Ok, ok, fine.
Here’s the first trailer to the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves.
If you don’t know, this version puts a Greenpeace spin on the classic film from 1951. Here’s a quote from the trailer:
“If you die, Earth survives.”
Within the context of the film, I presume Keanu/Klaatu means mankind and not Jennifer Connely, to whom he is saying the line. So there ya go – in the big picture, the Earth is more important than the survival of mankind.
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Looks to me like it rips a lot from Close Encounters of the First Kind, but what do I know?
The Day the Earth Stood Still is scheduled to open December 2008.
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I thought the trailer was incredible when I saw it in theatre. The movie has nothing to do with the original, but on its own, it look pretty sweet.
scoop #4
I am tired of hollywoods “Humanity is destroying the earth message.”
I will skip this.
I’m all for conserving and taking care of the planet we live on, but that’s a pretty miserable tag line.
I’d like to point out that line to the critics who complained that they thought Wall-E was depressing and misanthropic (not you, Vic, cause, well, you didn’t say that
).
THAT line is the essence of misanthropic environmentalism and the hopeless guilt it engenders.
In other news, I see Keanu is still wearing his trademark expression: Dull ambivalence.
MAybe if you keep getting hit over the head with the message you will finally get it…Humans are destroying the planet…Bottom line…If that’s hard to hear or read then I agree with Jersey that you need to get over your hopeless guilt that that statement causes…If we have faith we can fix the Earth then we really can do it but more people need to get over the guilt and start in your own backyard..I blame mass media and their lack of support and how the super-rich are selling consumerism to everybody…Get it all now, don’t wait, and for the love of Louise don’t care about anyone else or the planet…We need to care, we need to change and if we don’t then it will be too late soon…a lot sooner than anyone thinks…
CAUSE & EFFECT !!
Humanity will get what it deserves if we don’t fix this problem…
Humans may indeed be destroying the planet, But I dont need to be hit over the head with that message when I go to the movies.
I had a nice long message about this but it took me to some page talking about enabling cookies, so I lost it and will not re-type it
In Brief. Humans are a plague, we control animal populations but no one controls ours. That’s the focus of the movie, not carbon dioxide emissions, etc.
Ah, to further what I said. Here’s a part of a Reeves interview with MTV.
While humanity still engages in a staggering number of international conflicts, the environmental message is one that, not only encompasses wars, and fights, and terrorism, but one that goes beyond constrictions to become a millennial message of “what we are doing and who we are as a species,” Reeves insisted. “We’re trying to reach beyond the idea of [just] environmentalism.”
Hey ROb
The same thing happen to me…
Mother Nature will shrug us off if we continue the way we are going…In fact depending on what you read … there are those in the scientific community who think we are long overdue for an asteroid impact… They have been proven to happen within frightening regularity throughout history and hey the dinosaurs were their most well known victims, the last ice age was probably caused by an asteroid as well…Check out a few books by Robert M. Schoch Ph.D.from Boston University..especially Voices Of the Rocks…circa 1999.
Every species will go extinct, every species’ time will end..Are we really so obtuse as to think we are different…I think more messages are needed in movies like this…I know Vic won’t want me using another thread for this type of debate but he has been a gentleman about it in the past so Vic, if you want me to stop say the word but if people keep posting responses then I am likely to respond as well…
Unless you say stop of course Vic
Cheers
Rob,
I’m hoping that you didn’t intend to suggest that someone needs to control our population – aside from individuals controlling themselves, that is.
Hey guys, sorry about the comment issues. Since the existing filter was flagging “real” comments as spam I tried something else, but that seemed to have its own set of issues.
So… we’re back to the previous solution.
Green, no worries dude, have at it – even if I think you’re wrong.
Once again I think you’ve got it backwards: the media is pounding the global warming message into us based on questionable science by scientists looking for big juicy research grants.
One volcano eruption puts out more atmosphere-unfriendly stuff than everything the U.S. pumps out of cars and factories in a year.
First Arafat gets a Nobel price, and now Gore. Guess THAT organization has jumped the shark…
Vic
jerseycajun,
Yes, we need to kill off half of our race…immediatetly.
