classics redone

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clicky

Ever have a day when you wish you were making something up?

Keanu Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Release in Dec, 2008.

I have the DVD of the original version of the Sci-Fi classic.

Movies released in the 40s and 50s had different characters because movie-goers had different expectations.

In a 1950 war movie, people were not like Arnold.
200 people attack Arnold and he stands up and (impervious to bullets) shoots all of them from 300 yds with a pistol. In 1950, they were afraid.

The characters didn't have semi-super-powers, they were more real.

If characters are more real, a person can identify with their experiences.

If the character is a super-hero, then it relates on a child-like one-dimensional comic book level.

Which is better? That seems to be a personal choice.

I watched the trailer. It doesn't look too bad.
I hope that it comes out well. I would enjoy some good Sci-Fi.

Movies about aliens aren't Sci-Fi. They are slasher-genre horror movies with teeth instead of machetes.

[shropshire 0]

The original was excellent but I belive that it was different from the short story (which had a great twist at the end).

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[mnealtx 0]

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I hope that it comes out well. I would enjoy some good Sci-Fi.

Well, it can't be any worse than the crapfest they made Starship Troopers into...

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[ryoder 1,590]

(1951) Helen: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

(2008) Helen: "Gort! Party on, dude!"

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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(1951) Helen: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

(2008) Helen: "Gort! Party on, dude!"

Keanu Reeves kitty says...

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706