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December 15, 2008

Hollywood Helping You Hate Yourself

The disease infesting Hollyweird has progressed beyond mere hatred of America. Under the banner of environmentalism, Tinseltown has been marketing an increasingly open hatred of the entire human race — as exemplified by a tedious remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which Keanu Reeves comes from outer space to tell us that it would be better for everyone if we didn't exist. Tim Black explains why you'd be wise to give this dog a miss:

Its dialogue often seems to be little more than a patchwork of preachy platitudes, scripture cribbed from some dismal eco-bible, made yet more dreary by their soundbite delivery. Hollywood screenwriters are presumably on an especially fibrous diet at the moment, one rich in stolid, cliché-heavy, eco-fare, judging by this large, steaming pile of Al Gore.
…this film is mostly insufferable, chiefly because it's little more than an environmentalist rant. Having a green agenda shouldn't necessarily make it a bad film; indeed The Day After Tomorrow, likewise, an ecologically aware movie, was often genuinely exciting. But, as with the similarly humans-are-crap themed The Happening, the indifference to humanity deprives The Day the Earth Stood Still of anything to fear for. Whether it's an invasion from within or without, from a vampiric mutation or from outer space, such fictions rely for their dramatic tension upon there being something worth saving, a notion of civilisation, its values and beliefs imperilled. Be it Van Helsing's Christianity in Bram Stoker's Dracula or the American way of life in Independence Day, the confrontation with the alien threat matters. But in The Day the Earth Stood Still there is no such tension, because there is very little worth saving. Little wonder the apocalypse here comes not with a bang but a CGI whimper.

But the movie does have some redeeming qualities:

[The moonbatty] Jennifer Connelly's hair contrasted beautifully with her pale face. And Keanu is just perfect in his role as the Extra-Boring-Terrestrial. He speaks his lines as if he's unfamiliar with the language, and the way in which he conveys uncertain control of his facial muscles is uncannily alien. I'd go so far as to say Keanu is probably the finest exponent of the recovering-from-a-stroke school of acting currently at work.

Appallingly, this morbid dreck finished the weekend number one at the box office. It seems everyone but masochistic moonbats who want to be told human existence is a crime is finding entertainment somewhere other than at the movies.

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On a tip from Name.

Posted by Van Helsing at December 15, 2008 7:24 AM

Comments

GORT,KLATU,BARRATUS NIKTO LIBERAL TRASH As usial these liberals who have had their brains shrunk down to pea size are becomming a bunch of left-wing idiots

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 15, 2008 7:33 AM

Van Helsing... I hope your doing your part to counter the wacky environmentalists... like pouring motor oil down the drain and throwing old laptop batteries in the garbage... who gives a shit about contaminated rivers and water tables. And make sure if you ever scrape the old paint off your house you leave lots of flakes on the ground for the kiddies to play with. An when your neighbor tears out all his old aespestos covered heating ducts, please go give him a hand and don't be a wimp by wearing a dust mask. Real men eat poison.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 15, 2008 7:52 AM

Why is it (and anonymous, I'm looking at you) that liberals accuse conservatives of being against something just because we don't want the Government doing it?

All things in the State, nothing outside the State. You lefties would make Mussolini proud.

I can't speak for anyone else, but personally, I support alternative energy sources. I just don't support the government mandating them when the technology and market is clearly not ready.

Take Biodiesel: There's a type of algae that produces it, that may be able to yield enough to make it a feasible source for diesel engine vehicles. Key word: May. It requires more research. There also may not be a market for it.

But that's not good enough for liberals. Government obviously needs to get involved, because everything else the government does turns out so well, right? I mean, Katrina response was so well done that we just need more Government, right?

Stupid liberals.

Posted by: Naqamel at December 15, 2008 8:04 AM

I hope your doing your part to counter the wacky environmentalists... like pouring motor oil down the drain and throwing old laptop batteries in the garbage... who gives a shit about contaminated rivers and water tables. And make sure if you ever scrape the old paint off your house you leave lots of flakes on the ground for the kiddies to play with. An when your neighbor tears out all his old aespestos covered heating ducts, please go give him a hand and don't be a wimp by wearing a dust mask. Real men eat poison.

Translation: I'm a complete idiot who can't tell the difference between insane environmental extremism and the strawmen examples I use to populate my "arguments."

