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Friday, December 12, 2008 12:00 AM

"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 08:58 AM

    @Lynx

    There's a ton of great SF being written today.

    True, but not all of the truly great SF is adaptable to film. I would list any of the books by Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson (possibly doable with a good writer/director), Vernor Vinge. Often, their very very great SF is simply too big for the screen. Some of them spans eons and/or entire universes.

    Forbidden Planet was already successful at being on film. It is ready-made for it and it would be nice to see it updated for the modern age, technologically and socially.

    —tempus Read tempus's other letters

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