Quite frankly, my only problem with the ending was that if the consortium that Klaatu represents wanted to end humans’ ability to destroy the plante’s capability to support advanced life, his “end all technology pulse wave” was the way to do it. World population prior to the industrial revolution was about 3/4 of a billion people, meaning you would have an instant die off of at least 5 billion, and then further as plagues and wars rip through those that don’t starve to death. I noted with some sense of irony that the message I guess the movie tried to convey…that us resource intensive westerners would pay the price of raping the planet…ignores that the US would probably come off better than the populations we’re supposed to feel sorry for (take a wild guess at how many people the whole continent of Africa could support without modern agriculture).

There wouldn’t be enough food (no electricity, oil-based fertilisers etc.), no time to completely re-orientate society to labour-intensive, organic agriculture (which cld never feed over 6bn ppl), & it’d be hard to move the food we have around countries & the world. The remaining water would give us cholera, dissentry etc. Most modern medicine & surgery wld stop w/o electricity (& as society collapses) so ppl wld die of lots of other diseases. I imagine condom factories need electricity, so STDs wld prob be rampant too, & women wld die in childbirth a lot more, & life expectancy wld be 40 or lower. And cold places wld have no heating, so they’d chop most of the trees down, like England did before discovery coal.

Anyone who thinks we will not outlive this planet is a total moran…

the Human Race was either created (or had evolved whatever u may believe…)

to addapt to any Enviorment it is put in…

as u look around u, its simple we are smart enough to study and observe and learn, that what we are all about…

our appearence might not change, but our minds do on a daily basis.

The Film was basicly a peice of Hollywood Propaganda and failed to inspire me in the slightest bit.

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and they used the word arc in film!

I thin the production designers like Justice League animated
Just had to get that out my system…feel better now.

Keanu reeves role is perfect for him as he looks creepy anyway and suits his household ‘wooden’ acting style. Yes, JC needs to be fondled in the Hulk labs and someone needs to kick that will smith kid like a football!

Don’t get me wrong. There were numerous problems.

Not enough use of Gort although when he was around I was digging it. When he disolved into little metal bugs, that was disturbing but it also made me wonder who was going to clean that mess up and weren’t they sharp?

The McDonald’s ad was an embarrassment to all movies unless it’s a movie about product placement or something like Wayne’s World where they’re doing it as a goof and for the money.

I was so distracted by the Mc’y D’s logo, reflection of the logo, food wrappers, tea cups with the logos, too many logos. I couldn’t even pay attention to the close caption because of the refection of the golden arches behind Keanu’s head. In fact, they could cut that scene and make it a phone call and it have been better. Better yet? How about just a letter?

I liked the sly references to Independence Day from Jaden where he talked about how his dad would have killed the aliens. No questions asked. He said a bunch of other things that made me think of Independence Day. Maybe it was an accident but it went on long enough not to seem intentional.

Plus I started my own game of Three Degrees of Keanu Reeves. Keanu made the Matrix which was offered to Will Smith who turned it down. Then Jada Pinket Smith was cast in the last two Matrixes. Now he’s worked with both Smith’s wife and kid. He just needs to make a movie with Will Smith to close the circle.

BTW, I just had back surgery and I’m taking LOADS of narcotics so I apologize for being so scattered and somewhat unintelligible. I wasn’t high when I saw the movie though and I still liked it although when you read everything I’ve written so far it doesn’t sound like it.

I didn’t think that they hammered the ecology method so much that you hated the movie.

Maybe I liked the movie because I was really expecting it to suck and it didn’t. And I thought Keanu did a good job. Sorry. He acted like someone who just got a new body and didn’t know what to do with it.

Loved John Clease. He gave me hope that mankind will fix itself. And I particularly liked their dual at the black board.

Jennifer Connolly is still beautiful but could she eat a sandwich or a a cookie once in a while? She’s got some major anorexia going on there. I know that’s the style but when you realize how many layers of clothes she was wearing and STILL looked skinny. Well, she going to age early if she doesn’t start eating.

In summary (I know, THANK GOD). Liked the movie. It was art although it was pretty. Turn off your brain and just go on the journey, dude.

One more thing, someone was wondering where they’d heard the famous Klatu Nikto Barada (sp?) saying? Army of Darkness. It’s what Ash has to say to pick the right demon book. Funny.

If you made it this far, please remember that this is being typed by someone taking Valium and Oxycodone. Be amazed that I can type at all.

I thank you for your time.

prtfvr

There were many nonsensical lines of dialogue that killed lots of neurons in my brain. For instance Connelly’s character reminiscing about her dead husband, saying he was a soldier, but that he really joined the military to build things as an engineer. Okay. So he joined an organization whose main purpose is combat abroad, and expected to play with Auto-CAD in an air-conditioned office till retirement?

Finally, as far as I can tell, it was pretty obvious the film catered to the current scientista trend of anthropogenic climate change and the demonizing of humanity as destroyers of the earth. It reflects recent news showing extremists mourning for felled trees, saying they sterilized themselves to “save the earth,” or saying with a straight face whales are more important than human lives.

Well, at least I enjoyed Gort in the two seconds of screen time he had

By its title alone, I will not see this highly predictable screed, unless someone gives me a pirated copy.

I consider it encouraging to read that
“Gort, Klaatu barada nikto” wasn’t even mentioned in the revision. I fully expected it to be presented as “Gore,
Bush did not really beat you!” Hey, it’s metrically equivalent, in terms of syllables.

But today’s Hollywood is not the equivalent of what produced the original
“Day the Earth Stood Still,” despite the delusions artistic competence that spawn such remakes.

By the way, in the original, I can recall four scenes in which Renny’s Klaatu spoke in the alien language. The first to pacify Gort, was, “Gort, da Klaatu brasco!” By the presence of the speaker’s name in the sentence, it appears the language lacks a first person, singular pronoun. It appears to have meant, “At ease, I’m okay!” or “I command, stop!”

The second was what he told Patricia Neal(sp?) to say. We all know that one and roughly what it means, by Gort’s reaction.

The third he spoke in two scenes specifically to Gort: “Gort, bareenga!”
And by Gort’s reaction, it appears to be the equivalent of “Heel, Fido!” But in his broadcast to his home planet, wherein he arranged the massive power disruption he used another inflection of ‘bareenga.” And I noticed that the R’s he used were not always trilled.

And as you can see, I am a bigger nerd than the reviewer when it coems to the real “Day the Earth Stood Still,” of which, despite the recycled title and characters of the current run, there shall ever be only one.

That now said the film overall was not the worst film I have seen, but the lack of ending annoyed the hell out of me. The acting wasn’t terrible, but some of the plot points were. If an alien landed in central part and asked to address the UN I’d be inclined to let him, but No lets shoot him, drug him, interigate him and otherwise abuse him because when dealing with a being who clearly represents a society with technology we can only dream about, this a good idea???????

LoL

Oh well I love the original but feel that they should have missed out some homage scenes and put in more realistic ones to further the plot in better ways.

The pacing of the film is fine (it does require an attention span above that of a chimp, but not by much)Otherwise a rainy Sunday afternoon film when nothing else worthwhile is on.

You may be right – but then where is the rest of the movie? The third act, where we see the reaction/fallout of this?

That explanation doesn’t “fix” the movie IMHO.

Vic

Whatever the reason (and I’m quit sure it’s environmentalism considering when this film went into production) any logic that says the survival of the Earth is more important than humanity is utterly and completely stupid (or at least naive and/or nihilistic) IMHO.

Vic