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- mstachiw, on 12/12/2008, -4/+1341. Front Row
2. Back Row
3. Somewhere in between
4. In theatres
5. Pirated
6. On DVD upon release
7. On Bluray upon release
8. On Settop boxes like AppleTV upon release
9. In foreign markets
10. On pay-per-view
11. On cable tv
12. Edited for TV broadcast television
13. With rose colored glasses
14. Through a mirror when faced opposite the screen
15. With one eye closed at all times
I offer 5x more options than this article - ghidorahnotweak, on 12/12/2008, -0/+47That's almost like a poem. Don't forget "through the viewfinder of a camcorder you're using to create a copy you'll release online."
- lfroker, on 12/13/2008, -1/+42 Watch it in a box.
or with a fox.
with a mouse.
or in a house.
here or there.
or anywhere.
or with green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am. - MHunt, on 12/12/2008, -10/+34More important, how about three (or a dozen) ways to avoid the new DTESS? The '51 version was a classic. It didn't rely on special effects, but was still very impressive. By all accounts, this movie sucks.
AMC had the original on yesterday. They're showing it again 12/23. Watch it. It's great.
Some movies shouldn't be remade. Look at some of the reviews of this disaster: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1193610-day_the_ea ...
The rumbling sound you hear that shakes the theaters playing The Day the Earth Stood Still isn't an awesome sound system. It's everyone involved with the original turning over in their grave.
I hate myself for sitting through the entire film.
Rarely has an alien invasion (or the possible eradication of humanity) seemed less gripping.
Dunno about the Earth, but time certainly stands still for a goodly portion of Scott Derrickson's expensively produced but utterly boneheaded remake.
[A] very, very bad film.
a pale shadow of the classic, piling on special effects and grafting original elements onto a dopey and sub-par thriller that bogs down in its own self-righteousness.
This botched remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still seriously dishonors the seriously fine 1951 sci-fi landmark on which it's based.
Fox has sucked all the color out of The Day The Earth Stood Still...
While Robert Wise's science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still" was a simple story of deep ideas, the remake is an overblown, puny-minded tale featuring extraterrestrials too stupid or lazy to do a background check on the species they condemn. - inactive, on 12/12/2008, -1/+23"for monetary gain"
- sjbdallas, on 12/13/2008, -1/+21I really liked the original as well but if you separate this from the original I think it's still a decent movie. I thought GORT was badass and the concept of what the other ships were doing was neat.
The only problem I had with this movie is the kid. I get tired of movies that have a kid who won't do what he's told and ends up getting people in worse situations or dead. - Hetman, on 12/13/2008, -2/+18I just watched the original today. It is really a great movie. I do not see how this remake is even going to come close to it.
- infectaphibian, on 12/13/2008, -0/+11So the past is the past? With all these remakes it looks like the past is the present. How about you kids come up with some new ideas.
- opticwind, on 12/14/2008, -4/+14The original was just a movie. This is just a movie. Both were created for money. Neither affects one another.
If you don't like the new movie, criticize it for its faults, not just because it "ruins" the original by existing. - shotgunefx, on 12/13/2008, -2/+12Save ten bucks and read Farewell to the Master
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_to_the_Maste ... - shotgunefx, on 12/13/2008, -0/+9Actually, whether most people may care or not is one thing, but a lot of people have seen the original, and personally, I care.
- AdeleMor, on 12/12/2008, -3/+12All I care about this movie is Don Draper.
- frieddonuts, on 12/13/2008, -0/+9Hey dude, I'm 18 and that's one of my fave movies. Don't bundle us all in w/ this d-bag. Some of us have respect for great movies that can never be outdone.
- leif77, on 12/13/2008, -0/+8dugg for 13
- infectaphibian, on 12/13/2008, -3/+11Don't expect any cool original ideas like the galaxy having a robot police force, Hollywood is out of original ideas. The movie was, however, an entertaining action flick. The one major problem that this and other movies from here on will have is that the product placement is so over the top that you feel like you are watching commercials at several points during the movie, and after a while it really started to piss me off. Imagine if the original film was like this - "let me just turn on my RCA radio and see what going on with these flying saucers." Less than classic....
- newagenda, on 12/13/2008, -0/+8I'll give it to you - that was a very witty comment. I like.
- kinseyincanada, on 12/14/2008, -0/+7you and people like you are the reason why "teens" get such a bad rap .
- SemiSarcastic, on 12/14/2008, -0/+6Not to be a buzz kill here, but it's baby boomers and gen X'ers who funded and made this project possible. Sorry, but your generation is also filled with it's own artistically corrupt opportunists.
