Whoah, Dude...They’re Gonna Blow Up WHAT?

THE ORIGINAL 1951 DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL STILL RANKS AS ONE of the CLASSIEST SCI-FI MOVIES of ALL TIME.  THIS BIG-BUDGET, OVERBLOWN REMAKE...NOT SO MUCH.

ON FIRST IMPRESSION, YOU MIGHT THINK CASTING "STOIC" (READ "STONE-FACED")  KEANU REEVES as a COLD, EMOTIONLESS ALIEN IS BORDERLINE BRILLIANT. BUT THEN YOU REMEMBER REEVES' RAZZIE TRACK RECORD: HE's an 8-TIME "NON-WINNER," and YOU REALIZE: THAT WHOLE STOIC/STONE-FACED THING ISN'T ACTING, IT's an INABILITY to ACT... 

THEN YOU LOOK at the TRAILER and REALIZE, IN THIS VERSION, THE EARTH DOESN'T STAND STILL -- IT BLOWS UP REAL GOOD. 

AND THEN YOU LOOK at the SUPPORTING CAST and NOTICE THAT, FEATURING FADED FORMER OSCAR DARLINGS, IT LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE a GROUP CONVENED by IRWIN ALLEN in a BURNING BUILDING (OR an UPSIDE DOWN OCEAN-LINER) ALL the BETTER to DIE ONE-by-ONE...

AND AT THAT POINT, IF YOU'RE a TRUE MOVIE-LOVER, YOU SHOULD DECIDE to RENT the 1951 ORIGINAL from NETFLIX, and TELL THIS GOD-AWFUL REMAKE to GET the GORT OUTTA HERE...

BUT DON'T LET US BE the ONLY SPOKESPEOPLE for the HUMAN SPECIES -- TAKE YOUR TURN BELOW...  

REEVES: "No, really, it's okay! You don't have to bend 

over backwards to be bad so I'll look less awful myself..."  

I have a challenge for Hollywood: I will give my entire life's savings that I have now and (whatever I make for the rest of my life) to any studio that can go an entire year making only original movies. No adaptations, no sequels, no remakes, no rip-offs.

My guess is that my money is more than safe.

Thanks...I really wasn't attempting to offer a quotation, just to provide the flavor of the implied threat. It is a bit of a logical eyebrow raiser.

I can testify without qualification that the world's body of scientists are neither bastions of objectivity (we are after all, only human) nor devoid of politics (a field we almost universally find distasteful, but have to spend a great deal of time pandering to for funding reasons).

On the other hand, taken as a whole, it is a body of people far more worthy of receiving a message from aliens than either the world's political, business or religious leaders. The aliens might well have to hold their nose (or equivalent organ) while making the choice, but it won't be a close vote.

Because the real reasoning behind Hollywood remaking classics is to remake the MONEY that the original made. Sure, Hollywood could do the noble thing like remaking Razzie winning movies so they are actually good, but what would the point of that be? Those movies didn't make money in the first place. Nope, Hollywood is not out to be noble, it's out to make big bucks.