http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/day_the_earth_stood_still/

Normally, I'm very much a "wait & see" person, but of this one I'm afraid. Very afraid. :drunk:

Not exactly recent news. But frightening nonetheless. :)

Yet another thing that was "of its time" that doesn't need updating or remaking.

Eehhh... Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, huh...? Not really givin' me a good vibe, either. IMDb entry for The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/)

Not recent?! But... I havn't heard of it before, so it must be new news!! :p

http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=194149

You'd think that Hollyweird got the message after Spielberg's version of WOTW bombed.
I really wish they'd leave well enough alone and come up with some original ideas. :rolleyes:

You'd think that Hollyweird got the message after Spielberg's version of WOTW bombed.
Please clarify

Especially since I thought that Spielberg's WotW did fairly well at the movies, not bombed...?

$234,000,000.00 is a bomb?

Now you can say it wasn't exactly your cup of tea, but hardly a bomb. 54th biggest money maker of all time.

$234,000,000.00 is a bomb?

Now you can say it wasn't exactly your cup of tea, but hardly a bomb. 54th biggest money maker of all time.

Nope. Not a bomb.

Gort! Keanu Barada Nikto...

LOL @ Jim! Good one! I think you shoulda added a "...uh..." somewhere in there, tho...? Maybe a "dude" at the end. :D

"Bill and Teds excellent The Day the Earth Stood still"

"We are WYLD STALLYNS!" (air guitar riff)

It turns out that I was mis-remembering about WotW having bombed; sue me! I was probably thinking of The Exorcist re-make from a couple of years ago. :(

It turns out that I was mis-remembering about WotW having bombed; sue me! I was probably thinking of The Exorcist re-make from a couple of years ago. :(

There was an Exorcist remake? Who played the Linda Blair part?

It's also known as "The Excorcist IV: The Beginning". Again, NOT an original idea. Kinda like Halloween Iv, V, Vi, etc.

Actually, The Excorcist IV: The Beginning is a prequel (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204313/), not a remake. ;)

^^
If it's a prequel, do we get to see Linda Blair eating
the pea soup? ;)

You'd think that Hollyweird got the message after Spielberg's version of WOTW bombed.
I really wish they'd leave well enough alone and come up with some original ideas. :rolleyes:

It creatively bombed.
War of the worlds with no war shown. Tom Cruise runs around.

Linda Blair is a little old to be playing a little girl.

It creatively bombed.
War of the worlds with no war shown. Tom Cruise runs around.
You mean just like the book?

If they did a remake of the original Exorcist, would Linda Blair have a cameo as a nun?

It creatively bombed.
War of the worlds with no war shown. Tom Cruise runs around.

I haven't read the book (it's on my "to do" list), but my understanding was that the Speilberg film was close to HG Well's version, much more so than the classic movie. The biggest difference was that Speilberg set the movie in modern times and not the Victorian Age.

You may mean that Cruise's antics at the time overshadowed the movie, but it wasn't a bomb, creatively or financially.

I haven't read the book (it's on my "to do" list), but my understanding was that the Speilberg film was close to HG Well's version, much more so than the classic movie. The biggest difference was that Speilberg set the movie in modern times and not the Victorian Age.
Pretty much, yes. The only real differences are in several of the characters. In the novel, the main character is a learned man of science, he's not trying to reach his children, but his wife and the character played by Tim Robbins in the movie is actually two different characters in the novel - The Curate and The Soldier, if memory serves.

The rest, tho, follows the novel well enough that there's not nearly as much of a difference, really. Spielberg's version definitely follows the novel better.

BTW, if you're looking for the "definitive" movie version that very closely follows the novel, buy the Pendragon Films version. The novel, however, is much better than the movie.
You may mean that Cruise's antics at the time overshadowed the movie, but it wasn't a bomb, creatively or financially.
I liked it, and enough so that I bought it on DVD. :shrug:

You mean just like the book?
Pretty much, except the book didn't have Dakota Fanning screaming at the top of her lungs every five fraking seconds. That kid bugs me...

Unusual vehicle for Cruise. Half expected to see him singlehandely defeating the Martians, not being some pedestrian.

You mean just like the book?

Yes, the book didn't show anything either.

There were several descriptions of battles taking place. Wherein this movie had it happened over a hill or 'over there' somewhere.

That's what was missing - the Thunderchild scene. Could've done it with one of the Iowa class...

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DUDE! Like, this world is screwed up and violent and whatever. If you wanna hang on your own world, it's cool, but don't like get agresso out in the stars and stuff. Or these gnarly big robots will bust you up big-time.