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Supernova
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| | Subject: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:03 pm | |
| Who has seen this movie? What are your thoughts on it? | |
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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:23 pm | |
| I think it's one of the classic sci-fi movies. I wouldn’t have minded the remake with Keanu Reeves as much if they would have at least had the originality to steer the plot back to that of the original story it’s based on, "Farewell to the Master", by Harry Bates. In that the robot, Gnut (not Gort) was the master, not Klaatu.
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Shale
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| | Subject: Re: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:37 pm | |
| I liked the original. It was a great sci-fi movie of its time, that being the cold war where the whole world was paranoia driven and we kids were taught to "duck and cover" under our school desks in fear of nuclear bombs.
I also liked the remake, which not only used better special effects but changed the message to us destroying our planet in more insidious ways than blowing it up. | |
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Supernova
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| | Subject: Re: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:27 pm | |
| Except the whole new idea of kill mankind so the planet can survive was complete crap...if the aliens were going to inhabit the earth, which if memory serves was their intention, like they did 50 years ago when everybody thought Earth was still the epitome of best planet in the galaxy...today everybody knows it's a hellhole and aliens would have to be stupid or desperate to want to take it over now and if the new Klaatu is so smart, he could've found a more suitable planet than this one to commit genocide on all its inhabitants. | |
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Shale
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Supernova
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| | Subject: Re: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Mon Dec 27, 2010 9:10 pm | |
| Except without mankind, who cares if the earth survives? Nobody's going to be around to enjoy it. | |
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Tony Marino
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| | Subject: Re: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Mon Dec 27, 2010 9:27 pm | |
| I saw the original and the re-make. The re-make with Reeves sucked, the original was much better. | |
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Shale
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| | Subject: Re: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:02 pm | |
| - Supernova wrote:
- Except without mankind, who cares if the earth survives? Nobody's going to be around to enjoy it.
ET might enjoy it as a galactic park. Remember AI may think with a different logic than humans. | |
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