Review: CGI effects distract from the point of "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
Thursday, December 18, 2008
A science fiction remake after 57 years should put a studio in safe territory. The special effects alone would be enough to get a film made. But let me lay it out this way: The incredible visual effects in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are so incredible that we've come home — full circle — and, just as then, do not believe they are real and have to ignore the crude fantasies of filmmaking as necessary tools to tell a story.
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