Hollywood Helping You Hate Yourself
The disease infesting Hollyweird has progressed beyond mere hatred of America. Under the banner of environmentalism, Tinseltown has been marketing an increasingly open hatred of the entire human race — as exemplified by a tedious remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which Keanu Reeves comes from outer space to tell us that it would be better for everyone if we didn’t exist. Tim Black explains why you’d be wise to give this dog a miss:
Its dialogue often seems to be little more than a patchwork of preachy platitudes, scripture cribbed from some dismal eco-bible, made yet more dreary by their soundbite delivery. Hollywood screenwriters are presumably on an especially fibrous diet at the moment, one rich in stolid, cliché-heavy, eco-fare, judging by this large, steaming pile of Al Gore.
…this film is mostly insufferable, chiefly because it’s little more than an environmentalist rant. Having a green agenda shouldn’t necessarily make it a bad film; indeed The Day After Tomorrow, likewise, an ecologically aware movie, was often genuinely exciting. But, as with the similarly humans-are-crap themed The Happening, the indifference to humanity deprives The Day the Earth Stood Still of anything to fear for. Whether it’s an invasion from within or without, from a vampiric mutation or from outer space, such fictions rely for their dramatic tension upon there being something worth saving, a notion of civilisation, its values and beliefs imperiled. Be it Van Helsing’s Christianity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula or the American way of life in Independence Day, the confrontation with the alien threat matters. But in The Day the Earth Stood Still there is no such tension, because there is very little worth saving. Little wonder the apocalypse here comes not with a bang but a CGI whimper.
But the movie does have some redeeming qualities:
[The moonbatty] Jennifer Connelly’s hair contrasted beautifully with her pale face. And Keanu is just perfect in his role as the Extra-Boring-Terrestrial. He speaks his lines as if he’s unfamiliar with the language, and the way in which he conveys uncertain control of his facial muscles is uncannily alien. I’d go so far as to say Keanu is probably the finest exponent of the recovering-from-a-stroke school of acting currently at work.
Appallingly, this morbid dreck finished the weekend number one at the box office. It seems everyone but masochistic moonbats who want to be told human existence is a crime is finding entertainment somewhere other than at the movies.
On a tip from Name. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Posted by Van Helsing on December 15, 2008 11:29 am
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First of all-this movie in noway shape or form is a preachy one. In fact only 1 time did it actually say anything about killing the planet. This movie made me cry, laugh, say holy sh*t and bravo!!! Did you even see it???
When was the last time you did not see STACLU jump to conclusions based upon a knee-jerk reaction?
It was sure advertised as “preachy”.
I don’t believe you saying that it wasn’t but even if it wasn’t it deserves to fail due to the “preachyness” of the commercials for it.
The original sucked as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1jhjqx7p9M
I bet you didn’t even know this was a remake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5sGv1HBB7M
Klaatu barada nikto (Yes We Can)
Here is another review of the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J72ZFPGDmE
My favorite quote in this video about the movie.
“There was an actual storyline about, um saving the world and then it made me think that’s where all this green stuff comes from…”
These people hate the movie too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR9O_k4CzGU
By the way, why does Alien come down now?
I mean we just elected Obama, and now they want to destroy us?
Oops, I just spoiled the ending. He meets with Obama and after meeting with “the One” he agrees to give the earth a little more time.
Of course what really makes this movie so different from the original is that you had the subplot in this version about the alien trying to find his father who was somehow stranded on Earth. I thought it was so touching at the end when he finds his father, Al Gore, and goes back to the mothership with him.
Why spend an hour or show watching this movie when you watch it all in FIVE SECONDS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la99Cu1zFok&NR=1
Seriously, I just found out how the movie ends.
Usually I am not the one to spoil movies for others (well except I did tell everyone who didn’t see Titanic how it ended – the ship sank). But in this case I will make an exception because the ending is just SO LAME.
Now this is not a joke though you might think I am joking here. Human beings lose the ability to use electricity. That’s right. The enviro-Wackos wet dream. We are pushed back into a time before electricity.
Actually I like the idea if we employ it selectively, like to movie stars, movie producers, and al Gore. Just think of the power we would save just by banning THEM from using electricity.
And without being allowed to use electricity they couldn’t make such terrible movies as this one.
Maybe we just ban them from using electricity at the Obama Inauguration.
That would be enough saved to run a small country like, say Kenya for a few years.
I was not joking about the end of the movie but as a satire it would be funny if the aliens made it so only the liberal enviro-wackjobs couldn’t use electricity.
You know a liberal gets into his jetstream and it just won’t go, but a conservative has no trouble using electricity. An environmentalist walks into the room and all the lights turn off until that environmentalist leaves.
The environmentalist can’t go to protests because the only way the environmentalist can get anywhere is by foot or on bike.
Great satire. Too bad there is no one out there to make it.
The name of the satire film could be Preachy Movie, and it could be like those “Scary Movie” movies that satirizes Hollywood Blockbusters. This one could make fun of how Hollywood tries to put in left wing propagandize into their movies.
By the way, one other thing that I have heard about this movie after watching several reviews of it, is besides it being boring, preachy, etc., is that it is full of product placements. It seemed like one long commercial with products from Microsoft, Casio, etc. etc. shown all over the place.
Talk about mixed messages. Save the Planet. Down with Electricity but at the same time buy the stuff shown in the movie (much of which takes electricity to run). Commercialism wrapped in an anti-commercialism film.
LOL
Thank you for the You-Tube Links to those couple of citizen reviews Kevin.
That one lady was so funny.
“Made me think, that’s where all this green stuff is coming from”. Love it!! You know that if she did vote this year it was for Obama for sure.
clmco if I saw that movie I would probably be crying too. After all those would be hours of my life and dollars from my pocket that I could never get back.
