[BenLurkin]

Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still was communist propaganda.

[P.O.E.]

[beethovenfan]

Klatu Barada Nicto

[bk1000]

I loved sci-fi when I was younger, but I looking back it seems so much was trying to “send a message”. Usually about the futility of nuclear war, but still a veiled political message. Today, the movies want to “raise awareness” about this or that leftist trope, but it is the same thing.

[NonValueAdded]

I liked Cleese’s performance in the remake

[oldplayer]

This film was shown on TV in the 50’s or early 60’s - something like Saturday Night at the Movies. It was a huge event. It was like a first run movie. I remember our whole neighborhood of kids came inside to watch it. I bet more people saw it that one night than attended it in all the movie theaters ever. It was the talk of the school on the Monday following.

[captnemo1]

I really like this era of films. A lot of them featured giant bugs/rodents/bats/monsters.
Yet they all had one thing in common, people won the day. American perseverance and ingenuity.
A few of them brought up social issues, such as the original Star Trek did a decade later.
Politics aside, what is or could be was the theme for most of these types of films
Unless you want to read into them your own ideology and or religion or present pollical views.
Perspective, these were quickly made, cheap to produce films that may or may not have reflected a producers views.
It was a golden age of "what if".
They paved the way for the films of today... Be that good or bad.

[Ken Regis]

One of my favorite movies.
The remake not as good.

[Secret Agent Man]

Higher tech doesnt mean morally superiority.

Thats why that story’s premise has to be accepted tocmake the message, work.

[Gort_Klaatu]

I come to you in peace. Gort can level a planet so please behave. Don’t act like self-righteous liberals!

[Billthedrill]

A classic movie, to be sure. Without it, we'd never have had such timeless classics as Army Of Darkness and Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Klaatu barada...uh...necktie!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Both the original and the remake were stupid. But the second one was especially stupid.

To save the earth you must go back to living in caves and eating grubs because technology BAD. From the people with spaceships. Because I am sure they grow on trees.