A few comments on The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
I like end of the world flicks and so I didn’t exactly mind watching this one, but really, it was at best, mediocre. Rather than give any more of an overall review than that, I just want to make a few comments:
1) A robot like that was kinda cool in 1956. (Although I vaguely seem to remember thinking even when I saw that version that the robot was rather hokey.) It just seems silly now, even in the fairly awesome revamped version. Nobody, just nobody would really think any aliens would show up with such a thing.
2) Nanotech is not even remotely cinematic. This could pose some problems in the future.
3) I kept hoping the aliens would destroy that obnoxious little kid, but no such luck. Everyone despised Dakota Fanning in War of the Worlds. Did Hollywood not pick up on that? If you’re including a kid to appeal to kids, than have it be the kid who is sympathetic to the aliens, not the adult.
4) What are the odds that the main characters in two different end of the world alien movies would end up in an underpass in Central Park. (see Cloverfield).
5) One might think that the aliens would at least begin by communicating their message to the world’s leaders. They could easily have done so before even landing. If they really just came here to get rid of the humans, why didn’t they just do it? It’s all pretty stupid. One would think that a civilization that advanced would have at least as much sympathy for us as for the rest of the planet. And when you get right down to it, those aliens could easily have made technological suggestions that would enable the planet to survive without changing our natures. Perhaps that was the idea behind turning every thing off at the end. But if so, that's also stupid, because 6,785,283,326 people without technology would wipe out the rest of the living things a whole lot faster.
1) A robot like that was kinda cool in 1956. (Although I vaguely seem to remember thinking even when I saw that version that the robot was rather hokey.) It just seems silly now, even in the fairly awesome revamped version. Nobody, just nobody would really think any aliens would show up with such a thing.
2) Nanotech is not even remotely cinematic. This could pose some problems in the future.
3) I kept hoping the aliens would destroy that obnoxious little kid, but no such luck. Everyone despised Dakota Fanning in War of the Worlds. Did Hollywood not pick up on that? If you’re including a kid to appeal to kids, than have it be the kid who is sympathetic to the aliens, not the adult.
4) What are the odds that the main characters in two different end of the world alien movies would end up in an underpass in Central Park. (see Cloverfield).
5) One might think that the aliens would at least begin by communicating their message to the world’s leaders. They could easily have done so before even landing. If they really just came here to get rid of the humans, why didn’t they just do it? It’s all pretty stupid. One would think that a civilization that advanced would have at least as much sympathy for us as for the rest of the planet. And when you get right down to it, those aliens could easily have made technological suggestions that would enable the planet to survive without changing our natures. Perhaps that was the idea behind turning every thing off at the end. But if so, that's also stupid, because 6,785,283,326 people without technology would wipe out the rest of the living things a whole lot faster.