")
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To: exist

You have obviously never watched MST3K.

Day After Tommorow was bad, but some MST3K movies are so bad, without the MST3K treatment, they make your hair hurt.


92 posted on 12/13/2008 7:44:18 AM PST by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: bricklayer; jimfree

A little known fact is that Dame Kathleen Harrison, Scrooge’s housekeeper, Mrs. Dilber, had a royal ball with that film. Here is a great Shakespearean actress doing her “Cockney” best in her “Merry Christmas Mr. Scrooge!” while murdering the English language.

My heart glows when I watch that movie. The acting was great!

F


93 posted on 12/13/2008 8:52:21 AM PST by Frank Sheed (Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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To: The Duke

Have to put that one on my Netflix Queue, Duke.

F


94 posted on 12/13/2008 8:53:35 AM PST by Frank Sheed (Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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To: humblegunner
How old are you son? Seven, eight years old? That's the kind of post I would expect from a kid or maybe a Hollyweird person.
95 posted on 12/13/2008 10:57:09 AM PST by kempo
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To: Frank Sheed

” Here is a great Shakespearean actress doing her “Cockney” best in her “Merry Christmas Mr. Scrooge!” “

And if my memory serves me right adding..”in keeping with the situation !”...or something to that affect.


96 posted on 12/13/2008 12:05:20 PM PST by bricklayer
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To: kempo
I understand how you might be afraid to see movies with propaganda in them.

Very weak minds might actually be convinced that the propaganda is truth.

You should stick to the Discovery Channel.

97 posted on 12/13/2008 12:06:37 PM PST by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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