LOL! Matt you sound the same way I did about Bayformers. Nobody thinks Hollywood screwing up a beloved franchise/idea/adaptation is so bad when it’s something that they didn’t care all that much about to begin with.
But when it’s something THEY like all of a sudden they realize it’s set a bad precedent and if successful will become VERY habit-forming for studio execs.
The die is already cast. No matter how Day does we’ll see studio execs giving themselves permission to keep doing this because it’s been so successful in the past.

Genie’s out of the bottle now.

It’s not THAT bad, man. Well, depending of course, how sacred the original is to you. I like the original just as much as the next guy, but what won’t leave my mind after seeing the remake is this: They were actually not that far from pulling it off.

I liked the first “two acts” or whatever you like to call it, and with a bit of, I don’t know, tweaking of some sorts, it could have been great. The last part however, bugged the crap out of me. It comes out of nowhere and just plain doesn’t work.

This means that with a little bit of work on some of it, and i little re-write of the last part, it could have been fucking ok. Bordering on awesome etc. And thinking how close they were, that’s just as irritating as the idea of this whole remake in the first hand.

Come on. The Incredible Hulk wasn’t that bad.

Matt, you are bang on. If someone attempted to remake one of my favourite films (it hasn’t happened yet) I would be devasted by it – your vitriol is entirely justifiable! Any remake will never ever EVER take the place of any original effort. Whether the remake is ‘good’ or not doesn’t even enter into it in my opinion. Our favourite films are dear to us; they are our favourites because they do something that other films don’t do, or can’t do. They have something special that just elevates them above all the rest – a remake will never capture that something simply because the people remaking them don’t understand the film in the same way you do. They take a premise, the odd scene, a theme here or there and try to pull something together. It’s never the same. Haneke is the only person that has EVER made a remake worth watching and that was because it was almost exactly the same film by the same director!

From a selfish point of view, I think I’m pretty safe. I can’t see Hollywood ever tackling “Mulholland Drive”!

I am not one of those people who loved the original THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. It’s fairly boring, and has very little actual plot to it. I think it became a “classic” simply because it retained a certain classiness in its production at a time when every other science fiction film of its era had bug-eyed monsters and rubbery puppets.

But this new film sucks.

I haven’t been able to actually formulate any kind of review yet, because I actually want to get it right rather than just spew hate. But it’s really, really awful on almost every level.

I feel your pain Matt. And my pain also lays in 20th Century Fox with them making the live action Dragonball movie.

I’ll be seeing this today in IMAX so when I do I’ll come back and vote. I don’t really have any overwhelming opinion about the original. I’ve only seen it once, so I guess I’ll go in with an open mind for the remake. I’m not expecting a whole lot but hopefully it won’t be a complete waste of money.

It actually wasn’t all that bad. I wish they didn’t use so much CGI though. They used CGI to show a military helicopter lifting off a pad. I mean, couldn’t you at least get a real one for that?

Overall the story wasn’t horrible. Again I don’t have complete knowledge of the original to compare it too. I’m sure the original is much better from the simple fact that it was the original (and fox made this one) but it was tolerable. Not spectacular.

Although I seen it in IMAX and I think every movie is better in IMAX. So that may have boosted it up a bit.

It might be worth five dollars to see the Wolverine trailer thats all i really care about.

It’s too late already. EVERYTHING will get a remake.
Yeah, it sucks.But not going to see this movie will not change a lot about that.

Not going to see ANY remake of a classic..that might do the trick.

GORT was the worst piece of CG I’ve ever seen in a ’serious’ Hollywood film. Absolutely horrible.

I think maybe I’m in the minority of people who doesn’t mind remakes.

Two of my favourite films were remakes – The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Thing (1982) – and there have been several others that have more than done justice to the original (I think Cronenberg’s The Fly actually exceeded it’s 1958 counterpart).

In regards to The Day the Earth Stood Still, its actually got the mainstream press talking about the 51 version, which is no bad thing. These films draw attention to their predecessors rather than annihilate them, so that’s good. Right?

The Day the Earth Stood Still remake for the most part is pretty bad, and NOT worth seeing in a theater. I liked the first 20 minutes, but from there it was all down hill. 2nd worst movie Ive seen this year behind The Happening!

Chuck

I actually like the new one. As much as I hate to say it Keanu Reeves wasn’t completely awful in it. Mainly due to the fact that his goal was to show no emotion. Very easy part for him. Jennifer Connelly was good in her role. The only role I really didn’t like was the little kid. He was annoying and completely insignificant to the story itself. Yeah it overused CGI and it probably isn’t as good as the original but its far from the worst movie ever. If you go into this movie thinking it will be awful then you will sit there and nitpick everything to hell and back to prove your point. Watch the movie and grade it on its own merits as opposed to comparing it to a movie that is over 50 years old. Even if it is a “remake” of said movie.
Everyone acts like just cause a movies old it has to be awesome. Please. I’ve seen plenty of movies from the 50s that are just awful abominations to film, yet they must be good because they are “classics.”

To me this is where Day the Earth Stood Still’s original version becomes overrated. Its a good movie yes, but its not that great even for its time really. The acting is very wooden and there is no real story progression. Yet since its old people will forgive it for its shortcomings and proclaim as one of the best sci-fi movies ever. Just doesn’t seem fair that a movie with tons of flaws is great just because its old and its special effects are completely awful by today’s standards.

That last line should say “its special effects AREN’T completely awful.”