12.12.08 is the Day the Earth Stood Still
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi
Actors: Josue Aguirre, Daniel Bacon, Sverrir Björgvinsson, Chris Bradford, John Cleese, Joshua Close, Ben Cotton, Aaron Craven, Roger R. Cross, Terence Dament, Mike Dopud, Aaron Douglas, Brad Dryborough, Victor Favrin, Jon Hamm
Director(s): Scott Derrickson
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor [...]
The Day the Earth Stood Still 720P
12.12.08 is the Day the Earth Stood Still
Actors: Josue Aguirre, Daniel Bacon, Sverrir Björgvinsson, Chris Bradford, John Cleese, Joshua Close, Ben Cotton, Aaron Craven, Roger R. Cross, Terence Dament, Mike Dopud, Aaron Douglas, Brad Dryborough, Victor Favrin, Jon Hamm
Director(s): Scott Derrickson
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
I so wanted this film to be different from other remakes and be decent rendition of either the original 1951 film or the short story ‘Farewell to the Master,’ but it was neither. Adding superior effects does not make a better movie because, ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still,’ is a movie with a message and the message was lost in this hopeless remake.As humans we have to learn to understand our way out of problems rather than use violence to change hearts and minds and as we eventually reach other planets and stars other possible Alien races would see us as a terrible threat to peace. This film does ably illustrate this as the first reaction in the film is to shoot and bomb anything that moves and the military characters are flat idiotic caricatures. The Politicians are just as bad, they are badly drawn and unlike most ‘real’ politicians have no concept of negotiation or bargaining that would be the case in the real world. The original film had the secretary of defence as an apologist for human immaturity and our propensity for violence. This film has violence on both Klaatu’s side and the human side and this displays the message that violence is necessary when it is not.Klaatu is a portrayed as a violent entity and a harbinger of destruction whereas in the original film violence in all its forms was abhorred and Gort was the ultimate weapon against this violence not Klaatu.The actors in this movie were unconvincing with no real empathy for the situation although to be fair the script is terrible with all characters being caricatures with no depth. The secretary is a caricature based on Condeleezza Rice who is known to be hawkish in her attitude is one example.This film fails to convince due to an awful script, poor acting and direction that loses the message that we as humans need to change before we destroy our environment and ourselves; also that we will not be allowed to export our violent nature to other star systems.
yeah, this film try too hard, but worth to watch, my rate is 6.5 to this movie
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