# spoil "The Day The Earth Stood Still" for me

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 19, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-for-me/477930 "2008-12-19T17:05:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-for-me/477930/21 "2009-04-09T04:25:44Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Yes, but…
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> …is it dumber than 10,000 B.C. ?

No, that’d take some doing, I admit.  
But I didn’t _expect_ better from **10,000 B.C.**  
And **10,000 B.C.** had much better CGI.

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**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:** [April 9, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-for-me/477930/22 "2009-04-09T05:07:35Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> You mean…
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> Nevertheless, it moves?

Heh. I got that, if no one else did.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-for-me/477930/23 "2009-04-09T14:20:59Z")

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I don’t have to. They spoiled it already  
(ba-dum-bump! Dissssssssh!)

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-for-me/477930/24 "2009-04-09T16:48:13Z")

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A couple of other random thoughts.  
–“Don’t you have school?” “They called it in account of the alien.” That makes sense, but it conjured up weird images in my mind. heck, we NEVER used up all our Alien Invasion days off. But if the hysteria of Alien Invasion is causing riots and kids to stay home from school, then…  
–Why is a truck driver stil delivering parts just in time to be eaten by the Metal Munching Moon Mice?

–And why are Japanese Cars on the Assembly Line being shut down by Klaatu’s turning off the power? The world may be ending, but Japanese Industry forges on!

–Klaatu couldn’t find an easier way of stopping the policeman than running a car into him, then restoring him to life with Magic Whale Blubber and a Jump Start? It seems that Klaatu will _always_ go for the showier way of doing something, even if it makes no sense.

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