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.
It was corny.
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.
-as was widely known at the time , it was a piece of anti-US propaganda--(the "good guy", Klattu of course to fix all the evils of the world lands in Washington, DC--center of the world's problems---
I saw it last night as well. A liberal propaganda flick if ever there was one.
Klatu reminds me of a cross between Jimmy Carter and Hans Blix. And yes, Algore=Gort.
Naive as execrement.
Howver, I DO like Patricia Neal. She played Dominique in one of my favorite movie classics, The Fountainhead.
She is still alive and active in pro-life causes.
God bless her!
Yeah, "We're going to destroy you because you are violent."
I used to like "The Abyss" as well, until I saw the director's cut about us being evil and bad, so the aliens were going to wipe us out until they witnessed one person willing to sacrifice himself for others... Didn't these aliens understand the history they were witnessing? Going to war to end tyranny, oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust was a bad thing?
The aliens never fought amongst themselves, got along perfectly with each other, never argued with neighbors? Yeah, right.
I agree. I watched it last night and thought the same thing.
I can only imagine what they have done in the remake to make it even more a leftist wetdream. Yeah, no thanks.
Ditto. Sounded like a poorly camouflaged call for the UN to police the world, after everyone - everyone - was disarmed.