The Day The Keanu Performance Stood Still
The ugly new trend in epic-length movie trailers continues today with the latest teaser for The Day the Earth Stood Still, the remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic creatively recast with Keanu Reeves as a flat-voiced humanoid alien warning Earth’s inhabitants of their impending doom. Quite a stretch, we know (and yes, he has made this one before), but from the looks of the accompanying clip, DTESS is a soaring upgrade from low-budget earnestness to a sort of glossy, glassy-eyed indignance; there is true, brow-furrowing peril in that stilted baritone suggesting his past “would only frighten you.” If only we felt less endangered by the four minutes of line readings that follow from Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates and even Jon Hamm, from whom we expected so much more than bromides about the history of mankind. Believe us, Jon — we know history, and this has all the symptoms of being exactly that. And not the good kind, either. [20th Century Fox]
The ugly new trend in epic-length movie trailers continues today with the latest teaser for The Day the Earth Stood Still, the remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic creatively recast with Keanu Reeves as a flat-voiced humanoid alien warning Earth’s inhabitants of their impending doom. Quite a stretch, we know (and yes,
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No wonder there are no comments. The person who wrote this is blind. I’m disgusted. This film is going to be another groundbreaking adventure from Reeves, whose beautiful baritone is riddled with levels of feeling as the hostile but constrained alien Klaatu. Maybe you’re deaf? Forgetful of the worldwide phenomenon of The Matrix, whose success was largely due to a flawless Neo? Or are you just unable to think or hear for yourself.