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SUNDAY AM: Twentieth Century Fox's The Day The Earth Stood Still opened to an excellent $11.5M Friday and $11.8M Saturday (+2%) and an estimated $7.6M for Sunday for a solid $31M weekend. IMAX accounted for 12.5% of the opening weekend gross with $3.8M from 123 screens. Internationally, the day-and-date release opened in 90 markets (but only 11 of the top 16) and made $39M. So that's a worldwide total after its first weekend of $70M. However, rival studios tell me that the pic's Cinemascore was the hard-to-achieve "C-" (when it's rare to see anything below a "B"), with moviegoers over age 25 giving it a "D". No wonder the PG-13 pic has only 21% positive reviews by top critics on Rotten Tomatoes, despite starring Keanu Reeves, and Oscar winners Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Bates. Since the sci-fi film has this weekend all to itself (after Will Smith's Seven Pounds vacated the date), it had a veritable guarantee of getting past $30M if not a total stinker. For weeks now, this reimagining (no one ever calls it a remake anymore) of the 1951 black-and-white sci-fi classic had been tracking well. Encouraging, since Fox was running only 35% of its TV ad money at the time. There was "very strong" wanna-see with older males followed by younger males, even registering a solid "first choice". On the other hand, there was virtually no female appeal. But the studio then spent 65% of its TV ad money over the last 8 days, and interest among gals picked up going into Friday's release. 
The studio had other reasons to be bullish: it had 120 Imax runs, and 12:01 AM Friday plays in about 500 locations of its overall 3,560 theaters, and a day-and-date release into 90 overseas markets this weekend. So the pic should break the studio's losing streak that began at the start of the summer. "Fantastic opening, better than we were looking for. We're in for a great run because its $80M negative cost means a very profitable pic," one Fox exec gushed. But the concensus in Hollywood is that The Day The Earth Stood Still is unlikely to get to a $100M box office lifetime domestically with all the competition coming up -- including Fox's own Marley And Me which is tracking like a blockbuster.
But the real news of the weekend is the Warner Bros' opening of Clint Eastwood's Oscar-buzzed Gran Torino Friday night in 6 theaters (3 in NY, 3 in LA). The drama grossed $75K Friday and $112.5K Saturday for a total $269.6K with the best per screen average -- $47,340 -- of all the weekend films. That's TWICE as much as his Best Picture-winning Million Dollar Baby made on December 17, 2004 in the same theaters ($37,208 total, per screen average $6,201.) "Clint is the man!" a top Warner Bros exec gushed to me this morning. Also, the Miramax Oscar-touted Doubt opened with $525K this weekend and a giant per screen average on 15 screens of $35,002. Box office was driven by strong reviews, the quality of the ensemble cast including Meryle Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and a great marketing campaign. The exit polls were "very strong", I hear.
In fact, all the smaller Oscar-touted pics in release already are doing remarkably well. Focus Features' Oscar-buzzed Milk widened into 328 runs for a $2.6M weekend -- good enough for 9th place -- and a $7.6M cume. It experienced another strong weekend with a sizeable 58% bump from Friday to Saturday revealing "sustained, positive word of mouth", according to the studio. Core houses are contributing 50% of the gross to the weekend total with the expansion markets strongest in smart-house/art-house and college markets. Imagine/Universal's Week #2 limited release of Frost/Nixon made $630K at 39 theaters with a per theater average of $16,160. Its cume to date is $878K. Friday to Saturday saw a 70% increase demonstrating the film’s strong word of mouth, the best jump of any other adult choice this weekend. The pic will expand on Christmas Day into the top 100 markets (about 350 theaters) with a full wide break in January. And Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire took in $2.2M this weekend from 169 runs for a new cume of $8M.
Two other films were released this weekend. Overture Films' Latino-flavored Nothing Like The Holidays, with its unlikely pairing of Debra Messing and John Leguizamo, opened No. 7 in 1,671 venues which don't necessarily need another dysfunctional family laugher when Four Christmases is still in cineplexes. Formerly titled Humboldt Park, the PG-13 pic debuted with $3.5M for the weekend. And Fathom Studios' children fantasy toon Delgo released by Freestyle into 2,160 dates missed the Top 10 entirely and opened to an abysmal $465K weekend.
