Runester

So, yesterday was the big snow, first big one of the season. Driving wasn’t too bad; having all-wheel-drive helps in these situations. After dropping my fiancee’s mother off at her work (she didn’t want to drive in this, didn’t feel comfortable with her little car) I came back & shovelled off the porch & steps.

Once my fiancee was up & ready we went to the deli where her mother works for breakfast; something we do at least once every weekend. Besides, we also needed to drop her car off for her. After that, we saw “The Day The Earth Stood Still.”

Of all the mainstream fare, that looked like the best option. To be honest, it was OK. The SFX needed to be seen on a big screen to be fully appreciated. Especially since they were the best part of the movie. These were some great actors, but not so great performances. Finally, it was not the change of message from the original’s (1951) “don’t spread your warmongering & weapons to the stars” to the current “humans are destroying the Earth & it’s too valuable to let that happen” that ruined the movie for me. It was the significant shift in character & purpose of the ‘alien’ Klatu. Gone is the patient emissary with a message for humanity, instead we have a superbeing come to wipe out all human life. That is a pretty big change. Further, even when his mind is changed by a small glimpse of human culture & emotion (something you’d think “they’d” notice after studying us for 70+ years) he never does get to deliver his message of “change or die.”

I guess I’d give the movie a resounding, “meh.” I did like the trailer for the upcoming “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” though.