That website can't handle the load. Forget about it and try tonight or something.

i could do this all day.

So, seriously, why the hate? Not defending the guy...just curious as to why so much hate?

It's like they're finally doing Neuromancer. Since that book was written, a dozen movies mined most of the ideas from it. We're running out of actresses to play bad ass black vinyl wearing vixens in sunglasses. Too little, too late.

I'll be called an ADD Michael Bay fan but the original was pretty boring. It had a decent message at the end but it mostly consisted of Keanu's character hanging out with a kid and asking him all these questions about earth. And then a long ass monolog at the end.

Hopefully they'll at least include a funny monkey sidekick.

Looks like I am Legend mixed with WofTWorlds. Yawn

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AND RIGHTLY SO!!!

Looks like a remake in name only. What's next...Hanna Montana as Alta in "Disney's Forbidden Planet"? Please god....NOOOOOOOOO!!!

I'm down.

I predict he will be nominated for a Razzie.

Looks like they went overboard with the alien threat. At least the original pretty much left most of the menace to human fear and misunderstanding...and one cycloptic robot with a talent for disintegration.

Now where's that Mr. Brainly from London? I hear he's a shocking cad.

TO be honest, I had totally forgotten he was even in this. I don't think he's in there for the urban smart aleck contingent, but given everything else that's so groan inducingly wrong about this remake, my fear is that he IS only in there to add to the overall political correctness of this entire fiasco...

...Was Tim Allen. Though to his credit, as I seem to recall, Allen wanted to play it straight to prove he could do more than comedy.

Hell yeah, it's creepy. That's why it's called a fetish.

Oh, and the movie looks aces. I'd drop a dime on it.

So if this needless remake also goes 'inconvenient truth' on me, in addition to being completely superfluous, I will build a tank from granola on the frame of microbus and . . . well, I haven't got the rest figured out yet, but it will be horrific. I'll work on it and get the information to you all the day after tomorrow. Dammit.

You can see he's TRYING to act his little chops off - but he just ain't got any!

Well, in defense of Baltimore (who I don't even know), come on, let's leave ourselves a little breathing room for levity and not get too touchy or politically correct. His post WASN'T about race. He only made the comment BECAUSE that is Will Smith's now cliched and trademark groan-inducing line, and more importantly BECAUSE it really is his kid. So his post wasn't about race -- it was about the far more obvious connection of father & son as big screen actors. And personally, I think making a joke about THAT is okay.

For that matter, you also said in your posts: "It appears not even a 10 year old kid is safe here" and then followed that with "Usually don't insult the asses here, but kids should be off limits." Just out of curiosity, has that been your view whenever anyone here has bagged on Jake Lloyd's performance in PHANTOM MENACE? Look, here's my two cents: if an adult ever picked on a little kid in real life, I'd have no problem with the adult getting his head handed to him. In real life, kids deserve all the protection they can get in today's truly fucked-up world. All you have to do is turn on the news to realize that.

On the other hand, when you make a 10-year old kid a CORE CHARACTER in a movie, I definitely think his casting, his looks, his mannerisms, his abilities, his acting...in short, how well he actually fits in the movie...is ripe for commentary. And that's simply because that little kid (the one you say should be "off limits") could ultimately be what tears down an entire film around him. So harming a kid, you're right, absolutely off limits. But reviewing a kid or criticizing him -- certainly one cast in a central role in a $100 million dollar sci-fi production -- sorry, but I would consider that fair game. Besides, if Jaden actually wants to pursue acting and (ideally) create a sustained career like his Dad managed to forge, better that he should start learning now to develop a thick skin for all the criticisms yet to come his way...

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Seriously, this movie MIGHT be o.k. And that is mostly the issue. Some of the visuals do have a faux 50's B feel, but mostly they have a Spielberg left-overs feel. I concede the movie might be fun, but the nature and delvery of the message is important as to how the movie succeeds or fails. And right now, Im thinking it's probably going to fall somewhere in between vaguely important but not accentuated enough to be offensive. And as a result, it will have less impact.

I think defending remakes, unless they really bring something else to the table, and sometimes they do, is a bad idea. Do we really just want to keep seeing MORE remakes?

I just finished seeing WALL-E yesterday, and while referencing plenty of classic sci-fi, it was an original vision with a message that I felt was well played. That movie was adding itself to the pantheon of great sci-fi as it went along. And it was original.

Strangely, if this thing hasn't be torn apart a thousand different ways by everyone when it is released,and there is enough there to sufficiently pull me into the theater I'll actually be hoping that veers far from the original and gives us a unique take with the spirit of the first intact and I'll be hoping it's good.

Right now, my feeling is no, but then again I had reason to believe that Spielberg had nailed War of the Worlds and that it was a sure thing as far as remakes went, and well...I was wrong.