The Day the Earth Stopped
The Day the Earth Stopped
R | 09 December 2008 (USA)
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Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.

Reviews
Malcolm

This film was kind of compelling to watch, just see how crap it could be.Acting? Do me a favour! The kids in a pre-school nativity play can act better than that.Special effects? Ha! The effects in the 1951 movie from which this was ripped off were much better. Even the screens in the control room were CRTs instead of LCD panels - bear in mind this was made in 2008! Plot? Please! Find out why humanity is worth saving by tea time, otherwise the planet is going to be zapped.I thought they had finally cracked how to show new born babies. Apparently not, as we're shown a clean six month old toddler that had just been born.I probably have seen a worse science fiction movie, but I can't remember when.

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RoswellOne

If this is a "B Movie," then grade inflation has certainly hit hard since the fifties.This is more like a D- movie, and that only because I'm feeling charitable.How awful is this movie? Let me count but a few of the ways: The acting is atrocious; the music one-note and distracting; and the scenery depressing and repetitive. Pretty much everything in it is unbelievable, from the ridiculous handling of the aliens by unprofessional morons who are each others' worst enemies, to the previously mentioned baby, born clean and dry and three months old in the back of the car.The "science" was non-existent, and the premise far more vague than in other the-earth-is-about-to-end type movies. Did I mention the writing is horrible? About the only good thing in the movie was the megaliths, and they were pointlessly anthropomorphized.My husband brought this home from Red Box, and that's a dollar and an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back. I would have stopped watching, but didn't want to leave him by himself.

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apollosdei

Even if it was cheap, there were big bloopers that could have been avoided and weren't. You can do cheap an good. Or cheap and careless. How come the completely naked alien woman had a heavy noticeable make-up? And that's the beginning. Just a little brain and those stupid mistakes –that required not money, just common sense- would have been adverted. How about when "every car in the town is paralyzed" and you can see far away a car racing through the street? Just to point the camera in a different angle. The robots were cool, even if almost they didn't move, and even if they were anthropologically useless in form (why such a machine had legs?). The actress was beautiful, obviously not a great performance and worst direction. The plot was bordering with a teenager script, but could have been forgiven if the long list of easily correctable mistakes were fixed.

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Greg Hynson

I would have given this movie a -9 rating but the scale only lets me give a 1. Do not bother wasting the bandwidth to D/L this movie. The acting is just horrible, I've seen home made porno's with better acting then this crap. My dog could do a better job of directing, and the persons who directed this poo should be banned from ever making another. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the actors did not post their real names in the credits as to not let people know their real identities. It's very hard to sum up enough words to describe this really bad waste of an hour and 30 minutes, but this stupid review has a ten line minimum summary.

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