The Day the Earth Stood Still

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eaten by a grue.
I can't help but notice no one has commented on this movie. I haven't seen it, because from the ads it looks like it's completely missed the point of the original. Anyone seen it? Is it worth risking the disappointment?
 
Maximonline.com is usually pretty acurate with their movie reviews. I don't really bother with anything that gets less than 3 stars.

They gave it 2 stars and for "The Good" they cite that: I'ts NOT the dumbest movie ever.
 
I mean, I liked the movie. It has a nice atmosphere at times. There's also some pretty irritating characters. I never saw the original.
The ending was very meh. Could've used an extra five or six minutes of prologue or whatever.
 
The theme of the orginal TDTESS was to ask questions on our own roles within a nuclear society. You should know that fallout freaks!!!

Which means that if the new film isn't about nuclear arms poliferation tha they completely missed the fucking point. What? are our Iphones a threat to other galactic civilizations? I bet the whole movie is Keanu Reeves having an acid trip.

It's really the next Bill and Ted sequel.

Klatu, Vereda , Doobie.
 
Dopemine Cleric said:
The theme of the orginal TDTESS was to ask questions on our own roles within a nuclear society. You should know that fallout freaks!!!

Which means that if the new film isn't about nuclear arms poliferation tha they completely missed the fucking point. What? are our Iphones a threat to other galactic civilizations? I bet the whole movie is Keanu Reeves having an acid trip.
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I haven't been able to work up the courage to risk seeing this movie, but Roger Ebert's review starts with a complaint that it follows the script of the original too closely. Odd.
 
The movie had some very annoying characters, as has been said. I found myself thinking maybe humanity should die because of those pests.

Anyways, it's basically about a collective of intergalactic civilisations who don't like the way humans are treating the Earth because apparently there's only a few planets in the cosmos capable of supporting advanced life. Klaatu (Keanu) is sent as the representative for that group of civilisations to prove humanity's worth, otherwise humanity must be eliminated to save the Earth from them (which I find laughable considering the Earth has been through far worse than what humans have done to it).

So to put in short, they recycled the Cold War-era crisis into a modern Al Gore-era one.

It was a big 'meh' for me. My favourite scene was the meeting of Klaatu and Professor Barnhardt. I felt it summed up the simple, yet wonderful things about humanity rather well in the short scene.
 
It was a big 'meh' for me. My favourite scene was the meeting of Klaatu and Professor Barnhardt. I felt it summed up the simple, yet wonderful things about humanity rather well in the short scene.
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I watched the movie last night and yeah that was probably the only scene that stuck with me, out of all the fucked up shit we humans can be capable of, the simple things like art and music are the most beautiful things.
 
Things you need to know about the new TDTESS...

The famous "Klaatu, Barada, Nicto" failsafe line isn't in the movie.

The speech that makes Ted, I mean Keanua Reeves, give up and leave is about on par with the speech that makes President Eden commit suicide in FO3.
 
Paladin Solo said:
The movie had some very annoying characters, as has been said. I found myself thinking maybe humanity should die because of those pests.

Anyways, it's basically about a collective of intergalactic civilisations who don't like the way humans are treating the Earth because apparently there's only a few planets in the cosmos capable of supporting advanced life. Klaatu (Keanu) is sent as the representative for that group of civilisations to prove humanity's worth, otherwise humanity must be eliminated to save the Earth from them (which I find laughable considering the Earth has been through far worse than what humans have done to it).

So to put in short, they recycled the Cold War-era crisis into a modern Al Gore-era one.

It was a big 'meh' for me. My favourite scene was the meeting of Klaatu and Professor Barnhardt. I felt it summed up the simple, yet wonderful things about humanity rather well in the short scene.
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You and I sir, had the same thoughts on this one.


I being a big fan of the original (have it on DVD) was quite surprised to see how similar this film is to the original.

I was disappointed with the ending however. I thought the message was left in subtext and would have been more memorable if like the original, there was more of a statement of purpose and warning to change our ways before its too late.
 
Paladin Solo said:
What did Klaatu say to Gort when Gort was activated after Klaatu was shot?
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I'm not sure but it almost sounded like "Klaatu Verada Niktu" but from what I've heard that line did not find its way into this film.
 
I'm a minor fan of the original. In the new one there are things I didn't like:

[spoiler:d77b4233a3]1/ The lack of proper ending - I could imagine the giant gumball slowly accending, and all the radios, tvs and ipods start broadcasting a short "Stop poluting the mothamutant planet or we wipe you out." speech.

2/ The brat and the mother were rather annoying. They'd fit right into the FO3 NPC folder.

3/ When there is an alien attack or something, I expect to see a bunch of scientists in a bunker trying to fix the world. The army and the goverment are acting very, very stupid on most ocasions:
"We'd leave this alien alone with you because he's probably drugged."
"Sure its a giant alien robot, but we'd be safe behind these 2 inches of glass."

4/ Blatant product advertising. World of Warcraft and McDonalds? I guess they needed money for all those glowing gumballs.[/spoiler:d77b4233a3]

That said the movie isn't too bad. It's just not good either. In a few months people would forget it even existed.
 
some of the posts in here remind me of a twilight zone episode form the color versions where an alien species comes to earth and says they "created" us and set us up as the dominant species and gives the world 24 hours to prove they were correct or they would wipe us out and start over.

so the world governments clean up their act, get a meeting together and hammer out a world peace settlement and to end all wars and nuclear weapons and bio weapons and everything else.

at the end of the 24 hrs their representative shows up and demands to know the progress. the world leaders proudly state that they have hammered out a world peace agreement to cease all wars and end hostilities. then the alien laughs and says that we were put here to explore new ways of making war and weapons. he declares earth a failed experiment and that all human life would be ended for failing to understand why we were created by them.



but i am going to see the movie for xmas with my mom. if its good, fine. if its horrible, thats fine too. if its just like bill & ted movies, thats great. some of the best acting work outside of jhonny memonic keanu has done imo. i own both bill and ted movies on dvd.
 
serious waste of time in my humble oponion... the ending sucked, the characters were (overall) quite dull forgettable, the overall story was an interesting one, but it needed to be told 'differently' I'm not sure how, but this movie will provide a good example of how NOT to.
 
I've seen the remake, I gave it like 7/10 from the start. Then, 2 days later, I watched the old one.

The first minutes (in the old movie) were kinda unspecific and...lame, but then, all the way untill the end I was like "WOW, this movie is intelligent and great!"

After that, the remake scored 2/10 in my charts.

Stupid hollywood.
 
Paladin Solo said:
So to put in short, they recycled the Cold War-era crisis into a modern Al Gore-era one.
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Yuck. That's exactly what I was afraid of: the easiest, trendiest, most simple-minded approach.

So, did you learn your lesson the way the movie intended? :roll:

I'd like to see a movie about aliens who try to destroy the earth because they're jealous that humans are so good-looking, far-sighted, and able to keep their planet incredibly clean compared to other races.


Public said:
I've seen the remake, I gave it like 7/10 from the start. Then, 2 days later, I watched the old one.

The first minutes (in the old movie) were kinda unspecific and...lame, but then, all the way untill the end I was like "WOW, this movie is intelligent and great!"

After that, the remake scored 2/10 in my charts.
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I'm going to skip it, because this is exactly the kind of reaction I don't want to have, but I know I will.
 
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