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Remake coming out December 12 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/)

I'm a big fan of the original and it looks like they are taking this a different direction, but the trailer makes it look like it might be interesting.

Jury's out.  I'm not blown away by the trailer but I don't despite Keanu as much as some people do.  The fact that they're changing it to be more "relevant" concerns me - and by more relevant, that means another fucking eco-thriller.

Wall-E did the eco-lesson right because they didn't preach it. Just had some fat humans get off their lazy asses and start fixing shit up right.

TDTESS remake looks like it's going to be Keannu Reeves preaching at the audience in a monotone. God, that's a worse threat than blowing shit up.

Plus it totally misses the point of the original. Which I guess makes it a proper hollywood remake.  :awesome_for_real:

I  :heart: The Day the Earth Stood Still.

But Keanu and Hollywood insist on crapping in the porridge of my memories  :heartbreak:

I'll go see it.

/unabashed Keanu Reeves fan  :why_so_serious:

I doubt that this movie will be anything other than complete crap.

I'll see it expecting an absolute turd.  It looks like a heavy-handed cash-grab made by greenpeace extremists and not an examination on man's self-destructive behavior.

Original was serious fucking awesome, therefore any remake is doomed to failure simply by the high standard it has to reach.

Plus, y'know, Hollywood. Edits based on test audience responses. Predictable crappy plot lines and obligatory love interests, etc. Magic 8-ball says outlook is bleak.

This is true.  So far I think the only remake that was actually better than the original, is John Carpenter's The Thing.  I can't comment on The Departed or Insomnia, having not seen the originals, but those two were actually good movies on their own.

Ocean's Eleven with George Clooney I thought was way better than the original. But I was never much of a Sinatra-the-actor fan.

Definitely. Too bad they had to make sequels.

Good point, well made, I agree completely.



Still not holding my breath for Keanu barada nikto though  :wink:

Never saw the original, but the clooney movie was a lot of fun.  Like said before, too bad they had to sequel the thing.

I can intellectually separate remakes from originals so I don't really see any need for comparison. I just hope it's a good sci-fi movie as those are few and far between.

I like the Ocean's 11 sequels. Especially 12. Vincent Cassel is always pretty cool. That said, the original Ocean's 11 is schlock.. it would be easy to top it. Sinatra had better movies -- Manchurian Candidate, for one. I don't think the Denzel remake was as good.


Anyways..


My only real concern too.

The Departed was a very good film but I do prefer Infernal Affairs which has some subtle differences that just make it marginally better for me. YMMV.  I also like Nolan's Insomnia but it's more because of the way he shot it. The original had more interesting characters and greater ambiguity in the story and the character motivations. 

David Cronenburg's The Fly was a far superior film to the original.
Evil Dead 2 is nominally a sequel but essentially a much better remake of Evil Dead
Casino Royale! (Although it's not really fair to compare the two)
The Maltese Falcon (1941) - much better than the original.

You can start to get a little obscure too: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is sort of a remake of "The Three Outlaws" but both deal with the same factual story.  Similarly De Palma's "Scarface" is derived from same story as the Howard Hawks 1932 version. "Alien" is a very similar story to "It! The Terror From Outer Space" (about an alien that stows away on a rescue ship) but it's never really been classed as a remake.

Nic Cage's The Wicker Man is much funnier than the original.  :why_so_serious:

Wait until Lucas dies and they remake Star Wars.

Oh, who am I kidding, Lucas will re-make it himself to 'fix' it.

Don't do that.

 :why_so_serious:

The only way this movie could be better is if Michael Bay directed it.

MICHAEL BAY EXPLOSIONS! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQGo)

That made it hard to continue eating my cereal.

 :drill:

Heh.  Can I assume that was Robot Chicken ?

Yes, and you'd be right. Just thinking about that skit makes me giggle inside.  :why_so_serious:

Keanu is once again perfectly cast as an alien with no emotions.

I think Hollywood is figuring him out.

Also, a Bruce Campbell cameo is required.

Honestly, I think he's perfect for it  :grin:

Two days before release and there are few - if any - official reviews of it.

I suspect it's a dud.

I love reading Ebert's reviews when he doesn't like the movie he's reviewing.  He's in especially good form with his take on Keanu's performance in this movie.

Criticizing Keanu is silly. He's crap. We all know it. But we like him anyways. This is a law of the universe or something.

People who are overt about saying they don't like him like him the most too, by the way.

Just came back from seeing it.

Keanu is not preachy. He's well cast though. His Klaatu is perfect. Deadpan and utterly alien with a human face.

The other bits of it, the ecological parts are interesting. John Cleese's rather limited role in it is the preachiest and most hopeful at the same time.

And through half of the flick you'll want to kick Will Smith's kid in the crotchicles.

Oh, and Jennifer Connelly? Still hot.

I went and saw it friday with the old man-

I beg to differ...

The message I got out of it was two fold:

Evolve our weaponry so that we can hasten our own 'precipice'.

Quick question

Think of it as a test of a scientist's qualifications.  If the scientist gets on the plane, they weren't that good to begin with.  If they kick you in the balls and steal your car to start driving in the opposite direction, they're a keeper.

