and niklas I watched a double feature yesterday. First we saw the classic original of the Day The Earth Stood Still . then we went and saw the remake. Here are some reasons why I fell asleep a few minutes in the middle.
title: The Day The Earth Stood Still
actor: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, etc.
Director: Scott Derrickson
companies: 20th Century Fox
Length: 103 min
years: 2008
country: united states
age: varying between 11 years (Sweden / Norway) to 13 (usa / philippines)
Reviewed version: Swedish cinema edition (sf cinema city, grove 2008-12-20)
tagline: "12:12:08 Is The Day The Earth Stood Still"
world leaders (but mostly U.S.) shits blow when something big and threatening is heading straight for Earth. instead of blowing up the planet to smithereens slows the object down and turns out to be a huge fluorescent Christmas tree ball from space. from Christmas tree ball will Klaatu, an alien has come to be humanity that if they do not shape up, he will destroy them all as planets that may harbor advanced life is a scarce commodity in the galaxy.
to complain about Keanu Reeves is usually like trying to find snow on the North Pole - too easy. This is, however, he is ok. it is probably that he'll play an alien who has not mastered the human body really. reeves perhaps is an alien in real life? it would explain a lot.
Jennifer Connelly is as usual good-looking but lousy. she can bear less supporting roles, as in the excellent Little Children (2006), but she is definitely not something Leading Lady material. and yes, I know she won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind (2001) but to the dunghill actually won something can still give me nightmares.
Jaden Smith well ... what can you say about Jaden Smith? I would be very surprised if he not get a raid nomination for this role. oh my god what miserable he is! here we can really see how famous parents (for those who did not know that he has a dad named Will ...) can give you opportunities that you should not have been. As a rule, tend to American child actors to be okay. Jaden Smith reminded me most of an updated version of the extremely annoying kid from shane (1953).
Supporting Role holders are a wonderful mix with Kathy Bates as Secretary of Defense (hahahahaha) and John Cleese as a professor. Cleese is only for five minutes, but manages to play the shirt of the ensambeln. it says everything about acting efforts in general.
original movie was an exciting sci-fithriller where we basically had to follow ordinary people's reactions to a visit from space. it was clever written with a strong passion for social justice and an anti-war message that was exactly the right time in the Cold War, the early stages. what is left is a soup of kvasifilosofiskt babble, special effects masturbation and an incredibly weak and sleazy message that the human ability to feel love is going to save her from destruction.
to be fair had been original also their holes in the story, but what distinguishes the film from this is that it mostly was on the smaller things that had no specific effect on the finished script. To list all the strange turns that re-spouse takes would take too long so instead is a list of things that irritated me:
first what happened to the spaceship? why we got a Christmas tree ball instead?
second why was Gort in re-spouse at all? He had no real role.
third why is a movie made in 2008 more American-centric than a movie made in 1951?
4th each took the religious overtones of the road?
5th a problem as the original was presented to those days does not currently able to collect all the countries because the international situation was as it were. in 2008 would not be a country that is included in the present even dream of missing a statement from an alien.
6th Perhaps it was a not very subtle reference to George W Bush's "shoot first and ask questions late "policy, but would the U.S. president really react as he did and for that matter, he would hand over responsibility to the country's defense minister on such a historic event?
seventh who stole the sand effect from The Mummy (1999 )?
and so on ad infinitum. Geez.
upper hand is another of the film's problems. instead of relying on dialogue and action as the original beats Derrickson on big special effects drum at all times. in their worst moments, it is like a bad copy of Independence Day (1996). Regin acting is bad and that sour cream the rotten cake, the film is full of product placements. it becomes something very ironic about the product to place a cell phone in a movie that basically believe that environmental destruction is what will kill the planet.
yes, what can I say? a completely unnecessary update of a classic movie to. re-spouse is, unfortunately, Hollywood's biggest genre right now it feels like. the need for a change and it is now. but, as long as I and other idiots go see movies in a rush of nostalgia will be no change. just that, Jaden Smith is due to be yet another re-make - a rape of one of my favorite movies from my childhood. karate kid (1984) is about to get a "facelift". I'm crying already.
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