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Post by movieliker on Feb 23, 2023 18:37:09 GMT 1
I do not agree with most of the ratings or reviews. I've seen both the original and the remake. One after the other.
Both have good acting, good dialog and the best special effects available at the time. And both have a stupid premise. A supposedly advanced alien comes to Earth to enforce unfair hypocrisy.
In the original, the alien says humans are too violent. Either stop fighting, warring and being violent, or our robot police will destroy you.
So? You want us to surrender our freedom and self determination to your fleet of robot police who were not elected, and we cannot communicate with? No thank you. Freedom comes at the price of risks. And what if another alien race destroys your robot police? How are we supposed to defend ourselves?
And? How did your race of aliens get from your original primitive form to this "advanced" form of evolution? Weren't you guys violent? Didn't you guys have war? Didn't you develop technology to defend yourselves from your enemies? Well? Why can't we have the same experience?
I gave both movies a 7 for entertainment value, good acting, good dialog, and best special effects available at the time. I would have given both a 10, but both premises were both stupid.
(The remake premise is just as stupid. The difference is, the supposedly advanced alien says we humans are destroying the planet. So to save the planet, he's going to destroy the humans.
In a conversation with a scientist, the alien realizes his own race of aliens faced their own environmental crisis. And survived. The human scientist says, "Give us the same experience and challenge of dealing with our own environmental crisis.")
Have you seen either?
What do you think?
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 23, 2023 20:47:31 GMT 1
First one is great, second one is meh.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2023 21:48:07 GMT 1
The original is a classic. One of the best sci fi films of the 50s.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Feb 23, 2023 23:07:14 GMT 1
I liked both films, even though the first one is clearly superior to the remake.
Klaatu's warning to the people of Earth is more specific in the short story/novel. The alien coalition he represents would only take action against Earth if our nuclear aspirations threatened other members of the galactic community. It's sort of an alien NATO-type thing. We were free to destroy ourselves with those same weapons without their complaint or intervention.
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Post by movieliker on Feb 24, 2023 16:21:15 GMT 1
I don't agree with all these posters saying the original is better. This a mindless trend for people to say, "The original is better".
Why? Because it's in black and white? Because it does not have CGI special effects?
No. Both of these versions are equally good and bad.
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Post by Indiana Jones on Feb 24, 2023 19:56:41 GMT 1
Yeah I preferred the original.
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