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GOP Mike's Movie Review - "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
GOP Mike's Blog ^ | 12/16/08 | GOP Mike

Posted on 12/16/2008 5:56:11 AM PST by gopmike.com

To my Conservative Friends:

Most of you who read my articles know I am not a big TV or movie guy because the dim-bulbs that make this crap are so slanted to the left I wind up getting so pissed off at the hidden, oh-so subtle agenda, I can't enjoy the movie... I usually get so aggravated and everyone tells me I am overreacting... I say to them - "If I don't overreact, nobody will act at all!!!!"

Despite that, my son and I went to check out the premiere of the re-make of the 1951 film, The Day the Earth Stood Still. We both love action-packed movies and especially films about aliens from outer space, so we gave it a try. I purchased tickets online so I would not have to wait on line with the masses and have to listen to ill-mannered teenage punks carry on trying to impress each other while making themselves look like idiots....

We get there approximately 1/2 hr prior to show time and buy our $4 small soda and $5.00 box of milk-duds. I could buy a Fillet Mignon at the butcher shop for that!!! We then give our tickets to the troll-like mutant who rips them in half - no thank you - no enjoy the show - I had to ask her which theater the show was in!!!! She barely manages a grunt that sounded like a seven, to which I said, "pardon me?" I don't think she understood what that meant! I said louder, "Excuse me Miss, which theater?" She blurted 7 and pointed her chubby, cheese-doodle stained index finger to theater #7....

We made our way to the theater and....

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TOPICS: Science; TV/Movies; UFO's
KEYWORDS: hollywood; liberals; movies
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1 posted on 12/16/2008 5:56:11 AM PST by gopmike.com
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To: gopmike.com

I’ll pass, if I even hear a film has a smidgen of an environmental message I back off big time.

This may even be one of those rare films that when the DVD comes out months later I will pass it up as well.


2 posted on 12/16/2008 6:00:32 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Americans should lead America, its the right way.)
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To: gopmike.com
So many of the liberal hot spots are hit in this lib-flick - Anti-war, youth questioning authority, anti-military, global change/warming, negotiating with your enemies and I am sure I am missing a bunch, but that's enough, you get the point...

I will go rent the movie "Sands of Iwo Jima" instead

3 posted on 12/16/2008 6:04:33 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: gopmike.com
the most disrespectful, snot-nosed kid you can imagine

Will Smith's son. Probably not much of an acting stretch, either. Glad to see nepotism is alive and well. Not only does Klaatu realize we can change at the end, he also makes sure we do it 1700s pre Indusrial Revolution style.....an Eco-terrorists wet dream.

4 posted on 12/16/2008 6:04:58 AM PST by edpc
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To: Eye of Unk
if I even hear a film has a smidgen of an environmental message I back off big time.

For me, it depends on the special effects, since I'm fairly propaganda-proof. I enjoyed "The Day After Tomorrow" on TV, even though the environmental message is way over the top.

5 posted on 12/16/2008 6:07:05 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: gopmike.com

When the movie tanks, I’m sure they’ll blame the economy.


6 posted on 12/16/2008 6:07:44 AM PST by JacksonCalhoun (My friends here in the south: don't blame it on the yankee transplants - I'm deep Red from CT.)
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To: gopmike.com
When the blind lead the blind, all will fall into the ditch. Enviormental wackos will destroy free enterprise while they themselves cash in using such methods as green movies to brainwash the ignorant youth who all taught lies in the American liberal run communist federal school systems and communist controlled media and video outlets.
7 posted on 12/16/2008 6:08:54 AM PST by kindred (Conservatives, please abandon the G.O.P., start a new conservative only party.)
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To: gopmike.com
Every now and then, the Mrs. and I decide to take a chance on some small, independent "fee-ilm" and bypass the mass media Hollywood dreck.

This past weekend, we went to see Slumdog Millionaire, about a young man who ends up on the Hindi version of the television show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", trying to win Rs 20,000,000 (about a half-million dollars). It deals with his difficult life, coming up from the Bombay slums, and his search for his childhood love.

Very good, interesting movie. Try it next time.