Broken Angels beget Broken Angels. - Nrvana423, on 12/14/2008, -1/+7I'm still going.
- Zarchon, on 12/14/2008, -0/+5I suggest you don't see this remake. The only good point in the movie was John Cleese talking about the good aspects of humanity. The rest of the movie was slow and boring.
- Halsfield, on 12/14/2008, -3/+8krull was awesome.
- Denominator88, on 12/14/2008, -2/+7It's says a lot about this film that we need an article to tell us how to perceive this movie so we can can enjoy it. It's funny, I don't need any of that with original movie. The original was a masterpiece.
- joebaloney, on 12/14/2008, -4/+9I doubt "the original" gives a crap.
- inactive, on 12/14/2008, -1/+6Kill yourself now.
- peschelnet, on 12/14/2008, -0/+5The technological singularity is a theoretical future point of unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.[1]
See link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singula ... - usbserial, on 12/14/2008, -4/+9I saw it yesterday and was a little disappointed.
"We can change! See, we can change!" ... "Oh, yes, I see... before I didn't think you could change, but because of the last 10 minutes I believe you can change"
I'm sorry, but a civilization with the technology to guide a massive object near the speed of light in a perfect collision course of earth and to completely wipe a planet clean would not have trouble terraform planets conducive to life. The whole "planets like earth are incredibly rare" bit is BS. - opticwind, on 12/14/2008, -1/+6What an interesting conclusion to the article. The idea that this is a sequel instead of a remake can actually make me re-think my views on this film.
- mfc5200, on 12/14/2008, -1/+6I was very worried about seeing the movie. The original is in my top favorite movies list, and I was wondering whether or not I should go and see this movie.
This just sealed the deal for me. Screw it, I don't want the concept of this film being ruined for me.
Its like when you read a book, make your own visualizations for the characters, and then go and see the movie and have this ruined. And then whenever you re-read the book, you can't get these lame-ass movie characters out of your head. - vagrantwade, on 12/14/2008, -0/+4I loved the new adaption. So ***** you all.
- evetsleep, on 12/14/2008, -0/+4I didn't love or hate it. It was 5 out of 10 in my book. I actually liked the concept about the Earth being rare and the reason why it was decided that it should be 'saved' was actually quite interesting to me.
I do see some problems with it that many have pointed out (so I won't re-hash), but I didn't feel that it was as bad as many seem to think. - Meccabilly, on 12/14/2008, -2/+6This movie is not Great by any means and it has nothing to do with it's status as a remake. My 2 cents:
At the start of the movie they gather up a whole range of scientists who might be immensely usefully for first contact with aliens and their giant spaceship – a civil engineer, an astronomy guy, physicist, a bunch of others and Jennifer Connelly who's job title is Professor of Alien Life or some such rubbish. So they are going to see the Alien ship from the trailers right? Wrong.
The problem is that they are not actually being whisked off to meet an alien mother ship – the emergency in question is an immense object hurtling towards New York at ridiculous speeds. Why gather all these scientists together? Well apparently to deal with the 'aftermath' of the apocalypse that is hitting New York in about an hour.
So of course the best way to do this is to FLY all these scientists OVER NEW YORK in a bunch of HELICOPTERS!
What? Do the government HATE scientists or something and just want to wipe them out?
Oh well, it's just as well it slows down and lands and is after all an Alien Spaceship. Which they didn't know till that moment.
So there are military there as well (apparently HQ wanted them all to die in a fiery apocalypse as well), and the Alien emerges. Jennifer Connelly gets all greedy for publicity and steps out to be the first to touch an alien first, but then some jittery ***** soldier shoots the Alien (no wonder they wanted to let these guys die).
Anyway so Alien is shipped to test centre and after emerging from suit thing (actually quite cool) wakes up. He asks to leave and quite reasonably is told that he can't cos, you know, he's an Alien and they can't just let him walk out. Jennifer Connelly however is some kind of crazy traitor woman who hates her country and would happily have an Alien of unknown purpose running around unsupervised – and seeing that we later find out he wants to kill all humans her actions make her some kind of monster. So she helps him escape (after a cool lie detector scene) and catches up with him later to drive him around on his mission to destroy all humans. There's also some annoying kid there who quite reasonably thinks JC is insane for helping the killer alien, but everytime he's on screen i wanted him to die, so i blocked him out.
So Keanu goes to meet an old Asian guy, who is also an Alien. Asian guy says he's been there 70 years now and he's learnt that Humans are destructive, horrible, ass-hats hellbent on destroying the planet, they have to be wiped out AND THEY CAN NEVER CHANGE. Keanu agrees and says they should go do that, but Asian guy suddenly turns around and says – No, he's staying, because over the years he's learnt to love them and he's blessed for having had 70 years among them and wants to die with them. What? That completely undermines what you just said and makes you seem like a crazy old dude with some kind of sick suicide pact on his mind. If you want to die then go jump off a bridge, don't take us with you.
