Need Change
The trailer indicates that Keanu Reeves' alien space ship lands at night in The Day The Earth Stood Still (20th Century Fox, 12.12). That's because night landings look cooler than day landings with those standard bullshit intense lights piercing through all the fog and smoke. But aren't we getting sick of alien night landings (E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Invaders From Mars)?
I would have preferred one in broad daylight under blue skies, like the one from Klaatu in the original 1951 version. Because it would have been different. Because it would have created its own kind of cool. Because aliens don't care if their landings look cool. They just want to land safely, and to do that you don't want to load solely by instruments. You want to be able to see where you're landing, and for that you need sunlight. Simple.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 2, 2008 at 3:41 PM
comment #1
Mr. Muckle
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Man, that reads funny. Let me paraphrase: "They should have done it just like that other one. That would have been different."
Anyway, I'm looking forward to this film. Keanu was in "Constantine" on TV last night, and I think that's a much better film than it was given credit for. Very interesting imagery.
Posted by Mr. Muckle
at November 2, 2008 4:06 PM
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Rothchild
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Daylight invasion = Mars Attacks
Posted by Rothchild
at November 2, 2008 4:34 PM
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gruver1
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Wells to Rothchild: Mars Attacks!, a deliberately silly and insubstantial film, doesn't count.
Posted by gruver1
at November 2, 2008 4:55 PM
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slutsky
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Mars Attacks is great! And certainly as "substantial" as the majority of films with a spaceship landing scene.
Posted by slutsky
at November 2, 2008 5:06 PM
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Brian R
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Content aside, the invasion scenes in Independence Day, in broad daylight, are pretty damn impressive.
Posted by Brian R
at November 2, 2008 5:42 PM
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Brian R
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Even if their Whitehouse destruction shot did cause Burton to change his one to a Big Ben destruction shot, from wot I've heard.
Posted by Brian R
at November 2, 2008 5:47 PM
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Chris D.
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How about the daylight attack at the start of "The Host". Damned scary.
Posted by Chris D.
at November 2, 2008 5:56 PM
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actionman
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Morning, noon or night, I love alien invasion scenes.
I don't have high expectations for TDTESS. Scott Derrickson? Really?
Posted by actionman
at November 2, 2008 8:40 PM
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Chase Kahn
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I don't have any expectations for this. It looks like Al Gore sci-fi.
Posted by Chase Kahn
at November 2, 2008 9:36 PM
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Dan Revill
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Al Gore sci-fi = War of the Worlds
Posted by Dan Revill
at November 2, 2008 11:55 PM
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D.Z.
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So that Don Quixote movie from Gilliam might actually happen. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995092.html?categoryid=3310&cs=1
Posted by D.Z.
at November 3, 2008 3:48 AM
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moviemaniac2002
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Let's not forget Ray Harryhausen's whirling
dervishes in "Earth Vs.The Flying Saucers"
....after we zap their magnetic field, they go
all wobbly and go wildly crashing into the
Capitol building, the Washington monument and
the Potomac....all in glorious black-and-white
daylight. (Earlier in the film, they practice
shock-and-awe by landing on the White House
lawn.)
Posted by moviemaniac2002
at November 3, 2008 5:33 AM
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thevisceral
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Every time I think about this movie my soul dies a little more.
Posted by thevisceral
at November 3, 2008 6:20 AM
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Edward
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War of the Worlds was really good until the very end where sappy Spielberg ruined it.
Posted by Edward
at November 3, 2008 9:32 AM
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bluefugue
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>War of the Worlds was really good until the very end where sappy Spielberg ruined it.
He does have a habit of doing that, but yeah, the first hour or so is great. The first big tripod attack scene felt to me like Spielberg saying, "Ok you whippersnapper directors, let me show you how it's done."
Aliens in the daytime -- the original V miniseries did a pretty good job with that, though they don't land, they just hover.
Posted by bluefugue
at November 3, 2008 5:01 PM
comment #16
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