Comments on: The Day the Earth Stood Still http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:34:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lace http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/comment-page-1/#comment-4196 Lace Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:47:58 +0000 http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/?p=325#comment-4196 No offense, but I have to say Keanu really can't act, he's a stone without any expression on his face at all. If being a alien means no facial expression is required??than anybody can just play the role. So he is in it just because of he's star's appeal?? He have always been a mega star in sci-fiction movies and also earning 8 razzie nomination for worst performance by an actor over the years. He has always been a star not a actor. Fact this fact and don't shift the blame on the directors who is directing the movie or his co-stars. I think Jennifer was ok for her role so were Kathy bates and Jaden smith. They are the ones who knows what they are doing. keanu reeves fans simply can't take criticism and face facts. Beside being a remake , the script doesn't make it. Keanu Reeves just can't make it . And yes he got another razzie nomination for this role as well. No offense, but I have to say Keanu really can’t act, he’s a stone without any expression on his face at all. If being a alien means no facial expression is required??than anybody can just play the role. So he is in it just because of he’s star’s appeal?? He have always been a mega star in sci-fiction movies and also earning 8 razzie nomination for worst performance by an actor over the years. He has always been a star not a actor. Fact this fact and don’t shift the blame on the directors who is directing the movie or his co-stars. I think Jennifer was ok for her role so were Kathy bates and Jaden smith. They are the ones who knows what they are doing.

keanu reeves fans simply can’t take criticism and face facts. Beside being a remake , the script doesn’t make it. Keanu Reeves just can’t make it . And yes he got another razzie nomination for this role as well.

]]> By: Blake http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/comment-page-1/#comment-695 Blake Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:28:34 +0000 http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/?p=325#comment-695 Fletch: Transporter 3 was definitely worse. I was angry after watching that movie because it was so bad. After TDTESS, I was completely ambivalent. Cindy: JENNIFER CONNELLY Fletch: Transporter 3 was definitely worse. I was angry after watching that movie because it was so bad. After TDTESS, I was completely ambivalent.

Cindy: JENNIFER CONNELLY

]]> By: CinderRocks http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/comment-page-1/#comment-692 CinderRocks Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:30:50 +0000 http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/?p=325#comment-692 why did you even see this? i'm confused. keanu reeves has just gone downhill since bill and teds. why did you even see this? i’m confused.

keanu reeves has just gone downhill since bill and teds.

]]> By: Fletch http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/comment-page-1/#comment-685 Fletch Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:36:03 +0000 http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/?p=325#comment-685 So, I was smart enough to avoid Trannie 3 but dumb enough to watch this...which would you say is worse? So, I was smart enough to avoid Trannie 3 but dumb enough to watch this…which would you say is worse?

]]> By: Blake http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/comment-page-1/#comment-683 Blake Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:01:06 +0000 http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/?p=325#comment-683 I agree that Jennifer Connelly is hit and miss. But, if you need convincing that she can come through, you should watch Little Children, and Requiem for a Dream. She's brilliant in both. I agree that Jennifer Connelly is hit and miss. But, if you need convincing that she can come through, you should watch Little Children, and Requiem for a Dream. She’s brilliant in both.