Keanu tells Jennifer Connelly he's going to destroy the Human race because they are destroying the earth and they CAN NEVER CHANGE.
JC takes him to nobel prize winner John Cleese who plays him some Bach, which apparently the aliens have never heard in their DECADES of in depth research. At this point it's clear that the aliens are pretty cavalier with their approach to this and just see wiping out humans as the easiest option and have not really bothered to come up with another solution, like perhaps HELPING US.
So Keanu sets off the apocalyptic CGI cloud of nano machines and we see some CGI effect shots. Then the annoying kid from earlier asks Keanu to raise his dad from the dead. He says he can't and Jennifer Connelly turns up to comfort the annoying kid.
At this point Keanu realises there is 'Another Side' to humans and they should be saved. What? A kid is sad his dad is dead and Keanu realises humans have emotions? This after old asian guy states they CAN NEVER CHANGE? Jennifer Connelly says they can and suddenly Keanu calls off the CGI cloud and saves humans.
As he leaves and as his one condition to saving humans he disables ALL TECHNOLOGY. Riiiight.
So as far as most of the world is concerned, Aliens arrive, destroy half of New York and then disappear, but not before dropping us into the dark ages. It's going to be pandemonium! People will be killing each other Mad Max style just to eat. What do these Aliens think this will achieve? It's the height of hypocrisy to say we can't have technology but to use nano machines to kill us all.
And if they could turn off all technology WORLD WIDE in an instant FORVER, then why use a cloud of nano machines? Why not do that first?
The Aliens came across like complete ***** who we should go into space at the first opportunity and destroy to make sure they don't go around killing off any other sentient life. Bastars.
Oh well, it's just as well it slows down and lands and is after all an Alien Spaceship. Which they didn't know till that moment.
So there are military there as well (apparently HQ wanted them all to die in a fiery apocalypse as well), and the Alien emerges. Jennifer Connelly gets all greedy for publicity and steps out to be the first to touch an alien first, but then some jittery ***** soldier shoots the Alien (no wonder they wanted to let these guys die).
Anyway so Alien is shipped to test centre and after emerging from suit thing (actually quite cool) wakes up. He asks to leave and quite reasonably is told that he can't cos, you know, he's an Alien and they can't just let him walk out. Jennifer Connelly however is some kind of crazy traitor woman who hates her country and would happily have an Alien of unknown purpose running around unsupervised – and seeing that we later find out he wants to kill all humans her actions make her some kind of monster. So she helps him escape (after a cool lie detector scene) and catches up with him later to drive him around on his mission to destroy all humans. There's also some annoying kid there who quite reasonably thinks JC is insane for helping the killer alien, but everytime he's on screen i wanted him to die, so i blocked him out.
So Keanu goes to meet an old Asian guy, who is also an Alien. Asian guy says he's been there 70 years now and he's learnt that Humans are destructive, horrible, ass-hats hellbent on destroying the planet, they have to be wiped out AND THEY CAN NEVER CHANGE. Keanu agrees and says they should go do that, but Asian guy suddenly turns around and says – No, he's staying, because over the years he's learnt to love them and he's blessed for having had 70 years among them and wants to die with them. What? That completely undermines what you just said and makes you seem like a crazy old dude with some kind of sick suicide pact on his mind. If you want to die then go jump off a bridge, don't take us with you.
Keanu tells Jennifer Connelly he's going to destroy the Human race because they are destroying the earth and they CAN NEVER CHANGE.
JC takes him to nobel prize winner John Cleese who plays him some Bach, which apparently the aliens have never heard in their DECADES of in depth research. At this point it's clear that the aliens are pretty cavalier with their approach to this and just seem wiping out humans as the easiest option.
So Keanu sets off the apocalyptic CGI cloud of nano machines and we see some CGI effect shots. Then the annoying kid from earlier asks Keanu to raise his dad from the dead. He says he can't and Jennifer Connelly turns up to comfort the annoying kid.
At this point Keanu realises there is 'Another Side' to humans and they should be saved. What? A kid is sad his dad is dead and Keanu realises humans have emotions? This after old asian guy states they CAN NEVER CHANGE? Jennifer Connelly says they can and suddenly Keanu calls off the CGI cloud and saves humans.
As he leaves and as his one condition to saving humans he disables ALL TECHNOLOGY. Riiiight.