8 posted on 12/16/2008 6:09:50 AM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: 2banana
youth questioning authority

I've never had a problem with youth questioning authority, especially illegitimate authority that exists only for authority's sake (feel good crap like zero tolerance policies are a good start).

I realize they weren't exactly youth, but our Founding Fathers recognized the value in questioning, and rebelling against, the authority lorded over them.

9 posted on 12/16/2008 6:10:06 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Hey Obama, why lawyer up when you can pony up? Show us your vault copy BC)
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To: gopmike.com

Watched it on OV guide. The kid of the lib mother is about as disrespectful as they get. Calls his mother by her first name. You never see the pres. The good hearted libs want to negotiate and understand as everything is being destroyed. Special effects? 2 stars out of 5. Kevin whatshisface is about as emotional as a brick. Ugh. This movie is disrespectful to the original. About as bad as the remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.


10 posted on 12/16/2008 6:11:42 AM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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To: Cincinatus

Slumdog’s on our schedule for the weekend - great reviews and word of mouth from friends who have seen it.


11 posted on 12/16/2008 6:12:46 AM PST by G L Tirebiter
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To: edpc

“Not only does Klaatu realize we can change at the end, he also makes sure we do it 1700s pre Indusrial Revolution style....”

Where are the parents of all these ignorant earth-worshiping children? They certainly should take away their cars, iPhones, iPods, and everything else beside the bare nutrition and clothing and shelter that was the norm in the 1700s. Let’s see how happy these spoiled enviro-nazis would be, as they learn that when one lives off the land, one realizes that Mother Nature can be a real bitch. Just ask any kid whose father was a farmer...


12 posted on 12/16/2008 6:14:37 AM PST by kittymyrib
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[Where are the parents of all these ignorant earth-worshiping children?]

I would guess they are pro earth worship or just plain ignorant new age liberals.


13 posted on 12/16/2008 6:17:28 AM PST by kindred (Conservatives, please abandon the G.O.P., start a new conservative only party.)
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To: gopmike.com

So the message is we must CHANGE if there is any HOPE at all.


14 posted on 12/16/2008 6:17:50 AM PST by Kirkwood
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To: gopmike.com

Oh...the Aliens land in NYC instead of DC. Seems like NYC is getting attacked more in movies these days.


15 posted on 12/16/2008 6:20:02 AM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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To: gopmike.com

What I loved was how much the intergalactic alien with a robot-esque master was a Luddite.


16 posted on 12/16/2008 6:21:03 AM PST by mnehring
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To: kittymyrib

Forget the electronics. I’d like to see one of these outdoor naturalists go without Gore-Tex in their clothes.


17 posted on 12/16/2008 6:21:18 AM PST by edpc
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To: gopmike.com

I was dragged to this movie Saturday afternoon by my nephew [a promise]

In a huge theater there were only @35 people there.

The movie was so boring - all the nifty special effects were in the trailers - no more to be had except you found out what was destroying stuff.(Big let down)

Within hours the movie was free on the internet on watch-movies.net.


18 posted on 12/16/2008 6:23:03 AM PST by libertarian27 (Land of the Fee, Home of the Shamed)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"I enjoyed "The Day After Tomorrow" on TV, even though the environmental message is way over the top."

I loved that movie. The effects were incredible and the story was hilarious. I thought it was a comedy. First rate hysteria and melodrama.

19 posted on 12/16/2008 6:23:05 AM PST by LiberConservative (That temperatures are actually falling now illustrates how fast the world is warming.)
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To: 2banana
So many of the liberal hot spots are hit in this lib-flick - Anti-war, youth questioning authority, anti-military, global change/warming, negotiating with your enemies and I am sure I am missing a bunch, but that's enough, you get the point...

All of the lib messages are meant to pacify, confuse and disarm Americans. The messages are never meant for themselves. For instance,, do libs ever care to discuss or negotiate with conservatives? No,, they just want to destroy them. Also,,, another blatant hypocritical message in this movie,,, the earth's technology and industrialization is destroying the planet. Yet,, what is the response from the aliens??? Build a big technologically advanced robot and send it to earth, use superior weapons made possible by their own industry and technology,, and kill all the humans!! Hilarious!!

20 posted on 12/16/2008 6:24:14 AM PST by freemike (Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? --Jean-Baptiste Say)
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