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[Jman1236]

So I went out last night a saw "The Day The Earth Stood Still", a remake of a 1950's sci-fi classic about the dangers of Nuclear Warfare, dispite all the negitive reviews the flim had been getting. Personally I think that alot of the critics were trying to rate it on how it compared with the original and I find that this movie is at the very least a B+/A-, that and the overall message is the same between this movie, the orignal 1950's flim, and the 1940's story that lead to the orignal flim. The central theme like in the original is that humanity is at a tipping point, and can ether change now or perish but the boogyman isn't nuclear weapons, it's polution and how humannity is f*ing up the Earth.

The remake had alot of the characters and plot of the original than I first thought. The main character Klattu(played by Keanu Reeves) is on the same mission as in the first movie, give the leaders of the world an important message, only now he has alot of Deus-ex god like powers such as mind control thru electronics, taking command of military vechicles, super strength, etc and hes already desided that humanity can't be changed and must be destroyed. Klatuu's robotic pal GORT is also back but now, is now the size of Voltron, and now has a Zaku style glowing red eye, while I won't say what tricks GORT has up his sleve this time, let me say this.....don't f*** with GORT! The love intrest this time is a astrobiologest who is trying to figure out how to get Klattu to change his mind and how he can him to help save humanity.