Now that it is officially fall, I figured it was time to preview the biggest disaster movie of this holiday season: The Day the Earth Stood Still. They took a play straight out of the War of the Worlds and I am Legend playbooks on this one. Take a early 1950s sci fi disaster flick, add a Hollywood star with blockbuster experience, and put them together with a big budget and cross your fingers. The problem is, Keanu Reeves can’t carry a movie like Tom Cruise or Will Smith can which has me a little bit worried. The effects are cool, but the bad guys seem to be a giant spherical version of that wispy black smoke thing from Lost. I don’t want to give the wrong impression cause I’m still probably gonna see it opening weekend, but I’m just a little worried about this one. I’ll let you judge for yourself:
Quick note: I’m quite sensitive to shitty domain names. You can imagine my reaction when I saw that this one is dtessmovie.com. How is a person supposed to remember that? “Ok so I don’t use the first ‘the’ but I do use the second one in the acronym…” bah
