The Day the Earth Stopped Living and Humanity Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Seeds of Our Demise Add commentsFortunately the stupid remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still (the original of which was lame enough already) is being roundly panned. But you still have to wonder why movies like this are being made — wherein humanity, or at least the mostly European or European-descended, prosperous parts of it, is seen as some sort of disease or mistake and therefore deserves to be destroyed by Our Designated Betters — and what it says about the mindset of the mostly European or European-descended, prosperous humans who green-light them. Since I watch tv scifi I haven’t been able to escape commercials for the flick, which show scenes of Keanu Reeves dully intoning “Your planet?” and “I tried to speak to your leaders…” and “the problem is you” interspersed with juicy destruction of the usual tourist hot spots like the Coliseum in Rome*. I have to admit, if I were an Islamic jihadist stuffed to the brim with hatred for decadent Western society films like this would only encourage me in my terrorist plans. “So they want to die? Okay! I’ll be glad to speed them on their way!” I’ll bet you there’s no scene of the aliens destroying Mecca.
*Correction: I just saw the trailer again and now I think that’s actually meant to be Shea Stadium or some other New York landmark since the main action is set there.
Global Warming, feh! Real aliens do it for the LULZ!
Update, Sunday: well, that takes care of that. Lesson: don’t f*ck with the Doctor’s favorite planet. (Oh, like he really cared all that much about Gallifrey. The few episodes he was actually on his home planet he 1) nearly got killed every time, and 2) clearly couldn’t wait to get off the place even when whatever trouble he was in blew over. I think all his “survivor guilt” in the new series clearly stems from the fact that he probably used to wish dusty old Gallifrey and the stuffy old Time Lords would just disappear, and then it turns out he got his wish. Be careful what you wish for… Hey, it’s the only thing that describes his fairy-tale exposition scene in The Sound of Drums — in all the episodes for Doctors 1 through 7 — I’ve never seen the movie with number 8 — he clearly has nothing but contempt for most of the other Time Lords and their lifestyle.)
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December 13th, 2008 at 2:56 am
I haven’t (and have no plan to) see it. Is Gort’s head blue?
December 13th, 2008 at 3:59 am
“Your planet?”
Yeah, that line made me chortle and say to my husband, “I’m not an Earthling, I’m a citizen of the Milky Way!”
And crap like this is the real threat to our society. I’m of the opinion that it’s already destroyed us. We’re like a hollow rotted tree just waiting for the lightning to split us apart.
December 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Meh, at least the original movie (however schlocky it was, even way back then) addressed a real issue, one that still exists today. A point that the warmenistas forget, either because it interferes with their sermon, or underscores the relative worthlessness of preachy movies.
December 14th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Years from now films like this one won’t make any sense. You’ll start explaining to your little tyke that people thought the planet was heating up because of our aerosols and cars and air conditioners, and that we all… then you’ll see the look little Britney or Ashley or Madison is shooting you and realize she thinks you’re BSing her. And you’ll shrug and say “I really don’t know what to tell you, sweetie. Hey, you want to go visit crazy Aunt Andrea so she can tell you more about the Time Lords?”
On the other hand, by then the Chicken Littles will have uncovered yet another massive threat to the planet that will require the total political and economic subjugation of everyone on Earth. With luck it will be that all the burkhas and hijabs have so changed the planet’s albedo that we’re killing the climate.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
The original was authoritarian socialist propaganda, and this one presumably is too, assuming they didn’t re-write it (as evidently they did not).