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List Price: $19.98Amazon.com's Price: $15.49 You Save: $4.49 (22%)as of 03/16/2010 22:41 EDT
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TCFHE
EAN: 0024543569688
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedSpanishDubbed
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2256968
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 07, 2009
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A REMAKE OF THE 1951 CLASSIC SCI-FI FILM ABOUT AN ALIEN VISITOR AND HIS GIANT ROBOT COUNTERPART WHO VISIT EARTH.
Amazon.com:
Impressive special effects are the key selling point for this big-budget remake of Robert Wise's classic 1951 science fiction parable about an alien visitor who delivers a chilling ultimatum to the leaders of the world. Keanu Reeves, who seemed ideal at first blush but ultimately turns into another case of miscasting, steps in for Michael Rennie as intergalactic watchdog Klaatu, who with his robot Gort (now super-sized), promises global destruction unless the powers that be unless drastic measures are undertaken regarding the Earth's environmental issues (or so one assumes). Jennifer Connelly is largely wasted in the Patricia Neal role of scientist/single mom assigned to study Klaatu, who offers a somewhat chilly father figure to her son (a grating Jaden Smith). Connelly isn't the only fine actor in the cast left standing idle while director Scott Derrickson's effects team constructs eye-popping scenes of wholesale mayhem; Mad Men's Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, John Cleese and Rob Knepper are all adrift in the aimless script by David Scarpa, which never even fully explains why Klaatu is so bent on blowing us to smithereens. That lack of focus, as well as the B-movie quality of the dialogue (say what you will about the effects in the Wise version, but the film was polished from top to bottom), all help to cement what science fiction fans have been muttering about the film since its inception; the original film needed no high-tech updating --Paul Gaita
Stills from The Day the Earth Stood Still (Click for larger image)
Average Rating: 
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...which actually costs more but is worth it because it is not contaminated by sharing a package with the 2008 garbage.
My rule: Never spend a nickel on a remake of a classic until you've seen it on TV -- which is why I've never spent a nickel on any of them.
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If liking this movie is required to be "philosophical and intelligent" (as another review states) then I'll happily remain the ignorant and unsophisticated Neanderthal that I evidently am. This had the potential to be an awesome movie. The original is considered a classic for good reason, but here, in the age of FX, they forget the importance of the story... and of logic.
Our first glimpse of the movie came from the commercials, all FX; no substance. Not promising, but then I've seen ... Read More
Rating:  -
A bland alien messenger Klaatu comes to earth intent on assessing humanity's worthiness. He is met with a stubborn group of American officials and a sympathetic scientist. He perceives humanity to be too aggressive/destructive to allow to continue, and thus, after reaching this judgment initiates a countdown to doomsday and begins to evacuate the animals in large spheroid arks.
The film purports to have an environmental/pacifistic message, but I'm not clear exactly clear what Klaatu's issues ... Read More
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Day the Earth Stood Still (Blu-Ray) / B001SMC9IK
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" is easily one of the strangest movies I've seen lately. On the surface, this is rather standard science fiction fare - a strange alien from beyond the stars comes to visit us, is treated poorly by evil earth bureaucrats, and uses his strange and amazing powers to exact well-deserved vengeance on an uncaring populous. And, to a certain extent, that surface plot is beautifully polished to a high shine - Reeves works ... Read More
Rating:  -
If you are philosophical and intelligent, this movie is a wonderful delight. It is far more sophisticated than the original. It explores what qualities of human nature allow us to build healthy civilizations. It touches on the cycles of civilization and how we need those cycles in order to learn and grow. It even touches on the concept that we are not spiritually ready to handle the power of science yet. So does the original movie, but this film is much more subtle and expansive. That is part of the problem ... Read More
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TCFHE
EAN: 0024543569688
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions:
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages:
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2256968
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 07, 2009
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008