Actually, Mr. Carpenter offers to take care of little Bobby for the day and mom has the police come and arrest him as a pedophile, especially after he gives the kid a diamond.

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One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009
All moderation in purple

Looking at the trailer of the re-make, this doesn’t look like “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. This looks like a compilation of various other modern sci-fi “space-invader” type films.

Yeah, wouldn't it be great to see a remake of Plan 9? Poor Bela can't be in it any more, but there must be a chiropractor out there somewhere--or maybe we could get a proctologist this time. I'd love to see it with effects. But they have to leave the really good lines alone ("It was a small town; a town full of people...people who died.")

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz

"To complete the picture all the photons can be seen to be synchronising friction on and off throughout the overall cone which itself is synchronised to the equal and opposite reaction of equilateral triangulation"... by a scientificator in ATM, too priceless to be lost to posterity.

Yes - and I realize the makers of a remake might want to improve special effects and add some new characters and such, but to be true to the essence of the original, they've got to keep those wooden legged tables in the saucer and find a new Thor Johnson and Vampira!

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Ya gotta wonder what Elvira's doing these days...but Thor would be tough to replace. Face wanted for part with spoken lines. No acting required.

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz

"To complete the picture all the photons can be seen to be synchronising friction on and off throughout the overall cone which itself is synchronised to the equal and opposite reaction of equilateral triangulation"... by a scientificator in ATM, too priceless to be lost to posterity.

http://www.elvira.com/

Not really. I actually met her (without makeup) a long time ago. Before she was really famous.

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One of the teachers at my high school used to date her, lo, these many years ago. At least, according to school legend, which also says he brought her to class once. (I was on the school website the other day, and I think he's retired. Alas!)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Her (presumed!) age is exactly why I thought she would be perfect for a Plan 9 remake. For money saved on wardrobe (she has her own) and makeup, you could buy fancier hubcaps and thicker strings. Sometimes those were only barely visible in the original. Just think of the cool effects if you green-screened those hubcaps.

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz

"To complete the picture all the photons can be seen to be synchronising friction on and off throughout the overall cone which itself is synchronised to the equal and opposite reaction of equilateral triangulation"... by a scientificator in ATM, too priceless to be lost to posterity.

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Had me nervous for a moment. They made it and I didn't know about it? Fortunately for my peace of mind (almost said piece, and it wouldn't have been a typo), the link comes up in wikipedia as unable to find, so the status quo is restored.

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz

"To complete the picture all the photons can be seen to be synchronising friction on and off throughout the overall cone which itself is synchronised to the equal and opposite reaction of equilateral triangulation"... by a scientificator in ATM, too priceless to be lost to posterity.

The link works now. He missed the last ")".

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

And a big thanks to Henrik for fixing the link. Because searching for Plan 9 on wikipedia is an onerous task.

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Do you suppose it would be possible for Plan 9 to supplant Plan 9 as the all-time worst film? (There's a terrifying sense of redundancy in that somehow that I also find onerus. This may require a hot toddy to keep the jiggling hubcaps at bay tonight.)

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz

"To complete the picture all the photons can be seen to be synchronising friction on and off throughout the overall cone which itself is synchronised to the equal and opposite reaction of equilateral triangulation"... by a scientificator in ATM, too priceless to be lost to posterity.

Oops, I think I hijacked the thread. Sorry, didn't mean to do that.

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz

"To complete the picture all the photons can be seen to be synchronising friction on and off throughout the overall cone which itself is synchronised to the equal and opposite reaction of equilateral triangulation"... by a scientificator in ATM, too priceless to be lost to posterity.

It is a film for the times. A powerful being from above comes with great power to save us from ourselves. Or at least our elected officials, who are going to destroy the planet. He looks human, but isn't really.

He is killed by narrow minded scared people, then he rises from the dead, and still saves us.



















Boy, that story never gets old.

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How will Kleaanu announce that he is from a peaceful society, far beyond humanity's petty physical violence?

"Whoah... I don't know kung fu."

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort