Stuff I saw before Wanted and Hancock, initial impressions, and the likelihood I’ll be going to see it.
- The Mummy: Rise of the Dragon Emperor - More good, rollicking Mummy fun. Though why Rick’s son has aged so much while Rick still looks, um, young is going to be interesting to explain. Likely.
- The Day the Earth Stood Still: Keanu Reaves is no Michael Rennie. Unlikely.
- Burn After Reading: This looks seriously dumb, regardless of the talent involved. Unlikely.
- The Longshots: I’m sure there are some “underdog sports team” or “kid abandoned by father who redeems down-and-out relative” movie clichés that didn’t show up in this trailer, but I can’t think of any of them. Unlikely.
- Step Brothers: This makes The Love Guru look like Citizen Kane. Highly unlikely.
- Quantum of Solace: Fine Bondian action, even with the “Bond’s gone rogue, cut up his credit cards” schtick recycled. Likely.
- Swing Vote: The feel-good election movie of 2008! Unlikely.
- Pineapple Express: This makes Step Brothers look like Citizen Kane. Highly unlikely.
- The Dark Knight: Nothing new here. Likely.
- Punisher: War Zone: Great, another craptastic Punisher movie. When will Marvel learn? Unlikely.
- Death Race: It’s the Running Man crossed with The Longest Yard and … um … NASCAR. Those who like this sort of thing will probably like it. Unlikely.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Oh, no. No, no, no, no…
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/
The trailer I saw: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thedaytheearthstoodstill/
The official site: http://dtessmovie.com/
The Tailer in Question, of The Day the Earth Stood Still.
It could be meat, it could be cake. Keeanu as Klaatu is interesting, and given his acting style *might* work. Now, it will be interesting to see if they use the same message of Peace and that Earth is a threat to the rest of the Galaxy from the original….and what the new Gort is.
Oh. Dear. God. They have remade Death Race 2k and completely gutted the premise and the humour of the original….yeah, I’ll pass.
Gort — though we see a picture of him flashing at the end — looks to be a cloud of nanites that can disassemble anything they touch. My interpretation, anyway.
Keeanu seems just a bit too … alien. Or just Keeanu, it’s hard to tell.