{"id":422,"date":"2008-04-09T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=422"},"modified":"2016-01-31T23:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:28:05","slug":"aintitcool-scores-day-the-earth-stood-still-script-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/09\/aintitcool-scores-day-the-earth-stood-still-script-review\/","title":{"rendered":"AintItCool Scores DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Script Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at AintItCool News have landed the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/36336\">review<\/a> of the upcoming remake of the 1950s classic <strong>The Day The Earth Stood Still<\/strong>, and it doesn&#8217;t look pretty.<\/p>\n<p>How bad is it? To quote the reviewer, Uncapie, &#8220;After I read the script, I threw it against the wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judging by his reviews, there are a lot of things changed from the original Robert Wise film, and none of them are for the better. Some examples-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s no Gort. Instead there&#8217;s a fourlegged thing that shoots lasers and stands up to look like a totem pole that the script calls &#8220;Totem.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The subtext of the alien visitor Klaatu-as-Christ is entirely lost.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s another alien from Klaatu&#8217;s homeworld who has been on Earth, monitoring the planet for 80 years from a McDonalds.<\/li>\n<li>The immortal phrase &#8220;Klaatu Barada Nicto&#8221; goes unsaid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Uncapie&#8217;s review goes into further depth on what sounds like several other wrongheaded changes to <strong>Day<\/strong>&#8216;s original storyline, characters and themes.<\/p>\n<p>This one sounds like a trainwreck. At this point I&#8217;d much prefer to see a movie about an alien that comes to Earth and threatens us all with destruction if we don&#8217;t stop remaking our classic works of cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The folks over at AintItCool News have landed the first review of the upcoming remake of the 1950s classic The Day The Earth Stood Still, and it doesn&#8217;t look pretty. How bad is it? To <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/09\/aintitcool-scores-day-the-earth-stood-still-script-review\/\" title=\"AintItCool Scores DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Script Review\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[916],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-the-day-the-earth-stood-still"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}