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Weltraumschiff 1 startet... (1940)
A fantastic "Technical fantasy"
Spaceship 1 Launches! and I wanted to go along with it and the Commodore.
I found this movie on Youtube, there were no English subtitles or Dub.
But I was hooked to the extent that I searched all over for English subtitles. All I found were a set of German and Russian subtitles, which I went to the trouble of translating and making srt file for it.
Cobbled together from footage of two canceled (due to the outbreak of world war 2) productions and some historical footage, This 1937 German "Technical fantasy" is a exciting 20 minute ride to the moon.
The film keeps you interested from the steps leading up to the launch, to the flight around the Moon.
The wow factor are the special effects, like the gigantic Spaceship-1 and it's ramp launch (Some designer for "When Worlds Collide" saw this movie!) or the visual of looking back at the Earth and watching the Sun rise from behind it.
This movie is well worth a look for fans of vintage Sci-Fi movies.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
While not a bad movie, it's like so many remake's it didn't live up to the original.
My hopes that the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", would be a combination of the excellent Org. movie with some more elements of the original story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates(Read it at thenostalgialeague.com). were dashed.
While not a bad movie, it's like so many remake's it didn't live up to the original. Like the big disappointment I felt from the "War of the Worlds" remake. Though this was better than that one.
The story starts to draw you in at first, but after Klaatu gets shot and Gort appears thats it. The story falls flat it could be any other disaster/scifi/Greenpeace movie.
Keanu Reeves was OK as Klaatu. If he had just been given a more solid story and lines, to develop and make his character more believable, as Michael Rennie was able to do in the orig. movie.
As for Gort the CGI could have looked a lot more realistic. the doorman from Grauman's Chinese Theater in the Gort suit looked more realistic. They could have used the effects used to create the liquid metal Terminator robot.
As for Jaden Smith all I wished for was that he was encased in something or that Gort would step on him. He added nothing to the movie, Billy Gray/Bobby Benson in the orig. was more of a actor and had a much better interaction with Michael Rennie/Klaatu in the orig. than Jaden did with that be a whiny brat every scene.
As for the alien that had lived here. Why was that scene even in this movie? That just blows the whole Klaatu learning about the people of earth out of the water.
As for John Cleese as Professor Barnhardt, he was great and thats one of the best scenes in the movie. I would have liked to seen a couple of more scenes with Cleese, like Sam Jaffe as Prof. Barnhardt had in the orig. movie.
I'll leave all the plot holes to others, this was a OK movie. But it won't top the original one.
A remake doesn't have to be just like the Original one. But it should learn from the original, take the things that made it great and made people like it and use that as a foundation to make a greater movie.