Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still
The original: 1951
The remake: Dec. 12, 2008
No, director Scott Derrickson has not sold off Gort as scrap metal. But the alien foot soldier now is a living entity rather than a robot. Seems like an unnecessary change, but at least Derrickson wised up and brought back Gort in the form we know and love rather than go with the dumb idea of replacing him with some laser beam-shooting totem. As for the stiff-as-a-corpse Keanu Reeves playing a cold, emotionless alien concealed within a human body, sounds like perfect casting. Still, this remake of Robert Wise’s Cold War parable apparently has ditched its message of peace, hope and love to badger us into going green. Yawn. If The Day After Tomorrow didn’t inspire you to start recycling, His Royal Whoa!-liness certainly won’t.
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