{"id":3522,"date":"2009-04-27T06:53:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T22:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2010-01-22T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:56:40","slug":"showing-at-a-local-home-cinema-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/27\/showing-at-a-local-home-cinema-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing at a local home cinema VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blog-earthstoodstill\"The Day The Earth Stood Still <\/a>(2008)<\/em>. For this film, I\u2019ll save us the suspense and get right to it: this a one-star, and it isn\u2019t because of Keanu Reeve\u2019s typically wooden acting or Jaden Smith has none of his papa Will Smith\u2019s acting chops. It\u2019s just an abysmally and utterly stupid<\/em> movie.<\/p>\n

What happens if a huge alien sphere speeds across the cosmos heading to earth before landing in Central Park? I\u2019ll tell what I won\u2019t do for sure. If I was a famous scientist handpicked by the government to save us all, I sure won\u2019t be standing almost underneath the damn alien ship in the Park waiting for it to land on my head.<\/p>\n

And I definitely won\u2019t run ahead of the military forces to give the alien being that steps out a welcome hug. I would be cowering behind their biggest most heavily armored tank. Better still, I’d dig a hole and hide inside it!<\/p>\n

And if history has always shown that “the more advanced civilization exterminates the lesser one” – as the Defense Secretary quips – the last thing I’d do is to antagonize it, like dunno, shooting its envoy just when he steps out!<\/p>\n

And if I was the unlucky guy who has to interrogate the alien and ask him if he\u2019s here as a space tourist or to rip us to shreds \u2013 especially seeing that he has a 10 storey scarily-high metallic-skinned bodyguard who shoots death rays out of his eyeballs \u2013 I sure won\u2019t do it alone<\/em> with him in a room. I would have had hundreds of elite forces all pointing their guns at him while I grill him.<\/p>\n

If that turd of the script wasn’t bad enough, I could get into the acting. Jennifer Connelly is lovely to look at with those sad dopey eyes. But if I had a step-son like Smith who just can\u2019t keep his mouth shut, I would have kicked him right into the path of the rampaging GORT for it to squish like a bug. Put next to the annoying Jake Lloyd<\/a>‘s Anakin Skywalker, Lloyd is a saint. And ’nuff said about Keanu Reeves’ monotone acting.<\/p>\n

And when the world\u2019s facing Armageddon, the military person controlling the unmanned aerial vehicles carrying sidewinders acts like it\u2019s some video game that he can insert another quarter into to start a new game anytime.<\/p>\n

So why the one and not zero stars? Well the movie will make you laugh, albeit unintentionally. The scene where Keanu Reeves and James Hong<\/a> converse in Mandarin<\/em> is alone worth a star. Hong emerges from the scene respectably well. As for Reeves: well, you\u2019ll either cringe, or laugh \u2013 like I did.<\/p>\n

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The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008). For this film, I\u2019ll save us the suspense and get right to it: this a one-star, and it isn\u2019t because of Keanu Reeve\u2019s typically wooden acting or Jaden Smith has none of his<\/p>\n

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