No no, hahaha. We don’t have the right to eliminate our own ppl to control the population at some arbitrary number chosen by some tard. They predict earth’s population will peak at 9 billion or so on its own.
What’ im saying is, for some sickass reason, we think we can control other species’ population… but its hypocritical, because are the most damaging and irresponsible species on the planet and we are not controlled by some other superior species…except ze ALIENZZ! Which is what I think this movie is about. Humans are destroying the earth so humans must be destroyed…which is essentially the tagline for the film.
The point I was trying to make, is that the movie is about what I said above as opposed to pollution and green house gases, etc. It’s not specific to global warming as one damaging thing humans do, I think the movie is about humans being a plague to the planet in general for all the reasons (pollution, war, poverty, etc.)
Vic
I’m not talking about global warming…
Overpopulation
Pollution
Nuclear waste
Genocide
Mass extinctions of so many species
Destruction of the rain forests..
I could go on and on…
Agent Smith from The Matrix
“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure. ”
Again we agree to disagree..
Cheers
A Virus also finally destroys its host and thus itself…Is that not what we are doing?
I read an article in 2006 that Hollywood was going to make a ton of Iraq war movies. Then I read an article earlier this year (or late 2007) that Hollywood was going to make a ton of global warming movies.
Guess we’ll have to wait and see what the next trend is.
heath
Hollywood does jump on a particular issues of the day and exploit them for profit…2012 anyone
Hey green, we may not be as far apart as you think. Just because I think the theory of man-made global warming is bunk doesn’t mean I want to see rivers polluted and that I want to breath smog-laden air.
We should be responsible, but in a non-hysterical way.
Vic
P.S. And Heath, we’ve all seen what awesome hits all those (anti)Iraq war movies have been at the box office, eh?
Yep, Vic. Yep.
“Humans are destroying the planet”
First off, on the face of it, that comment is absurd. The planet is fine, and Earth will outlast us unless we actually find a way to shatter the planet crust, mantle, and core. The environment we need to survive, however, could be a different story.
“One volcano eruption puts out more atmosphere-unfriendly stuff than everything the U.S. pumps out of cars and factories in a year.”
Perhaps so, but we are most definitely adding to that problem, resulting in a net increase of pollution entering our atmosphere. Those additional pollutants would not be there if not for us, and it may well be that we’ve pushed, or are pushing, things past the tipping point. After all, our species cuts down thousands of acres of trees, which help remove some of these greenhouse gases from the air, and we replace them with buildings which don’t. So we remove some of the filtering mechanisms, and we put out additional pollutants that wouldn’t be there if not for our activities. Even if the quantity’s we put out are smaller, it still adds up, and I’d say that puts the blame squarely on humanity’s shoulders.
As for the science, I’ll just say that evidence shows that Earth has gone through these warming and cooling cycles before. At most, humanity is accelerating the process this time around. In either case, we are having an effect.
“We don’t have the right to eliminate our own ppl to control the population at some arbitrary number chosen by some tard.”
Yeah, but if some intelligent species is going to exterminate our species, we’re the only intelligent species that would have the right. In either case, I’m actually cheering for that asteroid that’s inevitably coming our way.
Man, you can cut the misanthropy in here with a knife!
Yeesh.
personally I think the planet is tougher then anyone knows,
It has been around for Billions of years after all.
The next trend?
a slate of films suggesting
The Iraq war is responsible for the acceleration of global warming!
Wow, nice trailer! Really gave ma a sort of War of the Worlds vibe. This will be added to my list
greets
The inner message of the original film (which seems to be present in this version) is this: Do what we want you to do or you will be destroy.
It’s a radical message and smell something like the nazism/comunism/etc…
Sure Peace is a good word, but Freedom is a good one too. There’s peace in NorthCorea, but there’s no freedom there.
If we can’t be better freely, then maybe is better to be dead.
Here’s an important point for me.
Take a greet.
The worst part about Hollywood using the title is
It’s the discussing movies
On a side note the IPCC has said there has been no global warming for the last 11 years and have projected no warming for at least 10 years. I love how some people are claiming that proves we are suffering from global cooling at the same time as we are experiencing global warming.
Oops. Overwrote my text.