As for the holdovers, 2nd place went to Warner Bros' Four Christmases (3,540 theaters) which has good hold with a $13.2M weekend and new cume of $87.9M. Hanging on for No. 3 was Summit Entertainment's Twilight (3,649) in week #4. It made $8M over the weekend playing in 3,649 theaters for a new cume of $150.1M. Disney's Bolt (3,133) was #4 and added another $7.5 million this weekend -- helped by an original Pixar short for Cars -- for a new cume of $88.8M. No. 5 went to 20th Century Fox's Australia (2,703) epic which earned $4.2M for a new cume of $37.8M. MGM/Sony's latest Bond actioner Quantum Of Solace (2,635) took in $3.8M this weekend an 6th place for a fresh cume of $157.6M. in #8, DreamWorks' sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2,768) made $3.2 million this weekend for a huge new cume of $170M. And, rounding out the Top 10, Lionsgate's Transporter 3 (2,541) made $2.2M this weekend for a new cume of $29.2M.
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It will probably do better than $40M due to the fact that this country is largely made up of people without the skills to discern quality.
It looks too scary for me.
Roughly 50 % of the audience I saw a preview with were female. And no, they weren’t dragged into the theater by their bfs, they wanted to see Keanu.
Robert Knepper’s mini-cameo was a slap in the face (of the Prison Break crowd), Kathy Bates gets a few more minutes.
Too bad the boys were so in love with their CGI, it got a bit much and overpowers the well-written quiet scenes that don’t rely on expository dialogue to convey what’s happening. Perhaps that was a mistake, though, judging from the “event-movie” fanboy bloggers who expected a different kind of movie.
It reminds me on “The Happening” (as does the intro of Helen Benson in TDTESS), which was equally dissed by critics but managed to do quite well in the end, worldwide.
C’mon now people. Keanue is not like some other actors that is trying too hard and releasing movies based on their US Weekly infamy.
Cut the guy some slack. Sure he is not the best actor out there but he gave what I call ‘movientertainment’. Not like some actors whose chosen role is geared for the Oscars and forgot to entertain the audiences
Having said that, I am looking fwd to his new flick and here’s hoping for a big finising B.O this wknd. I give it above 40M this weekend with a sure shot of 100M when all said and done.
On a side note Nikki, when has the critics has ever got it 100% right with the audiences? The disconnect is so apparent that we pay no attention to them no more. I for one am glad they are no longer view as an asset and 1st to be let go by the media companies. RottenTomatoes is next inline..here’s hoping!
It’s going to bomb, FOX are so desperate the TV spots are touting that they have the X-Men Wolverine trailer in front of it, rather than saying anything about the movie itself.
& likewise the $80m negative cost must be b/s for an effects based movie, but let’s face it long gone are the days when the studios told the truth on budgets.
My prediction $32m this weekend, $14m next.
If these precious critics know how to make a movie that’s good, how come they’re not all Directors??
I hope Nothing Like the Holidays does well, or you’ll have studio execs refusing to make any films with Latino stars for years (they of course won’t see that it may not do well do to there being a wildly popular Christmas film arleady out there.)
Day the Earth also has man of the hour JON HAMM. While this is not his breakout role it clearly shows that when this guy is on screen he commands attention. I hear he’s being offered starring roles now for studio flicks and I see why. He should be the new Jack Ryan or an action star — the guy’s cool, and not just on Mad Men.
I’m seeing other sources with Delgo lower. Maybe as low as 100K for friday.
Is this the lowest opening for a wide release ever?
Who loses BIG cash with this holiday turkey?
I am in the older age group that gave “TDTEST” a D as a remake and probably a C+ if it was just promoted as a regular action flick. Judging from the original I wasn’t dissing the acting so much as I was the story and the missing elements that gave the original the interesting premise and the satisfying conclusion both missing in this remake or reinvention or whatever they want to call it nowadays. Meanwhile if the Academy doesn’t reward Eastwood “Changeling” or Jolie or the film itself as one of the top five I will be at the front door of the Kodak theater on OSCAR night crying and screaming ” FOUL”.
