Somehow, Paul Constant tells us, the new Day the Earth Stood Still manages to be even more heavy-handed and boring than the original Day the Earth Stood Still:
Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu, an alien from far away with a message for humanity. Instead of an earnest lecture against nukes, he wants to inform us that we are murdering the environment. And so his large robotic friend (who is named Gort in the original, and whom the military hilariously dubs some long faux-sciency term that acronyms conveniently down to G.O.R.T. in the remake) prepares to destroy the Earth. To keep us from destroying the Earth.
There are few things more unpalatable than gorgeous, undertalented actors whining about the environment. An Inconvenient Truth was a good film—adapted from a PowerPoint presentation, for Christ’s sake—because it wasn’t packed with platitudes and cow-eyed Jennifer Connelly and paycheck-hungry John Cleese all but looking directly into the camera and scolding us to change our light bulbs or what the fuck ever. And it doesn’t help that Day‘s plot is the worst kind of Bruckheimer-style nonsense and that all the dialogue is shit.
Read the full review here. It’s funny.
Today would be a great day to go see a movie. Not this movie.
I saw this movie Saturday because in my podunk town it was this or Twilight. I should have seen Twilight.
The “mission” is to make humans extinct and then return all other forms of life back to the planet. The aliens put them in big see-through globes and take them away somewhere until every person has been killed off by the tiny metal bugs that devour everything in their path. The secretary of state in the movie called it a Noah’s ark scenario…but in this movie, Noah is getting the boot too.
The theater I work at had mostly sold out shows because people are still suckers for the big sci-fi shows with big explosions and romantic characters. And never tell people not to do something because, like in this movie, people don’t change. Not really.
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I don’t see why they couldn’t have just kept it about nukes? What, are nuclear weapons no longer dangerous?
On Dec. 25th, they’ll be releasing a new movie with Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Bottom.
It’s really good.
Go see it!
I saw this Saturday and really liked it, however I don’t think the audence cared for the heavy handed global warming message. As the credits started to roll I overheard “that movie made me want to light a tire of fire”. That’s what I get for going to Tukwilla.
The original was perfectly fine. The idea that Jerry Motherfucking Bruckheimer could improve upon an iconic 1950’s science-fiction morality play by “updating” it and casting Keanu Reeves is ridiculous on the face of it. Pray that it doesn’t make money or next year we’ll be seeing the Creature From the Black Lagoon starring Shia LaBeouf.
If only they would remake This Island Earth…