'The Earth Stood Still' for Keanu Reeves

Zap2It Movie News ^ | 8-28-07 | Bender2

[Bender2]

Variety is reporting that Keanu Reeves will star in 20th Century Fox's remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

[EveningStar]

As with WOTW, the remake of The Thing is closer to the source material than the original - much closer, in fact. However, the 1951 version is the better film. Carpenter’s 1982 version is more gory than frightening.

I’ve seen Body Snatchers (1993). It’s good but not great (although Ebert gave it 4 stars out of 4). Worth watching though.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

LOL! Hey, I know she's on the wrong side of the bell curve, and I know she's still crawling with Charlie's cooties...but, but, but, Great Caesar's Ghost, man, look at that Face! That Bod! Pick up a Bible, look me in the eyes, and swear that you wouldn't hit it, drunk or sober! :-)

[EveningStar]

There’s actually a screenplay of Childhood’s End that’s been floating around Hollywood for years.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I prefer the remake of The Thing to the original, and it’s one of the best movies from John Carpenter IMHO. The Thing is intense and unpredictable nearly all the way through the entire film.

[highlander_UW]

Have hope. It might be good.

Let's see, Keanu Reeves, insanely liberal Hollywood and a remake of a film classic...sorry, I can't muster that much hope.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I was also surprised with the remake movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and I thought that it was a decent remake.

[MarkL]

I was also surprised with the remake movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and I thought that it was a decent remake.

I thought that the new movie was a lot closer to the book. If you read the book, Wonka was more than just a little bit creepy, and Gene Wilder didn't pull that off in the first movie at all, whereas Depp had it down pat.

Mark

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Keanu Reaves is the most overrated actor in hollywood...

Oh, c'mon, there are a few roles tailor-made for him. Can't you see Keanu starring in a re-make of "The Black Hole," with him as the Hole? He'd be perfect -- no-one sucks all the life and energy out of the universe like Keanu on screen!

[Bender2]

Gadzooks! True! Never, ever... suggest Spielberg, or any of the other liberal left coasters, filming Citizen of the Galaxy!

You wan'a give me a heart attack... Or make me spill ma beer?

BTW Clarke's The City and the Stars, nor the earlier version Against the Fall of Night, was never my favorites of his writings. Matter of fact, I had to think a few minutes to recall the plot.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series could be done as a string of Star Wars/Star Trek like films, but there is not enough 'action' in them to keep the 9-14 years old boys paying to see them five and six times. The attempts to bring his Robot novels to the silver screen, I, Robot (2004) and Bicentennial Man (1999) were IMHO not satisfying at all.

Just the other day, I went through IMDb's schedule of films coming out for the next year, and not one gave me any hope of being a film I could enjoy anticipating it coming to a screen near me. The last sci-fi film I enjoyed was the Serenity (2005)

Beside the short lived "Serenity" tv series, the only current sci-fi series I enjoy recently is "Eureka". It truly captures the essence of science fiction and has all the elements, including humor and easy on the eyes babes, that attract me in my 6th ten year term on this old globe.

Outside of the coming J.J. Abrams version of Star Trek, I fear there will be very, very few, if any good sci-fi films/tv series in the near future.

Now, having given Spielberg a slap... I must give the devil his due and pray his "The Pacific" lives up to his "Band of Brothers".

Even after nearly 10 years, the opening of Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) still give me chills and make me realize what men like my late Father had to do to win World War Two. Nowadays they scream about 15 month deployments when my Dad spend some three plus years straight in the European Campaign!

Though I vehemently disagree with their politics, Spielberg was excellent there and Tom Hanks gave one of the most compelling performance ever in his Captain John H. Miller. He should have won the Oscar.

I see Steven has cast William Sadler as 'Chesty' Puller. I like Sadler's acting, but he does not strike ma as right for 'Chesty.'

However, we shall see. Barkeep... another brew here, pronto!

