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The Day the Earth Stood Still Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly 12 December 2008 |
We cracked up when Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) and Mr. Wu (James Hong) talked in a McDonald restaurant. Keanu’s Chinese is passable, James Hong’s better, but the dialog was bewildering to Chinese, “That’s not how we talk!”
The idea of robotic bugs, large and small, that digest everything man-made and use the material to reproduce more is intellectually amusing. It reminds me the book Prey, by Michael Crichton, several years ago. This is a plausible approach to erase human beings, and all their artifacts, from the face of the earth.
As movie goes, this one is not particularly good. Particularly how Klaatu changed his mind and stopped the process to wipe clean Earth’s slate.
If you have not, watch Wall-E instead.
No, I did not read the book or see the 1951 original movie.