Day the earth stood still

[Fort Jefferson]

I remember the 1951 version when I was a kid, it was the best film I'd ever seen.

[trooperiziz]

sidewayz said:

thetrash said:

thinfourth2 said:

If it is a worse remake then the remake they did of "The flight of the phoenix" then i will be impressed

About on par with it for quality.

There was a trailer for Watchmen at the start

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

This looks really,really good.

+1 and what an Awesome website!

Sure the website looks pretty, but it resized my window without asking, which is just plain rude...

[Balmoral Green]

Fort Jefferson said:

when I was a kid, it was the best film I'd ever seen.

When you were a kid, they hadn't made many films.

[FourWheelDrift]

Sciroccology said:

motco said:

Does Gort feature in the new film?

Yes, he's in this trailer at about 25s - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qrW2C5U5eDA

[Fort Jefferson]

Balmoral Green said:

Fort Jefferson said:

when I was a kid, it was the best film I'd ever seen.

When you were a kid, they hadn't made many films.

I've just watched it on youtube it's in 9 parts.

[Jasandjules]

Well, I enjoyed the original, but if this one is about Global warming (didn't they see the long range weather forecast?) then it can feck off...

[LotusACBC]

Yugguy said:

Saw a trailer for it. The old film was intelligent and thoughtful. The trailer made the new film look like a typical "AMERICA, fk YEAH" movie.

please elaborate on what you mean when you say a typical.....

and lets hear some more examples on a "typical American" movie

[TheEnd]

Independence day was typically american.
world about to be destroyed, but the Yanks save the day, and the RAF are all
"Jolly good show, old bean! those American boys did a spiffing job" as they sipped pims on the base's cricket field.

How about that one with the enygma machine captured off a U-Boat, by the US, despite them still sitting there with "Player 2 Press start!" flashing on their screens

[Apache]

sidewayz said:

thetrash said:

thinfourth2 said:

If it is a worse remake then the remake they did of "The flight of the phoenix" then i will be impressed

About on par with it for quality.

There was a trailer for Watchmen at the start

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

This looks really,really good.

+1 and what an Awesome website!

ooh ooh, now that looks promising, the bint looks pure porn and the choice of music (Muse) spot on

[carmonk]

I would have thought it was an ideal role for Canoe, not having to act and all, but evidently not...

[Mars]

Independance Day
Armageddon
Core
La la la la

And let's not get into the re-writing of history that Hollywood engages in, and I'm not talking about Mel Gibson's apparent hatred of the British (well, he is Australian I suppose).

[JonRB]

Yugguy said:

The original DTESS and When Worlds Collide are my favourite films of that era and two of my favourite scifi films fullstop.

They're classics of their time. As is Forbidden Planet.

[JonRB]

LotusACBC said:

please elaborate on what you mean when you say a typical.....

and lets hear some more examples on a "typical American" movie

Oh, where shall I start? Jingoistic, revisionist, lowbrow, popcorn-munching action flick.

As others have said, 'Independence Day' is a pretty good example and 'Team America' the ultimate parody.

[nigelfr]

TheEnd said:

How about that one with the enygma machine captured off a U-Boat, by the US, despite them still sitting there with "Player 2 Press start!" flashing on their screens

[peterperkins]

JonRB said:

Yugguy said:

The original DTESS and When Worlds Collide are my favourite films of that era and two of my favourite scifi films fullstop.

They're classics of their time. As is Forbidden Planet.

In a similar vein I heartily recommend :-

"The day the earth caught fire."

[Yugguy]

LotusACBC said:

Yugguy said:

Saw a trailer for it. The old film was intelligent and thoughtful. The trailer made the new film look like a typical "AMERICA, fk YEAH" movie.

please elaborate on what you mean when you say a typical.....

and lets hear some more examples on a "typical American" movie

Independence Day.

[Eric Mc]

Red Dawn

[Famous Graham]

TheEnd said:

Balmoral Green said:

Klaatu Barada Nikto.

OMG - i've just figured it out!

That was the words used in Evil Dead III- Army of Darkness by Ash to summon spirits or something from the Necromoninicon!

I love easter eggs!

Just to make sure you've got this the right way around - the Evil Dead line was an homage to the original The Day The World Stood Still, it's not a case of the remake giving the nod to Sam Raimi

[Pesty]

Apache said:

sidewayz said:

thetrash said:

thinfourth2 said:

If it is a worse remake then the remake they did of "The flight of the phoenix" then i will be impressed

About on par with it for quality.

There was a trailer for Watchmen at the start

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

This looks really,really good.

+1 and what an Awesome website!

ooh ooh, now that looks promising, the bint looks pure porn and the choice of music (Muse) spot on

I recomend you read the Graphic Novel(comic).

Its really is excellent

[MikeyT]

Al Gort

The original was a superb film - "I have travelled many million of your miles" ...

It really was a peaceful story and a warning to the world what would happen if nuclear weapons were allowed to profligate. Fifty years on, how closer to world peace are we ? Nowhere ... some of those in the Middle East should be made to sit down in a cinema in Iraq and watch this

Wikipedia said about the guy who played Gort:
Lock Martin's unusual height did not translate into strength and he had difficulty with managing his robot suit in The Day the Earth Stood Still. For scenes where he was intended to physically lift Patricia Neal, she was either held by wires or replaced with a lightweight dummy.

Edited by MikeyT on Sunday 14th December 14:01