[Bender2]

Re: Hey, I know she's on the wrong side of the bell curve, and I know she's still crawling with Charlie's cooties...but, but, but, Great Caesar's Ghost, man, look at that Face! That Bod! Pick up a Bible, look me in the eyes, and swear that you wouldn't hit it, drunk or sober!

True, True, True... Homer, guess True did not ready my post #111 where I said:

...I would not sleep with Denise unless I was really, really, really, really, REALLY drunk. Now, if we went to bed sober, that’s another thing. Ya know what they say: “A stiff XXXXX has no conscience.”

Well, ya know... True never picked up a tab at Moe's.

[Eric Blair 2084]

You are really more insane than I thought. And so is everyone else here. The fact that the greatest movie ever made didn't even get a mention at the Academy Awards is the reason I don't even bother to watch the award shows till this day.

The Naked Gun Baseball Scene featuring Enrico Palazzo

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Or make me spill ma beer?

A thousand pardons, sir, if even one drop of the precious brew spilled. Hey even S----berg's directing wouldn't scare me as much as, say (now hold onto your beer real hard for a moment!), Michael Bay directing The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress! Hmmm, Sean Penn as Manny, Ed Asner as the Prof, Helen Hunt as Wyoh -- LOL!

"The City and the Stars" isn't a particular favorite of mine, either, but I remember that, even as I was reading it the first time, I was thinking that the screenplay would practically write itself, and that the visuals would be spectacular -- even moreso today with modern CGI techniques (well, when I first read it, the usual flying saucer SFX was a pie-plate on a string).

Agree on SPR, especially when they were hitting the beaches; some of the best footage ever committed to film, and Hanks was perfect for the role. One might think that even the Marxists in Hollywood could see the power of telling a story straight (while making a bundle in the process)...but I guess the hold their secular religion has over them is too great.

[Bender2]

Re: The fact that the greatest movie ever made... didn't even get a mention at the Academy Awards is the reason I don't even bother to watch the award shows till this day.

MOVIE... FIGHT!!!!

Sorry, Eric... but The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) did not make the cut...

as Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult... did take place at the Academy Awards!

Matter of fact... Pia Zadora gave the singing, dancing performance of her life!

Of course, Phil Donahue... sucked as usual.

OJ Simpson was so sickened by Donahue's preformance, he went on a killing spree...

And many think Donahue's rotten acting was a major cause of Anna Nicole Smith's death!

Eh, Admin Moderator... you do know that'a a joke, son!

[Eric Blair 2084]

Surely you can’t be serious.

[Bender2]

Re: ...Sean Penn as Manny, Ed Asner as the Prof, Helen Hunt as Wyoh...

Gadzooks, True! You must have hit you head HARD... on that pie-plate on a string suggesting that!

Yet, when I think of Helen Hunt... walking away in 1/6th Gee...

Well, I get all fuzzy inside... and forget about that liberal crapola that fills her brain. Guess I would have to put her in the Dense Richards 'Hell, yes I would, but I would double bag!' category!

[Bender2]

RE: Surely you can’t be serious.

Surely, you are not... calling me Shirley again!

[Eric Blair 2084]

I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

[Bender2]

Re: I picked the wrong week... to stop sniffing glue.

Cornelius, if this Eric creature keep on sniffing glue... we shall have to do experimental brain surgery on it.

[Eric Blair 2084]

I don’t know how or where you found that pic. I’ve been looking all over the internet for it.

You win, I’ve met my match.

Get to work on the Larry Craig threads. Fertile ground for comedy.

[Bender2]

Re: I don’t know how or where you found that pic. I’ve been looking all over the internet for it. You win, I’ve met my match. Get to work on the Larry Craig threads. Fertile ground for comedy.

Found... at http://www.movieactors.com/actors/lloydbridges.htm

and already on Craig hunt... but am ashamed to say...

Gadzooks! I stole... from your FR homepage.