Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Snowflake]

That's no big deal, because Klaatu looks on everything dispassionately. Maybe he has no passions. He becomes the first co-star in movie history to elude falling in love with Jennifer Connelly. Keanu Reeves is often low-key in his roles, but in this movie, his piano has no keys at all. He is so solemn, detached and uninvolved he makes Mr. Spock look like Hunter S. Thompson at closing time. When he arrives at a momentous decision, he announces it as if he has been rehearsing to say: "Yes, one plus one equals two. Always has, always will."

Ouch!

I love Roger Ebert sometimes. Complete review here.

I can not only not believe they remade this, but I did not know it was even in production. Hopefully it slides out of the theaters as quietly and people rent the original. Yes, Michael Rennie is also a tad wooden, but I had Gort nightmares for years.......and it had the awesome Bernard Hermann score.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Ouch!

I love Roger Ebert sometimes. Complete review here.

I can not only not believe they remade this, but I did not know it was even in production. Hopefully it slides out of the theaters as quietly and people rent the original. Yes, Michael Rennie is also a tad wooden, but I had Gort nightmares for years.......and it had the awesome Bernard Hermann score.

I have no desire to see the remake. I'm not against remakes, but I am horrified (by what I've read and seen) at the idea of this one. The first movie is so understated and quietly beautiful. I'm just...I don't want to see it.

And then I realized Jon Hamm also stars. So, I probably will see it. Someday. Just not in theaters.