Posted by: Troll Translater at December 15, 2008 8:04 AM

Anon, almost nobody doesnt want common sense regulations on the environment but the enviro wackos want us to revert to a pre-industrial state with only wealthy liberals being able to afford "green power" while the rest of us scratch out an existence on collective farms and freezing in the dark. The worst of them want all humans to be gone and consider people to be a virus (see: The Matrix, another Keanu Reeves flick)

At least the public largely ignored the new CHE movie.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=che.htm

Posted by: Name at December 15, 2008 8:08 AM

Why is it (and anonymous, I'm looking at you) that liberals accuse conservatives of being against something just because we don't want the Government doing it?

1. Because they're stupid.

2. Because simplistic reduction of opposing views to "evil" and "selfishness" is the limit of their intellectual capability.

3. They know liberalism is indefensible, so they attack pragmatic conservatism.

4. It's what passes for "argument" on left-wing blogs.

5. It's tough to think of real arguments, or research actual facts when you're baked out of your gourd.

I am open to other suggestions...

Posted by: V the K at December 15, 2008 8:08 AM

Obviously, V the K is a sharp one.


Posted by: Naqamel at December 15, 2008 8:30 AM

I saw the movie.

Actually, the review missed the larger point. TDTESStill did not take even one open, ready, willing opp'y to plug global warming. I waited and waited and waited ....and waited ... for 90 minutes for the inevitable reminder that if we don't stop using CO2 or recycling the trash, scary aliens will kill us. Thing is, the dialog is so beyond insipid that they couldn't even string together enough coherent sentences to make that case. So the viewer is left with some vague, amorphous "we're killing the planet" theme which is never fleshed out. And which is, ultimately, not preachy, because preachers have to be able to speak coherently.

The movie is so bad it fails even to make the Hollywood environmentafascist argument.

And in that ... it's worth seeing.

Also, Keeanu is so bad, it's worth seeing.

Posted by: mega at December 15, 2008 8:47 AM

Worth seeing? Maybe I'll DVR it when it's on a free channel. I'm not giving Hollywood $30 to sit through this when I can get Prince Caspian on Blu-Ray and have something that I won't have to cringe when my kids watch it.

(The Dark Knight is daddy's movie. Kiddo's aren't watching that one any time soon...)

How about a magic trick? I'll make this pencil disappear...

Posted by: Naqamel at December 15, 2008 9:02 AM

Yea, that Happening movie was along the same lines. Apparently, the trees are killing people because we've been so unkind to the earth. The movie tanked at the box office. Reviewers were saying that M. Knight has exactly one more chance to redeem himself.

Glad the Che movie was ignored. I am so sick of bad movies. The last one I liked was Ironman.

Posted by: Karin at December 15, 2008 9:16 AM

I saw the movie this weekend, while it was horrible, it was better then i expected. still awful twist as far as nanos. SCIFI channel had a mini movie about the same thing happening a cloud of nano robots eating everything in sight.

What amazes me, is writing about a caring alien race that wants to save a planet feels its easier to eradicate a species over giving us some crappy fusion power cells to switch us over to 'clean' power.

isn't this the same crap thats been going on in Africa since as far as i remember, Insane Liberals going over there and convincing governments its better to kill millions of people off, then install some freaking power generators and infrastructure.

All these scifi movies the last couple of years have just been preachy, wrong, and horrible, "the day after tommarow" example.

I should of seen "BOLT" i regret that now.

Posted by: furballz at December 15, 2008 9:50 AM

MICHEAL REINIE must be spinning in his grave to see what hollyweird has done to his movie turned it into a freaky GO GREEN eco-bull crap movie AND I,LL NEVER EVER WATCH IT, FROM A DEFIANT OL SHOREBIRD WITH A ATTATUDE SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 15, 2008 12:33 PM

Keanu's movies are pretty hard to watch. The only movie that he did a desent job in was "Point Break". It's sad,acting used to take talent,where's the Duke when you need him.

Posted by: Farmer Ted at December 15, 2008 12:47 PM

Keanu's only really good movie was The Matrix and that was good in spite of him, not because of him.

For every success like The Matrix or Speed, you have a clunker like Point Break, Constantine, Johnny Mnemonic, Thumbsucker or The Last Time I Committed Suicide.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 15, 2008 1:12 PM

"Point Break" was a good movie because of Swayze, surfing, and the soundtrack. Keanu wasn't the star but he was tolerable.