You are so right if what you say about this movie being full of product placements is true and I don’t see why I should doubt that. It is an odd message. Buy Microsoft’s new operating system software, buy Casio watches, but at the end of the movie the alien turns off the lights? What good is Microsoft’s operating system if you can’t turn on the computer because there’s no electricity.
Now your Casio watches wouldn’t work either, but at least they would be correct twice a day. And that is far more often than a leftist/liberal is.
One of the things I heard a reviewer say was that there was a product placement for WOW in the movie.
Well, not being into WOW I had to look it up. World of Warcraft, an on line role playing computer game.
Yeah, I don’t have a teen but if I had and that teen came back after seeing this movie wanting the new version of WOW, I would say Klaatu barada nikto and then turn off the main power box in my house for a few days just to show them what a world without electricity would really be like. Top on their concern list – NO WOW! NO Computer of any type. And I would have them turn in their cell phone too so we could all live like Klaatu would want us to.
They would be screaming DRILL BABY DRILL in no time.
Interesting time of year to show such a flick.
You have electricity cut off in the region I live and this WOW would be the least of people’s worries as there would be widespread deaths due to freezing.
Now I guess we could go back to burning wood from trees to keep warm but I bet ole Klaatu wouldn’t like us cutting down all those forests to do so would he?
Let me get this straight.
At the last moment Klaatu decides that instead of wiping humans off the face of the earth he decides to do the “compassionate” thing and instead cuts off power to the world leaving millions to the even more agonizing prospect of freezing to death.
If that isn’t a testament to Liberal “Compassion” I don’t know what is!
Yeah, Independence Day was a kick a** film. Excuse the language.
Sure there were some liberalism in it like they had to have the stereotype drunk broken down Vietnam Vet. And the President’s “Independence Day” is now the world’s holiday seems I guess today we would call it neo-con. But as a whole it was much better than most of what Hollywood put out.
In the end the Dad redeems himself in the eyes of his Children. The military were in general the good guys (although they had to make the Defense Secretary kind of a bad guy). America was the one who came to the world’s rescue.
And most of all when the President looked the enemy in the eye and saw pure evil he realized that he couldn’t negotiate with it. He couldn’t use “diplomacy” to borrow a Obama phrase. He realized the enemy for the evil it was and did everything he could to destroy it. Oh, and the only “Rules of Engagement” was to destroy the enemy any way you could. (Will Smith even physically abused the “prisoner”)
And of course the First Lady died which Billy Boy (who was the real president when the movie was first release) must have loved.
And at the end, when Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum were coming out of the desert after destroy the enemy what were they both doing. They were both smoking a cigar. Wow, that must have pissed the libs off big time.
Yeah we have gone from a movie like that to a movie like this. Sad indeed.
If they wanted to make Obama look good they could have had the movie end this way. Klaatu meets with our President (who happens to be an African American, heck make it Will Smith) to receive our unconditional surrender and our declaration to prepare for our extermination. He goes up and starts to have Black President to go submissively on his knees as a final show of defeat, but Black President puts his hand on Klaatu and suddenly he starts acting strange (okay more strange) phasing in and out and his hardware that was tied mentally or however to him starts falling apart too. It seems that the US had developed some kind of superbug that not only kills Klaatu but all the stuff that he was linked to as well.
Black President is a hero and the world is saved.
There they could promote Obama and not come out looking like Earthlings are total pushovers.
It would have been funny if at the end of Independence Day the President asks Will Smith for a cigar and the President’s little daughter says “Smoking is not good for you”. Don’t worry honey I am not going to smoke it. By the way meet your new mother(out comes a Monica look alike).
Is Klaatu the one we have been waiting for?
No, I forgot WE (as in a Royal we as in this case Obama) are the one we have been waiting for.
What’s worse?
Being a Prisoner in an underground laboratory in the Desert or Gitmo?
Want to bet that the liberals at the end of Independence Day if it was real life would call for the arrest of the President on War Crimes against the Aliens.
One thing I found interesting in Independence Day is that when we finally came up with a plan and we were relaying that plan through morse code I think it was some British guy was told “the Yanks” have a Plan” and his response was “about time” like the rest of the world was just sitting around waiting for US to save everyone.
Did anyone see “Mars Attacks”?
It kind of sort of was a satire on Independence Day but was good movie in its own right.
I loved how the US President kept trying to interpret the aliens actions as misunderstood and their intentions peaceful even as they committed more and more violent acts.
Reminds me of Obama and Iran. Hell, Obama and our enemies in general.
Yeah, it seems like sometimes Hollywood makes good movies with conservative messages if only by accident.
The Dark Knight was cool.
The Cigar Scene at the end, yeah I never will forget it. I laughed out loud knowing how pissed the Libs must be.
Judd Hirsch says to Jeff Goldblum you don’t smoke cigars. And Jeff Goldblum replies “I can get used to it”.
You are right about what future liberals would do. Like Rev. Wright. Independence Day was when we massacred beings in the millions because they were not like us. People say God Bless Independence Day, I say God Damn Independence day for turning the whole world into murderers against our friends from beyond the starts.
starts=stars.
We committed Genocide on a Galactic Level.
I guess he would consider “the Day Earth Stood Still” as the day our chickens came home to roost. After all look at all we killed on “Independence Day”.
Not to mention those we killed when “Mars Attacks”.
We killed the aliens on “Independence Day” because they didn’t look like the images we have on our money.
“Those weren’t the aliens I knew.”
Don’t forget “War of the Worlds”
We used biological warfare against these visitors just like we did the Native Americans.
When will this inhumanity against our galactic brothers end?