For a remake of the the 50s classic,I really enjoyed it. What made this one different wasn’t just the envorimental themes in it but the fact that Mr. Klaatu had a backstory which the original didn’t have. And the robot was larger than life in this one. Still the movie retained some of the original film’s elements. But it’s not scary but it’s fun to watch.
just watched Gran Torino – oldschool but awesome. judging by the audience it brought out the over 40’s (and plenty who were eastwood’s age) Carmel’s ex-mayor could be polishing a best actor oscar soon – it’s possibly his last on screen performance and the academy loves a story
I saw TDTESS today and there are two HORRIBLY OBVIOUS product placements, one for McDonalds and one for LG phones. As an audience member I felt angry and used. It was like the companies and the filmmakers were like, “Bitch, we got your money already, so we’re going to cram this down your throat and we don’t care!” The product placements took me completely out of the story.
As a member of SAG and an artist I felt sick to my stomach for filmmakers everywhere. The shots were so obvious that I could imagine representatives of the companies on set the day the shots were done insisting that they be done a certain way. I weep for the future if the AMPTP has its way with product placements unchecked.
Tacky and horrible.
Also, filmmakers, please get children who can act for instrumental roles. The script for this film is bad as well – dialog and scenes were too simple, without creativity or nuance. And FX were bad in a number of shots, although the orbs are pretty. I could have used more of John Cleese’s character – he added some much needed warmth. I think everyone else was acting too much to the spectacle of the movie – not the humanity of each character.
I actually feel dirty after seeing this film because it was so heavy handed, but mostly because of the ridiculous product placement shots.
Also, saw Gran Torino.
Sorry, next time get people who can act. I understand needing genuine Hmong (although bad delivery with long strings of dialog and unnatural phrasing was annoying). But where did that priest come from? He has credits, but I thought he was a local hire, for lack of a better explanation for his casting, also Clint’s family members. Terrible acting like he was just paid to stand there and say lines and blink a lot and try and look earnest. A couple of takes might work well with well trained professionals, but with people off the street or without the chops, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Clint was the only person whose acting was up to snuff.
Also there are two shots where the boom drops into the frame so obviously that I saw others in the theater mumbling to each other about it.
Too bad everyone is so up Clint’s ass whatever he does that no one will admit that there is something very student film about the script (”the old man…”), cast, and technical craftsmanship on the part of the crew. There is a reason people make films in Hollywood with professionals.
Lefty wrote…”It will probably do better than $40M due to the fact that this country is largely made up of people without the skills to discern quality.”
What a condescending a-hole you are, Lefty.
Going Green? It felt like they were promoting an enironmental story, but it was never clear. It reminded me a little bit like “Day After Tomorrow”. It was fun to watch, but ended with a dud. I bet they add extra minutes to the DVD and give it a better ending…
Opening this weekend: An Inconvenient Truth 2 starring Keanu Reeves.
Please Hollywood, enough with the preachy sci-fi!
“The Day the Earth Still” was not an Improvement over the original. The story was mutated in so many ways it lost the original flavor and mystic. It’s worth a watch to compare and enhance one appreciation for the original 50’s version…
See, I tried to tell you all but you wouldn’t listen. This movie is exactly what will happen because of global warming. And we can all thank Al Gore for the results as Mr. Gore is the one that invented global warming!@
Keanu Reeves is, honestly, the only actor who literally makes me cringe. I can’t believe any reputable director or actor would work with him.
Saw “The Day.” All of the actors were superb, the kid steals the movie, Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Bates both play intelligent women, two in one movie, a rare event. Keanu Reeves found a role that suits him once again, monosyllabic and void in emotion. John Cleese is cool. But the film’s glaring flaw is that it suffocates you with left wing-liberal ideology;you just go (oh no, not again, mankind is EVIL) and it finishes with blatant messianic overtones, a strange mix coming from HOLLYWOOD,(I don’t want give away to much). But still it has great special effects and is worth seeing.
