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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 09:29 AM

    @klytus

    "Late" Forrest J. Ackerman? This is the first I'd heard, but then it was only a week ago (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/forrest-j-ack-1.html)

    Wow.

    I used to tell people that my two most important influences were Forrest J. Ackerman and (the similarly late) William F. Gaines (MAD).

    —JeffM23 Read JeffM23's other letters

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