Posted by: Farmer Ted at December 15, 2008 1:39 PM

Did you ever se the BUGS BUNNY cartoon where MARVIN AND K-9 capture bugs in order to take him to mars as a speciment bugs capture the two and tries to fly marvins flying suacer he throws out a anchor which hooks the cresent moon the planets saturn,jupiter, and a whole bunch of stars when bugs ask directions from a astronimer the gay acts realy realy weird and bugs says WHATS BITTING HIM? Or the one where PORKY PIG and SLYVESTER camp on top of a giant UFO fly though space and end up driving a old model T down some alien landscap with these two realy BIG BIRDS standing over the roadway

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 15, 2008 2:02 PM

I figured it would be bad.
That's why I saw 'Punisher: War Zone' instead.
I liked it quite a bit.
It's not for kids (LOADS of blood and gore), and didn't have a terribly deep plot of course, but it was an enjoyable movie, and seemed to convey some good values.
SPOILERS!
While 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' was apparently about how all of humanity is a horrible, evil virus that needs to be exterminated for the good of the planet, 'Punisher: War Zone' dealt a lot with how, while there are indeed evil people in the world, there are also many good people who should be protected (i.e. One of the big plot points in the movie was that the Punisher felt a massive amount of regret over the fact that in a mafia shootout in the beginning of the film, he unwittingly killed a man who turned out to be an undercover Fed with a family; He spends much of the rest of the movie attempting to protect the agent's widow and young daughter from the twisted antagonist Jigsaw and his gang).
Additionally, gore and body count aside, the film can almost be seen as having a Christian faith- affirming message, as a nice reversal to the 'Christian- as- villain' theme so prevalent in movies today. The villain Jigsaw is an atheist who at one point mocks the widow's mentioning God, and is frequently revealed to be one of the most deeply evil characters ever seen in a comic book movie. In contrast, the Punisher is shown as a man who, while he is quite angry at God over what happened to his own family, still has respect for the faith and the Bible, and has enough of a conscience to only set out to kill bad people.
So, for those with a strong stomach, I heartily recommend skipping 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' and instead seeing 'Punisher: War Zone.'

Posted by: Adam at December 15, 2008 2:31 PM

Save your money on this turkey, rent the DVD/Blu-ray of "The Dark Knight," and enjoy the hell out of the late Heath Ledger's performance in that film (never have understood what enables Keanu to keep making movies when he's such a pitiful actor -- credit to him for the first "Speed," but it was Sandra Bullock that made that one go. Other than the first "Matrix," with an excellent ensemble cast, he hasn't made a decent movie in 20 years, or however long he's been around). Might rent the DVD of this one, however, once available, since you do get to look at Jennifer Connelly; always a pleasure, even though she's moonbatty as hell . . .

If I want eco-crap for two hours, I'll turn on and tune in to algore on CNNObama or somewhere else (the guy's always on lib TV spouting his garbage) -- that, at least, is "free." We can kiss our asses good-bye if we buy into this AGW insanity, a la McLame and the other non-conservative "conservatives" in the Republican Party.

My new bumper sticker: "Proud AGW 'Denier'".

Posted by: jc14 at December 15, 2008 4:23 PM

hollyweird has figured (polymorphous perversion?), that if they sell people salty water, they come back thirsty again and again.

OLD hollywood, before the frankfurt school and other newer ideologues took over, was about making money through the persuit of (others) happiness, and providing it.

the new one entertains by formula, and they keep going back to old stuff for 2 reasons. one is that if these things are remembered so many years later, they are cultural, and so should be negated. AND they have some magic thing that we can mine to make some money by remaking it and salting it.

there is this huge nastalgia market that is completely hungry like charlie brown. they want to kick that football.... LOTR did that... which is why we saw so many other fulfilling flicks, right? (Even fromt he same director)

each new version either has the new social messages mapped over it, or warps the loved one in some way.

then if you notice, they stop playing the positive value one and play the other to dearth.

so examples of this would be charlie and the chockolate factory replacing willy wonka. one perverse, the other socialist realist in a comedic kind of way.

they will play the three musketeers original for a week or so, then have 5 months of keifer sutherlands version... ack

and no one notices that the stories are so political that they are no good any more... salty.

poor peter parker, he works for a capatalist pig a la marx, even chomping on the big cigar... he underpays peter, whose family is poor. no one notices that peter is such a socialst that he gets underpaid by the fat cat rather than sell his rare exclusive photos to national magazines. in any other world, parker would be wealthy just on those shots world wide sales.