I go to movies to be entertained, not to be indoctrinated by some liberal BS. I won’t be going.
How about a movie with some real entertainment value! Now that would be different.
This was the worst movie I have seen in years!The screenplay was obviously penned by another left wingnut college dropout who puts political correctness and spurius information to the forefront of every bad scene.Save your money! You have been warned……
Leave out the environmentalist wack jobs nonsense (a delusion designed to get the whole world in line) and I’d go see this “remake” of a classic,even with Keanu Reeves in it. Now I won’t even watch it when it comes to DVD.
About 650 of them(global scientists) from around the world have joined Stanley Goldenberg, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA, who wrote in a report to the IPCC: “It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.”
Being a long time Science Fiction afficianado, I was really looking forward to the retelling of TDTESS. Planned on going to the IMAX and all . . . then I found out about the environmental theme of the remake. Y’know I’d pay real money if Hollywood could get get away from the “Evil Humans Destroying the Environment” plot. Seems that just about every SF flick made in the last 10-20 years has that same old tired theme. Are there any original thinkers still left in Tinsle Town? Seems not, just politically correct, eviro-extremists. Or possibly just lazy, don’t rock the boat, stick-with-the-formula types.
I saw the movie and I actually wished I could have my money back. I was expecting action and I what I got was a 2 hours of drivel that put me to sleep. The main theme repeated over and over was about how we are killing the planet. We’ve gone from worrying about killing each other in the 50’s to killing our plant’s in the 21 century as our chief concern… Stay home do not watch this film unless you are Al Gore.
It is just another “Hollywood Humanity Hater” film. I’m sick of these elitist kinds of movies.
just another hollywood commerical on how bad the white male is and his progresses in society, 2hr. long infomercial on global warming, acting was fake, whole theme of the movie was anti-american, otherwise another typical liberal hollywood were doomed movie!
The original has always been one of my favorite sci-fi movies. So i was ready to trash this…especially since I am not a Keanu Reeves fan.
They stayed fairly true to the original characters and to some of the scenarios (professor Barnhart) so i was actually ready to give it a positive spin. BBUUUTTTT WTF was up with the ending?? Hated the ending..killed the vibe for me.
One of the best parts of the original was Michael Rennie’s speech at the end when he had everyones attention and said..”hey, if ya dont shape up…we’re gonna come down here and f*** ya up real bad.
So i wanted to see how they handled the speech at the end and it never came.
I liked the idea of the ‘Ark’ scenes though and savin the animals.
Nikki,
You’re my million dollar baby…you do fine!!!
it was good to see that guy from Mad Men in Day the Earth Stood Still. It was a small part though but that dude is cool. I could see him as a George Clooney type star.
I saw the Day the Earth Stood Still yesterday. For me,it stood still for almost two hours because that’s about how long this turkey is. What’s wrong with it? Uh, the question is what’s right with it. Drink a cup of coffee and take a barf bag with you when you go. If you like left wing environmental propaganda or you are an Earth First member you will love this movie. If not,then just go to Lowe’s buy a hammer and hit yourself in the head until you have a tremendous headache. About the same cost and about the same result.
Haven’t seen “Gran Torino” yet (it’s not out yet in most cities), but “Changeling” was indeed superb.
Poor you, Lefty, having to live in a country with all us dim bulbs. The heart bleeds.
Anyway, if I went to “TDTESS” (and I’ll actually probably wait till it’s on Netflix), it would be for Kyle Chandler. Keanu who?
Day The Earth Stood Still (C- rating) vs. Milk (good rating, but yuk). No brainer, watching even the poorest of acting beats out Milk any day! However, watching gays waste their money is a good time. Homophobic you say? –damn straight, get away from my children fruit people.
They totally turned the story into “evil humans on the brink of destroying the planet earth get last minute redemption from Christ-like Klaatu”.
The original movie was anti-war and was a little preachy in it’s message that we were becoming a danger to the rest of the peaceful universe, but this one has changed the message to how stupid and dangerous humans are to plants and animals and our mother planet and we deserve to die for it.
