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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

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To: netmilsmom

I just posted this on another thread but:

the first movie had a robot named GORT who simply impersonated Sen. Al Gort from TN.

the remake is about the Al Gort initiative on Global Warming and happens to have a robot named GORT.

Real progress...

It’s snowing in New Orleans too...

;-0)


41 posted on 12/12/2008 7:27:35 PM 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: ozzymandus

“Another Hollywood movie about how bad AmeriKKKa is”

I am sick of the anti-American brainwashing. Kids are sucked into it and go away ashamed of the greatest nation the world has ever produced.


42 posted on 12/12/2008 7:33:32 PM PST by garjog
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To: humblegunner
The global warming crap is just that.. crap. It does not detract from the effects or the acting or the production values.

Sure it does... When you put crap into something, you get crap out. It's based on crap...Based on that, it's crap.

Hard to believe they're allowed to butcher good classics with their politically correct garbage. It really ruins it.

They could never come close to the real classic, the one and only, "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

43 posted on 12/12/2008 7:36:30 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: CE2949BB

The original is one of my all time favorites. You can’t remake what was done right the first time. Give me Michael Rennie anyday. His Klaatu had class. One scene I would have cut is Patricia Neal freaking out with Gort. Ah, but then it was the ‘50’s and the film needed a screaming female...


44 posted on 12/12/2008 7:39:52 PM PST by Cheesel (The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals.)
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To: humblegunner

Day After Tomorrow was the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my life— irrespective of its environmental message.


45 posted on 12/12/2008 7:40:15 PM PST by exist
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To: CE2949BB

Oh wonderful, another “agenda” movie from the Hollywood schlock meisters.


46 posted on 12/12/2008 7:40:31 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: Frank Sheed

>>It’s snowing in New Orleans too...

;-0)<<

So how’s that Global Warming working out down there?


47 posted on 12/12/2008 7:42:23 PM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: CE2949BB

Another bomb we’ll see on Youtube in about 2 months.


48 posted on 12/12/2008 7:42:50 PM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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To: CE2949BB
I like this from Peter Suderman's review of the film:

The movie's environmentalism is as wretched as its script is dumb, essentially positing that humanity might deserve to be wiped out for failing, in some totally unexplained way, to take care of the planet. It's a dismal message in a dismal movie, and only Reeves's trance-like, deadpan turn as Klaatu provides any fun. Everyone else involved ought to be embarrassed at both the story and the message, which isn't just pro-environment, but anti-human — which may explain why only an evolved being like Reeves survives unscathed.

49 posted on 12/12/2008 7:46:44 PM PST by Junior_G
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To: humblegunner

It sucked. We just saw it and it was a real snoozer. The PC reeked but that wasn’t the problem. My 12-yr old daughter said it had no “oomph”.

Flat, boring, stupid movie. And we like Reeve and any kind of sci fi.

Do NOT recommend.


50 posted on 12/12/2008 7:50:53 PM PST by Amadeo
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To: humblegunner
Keanu Reeves is no worse than other actors.

Are you kidding? If Reeves were any more wooden he'd have roots.

51 posted on 12/12/2008 7:51:28 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: humblegunner
Keanu Reeves is no worse than other actors.

He is....without a doubt...the worst, most wooden actor I have seen outside of a porn movie.

52 posted on 12/12/2008 7:55:36 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers

can you use wooden and porn in the same sentence?


53 posted on 12/12/2008 7:56:49 PM PST by nufsed
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To: nufsed
can you use wooden and porn in the same sentence?

I think its a rule.

54 posted on 12/12/2008 8:00:56 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: Bobkk47
"I’ve never, yet, seen a remake that was as good as the original movie."

Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" should be far superior to all the lame attempts to date (especially if he is able to re-use the "Shire" location used in LOTR -- and produces up to the LOTR quality).

55 posted on 12/12/2008 8:06:25 PM PST by TXnMA (Chief Justice: "To administer this oath would violate my oath to uphold the Constitution.")
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To: humblegunner
Get real. The only reason anyone watches these flicks is the special effects. "Acting," "Production values?" Fuhgeddit. How were the catastrophe scenes?
56 posted on 12/12/2008 8:07:03 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: eddie willers

I wooden think so...


57 posted on 12/12/2008 8:07:08 PM PST by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

If Keanu Reeeves were any more wooden he’d have Dutch Elm disease.


58 posted on 12/12/2008 8:08:42 PM PST by ikka (Brother, you asked for it!)
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To: Cheesel
The original is one of my all time favorites. You can’t remake what was done right the first time

Agree.

59 posted on 12/12/2008 8:12:39 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: Frank Sheed
In my humble opinion, the only remake of a Hollywood classic that was better than the original was “The Thomas Crown Affair”...

Well, and of course the early-80's remake of "The Razor's Edge".

60 posted on 12/12/2008 8:14:21 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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