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Title: Some remakes should not be undertaken
Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still is a thought-provoking, entertaining film - assuming you got the 1951 version starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal. What a major disappointment the remake is - an exercise in computer graphics created by a tech weenie on steroids. The arrival of Klaatu's space ship was far more dramatic in the 1951 version, cheesy special effects notwithstanding. And what was the point of Gort suddenly dissolving into a gazillion, tiny, all-consuming bugs? Very unconvincing. The sweet relationship between Klaatu and the boy from 1951 was turned into an adversarial relationship between a killing machine and a smart-ass kid. When the boy came to like Klaatu, I couldn't figure out why. Not worth watching.
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