Day the earth stood still ( spoilers )

[SpencerH]

Spoilers? For a remake of a classic movie? With Keanu (poker face) Reeves? Awesome!

[Aeson]

Of course I was going in thinking it was a zombie movie. (Because of something Lancer had said while I wasn't paying much attention )

Worst zombie movie ever...

[Aeson]

Though to be fair, Keanu did a passable zombie representation... but 1 zombie does not a zombie film make...

[Zkribbler]

Zombie movie?? As in...

[Hueij]

Just asking because I don't plan to see this one (I'll stick with the original, thank you), is there a girl saying "Klaatu Barada Nikto"?

[Zkribbler]

I heard no.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles
It's also reflective of a certain anti human philosophy which sees humanity as something separate from nature and the planet. We are natural. We are the product of nature and thus all our products are products of nature. We are not separate from Earth, but part of it. The biosphere is every bit as much of Earth as the lithosphere or the core or the atmosphere.

Spoiler:

My impression from the ending of the film is that humanity has lost all of its technology. Far from saving the human race and forcing us to live more peaceful lives, it would cause us to descend it the worst barbarism. Without out oil and electrical based society, farming would lose massive productivity.

Within a short time, the population of the planet would fall by two thirds, after people had eaten everything that could possibly be eaten. Furthermore, there would be massive wars over what fertile land was left.

Ironically, the most ravenous group of humans, the Americans, would also be the ones most set to survive this global catastrophe, as we are blessed with abundant arable land and water (although much of our Western states would lose their crop growing ability without the ability to pull water up from the Ogalala Aquifer).

To keep ourselves warm, we would resort to coal and wood burning, which would strip the northern forests bare in no time. Far from saving the environment, the alien imposed solution would lead to a far greater environmental devastation.

I agree that there would be a massive die off of humans, but I disagree that Americans would have it easier than others. Our agriculture is the most technology dependent in the world. Many other nations, such as China, India, parts of South America and most of Africa still grow a very large portion of their food on small low tech farms. The US and much of Europe would be completely screwed.


The absence of the classic line: "Klaatu barada nichtu" bars this film from being seriously considered a re-make of the original Day the Earth Stood Still . Could one re-make Julius Caesar without "Et tu Brutus", or Casablanca without "Play it again Sam"? I think not.

[Lancer]

Here in the Philippines there would be serious food shortages, but they still till the rice fields with water buffalo and fish with bamboo fish traps. I think it would depend on who owns land and who does not as to who survives.

[Bosh]

Casablanca without "Play it again Sam"? I think not.

Nobody in Casablanca ever says "play it again Sam."

[chequita guevara]

I think it would depend on who owns land and who does not as to who survives.

So nothing would change.

[Dr Strangelove]

Nobody in Casablanca ever says "play it again Sam."

You're right, my bad.

[Tuberski]

My impressions: needs more John Cleese; Jennifer Connelly is hot and emotive; err, was this a prequel to Dies the Fire?

That happens on Nantucket, not DC.

ACK!

[MarkG]

one my first SF readings as a kid was a book about a no-electricity society (due to alien intervention to stop humans from wrongly using nuclear power) but i cant find it now

[Lancer]

So nothing would change.

They don't grow sufficient food, a fair amount is imported. I'd guess they don't have alot of nitrates for fertilizer here either so after the first year food production would likely fall off considerably. The scale of the suffering would change.

So, we aquire rice fields etc. Not for me but for Dolores and the family. I'd only last as long as my meds, 6 months maybe.

[Lorizael]

That happens on Nantucket, not DC.

ACK!

No, Jennifer Connelly is hot everywhere.