"Day the Earth Stood Still": Klaatu Barada Stinko

MSNBC ^ | 12/12/08 | Alonso Duralde

[steve-b]

About what I expected....

[ConservativeMind]

It is supposed to be about environmental destruction, a la “global warming”.

Don’t watch it!!

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I guess I can pass on seeing Klaatu Theodore Logan...

[justlurking]

I was looking forward to this movie, as the original is truly a classic.

But, the reviews I've read have been universally negative. So, I guess I'll skip it....

[massgopguy]

Is Al Gore the robot? Gore, klaatu barada nikkto!

[zarodinu]

There is a special place in hell for dictators, child molesters, and people who remake good movies.

[AlmaKing]

I watched the original last night. Seemed like the same liberal junk as today. Only difference was it was saying we shouldn’t develop weapons that threaten other planets, there should be no war, etc...

I wouldn’t classify it as brilliant by any means.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Keanu Reeves as Michael Remy.

No thanks.

Who plays Patricia Neal?

[frogjerk]

The previews for this movie and the TV spots were so stupid and awful...this is not a shock.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It was corny.

[abb]

Exactly! Some movies cannot be improved.

[PeteB570]

Another movie I had to get the original for my teenagers to view before seeing the remake. “Flight of the Phoenix” and “The Four Feathers” to name a few.

The kids loved the originals and thought the remakes sucked.

[BRK]

I did not think the original was really all that brilliant. The “visitor” might as well have been from the Soviet Union with all his high talk about utopia and the end to violence and war. It will never happen (sort of like most of Obama’s tripe). I did like the robot. One cool dude.

BTW, the secret code “klatu nicto verada (sp?)” was used in that wild ride of a film “Army of Darkness”. I think it unlocked the witch or something like that.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

In an interview some years after the movie was made, Patricia Neal said it was all she could do to not bust out laughing at some of the scenes and dialog.

[devere]

I read that they left out the signature line “Klaatu barada nikto”.

Did they name the robot Gore instead of Gort? LOL

[MahatmaGandu]

It’s just global warming propaganda. I can see that sh*t for free on NBC News every night, so who needs to spend $10.50 to see it in the theatre?

[A_perfect_lady]

Thank you! I’ve been afraid to even publicly say that the original has somehow become enshrined in the public imagination for reasons I personally don’t understand.

[clamper1797]

If this remake is as bad as the remake of my personal favorite ... War of The Worlds ... there is no spot hot enough in hell for the re-makers

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[longtermmemmory]

the commercials make it PAINFULLY apparent this is a stinker.

It is obvously humans are eeeeevil and must be removed from the planet.

This is not the day the earth stood still, this is peta invades the earth.