I watched this movie yesterday and I have to say I was not impressed, nearly felt asleep.
I'd not recommand watching this movie if you need sleep!

This was a pretty horrible remake of an incredible movie.


At least the special effects were OK, and Keanu's wooden acting was perfect as an alien.

RE: Hoth:

This thread is annoying if you don't want to click the spoiler tags.

Just saw it.  Good, not great.  OMG I just had a breakthru!  Jennifer Connely saved the Earth.  JC? zomg.

She needs to eat a sammich btw...

I have rather Netflixed it. 

Also, did anyone else face really big crowds today?  We went at 4pm and it was like the streets of Soylent Green fer chrissakes...er I mean Jennifer's sakes.

Sandwich? Man, what's up with that anyways? I see it from both men and women lately when referring to normal people.


Anyhow, I agree.. Good, but not great. Keanu was pretty good in it too. I think this movie could have been a little longer, and with more robot asskicking though. That thing still looks cool, 50 years later.

[edit] Ahem. Seriously though..

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/lonestar627/jennifer-connelly.jpg)

Asking for more than that would just tell me you're one of those "feeders".

Rented it this weekend.  Never saw the original.  Was pretty ho hum.  Keanu is pretty convincing as a robotic, lacking completely in charisma, alien.  Jennifer Connelly isn't as hot as she used to be.  The whole thing just kind of falls flat...neither good as an action/doomsday film, nor does it have a particularly compelling story.

Fair enough for a rainy day rental, but don't do anything stupid like going out and buying the dumb thing.

Agree with the addition that Jaden Smith (Will Smith's son) plays Jennifer Connelly's stepson and made the movie much worse by his presence (with the help of some bad writing).

I picked up the bluray 2 disc set for the included original version. It's still a good movie, with a decent transfer. A bit slick looking in places, but eminently watchable on a big tv.

I have no desire to watch the Keanu version.

Didn't know that...didn't think he was that bad, though.  There was one scene where he cried rather convincingly.

That character was fucking annoying and utterly pointless. Disaster movies do not automatically require children. I also thought Keanu's role was really well cast and very believable but the ending to the whole thing left me a bit cold. All they really did was throw our technology back a couple of hundred years and make us aware there was other life in the universe, I'm not sure if that would really be enough to get humanity to change in character. It's not the sort of definitively ongoing threat that's going to cause people to work together and fix shit, considering most people don't know why they attacked and without global communications it's going to take a long time for that information to get disseminated.

Well, there's also the small detail of how they were going to kill everybody in the process.

I didn't mean the intended plot but "Keanu"'s belief that this would be the catalyst needed for humanity to change. I guess I meant that by the end of it he was dead, we were back 200 years technologically and, now what? Like I said above it didn't seem like that alone would be enough to change humanity, he hadn't exactly communicated his beliefs home and I was left pretty sure he dies and so wouldn't be about to do so. What's the result? Another alien ship turns up and wipes us out or we just potter about until we get advanced enough for this to happen again? I guess I didn't feel there was the kind of closure a film like this needs.

Merged :)

I thought I had remembered my strong feelings about this movie!

Yea, my only real problems with the movie as a popcorn flick all lie at the feet of Jaden. Stupid famous parents.

This movie is almost Battlefield Earth bad.  The cinematography is terrible, the acting is putrid and the special effects makes dogs and cats eat their own babies.

The sad thing is, this could have been excellent with a bit of acting help. It's pretty sad when Keanu is actually a high point.

Recommendation:  If you watch this movie, drink............heavily.  Enough so you don't see the ending.

No, it really, really isn't. I'd wager you haven't seen enough bad movies if you're saying that.

I could never sit through this whole thing, but I'll just point out that if you waved a magic wand and kicked human technology back to a pre-industrial state, the net result would be an unprecedented holocaust with billions dead and the complete collapse of human society. There were less than a billion people on earth 200 years ago, now there are almost seven billion. There would just plain be no possible way to feed them all.

So instead of wiping out humanity, Space Keanu just decided to wipe out a couple hundred times more than Hitler and Stalin combined and call it even. Good times.

I disagree. This movie was putrid..............absolutely terrible.  It might not have been Battlefield Earth bad without Will Smith's kid, but he tipped it over the edge.

There are poor movies, there are bad movies, and then there's Battlefield Earth.  Seriously, have you seen the movie?

Yep.  It's my opinion.  Apparently there are people around that like this movie.......

Color me shocked.

Your opinion on this is wrong.

This movie's thread didn't deserve to be Godwin'd Battlefield Earth'd.

You seem to live in a conceptual framework in which the two available opinions on a movie are 'like' and 'Battlefield Earth'.

Broaden your horizons.

edit: damnit, nvm

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I think it is as bad as Battlefield Earth.  Is that a problem? 

People get very serious on F13 about their gradation of bad movies. 

"This one isn't so much an F as a D minus, Travis.  You're totally off base there."  Funniness then ensues.

I haven't even seen Battlefield Earth, but I think I'll just say you're full of shit anyways.   :grin:

I am.  don't you have to be to post on this board?

Not sure. Maybe I should Google the answer.  :oh_i_see: