An Honorary Doctorate for his "Climate Change Talks! Phooey!
Posted on 12/12/2008 6:16:49 AM PST by Young Werther
The Day the Earth Stood Still would seem to have everything going for it: based on a sci-fi classic, featuring a big movie star and released right in the middle of a holiday movie season full of depressing headlines and depressing films when moviegoers would love to have a big, fun, scary movie to flock to and buzz about.
Alas, this movie isn't going to do much to break us out of our state of depression.
The truth is out there, all right. This movie is as clunky and unappealing as the space-saving acronym being used to avoid its endless title – TDTESS.
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An Honorary Doctorate for his "Climate Change Talks! Phooey!
I saw the original last night with Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie and it is still an exciting film.
The new one sounds, well, dreadful.
But, Hollywood seems stuck in a rut with these remakes.
The notion that an alien species would arrive here and conclude that mankind is not part of the "natural environment" and needs to be eliminated is utterly preposterous. In the original movie, they are not worried about what we do to the earth, but what we will do with our destructive abilities when we move into the universe. The "green" change takes the movie from the realm of dire warning to that of dire stupid.
I agree.
The thought of an “invasive species” coming to earth to wipe out another “invasive species” is beyond stupid.
and then there is Keanu Reeves as the alien, Klaatu. An alien who is all but emotionless and speaks in a monotone – isn't that the role Mr. Reeves was born to play? Based on previous performances, you might think so, and yet he still seems shallow and unconvincing. There are supposed to be some deep reverberations going on within Klaatu as he comes to realize that we humans have some good qualities beneath our hateful surface, but watching Mr. Reeves' face is like staring at a TV tuned to a dead station.
They could have done this film about Islamic terrorists....but we know Hollywood.
Keanu Reeves as any kind of “superior” being makes it a non-starter.
Who are they kidding?
“Klaatu berata...whoa.”
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Such imagination in Hollywood. It’s one thing to re-make a movie. But to decide to update it and have Klaatu lecture us about global warming seems to take the concept too far.
We have Al Gore and his boys already to lecture us about global warming. Why do we need the message reinforced by Klaatu?
Maybe they will re-make it again, and next time, lecture us about homosexual marriage.
that movie is completely heinous in a most bogus fashion
In the 1950s a movie was made and they said we had an unnecessary hysteria about a threat from global Communism.
Today a movie is made that says we will all die if we don’t stop the climate from changing. Why can’t THIS film be cast as a hysteria about the global warming scare?
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