Saturday
Dec132008
Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 6:05AM Rate It: 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
By now, you've had a chance to see
The Day the Earth Stood Still, the remake of
the 1951 science fiction classic. The new version stars
Keanu Reeves
and Jennifer
Connelly, and in our opinion, is less about a great story that
happens to need aliens and special effects (like the original) and is more about
special effects that look cool while some story unfolds over about 100 minutes.
But what did you think? We've been fielding comments about this remake for months; a lot of readers despised the fact that it was even being made, and almost nobody came away from the trailers thinking it was a surefire classic. Maybe seeing the new Wolverine trailer before the featured attraction was a great sanitizer and the whole evening was a success because of the glimpse at the X-Men Origins movie.
Were we too harsh? Would you give The Day the Earth Stood Still more than Two Damn Dirty Apes?
Reader Comments (4)
I don't know. I get what you're saying about it. I thought there would be more action and stuff, but nothing really happens till pretty late. But I wasn't bored. I thought they made it pretty convincing at the beginning and just got lost like 30 mins later. Like they didn't want to throw all the cool stuff in the middle. I'd say 3 damn apes.
The original movie is a classic. Remember, it was made in 1951. Acting was it the strong point, good casting and a story line that could be believed. The new movie is flat. Reeves is so deadpan that is portrayal of Klacto is more like all his other movies. OK movie, wait until it comes out on video. Not a big screen flick.
There is a clear message in this movie which majority of people will not understand.
If you read what David Icke talks about and watch an interview done with Alex Collier, you will gain a better understanding.
In conclusion, there are greater forces in this galaxy that don't like what we are doing to this planet. If we don't change, on an individual and then global level. Then we will get eliminated like the movie portrayed.
Too harsh. In my opinion, the huge Achilles' heel flaw of the film was its brevity and that it cruelly dropped an exciting beginning and potential at the end. The ending sucked, basically. But I think everything before the end excited me... a sci-fi fan.