Director for Earth Stood Still Talks GORT

I am actually anxious to see how Gort looks like. So far I like the way the movie is and cant wait to go to the theater to see it. BTW GOOD MORING MANIA BROTHA'S AND SISTER (IF ANY FEMALES LOL). I HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GOOD 4TH OF JULY. :-)

When Keanu acts, he always sounds flat and seems like an alien. This role will be perfect for him. It would be more perfect if Klaatu was a surfer dude on his home planet.

The trailer looked interesting enough.

Another movie I've started having great hopes for.
I see the sense of his keeping Gort essentially the same. There is something spooky about this tall, featureless man-like automaton whose very presence is fear-inducing. Come up with some scary music like the original and I'll be hiding under the bed like I did as a kid.

What made the original great was the sense of suspense throughout the whole movie. From the second Klaatu exits the ship to the eventual climax at the end, I always felt the build-up of everything that was happening, but still being kept in the dark about it. I will definitely give it a chance, but with today's filmmaker's track record of wanting to CGI everything up and make things look pretty a lot, I fear that whole feeling of suspense may get lost in the mix.

I'm hyped for this movie minus Reeves but I'm interested in seeing how Al Gort is going to save the planet from ourselves. That would make a good Saturday night live script, have Al Gore come out of the space ship promoting his new Global Warming DVD.

evil and Hobbs, lol.
I'm looking forward to this. I loved the trailer I thought it looked amazing. And I'm a big fan of Keanu. I've liked most of the stuff I've seen him in.

At first I thought it was another Keanu Reeves paycheck nothing flick. So far the trailer shows nothing of interest. They better work on this fast.

Sorry, but the changes made to this re-make render the entire plot laughably absurd. The original posited a rational explanation for Klaatu's warning of the impending destruction of the earth: The newly Nuclear-capable human race is now beginning to explore outer space, and the more advanced alien civilizations don't want Humanity to spread its war mongering ways into outer space.

In this new era of the Church of Global Warming, where so-called 'climate change' has become the new Red Scare, every new movie with a doomsday plot has to revolve around human carelessness towards the environment. The question is, why would advanced alien civilizations give a rats ass about global warming on an insignificant planet earth?

Answer: Because Hollywood never seems to tire of reminding us how morally superior it is to the rest of the world, and it's why I won't watch this turd.


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Al Gort.....that's funny Hobbs! The trailer looks interesting might check it out.....

I just watched the original 1951 movie in the THX DVD release and was impressed at how well it stood up over a half a century later. They included an actual newsreel from the time which I found absolutely chilling. If you think today's anti-science right-wing political propaganda is bad, listen to the strident commentary in this newsreel. It certainly drives home the message of the movie.

The essential idea of this film, that civilization's only hope is to put power in the hands of dispassionate, ruthless machines, is still a compelling one today. Power still corrupts. Destruction, murder and assassination are still tools of the corrupted. There is a message here that could easily be expanded to include events of this century.

One thing that has to be changed though. In the original, Klaatu's home was a mere 150 million miles away. That would probably make his home Mars, which we now know does not contain a civilization.