NEWS: The Earth Didn't Stand Still That Day Because of "Bullet Time"

Excellent.

Honestly, I might have liked to see an updated version of the film (basically just with a cooler Gort - like, one that moved occasionally), but I can't imagine Keanu Reeves being the right man for the task.

+1

sounds like the start of a good drinking game to me!

Hahaha. Nice.

I agree that his spaced-out, aloofness, the only thing he really does, could serve him well here. In certain roles he does manage to somehow pull it off. Sometimes.

About the only remake Keanu should be allowed near is Plan 9 From Outer Space

No, NO, NOOOOO!

Keanu Reeves has to be stopped; that's all there is to it. I'm only mildly annoyed by the idea of remakes, no deathly opposed to it, but this crosses a line....

Is nothing sacred?

I must have missed that memo, since "Reloaded" and "Revolutions" were so shitty. Every other scene was an attempt at being super-emotional (contrary to the first movie), despite the fact that the actors were playing it deadpan (in line with the first movie). The only other time I cringed as much in a theater was when Kiera Knightley tried to make a rousing speech in "At World's End."

I know I'm generalizing here, but on a whole, "Matrix" fans are the fucking worst. A friend of mine made the unpardonable sin of saying he didn't like the movie, because (his words) "it's a dumb movie pretending to be smart." He said in a room full of "Matrix" fans, who proceeded to insult his intelligence and say he didn't "understand" the movie. I like the first one, but most of the philosphy mumbo-jumbo that was in it was seen elsewhere, but it's treated as if it's ground-breaking. In short, it was a dumb action movie, but with intelligent window dressing.

i like the little comment about Flux at the end... like... wtf?

The guys at the INSULTINGLY STUPID MOVIE PHYSICS site called that one years ago. It was so bad they had to give up analyzing it half way through.

But the worst thing about it.... It was written by man named John Rogers. This is the same bastard responsible for Catwoman and for fucking up Transformers. And he has a degree in physics!

Forget about Reeves. Somebody needs to keep that guy away from the science-fiction genre!

That doesn't mean it had to be stupid!

Oh god don't remind me of that... or really anything dealing with that movie.

Edit: They could have called it, Pirates of the Caribbean: We Didn't Hire Writers but You'll Watch it Anyway

Sorry.

Okay, that was funny (sort of)...

Hmmm, interesting point (if over-intellectualized, maybe). But on a purely aesthetic level, I've found that the type of flashy CGI acrobatic effects of movies like The Matrix seem to my eye to be tawdry and vapid, in the same way laptop digital electronic music can be. There's just a brittle, hollow quality to the imagery (or sound). Give me the good old-fashioned trick photography and live animation of vintage Ray Harryhausen monster movies or George Melies silent shorts or early Hong Kong martial arts flicks over today's spiffy high-tech sci-fi/horror/fantasy cinema anyday...

Well, now, this just makes me sad.

One amusing thing....if I recall Michael Reinie (or however you spell his name) was chosen specifically because he was an unknown in the US and would add to the whole being an alien idea. Why couldn't they stick with that theory and get some new person that none of us know?

You know, "Keanu Reeves was ill the Day The Earth Stood Still" so doesn't have the same zing to it.

I still think the upcoming Escape From New York remake is an even worse idea, since while the concept of an alien dude (and to digress, they so should have gotten David Bowie instead of Keanu, which is I think now the official casting rule for all Keanu Reeves movies) coming down from outer space to bring about world peace with the help of his pet robot still has some appeal in today's world, Manhattan isn't even fucking scary anymore, in the slightest.

And since Donald Pleasance is dead, I doubt they'll get a guy with a British accent (Ian McKellan? Bob Hoskins?) to play the President of the United States in the remake.

Dammit. Out of all the bad science fiction movies of that era, they had to choose one of the few actually good ones?
Cant they "ruin" Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women instead?
Keanu can play the leader of the blond viking women of Venus.

I was really irritated by the news of this remake. The I read

and forgot all about it.

guys, all it is is simple entertainment.

suspension of disbelief. if you can't handle it, don't go.

personally, i hope they mangle the remake, just so i can bathe in the rejuvenating tears of nerds/geeks everywhere.

I've heard about this idea before, but I mean honestly- I don't know why people can be so f*cking stupid sometimes, but I'm pretty sure this in not the path wherein we may find those answers.

I had Costas For Freshman Year physics at UCF..this guy is the worst professor on the face of the earth, if you can get past the horrible Greek Accent, lets give this guy a few english lessons and maybe a free SG account and im sure he'll re think his free time

Cool.

Klaatu??? I thought they cast him as the robot.