{"id":426,"date":"2008-12-21T13:49:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-12-24T23:48:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T07:48:27","slug":"the-day-the-earth-stood-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/12\/the-day-the-earth-stood-still\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day the Earth Stood Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<img width=\"95\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scificool.com\/images\/2008\/06\/day-the-earth-stood-still-remake-poster.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<b>The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/><i>Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">12 December 2008<br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>We cracked up when Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) and Mr. Wu (James Hong) talked in a McDonald restaurant.  Keanu&#8217;s Chinese is passable, James Hong&#8217;s better, but the dialog was bewildering to Chinese, &#8220;That&#8217;s not how we talk!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061015725?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=cuupwiagobo0e-20&#038;link_code=as3&#038;camp=211189&#038;creative=373489&#038;creativeASIN=0061015725\">Prey<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>As movie goes, this one is not particularly good.  Particularly how Klaatu changed his mind and stopped the process to wipe clean Earth&#8217;s slate.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/08\/04\/wall-e\/\">Wall-E<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>No, I did not read the book or see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0043456\/\">1951 original movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Chinese is passable, James Hong&#8217;s better, but the dialog &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/12\/the-day-the-earth-stood-still\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[143,142,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}