That’s where I saw it the first time, too! I haven’t thought about “Saturday Night at the Movies” in YEARS!
ZOMG, maybe we were watching it at THE SAME TIME!!
Michael Rennie (Klaatu) was believable in that film! Cult classic all the way!
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My highest compliment, Cp
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Oh yeah. I wanted to say that if Klaatu came to visit us today, wouldn’t he say something like, “If y’all don’t straighten up, we’ gonna kill yo’ goddam asses!”?
In my southern persona,
Quasi
Directed by Robert Wise
Also directed by Robert Wise
The Andromeda Strain
The Sound of Music
The Haunting
West Side Story
Run Silent Run Deep
Somebody Up There Likes Me
And many more…
If you want to know why The Day the Earth Stood Still is awesome, a lot of it has to do with Robert Wise.
I’m watching the director’s commentary and I missed the fact that there were biblical references in certain scenes (“Mr. Carpenter”, for instance), so I’m going to watch it again.
I also noticed that Mr. Klaatu is a bit of a litterbug (throwing the cleaner’s tag to the ground), but this was, after all, the 50’s when we were not as environmentally conscious as we are today.
Also interesting was the fact that Wise originally wanted to use the Army for those soldiers, but the script got turned down, so he used the National Guard.
Oh, and Aunt Bea with that “operatic voice”! 
I’m still watching the commentary, just stopped long enough to write this before I forgot it.
Thanks
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In the equation on the blackboard in the professors office, what do these symbols represent?
00! 000!! 000!?
They were kinda on the far right.
Thanks
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The scientist’s frustration at not being able to get a clear answer. Klaatu “nudged” him in the right direction.
I used the following for my email tagline:
“I’m impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.”
Klaatu, “The Day The Earth Stood Still”
And in another thread, I posted about my utter disappointment with the remake of TDTESS. The ending of the original was so powerful, and it contained such a vicious threat, the new edition damned well should have been Klaatu returning to kick planetary ass.
“Forbidden Planet” is one of Hubster’s favorite classic SF movies. I agree that it foreshadowed ST, especially with the good looking babe in skimpy clothing. And I’m sorry, but I cannot handle seeing Leslie Nielson in a dramatic role. Too many “Airplane” movies and “Police Squad” episodes are water under the comedy bridge.
The original “War of the Worlds” was awesome. I adored Gene Barry. The remake sucked, mainly because Tom Cruise REALLY sucks.
Hubster likes to surf Netflix for 50s SF movies. Most of them are horribly made, with cheezy dialogue and abysmal special effects. Aluminum over cardboard, anybody?
~VOW
I thought it was kind of cool that I lived just a couple of blocks away from the Harvard Street boarding house address where Klaatu stayed.
I’ve mentioned it before, but in the remake, the equations on the board came from a paper a couple of friends of mine wrote on Big Rip cosmologies. Which put me in the awkward position of having to see it, even though I knew ahead of time that it was going to be bad.
I believe, though I’m not certain, that in the original it was a problem in orbital dynamics. From the information in the movie, Klaatu came from either Venus or Mars, so an understanding of orbital dynamics would be consistent with “I find it sufficient for getting from one planet to another”.
One of the best films ever! It’s amazing how the inside of the saucer looks futuristic all these years later. I so wanted Patricia Neal and her son to go with Klaatu at the end-- I would have!
Huh? What have I been missing?
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Even aas aa kid, I figured Klaatu’s plaanet in thaat sentence waas in orbit aaround aanother staar.
Yeah, but I believe he told her that he was only going to live long enough to get the ship home. Yet he told Terrans that Gort and his associates flew around in them doing gendarme stuff.
He said that knowing how long one would live was “reserved to the Almighty Spirit,” which is generally how it is for everyone.
Anyhoo, she could have met another nice Klaatu lookalike on his home planet and ditched that money-grubbing loser of a boyfriend.
I think she did that for John Wayne. Or was it Paul Newman? No, not Newman.
Well, that “loser of a boyfriend”, must have played his part VERY well, because even in the voice-over-film narration neither Wise nor the interviewer had much of anything “nice” to say about the real-life guy.
I had never seen him before, but I wonder if the rest of his acting career went the way, that the late sad Larry Linville’s did?
“I don’t care about the rest of the world!”, indeed!
I wonder, though, how they might have cashed in the rest of those diamonds that K gave Bobby, since they were other-wordly and apparently very difficult to appraise?
"Hey, Klaatu! Thanks a lot, man! We can’t even fence these damn things! Can I have my dollar back? 
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Don’t recall what the movie implied, but the your idea was in the original story:
It also implies that Mankind has colonized numerous planets in the Solar System, and that’s why we knew it came from “somewhere else.”