rather than watch healthy people make it... which was a constant theme in old movies... we get to watch really neurotic people who cant hold their lives together get thrusted in incredible bizare and explosive situtions of improbable belivability...

to twiddle our time away and not do something useful and productive with it like our grandparents.

we watch the movie "war", and we think that that is a slick american. heck the damn story is about a real person. a russian arms dealer who has supplied most of the horror of the past number of decades. people walk out thinking the US supplies weapons all over, when the story was really about a russian arms dealer who has bases all over, but a safe place in russa when he needs to run. he may have been caught recently, i dont know.

each movie has to carry the right messages, or the right destructive non uplifting content or else its not made. its about teasing the people so you dont have to be good, just have to keep trying. its about promoting the deviant, rather than teaching real outcomes of such deviancy.its now about political messages, not about entertainment.

a group of people with deep pockets could clean up just making good movies and not bothering with the others if it werent for unions, distribution and other means of starving them out for trying.

i no longer even bother going to most movies. my wife likes them occaisionally, but i dont care to go much any more and be disapointed by getting spam with my eggs and bacon (even if its just a little spam).

we are about to get rid of satellite and cable since the premium movie channels dont play premium movies. why have hbo when they play superman reruns from antenna tv? their pay per view charge em extra while people get these other channels is a waste. another area that some sincere entertainment could beat out.

since the neo liberals and progressives and others ahve had their way... we havent produced much of worth... look at what we were doing in the arts in the late 1800s, and then compare that with the late 1900s..

this movie is just a salty version of the old one so that those hungry to see the old one done new, will come back if they make another attempt at it with another set of actors. do the definitive version, and the cow dies... given em salty water and they will come back for drink again and again no matter how much they drink.


Posted by: Artfldgr at December 15, 2008 4:49 PM

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Posted by: jonmark4 at December 16, 2008 12:50 AM

Got to see this review of the movie.

It's hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J72ZFPGDmE

My favorite quote in this video about the movie.

“There was an actual storyline about, um saving the world and then it made me think that’s where all this green stuff comes from…”

Posted by: Kevin at December 16, 2008 5:43 AM

Got to see this review of the movie.

It's hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J72ZFPGDmE

My favorite quote in this video about the movie.

“There was an actual storyline about, um saving the world and then it made me think that’s where all this green stuff comes from…”

Posted by: Kevin at December 16, 2008 5:44 AM

Artfldgr has posted one of the best, to-the-point analyses of the modern motion picture industry that I have seen.
The industry itself, overloaded with hedonism, narcisissism and the romantic far-Left worldview which inevitably accompanies such a lifestyle, has just flat run out of imagination and ideas; thus we are treated to repeated remakes, worn-out story lines, and all with the predictable Leftist lessons on life- one of the mainstays, of course, being "no movie is interesting without everyone having sex" and "white males are inferior".

The fact that so many of these movies seem to be non-blockbusters makes me wonder where the producers of this bilge obtain all their funding to keep pumping the stuff out.

Posted by: Toa at December 16, 2008 9:50 AM

V the K: more for your list:

6) They are coercive utopians.

7) Self-indulgent, sanctimonious intellectual superiority is the opium of the Marxists.

8) They live and work in a well-insulated bubble of academic elitists who know better than everybody else.

9) They worship the false gods of political correctness, environmentalism, progress, globalism, tolerance, multiculturalism, diversity, relativism....

10) They are socialists.

Posted by: lvb-rocks at December 16, 2008 9:58 AM

Some of these eco-fraks have the rediculous idea that if we bulldoze a area to build a McDonalds or community center the earth mother cries out in pain i mean JAMES LOVELOCK is just one of these new age pagan wackos to belive this green tommy rot

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 16, 2008 10:34 PM

OK, Keanu is a bad actor, but he has made some decent movies. I liked The Replacements, Matrix, and Speed. The one time I have really seen him let go and bring down his walls was in a movie about Louisiana withcraft (I forget the name) where he played a hateful redneck. He was actually yelling threats at people. He had facial hair! But in his other movies, his walls are up. Actors have to expose themselves, but Keanu will not. Even so, I enjoyed Constantine. Being a sci-fi fan, I had planned to see TDTESStill. But when I read a review that said it was a vehicle for ecoweenies, I passed. I will see The Punisher instead. And BTW, Transporter 3 is a rousing good time.

Posted by: AynRandLives at December 17, 2008 8:48 AM