The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

I just saw the original version of The Day The Earth Stood Still and my god, it's so much better than that crap remake from two years ago. The Keanu Reeves remake is such an overblown special effects romp, that it's not even funny. They didn't even try to put epithesis on story and character development. The remake director was all like, "Well, I can't tell a great story but what I can do is create the special effects that they couldn't create back in 1951."

Well, whoopty smurfing do! Great special effects do not a great movie make!!! You CGI whore directors need to learn that someday. I'm looking at you George Lucas. Anyway I know this rant is coming a couple of years late but I couldn't track down and watch a copy of The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) until today. I guess the only postitive thing I could mention about the 2008 remake is, I like how emotionless Keanu Reeves' face was in that movie. The emotionless look on his face proves that he could be an older Batman someday. Not this younger Batman who gets tricked into going to the wrong warehouse by the Joker.