Comments on: Klaatu Gort Redux

By: Fat Loss 4 Idiots

Fat Loss 4 Idiots — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:31:58 +0000

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By: digestinol

digestinol — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:02:47 +0000

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By: Sonny Day

Sonny Day — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:25:38 +0000

I broke away from a tour group(Historical Cemetery, Scamilton Ont.,) I saw a ground vault with a slatted window and like any good Ghost Hunter would do. I jammed in my camera(digital) and shot off a few. Due to the sun outside, I couldn’t see the viewer. When I got home and saw the photo, I think a little pee came out! I knew I captured something unearthly. You can see the glowing from the center orbs on the wall just below.I can send you the pics if you send me an email address that will run a 1.25Mb size photo. I searched your site and gave up, (too much info, not very clear) Sonny Day

By: MarkA

MarkA — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:47:07 +0000

At least Hollywood didn’t mangle this remake as badly as they did with “The Wicker Man.”

By: antaresrichard

antaresrichard — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:41:42 +0000

"Gnut, Klaatu barada nikto!" 'Farewell to the Master' by Harry Bates.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:29:09 +0000

Bob, get thee some professional help.

By: Bob Tannenbaum

Bob Tannenbaum — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:38:09 +0000

and my last comment. for a long time i have been disturbed by the fact that we do not hear any radio waves on our seti stations. considering the age of the universe since the big bang, and the speed of sound and light, you would think we may have heard something by now. we can not be the only planet of trillions of planets to have developed to this level, which is still primative, no matter what others say….so , here is my theory: the advanced civilizations are afraid of planets and life forms like us. we are much too violent and undeveloped. we still believe in gods and superstitious nonsense. so this is what they did: they put a filter around the far reaches of our solar system. this filter does not let any information get through to us down here. that is just what i would do if i was a rational life form. wouldn’t you?
my guess it this. if we evolve to a higher order of species, more rational, and peaceful, and travel out of our solar system, we will hear the sounds of the other planets with life on them. i am betting on it…bob t.

By: Bob Tannenbaum

Bob Tannenbaum — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:02:54 +0000

as a retired elementary school teacher, and one who has researched this problem i know that children ALL OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD have this one constant horrible dream, and that is: they dream of mushroom clouds and having no where to hide. this is what dropping those two bombs did to the children and adults of the world.
check it out if you don’t believe me. ask a someone in the field. many people who read this will agree and be able to back me up. and if you have the guts, ask your kids if they dream of atomic destruction of the earth. many of them will tell you yes….sad…
and if you ask Jewish kids who are now in their seventies, they will tell you that they have not lost the fear and horror of the concentration camps in Europe. i first saw the pictures of the camps when i was seven or eight in the daily news in new york.
that stuff, and the dodgers and giants leaving new york for California, ended my childhood. i have never trusted anyone since.
however, when i saw the day the earth stood still, i had hope that maybe there was a savior out there. i loved the movie back in 1951, and hope that this movie will give hope to all the people alive today. god has gone a long time ago. the only thing we have left is rational leaders of large countries. there is a reason why russia and america did not blow each other up. the strategy of MAD worked. that is, mutual assured distruction. our submarines have been our savior so far, and not our intercontinental missiles.
thank you hyman rickover, and thank you jimmy carter who worked in the nuclear sub fleet when in the navy…i have been told that isreal also has nuclear submarine second strike ability. two subs i have been told. i believe that those kinds of nightmares are the reasons for our strong remembrance of this old film. bob t.

By: Skepnick

Skepnick — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:17:28 +0000

Boy, you guys are a tough audience, I’m never showing you any of my home vids.

I haven’t seen the new release, but I have fond memories of the original. I was raised in a largely agnostic home, so I missed the messianic message(?). I was outraged when they shot our hero (I seem to remember a young; nervous, soldier let off a shot)…but my main memory is of the big dude in the silver suit. Man, he would have wiped out that idiot who used to bully me. Strange; I remember Klaatu, but not the the name of bully…

The whole resurrection thing wasn’t so strange after a diet of Star Trek and The Tomorrow People.

It’s only a movie; you’d need millennia of re-editing before this became a religion. I read a short story about Superman a few years ago. The Boy Scout in blue was never of any interest to me (I loved Bats) – but you read what you can if there’s nothing else (I work offshore and travel a lot). The story’s main theme concerned some crime the he had committed (however unwittingly); and his consequential punishment. As it was clear no court could effectively carry out any sentence against him, he was required to carry out the sentence against himself. He was asked to fly out of our atmosphere and re-enter at high speed – allowing him to be buried at the earth’s core, where the pressure and temperature would eventually kill him. Yeah I know; I’m sure this impact would have released a couple of joules, but good stories often contain an element of romance. The moon would have been more sensible, but not as dramatic. It was clearly a Jebuz related story, the difference was – a journalist was waiting to cash in on the deal – Nice!

The new release of TDTESS (I’m secretly hoping I’m the first to do the acronym, someone somewhere had to come up with ST-TOS, ST-TNG ST-DS9, ST-VOY, SG-1 and SG-ATL) is just another telling of a story, it can’t actually be wrong. A story is part of our species external memory, none of them are better than others, as long as they covey the ‘moral’ we hope to pass on. My daughters would probably laugh their collective asses off if I made them sit through the original b/w version.

Take it easy everyone.

By: penny

penny — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:55:08 +0000

Just as an aside:
I enjoyed the celestial mechanics scene in the original–when I was a child. In 1978, I met the person who wrote the lines–it was Basil Gordon–a prof at UCLA–who wrote the line as a Caltech graduate student. That was thrilling.

It was the ONLY science fiction movie that even tried to get math correct–except for the line about “logical alphabets” in “Forbidden Planet”. I didn’t know celestial mechanics as a preteen–but I did have a telescope, and the movie line inspired me to look up celestial mechanics–and this was part of my motivation to become a mathematician ( along with Claude Shannon’s masters thesis–packed in a trashy rotary switch “computer kit”–the “Geniac, the IBM exhibit at
the NY World’s Fair, and WFF n’Proof).

I found the rest of the movie ( like the current one) to be a moronic exercise in CryptoChristianity.