Spoilers:
Mankind has been judged and found wanting, so Klaatu is sent to earth, “born” as a human, in a sort of virgin birth (right at Christmas time) with the attendant wise men, is hunted by the government, sentenced to die, raises a man from the dead, walks on water, takes the death sentence punishment intended for the sinners onto himself (literally into himself), sacrifices his life to save mankind and then rises into heaven. And we know he’ll be back to judge us if we go astray.
Far superior to the silly robot in a silver jumper original. I loved the glowing globes, the enormous Gort, Reeves as Klaatu, and the message. Earth doesn’t belong to us.
I recently watched the original 1951 movie. Who could possibly say this re-imaging is inferior? I loved the glowing globes, the enormous Gort, Reeves as Klaatu, and the message. Earth does not belong to us. Was the 1951 movie sci-fi’s “Citizen Kane”?
Would today’s audience accept a male alien hanging out with a boy without the mother present? I knew the new version would have to correct that. And the classic line? Only the star of the movie could deliver the iconic “Klaatu barada nikto”. It’s as if the house maid had said, “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn.”
(Pay attention since it’s easy to miss. It is not done as an “I’ll be back” moment. Klaatu says the line to Gort after he is wounded.)
I saw “DESS” in Imax and I will see it again. If you think Keanu Reeves is a little “stiff” as Klaatu, was Michael Rennie any more expressive? Klaatu is an alien without Earth-based emotions. And he’s serious about his mission.
If you don’t know the story, here goes a brief summary. Glowing huge globes suddenly land all over Earth. The U.S. one lands in New York’s Central Park! An alien alights from the glowing globe and is immediately shot at. This confirms that humans are hostile, violent beings.
The alien, Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), is protected by an enormous robot nicknamed “Gort” by the military. The military wants to destroy Gort, kill Klaatu and not bother asking any questions. Klaatu is merely injured and is sent to a military hospital where he meets astrobiologist Helen (Jennifer Connelly). Helen helps Klaatu escape. He meets an old friend slumming as a human.
The glowing globes cause mass riots, food famines, and everybody is jumping into the Express-to-Hell handbasket with their looted flat screen TVs.
In 1994 I conducted THE ALEXANDER UFO RELIGIOUS CRISIS SURVEY: THE IMPACT OF UFOS AND THEIR OCCUPANTS ON RELIGION for The Bigelow Foundation. The abstract states: The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis survey addresses just one of many problems facing the UFO Community: how would organized religions in the United States react to confirmation of contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.
The results of this pilot survey are straightforward and remarkably simple. The theologians surveyed would not feel their faith and the faith of their congregation would be threatened. The following results, based upon a 23% return (230 surveys) should have a significant and meaningful impact on the UFO Community, its doctrines and attitudes. http://www.nidsci.org/articles/alexander/survey_religion.html
Helen is mother to peeved, nasty stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith, whose family needs his salary). Helen’s husband and Jacob’s father was killed in the Iraq War. Klaatu realizes that Earth’s humans are still hell-bent on war and destruction.
Klaatu is not here to save us but the planet. He wants one simple thing. He wants to address the United Nations. But stiff-necked, anal-retentive Secretary of Defense Regina Jackson (Kathy Bates) is unimpressed with having a visitor from a highly advanced planet as her guest. She tells Klaatu that to have him speak to the U.N. is absurd. And since no world leaders, the press, and public are not interested in him, when he escapes, Jackson uses the red phone. Arrest the illegal alien and destroy Gort with fire power and/or nuclear weapons. Whatever it takes.
Klaatu needs help getting around without money, so Helen (along with angry Jacob) takes him to meet Professor Barnhardt (John Cleese). When Klaatu fixes a complex mathematical problem for Bardhardt, he has the Nobel winner’s complete attention. But the professor doesn’t know anyone who will help Klaatu with his mission. He doesn’t even pull out a digital camera to memorialize the visit.
With no one listening to Klaatu, the planet’s humans are on course to be destroyed. The clock is ticking and no one cares.
“DESS” is directed by Scott Derrickson. I like the added dimensions and explanations that were added to the simplistic original. The feel is much more intense (then the original) and flows with an ominous note.
