# Klaatu Barada Nikto -- Whoa! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080 "2008-02-25T14:39:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/41 "2008-07-04T00:31:42Z")
It’s been long enough, that I don’t mind seeing a different take on this story. I’m down. Of course, I don’t hold as much vitriol toward Keanu as most do. He’s good for those characters that call for a stoic, flat personality (such as this). I’m not saying this isn’t going to suck though. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/42 "2008-07-04T06:21:21Z")
Well, given the level of thought in most of Hollywood, if The film does well, there will no doubt be several sequels… sigh FML ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/43 "2008-07-04T08:44:03Z")
[QUOTE=Full Metal Lotus] Well, given the level of thought in most of Hollywood, if The film does well, there will no doubt be several sequels… sigh FML [/QUOTE] _The Day The Earth Stood Still, Too_ _The Day After The Day The Earth Stood Still_ _The Day The Earth Stopped Standing Still_ _The Day The Earth S2d Still_ … ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/44 "2008-07-04T10:10:08Z")
So from the trailer, the day in question won’t be an eerie, everything is off like a switch was thrown, but a CGI-fest of some sort. I can’t help but think the original was better for that. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/45 "2008-07-04T15:13:47Z")
Uggh, I can hear it now: _In a world…That’s standing still_ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/46 "2008-07-04T15:22:11Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] Looks like they’re going with the ovoid, then. Looks cool. I also read that Gort has been replaced by some kind of a totem. [/QUOTE] Gort was going to be some kind of robot doggy thing. But they changed their mind and now he may be a more Gort-ish looking humanoid, especially judging by that last quick flash at the end of the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/47 "2008-07-04T15:56:06Z")
> [@](#): > > by \*\*Otto \*\* > You guys are going for the easy movie targets. Let’s see ya work in some Keanu lines from “The Prince of Pennsylvania” or “A Walk in the Clouds” or “My Own Private Idaho” if you’re so clever! from [Little Buddha](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107426/) “You are pure illusion, you do not exist. The earth is my witness.” (Keanu played Siddhartha in that one, and he actually wasn’t bad.) ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/48 "2008-07-04T19:31:05Z")
The first time I read it, I thought “he’s playing the robot, perfect”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/49 "2008-07-04T19:41:02Z")
I’ll go ahead and say, then, that he plays a damn good emotionless rock in that preview. So if that’s what he’s supposed to be, then great. That blank stare was \*menacing. \* ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/50 "2008-07-04T20:10:02Z")
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja] I’ll go ahead and say, then, that he plays a damn good emotionless rock in that preview. So if that’s what he’s supposed to be, then great. That blank stare was \*menacing. \* [/QUOTE] Agreed. I’m not so sure about the remake in general or what they’re going to do to the plot, but if he’s supposed to seem alien, I think this is the part Keanu was born to play. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/51 "2008-07-05T03:35:27Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] And the babe will fall for either the scientist or his son. [/QUOTE] Or for Gort ! Gort : "I am . . . **fully functional** , Earth-female. - whirring noise \* Babe : “Oh, **wow**!” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/52 "2008-07-05T10:03:44Z")
And while gort is seducing the babe, Keanu and his sidekick will crash the saucer. “Hey, man, I know how to drive when I’m stoned.” OK, that was from _Heavy Metal_, not _Bill & Ted_, but it works! ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/53 "2008-07-05T21:51:32Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Keanu Reeves is playing Klaatu in the remake of **The Day the Earth Stood Still** currently being filmed. > **[The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_%282008_film%29)** > > The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 American science fiction film serving as a remake of the 1951 film of the same name, which, in turn, was based on the 1940 short story "Farewell to the Master". Directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay by David Scarpa, it stars Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, an alien sent to try to change human behavior in an effort to save Earth from environmental degradation; this version replaces the Cold War–era theme of potential nuclear warfare with the contemporar... [/QUOTE] I was sorta hoping it would be a Michael Bey film. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/54 "2008-07-05T23:12:17Z")
You guys are missing the important point - the walking hunk of male lovelinesss that is Keanu Reeves is going to be in a movie for us to watch. 😃 I’m not as critical of his acting as others, either; I think he has made a stupendous career with what acting talent he has. He chooses roles wisely that don’t demand more than he can deliver, and as far as I’m concerned, does a fine job with them. I might be somewhat biased, however, since just staring at him on screen is almost enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/55 "2008-07-07T21:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Or for Gort ! Gort : "I am . . . **fully functional** , Earth-female. - whirring noise \* Babe : “Oh, **wow**!” [/QUOTE] Sigh. If only Madeline Kahn was still around to sing “Sweet Mystery of Life.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/56 "2008-07-08T03:32:09Z")
I don’t get the hate for Keanu Reeves. Okay, I get most of the hate but here he’s been handed the mantle of Michael Rennie and it’s not like Rennie set a bar a toddler couldn’t toddle over. Gort was less wooden, being metallic and all. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/57 "2008-07-08T14:05:47Z")
I think he really has improved a lot over the years. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/58 "2008-07-08T14:14:03Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I think he really has improved a lot over the years. [/QUOTE] Are you sure? I thought he peaked at Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and it’s been downhill since. Has he played a more animated character since then…besides Bob Arctor in ASD? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/59 "2008-07-08T14:20:18Z")
[QUOTE=ivan astikov] Are you sure? I thought he peaked at Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and it’s been downhill since. Has he played a more animated character since then…besides Bob Arctor in ASD? [/QUOTE] It’s just my opinion, of course. But I think he has steadily improved over time. From _Private Idaho_ to _Matrix_ to _Constantine_. Maybe not “animated” per se, but I just always seem to get from him that he cares about a role. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080/60 "2008-07-08T15:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I think he really has improved a lot over the years. [/QUOTE] Really? I think Rennie has become even LESS animated since dying in 1971. However, it’s understandable why you are confused. His being three years dead did not prevent the producers of [Churchill’s People](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0890226/) from casting him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto-whoa/439080.md?page=2)