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Rob King

Rob King

How did I miss this commentary on The Day the Earth Stood Still? One of my favorite movies!

The new one would be a decent movie on it's own. But as a remake it sucked le balls. Keanu could have been great as Klaatu, except you really didn't see the development, or his fascination with earth people that came out in the original.

New Gort was lame, too.

Maybe I'm just sick of this environmental message bullcrap that gets shoehorned into every last movie these days, but the two movies are a great case study about how the 'boogymen' of various generations affect film.

The boogyman used to be nukes, and nuclear war. Nowadays it's the destruction of the planet by our own hands.
 
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Roxxoredizorz

To be honest, I hated the old one. It was a waste of time for him to come to earth, warn us, and then leave. I don't know if I was missing anything for my ending, but I thought it was terrible.

I never even saw the new one.
 
North_Ranger

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Rob King said:
How did I miss this commentary on The Day the Earth Stood Still? One of my favorite movies!

The new one would be a decent movie on it's own. But as a remake it sucked le balls. Keanu could have been great as Klaatu, except you really didn't see the development, or his fascination with earth people that came out in the original.
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Oh, I dunno. I think Keanu Reeves was the perfect choice to play an emotionless, expressionless alien stuffed into a human meatpuppet. At least you didn't have to play the Keanu Reeves Guess My Emotion game like every other film he's done since Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure:


Keanu Reeves feeling a sense of deep patriotism and national pride.


Keanu Reeves stricken with sanity-destroying horror.


Keanu Reeves haunted by the deeds of the past.


Keanu Reeves experiencing a mind-blowing orgasm.

Rob King said:
New Gort was lame, too.

Maybe I'm just sick of this environmental message bullcrap that gets shoehorned into every last movie these days, but the two movies are a great case study about how the 'boogymen' of various generations affect film.

The boogyman used to be nukes, and nuclear war. Nowadays it's the destruction of the planet by our own hands.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't nuclear war also qualify as "destruction of the planet by our own hands" - especially considering the amount of nukes around?

But I have to agree, the movie was painful. 'Cept when John Cleese showed up.
 
Rob King

Rob King

North_Ranger;267999][quote=Rob King said:
How did I miss this commentary on The Day the Earth Stood Still? One of my favorite movies!

The new one would be a decent movie on it's own. But as a remake it sucked le balls. Keanu could have been great as Klaatu, except you really didn't see the development, or his fascination with earth people that came out in the original.
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Oh, I dunno. I think Keanu Reeves was the perfect choice to play an emotionless, expressionless alien stuffed into a human meatpuppet. At least you didn't have to play the Keanu Reeves Guess My Emotion game like every other film he's done since Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: [/quote]

But that's not how Klaatu is supposed to be. He's supposed to be a stranger, inexperienced and curious about human ways. Not ... well ...



North_Ranger;267999][quote=Rob King said:
New Gort was lame, too.

Maybe I'm just sick of this environmental message bullcrap that gets shoehorned into every last movie these days, but the two movies are a great case study about how the 'boogymen' of various generations affect film.

The boogyman used to be nukes, and nuclear war. Nowadays it's the destruction of the planet by our own hands.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't nuclear war also qualify as "destruction of the planet by our own hands" - especially considering the amount of nukes around?

But I have to agree, the movie was painful. 'Cept when John Cleese showed up.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I guess they're both 'destruction of the earth,' but they are distinctly different flavors of 'destruction of the earth.'
 
Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

Rob King;268068][quote=North_Ranger;267999][quote=Rob King said:
New Gort was lame, too.

Maybe I'm just sick of this environmental message bullcrap that gets shoehorned into every last movie these days, but the two movies are a great case study about how the 'boogymen' of various generations affect film.

The boogyman used to be nukes, and nuclear war. Nowadays it's the destruction of the planet by our own hands.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't nuclear war also qualify as "destruction of the planet by our own hands" - especially considering the amount of nukes around?

But I have to agree, the movie was painful. 'Cept when John Cleese showed up.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I guess they're both 'destruction of the earth,' but they are distinctly different flavors of 'destruction of the earth.'[/QUOTE]


One is a gunshot in the eye. The other one is smoking for years.
 
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JCM

Roxxoredizorz said:
To be honest, I hated the old one. It was a waste of time for him to come to earth, warn us, and then leave. I don't know if I was missing anything for my ending, but I thought it was terrible.

I never even saw the new one.
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Well, he came here to destroy us, and changed his mind. It served to show how terrible we had become due to fear of ideaologies, but in the end, it also emphasized that we also have hope, in the alien deciding not to destroy us.
 
Rob King

Rob King

Silver Jelly;268088][quote=Rob King said:
Yeah, I guess they're both 'destruction of the earth,' but they are distinctly different flavors of 'destruction of the earth.'
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One is a gunshot in the eye. The other one is smoking for years.[/QUOTE]

Which is which?

JCM;268119][quote=Roxxoredizorz said:
To be honest, I hated the old one. It was a waste of time for him to come to earth, warn us, and then leave. I don't know if I was missing anything for my ending, but I thought it was terrible.

I never even saw the new one.
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Well, he came here to destroy us, and changed his mind. It served to show how terrible we had become due to fear of ideaologies, but in the end, it also emphasized that we also have hope, in the alien deciding not to destroy us.[/QUOTE]

Old one: Far away interstellar society has caught word that we are playing with nuclear bombs. They also know that we've been playing with rockets. If we manage to put nuclear bombs on the top of space-faring rockets, then there is a potential risk to them. They come to earth to warn us away from our path. The ultimatum is thus: live peacefully and discontinue your experimentation with such massive weapons, or we will take you out before you become a threat to us.

New one: Far away interstellar society has a hard on for habitable planets. They've been keeping an eye on earth for a nice while now, and have decided that the humans are a cancer to the planet. They send [STRIKE]Al Gore[/STRIKE] an envoy to destroy humanity after offering a token ultimatum: stop your destruction of the planet, or we will defend the planet from you.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

"Keanu Reeves" and "mind-blowing orgasm" should never be in the same sentence. I now have a mental image I desperately, desperately want to remove.
 
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