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post #1 of 49
12/10/08 at 11:36pm
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The Day the Earth Stood Still :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
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post #2 of 49
12/11/08 at 8:59am

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

Thanks for the link to the review.

I happen to catch Letterman last night and Reeves was the first guest promoting this film. I don't think I've ever seen him interviewed on latenight before. What struck me was how Letterman drove the interview. It was unlike other Letterman interviews with President Clinton or Harrison Ford or Bruce Willis. Letterman did most of the talking and then turned the conversation to the movie and he briefly described the plot leaving Reeves to mostly say very little. I am not saying Letterman walked all over him, but it looked like Letterman felt he had to keep the conversation going as Reeves wasn't exactly the brilliant conversationalist. It felt like Reeves is really a shy or introverted type and wasn't in his element. I can understand that. I did like how Letterman kept calling him Klaatu!
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post #3 of 49
12/11/08 at 9:32am

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

I hate that they've Klattu into another "Evil" Alien while Humanity is shown as all good, In the original they came to help us and We screwed things up, Howw come things were more optomistic in the Freakin 50's than nowadays.
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post #4 of 49
12/11/08 at 10:07am

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

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Originally Posted by Dave Scarpa
How come things were more optomistic in the Freakin 50's than nowadays?
Have you taken a good look around lately?
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post #5 of 49
12/11/08 at 10:25am

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

And the funny thing is David Scarpa wrote the screenplay... Dave?

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/combined


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post #6 of 49
12/11/08 at 10:27am

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

Yeah, the 50's were great! I can't imagine choosing to live now if given the choice between now and the 50's

The Cold War and its persistent nuclear threat, the Korean War (claiming over a million dead), pervasive segregation - what a great time to be alive.
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post #7 of 49
12/11/08 at 10:55am

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

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Originally Posted by Chuck Mayer
Yeah, the 50's were great! I can't imagine choosing to live now if given the choice between now and the 50's

The Cold War and its persistent nuclear threat, the Korean War (claiming over a million dead), pervasive segregation - what a great time to be alive.
Yeah, people seem to have tendency to only remember the good things when they look back at the past. In the past, some things sucked and are better now and now, some things suck and were better then.
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post #8 of 49
12/11/08 at 10:58am

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

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Originally Posted by Dave Scarpa
Howw come things were more optomistic in the Freakin 50's than nowadays.

I would guess that in the 50s you had little choice except to be optimistic. You just survived the worst economic crisis in history and then got to have the most destructive war in history as a sequel. Coming out of all that people needed to believe they could fix things for the better, otherwise why bother with anything? Maybe today people are cynical because we have the financial security to allow us that "luxury"?
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post #9 of 49
12/11/08 at 11:21am

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

I heard on the news today that this movie will be the first to be shot into deep space until the year 2012. That's just great, alien life forms will be seeing a movie showing them attacking us with Keanu Reeves.
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post #10 of 49
12/11/08 at 1:13pm

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

Well, better TDTEST than Bill and Ted.
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post #11 of 49
12/11/08 at 1:24pm

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" about wanting to live in the past.. classic. You just made me think of that.

The whole concept of the movie featuring

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Giant, spherical Arks to take animals away while they blow up the planet.. classic. Hilariously bad.
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post #12 of 49
12/11/08 at 1:37pm

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

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Originally Posted by Shawn_KE
Well, better TDTEST than Bill and Ted.
I am willing to bet cash money that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is a superior film to this remake.

Bogus Journey probably is as well, but I might not gamble on that.
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post #13 of 49
12/11/08 at 2:30pm

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

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Originally Posted by Chuck Mayer
I am willing to bet cash money that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is a superior film to this remake.

Bogus Joruney probably is as well, but I might not gamble on that.
Well, either way I think the name of this movie is vaguely hypocritical, as the tomorrow the day most certainly, "won't stand still" and the movie will bomb hard, at least here in the US. It might open well, but other than that I doubt it will do well. Worldwide it might do OK.
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post #14 of 49
12/12/08 at 12:37pm

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

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Originally Posted by Steve Christou
And the funny thing is David Scarpa wrote the screenplay... Dave?

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

I Wish.
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post #15 of 49
12/12/08 at 2:56pm

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

I didn't read this whole thread but there is news that they are beaming this movie into space and someone said:

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nothing says "invade our planet" better than a movie about how easy it is to invade our planet.
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post #16 of 49
12/13/08 at 3:38am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

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post #17 of 49
12/13/08 at 5:39pm

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

One of the worst movies I saw this year. There was a woman actually crying behind us at the end of the movie. I'd cry to knowing I spent $10 on this movie.

Keanu was perfect playing this role, he was born to play this character. He has reached the pinnacle in his career, quit while your ahead.

The movie basically preaches to you from about the middle of the movie to the end.

If I could save someone from watching this movie and wasting their time, I will have done my job.

Paul
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post #18 of 49
12/13/08 at 8:30pm

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Paul_Medenwaldt
Keanu was perfect playing this role, he was born to play this character. He has reached the pinnacle in his career, quit while your ahead.
I had little interest in this movie (and the reviews aren't changing my mind) but I figured that Keanu's... unique acting choices would be very well suited for playing an alien.
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post #19 of 49
12/14/08 at 7:45am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

Maybe Keanu IS an alien! That would explain his persistent "dead fish" acting style over the last few years!
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post #20 of 49
12/14/08 at 2:58pm

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

What a garbled mess. I guess the aliens want us to not destroy the planet. And so, making sure we have no electricity and they've destroyed/killed a giant swath of population worldwide helps accomplish that (?) for now. Turn off all the power everywhere, no cars, strand all ships (so I guess the people on cruises get to starve to death), destroy tons of buildings, cities, and wipe out tons of military installations. Then leave and ask us to care for the planet.

