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Spike 2 on The Day the Earth Stood Still

January 30th 2009 14:24
I've seen it now, as have a lot of folks. Oh, the horror.

The original film is dead and gone. Buried under a pile of putrescent claptrap. Gort becomes a huge towering robot (and GORT a military acronym... ack), Klaatu an emotionless alien sent here to destroy all humans and the doc (Jennifer Connelly) is reduced from being a great actress to spouting "we can change", tearily.

The Earth stands still for about two seconds right at the end, and the whole remake is just completely and utterly without a message. It says nothing.

All that expertise, talent and skill that the original showed... lost in 90-odd minutes of CGI and utter crap. Avoid it. Watch the original again.



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