What I was saying is:
The worst part about Hollywood using the title is that when discussing classic scifi movies with people you will have to deal with their condescending glares when they think you are talking about a Keanu Reeves movie. Don’t get me wrong, he’s perfect for some roles, but I get tired of going “no, not the remake, the original one” during discussions with people who automatically hate the original because of how bad the remake was. Remakes shouldn’t have the power to tarnish the original, but unfortunately a lot of people can’t separate them.
Heath, you have uncovered the fact that we are being conditioned with film and media, nice work. That’s the real message that nobody gets here btw.
Greenknight, do you think in China their going Green to save the planet? Or recycling there plastic bags at the neiborhood Trader Joes?
They can barely get the air clean enough for the Olympics.
Are we doomed, probably,,, most likely…..yep.
China also has 2 BILLION people…That’s a lot of garbage no matter how you look at it…They are also Communist 790..I won’t get into that ideology..It works in principle but so does Christianity or religion in general and democracy. These things can all be distorted to meet an individual’s or organizations or governments agenda. I don’t think Earth will be destroyed…The planet will endure unless smoething catastrophic like a collision with an asteroid that knocks us out of orbit..but I digress..The Earth will endure just not with us as the dominant species or even still a species in existence.Life always finds a way but mauybe not humanity..ANd your arguement about being conditioned by film and media…If you liked 300..that film was probably funded in part by the US government as propaganda for the wars in the Middle East…My point is that just by reading the posts here on this thread we are being conditioned to someone else’s point of view..EVery interaction you have, Article read, movie watched, music listened to, tv show viewed, books that you read, they all program us to give us the opinions and beliefs we present to others in these debates.Once its in the subconscious it becomes part of who you are and part the of sum of the total experiences you have in your lifetime.That is the way it is so unless you are willing to totally unplug from the world and become a Buddhist monk isolated somewhere in the Himalayays you will be affected by life and how you experience society and how you percieve your place in it.
I agree with you that humanity is probably doomed or society as we know it is doomed..That won’t stop me from raising my children to appreciate all life and to respect that we are part of this giant ecosystem and how the things we do will affect that ecosystem and how in turn it can affect us too. Cause & Effect…
No, no no.
There’s no need for any population controls or “Hollywood-esque” asteroid attacks to level the population (Though, please do hit Hollywood if you’re listening, oh great asteroid!).
The answer is clearly space expansion. Some of us are just getting too big for our little pond and it has become time for someone (in this century or the next) to grow flippers and leave the comfy pool.
But in order to reach interstellar space, some of us need to have industry at their maximum, regardless of a relatively short (50-200 years ain’t much on the galactic scale) “global warming” period that – may or may not – occur. Interstellar space simply cannot be reached without using all of the best resources, and preferably those resources get used (responsibly, of course, but with haste) *before* the big meteorite collides.
Wall-E portrays such an expansion into space as humans(:all) leaving behind a trashy planet and living non-existent lives aboard a giant spaceship, but come on folks, really? I think some of us can do better than that.
Ed
LMAO at the asteroid pox on Hollywood…
I think there are almost unlimited resources from a materials point of view in the asteroid belt..Mineral resources aplenty..THey have found water and ice on one of Jupiter’s moons(Europa I think)and a water geiser on another although I can’t remeber the name..In fact since 2000 scientists have discovered a total of 45 new moons surrounding Jupiter and 63 in total..It’s safe to say that we have almost unlimited resources in our own backyard…I agree with you we can do better..Exploration not exploitation is the key with everybody having access to the same resources..I also think it’s safe to assume that if Jupiter wasn’t there we would be hit with a lot more asteroids…Shoemaker-Levy 9 anyone?
Okay, I just watched the trailer (slow connection):
I’m feeling another “lowest common denominator”, “convince the masses”, “pat yourself on the back if you’re a liberal”, destruction movie.
There’s the corny lines, the disturbed “girl who felt it was going to happen”, the planetary destruction worthy of adolescent liberal desires/imaginations, and the hokeyness of an alien race giving humanity a spanking because they’re too dirty. I thought Al Gore and the environmentalist movement was already doing that. Apparently they need extraterrestial help?
