Posted on 12/11/2008 6:23:15 AM PST by Cincinatus
NEW YORK -- If aliens ever visit Earth, they'll be coming to reprimand us for bad behavior.
That's the premise of the 1951 classic sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," as well as the brand-new Fox remake of the same name, in theaters Friday. In the intervening 50 years, humanity hasn't gotten any better, the filmmakers seem to conclude -- we've just switched to new transgressions.
In the mid 20th century our most pressing concern about ourselves was the threat of humans annihilating each other with nuclear weapons. The original film follows Klaatu, a human-looking alien who comes to Earth with his bodyguard robot Gort, to warn people to cease and desist with the nukes before we contaminate the rest of the Galaxy with them.
The new version of the film focuses on a more contemporary preoccupation: the threat of climate change and environmental degradation. The new Klaatu, played by Keanu Reeves, couldn't care less if we blew ourselves to bits, but would we mind not taking out the rest of the species on Earth, as well as our rare habitable planet, with us?
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Ah the environmentalist humanist religion: And the angel alien came down from the heavens outer space and warned us of our sins.
I guess so. But I have to question the wisdom of Klaatu's civilization:
For our policemen we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked.
Nothing makes me feel safer than having a race of unaccountable, super-intelligent, indestructible robots in charge.
I hope someone performed some QA tests on their programming. What exactly do they do if one of these things goes haywire?
If north east liberals want the Earth to be cold, why do snow birds go south for winter holidays?
I hope someone performed some QA tests on their programming. What exactly do they do if one of these things goes haywire?See Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines to find out.
I’ll pass on that piece of Gore-ian propaganda.
Did you not see the ads, and Keanu’s sanctimonious “YOUR planet?”
At least Star Trek IV was funny. This seems as enjoyable as a three-hour sermon from the Church of Algore Christ.
I promised a ‘movie day’ before I saw the trailers fully.
I suppose I can yell at the screen - that could be fun....
I thought it was “supposed” to be “faithful” to the 50 page draft that Ray Bradbury wrote in 1981 for a proposed sequel.
Has Ray weighed in on what they did to his “song”?
This film has a LOWER ‘Tomatometer’ reading at ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ than ‘Punisher: War Zone’. That’s GOT to hurt...
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