5 Minute The Day The Earth Stood Still Trailer

'The Day the Earth Stood Still' 5 Minute Trailer @ Yahoo!7 Video

This week a 5-minute trailer for the remake of the 1951 Sci Fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still was released. The original tells the story tells the story of a humanoid alien visitor who comes to Earth to warn its leaders to curtail their conflicts or face devastating consequences. This new version stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly and something about the earth dying and our cities fading to dust.

I always think when a special "long" trailer for any film is released its because the studio distributing it knows that its not going to be a big hit unless enough of it is in peoples minds. A trailer is how a film marketed; therefore we are going to see the films basic ideas and a peek at some of the highlights such as action sequences. This is my point, this trailer showed what I imagine to be every action sequence in the film. We even got to see the new Gort, which I imagine, would be at the font of the movies action or left till the films climax. It really seems they went all out. Am I alone in thinking it look horrible? What’s it point? An alien who looks like Keanu Reeves comes to earth along with a giant robot that looks like a man in skintight spandex and giant city destroying balls!

You know instantly by looking at this that it takes its self-way to seriously, the characters are basically cartoons and everything they have to say is just so shocking. This version seems to be taking its self more seriously in terms of realism and modern day treats in an attempt to shred its self of anything people may have found cheesy about the original – if you watched, you can see they really nailed it. “It would only frighten you” as if watching you performance inst bad enough Keanu.

All said and done the trailer didn’t show exactly everything! We are still yet to see a shot of Jennifer Connelly breast, as she appears naked in a lot of her films. That to me seems like a more plausible tactic in terms of marketing than spending over a hundred million dollars on CGI.

The Day The Earth Stood Still opens Boxing Day.