]]> By: Tim http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/comment-page-1/#comment-682 Tim Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:27:57 +0000 http://bitchinfilmreviews.com/?p=325#comment-682 Hey, Blake. Haven't seen the film--and don't imagine I will until I'm stuck in some cookie-cutter hotel room and it's between that and Anderson Cooper chasing down gorillas. But I think I can answer your question about how it came to be. This is one of those remakes of a 50's "message movie" that a clutch of soft-headed Hollywood liberals believes bears relevance to our time. When the original came out, paranoia ran deep--Commies under ever rock and the Bomb due to drop any minute. 1951's Klaatu had the good sense to park his saucer on the outskirts of DC, where he could get the attention of the powers that be with his peace, love, and understanding message. Sight unseen, my guess it that this version pushes the same bromides, but they're probably inane given that in today's climate, we're the villains, not the Russians. So I suspect what sounded like a "powerful" idea in the conference room (though it wasn't) went south when the do-gooders figured out their movie had no moral. And being the old goat that I am, it pisses me off to see today's studio nimrods ransack the past based on half-baked notions about "updating" great, or near-great old pictures. This is just the latest in a list that includes movies like "The Heartbreak Kid," "The Women," "Bedazzled," "The Pink Panther" (and about a half-dozen other travesties Steve Martin will atone for). It's not just that these pictures are bad--they make the gems they've raped look bad, too, especially for anybody who sees the originals after the fact. The 1951 version of "Stood Still" was cheesy in a lot of ways by the time I saw it in the 60's. But it still packed a wallop. And Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal were in top form. Now, thanks to another misbegotten attempt at pulpit producing, I fear it will never be to others all that it was for we who were privileged to see it before Keanu and Jennifer got ahold of it. One last bit in a comment that's already gone on too long. I'm with you on Jennifer's vixen appeal, but I'm not convinced she's got the chops that many think she does. I nearly got kicked out of "Blood Diamond" for laughing at her ham-fisted radio phone conversation with Leo. And I've actually tried to remember her in "House of Sand and Fog," but the best I get is her driving a station wagon or something. As for Keanu, well, bless his heart, the man's a boy and he can't help it. I actually prefer him to her because he's just a lump of clay. But when good directors--like van Sant or the Wachowskis--get ahold of him, he's malleable. At least he knows he doesn't know what he's doing; with her, I'm not so sure. Hey, Blake. Haven’t seen the film–and don’t imagine I will until I’m stuck in some cookie-cutter hotel room and it’s between that and Anderson Cooper chasing down gorillas. But I think I can answer your question about how it came to be.

This is one of those remakes of a 50’s “message movie” that a clutch of soft-headed Hollywood liberals believes bears relevance to our time. When the original came out, paranoia ran deep–Commies under ever rock and the Bomb due to drop any minute. 1951’s Klaatu had the good sense to park his saucer on the outskirts of DC, where he could get the attention of the powers that be with his peace, love, and understanding message. Sight unseen, my guess it that this version pushes the same bromides, but they’re probably inane given that in today’s climate, we’re the villains, not the Russians. So I suspect what sounded like a “powerful” idea in the conference room (though it wasn’t) went south when the do-gooders figured out their movie had no moral.

And being the old goat that I am, it pisses me off to see today’s studio nimrods ransack the past based on half-baked notions about “updating” great, or near-great old pictures. This is just the latest in a list that includes movies like “The Heartbreak Kid,” “The Women,” “Bedazzled,” “The Pink Panther” (and about a half-dozen other travesties Steve Martin will atone for). It’s not just that these pictures are bad–they make the gems they’ve raped look bad, too, especially for anybody who sees the originals after the fact.

The 1951 version of “Stood Still” was cheesy in a lot of ways by the time I saw it in the 60’s. But it still packed a wallop. And Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal were in top form. Now, thanks to another misbegotten attempt at pulpit producing, I fear it will never be to others all that it was for we who were privileged to see it before Keanu and Jennifer got ahold of it.

One last bit in a comment that’s already gone on too long. I’m with you on Jennifer’s vixen appeal, but I’m not convinced she’s got the chops that many think she does. I nearly got kicked out of “Blood Diamond” for laughing at her ham-fisted radio phone conversation with Leo. And I’ve actually tried to remember her in “House of Sand and Fog,” but the best I get is her driving a station wagon or something.

As for Keanu, well, bless his heart, the man’s a boy and he can’t help it. I actually prefer him to her because he’s just a lump of clay. But when good directors–like van Sant or the Wachowskis–get ahold of him, he’s malleable. At least he knows he doesn’t know what he’s doing; with her, I’m not so sure.

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