I went and caught The Day the Earth Stood Still in theaters while I was on Christmas vacation. I really wasn’t expecting that much — the acting looked horrible, but the special effects looked awesome. I liked it, though. I’d give it a nod.
This is a remake in a loose sense .. it’s really nothing like the original from oh-so-many years ago. I saw the classic recently for the first time, last year, I think, and I was expecting it to be epic awesome, but it was instead pretty meh.
The new one was decent. I figured it would be nothing more than a good popcorn movie, and I was right. I’d give it three stars.
The acting was alright. Certainly better than Twilight, that’s for sure. It was weird seeing Keanu be so stoic the whole time. It really made it kind of dull, actually. But it also surprised you when he’d do something unexpected since there weren’t any kind of physical cues.
I dunno. I’d place this as one of those that is just interesting to watch, but not much more than that. Worth watching, at least once.