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Critics Pan 'Day the Earth Stood Still' Remake With Global Warming Theme
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| December 12, 2008
| P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 12/13/2008 6:10:09 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Klaatu barada nikto!
The reviews are in for the environmentally themed "The Day the Earth Stood Still" remake and the results are more devastating than any destruction that Gort could do to our planet. Over at Rotten Tomatoes, this remake received a lowly 24% on the Tomatometer. This lousy reception to "The Day the Earth Stood Still" remake was fairly predictable. Back in April, Newsbusters writer Warner Todd Huston discussed the reasons why this movie remake would have problems:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: earthstoodstill; globalwarming; hollywood; moviereview; tdtess
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I guess the release of this remake is why I was able to see the original on the tube yesterday. They usually do that when a movie sequel or remake hits the theaters.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:10:10 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: Paul Heinzman; IMissPresidentReagan; AlexW; Cletus.D.Yokel; ConservativeOrBust; tropical; ...
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:11:23 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
To: PJ-Comix
Someone brought up a good point: How much sense does it make to threaten to destroy a planet if you don't stop destroying the planet due to global warming?
It's an idiotic premise. And, the fact that people are buying into it tells us that there are really a lot of idiots out there incapable of rational thought processes.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:13:42 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: raybbr
He isn’t threatening to destroy the planet, merely we greedy earth-raping inhabitants.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:15:53 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspell)
To: PJ-Comix
A $1 special in six months.
To: PJ-Comix
Well,the first DTESS was based on a logical premise—stands to reason the new one would rely on a false one.
Hollywood being so Leftist,PC,artless,nutless,silly,deluded and full of political paralogisms these days.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:20:16 AM PST
by
Happy Rain
("Frank & Dodd will be the Hawley & Smoot of the next Great Depression..")
To: theDentist
He isn’t threatening to destroy the planet, merely we greedy earth-raping inhabitants.Oh, from the trailers I saw there was plenty of destruction. As I said, someone else said and it made sense to me that Hollywood would be that stupid and feckless.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:23:39 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: PJ-Comix
Last I checked on metacritic.com, it got only a 39 rating (out of 100). Bad for a “blockbuster”. That said, I am going to go see it this morning, if for nothing more to see the new Gort.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:27:04 AM PST
by
Paradox
(When the left have no one to villainize, they'll turn on each other.)
To: PJ-Comix
Here's an episode of the Twilight Zone which deals with the "Save The World"/Obama-Messiah phenomenon. You can watch it online for free at the CBS.com link provided.
To Serve Man
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the story by Damon Knight
Director: Richard L. Bare
Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.
CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead.
Watch it online for free at:
(see Season 3, page 1)
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:30:02 AM PST
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: PJ-Comix
Just wait until we see what that pinko Straczynski is going to do when he has his way with Forbidden Planet.
Knowing him, he's going to bring McCarthyism into it, while making nonsensical cheap shots at George Bush.
To: PJ-Comix
Wish they would quit ruining movies with bad remakes.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:31:11 AM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: PJ-Comix
Posted to OVGuide already. Terrible.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:31:57 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(Not My President)
To: PJ-Comix
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008)
‘Another movie where Keanu stands still’
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:31:59 AM PST
by
This_far
To: PJ-Comix; FrPR; enough_idiocy; Desdemona; rdl6989; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; Normandy; Delacon; ..
To: PJ-Comix
PJ, I remember you using “Klaatu barada nikto” in a DUFU one time and I think I never laughed so hard!
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:33:40 AM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Lawgvr1955
I’m waiting for “Citizen Kane II- This Time It’s Personal”
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:34:31 AM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Building Code Under Fire)
To: ClaudiusI
And there will probably be sex scenes with Robbie the Robot.
Plus advocacy for Machine-human marriage “rights.”
One cannot separate the political corruption of Leftist Hollywood from It's social deviancy,you know.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:37:44 AM PST
by
Happy Rain
("Frank & Dodd will be the Hawley & Smoot of the next Great Depression..")
To: ClaudiusI
I don't know about his "Forbidden Planet," but I found nothing particularly Leftist about "Babylon 5," in fact, just the opposite.
"Star Trek," the entire franchise, is far more Leftist than was anything in "Babylon" (which I like better than any other sci-fi series "or movie for that matter".
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:39:19 AM PST
by
Sudetenland
(Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
To: PJ-Comix; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Well, I wasted $2.25 yesterday...
going to see Keanu's version of
The Day the Earth Found Keanu's Stool--
And the only good thing... 
was this pix I took on my cellphone.
I heard from my old pard Gort... 
and is he every fit to be tied!
"I am trying to destroy all the prints... 
but there are so many of them protect by Algore's groupies!"
The film was so bad I didn't mind the two numbnuts... 
talking throughout the entire film. Their snide remarks were better than the movie's dialog!
Somewhere, Michael Rennie... 
is laughing his ass off!
They call this POS... 
a remake?
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:43:53 AM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: PJ-Comix
No retread will ever top Rennie in the original.
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posted on
12/13/2008 6:45:35 AM PST
by
Emperor Palpatine
("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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