Visual effects supervisor Jeff Okun has given “DESS” a sinister look and alien-like texture. In fact, the visual effects are really outstanding. I especially liked GORT. And Reeves’s performance? Yes, it was tough to match Michael Rennie’s suave, smiling alien on a mission. Reeves’s Klaatu is far more menacing and goal-oriented. Jaden Smith’s role, as written, makes him an annoying, disrespectful kid. With Jacob’s behavior, I could easily see him joining Hitler’s Youth and snitching on his parents.
This movie sucks big floppy donkey dong, it Al Gore’s movie repackaged as a scifi flick! I’m so pissed off because the original was a dated but very good flick with a lot of potential.
Saw THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL last night and, sorry to say, it’s another stinker for Fox. Keanu playing an emotionless alien matches his wooden acting style precisely. Oscar winners Connelly and Bates were wasted as was Jon Hamm. Avoid.
On the other hand, I also caught MILK, which is first rate, with great performances from Penn, Brolin, etc.
This is just another eco-cult blast movie against humanity for destroying the planet. Al Gore will like it a lot. As propaganda, this movie couldn’t be better. If you think Al Gore is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you will like this movie. Please, see it.
Stupid ass movie. It sucked. It should be called the Barack Obama movie……….people of the earth suck and we can change….change….change. Keep the change!!!
The move “The Day Hollywood Stood Againt America” should be the title. Could have been a good movie if it wasnt for all the jabs about how terrable america is and how we have all ruin the world. It was stupid, ruined movie with no real ending.
My wife and I had planned to see this movie. But after reading that the movie plot was going to revolve around a preachy global warning theme, we have changed our minds. I’m tired of indoctrination movies. I go to the movies for escapist fun, not to be lectured.
This is the worst movie I have seen in 10 years. What a preachy piece of sh//!
The Day the Earth Stood Still? Was the day this movie was released> Dead on arrival> Lame! No way does it compare with original! Even beautiful Jennifer Connelly, can not bring any light nor hope to this terrible rewrite of the original screenplay? This remake was a big mistake!
The problem with this movie and why Hollywood really can’t make films that are either good or money-makers (most good films actually make money) is the social distance between Hollywood and the audience.
Hollywood is made up of clueless, socially isolated, fabulously wealthy, status-striving Yuppies. Who love nothing better than lecturing their social inferiors about how evil, racist, sexist, anti-environmental, and so on they are compared to the predestined “Saved” of Hollywood.
GRAN TORINO, DAY, it doesn’t matter, Hollywood is in the mood to lecture their social inferiors on how cool and better Hollywood really is.
The original DAY worked because people were afraid of being blown apart by global nuclear war. The original’s “Peace at any Price” theme worked well among nuclear war fears. By contrast, only rich Hollywood celebrities care about Global Warming and the Earth getting a degree hotter by century’s end.
Certainly not in a deep recession.
I’d love to see a fun movie. I don’t want a lecture on how evil and racist I am, and how much I “need” someone non-White to “redeem” me spiritually. Nor do I need a lecture on how “evil” I am for living my life from a bunch of private-jet, limo, and mansion dwelling celebrities. How much carbon did DAY require to make?
I saw TDTESS last night. The movie wasn’t too bad (I kind of enjoyed it), but I was really ticked off at how the whole thing turned out to be a silly global warming message. LAME!
I like Keanu and Conelly is/was beautiful, but this is a bad, bad movie. It’s annoying and preachy.
There are some people on this planet worse than rich, sanctimonious enviros … but not many.
The message is pretty hard-core humanity-hatred. Environmentalism is just a sick, twisted religion these days.
Saw TDTSS saturday afternoon, in a small casino bingo room at the Saddle West Casino in Pahrump, Nevada. No we don’t have a big screen movie theater in this community. The 20 or so people that were there for the afternoon showing were all over 50, so most like me were hoping that some of the original movie would show up in this one. Enough of the story line came thru, and maybe the story was more enviromental, but hey this is the news of the day, not WWIII as indicated in the first one. Keanu did alright as the emotionless Klatuu, but I would rate the movie a so-so maybe a c+.
