The Day the Earth Stood Still ( Remake )

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This defo looks like a film for me đź‘Ť The original was a classic and will always be in my book ... but I'm always open to see how they can remake movies and 95% of the time they make a big balls up and it's a flop! .. although I do like a good Sci Fi and this looks worth consideration in my book and of course Keanu Reeves is a decent actor and Jennifer Connelly is a cool actress as well as the added bonus of her being pure eye candy for the male audience too :sly:

Here's a couple of trailers and the movie is released on the 12th of December ..



 
I have to ask why they keep giving Reeves thought provoking and status-quo challenging roles (Scanner Darkly, The Matrix, this movie) when it is plainly obvious that he has very little talent in such movies whatsoever. Driving a bus with Dennis Hopper? Sure. Not shooting at Patrick Swayze while tag-teaming with Gary Busey? Hell yeah. Trying to explain deep physcological messages and sociological problems surrounding modern society? Not so much.
 
It's probably me, but everytime I see the commercial and hear Reeves' character talk, I'm suddenly reminded of The Silver Surfer from the Fantastic Four.
 
I actually liked all the Matrix movies and thought he played a great lead role .. but to each their own I guess :)
Point break was a great flick though I agree on that part ;) Speed however! not my cup of tea but Dennis Hopper stole the show there anyway đź‘Ť
 
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I have to ask why they keep giving Reeves thought provoking and status-quo challenging roles (Scanner Darkly, The Matrix, this movie) when it is plainly obvious that he has very little talent in such movies whatsoever. Driving a bus with Dennis Hopper? Sure. Not shooting at Patrick Swayze while tag-teaming with Gary Busey? Hell yeah. Trying to explain deep physcological messages and sociological problems surrounding modern society? Not so much.
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Clearly someone important wanted him in the role. I honestly think he is one of those actors that most people don't that much credit, like Jim Carrey.

The first thing that popped into my head, upon seeing the previews, was Sphere. But I have no real idea if that is what they were going for at all...
 
Reeves is Klaatu? if this were a fair world, it'd be just like the original story ("Farewell to the Master"... had a copy once in a collection I used to have), where he only has two or three lines... One line at the start of the story, before he dies, and a few lines at the end, right before he dies again. :lol:

At least Gnut looks more like the Gnut from the story than he does in the original, though they still take their cues fom the original movie. I'd rather that they used the original model for Gnut... a fully humanoid emerald giant.

Not like the movie has much else in common with the previous movie... nor the original story which the previous movie completely bastardized, anyway. ;)
 
This more or less seems like some kind of overblown commentary on environmentalism, so I'm a bit weary in my "need" to see it. To be frank, I'll probably wait for the DVD. I've seen most of the origional, and that was fine, but the remake was otherwise unnecessary. I've seen some of the scenes placed on the internet for promotion, and they're pretty good, but meh. I can wait.
 
I agree with YSSMAN that it seems like a very liberal and terribly hypocritical message on environmentalism to the extreme. The message I gathered from the second clip is that the Earth is one of very few planets capable of supporting complex life forms...but we're not allowed to use it. Was this movie written by Democrats?

That said, I think it looks like a pretty sweet action flick. I have no idea what you're all on about with the original and whatnot. Never heard of it. But I do wanna see this one.
 
The Day the Earth Stood Still from 1951 is a pretty big benchmark in sci-fi, but I only ever watch it in parts... I can't recall seeing the whole thing together (I'm the same way about a Clockwork Orange). Instead of environmentalism in the new one, the origional dealt with the topic of war... Certainly the "vogue" deal back then.

Either way, there is a good way of hitting me over the head with subject matter, and there is a bad way. I'm far more receptive to the "Wall-E Method," versus something like this.
 

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