[Eye of Unk]

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.

[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...

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

[edpc]

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.

[JacksonCalhoun]

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

[kindred]

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.

[Cincinatus]

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.

[Dallas59]

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”.

[Kirkwood]

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

[Dallas59]

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

[mnehring]

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

[libertarian27]

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.

[brownsfan]

The original is a classic. Well thought out, with the alien being rational as one would expect from a more advanced culture.

The trailers for the remake told me they pee’d all over the original concept for the movie and ruined it. I will not watch this thing in any venue.

[KarlInOhio]

In the original movie Klaatu's message was "Do whatever you want on Earth, but do not bring your wars into our space or you will be destroyed". Why did Klaatu come to Earth in this movie? Was it essentially "Don't destroy the Earth or we'll destroy it ourselves"?

As another poster put it: 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. Was there any mention that the carrying capacity of 1700s agriculture was considerably less than 6 billion people and that maybe 5 billion would have to starve to death, after cutting down every tree in the world for farm land in an attempt to feed them? How about rampant diseases for the rest because there were very few 1700s antibiotics, vaccinations or distribution of clean water in the cities?

[freemike]

When you look at that cool movie poster of the big alien robot high above the earth,, looking down spewing death beam from its eye,,,, don’t think about the carbon footprint of the ray beam,,, don’t wonder how large the factory was to have assembled such a massive technological marvel,, or the resources used to produce the energy to build such a thing,, or the resources used for the journey to earth,,, no,,, don’t let your mind wonder to thoughts such as that,,, just accept the thought that your SUV is evil,,, but the big alien robot spewing propaganda and death is good.

[pelicandriver]

I don’t mind the movie trailers or even the popcorn ads. But it really annoys me when they put in commercials for unrelated products. I REALLY don’t want to pay to see commercials!

[SJSAMPLE]

I love the premise.
A non-native species comes to earth and declares that humans, born and evolved on this planet, are an invasive species.

Wonderful.

Some people really have a guilt complex about being at the top of the food chain.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

As I figured, it’s a modern “remake”...which means basically the only thing they’ve kept from the original is the character’s names...

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the warning.

We were told by supposedly a former hippie (wife of a good conservative) that this was good remake of the old classic.

It is not the first time she has tried to miss lead about liberal movies.

[NRA1995]

I’ll take the original movie; flying plate, rubber-skinned robot suppodsedly made from a metal harder than diamonds, cheesy military dialogue, etc, etc

[NoGrayZone]

Thanks for the review. I was going to go and spend my 10 bucks on a ticket to go see this, but now I’ll wait and get it through my netflix.