The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates

Director: Scott Derrickson

Genre: thriller, sf, drama

So I was one of those people who was screaming no at The Day The Earth
Stood Still remake, the original is one of my favorite movies. It's a
terrific sci-fi film, probably the best to come out of the 50's era. I
highly recommend it; moving onto the, sigh, remake. Keanu Reeves, mmmm,
what on Earth about him scream alien? I guess since it looks like it
hurts when his face expresses human emotion, he's what the director
needed. But what I didn't appreciate about the remake is that it
completely changed the story and the moral the first movie brought to
us. If we were to have a remake of this story, at least it seems like
in today's world it moral is more important than ever, that humans are
just destroying themselves with all the technology and violence that we
have created. Instead, I get 2 hours of Jennifer Connelly complaining
to a stubborn Keanu Reeves on how much humans ro…

Trailer The Day the Earth Stood Still