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Keanu Reaves Phones Home in the Remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Even now"





Why do producers remake movie classics?



At times they actually believe they can improve upon the unique. Often the think they can reimagine the underlying themes to fit contemporary problems and obsessions. And sometimes they just consider they can make a swift buck by plugging in new specific outcomes and top box workplace actors.
The motivation powering the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Nevertheless" seems to fall someplace between the 2nd and 3rd of these causes. Director Scott Derrickson substitutes international warming for the risk of the atom bomb, and casts Keanu Reeves in the Michael Rennie function of the going to alien. The robot Gort is just the identical as the robot in the authentic edition only about a hundred moments larger (although no explanation is ever before offered for the gargantuan dimension of this point or for why it is formed like a giant grey Gumby).
The supporting cast consists of Will Smith's son Jaden, Kathy Bates as a Hillary Clinton-like Secretary of State, former Monty Python member John Cleese as an advanced Nobel-prize successful scientist, and Jennifer Connelly as the room biologist who befriends Klaatu and tries to conserve the Earth by convincing him that human beings do have some redeeming worth, however eensy.
The movie suffers in translation from 1951 to 2008. Something about the impending worldwide crisis and Klaatu's assignment to support the planet out by eliminating the human race feels a bit far too shut to fact to be much fun. The common creativity in 2008 runs a lot less toward beneficient aliens and their interesting spacecraft and far more in the direction of visceral concern of actual apocalypse, so the premise arrives off as significantly queasier and possible than it did in 1951 when we were all viewing UFOs to get our minds off the bomb.
In scenario you pass up the clear fact that, outdoors the theater, we have a actual worldwide local weather dilemma presenting real survival problems for the human race, the remake throws a child into the combine to flip up the psychological temperature several degrees. It feels like pandering. Arrive on, motion picture