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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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41 posted on 12/16/2008 7:46:10 AM PST by egannacht
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To: gopmike.com

The best thing is to never see ANY remakes. You can count the good ones on one hand. And usually they weren’t made any time near the present.


42 posted on 12/16/2008 8:12:00 AM PST by Daralundy
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To: egannacht
I think Mike was a little hard on Jennifer.
43 posted on 12/16/2008 8:26:08 AM PST by y6162 (ater)
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To: y6162

There’s a double entendre in your statement I don’t wish to pursue.


44 posted on 12/16/2008 8:28:05 AM PST by egannacht
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To: kittymyrib
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.

Two stories.
1) Back in the '60s there was a group of anti-machine wackos who collected money and bought a brand new car. They then dug a huge hole and buried the car in an act of rebellion against the mechanical age. The photo showed them all standing around the car in the hole carrying all the usual signs. Perhaps/perhaps not the photographer was making a subtle point, but in the picture, off to one side, was the bulldozer the kids used to dig the hole.
2) I worked with an anti-nuke, no-blood-for-oil enviro. She told with with great pride how she attended a rally that blocked the entrance to a refinery. I asked her how she got there. "A bunch of us drove there." I told her I'd have a lot more respect for her if she had walked there and saved the gas. "Are you crazy?" she asked, "That place was over 20 miles away!" She failed to see the disconnect. And yeah, she was a Democrat.

45 posted on 12/16/2008 8:33:22 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Daralundy

Dark Knight was a pretty good remake.


46 posted on 12/16/2008 8:34:47 AM PST by CJ Wolf
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To: egannacht

I'm feeling some Global warming in my pants.

47 posted on 12/16/2008 8:40:35 AM PST by usmcobra (Go ask Obama for your change, and don't bug me!)
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To: CJ Wolf
Dark Knight was a pretty good remake.

Of what? It was a SEQUEL!

48 posted on 12/16/2008 8:44:57 AM PST by ssaftler (Imagine January 20, 2013)
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To: egannacht

Ega:

The answer to most of your questions is - It stunk to high heavan and tnone of those things mattered... I love movies too and this was not worth it....

I am not a movie reviewer, just a conservative writer....

However, the answer to your last qustion was unfortunatley no... they did not even make her look as hot as the photos you see of her around the net...

They even screwed that up!!!!

E-Gads....


49 posted on 12/16/2008 8:52:42 AM PST by gopmike.com (It's Cool to be a Conservative!!!)
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To: ssaftler

Remake of Batman, 1989.


50 posted on 12/16/2008 9:19:52 AM PST by CJ Wolf
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To: gopmike.com; All
http://www.themoviewspoiler.com

has the entire movie synopsis without the need to PAY A SINGLE DIME to the Hollywood imbeciles.

51 posted on 12/16/2008 9:31:10 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: gopmike.com

You seriously went to this movie thinking it would be an intelligent flick? You haven’t been paying attention.


52 posted on 12/16/2008 9:34:06 AM PST by GSWarrior (It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.)
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To: gopmike.com

Love how the scientist’s first solution to the object heading towards impacting earth is for the military to launch a missile at it. The same group that opposed SDI from the start then freaks when the missile is disabled and no backup is available. Just before impact the scientists are saying the “Our Father”.

Promoting SDI and prayer, I guess its not 100% left wing dribble.


53 posted on 12/16/2008 9:47:41 AM PST by icwhatudo
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To: CJ Wolf

How so? Because the main villain was “The Joker”? They are entirely different movies. Harvey “Two Face” Dent wasn’t in the ‘89 version, he was in 1995’s “Batman Forever” with Jim Carrey’s “Riddler” turn.


54 posted on 12/16/2008 10:17:45 AM PST by ssaftler (Imagine January 20, 2013)
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To: gopmike.com

THEN THE MOVIE SUCKED!!!


55 posted on 12/16/2008 10:23:00 AM PST by egannacht
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To: ssaftler
And although I haven't seen the newest Day the Earth Stood Still I hear it's a totally different film from the original. So does that make it a remake because the title is the same?

Was Invasion a remake of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the 70s or was the one in the 70s a remake of the one in the 50s? Plots are basically the same but they are different movies, even the messages may have changed.

To me Dark Knight was by far the best Batman movie but since it falls into the realm of Batman and the plot and characters are pretty much the same it's pretty much a 'remake'.

If we'd take Batman and put him up against Al Gorenomus who is bent on turning Gotham City into a environmental sans human habitat for indigenous mules, then I'd call it an original.


56 posted on 12/18/2008 12:24:52 PM PST by CJ Wolf
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To: CJ Wolf

Not wishing to split hairs with you, but a “remake” is when a movie shares the title and same general plot of the original, like “Day The Earth Stood Still” or the recent “Casino Royale”.

On the other hand, “Dark Knight” was a SEQUEL to “Batman Begins”, that is, it continues the story of the earlier movie, much like “Quantum of Solace” continues “Casino Royale”.

You wouldn’t call “The Empire Strikes Back” a remake of “Star Wars”, would you? Didn’t think so.


57 posted on 12/18/2008 1:44:55 PM PST by ssaftler (Imagine January 20, 2013)
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