Oh brother… the geniuses in Hollywood have decided to turn The Day the Earth Stood Still from a movie with the fairly straight forward idea that blowing eachother up wasn’t a good idea… to one that says that all of us (except Al Gore of course) need to shrink our carbon footprints:
“The first one was borne out of the cold war and nuclear détente. Klaatu came and was saying cease and desist with your violence. If you can’t do it yourselves we’re going to do it. That was the film of that day,” Reeves explained. “The version I was just working on, instead of being man against man, it’s more about man against nature. My Klaatu says that if the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the earth survives. I’m a friend to the earth” Adding: “We’re trying to reach beyond the idea of [just] environmentalism.”
If Gort walks out of the spaceship wearing a bandanna and a tie-dyed t-shirt I’m going to walk out of the theater. I think the powers that be behind this movie should watch its source material again. Sure it had a vaguely peacenik message (I think we can all get behind the “you shouldn’t nuke yourselves” message), but at least the whole movie wasn’t exclusively about lecturing people.