I'm wondering if instead the response would be "we, the nations of the world, have to get on a major R&D binge to figure out how to beat the aliens!" In fact, while watching this as the wrath broke out, I was thinking: "First invasion prior to Ender's Game" ...

Ridiculous. The whole show was ridiculous. Oh, and Biological Altruism for a nobel prize? WTF is that? How did John Cleese not laugh at that.. I damn near doubled up.. Biological Altruism.. guess he found it in his good nature to pity some lesser person or.. who knows.

A mess. An outstanding, disastrous mess.
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post #21 of 49
12/14/08 at 10:02pm

Re: This Can't Be True! Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still Remake!

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Originally Posted by Ron-P
I heard on the news today that this movie will be the first to be shot into deep space until the year 2012. That's just great, alien life forms will be seeing a movie showing them attacking us with Keanu Reeves.

They'll probably come here and destroy us for daring to send them a Keanu Reeves movie. They'll figure that any species doesn't deserve to survive if it thinks a shitty alien invasion flick,starring a shitty actor, is an appropriate method of contact .

Reeves, I'll know who to blame when they come here and blow us up and our civilization along with us.
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post #22 of 49
12/14/08 at 10:38pm

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

We've been unintentionally beaming radio and tv signals into space for several decades now. If anybody is out there, they may have seen the original movie, and spare us.

This sounds like the cheesiest publicity stunt since "The Last Action Hero", when they put advertising for the film on the side of an unmanned rocket! Will the MPAA have to build intergalactic spacecraft if aliens illegally make copies of the movie?
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post #23 of 49
12/15/08 at 3:23am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Paul_Medenwaldt
If I could save someone from watching this movie and wasting their time, I will have done my job.

It won't work.
I've been watching Jennifer for almost 25 years now.
Unless she makes a movie with Adam Sandler, I'll be there.
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post #24 of 49
12/15/08 at 4:56am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

I haven't - and won't - seen the movie. My condition for seeing it was that the reviews be stellar (which I knew they wouldn't be).

Let's let the 2008 version join the Vince Vaughn remake of Psycho in the "bad ideas" section of the video store, and let the original remain on its throne as one of the best movies ever made, and certainly one of the very best of the genre.
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post #25 of 49
12/15/08 at 6:02am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Sam Favate
I haven't - and won't - seen the movie. My condition for seeing it was that the reviews be stellar (which I knew they wouldn't be).

Let's let the 2008 version join the Vince Vaughn remake of Psycho in the "bad ideas" section of the video store, and let the original remain on its throne as one of the best movies ever made, and certainly one of the very best of the genre.
It's not a good film, but I liked it more than others have stated here. I think this storyline could've been updated and a good film made from it so this is definitely a missed opportunity.
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post #26 of 49
12/15/08 at 7:12am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

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What a garbled mess. I guess the aliens want us to not destroy the planet. And so, making sure we have no electricity and they've destroyed/killed a giant swath of population worldwide helps accomplish that (?) for now. Turn off all the power everywhere, no cars, strand all ships (so I guess the people on cruises get to starve to death), destroy tons of buildings, cities, and wipe out tons of military installations. Then leave and ask us to care for the planet.
If I'm not mistaken, the energy loss was temporary.

I agree it wasn't a movie that needed to be made, but it could have been better too.
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post #27 of 49
12/15/08 at 7:20am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

Everything I've read convinces me to never watch this remake. For me, it doesn't exist.
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post #28 of 49
12/15/08 at 4:57pm

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

I was going to go see this film until I read some of the posts in this thread. I'm happy I didn't go to see it now. Klaatu is cast as an 'evil alien'? No thanks.
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post #29 of 49
12/16/08 at 10:34am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

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If I'm not mistaken, the energy loss was temporary.

I agree it wasn't a movie that needed to be made, but it could have been better too.

Really? The movie ended with all the stuff dead and stranded, nothing movie, all the lights out.. they gave no indication at all that it was temporary. It was prefaced with the idea that we would have to undergo "Great changes".

And whether or not that was temporary, the fact that stadiums were eaten up, millions of people kiled, everything in the swarms path from somewhere in Virginia to NY (and a circumfrence of that path) was all evaporated.. including all of Philadelphia, trucks and people on the highways, bridges wiped out, we watched a stadium destroyed..

None of that was temporary. We also were lead to believe that was happening at all the arks, 26 of them around the world they said earlier.

So massive destruction globally. I mean, what lesson would the world really learn from that? I think it'd be closer to "Independence Day" then this, you'd see every nation of the world rally around to figure out how to attack the aliens rather then become peaceful tree huggers.
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post #30 of 49
12/16/08 at 10:50am

Re: *** Official THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Ockeghem
I was going to go see this film until I read some of the posts in this thread. I'm happy I didn't go to see it now. Klaatu is cast as an 'evil alien'? No thanks.
That's not entirely true. He's not evil just more forthcoming with what's going to happen to Earth.
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