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There is a reason why the fresh DAY THE EARTH STOOD Unexcited (1951) is a classic and the remake (2008) is not. The FX of 1951 were minimal, but the emphasis on dwelling, acting, allegory, and scripting combined (as they so rarely do) to obtain a film that is watchable even after many viewings. Where Keanu Reeves sleepwalks through his role as Klaatu, Michael Rennie invests his with a riveting performance as a pseudo-human who slowly and naturally learns what it means to be human. Hugh Marlowe in the recent is totally believable as the weasly cherish interest for Patricia Neal. Marlowe’s sliminess paired off well with Rennie’s saintliness. In the remake, there is no one, except perhaps in a collective sense, who can distract the audience long enough to explore Reeves as anything more than a mobile pained automaton who is only slightly more appealing than Gort.
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Rennie causes the earth to stand unexcited in a manner that emhasizes his godlike powers. His assumed name of Carpenter further allies himself as one who must suffer, die, and be reborn himself so as to put humanity from itself. Reeves arrives on earth distinct to exterminate human life as a prerequisite for maintaining it in its supposed pristine site. His argument that John Cleese artfully exposes that Klaatu’s have run avoided self-immolation only after arriving at a precipitous tipping point is exposed as a sophomoric inability to connect one legal thread of one run to a similar thread of another.
In the fresh, director Robert Wise uses deliberately blurred camera angles to reveal Rennie as one whose lawful nature can be only slowly revealed. Engage Rennie’s introduction when he arrives at the boarding house to view a room. Compare that masterly hiding of face and originate with Scott Derrickson’s inability or unwillingness to demonstrate Reeves’ face as no more than a perpetual scowl. Kathy Bates as the Secretary of Site manages to invest her role with the film’s only price of authenticity as she correctly notes the inevitable results that occur when a technologically advanced culture collides with a significantly less advanced one.
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Unless the audience manages to care about the lead (it does with Rennie but not with Reeves), then the director has no location to go but with FX. And for the umpteenth time, the revised version of TDTESS proves that the lack of acting and scripting cannot elevate a film to the point that FX can acquire.
I’ve been beaten to the punch by a lot of really stunning, insightful reviews. I’ll only add that, like so many movies we seem to behold today, this is one that could have been so distinguished better.
It is poorly paced, and miserably directed, with such an imbalance of emphasis between Klaatu’s heavy-hearted, planet-wide mission, and the irritating, recurrent focus on the “cute kid” character (Jaden Smith) who becomes as welcome in the yarn as an insect at a picnic.
Jennifer Connelly is wholly wonderful as a “world class” super-scientist, but at least the director resisted the temptation to get some smarmy love-affair concoction between she and Klaatu. Given how slow the rest of the tale was, I was shocked that he might resort to such a technique to breathe life into this otherwise prosaic rendering of the novel science fiction classic.
The special effects… well, yes, they were gracious. It’s 2009. The special effects always ought to be agreeable. But as we’ve all known for a long time, suitable special effects do not necessarily build a advantageous movie.
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