| "The Day The Earth Stood Still" seems to be taking a bad beating, from amateurs and pros alike, so far. I haven't seen it, but the original was always one of my favorites, and I have little expectation of a movie that stars the most witless shit of a non-acting actor possible, Keanu Reeves. Well, unless they'd hired that weird comic homunculus, Jack Black! |
Curve-billed Thrasher
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I was surprised at how well the birds in Bill and Alice’s yard seemed to
get along. Three or four were often pecking simultaneously at different
sections ...
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I plan to see it in iMax soon, but not expecting too much.
ReplyDeleteThe beauty of the original was its simplicity. To over do it, especially with CGI, is to kill it!
How wewy, wewy twue!
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with movie makers - don't they have a grain of imagination? There are millions of stories out there waiting to be filmed, but they are too lazy to go find 'em. They'd rather ruin movies that are perfect just as they are.
ReplyDeleteTV bosses are no better - there was a wonderful TV series called Survivors back in the 70s in the UK - it was perfect (about how a group of people managed to survive after a virus wiped out the population. how they got a form of civilisation back together). They've just re-made it! Why not just show the original again and put the extra money to improving programmes in general - Oh no, that would serve the interests of the viewers - we can't have that!
I wonder how much trouble it'd be to bounce you on my knee? We could throw eggs at the TV together, if nothing else.
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