The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

[MacGuffin]

Trailer

Release date: December 12, 2008

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Jaden Christopher Smith 

Directed by: Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose)

Premise: Aliens land on Earth with a message for all humans: live in peace or be destroyed.

[hedwig]

Jaden Christopher Smith 

aw how cute, will smith passes the torch to his son to ruin classic sci-fi movies!

seriously, fuck this remake, even though it features two of my biggest celebrity crushes (kathy bates and jen con). keanu reeves is not exactly the first name that comes to mind when i think "super-intelligent extraterrestrial being".. 

i didn't watch the trailer.

[Sleepless]

It's gone.

[Sleepless]

But it is here:

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=videoBC&bcpid=714034225

[Pas]

my biggest celebrity crushes (kathy bates

Whawhawhat ?

[Stefen]

They hook an alien, who looks like Keanu Reeves, up to a machine, and he allegedly tells the truth.

Fascinating.

[Kal]

This was pretty bad.

I wanted to see it cause I like Keanu, plus John Hamm and Kyle Chandler are usually great, but not in this one 

[MacGuffin]

Robert Wise is rolling over in his grave... to take it in the ass. They completely raped the original. So much so that they don't even use the classic line "Klaatu barada nikto." So Gort is really made up of tiny locust-like mechanical bugs here to eat destroy the world. And Klaatu is here to deliver a message to the people of Earth to change their ways, but he only ends up telling three people. Riiiight. Will Smith's son was annoying I was hoping for an alien probe for him. The only one who came out of this clean was Keanu. His rigid acting was a perfect fit for this role.

[polkablues]

It pisses me off when Jennifer Connelly does movies like this.  I know she needs to put food on Paul Bettany's table, but after giving two of my favorite performances ever (Waking the Dead and Requiem), seeing her in paycheck movies like this is just frustrating.

[picolas]

and how about Will Smith's son??? that kid is MISERABLE.

[polkablues]

He has yet to give one of my favorite performances ever.

[diggler]

so i watched this on an airplane the other day. it felt like they cut a half hour out of it, or is it really that uneven and disconnected? plus after friday night lights i can't take kyle chandler seriously as an ass hole.

i liked keanu in it quite a bit though. i understand the humor of him playing a rigid alien character, but there were a lot of subtle things he threw in there. for example, the look he gives connolly when she tells him to run, just the right amount of curiosity mixed with concern.  all in all it was pretty dreadful though.

[SiliasRuby]

When Keanu is the best part of your movie, your film is either extremely awesome or extremely terrible.

[Pas]

When Keanu is the best part of your movie, your film is either extremely awesome or extremely terrible.

What do you mean ? I understand the extremely terrible part (lol) but not the extremely awesome ?

I do like Keanu especially in the Matrix but I don't think he was the best part of the movie ?

[SiliasRuby]

When Keanu is the best part of your movie, your film is either extremely awesome or extremely terrible.

What do you mean ? I understand the extremely terrible part (lol) but not the extremely awesome ?

Extremely awesome movie examples with keanu: 'Point break', 'Chain Reaction', 'The Devil's Advocate', 'Constantine'.

Its all subjective on what awesome movies are and that can be debated...but what are they? They're soo terrible as films that they go into the awesome catagory. For instance anything dealing with a lobster man or a bunny boy with x ray eyes who does porn films.