This comment contains spoilers ! And a lot of nagging =)
I have not seen the original but i looked forward to this movie since i like sci-fi. And it started of fair enough, all the worlds (meaning USA) masterminds are summoned because something is traveling at high speed towards earth. They are basically told that the earth is about to be destroyed within 76minutes.
Why these masterminds needed to hear this, or why the military is preparing for an assault of mass proportion (when they think its a meteorite) is never explained.
So far, the mood of the movie is good with only a few question marks. And it doesn't get much more complicated either. The basic story of the movie is still good and interesting. But everything seems to be a big commercial about how great USA is instead of the vulnerabilities of the human kind.
It turns out that the thing which were about to collide with earth landed instead. Obviously in central Manhattan USA. No other objects were found by whatever system that detected this one, yet they say that these kind of gigantic orbs have landed all over earth (but who cares).
Anyways, they capture an alien who knows the English language and everything about humankind because they have taken control over American satellites.
The captured alien wants to meet with all of earth leaders but his wishes are denied by the vice president or some other extension of the president of USA. He will only need to speak to the president of USA (off course !).
Furthermore the DNA collected from the alien will not be analyzed for decades, since it's now property of the USA.
This movie is full of this sort of commercials/propaganda and it does nothing for the story. Also, there is product placement for at least McDonalds, Honday (the car), LG (phone service), Microsoft Windows, and probably many more.
What we learn from movies from Hollywood is the following:
* If a disaster is threatening to the humankind the epicenter will be in America for some reason.
* If the disaster is some kind of attack it will be towards America cause that's were it would hurt mankind the most off-course.
* Where ever and/or whatever the disaster is, it will be solved by America(ns).
I am no "USA-hater", people may think that America is the greatest nation of earth, maybe it's so. I don't know, it's possible. I just don't like it when movies aim towards this. Its almost as if there's kind of board in the movie industry which have to acknowledge the movies and check so that there's enough USA-love in it.
Anyway all the above comments are annoying features of the film, but it's still rather enjoyable to watch. I saw it on its premier and i don't think it's worth paying for, i give it a four (4) out of ten (10) Klatuu was believable and graphics OK, that's all. I'd would have liked to know more about the origin of the aliens "community of nations" and in what way humankind was destroying itself (climate, religion or war ??).
I have not seen the original but i looked forward to this movie since i like sci-fi. And it started of fair enough, all the worlds (meaning USA) masterminds are summoned because something is traveling at high speed towards earth. They are basically told that the earth is about to be destroyed within 76minutes.
Why these masterminds needed to hear this, or why the military is preparing for an assault of mass proportion (when they think its a meteorite) is never explained.
So far, the mood of the movie is good with only a few question marks. And it doesn't get much more complicated either. The basic story of the movie is still good and interesting. But everything seems to be a big commercial about how great USA is instead of the vulnerabilities of the human kind.
It turns out that the thing which were about to collide with earth landed instead. Obviously in central Manhattan USA. No other objects were found by whatever system that detected this one, yet they say that these kind of gigantic orbs have landed all over earth (but who cares).
Anyways, they capture an alien who knows the English language and everything about humankind because they have taken control over American satellites.
The captured alien wants to meet with all of earth leaders but his wishes are denied by the vice president or some other extension of the president of USA. He will only need to speak to the president of USA (off course !).
Furthermore the DNA collected from the alien will not be analyzed for decades, since it's now property of the USA.
This movie is full of this sort of commercials/propaganda and it does nothing for the story. Also, there is product placement for at least McDonalds, Honday (the car), LG (phone service), Microsoft Windows, and probably many more.
What we learn from movies from Hollywood is the following:
* If a disaster is threatening to the humankind the epicenter will be in America for some reason.
* If the disaster is some kind of attack it will be towards America cause that's were it would hurt mankind the most off-course.
* Where ever and/or whatever the disaster is, it will be solved by America(ns).
I am no "USA-hater", people may think that America is the greatest nation of earth, maybe it's so. I don't know, it's possible. I just don't like it when movies aim towards this. Its almost as if there's kind of board in the movie industry which have to acknowledge the movies and check so that there's enough USA-love in it.
Anyway all the above comments are annoying features of the film, but it's still rather enjoyable to watch. I saw it on its premier and i don't think it's worth paying for, i give it a four (4) out of ten (10) Klatuu was believable and graphics OK, that's all. I'd would have liked to know more about the origin of the aliens "community of nations" and in what way humankind was destroying itself (climate, religion or war ??).