For the past three days, we watched The Day the Earth Stood Still. The old, black and white version, too (eek!) Before I get into all that, I wanted to mention how annoying it was that I didn’t know what “klaatu barada nikto” meant! Since I have Science Fiction first hour I had to wait nine hours until I could look it up. Nine! Turns out there’s no real meaning. Crap. Some magazine did some kind of alien translation and found that the phrase meant “Stop barbarism (I have) death.” And then there is a free translation that says “I die, repair me, do not retaliate.” What the heck was that first one! The latter definitely makes more sense. Problem solved!
ANYWAY. I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. I thought it would be awful, to be honest. Despite the black and white coloring, it was very entertaining to watch. One thing I found interesting was how frightened everyone was by the spaceship and Klaatu and Gort. Nowadays people would be scared, no doubt, but would be having thoughts more along the lines of “I knew it!” and “Government conspiracy!” Technology isn’t the same creepy, alien monster it once was…we really have no limits to what new technology will come out. Going from TVs being the coolest item out there to this impenetrable spaceship would be mind-blowing. Now, it would just be cool…not surprising or incomprehensible. So I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes Sci Fi movies; I think they’d get a kick outta it.
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