Day the earth stood still
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MikeyT said:
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
That's not strictly true, the build up during the cold war leading to the reality of MAD has kept an uneasy peace between the East and West, I think, without them, we'd have been tearing chunks out of each otherThe 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
Edited by MikeyT on Sunday 14th December 14:01
Yugguy said:
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, f
k YEAH" movie.
please elaborate on what you mean when you say a typical..... k YEAH" movie.
and lets hear some more examples on a "typical American" movie
*spit*
The original is excellent, standing well above the typical "US sci-fi B movies" of the time (Forbidden Planet and Invasion of the body snatchers being the other two examples of good US sci-fi from that period).
I do not understand why it was felt necessary to remake it, it wont tempt me to the cinema.
I do not understand why it was felt necessary to remake it, it wont tempt me to the cinema.
onomatopoeia said:
The original is excellent, standing well above the typical "US sci-fi B movies" of the time (Forbidden Planet and Invasion of the body snatchers being the other two examples of good US sci-fi from that period).
I do not understand why it was felt necessary to remake it, it wont tempt me to the cinema.
Aye, I had shamefully forgotten Forbidden Planet! SUPERB film.I do not understand why it was felt necessary to remake it, it wont tempt me to the cinema.
Emergency Cancellation Archimedes.
And am I weird to fine Anne Francis hot in it?
Symbolica said:
Yugguy said:
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..... k YEAH" movie.and lets hear some more examples on a "typical American" movie
*spit*
XXX (Yo. Dude)
The Italian Job Mk II (Good example of getting the Foreign s
t out of the way first before returning to safety in Hollywood)Queen LaFeets version of "Taxi"
Having said that, amongst the dross there have been some superb films to come out of America. Sadly the Day the Earth Stood Still isn't one of them
Or just pirate bay it
I'd pay to see it if it was clearly going to be good, but it clearly isn't.
The entire premise is stupid. WHY would aliens MURDER humans to eradicate them, when by the aliens logic humans are destroying the biosphere that can sustain their specific life requirements in the first place.
It's like killing a man with a gun about to commit suicide for wanting to commit suicide... duuurrrr
Only Hollywood could be so fecking stupid... I think Team America had it right with the "FAG"
Just a bunch of wealthy hippies.
I'd pay to see it if it was clearly going to be good, but it clearly isn't.
The entire premise is stupid. WHY would aliens MURDER humans to eradicate them, when by the aliens logic humans are destroying the biosphere that can sustain their specific life requirements in the first place.
It's like killing a man with a gun about to commit suicide for wanting to commit suicide... duuurrrr
Only Hollywood could be so fecking stupid... I think Team America had it right with the "FAG"
Just a bunch of wealthy hippies.
Famous Graham said:
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!
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