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'The Day the Earth Stood Still'is one of my favorite old SciFi films. It's profound in a very hokey sort of way but pretty fun when you look at it in the context of the paranoid cold war mentality that was so prevalent in the 50's. So why the numb nuts in Hollywood decided to remake this picture is beyond me. The charm of the original is that it captures a certain zeitgeist of the times. Did these unoriginal morons really think that giving the movie an environmental message and some expensive special effects would bring this picture into the twenty first century?