The great twist of irony? THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, being called liberal propaganda et cetera et cetera, is a product of Fox. Delicious how idiotic you folks are.
I didn’t stay through the credits…
Did anyone see if GORT was played by Al Gore?
If not, he should have. He is the perfect robot, and wouldn’t need any makeup.
To Laughing,
What is idiotic is believing all those left wing loons who try to tell you that Fox is far right just because a few of their commentators on Fox news are. Murdoch had fundraisers for Hillary Clinton. Simpsons, Family Guy, even going back to Married with Children are not exactly right wing shows. They introduced us to “In Living Color”. Its just that left wing loons can’t stand to hear anything negative about their political heroes because they put all their dreams and desires into their politicians and smear anyone who doesn’t think like they do. The more conservative viewers do not think government is capable of solving most problems nor the best at solving them. As for the Movie, yes way too cheesy. Not as cheesy as Gore passing off plant food as a world ending toxin all while actual sea level and global temp measurements are mocking him. Or is it Goret? Anyway, the real story will be how a few left wing hacks (Gore, UN, etc) helped ruin the credibility of science with their hype and nonsense while taking ghastly sums of your money away from real environmental problems to solve fake problems and fatten their wallets.
Hey, laughing at you, I was just coming to the same conclusion after reading all of the ridiculous comments about liberals and the left. It’s amazing how stupid people can be sometimes. You have to be a fool to associate a FOX movie with Al Gore, and Barack Obama. Yeah, I’m sure they wanted to channel Al Gore and Barack Obama themes when this film went into development. NOT!!! You know what’s even more priceless; the comment about some left wing nut college dropout probably wrote the scipt. This coming from a group of people who worship the hateful agenda of a suppossedly ex druggie radio host with no college degree at all. They ought to be ashamed before God to try to talk down about anyone else after the litany of nitwits and fiascos they’ve trumpeted as bonafied leaders. Whether they want to face the truth or not, Karma or God or whatever they think they believe in always makes sure deeds don’t go unpunished or unrewarded depending upon its merit.
Go see Slumdog Millionaire!!! It’s brilliant!
Too bad that this flick has old brain dead Keanu Reeves in it. Imagine what it coudl have been with Robert Downey Jr. in it – please don’t destroy such classic films with horrible wannabe pretender actors.
I just saw “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. It was okay until they went into the liberal slant again. They just can’t help themselves! We could set off every nuke in the world and yes, humans would perish, however, the earth would recover over time. Life of all kinds would return as well. I was half seriously looking for “Al Gore” as one of the executive producers at the end. At the end of the movie, the aliens leave, but not before turning every power system on the planet off. They show us the oil pumps and refineries shuting down along with any military vehicle. It’s priceless liberal propaganda! The funny thing is that if all our power supplies dissappeared tomorrow, most of us would starve. If we didn’t starve, we might freeze in the cold climates, but not before cutting down every tree for fuel for warmth and cooking food. Thus, bringing about a real climatic crisis the liberals so fear. World wide temperatures have been dropping since 1998 and it was warmer as recently as the 1930’s, however, they don’t tell you any of that. They want to keep you ignorant to acquire more money and power. It seems to be working! Just because this movie is a product of FOX, it doesn’t mean it was written and produced by conservatives. Frankly, I wish there were a alternate “conservative” Hollywood. By the way, the Zogby polls after the election proved who the ignorant idiots are mister “laughing at you” loser!
Waste of time! See the original!
took my daughter and grandaughter to see twilight. loved it because they did not have the same boring actors. it was refreshing. also quite a story. i am a 50 year old grandpa it got me reading already on second book plan on reading the whole series.as for the sex and all that. i dont think its trhat bad. you should have read the earth chidren series by jean auel, it seemed after the vally she went crazy with sex and such. read all five but it was funny to see the progression. twilight shows the same thing. you know its not true but in your mind you think maybe. very good writers myer and auel.
also went to see earth movie. it was horrible. it was a 2 hour punishment of listening to al gores garbage. they should have called it the inconvient lie part 2
I was interested in seeing the film until I found out about the environmentalism Hollywood has yet again injected into the film. It is like they are predisposed to sucking the fun out of life.
