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"The Day the Earth Stood Still"

This supremely lame update of the sci-fi classic, starring Keanu Reeves, is assembled out of bits of every movie where an unknown whatzit threatens our way of life.
By Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Friday, December 12, 2008 07:23 AM

    Hope

    I'm hoping that this remake fails horribly so they scrap current plans to remake Forbidden Planet. That's the best SF movie of all time and any attempt to remake it is bound to fail. What's the point of remaking it other than having no new ideas?

    —Lynx Read Lynx's other letters

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