The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) is too preachy
4 stars out of 10.
I wanted to give this film zero stars for being so preachy. But I have to give it 4 stars for the excellent casting (Reeves, Connelly, Bates, Cleese, and others), cool Gort, and overall good Hollywood production quality. I would've given the movie an extra star if only they had found a way to fit "klaatu beradanikto" into the remake script.
I can accept that the "stop being mean to one another" message of the original needed an update, but "stop killing the planet" wasn't convincing. It made me think of "The Arrival" starting Charlie Sheen. (That film wouldn't play today, though, because it portrays global warming as not being humanity's fault.)
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tbc) wrote,
irritated