Then I have to single out the the Iraqi at 1:10 in the trailer because Hollywood likes to single them out. The good Iraqi. Every TV Show and Movie has to have one. Just one. And he must be good. Because… well… He’s an Iraqi — except he’s good. And he must show no showings of religion, unless it’s to squash Christianity, because let’s face it, its fun and easy. But otherwise, he’s the smart, straight, darwinist Iraqi-man who leans far on the side of spirituality rather than big-religion.
And now, just for fun, count with your fingers how many planets there are in this one galaxy.
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2007/19/images/a/formats/print.jpg
How many do you suppose are like Earth? How many do you suppose are *better* than Earth? Yet, the aliens decide to pick Earth for incineration and preaching? *tsk *tsk , someone feel guilty for me, because I’m not feeling it.
/Rant
Although SL-9 was a comet not an asteroid
I’ve met a lot of Iraqis and they are a very down to earth people..at least they were before we invaded…
“Once again I think you’ve got it backwards: the media is pounding the global warming message into us based on questionable science by scientists looking for big juicy research grants.”
Dead on Vic, points for you. This is what we learned about in Enviro Economics.
You guys seen ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. I’ve never seen such lies elsewhere…and to get a Nobel prize for That BS…I guess they’re given out for media presence rather than actual accomplishments.
“If you liked 300..that film was probably funded in part by the US government as propaganda for the wars in the Middle East”
Ok, dude… you JUST jumped the Shark. Are you kidding me? So the original author of “300″ in comic book form was in league with the government?
I thought we only had one conspiracy theorist here on the site.
Vic
With the ‘Gortflash’ at the end I wonder if they’re in any way keeping the idea of the self-imposed interplanetary robot cops?
Ed – hang on, we know that guy’s an Iraqi how exactly?
greenknight – with you (largely) up until the 300 comment. Ancient Greece and Persia are not directly analogous to what’s happening in the Middle East now, and Sparta definitely isn’t. Nor is Frank Miller a g-man, so far as I’m aware.
RandomHerm – the message of the original was “Don’t play with nukes”, which seems reasonably sensible to me.
jerseycajun – I was looking for words to describe Keanu’s default setting, and “dull ambivalence” sums it up brilliantly. Nice one!
Q : “Are you numb?”
A : “My brain is…”
Q : “Will this be another excellent adventure?”
A : “Ask Bill…”
Hello.
The Big Dentist, “Don’t play with nukes” seems reasonably sensible to me too. But if Klaatu put a destroyer robot to obligate me to stop all belligerence acts in my planet, then Klaatu treads upon my will and it seems reasonable fascist to me. ; )
So the inner message is: Do what we want you to do or you will be destroyed by us.
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By the way, I hope “inner message” (and other texts) means what I think -I’m afraid that I am not such a good english writer, ^^-.
And… let me try a joke…
Look: Put some frames of Keanu Reeve’s face between some frames of a horrible monster and you’ll see Keanu playing ‘fear’. Put the same frames of Keanu Reeve’s face between some frames of a naked woman and you’ll see Keanu playing ‘desire’. Hi, hi… ^^ It’s only an innocent joke.
Greets for Keanu and for all of you. : )
Vic
If I can find the article where I read that about the government partly funding 300 I will post the link…I read it when I lived overseas and I just can’t remember where. I think it was a report from a newspaper in Dubai…Anyway when I find it again I will post it…Geez you guys act like this stuff is made up…
Vic..thanks for the jump the shark comment…I guess I’m a TV show.
.And no the original writer of 300 comic book was not in league with the US government. The article was in regards to how the Persians(Iranians) were made out to be incompetent and less than noble in the movie and how a few “western warriors” killed many thousands of Persians..I think Frank Miller wrote a testosterone laced westernized version of the events in the Battle of Thermopylae.Sounds like perfect propaganda to me even if that was not Miller’s intention.The article stated that the US government had partially funded the movie as propaganda against Iran and it’s “quest” for nuclear technology or to stir the pot so-to-speak.Alan Moore had some interesting thoughts on Miller’s 300 but you probably think he is crazy or jumped the shark too.. 