So as far as most of the world is concerned, Aliens arrive, destroy half of New York and then disappear, but not before dropping us into the dark ages. It's going to be pandemonium! People will be killing each other Mad Max style just to eat. What do these Aliens think this will achieve? It's the height of hypocrisy to say we can't have technology but to use nano machines to kill us all.
And if they could turn off all technology WORLD WIDE in an instant FORVER, then why use a cloud of nano machines? Why not do that first?
The Aliens came across like complete ***** who we should go into space at the first opportunity and destroy to make sure they don't go around killing off any other sentient life. Bastards. - Pegritz, on 12/14/2008, -2/+6Good film. Not great, but good. Seeing nanodisassemblers tearing apart New York City and New Joisey is always a good thing. Hell, I'd pay to see the movie just for *that*.
Seriously, though--this film may be the first I've ever seen that *accurately* depicts what post-Singular technology would "look like": extraordinarily advanced, but still recognizably derived from certain technological/physical principles we're all familiar with today. - cubicledrone, on 12/14/2008, -4/+74. Another ***** remake because Hollywood would rather pay lawyers than writers.
- opticwind, on 12/14/2008, -2/+5Since it came out today, I wonder if you've actually seen the new movie yet?
- PrometheusBorn, on 12/14/2008, -1/+4Go Windows Tabletop!
- GorfTron, on 12/14/2008, -4/+7Klaatu wanted a bailout.
- KennMac, on 12/14/2008, -1/+4I enjoy films that challenge your way of thinking. And this movie did exactly that. It wasn't a home run, but it was pretty good.
- PrometheusBorn, on 12/14/2008, -1/+4I'd like to agree with you but it's been a while since my College days when I learned the intricacies of terraforming to form a fair conclusion.
- n0t0kayipr0mis3, on 12/14/2008, -1/+4I saw the movie today, me and my friends agreed that it was pretty bad, Keanu Reeves' acting obviously wasn't good. At first though it was kinda engrossing but it got lazy and there were parts that really chronologically didn't make sense, in my opinion, i wouldn't recommend it. There were also parts that were pretty far-fetched even for a sci-fi movie.
- inactive, on 12/14/2008, -1/+4I just got back from seeing it as I'm posting this, it's 1am..
My review:
Meh. - Falldog, on 12/13/2008, -10/+13I had the opportunity to go see this film last night. I opted not to out of respect for the original and refusal to give money to a studio who thought this was a good idea in the first place.
- cyrix, on 12/14/2008, -0/+3I was going to say the same. The movie still manages to retain most of the message from the original. I mean really, to only two massive differences were Klaatu's abilities and of course the whole "cloud of death." I was not looking forward to seeing this movie, but went with a few friends who wanted to see it and I was pleasantly surprised by it. It's not a great movie, but it is something I'd watch again for sure.
- cheekdog, on 12/14/2008, -0/+2reading that takes longer than watching the actual movie
- Yazilliclick, on 12/15/2008, -0/+2I agree, this movie was decent and not nearly as bad as it's being made out to be. It seems it's just popular to go to the extreme when criticizing. As the article points out the first half of the movie is actually pretty good, the second half somewhat falls apart but not enough to ruin it. There are certainly several areas I would have done differently but ultimately it was entertaining if perhaps not thought provoking. And many aspects of it are presented much more realistically and more well thought out then other alien invasion/general alien movies.
- proliance, on 12/14/2008, -1/+3I watched this movie yesterday and when I left I felt like I had just been lectured by Al Gore.
- TheSum, on 12/14/2008, -0/+2On a plane
- warriorscot, on 12/14/2008, -1/+3You don't have a clue what it would take to terraform a planet. Nobody does we have never done it and we have never seriously looked at how to do it.
The number of planets capable of having life forms develop IS very small not in a universal sense but locally its not going to be huge. The number of conditions that had to be just perfect to let the earth form and survive is massive. We have yet to find another one like it. All we have been able to find is close but not quite and not even many of those yet.
Finding planets capable of being Terraformed would be just as difficult because if they weren't already capable of supporting life there would be a decent reason why it wouldn't already be like that naturally. And then you have to look at it in logistics based on that fault. Even an ultra advanced race would have difficulty remelting and spinning a planets core without destroying it.
It would be easier not to bother terraforming at all and just mine the planets to build living space from scratch. And even that would be a gargantuan task that we can only dream of being able to do in a few thousand years if we survive that long. - inactive, on 12/14/2008, -0/+2I don't think it's that Hollywood can't come up with original ideas, it's just that they're deathly afraid that any movie with an original idea will flop.
- buddamus, on 12/14/2008, -0/+2Its the perfect role for Keanu as the character is emotionless like his acting
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