Home alone this weekend meaning there's a bit of time to catch up on movies on TV and the cinema.... except there's not much to see.
Sky Box Office hasn't much on that is either any good or that I haven't seen. So, in a blind panic I opted for 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', a film I missed last year when it was released at the cinema.
So what do we have? I vaguely remember bad reviews. Kermode almost certainly hated it. Keanu Reeves is starring. This does not bode well. Turns out that's an understatement. 'The Day the Earth Stood Still contains some mind-numbing monents and, with nothing better to di, I've decided to write them out.
1. That opening sequence in the ice is so badly shot in a studio, you can almost see the crew standing around. Not a good start.
2. The Earth doesn't stand still.... at any point in the film. Not even for an hour. Isn't that kind of strange??
3. John Cleese must win the award for the most badly cast character in a movie for at least that last ten years. As a brilliant and serious scientist? Please.
4. Odd on the relationship between the boy and the mum being resolved before the end of the film? No surprise there then.
5. The ending. Weak? Yes.
Anyway, 90 minutes wasted but a weekend still to go. Must do better this afternoon.
