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Reviewing The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of the 1951 sci-fi alien flick, the Times's A.O. Scott, clearly in a generous mood, decides "it could be worse." But Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere says, "Forget it. The failure of this film has been compressed and condensed into the suffering eyes of Kathy Bates, clearly in hell as she tries to play a steely-blustery Secretary of Defense determined to militarily repel the invasion of planet earth by Klatuu and Gort, who arrive in a big nonsensical space ship shaped like a huge Jupiter-like (i.e., gas-enshrouded) sphere. It's awful, so awful to watch poor Bates says the lines in Scarpia's script, dying inside a little bit more with each utterance.
"I can't write about this. I really can't. All right, I'll give it another shot. Because I agree with what the film is saying (i.e., stop with the greenhouse gases or else). But I can feel the acid building in my stomach...Kill this movie, stop this review, put an end to the pain, I can't stand it."
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I love Totoro!
Uh, anyone want to tell me why this post is tagged with several movie titles along with photos from each, three are mentioned in the headline and only one is discussed in the three paragraphs of the post body?
Screw that murdering commie bastard!
Screw...if it was that easy to erase history; screw Bush!
Spiritof76: You could try clicking on the photos, or even going with the "NEXT >>" button if you're feeling adventurous.
And eeeverybody should love Totoro.
[5] I did try that, for several photos. Apparently, for some reason, the script wasn't working when I tried. Maybe it was a database hiccup. Gothamist was notorious for those and still has them once in a while.
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"Look at the huge booger I've just dug out, comrades!"
Imagine children, one day an Oscar season without a Nazi movie. I shudder.