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They're doing a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Keano Reeves as Klaatu. The original is so well done, it seems sacrilegious to anticipate a remake, and yet I've wondered for several years if one would ever be done.

http://www.thedaytheearthstoodstillmovie.com/

I just saw the TV ad. It looks like the aliens are, shall we say, somewhat less benign in the new one than in the original. Oh well, I guess they figured that peaceful aliens wouldn't sell as many tickets as ones intent on wiping out humankind would. On a totally unrelated vein: I really hope conventional Hollywood never gets its grubby fingers on the Freeborn script. I shudder to think.

I saw the trailer at the theater, theater view? maybe, I will see it once it is on DVD for sure, I should take a look at the original, I am a little behind on viewing films before the eighties, even out of twelve hundred views.

Keanu Reeves...ehh.

The guy does action films pretty well, but he seems shallow and stiff in his acting. One of the things that made the original Klaatu memorable was his duality: the aloofness of a being foreign to our world combined with the calm, direct curiosity of a scientist, with just a hint of absolute power.

If it was someone like Liam Neeson, I would go. But Keanu...it just sounds like they're trying to recycle it for the young people, and I'm really worried that they might destroy the beauty of the original piece in the process.

I am very much a fan of the original. I'll go see the new one, but it will be judged against the original. This remake has a LOT to prove (take a look at what the original did when it was released...).