The Day the Earth Stood Still
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- ********
Looks interesting, considering Keanu Reeves stars in it.
- doesnotexist0
I wanna see it
- Jaline0
Enough about my high school boyfriend.
- locustsloth0
Looks good. Though i'd be funny if he played the role more like Bill from Bill & Ted's Excellent Advneture rather than like Neo from The Matrix (which it seems like he is)
- bigtrick0
klaatu verada nikto?
- airey0
klaatu verada...
...ahh, necktie?
- airey0
apparently it's Barada, not Verada. i feel like the last 34 years have been a sham.
- ********0
Klaatu = Keanu
- even though the term comes from a movie made before his birth?airey
- airey0
gort concept art. looks like they were going to rip the latest cylons before someone whooped arse and made sense. the original was awesome. unless it reached stairs.
- ETM0
What does Keanu Reeves have on Studio execs to keep getting these roles? Especially roles that should have stronger actors. I just can't see Reeves doing the Klaatu character justice.
The trailer looks like Hollywood will (once again) sacrifice a good story to bombard the screen with CGI eye candy.
- marychain0
Ahh...but how many of you knew George Lucas named these 3 after those famous words..."Klaatu...Barada..Nikto"
on second thought.....I'm rather embarrassed I knew that
- ********0
Wuh, I know Kung-fu!
- designbot0
---------------BUMP...
Went to see this over the weekend....overall it is a pretty good movie. They took certain liberties with the original story, some were good, others deviated too much from the original film imo. The special effects were good, and I like how they didn't over-do them.
If you are a fan of the original this is definitely worth seeing, though don't go expecting it to be an epic film. I find great irony in the propaganda attached to this film....since when you watch the original (though a great film) it is complete propaganda and a push for the United Nations. This film deals with a more current issues of the environment, and the undertones of "global warming" and "saving our planet from mankinds destruction" are blatantly obvious. Somebody with a "green" agenda obviously had some influence on this film.
Keanu once again plays his "one role" and he has eerily similarities to a Christ-like figure. He must have a real fascination with playing this type of character over and over.
It ends somewhat abruptly, and there are few things that were not explained very well, but overall a good film worth seeing to anyone into sci-fi films.
- what's with the air quotes around 'green"?TheBlueOne
- well I am using that word in the way that others commonly use it I guess, not really in the true definition of the word.designbot
- Words have true definitions?
Plato would be proud.Nairn - Reeves would suck in most other roles. Only two roles he can play are this one and the cop.Jaline
- trooperbill0
it was good, gort was poo, bad render and not scary at all.
- paraselene0
saw this yesterday.
absolute fucking shite and i nearly walked out.
cliche after laboured cliche, but the cgi was decent. well, passable anyway.
- are you normally a sci-fi fan? It definitely wasn't "fucking shite" though if your not into this genre you might think so.designbot
- surely you weren't expecting anything else tho?********
- Llyod0
I hope it's good. There have been too many shit hollywood sci fi flicks made as of late
- ukit0
Heard it was bad.
- designbot0
Reeves got ripped for his acting, but he actually did a good job I thought. Taken in it's context and in the context of the original film. His acting "stiff" is part of the character. I am not sure what people were expecting from a highly advanced alien from another planet....maybe they wanted small talk out of him or something? That wouldn't have worked in this film.
