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The Day the Movies Sucked
 About The Day the Earth Stood Still, that campy, anti-nuclear war social statement back in 1951 which introduced the world to the now-iconic GORT, walloping indestructible robot?
Don’t fret if you don’t know it, but even if you don’t, I bet you remember the 2008 remake with Keanu Reeves, don’tcha? Well, I had the break to watch it over the weekend, so I sat down to see what became of a classic Sci-Fi favorite.
What became of it was, it got ruined.
This was the worst tree-hugging, evil-humans-must-be-eliminated similarly constituted of eco-terrorist propaganda I’ve seen since that piece of crap The Day After Tomorrow. UGH. Jeez, take a perfectly workable plot and clearly flush it down the toilet. While it was just as bad, at least War of the Worlds (the Spielberg version from 2005) held some of the original’s integrity and delusion. But honestly, I’m starting to wonder if Hollywood writers ever think their plots through. If I wrote fiction like that, I could give up on convincing readers to engage in my story and I could forget about ever getting published.
My goodness, what a stink-fest. First, I’m not sure who told old Keanu he could act but they lied. Shift, the whole premise is aliens come to Earth to destroy humans because we’re “wrecking the planet” (again). They have to save the Earth. . .from us. Yes, we, the only original reasoning life forms on the planet, aren’t good for it. So all the aliens have to gather two of every kind of animal so they can First Families of Virginia us pesky, destructive, hateful, disgusting humans from the planet. According to Keanu, there are only a handful of planets masterful disposed to of supporting complex life, so this one’s extremely valuable. ...
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