The temperature is going to go up 1 degree over a century. Aliens are pissed off and want to destroy humanity. Spare me.
THANK YOU. Being a sucker for science fiction, I was planning to go see the DTESS movie. But, now, I’ve decided to not waste my ten bucks on another preachy left-wing, anti-science piece of crap, Hollywood movie. What’s wrong with these people!? Why do they hate us humans so bad? Maybe they should go back to their own planet.
Poor, TDTESS. Got released right in the middle of a nasty, deep, and probably gonna get worse recession. It ruined the movie. It’s a little too glitzy for me. My kids 13 and 15 loved it. They hated the music.
I was really excited to see this film but after reading the overwhelming majority of people saying this sucks, I am not sure I will go. Maybe my vote is worthless but if many don’t see it, the bottom line will feel it. It doesn’t surprise me that Hollywood is politicizing. They all believe the same thing to be “in”. Actors brown nosing. I just don’t want anyone, let alone Hollywood telling me what is right. I can listen to scientists and the economics of things and decide for myself.
Hollywood is a place where the creativity index of its writers, producers, etc., is nil. They keep making re-runs of old movies such as this one. Films made on these basis usually are losers. They usually, to put it bluntly and appropriately, suck. Don’t see it.
This turkey left me wishing that the ‘original Gort’ would come back and vaporize Hollywood with his eyebeams.
Hollywood emits more ‘Green-House Gas’ than ALL the flatulant cattle in the world!!
How about a sci-fi film where the U.S. is visited by superior aliens who are escaping a despotic planet where their leaders are insisting that ALL organic life is deadly and perilous to the universe, only to discover that the refuge they seek is infected with the same belief construct??!!
The Day the Earth Stood Still was a great disappointment and was nothing more than another hollywood left “lesson” aimed at “we the morons” who obviously don’t know anything and need to be taught by the enlightened Hollywood left.
Keanu Reeves couldn’t carry Michael Rennie’s space helmet and the rest of the cast is just as bad or worse although Jennifer Connelly is just beautiful…but still an airhead!
The original movie was 1000% better in story line and meaningful content…..I am just tired of being preached too by liberal airheads who don’t know and don’t know that they don’t know!
@ Very Angry re: Product Placements.
If you want to see what you describe, go watch Get Carter. I didn’t even notice the brand of cell phone, but want to say something re: McBarf:
McDonald’s is used as shorthand. Meat, foam boxes, overweight people with cholesterol stats that will kill them — it’s all in there. That’s what one associates with McD. You couldn’t get all that across if you used a no-name Mom & Pop burger joint. It wouldn’t register, it would never have the same effect.
That Mr. Wu, himself an alien who’s been on earth 70+ years, wanted to meet there, supports the statement he makes later via dialogue. Humans are nuts and may not make much sense in the eyes of a Mr. Spock-like alien, but heck, you gotta love ‘em. It must be more fun to be an ignorant human than it is being a smart alien.
Yet another “tree hugger” movie I wasted money on “the happening” and now another five bucks down the drain on this lame excuse of a remake of “day” – oh well,at least I didn’t put it in the gas tank!
This movie was a huge disappointment to me.
If I’d have known it’s political message (the algore leftnut wing) and how wooden and predictable the acting was, why the heck would I waste my money. At best, this is a movie that a dyed-in-the-wool Keanu or Jennifer fan could see on DVD.
You surely don’t need to see the half-rate computer graphics in the movie theater.
I smell another Drudge link…
Its obvious that those of you complaining about the “green message” or “preachyness” of this movie really didn’t see it. I have seen it-twice. Both times the audience clapped at the end. The “green” message was there but so understated you would not have heard it that way. In fact you could take alot of what is said in this movie and apply it to any misgivings you have about the world we live in. The were religious undertones to this movie as well. The only gripe I have is that at the ending they needed 7 words. Klaatu to Helen- “We’ll be watching. Tell them.” Helen to Klaatu – “I will”. But that was kinda understood.