Next remake will be Tommy Cruz in White Heat
Another classic film ruined in a remake.
Hollywood sucks.
We just watched the original last night on one of the movie channels. It’s one of my all time favorite movies.
I knew this would suck. It’s a Youku or DVD movie.
Everyone said "The day after tomorrow" sucked because of the global warming crap in it, but as a movie, it rocked.
See, you don't have to agree with the theories espoused in a film in order to enjoy it.
The global warming crap is just that.. crap. It does not detract from the effects or the acting or the production values.
And actually, this is wrong...
“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 tells the crowd that robots like Gort have been given a directive to destroy any planet that is aggressive to another. He even says, “It doesn’t matter what you do to yourselves.”
Understanding that this was really close to the space race, it was about taking over in Space.
Another Hollywood movie about how bad AmeriKKKa is. No surprise here. The original was on last night. It still holds up OK, as far as 50’s sci-fi goes.
Special effects will never replace talent. The classics relied on talented actors and all the remakes in the owrld cannot compete.
Not only is the talent lacking in acting, there appears little talent left in screenwriting or original ideas.
I’ll stick to my classics.
I’ve never, yet, seen a remake that was as good as the original movie.
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 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.
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.
Every review I have heard or seen, badmouths it.
Was there a lot of T&A in the remake?
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...
Oh wonderful, another “agenda” movie from the Hollywood schlock meisters.
Another bomb we’ll see on Youtube in about 2 months.
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.
I regret watching this stupid movie today. Environmental stupidity, and Keanu Reeves was as appealing as a rotting fish.