The Day The Earth Stood Still (2 Viewers)

[Spitfrnd]

This new movie MIGHT be interesting Sci Fi, but with so many changes why did they even bother to name it after a true classic piece of cinema? I haven't seen it but some reviewers are already saying it belongs in the honey wagon.
...Gary

I think that it is often the case that the re-make should not be named after the original but of course they are trying to capitalize on name recognition. I would treat them as similar but different; you really can't compare them. The original is a classic, the new one is good at some things (better of course at CGI) but not so good at others (the garbled green earth message, someone here may have liked that). It certainly lacks the clear moral message of the original but entertaining in a different way.

 

[Cardigan600]

Yo Troopers, being a big Sci-Fi fan, could not wait to see this remake of the Old Classic. VERDICT never saw such a load of nonsense come out of Hollywood for years, to say it was dreadful is an understatement, it was even worse than Independence Day and that was a joke. They totally lost the plot of why he came to Earth and what Gort (the robot) was about. I mean they have had sixty years to think about improving on the original, plus after all the excellent ideas from the TV series of Star Trek & Stargate, it would have been easy, but they managed to totally trash the whole message of the original. So the best three Sci-Fi movies still put out are the Original of, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, & Starman.
One day someone will make a good Sci-Fi movie, come back Spielberg we need you man.
Bernard.

 

[Spitfrnd]

Yo Troopers, being a big Sci-Fi fan, could not wait to see this remake of the Old Classic. VERDICT never saw such a load of nonsense come out of Hollywood for years, to say it was dreadful is an understatement, it was even worse than Independence Day and that was a joke. They totally lost the plot of why he came to Earth and what Gort (the robot) was about. I mean they have had sixty years to think about improving on the original, plus after all the excellent ideas from the TV series of Star Trek & Stargate, it would have been easy, but they managed to totally trash the whole message of the original. So the best three Sci-Fi movies still put out are the Original of, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, & Starman.
One day someone will make a good Sci-Fi movie, come back Spielberg we need you man.
Bernard.

Well that sounds unfortunate but FTR, I really liked Independence Day and did not care much for Starman. Close Encounters was very good; at least you didn't mention "ET", another Spielberg effort. Remaking any classic is a dicey game, but I am still keeping an open mind until I get around to it. Of course, all this is opinion and I doubt they could have made this bad enough to ecilpse Cloverfield for the number one bomb of the last 60 years for me.

 

[marco55]

Yo Troopers, being a big Sci-Fi fan, could not wait to see this remake of the Old Classic. VERDICT never saw such a load of nonsense come out of Hollywood for years, to say it was dreadful is an understatement, it was even worse than Independence Day and that was a joke. They totally lost the plot of why he came to Earth and what Gort (the robot) was about. I mean they have had sixty years to think about improving on the original, plus after all the excellent ideas from the TV series of Star Trek & Stargate, it would have been easy, but they managed to totally trash the whole message of the original. So the best three Sci-Fi movies still put out are the Original of, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, & Starman.
One day someone will make a good Sci-Fi movie, come back Spielberg we need you man.
Bernard.

Don't forget Alien.Or was that horror in a Sci-Fi setting.
Mark