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.
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.
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?