the day when hollywood once turn out such classic a the l951 the day the earth stand still and be long go . when we go to the multi plex today and be treat to endless and lousy remake of asian horror flick and endless sequel ( i. e. and saw and alien and terminator and halloween and etc . ) that squeeze every drop of magic from the original until there only a dry up rind . this remake of the day the earth stand still and be a perfect and sorry example of what pass for movie sci fi or fantasy in the year 2008. while the l951 original still fascinate with it powerful acting and script and production and that fabulous bernard hermann musical score and this new take feature a shockingly inept cast and grade z special effect . be treat to a zombie like keanu reef who show the emotion of an oyster . his face and eye never change expression . his voice sound like a dead man . his fellow living corpse be jennifer connelly who act a if she exist in a different universe with no connection to what happen around her . even bad and be the obnoxious and surly black kid and jaden smith ( oh and yes and son of the mighty will smith ) who be so repulsive you wish the giant robot gort would zap him off the screen . it a if the movie maker be so fanatically politically correct that they give u a black child who be supposedly adopt by a white woman and jennifer connelly . they have no rapport and but then the child be so hostile and one can understand why . one of the key figure in the original be the young boy play by the wonderful child actor and billy gray . he be so genuinely sweet and likable that you really love him . when he show the alien the memorial graveside of countless dead military men and woman and and then visit the abraham lincoln memorial and you be profoundly move . when jaden smith do this in the remake and a glycyrine tear dribble down his cheek s he glare sullenly at the zombie like reaves . wow and what a really down and hostile scene . there no sense of impend disaster and when the day finally come for the earth to stand still and a swarm of badly execute cgi bug destroy yankee stadium and then stop . keanu reeve have obviously discover that mankind isn not all evil . that because the black kid and his mother have persuade him that there be still good in the human race . if only and there be some good among movie maker and the type of goodness that would persuade them to give u some original and scary movie magic like alien and the thing and the terminator and halloween and etc .