What the cryptic phrase “Klaatu barado nikto” means? 
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I kind of agree. Bruce Willis does noir elements very well (Sin City), and Casablanca is at least noir-like.
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Yeah, as much as they should never, ever, try to remake Casablanca, if they were going to do it, I’m having trouble thinking of better casting for the role of Rick.
Ugarte would, of course, have to be played by Steven Buschemi.
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Yeah, as much as they should never, ever, try to remake Casablanca, if they were going to do it, I’m having trouble thinking of better casting for the role of Rick.
Ugarte would, of course, have to be played by Steven Buschemi.
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Samuel L Jackson is sort of…noir.
Sorry, couldn’t resist!
Plus there’s that whole Snakes On A Plane angle, with, of course, all your snakes are belong to us.
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It’s official. Hollywood has vowed to destroy all we hold dear by remaking the classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still and putting Keanu Reeves in the lead! What’s next? Jim Carrey makes Citizen Kane? Bruce Willis in Casablanca? This might not be a major pit-worth item but what in the name of Hitchcock’s hemorrhoids are they thinking? “Hey, we have a great classic movie, consistently ranked as one of the all time best. Let’s redo it! And let’s get someone with less emotional range than Gort the robot to take over the lead. How about Keaunu?”
Please someone stop them before they remake Gone With the Wind with Kathy Griffin and Pauly Shore.
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Whoah
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What the cryptic phrase “Klaatu barado nikto” means? 
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“Do you want to come up to my place bouncy bouncy?”
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What the cryptic phrase “Klaatu barado nikto” means?
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I thought that was common knowledge-- it means the Necronomicon can be opened safely.
When a watchable guy like Bruce has to be content with cameos and indie films, and a chunk of petrified wood like Keanu keeps being handed these multimillion-dollar blockbusters, you know there is no justice in the universe…
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When a watchable guy like Bruce has to be content with cameos and indie films, and a chunk of petrified wood like Keanu keeps being handed these multimillion-dollar blockbusters, you know there is no justice in the universe…
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Cameos? Indie films? Live Free or Die Hard was just released a little less than a year ago. And before that was Sin City. The world’s second greatest Bruce is still getting plenty of good movies and I thank god every day he hasn’t gone down the Bill Murray “sad clown in a tracksuit” route.
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Cameos? Indie films? Live Free or Die Hard was just released a little less than a year ago. And before that was Sin City. The world’s second greatest Bruce is still getting plenty of good movies and I thank god every day he hasn’t gone down the Bill Murray “sad clown in a tracksuit” route.
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Opps. Sorry about the Bruce confusion. I was referring to a different Bruce-- not Willis, but Campbell; aka “Ash” from the Evil Dead movies,* to which my “Necronomicon” remark alluded. I’m not sure where he would rank on your list of great Bruces.
*–as well as various cameos, indie films, Old Spice commercials, etc.
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What the cryptic phrase “Klaatu barado nikto” means?
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“My flying saucer is full of eels”
What about “Klaatu barato cough cough”?
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“Do you want to come up to my place bouncy bouncy?”
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and all this time I thought it was how you said “could you direct me to the station?”
I guess it’s too much to ask for Der Ahhnold to play Gort, huh?
Sheesh! Doesn’t anyone remember my old sigs?
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He’s not playing the robot?
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No. The story calls for shiny metal, not wood.
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Powered systems shutting down all over the Earth at once is certainly a situation with a lot of disaster-movie-level FX potential.
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I believe it is mentioned that no casualties occurred. I can only remember that planes if flight kept power until they landed.
The original 1951 script also mentioned that places like hospitals were exempted.
I don’t care how careful Klaatu and Gort were – there are still going to be unexpected disasters from loss of power – you can’t foresee everything. The guy in the iron lung not in a registered facility. The afety system that depensds on line power, and either lacks a backup battery, or it’s dead. But you really do have to accept some casualties in a big operation, I guess.
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Opps. Sorry about the Bruce confusion. I was referring to a different Bruce-- not Willis, but Campbell; aka “Ash” from the Evil Dead movies,* to which my “Necronomicon” remark alluded. I’m not sure where he would rank on your list of great Bruces.
*–as well as various cameos, indie films, Old Spice commercials, etc.
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He’s also in the USA original series Burn Notice which is just an awesome show. It’s like if MacGuyver decided he didn’t mind shooting people in the kneecap plus he has a psychotic terrorist girlfriend and a constantly drunk ex-SEAL buddy (Bruce Campbell).
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a constantly drunk ex-SEAL buddy (Bruce Campbell).
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Hey! He doesn’t drink a lot. He drinks frequently.
Cool! they’re remaking this movie? I was thinking a couple of years ago when I saw the original for the first time they should remake this movie. And now they are!
Personaly I would have cast Denzel Washington but I’ll go with Keanu.
I think the OP needs some brain bleach so he can forget that movie “Bill and Ted’s Retarded Adventure”