Cheers Vic
RH, you’ve got a point there, but those robots had been built to police every sentient race, even Klaatu’s own. In a way he was saying “Look, here’s what happens if you cross this line. We built the damn things and not even we know how to shut them off.” So I suppose it’s a totalitarian streak with a bit of masochism thrown in. And that’s a great story idea of yours: an actor so bad the studio has to plant subliminals in all his movies to convince everyone he can act. I’m making that Keanu flipbook right now…
greenknight, Alan Moore is indeed mad as a box of frogs, but I’d definitely like to hear what he made of 300.
Vaguely connected remake notion: Zero Population Growth. Just keep the Sci-Fi channel away from it.
Just because something was not intended to be propaganda does not mean it can’t end up being used and distorted for that purpose…I don’t think my statement was all that “sharkish” considering how things are going in Iraq and how low troop morale is..Every little bit helps I guess.The US Military influences Hollywood’s depiction of the military all the time by allowing use of technologies & access to information on how the military technology and weapons work as long as the military are portrayed in a positive light…That certainly sounds like propaganda and a military agenda to me which I will term propagenda…
Greenknight333, (love your work)
An Inconvienant Alien Invasion, just in time for Christmas, yeah!!
(Gonna laugh if Keanu lands on Dec 21st). That’s a 2012 inside joke btw.
Films and media (CNN) are conditioning for the masses. The masses awarded Gore all kinds of award$ for that “documentary”.
You didn’t see “Who Killed the Electric Car” win an Oscar.
Movements happen behind the scenes. Hollywood does play a big role in the Great Deception.
(Case in point this “day the earth stood still” remake).
I did hear alot of connections about 300 and Iran. If you remember Iran protested the film and it was banned in alot of Mid-east countries.
(Miller just makes the film, but remember a studio run by prob 25 people approved it).
GreenKnight my point about China is that if humans are responsable for global warming how can we stop other countries from mass pollution and Ozone depleation. (We can’t.) Why isn’t Gore using his connections to stop other countries from polluting. Hell everyones looking the other way at China just so the Olympic cash machine keeps rolling along, its all BS.
(Anyone remember a few months ago when Speilberg dropped out of the Olympic Production because of what he believed was a hypocratic double standard.).
Global Warming is the great lie that’s been “created” to cover up the fact that the Sun is going thru an unprecidented solar cycle. They can’t stop the damage so certain groups have decided to exploit it for profit.
(Gore knows this and he was a Microt from becoming president). Gore is a Globalist.
Conspiracy NO, do the homework and you will see the truth hidden behind the lies.
People really need to start questioning whay they believe to be the truth.
Or were just gonna be led astray.
Jump that shark!
I love it.
Don’t get me wrong Greenknight333 I agree with alot of what your saying.
Green, so you read this in a newspaper in Dubai, but THAT you don’t question, eh?
The benefit of the doubt is always given to the non-U.S. side of a situation, and frankly, that annoys the hell out of me. And no, that’s not directed at you specifically – I mean in general in politics and the media.
Best,
Vic
Well then I guess it all comes back to propaganda then Vic…whether that be US sponsored or overseas sponsored. I don’t understand the Dubai comment as they are know to be the true moderates in the Middle East and it is considered to be the crossroads of the world linking Asia with the rest of the Western World. I’ll read both views rather than follow any one side and form my own opinions instead of believing just the US spin on things. ANd I am not saying that is what you are doing I am just stating that is what I prefer not to d
Cheers
Hello.
The Big Dentist, I’m afraid that Klaatu suppose us to accept the slavery precisely because he accepted it before, and that’s a problem. Maybe a good question for this case is: do we really need a totalitarism to save ourselves from ourselves? Well… that’s what V.I.K.I thinks in the recommendable Alex Proya’s “I, Robot”. I, of course, disagree.
And about the joke… well, maybe I should change ‘frames’ and write ‘plane’. I wanted to say that Keanu plays all roles with the same face. Ask him to play fear and he will put a face, ask him to play desire and he will put exactly the same face. He, he, he… But I don’t want to be bad, I don’t hate him, it was only a joke without malice. ^^
Take a greet. : )
By the way, here’s a link about Frank Miller’s “Holy Terror, Batman!” (Comicon 2006) that maybe interests some of you: http://comics.ign.com/articles/688/688140p1.html
Greets.
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