I enjoyed the original sci fi movie despite its liberal agenda: disarmament.
When will they make a movie about my favorite cartoon growing up—the Jetsens?
They did back in 1990. Enviromental crap.
I find the message of the original movie to be comically hyppocritical. “Obey our message of peace or we will destroy your planet.”
Yeah, that was goofy, as if the aliens could care whether we blow ourselves up or not any more than we would be inclined to stop a colony of balck ants from attacking a colony of red ants.
I kinda liked the twist on the plot that was in a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode where the aliens landed and we're going to destroy us unless we cleaned up our act PDQ. The UN and etc. got together and came up with a global peace treaty in response only to find out the aliens were going to wipe us out because we we're violent enough for them.
One of my favorite parts in the original movie was when Klaatu wrote the final piece of the long equation on the professor’s blackboard, and then later, when the awestruck professor asks Klaatu if that final piece is the exact solution to the equation, Klaatu responds, “It’s close enough”.