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Laughable.
What a bad actor.
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... the one with John Cleese, Nobel genius who "authenticates" their encounter with "science"!
Didn't you love it when the clacking of chalk became universal music to the minds of the mathematicians from different worlds?
I could never sit through the original TDTESS till I saw the remake - made the original all the more significant for me.
Too...Less too few, too late...
...why you wanted to see a remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Keenu Reeves in the first place.
ANY Keanu Reeves movie has the potential of being so transcendentally bad that it becomes a classic. I keep hoping for another "Point Break."
Actually I look at films just to check what is happening out there.
I am a curious mind you see.
...it's a public forum.
We discuss things, y'see.
We ask questiond of others posters, right?
...I have a curious mind, too!
But I don't look at shit, if it smells bad in the first place.
We discuss yes but we are not obligatory inquisitive.
I look at everything in small dose because I want to know how shit taste.
Now to come back to the point we are here, to criticizes films, the one I mention is bad.
What is your opinion on it.
May we learn about it.
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You are into something.
... go out of my way to see bad films, or to taste shit, sorry.
I am a curious mind you not.
Now what is your view about THAT film. We are here on a film Forum after all...
..is an excellent film for the time, avoiding the 'communists/aliens' will wipe us out for the more subtle view of warning us about the consequences of such an attitude. And don't forget the enigmatic 'Klaatu' phrase !!
Michael Rennie is exactly the right choice for the carrier of wisdom.
But Reeves shouldn't take all the blame for this stinker. Writers, directors, creators, etc. all should be run out of Hollywood. This one made the War of the Worlds remake look like Gone With the Wind.
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
... but I found Spielburg's "The War of The Worlds" an excellent update.
I found its take to be tone accurate on war, technology, weapons, refugee panic, survival of an otherworldly threat, and personal choices faced in such an arena - even as a spectacularly entertaining cartoon.
Maybe I just like Spielburg's growth as a director - his ability to entertain and educate.
Tom Cruise nailed his character in this one - both funny and compelling.
my wording in the original post made it seem less so, intention was to say it was far from Gone With the Wind or any 5* movie (but still quite enjoyable)
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Yes!
the original presented some very interesting and relevent ideas about ETs. It has been said that the original film was a socialogical experiment by the military to judge the public reaction to the idea of ETs visiting Earth.The remake was also particularly disappointing in that it portrayed aliens as evil, belligerent monsters again -- the standard take on them in the movies since Close Encounters. The original portrayed ET as more evolved and non-war mongering as opposed to man.
Edits: 02/15/11
The original was a typical film of the nervousness of the time. Communism.
ET? I donīt think so. A political film. Yes.
...about the consequenxces of giving into the general paranoia of the era. Quite different.
For all we know, Jules Verne also was a paranoid product of anti-communist propaganda.
Different eras, different causes ...the book (1898) has been suggested as being a commentary on British Imperialism or victorian fears, the radio drama of 1938(I presume you mean this, by 'Welles'?) as a commentary on the uprise of nazism, and the '53 Byron Haskin film as a commentary on communism.
Jules Verne is more the adventurous, heroic side (Great Exhibition etc) of the era although he has been criticised for his anti-semetism.
You can keep trying to connect people's fears to the particulars of their times... truth is you will always find some excuse.
Which is just another way of saying there is natural human need for scary stuff - always has been, always will be. Kids tell scary stories under the blanket with flashlight, they grow up and some of them go on making scary movies.
So you might as well say the movie X was scary because it was made in October, when something bad was happening... but something bad happens every day.
PS. By Welles I meant Wells, but it kinda works either way! :)
... kids of a later generation ran to see Friday 13th ...in the generation of the serial killer. Our fears, times & the products of them are interdependant, as are our needs to excorcise them.
No. It was about the Time.
***The remake was also particularly disappointing in that it portrayed aliens as evil, belligerent monsters again -- the standard take on them in the movies since Close Encounters. The original portrayed ET as more evolved and non-war mongering as opposed to man.
Wow... it was time someone stood fro them aliens rights...
You just can't invent that sort of crap.
You are wrong about this being especially bad... if you turn on our movie channels, they are swarming with garbage like you would not believe, making this one look like a masterpiece. This was a typical Hollywood nothing... heck, I finished the film, which is more than I can say of many others.
I am mad at me. Looking at something so...what a shit.
I think you are turning into an Old Goat!Grits will be mad!
Edits: 02/14/11
she needs some meat back on them bones.
I am trying to join you... But boy is this hard...
For a change, show us a nice looking German actress. Anyone besides Wokalek, please...
...The alternative...Both....
....is that a goatee she's got down there??
Dunno, but certainly a goodie.
This is the best Germany has to offer?
Well germany ainīt no France...
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