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The Day the Earth Stood Still (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Scott Derrickson
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  406 reviews
Sales Rank: 8804
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2256968D
UPC: 024543569688
EAN: 0024543569688
ASIN: B001SGEUYW
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: April 7, 2009
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Product Description
A REMAKE OF THE 1951 CLASSIC SCI-FI FILM ABOUT AN ALIEN VISITOR AND HIS GIANT ROBOT COUNTERPART WHO VISIT EARTH.
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Impressive special effects are the key selling point for this big-budget remake of Robert Wise's classic 1951 science fiction parable about an alien visitor who delivers a chilling ultimatum to the leaders of the world. Keanu Reeves, who seemed ideal at first blush but ultimately turns into another case of miscasting, steps in for Michael Rennie as intergalactic watchdog Klaatu, who with his robot Gort (now super-sized), promises global destruction unless the powers that be unless drastic measures are undertaken regarding the Earth's environmental issues (or so one assumes). Jennifer Connelly is largely wasted in the Patricia Neal role of scientist/single mom assigned to study Klaatu, who offers a somewhat chilly father figure to her son (a grating Jaden Smith). Connelly isn't the only fine actor in the cast left standing idle while director Scott Derrickson's effects team constructs eye-popping scenes of wholesale mayhem; Mad Men's Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, John Cleese and Rob Knepper are all adrift in the aimless script by David Scarpa, which never even fully explains why Klaatu is so bent on blowing us to smithereens. That lack of focus, as well as the B-movie quality of the dialogue (say what you will about the effects in the Wise version, but the film was polished from top to bottom), all help to cement what science fiction fans have been muttering about the film since its inception; the original film needed no high-tech updating --Paul Gaita
Stills from The Day the Earth Stood Still (Click for larger image)
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 Complainers & haters abound! September 3, 2010
Bujoun
Sure it's not the best movie ever made but it wasn't that bad! Some of you people are just plain crazy. If you want dumbed-down movie watching go see a Predator vs. Alien flick. I happen to like those too but come-on already. There's always somebody who just hates everything. Geeeeeez!
 GORT = Ghastly Ostentatious Remake Travesty September 1, 2010
Nick Carmine
You know what makes me laugh most about this particular dvd package? The fact that someone at 20th Century Fox thought this movie was worthy of a 3-disc special edition. This movie was so patently awful and irritating that, had a brick been nearby, I might have reflexively crushed my T.V. with it. All I could think about every time that annoying kid was on screen was getting my hands around his punk neck - that character was a total distraction from the other happenings in the film (perhaps that ended up being a good thing). If my kid acted like that, I'd give him the choice of immediate drowning or military school. As for the movie, its perhaps the worst remake in a decade - certainly of the year - and an outright insult to the makers of the original. Avoid this flick like bird flu and save yourself some scratch and two precious hours of living.
 Good apocalyptic movie August 21, 2010
AwakeNow.co.uk
The Day the Earth Stood Still, featuring Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, an alien from another world in many aspects reminded me of The Matrix - especially with a number of cinematic shots. It begins in 1928, when a mountain climber comes across a globe in the midst of a snow storm and touches it. Then jump to the present and a large pod lands in Manhattan...
The movie was good, nice, pieces of animation, but who will save the world! That job is left to Klaatu whose final job is to see if humans can live as they are destroying their planet.
Klaata is captured by the authorities and all these scientist need to figure out what to do before the alien is interrogated and then dissected (the poor ambassador of peace). Klaata mind is made up, humans must be destroyed as they are destroying themselves and the planet, but a scientist, helps him in his conquest. Aliens pods, begin to remove animal and reptile life and them disappear into the heavens and a scientist sets out to dissuade him, that we are not all bad. The earth begins to be destroyed and finally, Klaata decides he will help and after all the destruction - the earth stood still.
Good apocalyptic movie.
Picky Picky August 5, 2010
John Bonanno (Hiram, Maine USA)
I don't know exactly what some reviewers expected from this movie, but it really isn't as bad as some would have you believe. It is certainly not the thought provoking film the original 1951 edition was. But if you want a couple of hours of destruction whilst filing away a certain sense of head shaking critical judgement this is a perfectly acceptable world wrecking piece of work. I don't mind the zen approach Keanu takes here. Some have asked how people can be as stupid as the authorities are shown and I reply yes they are that stupid. And by the way, the special three disc blu-ray edition contains includes the original 1951 Robert Wise movie. That alone brings the whole package up to four stars if not five.
 Fantastic remake July 27, 2010
snideelf (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hesitated when this movie came out at the cinema seeing only a few preview clips on TV.
I even asked a few co-workers if they had seen it and they scoffed at it.
So going by that and having seen and really liked the original, I did not see this movie at the theater.
I regret that now. I just picked up the set sold here with the remake and the original B&W version and let me tell you now, this is quite the deal here.
Two very good movies at a very low price. They are practically giving these away.
The remake is really good. Good cinematography. Excellent story.
This is good science fiction. This is how good science fiction is done.
I skimmed some of the reviews here and saw the ratings on the remake.
These people don't know good science fiction when they see it.
The story in the remake is the same yet better than the original because it adds a lot more fantastic details as to why Klaatu is there on Earth.
All of the fantastic visuals really add to the story. The original borders on camp, but you have to remember when the original was released.
There is also lots of good suspense in this remake as there was in the original.
I'd say the suspense here is even greater because this remake, as I said has a lot of really fantastic visuals. Excellent remake.
As I said, I am sorry I missed this when it hit the theaters when it was first released.
I liked the original and this remake is one of the best.
Definitely much, much better than the remake of "The War of the Worlds".
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