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The remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

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I must confess I have never seen the original; leastwise not the entire movie (1951 vintage).

But the 2008 remake, to me at least, stunk to high heaven. Kathy Bates's performance was ridiculously bad. Another example of how bad an updated version can be.

Maybe sometimes original movies are better left alone?

Another example would be "Flight of the Phoenix". To me, no one could top Jimmy Stewart's performance; or anyone else's in that fine movie.

NC
 
And let's not even get into movies based on popular old TV shows, like "Starsky & Hutch" or "The Dukes of Hazzard"...:barf:
I didn't see either one of those because I didn't want my pleasant memories of the original shows corrupted.
 
its hard to beat the originals
could you imagine a remake of Casablanca
with Tom Cruise:running:
LOL
H
 
The 2008 version had some nice special effects, but that's about it. Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting rather tired of the leftist propaganda machine that is Hollywood now-a-days.
 
The orginal "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is supposedly one of the best Sci-Fi movies of the fifties. I enjoyed it as a kid, but as I got older, the message began to gnaw at me.

A race of advanced aliens comes to Earth to tell us that we had better change our ways or else. They've come up with a solution -- to build a cadre of giant robot space police to enslave... I mean "enforce" their good behavior. It's obey or die!

Now really! I thought a race of beings who could completely stop every machine on Earth would come up with a better solution than that!!

Of course, the secret here is that once we've signed the peace pact and gotten rid of our weapons, the aliens will politely point out that we are now all slaves to the Emperor Ming and take us to the spice mines... LOL!

Me, I prefer "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers"!!
 
Henry said:
its hard to beat the originals
could you imagine a remake of Casablanca
with Tom Cruise:running:
LOL
H
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LOLOLOL.....!!! OH man. Henry.. Bad visual..




The original of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' is awesome. Brilliant concepts and for then, effects. Gort was pretty cool and the saucer was very cool looking. (The stair ramp edge couldnt be found in the surface of the disc 'after' it retracted).

I didnt see the new one. No saucer, nothing but big round things and destruction and mayhem.. Nothing what the original was about.


In the original, the 'aliens' have these robots that keep the peace. They didnt say anything about us requiring them. But they didnt like us using Atomics in warfare, and thats why he was sent to Earth as a representative to say 'hey, settle it down or you can get us all hurt after a period of time'.


Gort berringah necktu berradda! :d




Bill
 
Me, I prefer "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers"!!
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YEAHHHH!!!!!
Saucer is on my "list" With rotating disc part, and retracting door/entrance cylinder. Oh, and the cool little dudes with their "fists of fury"!<!-- / message -->
 
"The Day the Earth Stood Still", is a classic and should never been remade.
Also another 50's classic, that had an unfortunate title was, "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. That was a well done film and scared the bejabbers out of me.
I still get sweaty palms thinking about it.
 
I also have the original The Thing from Another World [1951],a great movie.The John Carpenter remake (1982) is also very good.
 
The only good remake I have seen in a long time was the latest version of King Kong. While not perfect it beat all the other King Kong remakes and spin offs badly.
 
sadly, hollywood already remade "yeopgijeogin geunyeo". (my sassy girl)
the original korean movie was an awesome film, i wouldn't bother to see the hollywood version, i know better.

they are right now re-making "7 samurai", one of the greatest films of all time, and although a mental block mercifully prevents me from recalling who was cast, i do remember it was rediculous.
it remains to be seen what they can do with "oldboy". the only thing to their credit there is casting will smith. still, i have my doubts.

see, here's the thing with remaking great (especially asian) films.
the story is already written.
the market testing is already done, and has shown positive results.
rights are often bought for a song.
it becomes sooo cheap to remake an already established film that when it's released they never lose $$ no matter how bad they do. microwave success.
and who do they have to thank for it? John Q Public, that's who. because he runs to the theatre to see every crappy thing hollywood releases, and almost never sees anything foriegn or subtitled. he gets duped, and likes it. until the general (north american) population begins to look for better quality movies, they'll never get them. there are awesome directors in italy, australia, japan, south korea, china and thailand that most of you never heard of, and never will, as long as you get your movies from block buster, and rely on your local newspaper for what to see.
 
I didn't care for the remake either. A bunch of my friends were telling me how good it was and how I needed to see it.. Bought it when it came out on DVD, gotta say I am sorry I did.
 
I have to say that some can remake a movie and do an outstanding job. If Day the Earth Stood Still would have been kept to its original plot and all, I think it would have done awesome. But what that movie was compared to the original, they should have renamed it... Like 'green day attack' or something.

To do that, and use another movies name, I just think was not good. To me, (personally speaking), its like a totally different movie but they used a historic title for its name.

I'll bet Spielberg could have made a fantastic version!!! A newer classic...




Bill
 
Ditto about "The day the earth stood still".
They should have shot Steve Martin for trying to impersonate Peter Sellers, Could you imagine anyone else playing Dr. Strangelove ?

Like both versions of Cape Fear.

Can't wait for "Public Enemies" to open here, surely Johnny Depp can't mess up Cagney's performance to much.
 
When Hollywood runs out of ideas (and they ran out of good ideas a long time ago), the remake a classic with all kinds of special effects. Yeah, the new version has more glitz and glamor, but the acting often leaves much to be desired and the story gets lost to the special effects. It a matter of re-capping an old tire; yes, you get new tread, but it's the same old side wall and the new tread is going to peel off at some point.
 
Well its been a bad week for me
went out and brought the day the earth stood still on dvd and wanted my 28$ back
just got back from the Cinema and want my 15$ back after seeing Star Trek
Hollywood should STOP reinventing the wheel they suck at it :D
Wozza
 
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